This Sunday - it's that time of year!

Hello Everyone

I'm getting my head around the new laptop, although at some points I really wanted to throw it out of the window!! Windows 10 or not! I am scheduling this as I am out with my daughter when this goes live. I promise to post a picture of Oscar when I've plucked up the courage to "plug" in my camera and iPod

Oooh JACKIE! all those hats, well done to you and your friends - I would have hoped you would have received an acknowledgement at the very least for sending over 250 hats in. What a shame. It almost puts you off joining in again doesn't it. I tried to get more people involved at work, and although it inspired a lot of people to get their knitting needles out again - it wasn't very fruitful!

Today's post isn't craft. Instead it is a photo of Team Gary, we (Gary's family and friends) enter a team into Harefield Hospital's Fun Run every year and it's on this Sunday (11th). Hopefully most of the people in the photo will be there again. This is the 8th year we have taken part.At its largest, the team was 17 strong, but many of his friends have moved too far away or due to work commitments can't always come now  When Gary was alive we hadn't realised that this event takes place every year or we would have taken part with Gary being at the front of the queue.

His outpatient appointments usually occurred immediately after the date and always thought that we were missing one off events - Hey Ho

Let's hope the weather will be kind to us
xx

Oldie for Fffriday

Well, what can I say, Do I like my new laptop .....no not at the mo! The company that set it up will have to have it back because half of my photos are missing and all of my Serif projects and some digikits have gone astray. Anyway, it'll get sorted
I can see what you mean MRS DUCK, my last card does resemble the German flag, the card is definitely blue, gold, red and white, not a hint of black anywhere! But another idea to consider... someone going abroad or travelling could have HAPPY travels and colours of the flag of the country they are visiting! And Oscar is absolutely thriving, the time is flying by, he is now 4 months old! Photos will be shown, when I get sorted

Today's oldie, inspired by Erika at Snappycrafts. She invites you to post an old crafty make, whether blogged or not. My oldie is/are the Innocent Smoothie  http://www.thebigknit.co.uk/hats friends/colleagues/myself made for their Age UK campaign a few years ago. I have carried it on and will make a few for this years. This particular year we sent 40+ and the following year we sent 60 plus for this worthwhile campaign.
The photos of the individual hats are a few of my makes

Craft Rocket Challenge ( #23) I'm back!

I have mynew laptop! But it's a little bit scary! Partly because it's new and partly because it's Windows 10
This fortnights challenge at Craft Rocket Challenge is "Anything Goes" 
My design is a birthday card I made for my future son in law's birthday yesterday He is a massive Tottenham Hotspur footie fan In the past I have made him cards with the usual football/Spurs ideas and I really didn't know what to make this time (I have done the beer theme too)
I saw a sample on a recent John Lockwood for Creative Expressions and it sparked an idea

I used my new favourite die set - Sue Wilson's Perspective range I cut the HAPPY in navy card using the word and smaller frame I then mounted it onto white card using the larger frame from the set. I cut the flags in the team's new strip colours - clean and simple and will use this idea for other male football mad friends. Next time I will arrange the flags differently, as if they're tails of a rosette. Finished card is 5x7 inches.

I hope that you are all well and thank you for your support and patience. Over the next few days I will endeavour to catch up with your blogs. I will be scolling back on my own blog to see if any of you have left questions that need answering
Take care
XXX

Ingredients

5x7 card blank

Navy card  (a freebie from a friend)

White card 

Red and yellow card from Lidll

Sue Wilson- Perspective dies - HAPPY

Morning

Hopefully I will be getting my laptop at some point over the weekend and I cannot wait! I may curse computers in general at work for crashing, being slow etc it's made me realise how much I rely on a oc for my card making
I am grateful that I have been able yo use my husband's tablet but it or blogger is not allowing me to upload photos today!
Usually on Saturdays I post an oldie inspired by ERIKA from Snappycrafts She invites you to postvan old project whether or not you've posted it before She also foes some brilliant crafty funnies on a Saturday to
See you soon Have a great Bank Holiday weekend x

No design from me for Craft Rocket Challenges

Lisa has kindly alliwed me to not take part in this fortnight's challenge as I don't have a working laptop I hope to have one very soon. Thank you for supporting me and sparing the time to visit. Please take a look at Craft Rocket Challenges and may be join in yourselves The current challenge is - Things with Wings. Take a look at what the rest of the Design Team has produced at www.craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com
I will still be trying to add oldies on Saturday but cannot link etc

Limping Along ...

Hello to everyone who's happened to pop in and yes as the title suggests I am limping along - not physically but with trying to use my husband's tablet and viewing blogs on my iPod!
I'll show an oldie of a cake I made about 20-25 years ago and perhaps this time next week I'll a new laptop.
I've at long last ordered some new glasses - which I've needed to do for a while So the laptop is definitely on the back burner for a while. I really miss it because most of my card making is done with Serif. I don't own many sentiment dies and I don't own any stamps Perhaps I need to rethink my craft stash - No don't go there I spend a fortune as it is
It's given me a chance to have a tidy up of my space.
Anyone got any craft ideas for empty CD cases?

Happy Perspectives die

My laptop needs replacing and I'm finding it very awkward trying to navigate around an android tablet If any of you have any advice I'd love to hear it e.g. linking to other blogs etc I'm also trying to schedule a few whilst I'm waiting to go shopping
I made this card using my new favourite die set