Stampin' Me Little Heart Out!!!

I have had such a productive day today. Started off reducing a large pile of plain white paper into smaller neater piles of inserts ready for various sizes of cards. That's a job that has needed doing for a good while. After that I did a mock up of a card design I was planning on doing and after a bit of messing with it everything came together so I made three of those up. Had to leave them to dry so they will have to be photographed and posted tomorrow. Did some punching ready for another card I want to try out and then some stamping with some stamps I haven't used for ages.......bliss!!!
And I have just spent a very cosy couple of hours with DD watching 27 Dresses......again. I love that film.....old softie that I am.....lol!!!
Now I am going to snuggle up and read for a while before bed.
Night Night.......and thanks for dropping in.
Sheila-x-

Crosspatch!!!

I am proper worn out today. Miss Doodle has been a right old crosspatch for most of the day. Not sure why. She hasn't been chomping on her fingers so I don't think it was another tooth. Maybe she just fancied being in a bad mood for a change.
Way too tired to even contemplate the journey up to the attic so I am off to veg on the sofa with DD ,watch Cold Mountain and eat ice cream........some low fat stuff which will probably be disgusting but never mind.
I have six days off now so there will be something to post pretty soon.
Hugs
Sheila-x-

Spanners In The Works!!!

So I goes off upstairs last night to swap over the desks thinking it would take all of half an hour and it would have done if I had been left to my own devices. Unfortunately I had to call Mr Manic for assistance when one of the nuts on the new desk just wouldn't do as it was told. Behind where I had moved out the old desks was a redundant storage heater which he decided to take out while he could get to it. Oh my life you should have seen the mess that created. That all had to be cleared up before I could even think of putting things back and then the night just ran away with me and I got no crafting done which annoyed me because I was really in the mood.
There is still a bit of stuff wants putting away but I am determined to do something tonight.
For now I am just doing my domestic goddess impersonation. I have a beef casserole simmering away for tea and after a little trip out this afternoon I shall be making chocolate cupcakes with lime frosting and some dumplings for Mr Manic.
Miss Doodle is just having a nap after a very busy morning playing and chatting so I am off for a cup of coffee.
Thanks for dropping by........sorry about the mess.....lol!!!
Sheila-x-

Workaday Views!!!

The new workroom layout is working very well........or at least it is when I get chance to get up there.......lol!!!
I now have a large space to stand at for various jobs when I don't want to be sitting down and on here I have made myself a sort of infinity board for taking pics on.

It is a large piece of white canvas taped to the wall and when not in use the bottom end slides down behind the worktop out of the way. This saves me having a separate contraption which usually ends up getting squished or inked on. It works rather well with my daylight lamp.

This is where I store some of my ink pads. I would need another bookcase to be able to have them all out as besides these I have another five drawers and two boxes full........how embarrassing.

Next to the ink pad storage is die storage on the lower shelves with embossing powders, Promarkers and other odds and ends above. The rail holds bags containing die cuts. I sit at a desk just underneath here to do my assembling when I don't want to stand at the worktop. At the moment it is two old computer desks but tomorrow it is being replaced with an old bank desk which hubby picked up this morning for nothing when he went to the cash machine. The bank was being refurbished and the desk was on the the pavement outside and when hubby asked what they were doing with it he was told to just take it......so he did. It's nothing posh just basically a wooden topped table with metal legs but very sturdy.

This unit is storage for all of my stamps. The orange drawers hold all of my clear stamps and then UM rubber is in some of the storage boxes. On here there are also things like  alcohol inks, H2O's, embellishments and tools that I don't use so often.
The bag hanging on the curtain rail is the 'dispatches bag'. When I need something from downstairs I phone down and request the said something. The call comes back.......'send down t'dispatches' and I chuck the bag out of the window to be filled and then haul it back up by the long string on it. This may seem incredibly lazy but if you knew just how many times a day I find I need things from  downstairs you would understand.

I got my baking done early this morning and then cooked a roast beef dinner for the hungry hoards. Ruby was a little star and is getting better now. She had me rolling on the floor nearly when she was dancing to the music DS was playing to her from his phone.....it was thrash metal for goodness sake and she was loving it and really giving it some with a great big grin on her face. I'm sure I have said this before but I just adore that little girl.....lol!!!

Anyhoo.....I have had a bit of quiet time with hubby and watched Dancing On Ice so now I think I'll have an early night to get my strength up for another day with Ruby tomorrow.
Bye for now.....and thanks for visiting today.
Sheila-x-

Kraft And Black!!!

Ooooh I am loving this Kraft cardstock with black ink.....yum, yum, yum. I've been very good and gone to my bits folders instead of reaching for a new sheet and found enough to make this 5x7 card.
The spotted background is a Kars stamp I had for Christmas from DD. The piece of card measures four and a half by six and a half and I just had to fill in a small area at one end. It's one whopping great stamp......and doesn't it look pretty?
The shoe stamp by Clarity is stamped straight onto the card strip and coloured with Promarkers then I added a swirl with a Quickie glue pen and covered it with fine black glitter.
The sentiment....I haven't a clue who made it. I know I bought it from a Paper Mill outlet years ago but I unmounted it from it's wooden block.
I punched the card strip and tied the ribbon and then added black flatback beads to finish it off.
This is one of my most favourite cards I have made for ages.

Managed to clear some of my job list this morning in between playing doorman to the dog who had a bad case of Garbage Guts. I don't know what he had eaten but I got through about half a can of air freshener during the course of the morning......lol!!!
Once Mr Manic was home I put a Sweet and Sour Chicken casserole on to simmer and shot upstairs to do some die cutting. Got quite a lot done and cleared a huge pile of offcuts. It's so satisfying when you get a job like that done.
Tomorrow HRH Princess Doodle is visiting with Mummy and Daddy for lunch so I shall be up early to bake as I just wasn't in the mood for it today.

Well I was watching Edwardian Farm on IPlayer. Got to episode eight last night and the next one available is eleven so I don't know where nine and ten got to. How annoying!!!
Oh well I shall find something to watch no doubt.
Tara for now.
Thanks for your visit.
Sheila-x-