grungedandy

So we must be living in the future

Wow we must be living in the future Obama won! I never thought I'd actually live to see the day!
His campaign was supported by one of my favourite artists Shepard Fairy & yes he is a graffiti / street artist and his art work was all over the place!

You may have seen it

Obama And Pop Culture

he's offereing everyone a free sticker go here for one

http://pol.moveon.org/shepstickers/?id=-10778599-8QG6r3x

And having heard another interview he didn't keep any of the money he made from the posters & stuff (he didn't make much) and he wasn't paid by Obama's campaign either he did it because he believed in it

ok hope to be back to normal soonish seeya  hugya *G*

So will Aliens be invading

 

 

 

Lincoln Mem3

Sorry haven’t blogged for a while life is got in the way nothing bad just life! Just thought I’d drop by & say good luck with the vote not sure who I want to win the rottweiler in waiting or the alien magnet! (Well if you see any film in Hollywood the second America gets a Black president we get invaded by Aliens or a major disaster happens! LoL)

We never get so much coverage of our elections & I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing I am distrustful of politicians in general I think they on the whole start out as good but somewhere along the line they get corrupted or lost in there own important’s! But it must be very hard to have that much power and not let it get to your head. Ok at work better get going 7 weeks till I’m on my xmas break can’t wait & yes I am back to looking for a job any ideas as to good web sites protocols about putting you CV on web sites (never done that & am a little scared about ID theft always used agencies but the few I’ve tried don’t seem to be having much luck with me I think they are inundated)

 

Seeya Hugya *G*

Because it’s Friday and i like cat cartoons

Any one who has ever been owned by a cat will know how very true these are

I’ve posted the first one before but it’s still funny Enjoy

 

Simon's Cat 'Cat Man Do'

 

And he’s done 2 more

 

Simon's Cat 'Let Me In!'

The cat voice is his own! LoL

 

Simon's Cat 'TV Dinner'

 

Seeya Hugya *G*

Cat alarm

 

 

streatch

Dose anyone else have a cat that actually knows what your alarm sounds like and knows which one is the one you get up to? I have a radio alarm that goes off at 6.00am to which I kinda listen to its talk radio they give a travel up date so if I hear anything really bad I can get up earlier & deal with it. But Liz ignores it too but when my real alarm goes off at 6.30 she’s on the case she makes me get up! She really would like to be fed now & she knows what that alarm means! LoL the really funny thing is they don’t go off at the weekend so she is unsure when to wake me so if I’m really lucky I can get a lay in till about 7.00! The most annoying thing is after she has been fed she then try’s to entice me back to bed which at the moment isn’t too hard she really hates to see me or Mr G getting dressed, both the girls get fed in the day & are let in & out by my parents so they are not alone but they really just like to have us around it’s so very sweet they wait on the stairs at around the time we come home & rush to great us when we walk thought the door! Sometimes you can hear Liz yowl through the front door at me if I’m talking to a neighbour out side it’s very funny.

 

 

The other 2 girls live down stairs with my mother so I don’t see them as much & also don’t feed them as much so I don’t have to deal with the leg tripping race to the kitchen every time I get up from my desk! They seem to think that if I get up this may or may not mean I’m going to the kitchen so the both make a bolt for the door to see who can get there 1^st it doesn’t matter that I only just fed them! LoL or that I might not be going to the kitchen they still have to get there first on the off chance I might just forget that I fed them!

 

This is my schedule I leave the house at 7.30 am to go to work & I’m not back sometimes till 7.00pm mon – fri when I get back I’ve got to love the cats (they feel left out a bit) do some house work, check the internet, one or other of us dose dinner, catch up with each other, watch a little TV, tidy up & get sorted for tomorrow, then bed by 11.30 -12.00 to be up again by 6.30 again! So I’ve been finding it difficult to find time to do everything else I want & need to do!

