The move, the cakes, the breakfast workshops and the kidnap..!!!!

Yes I have been MIA.. Combination of a few things, moving premises, internet not transferred over yet and just too bloody knackered.!!!!! Hope I am forgiven...

So grab a cuppa and a chair, we could be here for a while...

This was the new studio on Tuesday.

And here are the Tuesday night ladies christening it.

Wednesday was my birthday, and I woke up feeling as though I had been run over by a bus. This moving lark is no good when you are ageing fast, I tell you.!! Our Tom brought me a cup of tea in  bed and Our Ems acted as my chauffeur...Nice start to the day and then it was straight back to removals, lol. I had a lovely visitor tho....

Think the tulips where a bit heavy.!!!

Such excellent dress sense.....

She had made me a cake, with a little help from her Mummy.

Perfect, just perfect...

Ha ha , she can't stand anyone singing Happy Birthday..!!! It drives her nuts...

How does it get everywhere in such a short time..???

I had another surprise at night when the lovely Pam brought in a cake as well

I got some lovely gifts here are a few

From the lovely Jude, this came through the post, just love it , thanks babe.xxx.

And from the gorgeous Mell. xx

A splash of red from the lovely Ann

and a beautiful book of poetry. Thanks Ann, thinking of you at this horrible time. xx

I was taken to lunch by the 2 girlies and we came back stuffed..! 2 cakes later I was taken back out again by Our Ben. This time to Waggamammas. It was my first time there and I didn't know what to do at first. But the food was fabulous, served quickly, piping hot, and extremely tasty, and that was just the waiter, lmao...

Then today was even more cake and then Our Tom cooke a roast for tea, and our Maisie insisted we all ate even more cake. I think I am going to pop. Just need to wait till I have finished my champagne...

Me and the girlies went round to Matalan for some new Pyjamas. We and some of my closest friends are buggering off to the Dales tomorrow for a girly weekend. And I dont plan on getting out of my pyjamas all weekend. I am going to sprawl in a corner somewhere, and alternate between , art journaling, sleeping and eating chocolate.!!!! Emmi talked me into buying some games for the garden, so we now have rounders, badminton, football and croquet..!!!! Ha ha will I be joining in, doubt it very much, but if I do it will be in my jammies...

Not sure if the cottage has WiFi so I may be on the missing list again, but I will try to twitter if I can work it on the phone,lol.

Okay I just realised that I have never given you the details of my breakfast workshops at the Great Northern Papercraft Extravaganza at the Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, 20th /21st March.

The breakfast workshops are great because you have the chance to get in the show before anyone else, partake in a fab taster class, get a cuppa and a muffin, and a goody bag, AND still have some time to browse the show before every one else. Sounds good doesnt it..???

Art from the Heart - Quirky Collage with Dyan Reavley

Have fun creating a quirky collage tag, apply faux bleach ink efffect, learn to collage with Dyan's new downloads, mess around with doodling, titivate with oil pastels and generally have a fabby time, whilst under the watchful eye of the Queen of messing around. Come and venture into Dyan's world, you might just like it. Leave with a goody bag and voucher to use at Art from The Heart stand on Saturday 20th or Sunday 21st March 2010.


Cost of workshop is £10, pay a non-refundable deposit of £4 when booking and the balance of £6 on day of workshop.

I think there may be a few places left. For Saturday book HERE and for Sunday book HERE. Here are some examples in different colour schemes.

Cooool arent they, and one could be created by your very own fair hands.

Sad news for those of you in the South, the retreat I was teaching at Scrapfever, has been cancelled. Not sure why, but the email, yes email, no phone call, seemed to imply that it was my fault that the bookings were down. I did query at the time if her customers were ready for the Dyan Reaveley treatment and was assured it would be fine, but obviously not. Seems strange when all my weekends are fully booked with waiting lists, but there you go, that leaves me with a free weekend to play with. Now then, do I fit in another retreat for you all, with all the kits I painstakingly prepared, or do I jump on a plane and bugger off to Egypt. ?? Oooooh tough decision indeedy, I, ll let you know what wins....

So last thing I will leave you with is on a more serious note. I have to report a kidnapping. Yes you heard me correctly a kidnapping. You may remember my plastic dragon from the Indian restaurant whilst attending stitches. Well I have searched high and low for the blooming thing and just thought it was in oneof my infamous "safe" places..... Well I recieved this earlier today, via Twitter.

Yes there it is on the windowsill of Alains office at Ranger Headquarters.  It is being held to ransom for an outrageous amount of splish splosh..!!! Heartless they are, thats all I can say.  Luckily it has some quality products to sit upon, lol.  I dont know which is worse, the fact it has been kidnapped or the fact that it was kidnapped by the people I call friends. I still cant work out when they did it though..!!! But I will say this, I will raise the ransom, even if it takes me a while, but if they harm one scale on its little biddy back, there will be hell to pay. I just might have to consider sending the boys in.   SoTim, Alain and Mario ( yes can you believe even Mario was in on it), just make sure that you stick carefully to the rules laid down by the International Convention against the taking of hostages  and dont mistreat it, or else I,ll have you......

Be afraid..... Be very afraid.......!!!

I will keep you all updated of the negotiators news as it happens...

Enjoy xx