A special celebration

Millions of people have joined in today, to celebrate the marraige of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. I have to confess that I actually did watch some of the wedding and the kiss on the balcony in between travelling. I also admit to enjoying it and adoring her very vintagey looking wedding dress, the bridesmaids looked wonderful and I can't wait to see all the pics in the press tomorrow and hear more about it all!!

Today is also a celebration for someone else, someone special called Marti. Today is her birthday, today she is facing cancer and today I am proud to be part of a birthday tribute in her honour.

I follow the blog of her daughter Deb at Paper Turtle and she asked others to try and make her mom's birthday special. I wish I had asked Deb for one of her teal bracelets to help remember but I didn't and I am sorry, but would still like to make this small contribution.

I am with family today and I was trying really hard to explain to my inlaws why blogging is important to me, why online forums and communites are necessary and how I consider some of the people I meet here as real friends (they just don't get it). I had so much support from 'strangers' online when I had a hysterectomy several years ago, support I didn't get anywhere else. Today when I see the fantastic spirit of everyone joining in the birthday celebration for Marti, I really feel I am part of an amazing community of friends.

Thinking of you today Marti, Deb and family on this special celebration xxx

Marmite Day

(taken from 10 o'clock live )

seen above Beaver Plant Shop on the Chichester bypass

Why Marmite Day you may ask... you either love it or hate it... I think it is the same with the Royal Wedding!! So are you avoiding the celebrations and the ceremony?? Or indulging in the full experience.. dressing up, having a street party etc etc???

Me, I am off out so will probably be on the road during the whole event! I feel I should be more patriotic, more excited, more involved.... it is future history after all... marraige of a probable king and queen of tomorrow. But I am not really bothered!!! Butshould you ask me about what is happening in London in 2012, wel that is a whole other blog post!!!

Enjoy your day whatever you end up doing xxx

My day in photos

windows in my day ....

kitchen window, waiting for kettle to boil

windows online


bathroom 1

bathroom 2


in the car

work room 1


work pc


reception

work room 2

work toilet!


microscope

drugs

home again

BBQ

better late than never! to see more peoples days pop over here xxx

Mini break and back in class....

I have had a few days away with the family. We stayed in a caravan in Pagham, Sussex and it was great. I think this was probably due to the weather as we were able to spend most of the time outdoors. But also it was a great base to explore the surrounding countryside.

We went to Arundel Castle

visited the Down and Weald outdoor museum

and spent time at the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust

Now I am back home, I have caught up with reading all the blogs I follow, but I still have quite a bit of class work to do! I am a student of Shimelles again, the subject 'beyond blogging for scrapbookers'. I wanted to join in with all the gang, taking this new class together. I really want to blog a lot more regularly and want my posts and the space here to reflect my personality. I love how Rachel B's blog has a personalised header that changes every month and one day I hope to achieve something unique like that.

I installed Google analytics a few months ago after a recommendation from K, so I look forward to learning more about it in class. I do love hearing from my readers and appreciate all the comments. I often wonder how or what brings people to visit here? What is it you like or enjoy? Please if you have a chance take time to answer in the comments section today.

Finally, I wanted to mention that Enfys has some great blog candy, a chance to win a gorgeous Polkadoodles CD. Pop over and check it out here. In fact her blog is a great one to regularly persue for inspiration on card making and many amusing ancedotes from her everyday life!

IDIC card making challenge '1 2 3 recipe'

Oh dear! I completely forgot to add this weeks card to the DT photo album and to set up an auto post!! i guess that's what happens when you are on holiday and not in the usual routine. I apologise to IDIC DT and sorry for everything being late but I am finally here!

This weeks IDIC card challenge is a 1 2 3 recipe, I really love this idea as you can do whatever you fancy as long as you use the recipe. The recipe we are using is 1 image, 2 papers and 3 embellishments. This week we are sponsored by Sylvies Stamps and I have used 2 dinosaurs cut from 'Dino border' available here.

