Thank you all so much...

I'm honoured to have received this gorgeous award from Jane, Cathy, Pauline, Donna , Kirsten and Debbie.

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships!These blogs are exceedingly charming.These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement.Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.Please give more attention to these writers!Deliver this award to eight bloggers who then must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

I've made some truly wonderful friends since I started this blog but there is one particular lot who have made me feel like part of a bigger family and have all become such firm friends....and that is my SBS sisters.So please accept this, from me, with much love.

Hugs, Em.x

A beautiful award....(1 of 4!)

I know I'm notorious for never collecting awards or tags but this one is so beautiful I couldn't leave it.....
So many thanks to Susie, Vikki, Christine, Pauline, and Dawn. Thanks so much girls as it is much appreciated.

I know that most of you have received this award already but I am going to pass it on to Alison, Pandy, Debs and Jane who themselves or a member of their family have something in common with me....but I wish we didn't. (Fibromyalgia if anyone was wondering!)
So if anyone else out there has a chronic illness please accept this award as well with love.
Gentle hugs,
Em.x

Thanks Sharon!

My pal Sharon has passed this onto me and as I am in awe of everything she does this means an awful lot!

The rules are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog

2. Link the person you received your award from

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs

4. Put links of those blogs on yours

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated

So I am going to pass this on to...

Pam who never fails to make me want to try new techniques.
Sammi who is the most kind hearted, generous person I have ever met.
Lainy who makes me laugh so much.
Lisa who has so much going on in her own life but always finds time for others.
Jessica who's talent and friendship means so much.
Teresa who never fails to make me smile.
Kim who always finds time to visit me and is such a lovely person!

I wish I could pass it onto you all....

Well its a beautiful day here so off for a walk into town with Belle to feed the ducks at the lake.
Hope everyone is well.
Hugs,
Em.x

A little something for you!

The wonderful Dawny has passed this on to me and I am bowled over by it as I think the award itself is so beautiful! Please check her blog out as well as it is amazing!

1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their site in your post.
2. Link back to this blogsite so Tammy can go visit all these wonderful women and remember the Purpose of the Award:
To send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

And the fab thing about this award...there are no limits to the amount of friends I can pick which is lovely as I find it really difficult having to only pick a few each time.
So...to my lovely friends I pass this on to you ALL as each and everyone of you on my lists inspires, gives me confidence and amazing friendship...and most of all...you make me laugh and smile so much!

And now for a giggle.....

Delia's Way
Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice-cream drips.

The Real Woman's Way
Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for God's sake. You are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway.

Delia's Way
To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.

The Real Woman's Way
Buy Smash and keep it in the cupboard for up to a year.

Delia's Way
When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking tin, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.

The Real Woman's Way
Tescos' sell cakes. They even do decorated versions.

Delia's Way
If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a potato slice.

The Real Woman's Way
If you over salt a dish while you are cooking, that's tough. Please recite with me the Real Woman's motto: 'I made it and you will eat it and I don't care how bad it tastes.'

Delia's Way
Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks

The Real Woman's Way
It could keep forever. Who eats it?

Delia's Way
Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your
forehead. The throbbing will go away.

The Real Woman's Way
Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and drop it in 8 ounces of vodka. Drink the vodka. You might still have the headache, but you wont give a flying banana!

Finally the most important tip - my favourite!

Delia's Way
Freeze left over wine into ice cubes for future use in casseroles

The Real Woman's Way
Left over wine???? Hellooo


And trust me...theres never any wine left over in this house!! LOL!
Have a great Friday...

My very own credit card!!!

Big huge thanks to the lovely Dawn for giving me this award. I feel very humbled receiving it from someone as talented as her! Thanks babe.

The rules of getting this are -

1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

Quite simple really it is a way of saying thank you to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day.

So my five are;
Chrissy,
Tina,
Heather,
Sammi
Not only are they talented crafters but I am lucky enough to call them good friends as well so please check their blogs out as they are fab!
My fifth blogger is overseas and is not on my blog list but I just love her work...Melissa. Her work is beautiful!

I'm just so sorry that I could not pass this on to everyone on my list as I think you
all deserve it!

Thanks Juliet!

The beautiful Juliet has very kindly passed these three awards on to me. Thank you so much honey! Her blog is so lovely and her garden is amazing so please go and have a nose!
I have to pass it on to three people. Go on then...how the heck do I only pick three? Everyone on my list deserves them so I'm going to pass them on to three bloggers who I think are complete nutters and could do with a shrink...only kidding but they have made me laugh this week for various reasons so please do not be offended if you are not one of them...in fact be grateful that you are not one of them!! LMHO!!
So Debs, Heather and Rachel consider yourself nutters of the week!!! Love you all really!
And to everyone else who is relatively sane...don't worry...I'll get you next time!
Hugs

Muchas gracias!

Sorry for not being around much lately but I've been sleeping a lot! Feeling much better so thought I had better catch up with everyone.
I'd like to say a big thanks to Debs, Cathy, Pauline C, Sammi, Nessy, Cass, Donna, Sarah C, Vicki May, Jo, and lastly but by no means least...Kerry for passing this award onto me. Thank you all so much for thinking of me. Please go and visit their blogs as they are all amazing!

I'm now meant to pass this on to seven more blogs so I hope you can all forgive me if I just pass it on once this time...you can slap my wrists later!
I'm going to pass it on to my amazing friend Tina...with a huge hug after all her hysterical e-mails this week that have really cheered me up. Thanks babe!

Thanks to everyone for all the tagging lately but I'm going to pass on it this time if no one minds as I think you have all had it anyway!! LOL!

And finally many, many thanks to the girls at thisthursday who picked my necklace as one of their favourite 15. Am really happy with this as its now given me the confidence to have another go! Thanks girls!

