Apart from a couple of days & nights of the wind howling down the chimney, it's been a quiet week this week.  The weather has settled down again, it's actually quite sunny today - well, sort of, when it's not cloudy. I've just been out to check the bird feeder and make sure it's got enough in it, I swear the birds around here are lucky they can get off the ground let alone fly - that's at least 12 fat balls & two lots of mealworm they've gone through since Thursdays & I've just filled it again! Yesterday it was like a scene from "The Birds".  When Jack went out for a nose around the garden they scattered.  They then started gathering on the old telephone lines, in the trees and on roof top aerials.  Once the dog came back in the birds started coming back and were queueing up to get at the feeder - then the squabbling started as to who was next - what a racket! If they are like this in the warm weather I think I better get well stocked up for the winter. It's only been about 3 months since we started trying to persuade our teenage son to get a haircut, I'd been threatening to get him a couple of barrettes to keep his hair out his eyes! Yesterday, he finally gave in!  He has been asked to give a presentation on the "Career Ready" programme he's been taking part in for the last year or so.  It's to be given at a reception for new participants, local employers & various VIPs at a local 5 Star hotel so he needs to look the part! Oh, and it's school photo time - he's to be in three photos: solo, class & the Senior Prefect Team.  We don't have a photo of him in that school uniform & he's been there over 5 years!  He says he's camera shy but I'm hoping I'll have something for the family album. Sketch Challenge When I saw the sketch for this weeks  Freshly Made Sketches Challenge I decided that as it was a simple sketch I should perhaps make a card that was also something quite simple.  There was a stamp in Crafty Impressions "In the Dog House" set that I had been puzzling over how it could be used so I decided to have a little play with that, and came up with this - I think this is the quickest card I've ever made!: UPDATE Thank you Kim for the Honorable Mention in this week's Challenge! I Used Cardstock White 300gsm - Fabriano Black 300gsm - PayPer Box Other Colours - American Crafts Dies & Stamps Tim Holtz Bird Crazy, Crazy Cats, Crazy Dogs - Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Bird Crazy, Crazy Cats, Crazy Dogs - Sizzix Thinlits "In the Dog House" Dog - Crafty Inspirations Inks Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Ranger Smokey Grey - Memento Midnight Blue - Versafine Onyx Black - Versafine Bird Crazy, Crazy Cats, Crazy Dogs  I'd ordered a couple of new sets of Dyan Reavely stamps but although only one set, "Ugh, People!" has arrived it's still been time to play.  I do like them using them with the Tim Holtz Crazy sets - only two complete for now: I still had some of my coloured Crazy Dog die cuts to use up & decided to team them with some backgrounds I'd put away for future use:

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Happy Friday everyone! Yes it's another post with THE birds. The "CRAZY" adorable Birds that is! Did you hear the exciting news from Tim Ho...

Hello friends! Are you still CRAZY over the Tim Holtz Crazy stamps? They just make me happy every time I see them. It's hard not to have a ...

Hi there. Have you seen THESE new dies that coordinate with Tim Holtz’s Crazy Birds stamp set? They are awesome! Most dies cut out an image leaving a white border around it…not these guys…they cut right up to the image. You can cut out the wings, eyes, and beak for added dimension. Bird Crazy Thinlets Dies can be found HERE Here’s the card I made. I think it’s one of my favorites… I started by stamping the birds...Continue reading

I was so excited to pick up my Crazy Dogs stamp set from Debbie's Scrap Shack last week  & couldn't wait to make a few cards with them. ...

not only the dead wife flashbacks but the fact that he walks up to that happy-go-lucky 14 y/o farmer & immediately accuses him of having smth to do w jouno being missing...sir im afraid to tell you the calls are coming from inside the house. go beat fukuchi's ass instead

After a bit of a hard time the past 3 weeks I treated myself with the lovely stamp set from Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz. I was extremely happy, that I got them at all in Germany, where we get all new things 1 year later usually. So just before the weekend I got my…

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OK (okay), my OLW (one little word) for today it CRAZY. I just discovered what OLW meant, duh me! Feeling a little dumb. All these acronyms ...