Today's Efforts

So much for being creative today.

On unpacking my craft stuff I have realised I have a lot of free papers from Making Cards Magazine and the inspirations Magazine from Crafter's Companion. So I am on a mission not buying anything else until I have used these up (and believe me there is a lot of them). I also have lots of half finished Christmas Cards which never got finished last year or sent so again I am on a  mission to finish these over the next few weeks.

I have made 6 cards today and I am only pleased with one of them.

Card for my Mum's birthday - she will be 87 on Tuesday.
this is the only one I can say I was happy with.

This card is for my Mum to send to her friend.
I'm not happy with it as I feel the pink card used for matting and layering is wrong. It could have used a darker colour but I cannot find half of my stash in the mess that is my craft room. 

I was really pleased with this 3D decoupage card until I realised the obvious mistake.
in case you can't see it like my DH I forgot to leave tartan border all the way round it and stuck it on the edge on one side. 

I found some tea bag papers so thought I would have a go again.
I only had three papers in this design hence the strange half design.
it is missing something and needs something adding above the gold strip but not sure what yet. 

Not sure about this one either - again I feel it lacks something.

I feel this one is a little plain but not sure what else to do to it. 

Last picture for today, this arrived this morning - the first of  my purchases that was ordered on Thursday, what a quick service  -  as I was sat crying over a post on Facebook (see below) - god knows what the delivery man thought . 

On Facebook I  have followed a little girl from Market Rasen called Claudia see here for more info who has been fighting for her life against a dreadful illness. Sadly, this morning I read on Facebook that Claudia had lost her fight for life. I sat and cried for her parents and siblings, for their loss and for the fact that the smile on her face in pictures shared  will no longer be there. 

Another star shines brightly in the sky tonight 

and 

God has another Angel at his side

R.I.P

Claudia

xxx

Craft Update - Creating (or maybe not) and Spending money

For those who don't know me (which I am guessing is no-one as I doubt anyone but me reads this blog). In my old house I had a beautiful craft room. The smallest bedroom had been shelved out had a built in cupboard and it was organised so that I could find everything I needed at a glance.

When we moved here to the bungalow the aim was to try and sell my cards (not much hope of that) and I was going to transform the second bedroom into my craft room. Hmm almost three months on and everything was still in the packing boxes and I was threatening to sell everything as I couldn't motivate myself to craft.

So a couple of weekends ago  hubby and I set to on sorting out the craft room. We made good progress but had to abandon it towards the end of the day. The understanding being that it would be sorted before he went to the football on the 25th October. Should have known better. I need to state here this is my fault not his, due to my weight being so bad that I can't move around moving stuff without Hubby to help me. So the plan was to finish it on a couple of mornings this week before he went to work after lunch.

Friday 17th October saw my Scan and Cut arrive. The box had been in the wars but everything was there. It is now sat on the worktop waiting for me to play but I won't do that until the craft room is sorted out.

Saturday 20th October saw us go to buy a bookcase to store all the folders, etc on. Ended up buying metal shelving as it was deeper and would be easier to put together - famous last words. Instructions were stupid but once we sorted it out went together in 10 minutes. I contacted Lee at Hayes Joinery to see if he knew anyone to put the units together when I buy them and he said he would do them so one less worry. I am sure we could put them together but to avoid WW3 and make sure they are done properly it will be less stressful.

Monday 20th October saw me finally order the two units from Storage for Crafts I am having for the craft room.

This unit is two columns of 12 x 12 boxes. The other holds a number of different sizes of my favourite really useful boxes.

Thursday 23rd October 
The result of our hard labour this morning - not looking much better to be honest.

The new shelving unit from Argos - similar to this - this now houses stuff from folders. It had been my intention to put the folders into the white magazine files from Ikea  but none of them fitted so the files were emptied and the contents put straight into the magazine files.

Currently, this area will be where the cutting machines live. The new Scan and Cut is on the table but as I have said until the craft room is sorted I won't play - hopefully this will spur me on to get it sorted.

This is the opposite wall and is is my crafting area. The table came from Ikea. 

Thursday and Friday saw me being very bad (with hubby's blessing) and order a few items from Crafter's Companion.

Saturday 25th October 
Today hubby was off to watch Nottingham Forest play so it was going to be my day for crafting and hopefully finding my lost mojo. However finding my mojo in a craft room where most of the items are not in a specific place makes it hard to find anything let alone craft. I  made 6 cards. one was okay the other 5 I was not happy with. Will add them to a different post.

Given up again

I have given up on the dieting yet again and feel such a failure. It was making me obsessive about food an when you are thinking about what you are going to eat for this meal and the next one it isn't good. So once again I am a FAILURE and will just have to try and do it on my own (not holding out much hope on that one).

