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TRYAHWYANHAR - Friday!

Started off Friday with a good deed.   A good friend of ours - who regularly comes to my monthly MeetUp crops and also to the retreats was moving house.  I had asked her did she want any help - and she still had all her scrappy stuff to move.    So Mike (who was working from home for the day) and I headed over to her old place at 9am - via Starbucks to grab Annie and us a coffee.   

We filled my truck up with lots-o-stuffs, pretty much all her scrap stuff - along with some other bits and pieces and Annie filled her car up and we headed over to her new place.   It is lovely - so much nicer than her old place!!     Unpacked that load and I asked Anne if she would like us to do another trip.   She was delighted - so we all went back - just in my truck this time - and loaded it up again.   We got all the tall stuff, bulky stuff, outdoorsy type things, paintings, suitcases and the like until we could fit no more.   Headed back to Anne's - very quietly cos geeky Mike was on a conference call.    We unpacked that load - and I heard from Anne - that those two loads made it easier for her to get out of her old place quicker - YAY.

On the way back from helping AnnieFannie - we stopped in at Michaels - there is one very close to where she has moved to - and I had a coupon - and cos it was raining and well .. just because. 

 But mainly because I had a coupon for extra % off some beading items - that I wanted for Cait - who is making more earrings - and is going to open an Etsy store (more on that when we get it up and running!)    

So I grabbed lots and lots O bits she needed and then cos I was there - had a wander so see if there was anything to take my fancy.   But no fancies were to be had!!

 

 

  Came back home to a yummy lunch prepared by the MR.  

Panini with ham, sharp cheddar and caramelised fig and onion spread - OOH BABY it was good!

As  the rain kept coming down and down and down - I set myself up to scrap some more.  

Fave music on loud - Check

Fave chippies to munch on - Check

Iced Americano to drink - Check

Chocolate from NZ (Smarties - so much better than M&M's) - Check

 

There was not a lot of day left at this stage - but I got some projects done.  

 

 

Decided to make some stuff using Kaisercraft's new Class of 87 line.  

First up I made a pen/pencil holder by covering an empty Truvia carton - oh my thriftiness knows no bounds!

 

 

Then as I had finished my tube of Smarties - I decided it would look perfect in the pencil box.   These Smarties came in a cute set - it had 5 colours and yes the crayons do work!   So I covered up the Smarties tube with more Class of 87.

 

Added some IKEA markers and it is ready to go!  

Although I think it needs more of the big crayons - so I might have to take one for the team and eat another tube or two of Smarties

*LOL*

To finish off I covered a notebook with some more of the yummy papers. 

I even did fussy cutting for the image of the girl playing hopscotch.   Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE fussy cutting!   I actually did a lot of it over these few days - I think an alien has taken me over!

So that was Friday - we settled in for the night and watched a movie and had a relatively early night!

 

SPA TREATMENT well I was going to go and have a facial with a coupon I had - but I never made the appointment - silly me!

DINNER - ooh homemade nachos, didn't he do well - they were yummy too!!

DESSERT - Pistachio Instant Pudding - and again with the lashings of cream - oooh baby!

PRIZE WON - NYET NYET NYET... methinks this retreat host is sucky!!

**Wednesday Winners** Behind the Green Door

Anyone who has ever been to my house, or who has met me knows that I have a problem with an affinity for the colour green. 

Oh yes I .....

ELL

OH

VEE

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................................it.  

Every day is like St Patricks Day around here – I wear it, I eat it, I paint my toes with it, my house is full of it!  Why yes, I do like Green Day – thanks for asking!!   So you can imagine my absolute delight and joy when I found this little beauty.

So what if I have an already perfectly working toaster – I couldn’t pass this up!!  Plus it has this nifty little feature where you pop up a rack on the top to grill things like bagels, and cinnamon toast and the like.  Plus it’s always good to have a backup toaster.

Didn’t you know GREEN is the new black??  Now if I could just get one of these over here in the US my world would be complete... *sigh*

So, you know where this is going don’t you.  This week’s giveaway is all about the GREEN.

 

First up we have some Green flowers.... courtesy of Kaisercraft

Then we have Green chalk ink catseyes courtesy of Clearsnap (not sure how those other colours sneaked in there)

Next up Green stickles courtesy of Ranger

And finally getting right to the HEART of the matter from Basic Grey – the so aptly named

GREEN AT HEART

  The collection, and the gummies – which always look good enough to eat!

Now get on with your bad selves and green green green comment green green ( I was singing that line you know)

Now in case you were wondering – there is lots of green in the store – and I have had notice that all the new Cosmo Green Cricket will be here on Thursday and all the new 7GREENGypsies will be here then too!  So if you cross my palm with green – then I will get it out to you tout suite!

Zee RulZ

Every Wednesday for eternity (or until I retire, run away from home, go broke or kick the bouquet) there will be a contest on the blog with prizes for you.   

Each week you have to comment on the Wednesday Winners blogpost to be in the draw – and the weiner whiner winner will be drawn on Saturdays. 

The winner has to send me a photo of something they create with their WINNINGS so I can post it on the blog for all to see and be INSPIRED by.

Ok are we all clear ???

 

Make sure you bookmark this blog or add it to your feed – so you know when the latest *WW* has been posted.  You never know I might just throw in an extra contest here and there!

 

I am still waiting to hear from these  winners – so I can send their prizes out from the 28 winners week – serenarepsold, jayne, jill, sara rossi, becky and Lorraine McL.

