Canvas board, awards and clarinet

This is another one of those small canvas boards I got from The Works.  A different look for this one.  I've used the Tim H cage and bird die with Claudine Hellmuths' sticky back canvas but for this particualr project I think I would've preferred a thicker canvas or thick card. Again I've used a Crafters' Workshop stencil with gel medium to create some texture.

Now onto awards.  I've been very remiss as the delightful Lyn, aka Spyder, gave me an award - One Lovely Blog - quite some time ago (November actually) but I'm only now just acknowledging it - publicly anyway 'cos I have already thanked Lyn for this; however I don't feel toooo bad as Lyn herself confessed to being rubbish when it comes to awards.  With this particular award I'm supposed to pass it on to "15x2" according to Lyn which seems a bit strange but who am I to question that!  Not sure I'll have 30 people to pass it on to :-/  But I'll come back to that.






The other one is from the equally delightful Donna, aka Doings of Doone - Stylish Blogger Award.  This one is to be passed onto 4 others and I have to list 8 things about myself that you do not know.  Not sure I have 8 interesting things you may like to hear but I'll try

I'm passing this award onto
Pat
Hels
Maddy
Kate
8 things about me.
1. I've just taken up the clarinet (had a few lessons about 10 years ago but for less than a year)
2. I taught line dancing for 4 years
3. I also taught keep fit for a short time
4. This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4GuqnXIn60 is one of my all time fave songs I absolutely love it. (this version as opposed to The Cranberries version) If you listen it may tell you a bit more about the real me; do you think?  I especially love the instrumental bit after the first few bars of  lyrics.
5. I'm leaving my body to medical science - to the University of Liverpool to be exact (apparently there's a shortage of cadavres for doctors to practice on)
6. I used to have a little kind of 'pendant' on the end of my uvula (the dangly bit at the back of the throat) but it disappeared after a visit to the dentist some years ago - must have had an extremely strong suction thingy.  It was only attached by a very thin piece of 'membrane'? so didn't bleed or anything.  THIS IT TRUE!
7. My first crush was Pernell Roberts from Bonanza http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/castbios/adam.html
8. I've never been first in anything in my life (though I was nearly the first person to get 100% in a first aid course when I was a Civil Servant, but nearly is not good enough! Think I got about 97% or summat like that)

My clarinet

Blog Award

The lovley Linby has kindly nominated me for this award.  I have to state 3 things that make me different from everyone else, these are:
1 My eyes
2 My nose
3 My mouth
Hehe, just a bit of fun, but they are unique to me ;-)  I should also nominate 5 others for this award and they are, in no particular order:
Pat
Jo
Ann
Donna
Heidi

Now supposedly you can claim $5 of digi downloads but the link didn't work for me, but I mention it here in case anybody has seen this award on other blogs and is wondering about the downloads.  If I can sort it out I'll amend this.

Am I the last? - 365 journal. Plus an award

I think I must be last posting my pages for August but I do have an excuse.  I went to Turkey the last week in August and had intended to post my pages before I went but my PC was attacked by Trojans!  and I couldn't even run a scan.  Luckily when I got back a McAfee scan started automatically and got rid of the Trojans.  And though I've been home nearly a week I hadn't got my pages ready for September - just finished but haven't thought about any bits and pieces I may put on them yet.

Also I had an award waiting for me from the lovely Lin aka Linby.  I have to pass it on to 7 people but will do that later in the week ;-)

I will be sharing a few of my holiday photos at a later date but unfortunately they don't show anything of Turkey as we didn't do any excursions and being all-inclusive we only ventured into Alanya and to the local shops (we were about 20 mins from Alanya)  DD was only really interested in the kids swimming with dolphins but it was way too expensive.  We had intended to hire a car for a couple of days but then Anthony; DD's partner; realised it would be no easy task trying to follow road signs.

Blog Award Day - mine that is! And Bird

Firstly just want to show a piccy of the bird I made for Julia to celebrate WOYWW's 1st anniversary.  Julia's showing it on her blog, but just in case I get some visitors that don't pop over there ;-)

Just to say, the muck on the verandah is due to DD's dog digging up and eating my one and only cauliflower (I had it in a large plant pot) that I'd been nurturing for weeks :-(  I do have some others that still need planting out but one of the reasons I didn't put some in a patch of the garden was so he wouldn't dig them up!

I've received several blog awards recently so decided to post them altogether

The first one I received twice - here are the rules:-

1 Express gratitude to the blogger who bestowed the award unto you... Copious,grovelling …I am not worthy… gratitudes - ok, here goes I 'm not worthy to lick the boots of Lyn and Kay (thankfully I'm not that worthy!)

2 Display the picture on your blog proudly.

3 Be nice and provide a link to the person/s who gave it to you.

a) Lyn - http://spyder-spyderscorner.blogspot.com/ Who is a wonderfully talented artist and also kindly gives freebies of some of her art, also friendly and very funny ;-)

b) Kay http://makingthingsfromstuff.blogspot.com/   Another blogger with a great sense of humour, very friendly and makes wonderful art stuff - just read her porfile to see how she named her blog, always makes me smile when I think about it :-)

4 Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and at least one outrageous truth, or switch it around and tell six outrageous truths and one outrageous lie.

5 Nominate seven creative writers who might be into doing this

1/ While on holiday in Cuba a few years ago I whiled away one evening drinking Mohitos and swapping funny stories with Fidel Castro; what a blast!

2/ I once dug up a dead donkey

3/ I'm a natural blonde but like to dye my roots a mix of brown and grey just to keep people guessing.

4/ I went jet-skiing and quad-biking on holiday in Tunisia

5/ I won a knobbly knees contest at Butlin's many years ago

6/ I can do up to 4 back-flips in a row

I'm passing this award on to:

Pat - http://patacake-patcrafts.blogspot.com/
Heidi - http://thecraftygoatgirl.blogspot.com/
Maddy - http://patacake-patcrafts.blogspot.com/
Linda - http://acraftingjourney.blogspot.com/
Wilma - http://craftygran.blogspot.com/

Helen - http://stampingbyh.blogspot.com/

Bee - http://nannabeeshive.blogspot.com/

This Award I received from Bee 

The rules are that I have to tell you 10 facts about myself

1 I have 4 beautiful grandchildren and 2 beautiful children

2 I love crafting and all it entails

3 I love books but when it comes to reading I can't resist a bargain and love to find books for £2 or less :-)

4 I love dancing and currently go to linedancing and tap dancing 

5 I'm a bit of a slut when it comes to housework! (I do do some of course but as little as possible)

6 Not sure if this counts as fact, but if I win the lottery I'm going to buy myself a canal boat ;-)

7 I've got a pair of quad roller skates which I had every intention of using when I bought them but don't know how to stop :-/ (I wish there was somewhere to go that wasn't full of kids so I could practice without feeling self-concious - and never mind knee and elbow pads, how about something to protect the hips LOL)

8 One of my best holidays was to Cuba about 4 years ago

9 I love cake

10 I will be 64 next month (argh! I dont mind saying it but seeing it written it sounds old and I'm not)

I'm passing this award on to:

Ann - http://flutterbycrafter.blogspot.com/

Cardarian - http://cardarianshappyplace.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth - http://alteredbooklover.blogspot.com/

I was going to do all the awards here but need to get off the PC for a bit so will do the other one over the weekend.