I decided to use up some stash, adding black and white papers, a Craftwork cards sentiment and 2 silver stars to brighten it up!

Hope to see you over at IDIC to sample your recipes this week. xxx

Alphanumeric blog hop

I am very excited and extremely honoured to be part of this amazing Alphanumeric blog hop organised by the fantastic Mel from I Speak Melsh. I would have hated to miss out on this great opportunity and it fits in so perfectly with Blogging for Scrapbookers (the Shimelle class, that I have just completed!). It is great to feel involved with such a friendly blogging community and it's fantastic that you have now joined us via this blog hop.

The blog hop starts with Mel at I Speak Melsh then continues as follows

BE Glorious

Captured On Film

Chatty Crafty Arty Pig

Creating Room

Curiouser and Curiouser

Daily Life - Bits and Pieces

Deb's World

Den's Crafty Diary

From High In The Sky

Gallo Organico

Ginger's Life Of Spice

Handmade By Kirsty

Havoc and Mayhem

Heather's Scraps

Helena's Creative Maven

Holaday's Happy Hearts

Jeant-Jinnag

Just Jimjams

K's Crafty Corner

Life...As I See It

{Life Behind The Purple Door}

Lisa E Design Blog

Living Life One Blessing At A Time

Mary's Musings

Michelle Loves...

Obstinate Pursuit

Over At Our Place

Paper Turtle

Peonies and Pennies

Random Reflections

Rosalind Revival

Scrap Dreams

Scrappyjacky

Scrapworthy Lives

Staring At The Sea

Surefiredaisy Says

This Kalil Life

This Little Life Of Mine

Xnomads' Blog

You should have arived here from one of my favourite blogs 'Captured on Film' with the talented Jo. If you are lost please refer to the list above!

Initially I was unsure what I was going to blog about for my given Alphanumeric, now I have hundreds of ideas and have to reduce it all down to something not too long and boring! I was going to start off by saying this is the smallest perfect number, the atomic number of carbon, the number of sides in a cube, and the number of legs an insect has... I think you have now guessed!

I could talk about the M6, 6 geese a laying, 6 degrees of seperation, sixer in cubs (DS was recently made a sixer!), six feet under, 6th sense, 6x6 papers or what I was doing on 06/06/06 (but sadly cannot remember and have no photos taken that day either!)

Instead I will mention

which reminds me of turning 6 years old ( and also has a poem called Furry Bear which is so close to Furry Pig it deserves a mention!). So here are some photos of DD and DS on their sixth birthdays a few years ago ( DD is now a 'Tween' and DS is reaching to double figures soon!)

I haven't got any pictures of me at 6 but a cousin posted one of me on Facebook and I think it is the nearest I can find although I am not sure when it was taken exactly. I could be 4 or 5 but for the purposes of this blog hop we will say 6!! Have you any pictures of you at age about 6?

I would also like to do the folowing 6 things and may even document how it goes in blog posts:-

1. look up my 6th folder of photographs and post the 6th picture


2. make 6 LO's in the next 6 weeks (that will get me going!)


3. in keeping with my phrase for 2011, sort out 6 areas in my house


4. make 6 Pay it Forward items


5. visit 6 new blogs (I might even manage this today on the blog hop!)


6. send 6 handmade cards to a random 6 people who leave comments on this post!

Thank you so much for visiting my humble blog amongst all these completely, amazingly awesome blogs. I can't wait to get hopping through them all myself. Please head off to Donna's blog at Creating Room , this is a new blog to me and one I hope to visit more frequently in the future.

Todays post was brought to you by the number...

xxx

IDIC card making challenge 'Easter'

Greetings again and welcome to the I Did It Creations card making challenge!

This week is an Easter theme sponsored by Robyn's Fetish and I chose the totally gorgeous image of Inga the Bunny to work with, available here.

I hope you will be joining in with the holiday theme do pop over to IDIC to see all the DT's work