 

Ok better get going just thought I’d post something again will do a proper one at the weekend (fingers crossed)

 

Seeya Hugya *G*

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TRAVEL BOOK

Right finally have my desk back so I’ve managed to finish my travel album it’s based on something that Elise Blaha did in one of the 2 scrapbooking mags we have here yes we only have 2 she blogged about it here

http://eliseblaha.typepad.com/golden/2008/09/to-do-list-check-in.html

Mines not exactly the same I picked 5 photos to represent the cities that I’ve been to so far (that includes London) and I got them printed out bigger than I normally do 7x5 there are no people in them just the places. I chopped up 12 x12 double sided paper in half so the album is 12 long by 6 wide I then picked 5 of my precious Hambley transparencies 12x12 & did the same, you cannot get these over here very easily they tend to sell out before I even hear about them so for xmas 07 my brother sent me some (he really doesn’t get it but he dose listen when I say I really want something) I think I’ve only got about 6 sheets left oh no! LoL

http://www.qbaroo.com/HamblyScreenPrints/categories.cfm?type=0&categoryoid=2

So I used my dwindling supply of glitter stickers I really loves these & they are going fast too but I am using my stash which is a good thing no point in having it & not using it that’s just wasteful! And I get to enjoy the finished product. Anyhoo I digress I wrote a little about what I remember about the trip on the last page before the next transparency, then I just punched 2 holes in the paper so it would be a landscape book  & put D rings in so I can add more as I travel !

THINKING OF YOU

So had a couple of deaths of friends family members never easy, you never know what to say, you want to say something, you want them to know that you are thinking about them & sending your love so I did this card got a little colour but also a little sombre I hope I struck the balance right! Keep thinking I should make a stamp saying “lost for words!” which would probably have my friends cracking up!

 

SURFS UP DUDE

Did this card for my brothers un birthday since he shared his birthday with Eric who killed him self he has decided not to celebrate it this year (it’s also new years eve so it’s gonna be a tuff one) so he has been after some Arsenal football (soccer to my American friends) shirts which cost a bomb £40 each that’s $80 he wanted both (£80 $160) so for the first time in his life he has allowed us to do birthday & xmas together he always hated that he had his birthday so close together with xmas, he was suppose to be born on xmas day but was late I got so fed up waiting that I asked my fairy (yes  I had my own fairy as a child called Joe, who didn’t?) to hurry him along! (yes I was certain back in the 70’s before scans that I as having a baby brother) My mother went into labour about an hour after I requested it they found 2 notes behind the Christmas tree one was requesting my brother & one was thanking them for my brother (I couldn’t write but that’s what I told them they were, always polite!) my granddad even offer to swap birthdays with him but M declined! Anyhoo getting off the point again (I’m such a rambler) we sent them early he is slightly happier I wish I could do more for my wonderful sister in law but I think only time is going to heal that broken heart! Being a big sister myself I know how hard it must be.

 

RED CARD

So I’ve got a couple of baby cards to do as the cycle continues 2 more boys

We don’t really do Halloween over here although the kids have picked it up off all the American TV we get so it is getting more popular but we do November the 5^th guy falks night or the greenman which is the pagan festival it took over instead but it’s not a card thing although I’m sure the card shops would like us to make it one! LoL

 

WINDY TREE

I need to do the wardrobe change over & try stuff on make any repairs replace anything, as it’s really getting colder you can really notice the difference the leave have changed colour & most of them are on the floor now & there is defiantly a bite in the air it’s snuggle time! And of course it’s getting darker so taking photos of my stuff has to happen real quick although Mr G has bought some very snazzy portable studio lights but I much prefer natural light although I shouldn’t knock it till I’ve tried it! And there is a small pile of laundry to be done (as always)

 

TREE CARD

Got a blogger friend coming over in November get to meet another stranger friend, already got her daughter here been fun being a tour guide hope I haven’t border her to tears already B let me know when you want me to take that half day & B’s daughter let me know when you want to come over & finish watching firefly!

 

I’ve started designing my Christmas cards, digitally as well as physically, as well as designing a few presents digitally. I’m trying to make more of my Christmas presents this year and I’m really going to cut down on spending tough I know but Christmas is about friendship, family, love, joy, food not about getting into more dept! so it will be chocolate Thornton lolly pops all round & some hand made gifts and a request not to spend a lot of money if any on me!  And I’m going to make an effort to go and see my friends they are all over the place nowadays so I will be doing some day trips!

 

Ok better get going Sunday is almost over & I’ve been trying to up load this all day!

