Fabulous Fridays @ 5'o'clock'ish, 27th September 2019

Hello there everyone,

This is short and sweet but I wanted to say hi and share a quick little card I made this week.  I've been in a bit of a creative desert so I had to force myself to sit and just stamp. Pretty happy with this little creation.



I've had both my kitties at the Vets' in the last 10 days as well for their annual checks and vaccinations.  Whilst there, Nibbles our ragdoll had his yearly 'grooming'  ie, he went in a ragdoll and came out a temporary siamese LOL.  He's so darn cute!!

     

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So here is my finished card, it was very quick and I think I've almost broken the creative drought ;-)

'til next time, remember

happy stamping colouring & creating!

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Very Versailles Cling Stamp Set [149275] $40.00	Gray Granite 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Textured Weave Ribbon [147656] $13.00	1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Scallop Circle Punch [146139] $28.00
Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes [131527] $12.25	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana [131302] $15.25	Silvery Shimmer Delicata Metallic Ink Pad [150709] $19.25
Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $13.00	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105] $13.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00

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Monday Musing, 23rd September 2019!

 

Well if I blinked I'd have missed the last week or so!  It went by so fast that I'm wondering if it really did all happen LOL. 

I'm feeling a little worse for wear though so I am having a very quiet Monday.  I've been trying to get out of my creative 'slump' but all I seem to be doing is sorting, filing, putting things away and culling! Not just crafting things either, all around the house!   I start looking for something and get sidetracked by something else and the next thing you know I'm culling again.  Sigh sigh sigh!  Doesn't help I forgot to take a hat to Melbourne last week and lupus/fybro myalgia are being a bit bothersome!

The Herbster and I have had a fabulous time though we are both a bit tired and sorry for ourselves.  Too funny, we were up at 4am to go to Melbourne last week as my Thoughts on Thursday post explained. But I also had to be up with him at 4.30am on Friday.

Here's my SailorMan as he's been affectionately known as for the 30yrs we've known each other, yes 30yrs as of a couple of days ago!  This is in his refurbished workshop up the back yard where he creates those huge model ships. Doesn't do anything by halves does he? No model boats under 12ft long.  That finished one just under the bench, the Yamato! It's 14ft long and took 8 1/2 years to create right from the hull up!  You can see some of his pieces he's working on currently of the Kirishima.  Yes he's a world war two history buff!




Guess what?  Neither of us heard our alarms!!  5.30am and the Herbster's running down the hallway going sh*t, quick get the kitty meds and lets wrap that kitty up like a burrito and get it into him, I'm going to have to drive to work!!!  When he's lecturing/teaching, he starts at 7am sharp in the lecture/simulator rooms on the navy base.  Once a sailor always a sailor, must be on time!!!! I just hope he didn't speed through the back streets of Surry Hills and Paddington on his way to Randwick barracks, LOL, he's done that before, oops!



So why did we have to be up that early again?   This little fellow here, yup the 'all kinds of speshul' Mr Nibbles the Ragdoll was going in on Friday to have his yearly complete clipping (and vet check, vax and claw clipping too). He has to be sedated because he's terrified being at the Vets.  I was a tad worried because last week was quite horrible weather wise. When in Melbourne we baked, when in Sydney we were freezing.   Nibbles didn't mind, he has been hiding himself under any throw blanket or bed doona he can find LOL.  He went in a Ragdoll, came home a temporary Siamese ROFL.



  

He's very active again and quite vocal. Plus I feel looks rather handsome too! Miss Pip doesn't recognize him and has been hissing at him ever since. My the tables have turned. Nibbles the bully has become the bullied and Miss Pip is being the bully.  Ah cats, they are so unique and funny and so hard to work out some days but we love them and I think they love us and each other. They have a funny way of showing it though sometimes ;-)

Anywhooo that's all for this Monday, I do have to get dressed and go up to the shops for some fresh fruit & veggies.  I hope you all have a great week no matter where you are or what you are doing!

til next time, remember,

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

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Monday Musing, 12thAug2019!

Hi everyone! 

Well what a wild and woolly past week we've had over here on the south-eastern side of Australia.  And it isn't over yet they tell us! Not a lot of people equate Australia with being freezing cold but yes, we do get snow, we do get under zero temperatures (celcius)  even here in Sydney too! So glad we didn't have a footy (AFL) game to go to over the weekend because I do not think I could sit at the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground) in our member seats. Check these news photos out, only a couple of hours drive from where we live in the far north west of Sydney's outer suburbs!

Blue Mountains residents woke up to a winter wonderland today (Saturday) as cold weather saw snow fall overnight.

Blackheath Weather reported a dumping 5cm deep about 7am while Katooomba was also covered in snow.

The Bureau of Meteorology was predicting a maximum temperature of 5 degrees Celsius for Katoomba on Saturday, with the temperature expected to climb only one degree higher for Sunday's maximum.

 

The wind has been so bad, I've swept up 2 otto bins full of debris from around the back of the house as well since last Wednesday. Glad the bin was emptied Friday morning.  Yes it is that time of year for the Jacaranda to drop it's leaves/seed pods. And yes it's that time of year we do traditionally get high winds, particularly leading into September.  But this has been unusually arctic the BOM tell us and don't we know and feel it!  Kind of glad I don't own that house up in Katoomba these days!  However, how pretty does this scene look!  I use to live not far from that place. Two snowy winters living in Katoomba was enough for me not to want to live there for ever ☺ Though I do prefer the cold.



Saturday morning we did have some sunshine so hubby and I spend the morning building our kitties a 'climbing gym' from wood left over from our recent house repairs.  We nipped to Bunnings and bought extra sand for their sand pit and another sheet of artificial turf to go over where the 'problem child', Nibbles, started to dig holes a month ago. This saw him end up at the Vet's in an emergency. He was sedated, xrayed, bloods taken and a few other things done to him.  Daft kitty got too much of that fine dirt in his bowels and blocked himself up. Eww!!  But, hundreds of dollars later, he's fine again and he can no longer dig in the dirt.  He's found a new love of his sandpit LOL.  They love their new structure!  Now if the wind would die down, they may just spend more time out there instead of under my bed's doona!

Yes, Pip's a bit of an 'acrobat' ROFL.

The Herbster was very happy with the results of our recycling of discarded wood!  Me thinks Mr Nibbles is happy too!

And little Miss Pip loves that she still has the logs in there too!

I hope you have a wonderful week, thanks for stopping by, watch out for a new tutorial soon!  I'll be using some new Stampin' Up! products. Not long til it's all for sale.  That will be on 4th September, it's not that far away!

til next time, remember,

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

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