Favourite thing on a Friday

Old photos.  Afternoon tea on the beach.  Grandparents looking so young and beautiful.  As grandchildren you forget that they were ever that young don't you. 

I love that my gramps is in his suit and they have proper crockery for their tea.

Street party, when street parties were something amazing for the kids to join in with.  Hidden amongst the little rascals above is my darling father.  He's the cheeky one in the white sailors hat pulling funny faces.  Yes that would be my dad all over, cheeky then, cheeky always.

So there you have it, my favourite thing this Friday is looking at old photos.  If you want to see what others have posted over at Mimi and Tilly's just click on the button in my sidebar.

Lolo xx

It's my Mum's Birthday today

 To celebrate we are all off for a lovely meal at our local Indian Restaurant.  She didn't want much in the way of pressies, just to go out and not have to cook or clear up afterwards.  We did make her a cake and had it with some tea and the giving of cards this afternoon with our nan.

My sister and I had grand plans for the cake originally but being the naughty daughters that we are left our planning a bit too late so just winged it with some colour buttercream.  Can you spot the mistake in the photo?  Yep it's only half the cake, whilst greedily tucking into it we suddenly remembered we hadn't photographed it!

I got some yummy Stampin Up Kraft cardstock in the post yesterday which I ordered from the lovely Mandi over at Enchanted Occasions and couldn't wait to use it.

The papers are Anna Griffin punched with the Fiskars Waterfall border punch.  It kinda reminds me of sun awnings.

Recently purchased Myler templates were used for this pink and sparkly butterfly card.  I just cut out two of butterflies then scored the edge of one of them and glued them together at the edge to make a standup card. 

 In the sunlight this morning (which has now gone I might add) it really did twinkle.

Finally got round to making use of some of the goodies I won from the very kind Rose over at Victoria Rose Crafts.  The tag was part of some Tilda embellishments who I just adore.

I've mixed it with some Papermania paper trimmed with a wavy blade on my Purple Cows trimmer.

This last card is classic in design and again relies heavily on Anna Griffin papers and ribbon.  I do find myself using her stuff an awful lot. 

Now all that's left to do is beautify ourselves for this evenings feast.  I'll be wearing something comfortable though as I have been known to eat the odd thing or two when I am out!

Thanks for popping by and hope your bank holiday has some sunshine in it ;o)

Mother's Day

Spent a lovely day with this very special lady, my beautiful mum.  She made sure I was safe back then and she still does now, she is the best!  We are lucky to all be close by as a family and I wouldn't have it any other way.   Besides where would I go everytime I discover late in the evening that I have run out of this and that, or whose tools would I borrow and not return for ages, and most of all who else would happily follow me around bootsales at silly o'clock on sunday mornings. LOL.  See you gotta love your mums! xx

A look back at 2009 in pictures

Do you know what the best thing about having a blog is? You get to look back over the year and see what you have been up to ;o) I do have a paper diary but my blog has all the pictures, some of which we forget about over time.

Anyways if you don't mind indulging me I have picked out key ones from each month of 2009. Oh and you may notice that there are no thrifty ones in there, that's because I think they deserve a post of their own! ;o)

JANUARY

My Nigella Sponge!

Pink Petticoat challenge

FEBRUARY

Kittie cuteness!

Remember all that snow!

MARCH
Mother's day card

New home for my pins

APRIL
A thank you for my bookcase

I challenge anyone not to love this cake!

Friends 40th

MAY

Pretty bedspreads

Lots of dresses!

Spanish beach huts

JUNE

Fabric card

Pink Petticoat challenge

Another 40th!

JULY
Beautiful English beach huts

More thank yous

Cute little Ella

AUGUST
August Colour

Girly cupcakes

August Veg

SEPTEMBER

All wrapped up

The bunting I still haven't sewn up!

My first corsage

OCTOBER
It's a date

Finally got my sofas

Quite a few of us got this!

Gorgeous felt from Paper and String!

NOVEMBER
American wedding

Sister love
And more snow!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog over these past 12 months and indulging me. I hope you all have a lovely New Year and here's to 2010!!!!

Cheers everyone! xxxxxxxxx

Lazy Days in the garden

A balmy Sunday afternoon, why could it be summer has arrived. Please stay a while this time won't you, we have missed you soooo much! Sitting in the garden with my cats and a lovely cuppa I snapped away in the sunshine. Oh how it makes the garden look much nicer, you don't notice the jobs that need doing so much. So lets start with the kitties.

My sweet little Levi

Her brother Morgan

And my adopted Alfie

Then there are the plants, they are not doing too badly considering they have survived two monsoons, a drought and lack of vitamin D!

The beans, french and runner, french are fairing badly though

My qvc apple tree, first year with a crop but they have a lot of hailstone damage

Colourful Bizzy Lizzies my mum got me, they just flower constantly which I love.

And there she is, that thing that a lot of us haven't seen in ages, beautiful blue sky with fluffy clouds. What else do we need! xx