 

Seeya hugya *G*

80's revisisted twist

Hi miss me ? na didn't think so LoL

Will do a proper post later but Mr G sent me these 2 which just cracked me up “sing what you see” just Fab I'm probably the last person on earth to see them but on the off chance you haven’t they are just funny

Take On Me: Literal Video Version

Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version

and now I’m off to un earth some of my 80’s music and have a few moments with Aha & Tears for fears and probably some others that I’m too embarrassed to mention! LoL

 

Ok we have light so I’m gonna take some photos of the stuff I’ve done.

 

Seeya hugya *G*

umm i'm still here are you still there?

liz viewed from under the table (5)

Ok so it’s not true having more tech will make me blog more nope it just makes me surf more, chill more take random photos more, get in contact with old friends more but not blog more! Opps!

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Sorry blog I didn’t mean to forget you, but it has been busy here it is account end period which means boring having to finish stuff up awaiting THE AUDITORS” yep said in that shouty boom voice of doom type voice! We view them a little like the dementors in Harry Potter LoL which of course is not to say that they are that bad people really its just the way they make everyone else act around them they really put the frighteners on most companies & accounts departments dreads them!

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I’m still looking for another job but so is everyone else so we shall see, went to the ali pali BIG stamping & scraping show the other week & spent way too much money but got some really yummy stuff, won’t show off (well I can’t really as my desk is still in a corner, as the building work is still going on!!)

cards

discovered something new about myself not creating make me very grumpy I like to be surrounded by my stuff so I can pull out what I need & just create some thing – having to get up & rummage around over in the corner of the room really stops the flow I really do work better when I’m organised – so all that time I spend organising & labelling things moving things around so it flows better for me is actually good!

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I having been using the un creative time to good use by chucking stuff out been having a real purge of crap that I honesty can’t understand why I have been keeping it!

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I’ve also been reconnecting with friends & been making plans to see them at Christmas most of my old friends have kids so can’t really travel, & they’ve all moved away from where we used to lived so I’m hoping to do a little travelling & catch up with about 3 or 4 of them over the 2 weeks I’ve got off, only a day here & there but some of them I haven’t seen in 2 or 3 years it’s amazing how time just fly’s by! It seems to get faster the older you get! LoL

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So here are a few cards I’ve done, started working on my Christmas card ideas as I do about 100 a year so I’m not going to be able to post them for a while & I’ve still got a mini book I’m half way through I really need my desk back soon !Ok whinge over will try & post a bit more regular like!

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oh & here are a few more photos of liz who has been helping me with the tidy up well sort of! LoL 

Hope everyone is ok  Seeya Hugya *G*

With grungy photos

 

2008-09-24 09:52:44 +0100

Been busy, boring busy not really doing great & don’t want to go into as it’s more boring stuff  what I can go into is -  i can’t do anything much creative because we are having work done to the house so the place is a mess which is driving me a little nutts (so nothing new there! LoL)

 

2008-09-24 10:18:01 +0100

we can’t decorate as they are still monitoring the subsidence & arguing with the council about the trees, the tree are about 100 years old & need lopping, hair cutting every other year or they drink too much water & make the ground unstable so we have massive cracks in our plaster work as do our neighbours we are semi detached – this happened a few years back & we thought it was all sorted out but apparently no so they have been monitoring the cracks for the last year now so no decorating so it looks a mess – good news will be when they come to an agreement the insurance will do the decorating we just have to move all the stuff around for them!

 

So as we are having some other work which means I have to move some stuff around I am chucking or recycling lots of stuff that I really can’t understand why the hell I’m keeping not really sure that photos of bin liners will inspire anyone to clear out they’re crap we all seem to have some I subscribe to this ladies news letter,

2008-09-24 10:19:10 +0100

http://creativeorganizing.typepad.com/

she is an awesome organiser, I have her scrapbooking book about organising and had I some spare cash I would probably do a class but at the moment my priority are to get out of the debt that due to unforeseen hiccups in life we are in – I’ve got 5 years to go to get out of the big one and I’m trying to be more frugal than normal to clear up the over drafts & credit cards!

 

2008-09-24 10:23:24 +0100

Ha I hear you saying you just got an iphone yes I know that was an extravagant present but I haven’t had a big one like that in years & won’t be having any more for a long while, we only have 1 car between 6 people we don’t have children, we don’t go out much, go on exotic hols, neither of us are designer label junky’s and we rarely have the latest thing!

