Another apology

Can't believe that it's been nearly a month since I last blogged - oops!

It has been a jam packed month including a crafty meet up at Glitter Pot with the girls, England football at Wembley, decorating, re-organising my craft room (thank you Kerrie!), working like a demon at work and oh yeah - buying a sewing machine which I still haven't had the courage to use!

I have been making cards but just haven't had the time to put them on here. I'm aiming to show at least 1 card every day for the next couple of weeks - just need to work out which cards I haven't put on here already.

First up is my nephew's birthday card. He was 13 at the beginning of April. Now what do you do for a football mad teenager. Yep, red and white (Liverpool) again !!! It's sad but he likes it LOL

The 13 is chipboard that was cut out for me by a fab friend on her new Cricut Expression.



The next challenge will what to do for his brother who'll be 20 in 2 weeks time. Aaagggh no panic!

Hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow with another card ;o)

Where has this month gone?

Firstly, I hope everyone had a very good Christmas. We did - which was unexpected as mum wasn't at all well just before Christmas. That's the main reason I haven't been blogging - she's not 100% yet but thankfully she's better than she was! Everything else seemed to take a back seat - although I did manage to get to White Hart Lane twice with my dad :o) and they didn't lose ;o)

We got absolutely soaked when we was waiting on WHL platform after the Man Utd match and surprise surprise I didn't catch a cold. Here's a piccie of me after the UEFA cup match - my Spurs santa hat came in very handy as it was blooming freezing!


We're going on Friday for the FA Cup match so I hope (1) they don't blooming lose and (2) it warms up a bit - well a girl can hope!!!

Is it really October???

The reason for asking is the weather at the mo is not at all like October --- more like July.

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening at Wembley (watching England - thought I'd take a break from watching woeful Spurs!!!) and we were sitting in the only part of the stadium that had sunshine till it set around 5.30ish. Anyway, I've now got a very red nose!

All in all, it was a great day out - although it didn't look like it was going to be very good after the first half but thankfully, the team got their act together and we won!!!

Did have a mishap though - I dropped my bag when I was looking for the tickets and my camera's now broken. It's my compact one and not my digi SLR but now I need another one. Was thinking about getting a decent mobile phone with camera but didn't think I'd have to make the decision quite so soon.

Sooooo do I go for a digi camera with face recognition and anti shake or do I go for a new mobile phone with a decent camera???? Decisions decisions.

Any recommendations for either are very welcomed :o) Front runners at the mo are Canon IXUS 80 if I get a digi camera or Nokia N95 if I get a mobile phone/camera. Aaaahhhh I don't know what to get!!!

Sorry football post

Thought should I apologise for a football post but as the season has now finished, it should be the last one for a little while.

We went to Wembley stadium last night to see England play USA. It was a great atmosphere (despite what they apparently said on the tv) and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

Have to give credit to my dad for the great seats. We were in the family enclosure and there were inflatable rubber rings and balloons being thrown around the crowd. The adults were watching the match while the kids were watching (and throwing) the inflatables! I think Amy's highlight was the Mexican wave that went on and on and on and on.

Everyone in the crowd was there to have a really good time and thankfully the team won 2-0 :o)

This piccie was taken during the National Anthems.






Niece and youngest nephew at the end of the match - oldest nephew had gone to get something to eat!!! It always amazes me how quickly the stadium empties. There were 71,000 people in there and it was practically empty within about 10 minutes of the final whistle.

Finally a page

Here's the page that I did for a competition. The theme was Celebration so these piccies of nephew's team celebrating their League win was perfect. It did make me laugh that, no matter how big the match, their football boots come first - especially when they spend loads on them!!!

They won!

While I was enjoying myself at Ally Pally, my nephew's football team won the WHSFL Division 3. I loaned my decent camera to my dad so that he could get some piccies.

Brilliant weekend

Football, craft shopping and catching up with friends - what a great way to spend the weekend!!!

First up on Saturday was a trip to White Hart Lane to see the mighty Spurs. It was a family trip and everyone really enjoyed it. My uncle, cousin and 2 2nd cousins (Sophie and Joe) came up from Eastbourne on the train so that Joe could see his first Premier League team. He's now a converted Spurs fan and even bought a Spurs top yesterday with his pocket money LOL I think it helped that both goals were at our end of the pitch and they met the Spurs players afterwards - Robbie Keane is a legend!!!


Next on my fab weekend was a trip down to Ally Pally for a little bit of shopping and lots and lots of laughing and chatting. It was great to meet up with the girls again. I've taken today off to recover LOL Will post piccies of my yummy new stash later on.

Grandsons

I haven't got any but that doesn't stop me having to make the cards.

These are for my parents to give to my 2 nephews. The footballer one was for my youngest nephew Sam who turned 12 on Thursday. He loved both this card and the "book" that I gave to him.

The other one originally was for Sam but I decided that it looked to old for a 12 year old. Soooo I've changed it so that it's for Daniel who'll be 19 at the end of this month. Now need to do mine for him - help!!!!!!!!

Meeting the teams

It was my eldest nephews cup final on Sunday. It was a good match but they lost 2-1 in the end. Daniel looked like he'd lost £100 and found 1p.

The only reason for posting on my blog about is because of this .....

