How Lovely

I have received a lovely award from Vicki over at A work in Progress.

Thank you so much for passing this on, it's such a lovely thing to do.

I have to tell you 6 things I love and then pass it on to 6 people.

Here are my 6 things:-

1. Steve my Hubby and my two children

2. Family

3. Friends

4. My Garden

5. Scrapbooking

6. Reading

I'm passing it on to the following people:-

Bubbles

Cen's Loft

Eilajean

Allie Brown

Bethany

Helena

See you tomorrow
Big Hugs

Mojo is back ... I found it in the garden

Vicki AWP suggested that I did a bit of dancing in the garden to cheer me up and help find my mojo!

So off I trotted and was mid 'Mom', (very embarrassing dance produced by the over 50's)
and got caught by my neighbour, who was taking his wheelie bin down the lane! Yikes, I scared him to death but it cheered me up no end, so much so I went in and made some Christmas cards!

HELLO MOJO WELCOME BACK :0

Thanks for your comment Bubbles, Vicki & Eilajean I'm back to my old self and ate half a packet of cookies whilst creating the Christmas cards below.

Cards made with Lettering Delights Christmas Angels & Art 4 Craft (a wonderful site full of smashing graphics created by the very lovely Helena who lives in Sweden.

See you later ......

Help I've lost my mojo!!!!!!!!

This is not like me at all because I ALWAYS have something to do, be it blogging, creating web sites, reading, gardening, making jewellery, making cards, watching tv, singing at the top of my voice, cleaning the house (well sometime lol). But today I don't want to do anything, I am bored, don't want to do anything, not even eat a cookie! My mojo has been hijacked or something. The thing that panicked me the most was ..... wait for it .....

I don't even feel like scrapping..... Gasp! It's horrifying isn't it.

See you later when I've found my mojo

I'm Not a Grumpy Old Woman!

I do find myself whinging about things these days. I don't want to beat the system, I just want it to work the way it was supposed to!

We had a lovely weekend here in the South of England. I was able to sit out in the garden and enjoy the garden and the birds. I spent a few hours whiling away the time fiddling about with templates for Blogger. Does anyone really know why xml code is so user unfriendly? Can't they just call things how they are. For example:- header, left column, right column, footer. Life would be so much easier. I think it's been made far more difficult than it should be, htm was so much more forgiving, and I could just about muddle my way through it.

Still, after a bit of a struggle I have managed to make my blog pretty. I love sparkly mouse cursors and trails, so I've put them on my blog. There is one thing I don't like on my blog and that's music. I spend a lot of hours surfing the net, mainly at night when I can't sleep. I find it jarring to be confronted with other people's choice of music. I get round this little problem by having my sound turned off. But sometimes when I've been listening to the news on my 'pute, I forget to turn it off again, and I jump out of my skin when the music kicks in at 3am, LOL!

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I made this little flower head and stem whilst I was in the garden on Sunday, and I though I would pass it on. It's not much but you may be able to do something with it. The flower is edged with the words from one of my favourite songs by Gabriel, called Sunshine.

See you later ...

I Made a Blinkie

I made a blinkie! It's a little bit jittery but I'm quite pleased as a first attempt. I used Jasc Animation Shop v.3. I was wondering what you all use to make your cool blinkies.

So here it is ta dah! Take a look over on the right --->

Learning Curve - Adobe Photoshop

I use Paintshop Pro which I love and can create pretty most most things with it.  But a number of prospective employers have asked if I can use Adobe Photoshop, which I'm not too good at, to say the least. I decided to enroll in a Photoshop course this autumn but they were massively oversubscribed and would have had to wait until next spring.  So I decided to invest in a couple of books and teach myself.  I'm quite good at self tuition once I set my mind to it.  That's what I did with Dreamweaver and a few other applications.  The basic course would have cost me £66 plus parking fees and petrol, these two books came to £40.78 so I have saved a few pounds.  Perhaps I can treat myself to some chocolate to help me with my studies.

First Lesson is Getting to Know the Work Area

See you later x

Mixed Week of Emotions

It's been a grim week all in all this week. One of my family has lost their job, I believe unfairly, but there is nothing that could be done about it. All I know is that they have devoted 10 years of service to this employer and they have treated them really unfairly. I personally think it will be the making of her to be honest because I have always felt they could do so much more with their career, time will tell.

Meanwhile my job search has proved fruitless. If I tell the truth on my CV about being registered disabled, I don't even get an interview. When I leave it off, I get the interview but they inevitably find out I have a problem just by the way I move. Plus I am told I have to tell them by law that I have a disability. If they found out later on sometime down the road I would be sacked! Talk about a rock and a hard place.

I came across a wonderful letter on the Internet a few years ago and I loved it so much I copied to my CV folder. I came across it the other day and thought I would share it with you.

Dear Sir or Madam

Thank you for your letter of October 1st. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me employment with your company.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite your company's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore I will initiate employment with your firm at the beginning of the month. I look forward to seeing you then.

Yours faithfully

Susie2shoes

What do you think, shall I send it out, is it worth a try? LOL

See you later