sometimes

it's hard finding good reliable suppliers, I went to the craft supply superstore today to pick up a few things to finish an order I have to complete by the weekend. it a good shop but it's the kind of place that has a bit of everything scrap booking, sewing, knitting card making and so on. I use to get so excited when I planned a shopping trip there, but what I have realised is that they don't have much variety and in my opinion it's a big shop of nothing if you are looking for the basics it will do, I just find it disappointing and I am spending more of my time on line in the pursuit of finding the products and services that I require. I am fed up of searching through eBay in the hope I will find someone who is selling what I want and praying to God that they will send the product I have paid for. I would prefer to shop at the smaller more friendly craft shops but then the issue is they are so expensive so I just can't win............. sorry for going on about this, it's just what I'm dealing with at the moment.

Wow

it has been over a week since my last update...... where does the time go??

So what have I been up to?????

last week I was busy making samples for clients. and posting them out, well since then I received an order the other potential customer got back to me a couple of hours ago.

These two are for a wedding coming up in march

In other news, I woke up on Saturday morning with a stiff back which I didn't take much notice of because you know how it is sometimes you have a rough night. so I thought I just slept badly and hurt my back. As the day went on it got worst and that night I only got an hour of sleep. I was in so much pain, now anyone that knows me will tell you I don't do pain well at all. By Monday I had pain down the entire right side of my back and chest it was so bad I could hardly breathe. At this point I was getting worried {but you may have noticed I haven't mentioned going to the doctor I also hate going to the doctor or hospital} so I was at home popping pain killers like they were skittles....Ha Ha Ha.... I can laugh about I now.

A friend called and when I told her about my condition she said it could be trapped wind, my mother came up with the same thing and then when my Sister came over and told me about a similar pain she had years ago and the doctor told her it was trapped wind, I thought they must be on to something. my friend recommended drinking hot ginger tea or ginger beer which should shift the wind. well I am happy to report that it has worked and today I feel close to normal every now and then I feel a little pain but nothing compared to over the weekend thank God.

Business

I went to my meeting with the Business adviser on Friday, It was interesting he gave me a lot to think about, designing and creating is the most exciting part for me but in order for the business to have a chance there needs to be proper plans put in place, which includes facts and figures (yawn) but is has to be done so, my adviser booked me in for a few business workshops to tackle the boring stuff.

I spent most of Saturday on the Internet researching things for my business, which as most people know you plan to go on the net for an hour and then you spent half the day, you get so distracted {well that's my excuse} that when it's time to come off, you still haven't done what you set out to do in the first place.

My little sister turned 26 on Sunday, we had a family dinner to celebrate it was fun, and as usual my mum cooked up a storm in the kitchen the food was sooooo good. It wasn't until this morning that I realised I didn't even fire up the camera this shows how new I am to this, it would of been the perfect scrapbook moment damn.... for our family this the official start of the Birthday season.

I have two clients who would ike to see some samples and get quotes, by next weekend so I off to work on this. I will post a sneaky peak of the samples once they are done.

Crazy

Maybe I am crazy starting a blog, setting up a business and considering moving house within the next 4 weeks, I feel tried just thinking about it. But that's me I guess always doing 3 or 4 things at any one given time.

As I mentioned before I am in the process of starting my own business designing and making stationery, I want to open a Etsy shop soon so watch this space...... I have a meeting tomorrow with a business adviser who will be helping me with the planning and looking at any further training I might need, thankfully this service is free from the local county council to help people starting out, and there could be some financial help available, which is good because right now I am counting every penny. I will keep you updated with how the business is progressing.

As promised my scrapbook layouts

This is my first ever scrapbook kit DCVW I bought from QVC UK the kit is called Far East

My Mum at fifty {Beautiful}

This is when she was in her twenties, I would like the scrapbook to chronicle her fifty years showing her various styles through the decades.

I must run I am looking after my nephew his is 3 and full of raw energy!!!! he likes watching the cbeebies channel (which is the BBC's children channel for my American readers) Have a good day.

Hello Blogland

Hi, my name is Sharon, I discovered this whole blog community about 10 months ago. and since then I have been snooping around other people’s blog
Now I feel that with a New Year a new beginning and a great time to start a blog of my own, I didn’t know there was such a community of people out there loving each other the way I see you gals do. I love everything creative I sew, crochet, card-making and I am learning to knit and I have just completed my first few scrapbook pages. I will post these soon if you promise not to laugh…..I will be posting about my life and the little creativity that I have been blessed with. so please be patient with me as I am very new to this. and I hope you will come on this journey with me, until next time stay blessed.