WORLD'S FASTEST POST PART 2

Wednesday morning - out of the door to work in a second but quick a layout - me and said 12 year old stood on Hadrian's Wall as you do!

Have a great Wednesday!

THE WORLD'S FASTEST BLOG POST

Tuesday - shattered - Monday 14 hour work day - Tuesday - now can't function (very well) abandoned commas - hyphens it is all day!!

Layout a layout from a trip to Crich Tramway museum - just love how the sun was reflected in the glass!

Happy Tuesday

ROCKING MY WORLD FRIDAY

Morning all - time to step back take stock and be thankful for the positives in the last week.

Crikey where to start let me think.  Ah yes it all starts to clear

Last Friday a day off - no work and no studying.  Given that I was maxing it with both - I took advice from the amazing Wednesday Whine group and had a day off.  I spent the day shopping and I mean the day I went to the Range and got some Christmas gifts, I went to TK Maxx and sourced myself a couple of scrapbook albums at the bargain price of £6.99 each.  I went to WH Smiths and grabbed a couple of magazines, tops for work at Matalan, work trousers courtesy of M&S.  I met my sister for a catch up at lunchtime and then we went wandering around the shopping centre, I grabbed us an M&S asian cuisine tea which was lovely (their new range I bought all sorts of weird and wonderful, it was a bit like Chinese - you could eat loads and still be starving LOL but it was mighty tasty)!

Saturday saw a blue skies day (well it started blue skies) and a trip out to Chatsworth for Beyond Limits, this year the work of a single sculptor rather than multiples and although I loved the fact you got to see a lot of one artists work I do prefer the randomness of multiple artists if I'm honest.

The cascade and said 12 year old enjoying binoculars

 Me and said 12 year old in the garden, I kept telling Craig that I was going to fall off it any minute - no sense of balance I tell you!

 One of the sculptures - quite tiny - a hare on top of the Empire State Building

 A give away as to where we were at - the only photo where he wasn't face pulling!

 This reminded me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld

 And it looked fabulous with the house in the background!

 The coal tunnel - new lights in this now - one of said 12 year old's favourites!

 Another sculpture I liked the fact the pyramid was three dimensional!

 We'd not found these before, although we did see the installation on the programme!

 Another new permanent sculpture

 Hare on an anvil - I liked this one

And this one below - one of my favourites - I had a dream on Saturday night that I bought it, I popped it in an Asda shopping trolley and was trundling it out to the car - and said 12 year old said - "Mum where are we going to put it when we get home?" and I said "Never mind that, how are we going to get it home!" to which his reply was "I don't know Dad hasn't got a roof rack" now why my dream brain thought a bronze statue of this size could A - fit in an Asda shopping trolley and B - fit on a car roof rack - I don't know!

On Sunday we had a chilled day and my Mum, niece and sister came over for a catch up which was great.

And then we had a Nickelback concert at night - which was awesome!  Thoroughly enjoyable - photos not bad considering they were taken on phones!

Next up lovely rocking posts last week, I read them when we got back from Chatsworth and it fair made my evening!

Getting the house tidied on Monday evening leaving some time the rest of the week for crafting in the evenings.

The Wednesday Whine group for listening to my study whines - there have been many and are likely to continue well into December (I'll pre-warn you now ladies).

A meal out Wednesday evening - quite impromptu after a parents evening that was short and sweet.  I was all dressed up so we decided to pop out for a quick bar meal, it wasn't the sparkliest of meals but it was nice for us not to have pots to sort out after the event as it were - although it has to be said they served the nastiest tasting white wine that I've had in quite some time!

Thank you notes through the post from school friends thanking me for crafting gifts always makes me smile.

Giggles with family this week, they've been lovely and positive and made me smile lots.

A hair cut on Thursday night and that my lovely people is my list of gratefuls, fancy joining in pop yourself a post together come back link up so we can come and visit - you'll feel better for taking that step back and appreciating life!

I'll leave you with a quick layout before I pop on Mr Linky - funnily enough two sculptures from last year's Beyond Limits!  Again using summer of colour colours as it were.

And there we have it

QUICK WEDNESDAY MORNING POST

Morning all, well we were up that early this morning I could still hear the owl twit twooing in the aream well he was twitting I'm not sure where the twooing one was.  The dark nights really are not suiting me.  Today I find myself at home - studying - yesterday's studying was awful, I gave up and went to work instead.  Today's studying is hopefully going to be more productive.  I'm aiming for burst of studying and then a break - I might even craft during the break in the hope then when I come back to more studying I feel a bit more refreshed - but we'll see - I know already that an 8 hour block of studying doesn't work - but I also know that I'm chronically behind at the minute.  So let's see what can be achieved.

I'll let you know how it goes, so what have I got in the blog folder this morning - let's see, ah this one from the cottage in Beamish, the living area was upstairs together with the main bedroom and en-suite and downstairs the kitchen and the second bedroom with en-suite.  Strange but lovely at the same time.  Here are hubby and said 12 year old proving that we do relax when we are on holiday.  The colour scheme again isn't the norm, but remember it was another summer of colour theme the cream with raspberry one - something nut?  Or maybe that's just me.  Anyway I liked it and liked the fact I did a layout with a colour scheme again that I wouldn't normally use.  The cream paper has two masks on it with distress inks, and the usual cross stitch the felt letters which are a bit on the loud side came from a pound shop and are made of felt, I shouldn't grumble at their loudness really should I?

Right where' those books?

Tuesday post - quick quick - I've got studying to be done

Good morning - can you see me waving??? What do you mean no!  It's mighty cold this morning in Yorkshire (pronounced Yarkshire), but it is dry and bright out there apparently (can't really see it at the moment).  I'm just about to commence more studying (oh even typing that made me sigh), I started the lecture yesterday and after 10 minutes of me going - what? what? what? I stopped and cleaned instead, studying post work is simply a no go - so early morning studying it is!