 

 

2008-09-24 09:50:57 +0100

Anyhoo since I have had an opportunity to play with my little toy & I’m in a grungy mood I’ve been playing with this hope you like the photos it at least makes the house look funky rather than a mess that it is! LoL

 

Seeya Hugya *G*

Here, There & Everywhere

 

2008-09-19 10:15:49 +0100

So they are finally here I had a bit of a problem getting them, these are the books I got printed & spent a whole long weekend doing up loading over 1500 photos after picking & editing I arranged them in to these 6 books they are my favs from the period 2000-2007

 

Most of them are digital but some of them are scans & some phone photos I wanted to see how they would come out & not bad!

2008-09-19 12:19:11 +0100

 

I got them from Photobox, I used one of they’re templates and because I had so many photos I went with the 9 or 6 photos on a page they are soft bound 8X8 albums I chose the same fount & modern white design for all of them I’ve called them Here, There & Everywhere 1,2,3, ect. (My previous A3 stick it in yourself album where called Life 1, 2, 3 you get the gist) some photos got cropped a little but that was ok I arrange most of them ok and it’s a learning experience. I didn’t do any writing but you could do that as I will probably pick my fav favs & scrap those this was a way of keeping up with my albums I used to put my photos in them put since I went digital & stopped printing them regular I stopped up dating my albums. I kinda make mini albums but it’s not the same now I will continue doing this 2 books a year should do it I can do them at Christmas & I will be guilt free! YEEPIEE

 

 

2008-09-19 12:30:32 +0100

I do keep meaning to do more scrapbooking but when I sit down I just don’t feel like it so I think I will just go with what I like at the moment & stop trying to force it, it is suppose to be fun not a chore I’m always making stuff and I’ve never really been a real traditional scrapbooker so making mini books and bits & bobs is making me happy at the moment so I will stick with that I could never just stick with one thing at art college anyway lots of fingers in lots of jam pots that was always my joy as well as my problem LoL

2008-09-19 12:29:00 +0100

 

So I bought a couple of editing apps for the iphone camera so hopefully I will be able to edit my phone photos & up load them at work which should make for more quick & frequent postings so I don’t go missing quiet so much, as I do mean to post more I think of things to post but I don’t have photos with any luck now I will be able to do some! The photos won’t be as good but I want to see what this camera can do! So hope you like the photos here I’m just starting to learn how to use it.

 

And every now & then I will up load better photos to flickr from my normal camera so I can pepper it up a bit & if I win the lottery (you never know) I might be getting that cannon baby but that’s probably a few more birthdays away yet sigh but I can dream & that will be a whole new learning curvy LoL

2008-09-19 12:17:35 +0100

 

Ok enough about my greed (I really should be happy with what I have got & in fact I am I’ve got so much more than other people & I am thankful)  I’m off to buy socks we both have holes in ours so I need to buys some more because I can’t darn to save my life! And they are going to be boring black oh well have a wonderful weekend, it’s crisp, & sunny and I soo love autumn Seeya Hugya *G*

 

i is still here but i almost got goked LoL

 

 

2008-09-16 11:54:31 +0100

Opps I went on the missing list again sorry, but in my defence we have been doing some house renovations so it’s been hard to get anything else but moving furniture & chucking crap out done! I swear I am quite a tidy person & organised to an obsessive level I usually joke that although I wanted to be a free spirit like Phoebe in friends I was really Monica the ultra organised scary person and any one who knows me will agree! LoL

 

 

2008-09-16 11:55:36 +0100

But I also seem to be good at hiding crap stuff that will be useful some day! I have been questioning my self recently as to useful to whom? 120 plastic bags stuffed down the side of my desk? The 20 pizza boxes (not used for pizza but what 12x12 scrap paper is sent in) I’m never ever going to enter a scrap competition again I really can’t handle the rejection & they so didn’t like my stuff then, although I now see a year later stuff like mine in the mags from the designers. I’m not going to get bitter, I’m just not going to play those games! I’m just gonna keep doing my thing but I won’t need all those boxes so in the recycling! So far I have managed to chuck or recycle 5 bin liners of crap from the front room but to look at it you would never know it was there so where did I hide it?

