Hello All

Yep I'm still alive.......... just.. !!
A few injuries along the way... but I still here...
Went away on my eldest daughters Hen Weekend ... had the most fabby time ever.... Italian meal on the Friday, followed by boogie woogie oogie... couple of clubs... and lots of stag parties .. wayhey.. will add a few piccies. ! .. (not the unsensored ones thou, incase anyone is of nervous disposition) lol
Saturday, Reverse steering, no.. n ot backwards... but left is right, and right is left... or as we sorted the code of.... (between us and the 'instructor' ).... to me, to you, to you... noo to me, or was it to you??? lol
Followed by.. QUADS... we ALL so want one... fabby... I had a bit of trouble remembering not to go WITH IT... but against it.... previous bike rider... lol... then up and down hills, riding horses come in useful there.. lol leaning back and forth at correct times. !
Then onto Clay pidgeon shooting.. youngest daughter turned out to be a dab hand at this and a fine crack shot... bit worrying lol... me.... hit loads..... grass, dandelions, blue flowers... ... pidgeons NONE lol...
Then for the finalie paint balling !!!! NOw any NORMAL 51 year old with a bad back would have said at this point... I DONT THINK SO... however.... im not normal.... and not wanting to miss out on anything... took part..... in the pouring rain.... and up and down VERY Slippery slopes
........... yep you guessed it... MAN DOWN.. or in this case... woman... (still i never got hit by the paint balls ) lol.... i fell heavily.. and thought it hurt.... a lot.... however.. soldiered on... went out clubbing that night after fabby indian meal... but.... not much dancing for me !!! fell off kerb after a few too many lemo's... lol ... got home... to... one very swollen ankle..... bad back.. (worse than normal by heaps)... and....
up hospital yesterday to find I either got torn ligaments in groin or ... broken broken in your nether regions ! ... or there abouts lol
yep im in pain lots of..... but... today finally managed to make two cards.....
one is for a SU challenge.. that I am in the ten of... and the other was for my daughter and son in law for wedding...
SU card went ok...
wedding card fabby... or so I thought... until a friend pointed out a spelling error.... yep Im swearing... heaps.... so tomorrow will have to try and rectify that !!!! or start again... grrr.
so... for now.. book above to read and one solitary card to view lol....xxx

Jingle Bells Jingles Bells...................

Ho Ho Ho.... (well we know all crafters like to start early for THAT time of year) !!! ...
and you will be dying to get your mitts on these... I think they are brill.... so for a sneak peak.. take a looksee.... Its the new FLIPPIN CHRISTMAS Series... by Lapashe. I wish I could show you more... but at mo.. my lips are sealed hehe... and if I wasnt off on my jollies... I would be cutting out and making up the sheets right now.. sooo exciting..
Take a look over at Jak, Toni's and Karen's blogs... see what they got to show..
You wont have to wait too long to see more I promise.
Right thats my scheduled posting done... or not.. as the case may be lol.. fingers crossed or Im sacked ! hehehe...
Have a fabby weekend everyone and I promise I will be putting cards on next week... I have all those copics.... a robo machine (Wills)... and cant wait to get stuck in... how inconsiderate of my daughter to get married now LOL.... laters everyone xx
and thank you for all keep following... even if no cards of late.. x

Hi and Bye

Been a bad blogger again... but its well manic at my house... we all leading up to Hayleys wedding and its all go. Plus Im having works done on my house at same time... probably not the best time to have fencing and the garden done.. but.. ! waited so long to get it sorted..
Im ... or should I say we... about 10 of us.. are all off tomorrow for the hen weekend !!!! oh dear.. Bournemouth here we come ! ... from what I know from youngest who seems to have taken over the role as wedding and hen party organiser lol.. bless you Stacy.. you doing a grand job... its going to be one heck of a weekend.. I just hope my old bones can keep up with all the goings on.. I shall certainly try my best. !
Clay pidgeon shooting, off roading and paintballing apparently... as well as something for the more gentle of the ladies... spa's, manicures, pedicures facials etc... guess I be out off roading at that point LOL... plus nightclubbing for they youngesters.. (think that includes someone who still thinks in her 20's.. hehehe shame body not agree) ........ So...
I wont be about til next week.. not that you will notice any different of late !!!! ... I still havent taken a piccy of all the lovely birthday cards I received.. but I wil do asap. As they are all so lovely.
Also................................... TOMORROW..........6PM............ NEWS FLASH....................... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE tune in................... if all goes well with the scheduled post that is. lol...
but.... I have something really exciting to show you all............... and you wont want to miss it................. ................. ohhh the bellls.... the belllls.... lol................ :)
see you all next week when I hope to get stuck into some serious card making.... as I have so many birthdays coming up..
oh oh............... one last thing.............. me and Wills are finally united....... and I cut out my first shapes today... so... watch this space... (maybe not this month.. lol)...
SO .. dont forget to call back in tomorrow at 6pm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you all have good weekend.. x