Monday over and one with (hurray) - it was a long day, I've managed to get to my craft table yes take a bow Virginia well done you pat on your back!  I even managed a double layout and I managed to fill two more scrapbook albums with layouts - I'm going to need another album grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and they cost so much - which makes me grumpy - hey ho - will have to fathom out a cheaper way of making those I really will.

The nights are drawing in and the spiders keep moving in, hubby keeps capturing the huge mahoosive monsters in a glass and then throws them out of the window, I'm sure they just run around to come back in again!  We've had two huge ones in the TV room this week - shudder - enough of those beasties.

I thought I'd share a layout this morning - I've managed to 'restock' my blog folder with some new layouts.  The title sums it up - "Why?"  This is the type of sculpture we can see up at YSP at the moment, this set of sculptures has been on since about Easter and doesn't go until into next year, this is the first time we took my sister and all I could do was apologise because I just wasn't that keen on the sculptures - it was nowhere near as good as the floating heads one or the burnt wood one.   Not awfully keen on this set of sculptures, the take on the sculptures of male and female was just plain wrong, this sculpture shows the male - I won't even begin to tell you how you were able to tell  if a sculpture was a female!  You could stand there and 'admire' we just stood there and said "Why?"

The colour choice isn't my usual but if I remember correctly this was from the summer of colour challenge.

Hope you are all having a good day - right where's those books!

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY

Hello my lovely people Friday again - look right to see what this is all about in the meantime here is my list for this week!

Digging deep this week my lovely people

1. My assistant at work coming in an extra day to help with my current workload - much appreciated.
2. Said 12 year old for being chatty about his day and telling me the latest 'gossip' - it's lovely that he's still sharing his days with us.
3. Hubby for being him, listening, being calm and collected, cooking food when he knows I just can't be bothered because I've worked stupid hours and am now absolutely shattered.
4. Said 12 year old for making me watch the last Dr Who episode, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
5. Hubby for buying Snow White and the Huntsman, I was trying to scrapbook at the time but got so distracted with the film that I climbed on the sofa and enjoyed the film thoroughly.
6. Hubby for catching the mahoosive and I mean MAHOOSIVE spider on Wednesday night with an upturned now empty jelly glass said 12 year old had left on the coffee table!! 
7. Trifle - the simple things in life, last time I made one the custard was all a bit watery - this time I put enough custard powder in that you could have stood on the surface of it, I subsequently served slices of trifle! 
8. All the mystery gifts arriving at their home on the Collaborart blog, it's been lovely to see all the gifts and the items people have made with their goodies.
9. White wine on Thursday evening after a very difficult day!
10. Hubby getting himself a new laptop last weekend, he was most impressed at having the option, as usual we had a budget and chose not to stick to it - oh well he got what he wanted and it is a good computer! 
11. Booking a pre-Christmas visit to Center Parcs - I think I'm going to need it! 
12. Sister and her pink hair - made me smile - she's not been a 'mad' colour for a while.
13. Caught up with my brother on his birthday
14. Said 12 year old enjoying brother's chocolate birthday cake 
15. Scrapbook layouts 
16. Pancakes on Sunday morning courtesy of hubby 
17. Cleaning out two kitchen cupboards with hubby on Saturday - he's a star! 
18. The car arriving back in one piece and mended, fingers crossed that the insurance company sort out the excess off the third party - I don't fancy having to foot that bill when you bear in mind it really wasn't our fault!
19. Red Dwarf on catch up and both hubby and son now singing the song! 
20. My lovely bloggers for all your fabulous comments
21. The Wednesday Whine group for keeping me sane (literally)

That's it peeps, the cupboard is bare, but ooh 21 items to be grateful for - not bad in a mad and difficult week.  

I'll leave you with a layout and Mr Linky, first up layout, farmer said 12 year old, this was at a pub near to where we stayed when we were at Beamish and the sign was on a hay bail, said 12 year old couldn't resist posing for the piccie and I could resist scrapbooking it! 

Finally Mr Linky, fancy taking that step back that cuppa tea or coffee and thinking back over the last 7 days - pop yourself a post together and link up here, so we can come and celebrate your gratefuls too.

QUICK TUESDAY RAMBLE AND A LAYOUT

Morning all, just a quick hello to the world this morning, two Chapters of learning are calling my name, as is my breakfast and the kettle!  Well woke this morning wondering - what day is it?  No really what day?  I rambled through a few days - Is it the weekend?  Nope - Thursday - Nope!  Friday (fingers crossed) - nope!  Tuesday no it can't be Tuesday it's got to be later in the week than that - it would appear that I've now taken to wishing my life away because yes people I find it to be only Tuesday - boo hiss!

Yesterday was crazy mad, learning at home, drive to work, work crazy hours, come home, clean, make tea, sit at craft desk and move things around grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, sit in front of TV and talk performance management to hubby who look slightly bemused, bit of TV watching then bed mmmmm not the most exciting of days, but I survived

So thought I'd waffle at you (because I'm good at that) and share a layout, this one from Beamish Open Air Museum earlier in the year, we'd just had a fish and chip lunch from their Fish and Chip restaurant - a coal fired fish and chip restaurant, we'd waited 45 minutes to get to the front of the queue (which was good considering the sign outside indicated an hour and a half wait) and they were mighty fine fish and chips!  So needed the boys to pose for the camera so I could capture the moment, in hindsight a picture of the fish and chips might also have been a good idea - but her everything in hindsight!

I enjoyed this layout, using the colours that my hubby and son were dressed in as a prompt led to me using one of my favourite colour combinations.  Hope you're having a good day!