Where to re start?????

A Big Hello to all in blog land.
It's been deeply sad here for almost 2 years I have lost 3 very dear family members including my precious son, so I have been wondering around aimlessly in garga land for a long time now.im so sorry to off load this in blog .
I have started to get the needing to get back to my cards I have spent a whole week working my things out giving them a good cleaning as the dust had settled over everything. I quite enjoyed it. My husband then brought me all my glues and inks that I needed , but I have just still sat here doing nothing so I came back to blog land and saw such amazing cards woooooow it have been such a treat to my eyes and now I'm even more determined to start again but where?.... Perhaps today will be the  day. I have missed blog land so very much . Xxxxxx

Amazing Christmas

I know its been forever since i was last here with you. I have so missed blog land i am going to try to find more time to be an active blogger this year.Firstly i like to wish you all a very very happy new year.

Well where to start after not being a fan of christmas most of my life because of the expense i think firstly having 5 children i always found things abit tight how i ever managed it ill never know..thank goodness for santa thats all i can say. but this year i found myself totaly in to christmas it was an amazing feeling, i found my self planning everything and enjoying every little thing about it. I made pickles sauces cakes decorations napkins and of course cards. I even managed to post some out this year to family. Christmas day was very magical for me ,it brings a lump to my throat just thinking about it. I had all my children together for the first time in a long while and their partners as they have almost grown up lol and an exra special friend also. It was an amazing christmas.

Anyway on to the best bit now ..The best of my vhristmas cards...which did look so much nicer in life than in the picture.

Thank you all for stopping by

Angel wishes

Tracey xxxx

its been a long,long time.

Woow the last few months have flown by and i have done nothing except recover from one cold after another, i seem to be picking up every virus going .Its been 3 days since this last cold has disapeared and i am once again itching to get back to crafting again.I have dusted my work space down and am now in need of some time to get creating again.. I can see me getting up during the night when all is asleep,
Im off now to hop around your blogs to see what i have missed..i have missed you all so much.
Hopefuly i shall be back very soon with some new things to show you.
All my love and angel wishes tracey xxxxxxxxx

Have you had enough of me this week yet??lol. I have been in a creative mood.Its been so long i seem to be making up for lost time these past few days.
Bill knows what im like once i start so he makes himself busy doing things around the house he even cooked dinner tonight he is a real gem.well if he hadnt i dont know what time we would have eaten the tme just flew by.
And heres why.

i made 5 more plus i have a decrative cone i made at the weekend wich i will show you over the next few days.I need to start selling them again to fund my craving for some new stash but i m not that keen on that side of things it takes too long to make boxes and pack them and ohhh more mess lol.

Best go and have a clean up of my craft desk before i hop into blogland for a few hours.

angel wishes love tracey xxxx

I need your help please

Hi there just a quick post to ask if anyone knows where i can purchase online in the uk melissa frances vintage paper from.Ive been lookinf for days and i can not find a site any where.You know what its like when you want something and you want it NOW.lol.
Thank you so much for your help. xxxx

A girl can not have enough shoes

This week i discoverd an amazing blog that inspired me to have a go at the fantastic video tutorial creation that Terri from http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/. Please pop over and take a look its fantastic.
I have a way to go yet before mine are anyway as good as terri's but i realy enjoyed making them and im sure i shall make loads more yet.

Enjoy the rest of you sunday afternoon

Love tracey xxxx

Now i can show you .....

The box i made for valerie over at

http://glitterydazeandnights.blogspot.com/

Arrived yesterday so now i can show you what i made for her.

After painting the box in a vintage cream i hand stamped the lid sides and inside

 in a soft pink and distressed the edges.

Goodies inside

Our swop is now compleat.
I will be back very soon to show you all the new things i have been making before i came down with this virus,I an itching to get a couple of projects finished from the wounderful insperation i have got from the blogs i have found whilist blog hopping around .
Take care and thankk you for stopping by.
love tracey
xxxxx

woooow it arrived at last.

Feeling ill again from yet another virus i was unable to raise my head from my pillow untill my hubby bill walked in to the bedroom this morning with a cup of tea in one hand and a very large box in his other .

I soon sat up i can tell you. YES my box arrived and my oh my it sure was worth the wait.

I was so over welmed by the beauty of it it brought tears to my eyes.

The design and details are amazing im sure you will agree.

VALIRIE THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.

I love it so much i cant stop looking at it,

and sweet goodies inside

How lucky was i.
VERY id say VERY.
For those of you who didnt know.I took part in a valentines details of
wich are a few posts down from this one
.My swop partner is valerie from http://glitterydazeandnights.blogspot.com/
all the way across the sea from america. Please pop over and take a look at her blog.
Unfortunatly she is still awaiting her box from me, we paid such a lot for the postage and was both told it would take around 5 days or so it had been almost 3 weeks for mine to arrive but it was so worth the wait.
Is like to thank cathy also for organising such a fantastic swop it was great fun and has been a great adventure meeting new peopl i would never have found in blog land.
below this post is all the links to the fab blogs i have discovered who took part in this swop.
I cant wait to find another one now,
please if any one knows of any could you let me know.
As soon as valerie recieves her box i will show you all what i made for her.
I hope she will be as pleased as i was with mine
love to you all
tracey xxxxx