Hello everybody... its Roo aged 2

oh hello... ive been to nannies again.... I do miss my nannie but she keeps telling me she too busy to see me... (thats what my mum told me)... something to do with farms and tinternet and doggies and lots of reasons... I not understand why she not like me coming to her house and make it all messy for her... give her something to do laters when I have to go home. :)
Well mummy brought me here at half past eight... we had porridge at nannies house, nannie said what no muilk at your house Ruby.. hehe.. we like nannies better. mummy went had go to work.. and then my day began... oooh where do i begin... now first of all nannie got friend coming.. so we had to go strip MY bed and I took William out for a cuddle.. cos he still sleeping in bed... i put all the clothes in wash machine.. and bag.. nannie said maybe we should put tablets in bag first.. but i was bit too quick for her hehe... why tablets... has wash machine got headache???we put clothes on line and i dont like pegs they bite your fingers... so i not do that bit anymore. cos it REALLY hurted.then we went and sat in the garden for a little while i had to wear a silly hat and have cream all over me.... it sprayed eeeevverywhere when i done it... i too quick again for nannie.. muggi not get sunburn now :) then i played in the mud... it not wet mud but dry mud, so that ok... and i pulled all the weeds out for nannie... and also tried to pull out a pink flower... actually it a bush nannie said.. and it called fusssa... was told leave alone.. but i picked some of the pink bi ts off when nannie went for cuppa coffee... i put under my bum so she not see til i stood up.. and i said i not know how got there hehe... silly nannie. i helping. then we went and had lunch.. well i did... nannie not have time, cos had to pick upall bricks in lounge cos muggi kept fallling over them, and i had iscream... no sprinkles thou, and no chokolate... but nannie say she buy some. (if she remembers).
then.... nannie had to go to farm... I thought we going in car.... but silly nannie went on puter... she showed me all the horses and goats and flowers and everything... I couldnt see them, i told nannie i cant see them... and i said i put glasses on ..... well nannie can see with glasses so i thought might help. me not understand why nannie laughing soooo much her eyes leaked
then mummy not come home cos she stucked in traffic so nannie took me and xev down the park... now... you mustnt tell an yone.. cos this not nice... but... i took my shoes off and wanted nannie to put back on for me... and do you know what.... she said.... NO... Roo do it.... i wanted nannie do it... me not win .... nannie walked off across the park so i chased her... but left shoes behind... but no like grass on feet so had to go back get them... and yes i did put them on myself.
humph naughty nannie. making Roo do it... so not fair.
ooooh i got real 'cared boy on motor bike thingy making lots of noise... i nearly climbed up nannie for cuddle i soooo 'cared. then we comed home to nannie house... and mummy come very late... took me home and i went straight to sleep cos i soooo tired. think nannie slept well too... cos i had her up and down them s tairs to toilet about 50 times she say... i think only 49...
well i got to go now... but i promise come back very soon .... soon as nannie got sprinkles....
lots of love from Roo (nannie call me that... and other names I not allowed to say)...
Ruby aged 2 and in big girl pants xxxx

oooh and... i wanted to use nannies felt pens on a card i made for mummy... but she no let me... sulked i did... she say special ones... codics.... maybe next time ? :)

Been playing with.....................

my copics.. lol can you guess... bit happier with this one today (thank goodness lol)... Had this lovely strokeable sheet given to me by my 'kid sis'... and I didnt want to use it but... .. also no flowers the right colour... now theres a surprise... (or ribbon come to that) lol.. so I coloured the flowers with the copics i used.. worked a treat will try that out on ribbon next time.. think I read somewhere it worked !!! Oh I used the Manga Pad that Jacqui suggested for this one.... it works fabby.... so thanks Jacqui x
Im getting quite horticultral rofl ... mainly on FarmTown on Facebook lol but.. it somehow did make me take a long hard look at my own poor neglected garden... one on FB much prettier lol.. and much less hard work too. Managed all of 20 mins... needless to say back i s n ow killing me.. do I never learn. Defo time to call in a gardener I think... (no we not talking Lady Chatterley either !! ) lol
Right onward and upward... grapes to harvest I think... or did I do them??? if so, nearly time for bed I think.. yes I know its very early for me... but im shattered... must be all the gardening !! lol...........

