Its a......

A quick picture that kinda says it all.....


....it sure is a dogs life,lol.
Picture of Storm and Rosie the pup.
Hugs
Tracy
xxx

Creative Inspirations Challenge 21 and a hello....

I would like to give a warm welcome to my new followers thank you so much for joining my mad world,lol and look forward to getting to know you all.
This week over at Creative Inspirations Challenge the theme has been set by the lovely Maxine which is........
We want to see a Pocket somewhere on your card or creative project ,plus a fab prize for this one everyone......
This weeks sponsor is Robynfetish.com Who have a lovely range of Digi Images and you can win

6 Digi Images of your choice

So pop on over to the challenge blog and check out the other DT members beautiful creations and hope you join in over the next 2 weeks.

Here is my project a little wall hanging for my shed....i bought the papers,ribbons,buttons,alpha stickers and template for the house in a kit ages ago
{the kit was to make a scrappy house album,needless to say havent made it yet!!!}
from Bellaboo and the wooden heart and tin heart on the chimney are from my own stash.
Eeeek i used my glue gun and kept burning the tips of my fingers,lol when i was making the smoke for the chimney out of buttons.
As you can see i made the door my pocket to house the family tag....who lives in my house, i ran out of room but we also have Fish...do not want to hurt there feelings by not mentioning them.
I would like to enter this in a few challenges
ABC challenge,the theme is hidden...my tag is hidden in the door.
My time to craft challenge...A Tag somewhere on your project.
Thanks for looking
Big hugs
Tracy
xxx

Two awards to share.....

I have been so lucky to receive a few blog awards from some lovely ladies it always touches me to know someone is thinking of me and they mean a lot always...so thank you from the heart to
Linda and Rebecca for this beautiful award......
This sweet award comes with a few with rules, which are:
Pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know you left this award, and then answer a list of questions in ONE word.

1.Where is your cell phone? Bag
2. Your hair?Eeeekk

3. Your mother? Friend

4. Your father? Greatest

5. Your favorite food? Mince
6. Your dream last night? terrifying

7. Your favorite drink? Orange

8. Your dream/goal? Shop

9. What room are you in? Hall

10. Your hobby? craft

11. Your fear? spiders

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Happy

13. Where were you last night? Home

14. Something that you aren't? Lazy

15. Muffins? Please

16. Wish list item? Loads

17. Where did you grow up? Lochgelly

18. Last thing you did? Clean

19. What are you wearing? Jeans

20. Your TV? Blank

21. Your Pets?Mad

22. Friends? Yes

23. Your life? Busy

24. Your mood? Okay

25. Missing Someone? Grandparents

26. Vehicle? Grey

27. Something you’re not wearing? Hat

28. Your favorite store? Next

29. Your favorite color? Yellow

30. When was the last time you laughed?Today

31. Last time you cried? my dream made me cry

32. Your best friend? Alex
33. One place that I go to over and over? Work...

34. Facebook? No

35. Favorite place to eat? Home
whewwwwww i done it now it is your turn ladies,go on and have fun....
Meikoningin
Sarah
Michelle
Cheryl
Vicki


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Also a thankyou from the heart to the lovely Jo .....thank you so much Jo for thinking of me!!!
The rules for this sweet award are:
to thank the person for the award and
pass it on to at least 7 people who deserve it
and then list 10 honest things about myself....
I would like to pass it on to these lovely ladies....
Linda
Lyn
Susan
Maria
Tracey
Jude
Jenni
Hmmmm now 10 things about me...
1.I am 40years old
2.Married to Alex for 21 years...Love him to bits!!!
3.We have 2 great sons..Rory 19years and Kane 16years.
4.Wooohooo i am an Aunty to Niamh.
5.Live in Bonnie Scotland.
6.People who know me say i am a tad MAD.
7.I once upon a time abseiled down a building for charity.
8.My family always come first with me.
9.I luv to craft and always try to squeeze in a heart or two somewhere on my projects.
10I have a great love for reading and if i dont have a book on the go i feel totally lost...one of my favourites is P.S I LOVE YOU.
Big hugs to you all
Tracy
xxx

Crafting for Jude.....

Recently i have been trying to put together a few handmade crafty bits and bobs for Jude for her Alzheimer's Bazaar anh went back to my love of prim and country...had a play with my background too.
I had forgotten how much i love prim and country crafts..gingham,homespun fabrics,cinnamon,pointy prim hearts..when i started out crafting this was the kinda stuff i enjoyed doing including salt dough Angels.
Anyhoo this is what i came up with and hopefully they will be of some use....
This is a picture of my little wooden prim hearts all snuggled up ready to go to a hopefully new home and the picture below is how they look with there little prim cards handwritten and little shabby centres...
and this is how a few look on my twisty tree out back along with cinnamon sticks,homespun fabric oh and of course more prim hearts.
Also a picture of a few prim notebooks..i machine stitched round all the fabric...
and a few gift tags...Picture of one of the cards i made...and lastly a pretty prim homespun tin to house them all...
Thanks for being patient and thanks for looking.
Hugs to you all and hopefully will get some dough Angels made at the weekend to share with you all.
Tracy
xxx

Creative Inspirations challenge 20....

