It's Me, Sarah

Mmmmm - random thoughts

I knew it wouldn't last, things were too perfect!  I have been poorly for two days with a sore throat, cough type coldy thing and I feel like poo - why oh why does this have to happen when Mark is away for a few days?  Typical eh?

Still, Mark is home tomorrow and I think I am beginning to feel better now :)  I am hoping to do some scrapping tomorrow, I can't wait!

I wonder if Mark will let me have a lay in over the weekend so I can recharge my batteries?  Mind you, don't you always find that if you know you can have a lay in you wake up at 7am and can't get back to sleep?

I went to my Mum's for tea today as she kindly offered to make it for me and the kids to save me doing it in the state I am in (believe me, you do NOT want to see a photograph!) and when we got home I sent Ben and Charlotte upstairs to put on their pyjama's, Charlotte came running out of her bedroom screaming (and I mean full on screaming!).  I ran upstairs but I was terrified as I thought someone had cut off the cat's head and put it on her bed or there was an axe murderer  in there (seriously, her screams were horrendous).  It turned out that there was a daddy long legs in her window and I had to throw it out!  Well, that was just great!  I got Charlotte calmed down and sat her down in Ben's room, but I felt like screaming myself - I HATE creepy crawlies and it is the first time I have had to touch one.  In fact, poor Ben nearly had to do it for me and got accidently elbowed in the face whilst I was trying to grab the thing because I recoiled my arm so suddenly in fright and he was too close and I didn't know he was there (he is fine by the way - it wasn't too hard luckily).  It was all like something out of the Marx brothers!

Where do I start????

Such a lot to share with you and I just don't know where to start!  Well, actually I do - I will start with the most important thing, the most exciting thing and definitely the most life changing thing to have happened in our home.  Without further ado will everyone welcome the new addition to our family?   She is called Amy and we love her so much.

The next thing is OMG!!!!  Have you seen the Scrapbook Magazine - I had my contributors issue through the door the other day and nearly fell on the floor when I saw that Charlotte was on the cover and at a closer inspection so is Ben (a little layout across the bottom).  I am a happy Mummy!

Here are my layouts from the mag:

I have received this blog award from Jakey and Carol :)

I went through my bloglines to chose some girls to give this award to and I have chosen these lovely people:

SJ - because I love her stuff.
Oddbjørg - because she is lovely and so talented
Michelle Beck - so much eye candy on her blog!
Suzanne Torr - again she is one fab scrapper :)
Anne Haffermann - Love her layouts, love her photos.

Check out these girls blogs, they are so inspirational.

Look at this picture that Ben brought home from school, isn't it fantastic?  I am giong to get it framed and hang it in his bedroom!

Talking of Ben's bedroom, we have (I say 'we' but I mean Mark!) finally finished decorating it for him - we have a few finishing touches to do (new lampshade and curtains and a cook nightlight to go above his bed) and then it will be the coolest bedroom in the universe (according to Ben).  Mark needs to get all Ben's toys out of the loft for me tonight so I can busy myself trying to put them all in the room tomorrow.  Ben is so excited because it has taken a little while to get the room done :)  It's a small room and so it is difficult to photograph but here it is so far.

The wall paper is from Walltastic - it's great!  Oh and will someone please tell me an easy way to make a bed in a mid sleeper or bunk bed?  Charlotte's is even more difficult than Ben's I have to actually climb up on it to do it!

I have got three neices and nephews going off to university this month so I want to wish Matthew, Laura and Kimberley good luck at Brighton, Ipswich and Cambridge :)

My other nephew Jason has just written his fourth book - Well done Jase!  It is about Prince and currently only available in the states from Barnes and Noble.  It has a gorgeous flocked cover, look!

Lots to blog about

...but little time to blog!

We have loads going on at the moment at home (and away!).  Mark has just decorated Charlotte  bedroom as we have moved her into the larger room and he is currently beavering away in Ben's new bedroom (which currently looks like a bomb site!).  Ben is sleeping with Charlotte in her new bunkbeds at the moment and he likes that, although I not so sure he loves all the pink.  Ben and Charlotte even helped to decorate the room (I don't think Mark would use the word 'helped'!!).

Of course, Ben and Charlotte went back to school yesterday and seem to have settle nicely in their new classes already.  Ben said that he was the best behaved boy in the class yesterday but when I asked him who told him that he said no-one!  Still, I suppose it means that he knows that he was good :)

The Bellaboo September kit is now live and I had fun playing with this one.  I must admit I was a bit stumped when I first started but once I had done one layout with it I managed to do 3 more in four hours which is really good going for me as I am generally quite a slow scrapper. 

I also made this card for my sister-in-laws birthday using the kit, a Penny Black stamp and some copic markers.

Oh and here is a fun layout I made for Mojoholder a few weeks ago.

Mark and I needed to go to London for the day on Tuesday (for the DAY!!!  eight hours we spent on the train that day).  Anyway, you need to know that it has been my lifelong dream (well ever since the Clothes Show in the 1980's) to have my hair cut at Trevor Sorbie (preferably by the man himself).  As we were walking through Covent Garden, approximately two hours before we needed to catch our train back to Plymouth someone came up to me and asked if I would like a complimentary haircut at Trevor Sorbie!!!!!  I was nearly crying because I didn't have time, Mark was laughing because I had only said earlier in the day about having my hair cut there - honestly, I am still mortified.  I need to ring 'This Morning', perhaps they will sort it out for me :(