Happy bearday to you

Made this card when I was away for the weekend, for a challenge that was running on the Imagenation forum.... he didnt win... but as I got a lot of birthdays coming up in July he will find a nice new home somewhere lol... ... back to my copics.. and see if i can install my new toy.... Wills...... as in.... Robo = Robbie = Williams = Wills... well cant call him Robbie like everyone else.. .like to be different lol.. hope you all have a good day and I will hopefully be back tomorrow with another card... andit MIGHT be with copics ... im still practising away.. and oooh some more fell in my basket when I was buying a manga pad... Jacqui !!! I blame you this time hehehe... If you have not come across Jacqui's blog.... you must take a pop over there.. she is amazing with her copics.... and her cards are just fabby....

Blog Candy alert

Bev has a lovely little Tilda giveaway.. if you want to pop over to her blog.... thanks Bev.. Ive entered and keeping my fingers and toes crossed. x

A Card AT LAST.. well two actually

Well finally got half way through the sorting out of puter.. most of the hardware is re installed... along with some of the software... so I am nearly back with you full time.... poor you ! lol
In admidst all of this.. I have got two cards to show you... one is my first proper copics image.. which I am not happy with, my first go at this whilst testing out copics, went a lot better than this... but that was cos I had full personal tuition from Toni... this one.. ive been left to my own devices ! and its not good. !! but its certainly a learning curve... im happy to show you.. to say this is the way.. NOT to do it lol
The second card is a card that was on order.... I hope its not too 'grown up' for a baby card.. but I wanted to something a little bit different fr om the norm ... daughter said all ones in shop poop... i hope she doesnt feel the same about this one....
Will add another card tomorrow... as I made one for a challenge which I have not shown yet.. I know someone else has.. ie Pam lol...
so.. hopefully I am nearly back full time... to plague the life out of you all.. have a good evening... love

IM BACK - did you miss me?? lol

I would like to say thank you to all the followers and regular blog hoppers etc, who have been popping in and out to see what I have been up to.... sadly NOT a lot.... two reasons... one life has been a bit hectic this past week or more, and two, but more importantly... I had to take my computer to the hospital.. it was very sicky poorly. It is now back with me, as you can see.. lol.... and it will take a while for me to re arrange all my files again, as the puter had a total heart transplant... it is now on the road to recovery... therefore I do not have to sit and nurse it too much other than sort out files. In the meantime... >I am now back to my craft room and will start to do what I enjoy the most... make a card... thats if I can remember where the craft room is and how to make one lol.
I received a lovely gift in the post from one of my best friends, Debs, her way of thanking me for keeping her entertained at the hospital was to buy me a wonderful gift... of................. COPICS !!! (thank you Debs),... For those that have mailed me etc... she is doing well.. but awaiting surgery etc... love and hugs hun.
I had the chance to try these out, finally, on my weekend away with the girls, and I love them. So... keep an eye open for my first trial and error attempt at colouring in with them ! lol...
Thank you Toni for the card stock... can go and play now !!!!!
Hopefully I will be back later today and start to add cards again to my poor neglected blog.
thank you all for being so patient.... but as we know.. life and problems sometimes just get in the way of crafting and blogging... love to all... and now Im back... you should have a card almost daily... (heres hoping ah !! lol)

It never rains... but it gallstones !