It really made us laugh that, it might have been only the "Welwyn Hatfield Division 3 League Cup Final" but they still had a dignitary to meet before the start.

Red and White .....

..... in our family that can only mean one thing ---- Liverpool F.C. !!!

It's my youngest nephews birthday on Thursday and I wanted to do something a bit different for his card. This is what I've come up with :o)

I used Inkscape to join the letters to the rectangles and then used my Quickutz Silhouette to cut them out. To make the card a bit sturdier, I cut out 2 sets of images for each letter - 1 normal and 1 mirrored. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out.

Out of the Cup

Well the mighty Spurs got knocked out of the UEFA cup last night :o(

Despite having a sore throat, I still managed to yell my head off at the telly LOL We went to White Hart Lane last week to see the home leg, so I tried to make it feel like we were there again - apologies to my family - I think they may still have a headache - ooops!

On a happier note, going out of the cup 6-5 on penalties - which on a side note are always funny when someone else is having to go through the agony!!! It was horrible last night. Although my cousin did make me laugh when he sent me a text message "don't be sad cousin, at least you won't have to build a trophy cabinet now" - the cheeky sod ;o)

Sorry, where was I - oh yep - as we are now of the cup, it means that I definitely can go to Ally Pally on Sunday 13th April. If we'd got through then the next round matches are on 3/10th April so the Boro match, that we have tickets for on the Saturday, would have been moved to the Sunday so I'd have been forced to choose football over craft shopping/meeting friends!!! It would have been a very hard choice but made slightly easier as I've already paid the £34 for my Spurs ticket.

So yep it is kind of good news and OMG I'm really looking forward to that weekend - I'll be shattered, lost my voice and penniless by Sunday evening LOL

Very very very happy :o)

Well today has been a "football" day. Started off this morning going to watch eldest nephew play for Hatfield Sports in their cup semi-final --- which they won 5-1.

<<< he's going to hate it that I've put his piccie on my blog ;o)

Then the big one happened --- the league cup final. It was probably the most nervous I've been for ages watching Spurs play. After seeing them play at White Hart Lane on Thursday, I wasn't very confident. After 120 minutes of non-stop, fast track, brilliant action - the mighty Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelski 2-1 to WIN. It's been 9 long years without a trophy so this one is extra special. Have to admit that I did cry but we'll put that down to the emotion ;o) Just a soppy Spurs fan - guilty as charged!!!

Come On You SPURS

Warning warning warning - Footie Chat LOL

Yep, I'm a bit excited as we're off to White Hart Lane tonight so see the mighty Spurs play in the UEFA cup. It's the 2nd leg against Slavia Prague and we're already 2-1 up so the atmosphere should be great. It will be the 1st time that we've been to a European match. Just hope we win now :o)

On our way to Wembley

Yet another of a day which I can't let pass without having a teeny weeny gloat ;o). Anyone who knows me will probably guess what I'm about to say --------

-- the ever so mighty Tottenham Hotspurs have just beaten/thrashed "Arse"nal by 5 goals (yep we scored 5) to 1 -----

So with an aggregate score of 6-2, we've booked our place in the League Cup final at Wemberley!!!!!!! Being back at the home of football is great enough but to do it against our North London rivals is a huge huge bonus.

Will not be able to wipe the smile off my face for at least the next few weeks. I will now try and calm down :o)

Glory glory days

I couldn't let this day pass without a special mention of the fantastic effort that the mighty mighty Spurs put in at the Lane today. Also, when I set this blog up, I did mention that I'd be having a rant or 2 about the Spuds.

When I woke up this morning, I had my usual Saturday morning wish - that Spurs would score some goals and all being well actually win. Who would have believed that I'd be sitting here now after Reading scored 4 goals at the Lane but we still managed to win the game. Yep, we won by scoring 6 goals.



Apparently, Reading's Dave Kitson is a life long Spurs fan. His family were in the stands supporting Spurs and him. His ambition was to score at the Lane. Well, he definitely did that as he scored twice. Thanks Kitson - you've obviously forgotten about how stressful it is watching Spurs!!!!!

Thankfully, super Dimitar Berbatov was on form - scoring 4 of our goals. Let's hope they remember the winning feeling against Reading as we play them again next weekend in the FA Cup.

C'mon the Spurs

They're playing in the UEFA cup tonight and, after the last European performance at White Hart Lane, they need all the help they can get LOL

Busy busy busy

Haven't blogged for a couple of weeks as I've been really busy at work.

Just about managed to keep up with the cards.

This one's for my mum and dads 44th wedding anniversary on Friday. Mum collects Paintbox Poppets collectible ornaments and dad buys them for her so this decoupage image was perfect :)



This one was for my cousins little boy.

Wembley again !!!

Despite having sinusitus, I still went to Wembley yesterday. Although, my dad reckons that the only way I wouldn't have gone would have been if I couldn't get out of bed LOL.

England played Estonia in the Euro 2008 qualifier and it was great. Brilliant atmosphere and great view (of the gorgeous Robbo in the first half) - even though all the goals were scored at the other end.

I have no voice now after cheering the boys on at the match and then shouting at the telly when England beat France in the Rugby World Cup Semi-final. 14-9 was a magnificent result on their home turf. Bring on South Africa or Argentina :o)