Another Award.

A surprise came in just a little while ago. Sylvia just tagged me and gave me the lovely award below.

What a surprise when I just checked my blog. Thank you so much Sylvia and yes I do accept it...you made my day!!!!

Now what do i need to do???

This special award is aimed at bringing unknown good blogs to light and in accepting the award I have had to agree to the following conditions;

1) You have been tagged, do you want to accept? YES! then create a post on your blog and post the love blog photo.

2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.

3) Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged

As the aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light, please don't tag somebody with 300+ followers.

I am passing this onto the following lovely bloggers:

Eileen, a good blog and trimmie friend.

Angela and her daughter TJ, they both deserve an award, but TJ hasn't got her own blog yet I believe.

Enola, one of our junior DT's at CRAFT Challenge, hope you are well.

thank you once again Sylvia.
 
And have a very good weekend all.
 
Love,
 
Jo.

Thank you Jacky!

Hi all,

I just found that Jacky aka Paddington Fan, one of my lovely fellow trimmies and fellow DT member at CRAFT Challenge has given me this lovely award to put up on my blog. Thank you so much Jacky.

I understand I now have to pass it on to 5 other blogs I like to visit. So, here it goes (she already named some of the ones I like to visit, oops).

1. Annette, one of my fellow DT members at CRAFT Challenge, who has some lovely tutorials on her blog.

2. Tigerlover, my (nearly 13 y.o.) daughter and fellow crafter and team mate at CRAFT Challenge.

3. Sliekje, a fabulous Dutch artist, who loves drawing (and cats) and shares her gorgeous digistamps with all for free. Thank you so much Angelique!

4. Faith of Designed2Delight for her lovely digistamps always free to download first week of the month to start another progressive challenge.

5. and to a very new blogger to encourage her to get started (no entries yet, but I know she loves crafting), Ineke aka my mum.

And I also have to tell you 3 unknown facts about myself. That is always quite a tricky one. I have to think of 3 facts I haven't told you yet and that I don't mind sharing either, lol.

1. My hubby would love to ban me off my laptop as he feels I spend far too much time on here (blogging etc). He has a point to be fair.

2. As Jacky already mentioned, I'm a very busy woman, I work part time (supposed to be half time, but close to full time in reality), have a home to look after and a family and also am DT leader at CRAFT Challenge.

3. I really should be doing some homework or housework now instead of blogging.

Jacky, once again, thank you for your lovely award, so kind of you to think of me.

Love,

Jo.

More awards for sharing.

I've now come to updating my blog as far as awards are concerned until the middle of June 2009. There are 2 awards I have received around this time, one from Rozzy and one from Maxine. Here is the one that I was given by Rozzy . Thank you sooo much!



The five people I would like to pass this one on to are:



1. Crafter's Corner, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits for free.

2. Eidle Tales, wonderful verses and stories.

3. GTC's Crafty Corner, lovely digital images and kits.

4. Summertime Designs, wonderful digital scrapbooking kits.

5. Tales from Pollycraft, lovely Friday Freebies.


Thank you all for the kits and inspiration and verses you provide, it is much appreciated, and I'm sure I'm not the only one happy you are all creating this great work.


Love,



Jo.

Thanks Lynne, another award received.

Hello again everyone,

I have just received another lovely award from Lynne. Thank you sooo very much! It's much appreciated.

The following rules exist in accepting this Award. They are that you must give five things away about yourself (which you haven't already told) and then choose five more worthy recipients!
Right! Five things that I haven't already told you about me?

1. I played Father Lorenzo in our High School version of Romeo and Juliet.

2. I love baking and obviously card making.

3. I once managed to drive home safely through a heavy storm. Then, when looking out of the window found a tree lying on top of my car, oops!

4. I love pets, but haven't got any at the moment.

5. I have just tried my hand at designing some digistamps, now got a little bit of a taste for it, although my drawing isn't very good.

So, I will pass on this award to the following 5 people:

1. Trish

2. Debs

3. Greebs

4. my good friend Rozzy and last but not least

5. the very talented Lexi.

Pass it on with pride, you all really deserve it.

Love,

Jo.

Award time again.

Another award to be shared with some of you lovely crafters out there. another one that has been on hold for a long time as I received it early June from the lovely Suzi aka Sugar n Spice. Thank you, Suzi! Much appreciated.

This award has to be passed on to another five deserving bloggers who show great attitude and gratitude.

So, I will have to have a little think now again. What I will do is to award this one to the first 5 entrants to this week's CRAFT Challenge.