What the best dressed feet are wearing!!

Well no wonder my foot was so sore, and was not getting any better.   While I was in NZ - I got a deep crack in the ball of my right foot that just did not want to heal up.   When I got back - I was religious about putting stuff on it and seemed to be winning the battle.   However, my foot was getting more sore by the day, and by the end of walking around the Anaheim Convention Centre - I was a hobbling, limping fool.  It turned out - the crack had healed over a piece of something foreign and abscessed.   

So yesterday I had to have the abscess drained - holy painful Batman.  I am no sook - but I think when they put the anaesthetic in that had to be one of the most painful things I have ever had done.   I near levitated off the bed - and I know I said a few words that were not pretty.   Then today - I had to go back.  

WAS

NOT

KEEN!

Lucky old me - today - got to endure my foot having all the skin around the abscess and beyond scalpeled off without anaesthetic.   Fun times!   I go back in a week for another checkup, unless I think anything is awry. 

In the meantime I get to wear this oh so stylish footwear!    I have to say though - it is at least stopping the pain in my ankle, knee and hip I was getting from walking on the outside of my foot because I could not bear to plant my foot normally.

Here is hoping I am now on the road to recovery - especially as when they drained the abscess, they had to cut down deep - and I now am back to square 1 with a big deep crack in my foot *sigh*

Crops, Dresses and Crapped Out Knees!

not necessary in that order!!    But to catch everyone up.

The dress!!

I realise I never came back with the results of the dress for the wedding in Italy I am going to.     A quick reminder of the two (although I got the one on the left in a celery green)

They finally arrived - and both of them looked fantastic on. 

 I, of course was drawn to the green one *quelle surprise* ......NOT *lol*...  However - although it looks nice and light and floaty it is VERY heavy to wear.   The 'overtop' is not a light stretchy material as it appears in the photo but actually all beaded (glass beads at that!!) and is REALLY weighty.    If the part of Italy we are going to is anything like the rest of Italy that I have been to - and is hot and humid - I would absolutely in it.   

As I said they both looked lovely on.    I got my daughter Hannah to cast her eye over and give me an honest critical assessment of them both as well.     I said to her - ok I got off the plane and I am bloated and the bloat did not go down.. and now I have eaten a big wedding banquet and I am stuffed - then I stuck out my stomach as far as I could.

Hmm!!! 

In the green dress when I did that it looked like I had swallowed 2 turkeys!!
But in the blue dress - I could have been 200 months pregnant and you still could not tell!!

SO THE BLUE DRESS WON... although bugger it did not come in green!!      Oh and the shoes I picked out - fit beautifully and look lovely - however now will probably not be able to wear them because of my knee BAH!

My knee

It is getting better.. slowly.   However last Friday's ART session on my knee was so painful I actually wound up crying.   I don't think I have EVER cried when I have been there - even when my back was at its worst.   The bruise that came up almost immediately was rather large - and you should see it now - it is huge.   However I suffered through it all, iced it when I got home and put up with it.... well sort of put up with it - I will admit to having a bloody good bawl when I got home because it was so painful.   My knee was really really swollen, and part of my calf and shin on Friday and Saturday but that seems to have gone down now.    It is feeling today like I can walk normally - but I am not overstressing it - I don't want to go backwards!

I am meant to go 3 times this week for ART - however if the bruising is still this bad tomorrow - then I am cancelling that appointment.   Not even counting the diggy fingers into the area that needs working that is tender - I just could not bear anyone pushing on the bruise!!

Monthly Crop

Had our Meetup monthly crop on Friday night.   What a hoot!  We have a core group that comes now along with the odd one or two newbies and we have such a lot of laughs.      I am not sure we are getting that much scrapping done - but we certainly have a good time.

Maybe its the wine that helps things along    We even have a bit culture... last Friday - we gathered around Mike's PC and all watched Susan Boyle off Britains Got Talent - SHE IS!!... plus we have good nibbles and converstion.    We were having a good laugh last Friday about Stickles.   We have decided that it really is CRACK for scrappers.

On today's menu - I am going to the mall!  BAH... it is a beautiful day here - meant to be 82... I should be outside... however our local BIG mall has cut their Sunday hours... sign of the times methinks!

I need to go and suffer through the salespeople at the cosmetics counters because I need some new makeup - mainly something foundation-ish.   Oh well... could be fun.. maybe I will get a makeover!

Oh yes... and did i mention earlier in the week I got my hair permed???

Give me a head with hair!!

ok it's that time again.

Time for me to get my hair cut!    My hairdresser laughs at me cos I am SOOOOO boring.   I am probably her worst customer.   I was trying to look through my old blog posts to see when I last had it cut.   Last year sometime - and probably - easily at least a year ago.

Going to have an inch or so off the bottom to clean it up and straighten it out.

But wait... there is more - shock horror even!!    I am going back ... in a couple of weeks... to get something else done...  maybe even something a little radical .... well different anyway.. for me

No it won't be short - I look YUKKY with short hair because my hair is thick and DEAD straight!!

Which one??

for the wedding - which is very formal.   I did think about a suit - but they all looked too *office-y* or too old lady or way too floral for me.   

The which one part will also depend on what they look like on too!   It might wind up being neither *LOL*      

This one I am actually getting in celery -no surprise there ;-)

and this one is midnight blue... not navy which it sort of looks like in the pic

and these shoes... yes I am wearing shoes... don't faint!!   - they are silver and they will even fit my big wide feet!