Prickly

Hello and Happy New Year to you all!

Having taken a short break Our Beautiful World resumes this week

I've picked the word prompt for you and it's

Prickly

Little did I know that when I picked this word sometime ago that prickly is just how my skin was going to be for the next month or two

Chestnuts are something I love to eat ... hot or cold but collecting them is dangerous work ... they are so sharp and prickly

My husband collected some for me last autumn ... they were plentiful on the golf course lol!

I have very sensitive skin and much as I love my garden, just brushing up against some of the shrubs gives me hives

Prickly rain soaked holly - I have 2 kinds ... the darker and the lighter

But it was none of these that affected me ... Nor was it pruning back the prickly rose bushes

Perhaps it was the prickly Christmas tree?

Who knows? Suffice to say something gave me an itchy unsightly rash which became infected and took 2 trips to the doctor before they could find something to help me.  

 Finally I am seeing results ... Teach me for picking this word huh?

Why don't you challenge yourself this year to photograph something that fits our prompt and link up to 

Our Beautiful World

We'd love you to share with us 

It's my wedding anniversary today ... 15 years so I'm being taken out for breakfast

Enjoy your day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

New Year's Eve

Hello....

 New Year's Eve 2014

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I just want to say 

"Thank You" 

To all you wonderful bloggers

For your creative inspiration, for sharing your ideas and advice and your talent... And most of all

For your friendship, for your encouragement, your lovely comments and the prayers and wishes you've offered up for me throughout this year ...

There have been good times and bad times to reflect upon and we have survived it all, this wonderful creative community of ours that reaches out across the world 

I look forward to spending another year in your company, sharing your loves, lives and friendship

May you have a wonderful New Year and be blessed with happiness

~ Ros ~

Cats Birthdays and Bargains

Hello!

How are you all? good I hope ...

Yesterday we ventured out for a coffee and visited Dunhelm which is a store that sells kitchen ware, bedding and home goods ... though I wasn't looking for anything other than a warm bed for the stray cat that is still here, despite every effort to find her owners ... Anyway, I ended up with a couple of bargains ... I got a beautiful Dorma bed throw reduced from £90 to £26!! PLUS I got the matching curtains reduced from £60 to £13! Now that's my kind of bargain ... I did get a bed for the cat too by the way...

Here's a photo I took a few days ago ... Isn't she lovely? 

Today is a very special birthday .. It's Mikey's 32nd birthday 

My goodness, where do the years go?? One minute I was struggling as a single parent to my child, running a home and holding down a job and then suddenly here I am ... My little boy is a man and every treasured memory is etched so deep in my heart that it feels like only yesterday

Here's the card I made for him

Yep, sequins and silver Lol!

I like them with the grunge stamps

A little tip for you ... You know that foam stuff that you find in packaging... It's about 5mm thick and similar to a sponge (Not the polystyrene kind) - It looks like this

Well, it's fabulous for using in shaker cards and to pop up dies cuts ... It goes through the Big Shot so easily and just springs back up ... I used it  as a backing for the "Birthday" word die

I would recommend using a wet adhesive though like an all purpose glue

I do hope you have a lovely week 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

White Christmas

Hi there!

I hope your Christmas was a good one...

I had a card ready for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop but then forgot to post it yesterday ... I didn't realise it was a one day hop and our time difference kinda threw me - never mind 

This was the card

I've loved playing with the subtle gold and silver this christmas and this card would have been perfect for the blog hop with the PTI Sparkle die

 and yesterday we had some snowflakes of our own

It's pretty cold here right now 

I hope you are all cosy and warm where you are ...

Be safe

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Merry Christmas

To all my dear blog friends

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Wishing you Peace Joy and Love

Hugs

~ Ros ~

One more Birthday

Hello there ...

I'm just popping in with another Male birthday card

Last week my nephew Alan - daddy to Sophia - celebrated his 40th Birthday ... We've always been close, often disagreed and if I think he's wrong I tell him he's wrong, but I love him dearly.
 It's been a tough year for him and I guess for the family ...  I hope that the New Year brings him and Sophia much joy

The camera never co operates with anything shiny and I've given up trying to reason with it

The majority of this card was made from left overs ... How I love it when I can pull them together

My goal for the new year is to have a big clear out of craft stuff that I have hoarded and will never use ... When I started out ... like most of you I guess ... I collected things I thought I'd use ... gave most things a try before I found my own little niche ... what suited me and what I was comfortable with. I have a ton of things I collected for the Thursday club too ...

Pat said she's first in the queue for throw out stuff Lol!! She's already taken a lots of my old cards

Wishing you a wonderful day my friends

~ Ros ~