Blog Award.

.............not only are the Golden Globes and BAFTA's handing out awards but so is Sian, she has given me this lovely award...... now apparently not everyone likes blog awards..........well I'm not one of them!!!!!

So I have to tell you 10 things that make me happy:

1. Family............through everything they are always there for me, even if they say things I don't like! However I am grateful for all the daft, fun and serious stuff that we deal with. We are close not just in distanc ebut emotionally as well which is always a great thing in my book.

2. My friends...........I am lucky to have a very closeknit and wonderful group of friends. I love them all for varying reasons and I feel I have chosen, or been gifted them, for specific reasons. There are too many to tell you about in one post but I'll tell you about Kathy who I did a LO about last week in the 50th nday candles hat. I have known for about 7 byears through the church I went to in Southampton. She is married to a BIG Northern bloke and has 3 BIG sons. Now she has supported me and taken me into her family over that time and gradually she has become one of my greatest friends. She is a wonderful wife, mum and friend. An amazing Christian. The past month she has had to deal with her two eledest sons leaving home, one to join the Royal Marines and one to go as a missionary to Namibia. She has dealt with it amazingly and still finds time in her working life as well to minister to the needs of troubled children. She is truly wonderful and I so happy she is my friend. She says I make her girly in a male household and she made em watch Australia when I didn't want to!!!!!

3. I love these boys........


they are my friend's Max and Teresa's sons. When I first became ill it was T I went to, David the eldest was only 18 months old then. They have grown up with Aunty Jo being abit nutty on occassion and are used to my depression and mummy coming to the rescue. But they love me, and I mean LOVE me. They accept me for who I am and I enternally gratful and happy about that. There 5 other little people, well 3 are big. Little E and Little M, and Ben, Josh and Sam (Kathy's adolescent boys). They are all special and make me happy in so many ways.

4. Living here in Somerset. I love the flat and it's environment and the stability it has given me.

5. My blog, cos I can talk about a load of old rubbish sometimes and other bloggers find it interesting.

6. Crafting of all kinds. Scrapbooking firstly because I do it the most but also art journalling which I have just started, knitting, crochet etc.

7. CHOCOLATE..............need I say more.

8. A great book

9. Feeling well.

10. Being a Christian as it brings meaning to a very disordered life. I have been a Christian all my life but kind of strayed off the path for several years. However I came back when I first became ill due in no small part to Teresa and Max. I did the Alpha course and was baptised. It has led me to great friendships, brought me a new family and helped me to make sense of the world when all else fails. I am not a perfect Christian but I am trying.


Now in other news, I have got my letter to say the housing benefit will be paid...............yay!!!! :)). I have also had confirmation that the pet insurance will be paid. And I am going to the Job centre tomorrow to start claiming Job Seekers rather than Work support as I feel better. So that also makes me feel happy.

So I have got to give the award to 5 people so I choose:
Clair................cos I love her fashion sense and style, and her scrapping is awesome too,
Lizzie..........cos she's awaesome at so many things,
Abi..............cos she is amazingly telented for one so young,
Lupin ..............cos she makes the most incredible objects out of felt,
Lolly................cos she also makes amazing craty things and g8 tutorials

Another award!!!!!

.........one of the nice things about having a blog is that you get to meet some truly amazing people who genuinely enjoy crafting and also the things you may have to say and do. I have met on cyberspace some really g8 people and one of them, the lovely Lizzie has given me an award for.......

Jo "Curlyscrapbooker" for amazing Christmas Cake recipe and lesson, and being a generally cool blogger!
.......isn't that sweet of her? A great BIG thanx to Lizzie for being so generous! As you readers will know, I have been going through a really rough time lately and about the only thing keeping me from leaving this Earth has been this blog and the people who have been kind enough to visit it and support me. So a huge, heartfelt thankyou for that. You have truly been lifesavers.

So according to what Lizzie has said, I need to tell you 7 interesting things about myself. Ok I'll try:
1. I have 2 degrees a BA and a BSc plus a postgraduate diploma.
2. I live in an old mental hospital.............truly, converted into apartments.
3. I once sang at the Purcell Rooms in London when I was a young singer.
4. I can play the piano and the flute.
5. I have met Shimelle Laine and she makes the BEST cupcakes ever!!!!!
6. I would like to travel to loads of places but particularly India.
7. I trained as a nurse at The London Hospital in Whitechapel and the first few months we were there they were bombing the docks making the film Full Metal Jacket. If you went on the top deck of the bus you could see the bombed buildings and imported palm trees to make it look like Vietnam. We also drank in The Blind Beggars where The Kray twins shot one of their gang.

So now I have to choose 7 other wonderful bloggers to join in the fun:

Firstly I choose Scraps, the city and me cos she has amazing stories to tell and brilliant LOs,

Next Abi a young talented scrapper who is new to blogging but is excellent at it and a very artistic scrapper.

Third, I have chosen Kerry who has just been chosen as a Two peas in a bucket design team member and designs her own yummy digital scrapbooking elements,

Then the wonderful Katy from Dotty Divas who also has the most amazing blog as well,

Fifth, Melissa from All about me challenges who writes so eloquently about life, faith and scrapping and introduced me to the challenges and the Faith sisters site,

Sixth, Sian cos not only is she an inspiring scrapper but she writes so brilliantly and hilariously

and finally Clair because she's just amazing.

Please check out the girl's blogs because they are fabulous and inspiring and we all need abit of that to help us along the way.