Rocking Your World Friday

Ok

This week has been particularly tough- lots of going backwards health wise lots of tears and lots of other stuff that I can't go into

..but having jumped back onto the Rocking Your World wagon last week I really felt as if I should continue....

So here's what rocked my world this week :)

Skinny Cow Triple choc brownies


5 syns... ultra tasty.. nuff said!

My Kids

They really make me laugh (sometimes!) and for that I am so thankful. Too much sh*** going down at the moment yet these guys keep me from dropping off the deep end into the ocean of tears.. love em so much

Tea



Never, never NEVER underestimate The Power Of Tea. It's got me through some very tough times and if I ever run low (less than 20 bags) I get the shakes lol... Don't get me wrong I don't drink it all day but... mm... teeeaa....

Crafting

Ok, so I haven't done any for quite a few days but I managed to finish this last Friday which was a present for hubby's best friend



It was supposed to be a book but shhhh wasn't well enough so used my noggin and made a board

Woohooo see... one of the cruddest weeks I have had for a while yet there are still some things that you can find that are cooooolio :)

Find some and hook your post up with Virginia ... it's always great to hear about what other people are grateful for... it sometimes jogs your own memories ;)

Mmmmwah

G xxx

40th Birthday Board

Hello

Myz made this for a friend of her hubby's 40th birthday. Great ambitions for a book were cast aside what with the wobbliness and general yuckiness so it became a board instead as time was at a premium

She started with a board covered with a 12x12 paper from Smirk 'for him' papers...

Each photo was framed with shiny blue card cut out with some square nesties and glittered with blue glitter pens and printed out words were also framed with the same card to give an overall effect not usually seen in a Myz design..... woohooo conformity ;P



Only one word phrases as Myz' brain a little dead right now :P

So here it be hung up with a glittery ribbon:



Myz couldn't get to the party due to 'damn body letting me down yet again' ... she still hasn't got out of the house other than a cup of tea sitting outside the door and general washing hang-uppness that cause much of next day bed staying in-ness :P

..she was. however, rewarded with cake

...and Myz LOVE DA CAKE!!



Nommy nom nom nom!

xxx

Rocking Your World Friday

(been writing since wednesday-ish lol just so could finally post)


Ok. So I'm sat at home with minimum potterage... still quite a bit of painage and no going outside age....

...but there must be some things this week that have rocked my world?

Been thinking about it since yesterday and... here they are!!!!

(1) My massagers




Help really well with the painage and sufferage... this usb one is the nuts... and also I have one I use on my legs and feet in the bath which has little balls inside that I think have fairies in... cos they are sooo goood..... I likes those fairies :)

(2) My wonderful kids

They have been brill the past few weeks. Ok, so son-of-mine has teenager hormones and Little Myz has a tendency to chatter chatter sing and chatter all day...usually at high volume... but when the chips are down they are so helpful :) As they is the only kids I has and am ever going to have.... I am glad that I have been left with these ones not worse ones (*)

My delightful 5 year old came home with this yesterday... for those of you without such ickle ones now we aren't allowed to correct spelling (??!!??) as they write phonetically.... I am very much hoping I'll be allowed to hothouse her spelling wise soonish... as it's driving me up the wall... but if you can read it... it's really really sweet......




Happy

Happiness is light purple
Sparkling firework make me happy
Happiness is cuddly teddies
Happiness smells like strawberry cake
Happiness tastes like minty ice cream
Happiness sounds like calming songs

*sniff* she definitely makes me happy!!!! (.....usually.....lol)

(3) my crafting

Have been able to finish various things this week so even though I can't do the stand uppage my concentration is a lot better than it was so yeay for that. It definitely lifts my mood to be able to create something that will last for a while (or finish it off)



I am proud of something else I managed to finish off this week but I can't blog that... not yet at least as it hasn't been given to said blokie yet. Nothing Earth-shattering but it's better than a card and a slap on the back hehe.. and I like it.. I might make one for me :)

(4) Good Food

Ok, so my body is doing ***** things at the moment and major failing all over the place, but at least I can put into it tasty food for when the amblage gets sorted and I can have a nice wander. Who knows what's going in there but I can try as much as I can to put nice healthy food in when I can bear making the blooming stuff (which is another positive as I can stand up more now than last week.. get in!)




(5) Being Positive

I must admit, this week has been a tough one for me but do you realise how much different your face can look when you contort it into various positions? :)

Before:



Note the cruddy eyes lol..

After:


Heyy..where'd those cruddy eyes go??? lol

try it and see ;)

..and then hook up with Virginia... our Mighty leader...


Big hugs!!!!!

G xxx

(*) you do realise, though, that I reserve the right to slate them, swear about them and generally have a go about them in my next post as it won't be a Friday? .... :P

Easter Shennanigans

(Can't be fiddle arsing about... not atm..

..so this will either go live half 6 Sun evening or won't hehe....)

