Chuckle Monkey card :)

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This was one of my first ever Chuckle Monkey cards. It took a while as all the images were handrawn (they are now available as stamps from Spiral Whisper, see posts below) They were then coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and watercolour paints :)

With my OH getting back from working away at last and having a good nights sleep,oh and I sooooo needed it. I will be able to buckle down and make some more Chuckles n Giggles cards this evening. Including images you HAVEN'T SEEN YET, wink, wink, nudge,nudge. Off to supervise the watering of the chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers and some other strange things growing in the corner of the greenhouse now (cheesy grin) Not going any where near it until I can be sure that hugggggggggggge dinner plate sized spider has gone, filthy dirty crawling manky creature thing that it is. Urggggggggggggh.

Cheers ears :)

PS I'll pop back on later with my creations and to pop some of the workshop in progress photos on :) 'n' photos of my new yet to be named beloved, already dressmakers dummy I got yesterday :) I'm hoping to catch up on some sewing tonight as well as cardmaking. I have some lovely Laura Ashley fabric I have been dying to attack LOL

Worzel Gummidge has nothing on me LOL

Afternoon everyone :)

Finally after an hour battle (scowl,) Pickles has given in and gone down for a nap. Had an awful night again last night with him he finally went to sleep at 1.30am but was up at exactly the same time as yesterday 5.40. I wasn't going to give in this time and get him up. I went in several times and in the end gave him a bottle of milk to drink in his cot and then went back to bed and literally sandwiched my head between four huge pillows. I couldn't sleep but at least there was silence for a while LOL.

I can't remember the last time I made anything I have been so dog tired with my OH away all of the time and Pickles refusing to sleep and a stroppy teenager to contend with arrrrrgggghhhhhh I needed that, I feel a bit better now :)

Just had some good news my OH is heading back from Gloucester at 4pm so he should hopefully be home for bed time, traffic willing. I am going to go to sandwich my head between four pillows again in bed when he gets in and he can sort them out LOL

Just off to the greenhouse to water my tomatoes, chillies, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and melons and water the hanging baskets. When I came back earlier from dropping little miss temperamental of at her friends I happened to glance at the front garden. When on earth did all of that grow! I have been that busy and tired and it's been chucking it down the past couple of days I hadn't even noticed LOL. The air was filled with an overwhelming yummy smell of old roses pure unadulterated heaven arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That was until of course my nose started to twitch and my brain came to the realisation that I hadn't taken any hayfever tablets today.It then past the message quicker than lightening down to my nostrils achoooooooooo. I haven't stopped sneezing since; I look like blinkin Rudolph for Pete’s sake. I caught a glance at myself in the bay window and frightened myself half to death. I had a scruffy t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms on my grey skin and hollow drawn eyes streaming and nose twitching from the hayfever and my heeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. Well Worzel Gummidge has got nothing on me today I look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards. A dirty great big one at that, Leylandi sized with no word of a lie. I live in an area of the‘ladies what lunches', all perfect and ST Tropet’ed to within an inch of their lives and I looked like a vagrant trying to break in. I have to get myself and Pickles sleeping sorted this is ridiculous.

I've told my OH I am booking myself in for a major rehaul in a couple of weeks time, facial, massage, eyebrow shape, manicure, pedicure, haircut the entire shebang and I demanded new clothes too. I think he recognised I was a slowly going deranged woman on the edge and smiled and simply said "yes, do it, you deserve it" ehhhhhhhhhhh ????????

What’s all that about then? Agreeing with me (confused) "no, not another craft mag" he declared last week when I asked him to pick me the latest copy of Let's Knit for the Grande ole price of £4.99 from the supermarket.! Men, eh and they say we are hard to work out.

I am being hailed now by Master Pickles informing me at the greatest of decibels to rescue him from the curtain monster so I must go for now. I’ll hopefully be popping back on later to upload a few things when my OH gets back.

I hope everybody has a lovely day and ((hugs)) to those that can't :)

Cheers ears :)

Anyone for chicken pie ?

Arggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Apologies in advance to any vegetarians out there. But I am sick to the back teeth of those blinkin chickens next door. The next time I catch one it is liable to end up in a chicken pie!

Don't get me wrong I do like birds our garden is home to robins, blackbirds, bluetits, two sets of doves, sparrows and loads of ickle brown feathery creatures (don't know what they are called) and some black scary looking birds with brown spots. We actively encourage them along with the hedgehogs. I even have blinkin rotten logs under the rhododendron to encourage the frogs, toads and bugs to build up the gardens own eco system so I don't have to use pesticides. But at the most all they eat are the slugs, bugs and the odd bluebell and sunflower seed head. They DON'T chomp away and feast on my blinkin radish, fennel and other veggies.