Well another week and another challenge over at Creative Inspirations and this week i have the pleasure of setting challenge 20.....
"DOODLE-ING"
..you can doodle doodle doo to your hearts content or just a little somewhere on your project just have fun and i look forward to seeing all your beautiful makes.
Pop on by and see the rest of the DT makes on doodle-ing they are fab!!!
This weeks sponser is our lovely Jenni.
Jenni has recently brought out some lovely Digi images ,and now has also recently got them made into stamps too.So if youd like to take a peek then click HERE to see whats on offer.Thanks to Jenni for Sponsoring us this challenge & your kind generosity.The winner will win ;
"4 dIGI IMAGES"

So this is how theses little houses look when i have been a doodling ...the kind of house i would love to live in,a wee tad rickety i know but woodburning stoves,wooden floors with lots of nooks and crannies...you know i can almost smell the wood smoke,lol!!!!

This is the"after" once i have used chalks to colour and glossy accents to give a bit of gloss.
I did exactly the same for the boot..doodle then colour.Hope you like and look forward to popping by and seeing all your crafty makes.
Hugs to you all
Tracy
xxxx

Creative Inspirations challenge 19....

This week over at Creative Inspirations the theme is...
"a special card or project with numbers on it" set by the lovely Cheryl.
All you have to do is make a new card or project and you can combine it with other challenges too,so get those creative juices running and i look forward to poping by and seeing what you all make.
Plus a great prize up for grabs from "Fairie song art stamps"
"A gift certificate for $25 plus free shipping"
Here is my DT project.... A keepsake 1st birthday card for my beautiful niece "Niamh."
I altered a K&CO alphabet box using various papers i had had in my stash for a while,flower punches,stickers and gems.I cut the bunting ,cake and number 1 candle out by freehand and with the use of some trusty silicone managed to give the cake some oooomph.

Niamh was the grand old age of one yesterday,woohooo she is totally gorgeous and oh so cute and already walking,she makes us giggle and drives her mum and dad up the wall because her fav word at the moment is" HIYA" and she says it about every second,lol.Thought i would share this picture of her with Rosie the pup at our house and.....
with one of Rosie and Storms toys,honest the sausage toy was brand spanking new and Niamh took a shine to it as you can see!!!!!
Thanks for looking and take care for now and i will be poping by to visit you all soon.
hugs n stuff
to you all
Tracy
xxx

Crafting at last woohoo......

Hellooooo i can hardly believe it has been 2weeks since i was on my blog....if it wasn`t for all you lovely followers and friends my little slice of blogland would be turning into a dusty little place where people fear to tread and new posts a thing from bygone days....thank you each and everyone of you from the heart{i know i know me and my hearts,what can i say but i love them}and a big Helloooooo for my new followers,thank you so much for joining my mad goings on.
Well the back is still playing up but touch wood....no not my head....whispering so my back doesn`t hear me...easing slightly.
I have wait for it.....CRAFTED...gulp, gasp and it felt really really good!!!!
I had quite a few swaps to catch up on and have managed to get them done which leaves me with only 1 commitment left to complete,hopefully finish it this week and in the post...phew i will be so relieved as i have felt really guilty ,but with the way my back can be everything had to come to a halt.
The first 2 pictures was a project for a swap over on Scrappers Delight
{a great place to visit and always lots going on if you fancy stopping by}
You had to make 12 tags all about you,loved putting this one together,made the 12 tags and a little wallet to pop them in.
I would like to enter this into Paper cutz challenge blog...theme..tags.
The pictures below where for a swap over on Crafts Beautiful,6x6 page swap and the theme was the year i was born.
I went for one event in 1969 landing on the moon..why?....cause i always wanted to be an astronaut,guess visiting blogland is the closest i am going to get,lol!!
As you can tell still mad as a hatter,lol.
Thanks for stopping by and
Big hugs to all
Tracy
xxxx

Creative inspirations Challenge 18.."Christmas in October"

Hi everyone first i just want to say sorry i am not around as much at the moment but my back isn`t too good at the moment but soon as, i promise to get around to catching up with you all and thank you all so much for leaving such lovely comments.
Big hello and warm welcme to my new followers ,bless you and look forward to popping by and visiting.
This week over at Creative Inspirations the challenge is to make a Christmas Card or project pop on by and check out the DT creative makes and check out the prize.
I have made an altered tin to pop a xmas pressie in and an accordion card to match,the top pic is the tin and outside of the card and the next is the inside of the card.
Well going to keep this short and sweet for now but looking forward to catching up with you all soon.
Big hugs to you all
Tracy
xxxxxx

Creative Inspirations Challenge 17....and a few challenges combined..