Oh my giddy aunt. ! thats all I can say...
Weekend... DIFFERENT !!!!
Up until Sat 2pm fabulous... wonderful place, friends, company and food... obviously crafting as well.. we was all having such a brill time... apart from one, well, theres ALWAYS one !!! and this time.. it was our Debs.. bless her.
She not been right all weekend.. but Saturday the poor lass was in agony... (please use side bar for Jaks blog to read all about it) ! ... Debs was basically rushed to Emergency... with me in tow.. The ride in the ambulance is not recommended for someone with a chronic bad back !!! .. Debs was ok.. she totally out of it on morphine. I so wanted to try some too, as needed it by time I crawled out of the ambulance. !
She spent rest of day, and Sunday and half of Monday, being prodded, poked and un speakable things being done to her... To cut a long story short the poor girl has an inflammed pancreas (sp), and an inflammed gallbladder with gall stones, well we always said she had lost her marbles, now we found them..... lol...
The paramedics were fabulous, we even found a like minded one in Steph, being a crafter like the rest of us. ! lol...
I must have found the only taxi driver in the country that didnt have a blooming clue where he was going, after spending the best part of an hour going round and round in circles trying to get me back to the cottages where we were staying.. in the end, we by chance, come across the pub all the girls where having their meal in.... I felt like traffic police at that point "STOP"... says I ... having negociated. I would not do a bunk without paying if he didnt do a bunk and leave me stranded... lol... found the girls, paid the taxi driver (this being established AFTER I had got into the back of the car....) !!!!! ... and went back to the pub.. to be greeeted with... one bottle of wine and a glass the size of a gold fish bowl that Kim had bought for me... bless you Kim I LOVE YOU, lol... (no more back and forth to the fridge from now on). hehehe.
Thank you Toni and Sonia for putting me up at yours even if I did have to sleep with a blooming stuffed magpie.. which I didnt see last night, due to being slightly worse for wear hehe.... but did this morning after young Josh come to make sure I awake !!!! scared the poop out of me to say the least, the Magpie that is not Josh. ! ...
Debs is now home safe and sound.. awaiting gallbladder removal...
I had to then drive though the most horrendous weather I have ever experienced, hailstones the size of golf balls, torrential rain, flooding on the motorways and crawling along at 25 - 30 mile an hour...
however.... it is certainly a weekend I wont forget in a hurry.
Debs hun, hope you get sorted now....
Toni, love you hun... thank you
and to all the rest thank you for being such good friends and helping both Debs and myself out.
Im now on my 2nd glass of wine, due to the fact I too tired to get stuff and fishbowl out of the car...
love and hugs
xx

Yipppeee

Well its finally come round... seems to have taken forever since it was booked.... but Im going away for the weekend... with a few of my fav peeps.. (dont tell them that bit or they only get big headed)... :) So I will be awol until Sun possibly Monday before I get to blog again... and I know I will be missed by sooo many (NOT) lol... Just didnt want you all to think Id done a bunk again lol.
It should be a fabby time, as its fellow crafters and friends... and Im not sure how much crafting is going to be done by the amount of alcohol that we seem to be taking between us ROFL... but Im sure we will fit a bit in somewhere., albeit a bit wonky ! hehe....
so incase I dont get back toyou all today.... (highly unlikely as Ive not packed a thing yet)... hope you all have a good weekend ahead... I know I will be.... take care all... and my card making efforts will be back next week..
oh and just for my sins... Ive got a visitor tonight... this time in the shape of a 2 year old child, and not a thing with wings LOL xxx

wow... blog candy.. and a fabby blog

Dont ya just love it when you stumble across a new blog, well a different blog, and it ticks all the right boxes for ya.. well i did.. please dont ask me how, cos im blowed if I can remember, but I am so glad I did... http://truesgiftsfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-3-new-dt-spots-celebration-blog.html
True is offering up some fabby candy... and a girl after me own heart, loves Cuddly buddly and Fred she said.. need I say more..
candy ends. 22.5. xx good luck all

Last two.. LaPashe Flippin Teenagers

Yes.... I know its stupid o clock.. but couldnt sleep AGAIN.. so thought, as I got a very busy day ahead tomorrow I would post these now whilst I think about it..
Dont forget to check out Toni and Karens blogs... (links on below post and sidebar).. yes IM TIRED lol... and would probably end up doing something wrong if I attempted that just now ... im hoping I actually manage to upload the right photos lol.. or you could end up looking at a frog with a worm in its mouth or two dogs caught red pawed on the sofa !! lol... and no.... for t hose that no me NO BIRDS OR FEATHERS !!!! camera would have been shaking far too much and would have been blurry LOL... x gawd they do your eyes in this time of the morning lol.. glad I NOT been drinking lol xx nite all....

