Frosty start

Didn't want to get out of bed this morning, neither did Riley!LOL! Think its the first time he's seen a good frost and he wasn't impressed. The poor wee gingernut couldn't get back inside fast enough( for those non-kiwis reading this Gingernuts are a classic kiwi crunchy ginger biscuit , great for dunking in tea! ). Dabba however LOVES cold crunchy grass to roll in. I'd love to see her in snow....

 Had a busy day yesterday with a large group of ladies at Kai Iwi. We did a workshop with them and had a lot of fun. Hope they all enjoyed themselves!

This card is my entry for the Sugar Bowl challenge this week.  There is a great sketch to follow and I couldn't resist chopping up some of my new MME papers for it. The flower is glimmermisted then distressed, the ribbon I dyed with distress ink, the image is a GG from sugar nellie, coloured with copics.

A Spoon Full of Sugar

 The challenge on A Spoonful of Sugar is to use lace on your card. This paper is BG Boxer , and the image is another gorjuss girl.  Sentiment and card stock are SU.

 Its a horrible weekend here, (hail at the moment, and Abbie is getting nervous so maybe there is thunder on the way)  but Queens Birthday weekend usually is, winter officially starts for us now.  Poor hairies have been stuck inside  all day again. Riley and Patrick are busy teasing each other.  I've had a clean out of my craft room, cleared some old books of Gav's out...more room for STUFF!!!

 Tracy came around this morning with Bailee.   Abbie , Vinnie and Riley all showed Bailee their repertoire of tricks to get some treats. Abbie shakes a paw, Vinnie dances on his hind legs and takes a bow , and Riley spins like an idiot, left and right , over and over and over and over.....! Trace...your girls need a dog!  

Naughty Riley!

      Well I've had a quiet week,no cards, and no scrapbooking as I've been too sore to do much except go to work and come home. As least I now have an x-ray booked for Monday. Bout TIME!!!!!

Took Riley to agility training on Monday and he was such a good boy, really worked hard for me. However....we have just had cute wee Charlie stay the night with Gav's parents and Riley was verrrrry naughty!  He tried to bully the poor puppy. Needless to say, Riley spent a fair bit of time shut away in time out. Sigh...he can be hard work some times. Charlie thought Abbie & Vinnie were cool tho they weren't all that impressed. Charlie thought Vinnie's couch was cool, the cat toys were cool, but the cat was a bit scary. I got the job of brushing and cutting toenails. Easy peasy Val! Don't know what you were worried about!

BEEP!

What a night! Straight home from work, rushed out to agility with Riley....the little sod cocked his leg on my trackies!!!!  Got home, too tired to make anything crafty , then went to bed. 12am there was a BEEP!  Woke up to find Abbie missing, tracked her down in the bathroom, hiding from the nasty BEEP!   Then there was another BEEP!  Got Gav out of bed to disable the smoke detector in the hallway which I can't reach. Got into bed. BEEP!  Is it the one in the lounge?....about to climb up and disable that and another BEEP from somewhere said it wasn't that one. Meanwhile Gav went to the loo and Abbie tried to squeeze in there with him!!!LOL! No room darling girl!  BEEP! Can't find any more smoke alarms!!! Where is the noise coming from...no not the house alarm, that is WAAAAYYY louder.  Says Gav" Oh, what about the two smoke alarms I haven't put up yet?" Where are they? Not sure....  5 minutes and several BEEP!s later found them on top of the fridge. Batteries out...Yay! Back to sleep!  4am Riley starts to grizzle and jiggle in his crate. " Mum I drank lots of water tonight I need to go wee!" Well, I'm sure that's what he was saying cos I let him out and took him outside and it took him ages to empty his bladder! Back to sleep , Gav up at 6am, 6.20am the lights in the bedroom come on..." I've lost my wallet! Have you seen it? Got any cash for my lunch?" . So my day started...hope it improves....

Water!

I have a huge box full of photos of my twins and will never get to the bottom of it!  These two were a handful as adolescents, especially around water. Abbie was a "dig the water out and splash it everywhere" kinda girl, tho in her senior years she doesn't get up to much. Bruno loved moving water , best drunk straight out of the tap or hose! He loved to body surf down at the beach. We'd throw a stick, he'd bring it most of the way back then Abbie would snatch it off him to bring back to us! What a meanie!

  Gav just said " You've spelt obsession wrong, it has a C in it" .Then he  googled it and I said "No, I 've spelt it right" . He replied " Gee, that's not fair, they must've just changed that! "  He couldn't be wrong now, could he? 