The bloggers I would therefore like to pass this award on to are:

1. Irit Cohen
2. Stacie
3. Jill
4. Marianne and last but not least
5. Gosia

Hope you are all well.

Love,

Jo.

Further award to share!

Back again with another award that was still waiting to be shared. This one I have been given by the lovely Cathy at the end of May.

The rules for this award are:

to thank the person for the award and
pass it on to at least 7 people who deserve it
and then list 10 honest things about myself

Cathy, thank you very much for the award. I have so far not had a chance to do anything about this one, my apologies.

As inspiration for this award, I'm using the list of people entering this week's challenge at CRAFT Challenge as well as some from last week. The people I would like to pass this award on to are:

1. Queenie, she has some absolutely gorgeous creations on her blog, do have a look.
2. Debbie, she has some fab stamps she designs herself at The Crafty Pad (she is also one of our sponsors at Craft Challenge.
3. Victoria aka Biscuitlid
4. Jill
5. Angela aka Toucan Scraps
6. Ann, who very kindly remarked on my Ben10 3D images and alerted me to the fact that Ben10 would not enlarge (now fixed and you can find it here). However do keep in mind these are not my own images, I have just made them into step-by-step 3D images after downloading some freebies from the official Ben10 site.
7. Kerstin aka Chaosmaus

And here are 10 honest things about myself:

1. I'm a 45 year young girl.
2. I have 3 great sons and 1 fabulous daughter, who are all equally special and important to me.
3. I love card making, but really have far too little time for it. (don't we all? LOL)
4. I'm happily married with a great guy. (have been for just over 10 years and he is a doting dad to our 4 kids)
5. I work part time 3 days a week, but do nearly full time hours within those days.
6. We all 6 enjoy karate lessons.
7. My daughter also loves cardmaking and we are both part of the DT at CRAFT Challenge.
8. I'm Dutch
9. but live in the UK.
10. I use my cardmaking and crafting for stress relief and fun.


Well, that was a big job.


Love,


Jo.

Another award to share.

And here is another award to share with you. This one was also given to me by Debs as long ago as May! Not all that good at finding time to sort the awards out, I'm afraid. Just too busy with work, house and crafting. Need to get my sleep in somewhere as well, LOL.







Well, here is the second one she gave me. I would like to share this one with the following crafters, who are very talented and inspiring:







1. Tracy



2. Cathy



3. Ann



4. Carlyann



5. Tracy

Hope it's one you haven't got yet.

Do share them around and enjoy!

Love,

Jo.

Some awards to share, first one of several

Hello everyone,

I recently was told by someone that I always update my blog so well. Well, ummm............, not so sure to be honest.

Over the last few months I have had several blog awards, that I just did not have time to put on here and share. Not sure how everyone else with jobs, families and a great hobby of creating really manages it!

So, to make a start, here is the first one to share. This one was given to me by the lovely Debs. She left me this award as well as a second one at the same time in May and a third one this week! How fab is that?


It has to be passed on to some lovely bloggers. Difficult who those could be as there are far too many of those about!

So, let's have a think.....

I would like to pass this one on to the following very talented and inspiring bloggers:

1. Andrea

2. Gina


3. June


4. Jak Heath (the lady behind the Flippin' range)


5. Anesha

Please pass them on to some others that you feel deserve them as well. I hope you have not already got these awards, but it's the thought that counts, right?

All the people above have got some great work on their blog, do go over and have a look.

Have a good weekend all!


Love,





Jo.

Another award, I'm speechless.

Hello and good afternoon, it's rather stormy over here, chucking it down at the moment outside, dark and grey, although only 4.30 pm, and a 'lovely' thunderstorm as well.

One thing at the moment to cheer me up though. The lovely Suzi aka Sugar n Spice, has given me another award. Thank you so very much, it's very much appreciated. I'm really speechless (so to speak).

Just one bit of a problem, as with all awards they need to be passed on. I have to pass it on to another five deserving bloggers who show great attitude and gratitude. I'm afraid I will have to get back to you on that one, at a time when I have some more time.

By the way, don't forget the new challenge, 5, will start at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge tomorrow, so only very little time to enter into the current one! Hope to see you there soon.

Love,

Jo.

The first of several awards to pass on.

Hello everyone,

It's time to finally start passing on some of the lovely awards I have received. Somehow I have never managed to find time to pass them on. So, let's start with this award. It was given to me by the lovely Cheryl and I'm supposed to pass it on to 5 other blogs. So, I will grab the cuppa and have a bit of a think.