I wish I was one of those people that could physically connect with animals like those horse whisperers can. There is a bird of prey that frequently flies above us and rests in the silver birch tree. "Get the chickens, the chickens are evil, get the chickens, the chickens are evil" I'd say to it. I'd then have it whisk those blinkin chickens away and never come back. My OH chucked it back over the fence but like the terminator no doubt in my mind it 'will be back' just like last night.

If they know what’s good for them they had better start hatching a escape plan like in the film Chicken Run, because I am at the end of my tether. I haven’t spent months in the greenhouse raising seedlings to only put them out and have chicken pie and his evil henchmen eat them all. This is war.

I HATE THOSE BLINKIN CHICKENS

Rant over,later :)

Cheers ears :)

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So, so busy

So, so busy. I had a date with some ducks, a loaf of bread and a impatient toddler yesterday. We finally got to nip out for a walk to the canal yesterday evening when my OH got back from working away. We had missed the sun but it was still very warm. We stopped off at the fish and chip shop on the way for a bag of squishy chips laddened in and salt and vinegar, yummmmmmmmm. No I haven't gone mad I just haven't had them in a while with being on a diet and oven chips just aren't the same :(



We didn't get to get see any swans as the canal bank was full of children having a fishing competition. But we did get to feed the ducks though. The mallards are Pickles favourite. They keep flying over to visit us in our back garden for a spot of bread.



We even got to see the baby ducklings. My oh my have they grown from last week.



With the fishing competition we didn't think that we'd get to see any canal barges, but luckily there was one :) I shall have to get some more pics when the canal bank isn't full of people fishing, they are utterly gorgeous and so colourful and the people on them are so friendly. They always wave and say hello to Pickles and I as they pass.



To Pickles utter amazement a hand glider flew over us too.



We were going to walk up to the cricket club and take a look at the moo moos (cows) but I was very tired and my feet were hurting from wearing silly shoes walking over the cobbled street. So as we passed the church we decided to stop off at the Inn next door as it was a nice evening had had a lovely cold pint of Shandy and a bag of ready salted (shhhh don't tell anybody)



Pickles has just gone down for a nap. My daughter is studying and my OH is working from home. So I am just nipping out now into the garden to do some more planting out and potting up. I can barely get into the greenhouse now it's that full and it has that gorgeous tomato plant smell as you go in, heaven. Probably due to the fact that there are over 100 tomato plants in there. I know I know, I got giddly as I did with the 200+ sunflower plants I grew. Going to have tomatoes coming out of our ears soon, plenty of pastas sauces though, yummy and so good to preserve or freeze.

Remember my cut and come again bistro lettuce ? We've feasted on it for weeks, marvellous stuff. You do literally cut it and it comes back again and it is sooooooo delicious.



Then if Pickles is still asleep when we've finished I'm going to start on my pincushions. Then hopefully some more hair bobbles and pins and some more cosmetic purses and just some sewing in general. I've still got some roman blinds and circle dolls to do.

As always thank you very much for visiting and please call back again soon. I'll hopefully be back on later to add another post :)

Cheers ears :)

New download

Hi everyone and once again thank you very much for visiting my blog :)

I have been run off my feet again this week with my OH being away all week again and I have a terrible cold with hayfever on top and it's too hot!!! Phew moan over.

I am hoping to start on some roman blinds over the weekend and some bags, cosmetic purses and other bits and bobs. The greenhouse looks like a jungle, I have so much to plant out, so hoping to fit some gardening in too.

I will be adding a new download over the weekend too so please bookmark me and keep checking back often :)

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New Chuckle Monkey art download

I should have uploaded a new Chuckle Monkey digital art stamp image yesterday evening but I got sidetracked. I have just nipped in for a cup of cha as I have been gardening in the rain (yes I am a tad mad) still got tons more re-potting to do including over 200 sunflowers, I kid you not, in the greenhouse and plant out my spinach and broccoli. Just done the chillies and peppers. So I shall upload the new image this evening when I'm done in the garden. So please check back again later.

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Ok I am going to bore you to death with some gardeing pics now. Just harvested my first batch of cut n come again lettuce salad leaves. Sick to death of the price Sainsburys charge for their bistro salad, it is delishhhhhhhhhhh. They should be double the size in a weeks time.