I don't know whether it's because I love my kids more this year (hmm prob not, lol...) or that because of certain things that have happened making me more aware of our mortality etc, etc... Make The Most Of Things While You Can.... you never know when you may lose someone type thing.. I decided to Make The Effort to make something for the kids this year instead of buying a few eggs and hoping for the best lol..... After all they will soon have flown the nest and I'm sure they won't be wanting silly knitted toys hehe.... and I'm aaaalways making things for other people all year round and the kids only seem to get things birthdays or Christmas..hehe...

I started preparations quite early, worried about maybe health wobbles etc...thinking..thinking..thinking about what I could do.. and a plan started to form

Hello... we is Bunneyz....



We were closely followed by Da Chickz....



We jumped on various yummy eggs....



Then made a nest where we laid quite a few more ickle eggs...



Bad Gaily then decided to hide all the little eggs under some more crepe paper so it looked like they only got 2 little eggs on top and the rest would be a surprise..

..and then everything was hidden under copious amounts of whatever-this-stuff-is and tied it with a bow:



Purdies!

...but they isn't getting it again innit :)

Too Much Like Hard Work atm....

..I like to keep busy tho at the mo so it was fun....

..and the eggs are all wrapped up now so I don't get tempted by them during the week if I have a major wobble...

...reeeesult :)

xxxxx

Hellooo... quickie update

Hopefully this post will work.. the one on my weightloss blog took ages to post stupid blogger....

Got a date for my op/procedure whatsit- May 11th- so at least, as Jaqui says, it will be over in a month or so.. hopefully on the up after that.... it's bad enough with the ME/Fibro but dang if life wants to throw summat else in the mix we'll cope with that too! hehe

Have been posting lots of stuff on Facebook.. got let down again with the whole 'ooh gail make me some cards and I'll buy 3 or 4' shite again :( .. now I have a pile of Easter cards I can't do anything with :( .. so been going thru stuff that I haven't uploaded yet and some newish things too but here's some for those of you without FB

Made lots of earrings but these be my favourites as they have a story behind them.... bought some gorgeous ornate beads from China a while back and when they finally arrived... muuuch smaller than I thought lol :




Little Myz and I had a play with shrink plastic, with varied results:



Sorry Little Myz for spoiling your Hello Kitty one :(



I think I like my stained glass one best... but look at that black and purple diamond one on the left of the photo.... if you hold it up to the light it looks awesome.. on the plate it looks cruddity crud

..but lookie at my Hello Kitty necklace... rock on!



Well that's all from me for now but hope that will keep you going for a while. Weightloss not going so well so have been experimenting with comfort food Slimming World stylee with varied results... it's just my bod at the minute with all its coping with I guess.... once the nasties are eradicated who knows it may all drop off...

..but for now I'm trying to stick to it even though the scales show a gain of 1-2lb a mth.. still lost over 40 and it may all drop off once the nasties go...

..a girl can hope can't she? :)

*hugs*

G xxxx

Birthday Card Thanks

Thanks sooooo much to everyone who took time to make me cards for my birthday at the end of last month- it really means a lot to me that people would take time out to send me something .. big *hugs*

I was waiting til they all got here.. I think the last came on Saturday *baaaad Royal Mail!!* but who knows.... there may be more out there somewhere.....

This one was made by my own Little Myz...



Jaqui made this one for me: classy! (very unlike Chavtastic me but I loves it hehe)



..and also made me some gooorgeous gloves which are really toasty :)

Some random nutty lady made me this card:



I am very proud to have received this card as She's Not A Cardmaker (raises eyebrow) ..so doesn't tend to make cards for people .. on the strength of that I think I'll stop making cards too as I'm definitely not a cardmaker either..... :P

The story behind it is that a couple of years ago she made me a card with my favourite man in the world, Ray Winstone on ... tied to a chair... only I hardly even knew who he was...so this time she decided to put someone she *knew* I definitely liked on the front

*rarrr* Gaily like... :)

This one was from Artydoll.. love it! Love it! xxxx



This one was from Debbie and a really lovely cheery card for me at the moment what with everything going on :)




All these lovely flowers were from Karen and are all decoupaged up .. they'll last far longer than normal flowers so great cheer-up potential for a while :)



More gowwwwjuss flowers from another Karen (so with a base of 2 I can now confirm that Karens Send Flowers hehe)



The inside was soo decorated and gowwwwjus too xxx

This gorgeous in black and white card was from Sarah .. soo purdy



...

Thanks again so much for the lovely cards you haven't a clue how much it means to me to get all these..just for me :)

Without going into too much boring detail (I don't want to lose any more of you! lol) even though The Powers That Be seem to have decided the past few years I haven't suffered enough and have given my body something else to fight against .. hopefully in a few months The New Nasties will be gone so yeay for that.. waiting for an op date now and then it's Wagons Roll

Eeek... next birthday is The Big 4-0

..aagghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

*mmmmmwah*

G xxx

Oh poo....

I blogged in the wrong place

lol

I'm not going thru it all again :P

it's here hehe

xxxxx