Blossom

Well, I guess I've been very uninspired the last week. Tired and sore means no desire to play with paper and stamps.  A friend who is training as a bowen therapist came around yesterday and set up his massage table in the lounge and I climbed on to be one of his guinea pigs  , oooops I mean case studies!  Well, Vinnie kept reaching up and grizzling to be lifted up, Riley kept leaping onto my back from the floor ( Yes, its official the aussie ginger is actually a kangaroo, he's spring loaded) and Abbie kept nudging me . So they were all banned from the lounge except Abbie who settled down beside the table to keep an eye on me.  We shall see if its helped at all after a follow up session next week.

 Spent the day at Tracy's yesterday getting her and Marise hooked on copics! (Copics are quite addictive you know).  I think Denise & I are now banned from her house.  

 I gave Trace the sketch off Tiets blog to do , and she did it, so I thought I'd better attempt it myself or I might be accused of being slack . Blossom is another sugar nellie stamp and she's pretty cute, but then they all are. I'm Cheating and adding this to cute card thursday challenge as well.

 

Boring!

This is what my lot do when I'm at work......NOTHING!

Well, Riley is always busy with his toys but the old girl just sleeps and Vinnie sulks cos mummy isn't there to cuddle him!

We have another golden retriever staying for a few days and so she is so submissive, Riley thinks he can boss her around. I wish she would stand up for herself, she needs lessons in assertiveness! That little ginger is too full of himself.  Entire Males! Who would have one? 

Ouch!

Picture this. Last night I'm sitting on the bed talking to Gav, then I pick up Vinnie in one hand, put a foot on the floor to stand up only Abbie is under my foot, so I lift my foot, she moves, I'm falling and twisting, I hit the floor sitting and lightly fling Vinnie over onto Abbie's bed.  Vinnie's Ok, Abbie is Ok but I have managed to pinch a nerve between my shoulder blades and it took me 5 minutes to get off the floor I was laughing and crying so much. Gav is sitting there saying" That's the most bizaare thing I've ever seen, you just threw yourself off the bed with a poodle in your hand!" I was supposed to be going to Wanganui to an agility champ show today but I can hardly breath, let alone run and direct a dog! And its such a nice day too....sigh. LOL

Corfu

Well its slightly cooler here cos we have some rain but still humid. Best I go and pick some more beans , they're going crazy at the moment, and the zucchinis.
Bruno is enjoying the slightly cooler temps, his breathing is much easier. Went back to the vets on Monday and they're happy he's holding his own, we just keep him dosed up on steroids till he's had enough.... he's still enjoying his doddles in the park and all those extra treats!

  This page I did a while ago .... I keep procrastinating with my scrapbooking as I have so many OE photos to do. Its too daunting. However, maybe a change of topic might get me inspired, (what about some doggie pages??!!!!!) or not !! LOL!

What to do with myself

Ok...so we're going round in circles here. Can't even get motivated to fold the washing...maybe if we leave it  long enough Riley will have been through the lot and dragged bits off to all corners of the house as he does , especially with shoes and socks....
  We're all mooching, trying to keep Bruno quiet, too much excitement could be the end of him if the blood in his lung froths up and blocks off his airways. We got up after a crap night's sleep  to take the goldies to the park. Bruno wagged his tail the whole time and even managed to have a little talk session which he hasn't done much of lately. Takes too much breath and only one lung is functioning. The other is full of tumours.... :(  He looks so happy, still has his appetite at the mo, we'll just take one day at a time. Lots of treats, yummy food and ice cream after tea!   Have taken sooooo many photos of him the last few days, thank goodness for digital cameras!

Time for shopping

Have just been to Inglewood to help Tracy spend some money at the scrapbooking shop and yes, had to buy something or 5 for me too! May be inspired to get some of those piccies out and do something with them....or not.....!!!
 Finally got around to making my coasters with the resin stuff I got at senz. Yes they are doggie and cattie (well, you know what I mean!) as Denise said they would be.... what else... Gavin's motorbikes? Don't think so! You can't really see in the photos but there is a thick layer of resin over the top of each. I mucked up the Patrick one, got a sandfly in it while it was drying so tried to dig it out then tried to repair it....ooooops!

My Family

My family  consists of 4 dogs, 1 cat and a partner who is motorbike mad. Our first furkids were the golden retrievers Abbie & Bruno, yes , litter mates and believe me it is more than double trouble having two puppies at once!! Then came a ginger cat called Otis ( who sadly got killed by a car at the age of 7) , then a toy poodle called Vinnie, then another ginger cat called Patrick...and now the latest addition, another poodle all the way from Australia. More than enough for the time being, but then the goldies are getting old.....