 

 

2008-09-16 11:57:23 +0100

Ok so on to my self loathing LoL I had I real scare yesterday I’ve really let my self go at work I’ve never really been in to wearing make up I have quiet good skin but I’ve always tried to keep my hair neat (I actually need a cut at the moment so it’s not been playing good) I’ve lost weight over the last year or so and I have up dated some of my work trousers & shirts but not all of them as I haven’t had the spare cash to go buy I whole new wardrobe (I’m still what you would refer to as a “BIG” girl so I can’t just shop anywhere so it can be expensive getting the right fit) & I’m actually wanting to change work fields I was hoping to get by on what I have & get new stuff when I got the new job I do of course have some good cloths that I can’t actually wear to this job that would work so very well for one of the industries I would love to work in so I wear them at the weekend as treats to cheer me up! LoL and of course I really need new shoes the ones I have are all really old & are well past the really need to chuck & can’t re-heel anymore! And we were only talking the other day my glasses are starting to look a little dated & I am due another eye test this Christmas.

Anyhow this woe is me dose have a point, it was a Monday I was late for work as I was quiet tired having had to move my entire scrap table so the guy can get to the window to paint it doesn’t it look all sad with nothing on it!

 

 

2008-09-16 11:59:27 +0100

So I just grabbed the closes things to me when getting dressed a pair of very very old black trousers that really should chuck out at least 1 size too big for me now so they sag horribly and a very baggy shirt that has seen better days although the colour is nice mauve (I think that’s why I keep it) trainers black pumas so I can walk to work & it threatening to rain out side so a very un attractive rain coat (navy) my saving grace was my new Sophie Afxentiou bag which I bought with some of my birthday money! Ok bare with me this dose have a point or a least I think it dose. So I’m not looking my beast I rush to work down the back streets and low & behold there is Gok for those of you don’t know who this guy is he is one of our Fashion GODS he  has had a number of very popular shows “ how to look good naked” and Gok’s fashion fixes I actually like what he dose & watch his programmes & here I am about to walk past him wishing the world would just swallow me up because to all intense purposes I look like a middle aged frumpy fat mum who has given up on fashion just the sort of person he is likely to surprise in the street for an embarrassing make over (NO I DON’T WANT OR REALLY NEED ONE THANK YOU) I know what I should be wearing I even help other people shop I’m just not following my own advise! I rush past him & pray that he doesn’t notice the speeding fat woman & that I don’t do the classic fall over in movies plot line that always seems to happen, thanks god that I actually manage to get past him he doesn’t really notice & I do manage to get past with only a smile yes I can’t help it we made eye contact it is me after all I think he read the panic on my face so didn’t say anything if I was in better cloths I probably would have shown him Sophie’s bag & told him how wonderful it is So sorry Sophie may be next time!

 

 

2008-09-16 12:04:14 +0100

LoL he of course is in trade mark black! So yes the point there is one is you never bloody know who you’re going to bump into so I/ you should really take better care of how you dress or appear at least, so I think an overall of my wardrobe is necessary I will be doing my summer winter changer over soon & I think that I will be chucking out all those trousers & shirts that I really shouldn’t be wearing anymore as they don’t flatter me and booking myself in for a haircut! I was not blessed with much but I can do the best with what I was blessed with!

 

Ok now you can stop laughing at the speeding fat woman I can move really fast when I want to! LoL sorry I’ve been missing I’m just tired & not much company at the moment still looking for that good job but now there are all these other people out there also looking for those good jobs & they don’t even have a job at all so it’s gotten a little harder I think it will probably be easier after Christmas. So I’m gonna hang in here till then, I’ve been here 7 & half years what’s another 3 months!

 

Right hopefully you have forgiven me for going missing, I have got another book I’m in the middle of but since my desk completely empty of all but the cats ( harder to remove than superglue)

 

2008-09-16 11:58:37 +0100

and my stuff is in the corner of the living room it may be a little while before I manage to finish it so I will get back to you on it promise

 

Oh and most of these photos are from the iphone as I can up load them with out having to plug anything in & I’m finding it fun to play with it reminds me of my very first 110 film camera that I had as a kid no zoom just a click & see (when you get the film developed) kinda happening still want a cannon 50ESO but that is on the when I get money list!

 

Seeya Hugya *G*