LaPashe - Flippin Teenagers -part two

Good morning everyone... Well the sun is finally trying to shine its way through, down here in Kent... its just not trying hard enough for my liking LOL.
Well done Jak on yesterdays show on C & C.. So strange seeing my cards on the box.. right weird feeling, but a very nice one... :).
I think all us girls on the DT thoroughly enjoyed making up these sheets.. and can see them going down a storm ..
Today I have added Mr. Twister lol... and I was stupid enough NOT to take a photo of the inside on its own, as its not very clear what I have put on the inside.. but take it from me, its an old fashioned Jukebox lol.. As with 'Twigs lookalikey' I just loved the dress I had to replicate it as best I could.. and where would she have been without the old Vespa scooter lol.. (well I think thats what they were anyway)... Im FAR too young to remember hehehe.
Dont forget to check out Toni and Karens blogs as I know they will be adding cards today as well.. and well done Karen for getting the hang of the scheduled posting... I think I have a duff blog set up.. and cant seem to find mine !! ROFL.. have a good day everyone, and do call back tomorrow and I will post two more cards..
I would also like to thank EVERYONE that posts comments on my blog, or just calls by for a quick gander... it is ALWAYS appreciated very much. take care all... x

Stampin for the weekend... blog challenge

Come across this blog today.. Stampin for the weekend and thought I would have a go at the challenge they have set, (lilac and yellow) as my mojo seems to have been on hols and come back and went immediately on the sick.. !!!... Thought this might get me back in the swing of things, and it certainly did... so... here is my entry..

New LaPashe sheets -

Check out the new LaPashe sheets now on Idealworld/Create and Craft channel 22 freeview. Jak is on there now with them... and they are brill. I had so much fun with these ones. I particularly loved the hippy ones and had a ball with the BCR one. Good Luck Jak, not that you will need it.. another winner I feel.
Check out the other DT blogs... .. Jak, of course, Toni and Karen... (hopefully Karen has done a good job and got the scheduled post sorted LOL)... if you dont see owt.... she got it wrong.. lol.. bless. (says I who tried it and it not work... lol... so whos the fool here?)
right im off to sit glued to tv and see what creations Jak comes up with today.. always an inspiration. check back tomorrow and Tuesday as I will be adding a few more cards that I have made with the sheets.. and no doubt the other girls will be adding more too.. xx

ooooohhh nearly forgot !!!

I DID make a card... for my special friend Lynn in Spain... Im so used to putting the cards on my blog the second they finished, (and obviously I couldnt with this one until she had received it ) and this was over a week or more... so no wonder I forgot I not added it... senior moments !! hehe...

IM BACK !!!!

I am so sorry I have been absent for so long, but as some of you may know, I had son and dil over from Africa for 6 weeks (with a little break inbetween, when they popped over to France for a while)... I have also had my two daughters and the grandkiddies here too, plus Matt and Anies friends popping in and out.. its been a bit manic to say the least, but I thoroughly enjoyed having all my family together at once, its not very often that happens, as M and A only get back to England once every two years. All is quiet in my house again, and I am gradually getting the house back to normal... lol... and boy is it taking time... having been feeling rough as old boots since they left, with cold and cough. However... Im a tough old chook, so will be ok given a few more days.
In amidst all the mayhem, illness and clearing up... I had a yearning to do something constructive... my poor plant was looking a bit worse for wear... (still not looking none to healthy)... it was pot bound... and the only flower pot I could find was half painted in maroon but someone.. (not me) ! lol.... so.. with an undercoat of cream paint, some napkins and plenty of pva glue.... this is what i come up with, not the best in the world, and certainly not the colours i would have chosen, but me being me... couldnt wait to go to town and find something in beige and brown !! lol... plant still not looking too good, but hopefully it will sort self out.
Also........................
Big news !!!!!!!!!!!!!! as some may know..... new LaPashe sheets being shown on C and C on Sunday 2pm..... so... obviously... the DT members will have plenty to s how you.....
so dont forget to tune in to our Jak at 2pm. and please visit all the LP DT blogs.... and all I can say is... THEY ARE FAB !!!!