Over at Creative Inspirations this week the lovely Louise has set the challenge
a colour combo-
Lilac/Purple and grey and Louise also has a fantastic prize for the lucky winner so pop on over and check it out and look forward to stopping by and seeing all your creative projects.
I thought my crafting mojo had deserted me as i was sitting in my shed on Friday night hauling out papers,pulling my hair,embellishments, stamps,inks,paints scattered on every available surface when suddenly thank goodness i thought about the wee fairy folk..why i hear you ask...well the window of my shed looks on a part of my garden that has a log,moss,stone and toadstool and it was so pretty and i had taken a picture of it through the week on a rare dry spell of weather and bingo that was how the Fairy trunk came to be....
I promise no Fairy was harmed in the making of the trunk box,the wings of this little fairy was all i managed to capture when i clicked the camera, she was a tad camera shy and in rather a hurry to join in the festivities, please be reassured that after the camera flashed the door popped open and a rather pretty {if rather irate} fairy popped back out and sorted herself out.
The magical knocker that you must knock on the front of the box trunk 3 times.....
Fairy dust to sprinkle around the trunk and the magic key to hold.....

and the little summoning spell goes...
sprinkle a little fairy dust around the trunk
take the magic knocker
and knock three times
hold the key
and close your eyes
and say with all your heart
" I do believe in the Fairy Folk....."
why not try it and see for yourself what happens...just remember for it to work you must really really believe...Good luck!!!
The magical ingredients.....
1."Believe" it is sooo important for it all to work
2.Blank Box
3.Basic grey Wisteria papers
4.Basic Grey Wisteria Rub ons and Brads
5.Fairy dust in a glass bottle...collected from a magical ring of mushrooms as the dawn breaks right after a Fairy Gathering
6.Magical key..these are really hard to come by best to try a witchy shop.
7.Fairy knocker and Handle{magical hatpins touched by the Fairy Queen,well i am a tad mad and my maiden name is Queen,lol}}
8.Fairy wings well as i explained that was accidental,lol.
I would also like to enter it over at Crafty Creations where the challenge was to use 3 patterned papers.
Papertake weekly challenge is Fairies/angels
Craft Challenge is anything but a card
La La Land crafts challenge is Bling...fairy wings , fairy dust and hat pins
Well Fairy tidings to you all and thanks for looking and if you want to see inside..........................
well believe in the Fairy folk and maybe one of these days i will let you all have a wee keek.
hugs
Tracy
xxxx
P.S. This is the picture i took in my back garden.....

Fabulous awards......

I recieved this fab award from Glitzzy, for those of you who don`t know she is my mum and simply the best mum ever always listens and a shoulder to lean on when i need it most.Mum is a crafting Queen and i always love to see what she has created her little fat pages are stunning and a must see.
I recieved these two fab awards from the lovely Lyn over on Syders Corner,she truly cracks me up when i stop by for a visit and her stunning projects are well worth a visit.Thanks zilloins Lyn for thinking of me.
One of the conditions of accepting this lovely Award is to give away five things about yourself, and then pass it onto five lovely people.Eeeeek oh well you probably already know that..
1-I am truly mad....the secret is well and truly out,lol.
2-I abseiled down the House Of Frasers for charity and loved it!!!
3-I often say one thing but have a little face on the back of my head that wants to say something else...i am laughing out loud right now i can`t believe i am typing this, it may be imaginary but true!!!
4-Hmmm when i die "I AM" going to come back as a singer,have long wavy dark hair and startling blue eyes.{course i can`t hold a tune just now so fingers crossed i will have a voice when i come back}
5-The yellow van has just stopped outside to cart me away to the funny farm will pop back later to give them out..................
Helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.................................
I am back wooo thanks to my lovely hubby who explained to the yellow van men this is totally normal behaviour from me and if they took me away to the funny farm the normal madness would rub off on everyone else,lol.
I would love to give the smiles on faces award to the lovely....
Glitzzy,Max, Katy,Vicki and Susan
and the top 2 to the lovely....
Saskia,Beccaroo,Maria Matter,Jude,Maxine,Cheryl,Pinklillac,Jackie,my new sis Sarah and the lovely Emilie.
Big hugs to you all
Tracy
xxx