I will pass it on to:

1. Tracy

2. Cathy

3. Gisela

4. Sam

5. Julie

They all have lovely blogs, that definitely are worth having a look at. Hope you will all find it easier to pass it on to 5 blogs than I did.

Love,

Jo.

Back from holiday again!

Hello everyone,

Just got back from holiday in Somerset with the family late yesterday afternoon. Trying to catch up with everthing I missed over the last week and there has been a lot.

First I noticed that Debbie has a lovely giveaway going at

The Crafty Pad that is just too good to miss. She is giving away one of her lovely stamps daily for a week. Today is day 4, so I have already missed 3 great chances! Today she is giving away her Belinda Garden stamp.

The next thing I noticed was that I have been missing some major problems with Mr Linky at our new challenge blog C.R.A.F.T. Challenge. Otherwise the challenge blog seems to be doing well. So, it's time for me to get my skates on to come up with a DT entry for the next challenge that starts on Thursday again. It has been partially done, but you'll have to wait till Thursday for it to be revealed.

I also found I have been given another lovely award. This time it was the lovely Cathy who gave me this lovely award. Thank you very much! It does as usual have some rules attached to it.

The rules are that I thank the person for the award and pass it on to at least 7 people who deserve it and then list 10 honest things about myself.

The difficult bit will be to come up with 7 more people to pass it on to. I still have to come up with some people to pass some other awards on to as well as I have not really had much time to think these over yet.

As for the 10 honest things about myself, here it goes:

1. I am addicted to crafting, even managed to bring some crafty things with me on holiday.

2. I have 4 lovely kids, 3 boys and 1 girl.

3. I am married to a lovely man and have been for the last 10 years.

4. I am quite a busy person with lots of housework to do as well as a job.

5. I have just been on holiday to Somerset with the family for 1 week.

6. I have not done a lot of work today yet, although I have managed to do some of the laundry.

7. Today I have helped my daughter with her DT entry for C.R.A.F.T. Challenge for this week, although I have not yet had a chance to work on mine much yet. Oops!

8. I will soon need to get something sorted for tea as the family will return after swimming lessons at 6.30pm.

9. Tomorrow the kids will go back to school, hubby back to work and I will need to do some housework as well as getting some cards done.

10. I'll be back at work again on Tuesday, not something I'm looking forward to as it is likely to be very busy again indeed.

So, that is the 10 things sorted. Now I will need to think about who to pass it on to as well as getting my DT card sorted. Also need to get some birthday cards organised soon as well.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday everyone, I'm going to try to get my DT card done now before the troups are back.

Two more awards!

Just noticed I had been given 2 more awards, was unaware of it till just a few minutes ago, when I looked at the blog of someone I was following and noticed she had passed them on to me as well. Thank you Debs, much appreciated!

The trouble now is to find some more people to pass the awards on to. Will have to think of that later.

Have a good Sunday everyone!

What a day!

Hello again,

After not having any time to go online on Tuesday or this morning, I found 2 surprises today after switching my computer on.



The first one was to find out that I had actually made it onto the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge DT, wow! You can find the link to the blog on the right side or click here:
http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com

The other is another award, this time from Cheryl (aka CraftyCheryl on Trimcraft). Thank you sooo much Cheryl. I will however need to find 5 people to pass the award on to I guess. I'll have to have a bit of a think on that one before I can. Hope you can all be a little patient.

Looks like I'm going to be rather busy in the not too distant future. I'm all excited about it.

So here is the lovely award she has given to me:



This really has been a magnificent day. Thank you all for this.

Love,

Jo.

Awards for Little Me? Never expected that at all!

Wow, thank you Sam!

Never expected to get any awards for my blog myself. I'm really blushing now.

You have however left me with one little problem. Finding 10 people worthy of the award as well.

Well here it goes:

1. Debbie

2. Tracy

3. Sandra

4. Cathy

5. Julie

6. Zoe

I'll add the other 4 tomorrow, but it is now time for bed I'm afraid.

Good night everyone!

As promised the other four are below.

7. Rozzy

8. Craftyanny

9. Trish

10. Tigerlover

Hope you all have a good day. It was not an easy task and I will now have to think of 10 more for my daughter as I have just given passed them on to her as well. There certainly must be an end to this exercise somewhere if we all have to pass it on to 10 more?!

Thanks again Sam, it is a real honour.