Week 4 / Day 4

7th October 2014

Counting Points

Daily Points - 51pp

Weekly points remaining - 40pp

Breakfast 

Jordans Granola - 5pp

WW yoghurt - 1pp

Bought fish pie that ma in law sent for us to try
high in points but worth it as an occasional treat  

Apple - 0pp

Pear - 0pp

Jacobs Chive Crispbreads - 4pp

Lunch

Asda Classic Fish Pie - 14pp

Peas - 3pp

Sweetcorn - 3pp

Tea

Tuna Sandwich 

2 Kingsmill bread - 5pp

WW Coronation Tuna - 2pp

Cucumber - 0pp

cba tea at 8pm

Tomato - 0pp

Jacob's Chive Crispbreads - 4pp

WW yoghurt - 1pp

Melon and Grapes - 0pp

Snacks 

Pear - 0pp

Drinks

Water

Daily Points used today - 44pp

Weekly Points used today - 0

Weekly points left - 40pp

Today I have felt much more in control. The Fitbit Flex is up and working but I don't think it is giving a true reading of steps due to it being on my wrist. It is linked to my WW account now. 

Week 4 / Day 3

6th October 2014
Counting Points

Daily Points - 51pp
Weekly points remaining - 40pp

Breakfast
Pineapple - 0pp

Lunch
Fish and Chips - 30pp

Tea

Sorry couldn't load it properly
a very filling tea
 to try and stop me snacking
after my high pointed lunch 

2 slices Kingsmill - 5pp
WW Coronation Tuna - 2pp
Tomato - 0pp
Cucumber - 0pp
Pickled onions - 0pp
Peppadews - 0pp
Lettuce - 0pp
Pickled Beetroot - 0pp
1 packet Sunbites Sweet Chilli - 3pp


Supper

Blueberries - 0pp
WW yoghurt - 1pp
WW yoghurt - 1pp

Drinks
Water

Daily Points used today - 45pp
Weekly Points used today - 0

Weekly points left - 40pp

Trying desperately to get back on track after a bad couple of weeks. Lunch today was not supposed to be fish and chips but circumstances took it out of our hands - sadly they are a very quick and easy lunch when running short on time.

Week 4 / Day 2

Sunday 5th October 2014
Counting Points

Daily Points - 51
Weekly points remaining - 42

Breakfast 
400g Melon - 0pp

Lunch
Lunch Out 
Pawn Cocktail - 11pp
Beef Roast Dinner - 22pp

I have guessed the points as where we went wasn't available int he book or online but I based it on the points in the Beefeater chain.

Tea
Takeaway Pizza - 20pp
LOST THE PLOT COMPLETELY TODAY - I don't even like pizza that much 

Drinks
water
diet coke

Daily Points used today - 53pp
Weekly Points used today - 2

Weekly points left - 40

Week 4 / Day 1

Saturday 4th October 2014
Counting Points

Daily Points - 51pp
Weekly points remaining - 49pp

Lunch
Cheese and Chutney sandwich 
2 bread - 5pp
2 slices cheese - 4pp
2 tsp margarine - 1pp

Pear Chutney - 2pp (guess)
half a serving of Cheese Deli crisps - 11pp

Tea
1 can Heinz Chicken Big Soup - 5pp
2 slices Kingsmill bread - 5pp
2 tsp marg - 1pp

Supper
1 choc options - 1pp
2 WW cranberry biscuits - 5pp

Snacks 
half a bar of Galaxy Cookie Crumble - 9pp
half a bar of Galaxy Bubbles - 8pp

Drinks
Water


Daily Points used today - 51pp
Weekly Points used today - 7pp

Weekly points left - 42pp

Fell off the wagon big time

Well I've fallen off the wagon big time.

Went to get weighed at the end of week two and had lost- making the total 3.5lb off. I had every intention of getting weighed the following Friday in Scunthorpe before going off on holiday but then it all went down hill.  If it wasn't nailed down I ate it.

So much so that I decided not to get weighed and just go on holiday and enjoy it as much as I could and get back on it when I came home. I then had every intention of getting weighed on the Saturday as normal. The holiday (the least said the better) was not good for food and ate lots of rubbish although I tried to limit the crap,

Saturday came and I didn't go to weigh on as we got up late and I had sort of decided to not go back as every waking moment is spent thinking about food  and what to eat or not to eat.

I have tried my best to get back on track and have sort of but my heart isn't in it at the moment. I am still undecided about going back and have decided that if I do it will have to be the class in Scunthorpe as circumstances are making it impossible to get to the other one no matter how much I like it.