4 Cats and an awful lot of mess

Sunday, 5 July 2009

July already

Juliwan July 05, 2009 0 Comments

Its the first Sunday of the month and that means one thing ..... Sarah's cards Warrington crop. Yet again another good day was had by all and reasonably productive. One LO, one DLO for my holiday 2005 circle journal (finishing off the photos that didn't get done) and one side of a circle journal I am in, I'd printed out the photo too big to do the other side. So fairly chuffed with myself. Bought some of the gorgeous Basic Grey Marrakesh papers which are gorgeous and a few other bits to be going along with. No pics as yet but will follow.

Got my 'Arty Farty Jigsaw' back and lovely it is too. One slight problem for our group, in that one of the groups jigsaws was cut differently than the rest, so one piece on all our completed jiggy's doesn't fit.

How this works is ........ a blank jigsaw of 9 pieces is bought by 9 people who make up one group. Each person in the group selects a topic/theme to have their jiggy decorated in. Mine was China in colours Red, Cream, Brown and Silver. The host (NettyB) sends each member of the team 9 pieces to decorate (each piece coming from a different team members original jiggy). Following this?

So then you decorate the appropriate piece to the chosen theme of the teamie and send the 9 (all different) pieces back to the host who then makes up each members completed jigsaw and returns it to them.

Not confusing at all. Just in case you are confused ....... here's mine :o)

Arty Farty Jigsaw 2009

As soon as I have finished my piece (top right) I will be getting it framed to display in the house. Gorgeous and thank you to all the team who took the time and effort to create this lovely work of arty.

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Happy Father's Day

Juliwan June 21, 2009 0 Comments

Couldn't let the day go by without a quick post and the obligatory photo of my pops. Mum, Dad and I had a lovely meal at the Millbank at Millbank and on the way home stopped off at Hebden Bridge to listen to a little of the brass band competition (Dad's thing not mine). If you can't do these things for your Dad on Father's Day, when can you?

So massively stuffed after a lovely meal of blacksticks blue cheese fritters with beetroot, roast belly pork with roast veg, raspberry sorbet and coffee ..... yum.

The sun shone all day, and now the new series of Top Gear to round it off - could it get any better :o)

Dad and I

Mum and Dad

Mum and I (pulling stupid face)

Oh and finally, as promised, picture of sexy new car ........

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Gosh

Juliwan June 17, 2009 0 Comments

Can't believe its the middle of June already, and half way through the year and yet again I have failed in the blogging stakes.

So what's been happening ......

I am still in the job I don't like. Still not enjoying it very much. The people are really nice, having alternate Fridays off is fantastic and the traveling is so much better but it is so dull. I can spend the whole day doing very little and even doing work for my colleagues in the team doesn't fill the day. I told my boss in my 1:1 that I needed some more work and all she said was the investigation I was doing at the moment would fill my day!! It isn't!!!

I've sold the blue golf I bought earlier this year. For some reason it just wasn't as nice as the previous one and I couldn't 'bond' with it, so stuck it on autotrader and sold it within a couple of days. Then of course you have 2 more weeks of constant phone calls, including one wierdo who was so drunk or stoned he couldn't seem to grasp the fact it was sold, very amusing to listen to this on speaker phone on the way home.

2 weeks without a car and I found the most perfect new one, well again, new to me. A sexy black Mazda 3, photo to follow. So impressed am I that I have even had my plate put on it, which I never bothered to do with the blue golf. It drives like a dream, has an in built 6 CD interchanger and is a complete smoke free zone - it must be love :o)

Had a lovely Friday with my 'old' friends from Team Risk at MRI a couple of weeks ago. Chinese buffet lunch at Red Chilli then an afternoon of shopping with Mr H. What a hoot, I have never spent as long testing perfumes and colognes ever nor have I come away with as many free samples and discovered some must have new smells. I even scrapped a page to celebrate the occasion.

Father's Day this weekend and Pops, Mum and I are off to The Millbank at Millbank to sample (yet again) their superb cuisine. Sadly MP will not be coming with us as he is off to Scotland for the weekend on a bike tour with his biker buddies. Therefore I am also taking the opportunity to have a little gathering at my place on Saturday to partake of a little scrap booking and of course chatting.

On that note, better get back to the cleaning ....... don't want anyone to know how untidy my house really is ....... then again what are closed doors for if not for hiding things?