Off to the fracture clinic now with Jake so will see you all later when I pop over for a visit!
Hugs to everyone,

Award city!

Girls...I'm so chuffed for the amount of awards this week. I know I shouldn't look at it like this but when you can't even hold a craft knife in a steady hand...they really mean a lot!!
So a huge thanks to Debs and Tara for my 3 awards.
I'm going to pass them to a group of people that I have neglected lately but who have still supported me and had huge shoulders for me...my fantastically talented SBS sisters...all of them!
I'm going to let them pick which award they would like to accept...if it was up to me I would let them have all 3!
Have fun deciding girls which one you want and I am so sorry for not being there for you all...I promise to make it up to you all very soon,xxx

I would also like to say a thank you to Debs...she knows why...thanks babe,x

(Jo and her hubby have just turned up with a huge bottle of wine...apparently Jo thinks I need it for medicinal purposes!!)

Grinning at this one!!

Thanks Vikki....this really made my day!! I hope you have fun with the blog candy!!!
So now I have to pass this on to 3 more bloggers and as Vikki said its soooo hard with the amount of talent out there!!!
I've chosen 3 bloggers whose blogs make me smile whenever I pop on. Lisa, Sarah and finally but not at all least Chrissy! Enjoy girls!

Its official...I am a bad blogger!!

I seem to be getting tagged left, right and centre at the mo!! No I'm not complaining...I just forget about them until someone nags me and then I feel so ungrateful!!
But....I am grateful because its lovely knowing that when I am stuck in bed feeling all grumpy someone out there is thinking of me and thats lovely!!!

The eye award is from the beautiful talented Cass and I would like to pass it onto Sammi who has kept me smiling recently.

The circle of friends is from Sammi and I realised tonight that I don't need to pass this on to anyone in particular as we are all in one big blogging circle! So if you have not had an award or are just new to the blogging world...please accept this award from me to you!

Talking of friends I hate it when my friends are upset...be it friends in the flesh or the virtual kind. I've had a phonecall tonight off a really close friend, upset because she had read a 'friends' blog and it wasn't totally truthful. I've told her not to worry and that the person in question probably doesn't realise that the whole world can read what we put. What else can I say?

Awards...awards...and more awards!!!!

I love choosing who to pass my awards on to. Its a good excuse to have a nose round everyone's blogs and see what everyone has been getting up to!!
I've received the Arte Y Pico (Art & More) award from my SBS sisters Lisa and Sammi...thanks so much girls...so I am going to pass it on to 10 of my other sisters!
I don't know if I am allowed to pass it on twice on the same day but I promise not to tell if you don't!!
The rules of this award are....
1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity,design,interesting material,and also contributes to the blogging community,no matter what language.
2. Each award has to give the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4. Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of Arte y Pico blog,so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. To show these rules.
So I'm passing it onto...
Felice
Joana
Lisa Lavender
Lois
Nany
Robyn
Sue
Yesi
Kim
and Lainy!!
All their blogs are fantastic and they are all pretty special people as well!!

I also received the 'You make my day' award yesterday from Cathy.
The three people who have made my day today are...
Sammi for the lovely e-mail she sent me today and because her talent scares me!!
Pandy because her words of support today have really helped and her website is the font of all knowledge!
And to Gill...who has no blog...so I am breaking the rules here. Thanks babe for everything,xxx

April fools....

Firstly I have got a card to show you but I need to take a photo of it in really good daylight so will blog it tomorrow. Its a lot different to anything I have done before so not sure what the response will be from you guys!! Pop on tomorrow and let me know your thoughts on it!

Right then...its April the 1st and it really does feel like April Fools day...unfortunately in our house at the moment there's not a lot of joking going on. Something has happened to us as a family and we are all having a hard time dealing with it. The big move back to the UK next week IS still going ahead but we are leaving Gibraltar with under a huge black cloud and I feel like my heart is breaking with it all.
Obviously this blog is public so I cannot say what is wrong but I want to take this opportunity to thank my best mate Gill and her hubby for their support. The thought of leaving them next week just brings more tears.
I also want to say a huge thank you to my SBS sisters...all your wonderful messages today have meant so much...thanks girls,x

I am shocked though as I've received three awards today! The 'You make my day' award was from the lovely Cathy at ellieskeeperscreations . The other two are from my lovely SBS sisters but will put them on tomorrow. And yes it has made me smile for the first time in days! This means I get to nominate 13 people...yipee!!
So tomorrow there will be one very unusual card....13 nominations....and me painting the kids bedrooms!
And finally....thanks to each and every one of you that take your time to look at my blog....it really does mean a lot and makes everything really worthwhile,x

So happy!

Today I received my first ever blog award!! It will probably be my last as well so am like a kid with a new toy!!!

Its the Arte Y Pico (Art & More) award.
The lovely Cass from poursomesugaronme-rockchick gave it to me and I can't stop grinning!! Cass and I started our blogs at the same time and she is sooooo talented so its a real morale boost to get it off her.
Now the rules of the award.....

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity,design,interesting material,and also contributes to the blogging community,no matter what language.

2. Each award has to give the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4. Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of Arte y Pico blog,so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5. To show these rules.

So now the hard part!!! 5 blogs? I want everyone though!!!

OK the ones I have chosen are...drum roll please......

Gill because she is so lovely, kind and creative!

Juliet does not know me but I love her blog! There's always something scrummy to look at!

Eleni because I love her layouts and I am her official stalker!

Michelle her blog and shop are fantastic!!

Ana because I just love her crafting style!!!

I just wish that I could have had all my new SBS sister's as well!

Thanks Cass...you really made my day!