I've been tagged!!!

I have been tagged for the very first time by my friend Angie at Pixieland http://craftypixiedust.blogspot.com/ and been given this wonderful award.





The "rules" are as follows:-


1) You have to pick 5 blogs who deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material and also contributes to the blogging community no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to the blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award .

4) Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "arte y pico" blog (linked in my title) so everyone will know the origin of this award. (Cut and paste the info into your blog to make things easier)
Hmm.... now, who to choose.... I've omitted a couple of my favourite blogs as I know they're busy ladies and prefer not to be tagged, but as I've got more than five favourites this is not a problem! So I choose the following (just click on their names to be taken to their blogs)

CraftyC's Crafting Library - http://clairebsd.blogspot.com/
Lazy Trout - http://lazy-trout.blogspot.com/
Leigh's Little Blog - http://leighslittleblog.blogspot.com/
Nikki's Cards and News - http://nikkiscardsandnews.blogspot.com/
Challenge Addict - http://challengeaddict.blogspot.com/

NOT a crafty post

Well I WAS going to blog a couple of cards, but quite honestly the scans were so bad that I couldn't bring myself to share them.

However, I thought I would share a couple of pics of my "girlies", my two standard poodles Molly and Lulu.

Here is Molly.




If ever there was a grumpy old woman of the dog world, Molly is it!

She hasn't grown more grumpy with age............she was like that as a puppy. She likes her own company, and playing with balls. She would fetch a ball until she expired! She is loving and loyal, and we love her to bits.


Here is Lulu.




She is quite obviously the pretty one, but to say that she is the bimbo of the dog world is to insult bimbos.

She is just SO sweet natured, she doesn't have a bad bone in her body.

But she has no brains either!!! But her sweet nature makes up for it.

Molly is the boss of the two,and Lulu doesn't mind.

They have both adapted well to life in Spain, and we wouldn't be without them for the world.

And finally here they are together, you can see who rules the roost can't you?




I'm off now to make some cards..........hopefully

I am a VERY bad blogger!

I can't belive how long it is since I last blogged!
My life is so full just recently that taking time out to update this blog has just fallen out of the equation.

I had the MOST wonderful few days with my darling daughter Sally in the UK. We did a girly road trip from Bedford to the place we were both born, Stoke-On-Trent.
We went around old haunts where we used to go riding, and had a lovely visit with my Aunt Dorothy, who at 84 has more energy than I have at the moment. My cousin Jeff was also there, (I haven't seen him for a good few years,) with his lovely daughter Sarah. We had a really good time.

We then drove up to Manchester where we had tickets for a Westlife concert.......that was great.

In my absence I have also been making quite a few cards for orders.

I'll post a few now and the others later.

Here is one of my favourites.



I am sorry for the poor scan. This card was my first using my new Nestabilities dies, and uses a Shabby Princess image (Spring Breeze really HAS to be my favourite!)on lilac pearlescent card, matted onto Bazzill cardstock. It is enhanced with lovely lilac pearl hearts.

Another one using the same Shabby Princess images was for a ruby wedding.

Here's the outside.


I used my Cuttlebug folder on pearlescent card, and cut the Sizzix hearts on the "bug" too.

Here's the inside:-



I really love lilac ..........can you tell?

My last card for now is using a Sugar Nellie stamp.


She is watercoloured and has some Sakura sparkle on her cardigan. The papers are Making Memories, flowers are by Prima, and the ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis

Must fly now............am giving a Spanish lesson to two friends.