Hi ladies.
I hope you are all well and your mojo is over flowing.
so sorry i have been such a very bad blogger been so busy over the last few months i have not had no time for any crafting except for the heart shaped box i made my swop partner over in america which im afraid neither of us has recieved yet.
But as soon as i do i will be showing lots of pictures of both of them . i was realy pleased with the one i made asi had never done one before and just hope my swop partner likes it.
I have no card to show you to day but want to share with you a blog i just found oh my goodness this lady is amazing.
she is also having a blog candy please pop over and take a look.I dont usualy put candys on a post but i would love you all to take a look at her work  http://designsbyterrigordon.blogspot.com/
here is a picture of the candy give away.

hand made.I would so love to win this.
ends 14th febuary

back very soon i promiss

love tracey

Oh wooow did anyone here me shout with joy when i just read that

ohhhh wooow im so thrilled thank you so much to the dt team.love tracey xxx

Love with out hearts

Love without hearts saturday spotlight challenge

http://saturdayspotlight.blogspot.com/

Yes my second entry to their challenge.I am back in to blogland i have so missed it,seeing everyones wounderful creations and reading wat everyones been up too.

i thought i would have a good try at keeping up my own blog this year and try out lots of new things so i entered the valentines swop over at

http://treasured-heirlooms.blogspot.com/

Im so excited about it.

We have to decorate a heart shape box and fill it with goodies and on 31st january post it off to our swop partner,Then on 14th febuary post our boxs and swop partners on our blog for you all to see what we made and what we recieved.

Exciting is'nt it.My swop partner is in America but thats all the information i can share at this moment so as they say watch this space.

I have 2 more challenges i want to enter this week so i shall be back later.

love tracey xxx

Saturday spotlight 2010 calender challenge

Phew i managed to finnish it.didnt think i would even manage this one i had sat down at my craft table off and on for a couple of days but kept getting side tracked with other blogs and facebook lol and when i started printing out the calender this morning it was so small but rather than waste it i thought id give it a try on a small scale and ended up with what im calling my space saver callender lol,which fits just nice on my craft shelf.

This  is for  http://saturdayspotlight.blogspot.com/

Please can some one send me the code for adding a link i seemed to have lost it, thank you so much.

off now to find another challenge catch you soon

love tracey xxx

Thank you and .......

A big thank you for all your help with my butterfly hunt.I have purchased the Quik Kutz Monarch die and also Karen Marie Klip laser cut butterflies which i never knew excisted and they are so beautiful.

All that is left for me to do is wish

 all my new friends in blog land

a very very happy new year sent to you all with lots of love.

tracey xxxx

Please i need your help

Please i need your help.I have been trying to find the name of this butterfly punch die cutter.Its driving me mad please please can some one tell me.At first i thought it might be marther sterwart but  alas not.

thank you so very much.

love tracey  xxx

oh no

Juat when i thought i had made my last christmas card i was asked to make some more.1.000 red roses later and another trip to hobby craft to buy some more.wish there was  craft shops where i live,I have pleaded with the likes of the papermill shop to open one up and they said they would look in to it for me thats as far as they went.

The good news is from the sales of my cards this weekend i was able to buy at las,t a big shot have been using my ever faithful sizzix but its too small and i get fed up of tying to adapt all the dies to fit it.Did any one see that at the end of this month begining of next they have brought a new one out called the pro shot its so big but its 215.00 pound.

Here is my last card for this year .off now to find some challenges to enter.

I have so missed them the last few months.

love tracey xxx

my very last christmas card

wooow after a few very busy weeks of making christmas card for sale,i have just made my very last card.Phew roll on mothers day for something different.lol.I can now come back to my friends at blog land who i have misses so much.i cant wait to see what you have all been up to and to catch up, but before i do here is my last christmas card.

Off now to see all your wounderful creations.

love tracey xxxx

once again i,m sorry for being such a bad blogger things are crazy around here and i have been so busy with card orders ...i have managed to have a play with my vintage pictures again and this is what i came up with.

It is much pretter in life my camera does it no justice.

oh well off to make some more christmas cards .

i hope you all have fun in your crafting xxxx

copic crazy....

jsut a quick post tonight.I wanted to share with you my son's new obsession.Robert who is 21 in a few weeks time was away on holiday with his partner shena i(who he got engaged to ...about time too,they been together since he was 14.)and also my darling little chap tyler |(their 2 year old son) gosh im waffling tonight so i am.
any way while he was out shopping came across a copic shop and brought HIMSELF 58 pens WOOOOOOW such a proud moment in my life.He had secretly wanted them since seeing mine.Any way here is his very first picture he drew and coloured using these increadable pens. i just couldnt believe it.

my love for vintage cards

Seems like ages since i was in the land of blog with all my friends.Things have finally settled down again maybe only for a couple of days but thats good for our house.

I have been in full system operation getting some cards together for sale so i can fund this crazy addiction.I want some new stamps papers and punchs not much ay.

wooow as i am writing this post i just sold this card along with another that was quick i only listed about half an hour ago.woooow

Yep its a vintage one.I keep trying to move off this theme but im never happy with the results of anyhing else i do.so i may as well just carry on and try to improve as i go along.

Im off now to have a look at all your wounderful work that i have missed out on over the last few weeks,I best put the kettle on its going to be a few hours before i finnish as usual.

thank you for stopping by and i hope you are well.

Angel Wishes Tracey xx

wooooow i won

im so thrilled to bits i won this fab candy stash from over at

http://vikkithescrapjunkie.blogspot.com/

Cant wait to play with this lot.

thank you so very very much vikki xxx

Please pop over and take a look at her fantastic work.

off to find someone else to tell now .

angel wishes tracey xxx