Ps ... Ruby Tyler will be having PLENTY to say too very soon... :) and cards will be back on here to show you... missed you all... xx

Another few days gone whoosh

Well I certainly dont know where the past few days have gone, again.. beginning to wonder if I got time for this blogging.. I actually made this card last week at some point, and was convinced I had shared it with you all.... .. totally losing the plot nowdays.. too much going on me thinks. I have had a bit of a special thing I have had to do this week... but cant share yet... but stay tuned.. especially around 7th June !!!!! :) .
As for the family... its been pretty hectic to say the least.. son and dil returned from France, with samples of... extremely nice wines. !":) hic... and for the first time in life I actually tasted a Red that I liked... (as well as rather a lot of white and a rose LOL). Detox next week... as they return home to Africa..sob.. but spose one outcome of that will be that I will hopefully have some time on my hands to blog daily like I used too. and that includes adding a card most days, instead of once a week lol. Honestly the time has flown by since they arrived, and I shall be so sad to see them leave.. as not know when I will see them both again, hopefully some time next year, but could be the year after... who knows ! ...
Well this little beauty is one of the Gorjuss girls, I just love these images/stamps. Right Im off to test the latest bottle of Pink stuff........ lol.... label looks good anyway... :)
Enjoy you rbank holiday.. and hope to see you all again very soon... although I think this next week is going to be flat out with entertaining the troops. !!! x

ps oh my giddy aunt.... just scrolling down to double double check I hadnt posted this card.. lol... and spotted the Blog counter.... sniff sob cry... I used to hover around 30 - 50 ish.... now... can tell I be awol..220 !!!! gee... think I best get a wriggle on soon as 'kids'gone, or I will be lost in space... and off the chart... oooh .... think I need a drink now to steady my nerves... that such a shock, just goes to show, it dont take much to lose your spot !!!

Who pinched a week?

Cannot beleive I havent visited my blog for a week... but there has been a VERY good reason.. but you will all have to wait a while to find out why and what... well you do know how much I like to tease you peeps. I do apologise for being a bad blogger.. and hopefully should be back on track now. Son and DIL returning home tonight, but they away again tomorrow for the weekend, so will be able to catch up on some bits and start sharing with you all again, gosh I feel awful neglecting my blog so badly...
This is a card I have made for the school, as it nearing the end of term, there will be some teachers leaving etc... so.. was asked to do half a dozen cards.... womens ones, Ive already shown you, and now working on the chappies.... gosh they a pain.. in more ways than one lol... so .. this is one of them. Thank you Nikky for the image (yes it is deco'd.. even the hands ...grrrr lol)

Not a Card

Thought it about time I got on and done Rubys room plaque before she leaves home LOL... just waiting for things to dry, and will add a tad more sparkle for her, few little gems on the letters if can find some small enough.. (i know I got some somewhere lol).
busy doing all sorts of other projects at mo, but will defo be back with some more later.. got too many half done things on go .. need to finish them all off and get them on blog .
time to put the kettle on I think and take 5 mins out... its exhausting all this crafting :)

Debbies Candy

To celebrate her birthday Debbie is putting up some fabby candy... take a gander x (ends 23/5)

Another Retirement card

Can you see a theme here.. lol.... sok Ive not made them all lilac,, trust me. Today I really must do some men cards as well, as I know they have male teachers leaving also, got one or two ideas, thats about it mind, one or two LOL... Mens cards just dont get any easier do they! ?
Going to be short and sweet with todays posting... as things to do, places to go (craft room) lol...
hope you all have a fabby day, and I will be back tomorrow... take care x

Happy Retirement

Was asked to supply half a dozen or so... cards for the school, (where I sell a few cards now and then).... for end of term, retirement and leaving cards.... so... I tried hardest to stay away from my usual cards, as put a few of those in the box, with blank inserts in. so... going back to óld school"no pun intended... I decoupaged a few images and tried to not OVERDO it... gosh was that hard, I so wanted to add more papers, more flowers and more.. well everything really lol
so this is what i come up with... will add more tomorrow etc...
Im still waiting to see who Pink Gem take on as their new DT,. the suspense is killing me LOL.. yeah well, those that know me, know I dont do waiting ! lol...
oooh and... Im actually going out on Sunday.. theres a surprise.... Im going to see Rydian... yeah I know.. saddo lol.. but daughter got me two tickets for xmas pressie, she was SOOOOO hoping I would find a friend that wanted to go with me... erm no... lol... so she coming too.. much to her dismay LOL.. that will teach her n ot to buy me craft goodies LOL.