143 is the number for today..

And for one reason only.... WOYWW

Today I have a desk to show..you see I am in the dining room

along with Paul..who is working from home..so I don't have a full desk

I have a third... and no Paul isn't using two thirds. on third is Paul's mums

I get the rubbish bit of being cramped in the middle...not much room at all really

 see Paul's laptop and extra screen on the right

and Paul's mums things on the left

Mine is here,  the bag of pens and the case of crayons and images

 So I am doing this.. colouring as it doesn't require lots of room

 Paul's mum is hopefully going to finish her card..she started two days ago!!

usually I would help but have decided to say no... am doing my own thing !!

plus Paul is here so I have someone to back me up...lol

There is my desk... boring I know but I should have my own in about two months...yes my own desk

Can not wait to have my own space again


I am so sorry not to link back to the main lady herself..
just realised... how bad of me
pop over to Julia and say HI

Thanks for stopping by

CLaire x

50 follower candy

As promised but a little late !!! as I now have 53 followers

It is just to say Thank you for following me,

There is no picture as I have not been shopping but I will edit when I have a pic

once again Thank you...

It is for MY followers.. that's the only rule so to speak...
edited on the 5th March for the picture of a few things you will recieve

Add your name below.. I will be announcing the winner on 16th March

Good Luck to all

And another THANK YOU

CLAIRE xx

What card...

Do I show.... I have so many on the PC.. some I made last year in Portugal

Some I have made for Paul's mum..

I do miss making for challenges... and really must start again

but not having my own space makes it a little difficult..

so I am going to show you these.. again made for Paul's mum

I did do them a couple of weeks ago

they both have sewing on them this is a fairly straight design

the next is has a lot more to it

I do prefare the one underneath

Would look nice in red too...am sure there will be one in the box nearer the bottom

may take a while to get to it..I have said to myself to work my way down

This one is nice also.. I found the decoupage in the ready done box !!!

you wouldn't believe how many of them there are..

Few more weeks of trying to use up.

But I also have good news...

Paul has another job and we will be moving into our own place soon

YAY.. I seriously can not wait.. as much as it is nice of Paul's mum to have us

It really is not going to well... we are all stressed.. 

the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter

We just have to find somewhere ..we don't know the area too well

So we have decided to rent until we get the time to look around properly

I would like to say Welcome to my new followers...another three have joined me

How nice is that...

I will get round to the shop and get something new to pop on as candi

or I may just do a surprise !!

whichever I decide I will get the linky up and running tonight after tea

Thanks for stopping by

CLaire xx

Well the Birthday weekend has come to an end

And I am tired... Paul has gone off to work feeling a little tired also

But it was a nice weekend..and WE didn't do overly much

Friday was Paul's Birthday so Hannah stayed at her friends

And we ventured to the PUB... not done that in years!!!

and it was rather nice to sit and chat to one another..Found it quiet amazing how much we talked about!!

Then on the way home we grabbed food...yes food... fatty food

We had a mixed Kebab..mmmm and it was scrummy

Saturday saw the day of shopping... then birthday cake... which is also fatty food but scrummy

Then I made a card.. as we where informed that Paul's Daughter is going to be started off

So grandson number two could be here anytime this week

Panic as I thought I had another two weeks...anyway that's done

but today I am showing you Paul's cards..

yes I made two because I didn't like the first one

You see... I could see how I wanted it but it didn't work out

although it is still an ok card

Scarborough is where Paul was born

The page came out of a british atlas from 1993

One Paul's mum is actually parting with

So before she could change her mind..Out came the page..lol

This is the second

Not a brilliant picture but you get the idea

Maybe I should take some more and add later..

Well there you have it Pauls birthday cards..

I will post later on the new baby

Thanks for stopping by

CLaire xx

While I am here...will pop these onto

Make it Monday Linky

It is the man in my lifes......

Birthday Today...

As you saw from a post yesterday I made him a cake...

But couldn't decide on what to do with the top...well here is the cake

I made the letters on paper then put them on last thing to take picture..they can be moved so they will look a lot straighter than they do in the picture...Paul likes it..said coating it in chocolate would have been tooo much,

And he fancies it with custard not on it's own...pheww.. will add icing suger later...lol

Not very good I know but I didn't get time to do anything else..

I was summoned !!!! you see some people are the type of people who leave everything to the last minute and then need help...

well I was the helper....your wondering what I was doing

Well Paul's mum is terrible and I had to help her make a card for Paul

She has known for 46 years what day his Birthday is on....but forgot !!!

So I was looking for a picture on her PC... it had to be this certain picture

Two hours later..after going through numerous CD's I found it..

Wrong colour.. so then had to change the colour..and what was the Picture...

A rose... now I know and you know if I go onto google and type ROSE

then we have hundreds of pictures in an array of colours... copy one check its ok

and use...but nope...this rose had to be done so another hour and colour is changed from red to yellow..

four printed out and off she goes to cut out for decoupage.. I am left making the right size basic card..

Then sorting out card for layering and backing paper..

We didn't finish it as she was still unsure on how to do it

So that will be todays job.. good job Paul is working really

Before he went to work he opened the card (s) I made

and loved one more than the other...

Will post them soon

Thanks for stopping by on DH Birthday

CLaire xx