Phew what a busy weekend. We went 1hrs drive away to help my sister in law and my nieces and nephew move their furniture from storage into their nice new house. It was a lovely house, three stories high, five bedrooms, en suite with one of the bedrooms, bathroom on the top floor and downstairs loo. Room for all 5 of the kids to have their own space which is a huge advantage to where they lived a few months ago. It has been a rough journey for them these past few weeks so it was great to be able to help them settle in. Luckily the storage place was just around the corner so we drove backwards and forwards with about eight car loads before stopping for a MacDonalds due to intense hunger! Then the vans arrived to move the heavy furniture like washing machine, wardrobes and beds. It took all afternoon and I think everyone was shattered at the end of the day.
We drove home, had a bath and a little breather before heading off for a 40th birthday party. Unfortnately the instructions to the venue were not brilliant and it took us an hour to find the right place, after going up the same road three times, gate crashing a 50th birthday party and then when we did find the right venue we still couldn't find the right room as there were three parties going on at the same time, we nearly gatecrashed a 70th birthday party that time! When we got there though it was great fun though. There was lovely food, a bar and a karaoke. The party was for Andy's old school friend, Andy is 40 himself in two weeks. So they shared jokes about it all being downhill from now and mid life crises. We had a great evening and left at 11pm.
On Sunday I went off to the allotment to sort out my compost heap whilst Andy went off to the gym. No he was not exercising, he just spent the whole time in the jacuzzi, sauna and steam rooms! When he got back we took some stuff to the tip and then came home and collapsed. I paid the kids a tenner to wash and hoover the car. They had just finished doing a fantastic job when we had a mini blizzard! Well at least the car is still clean, if not dry.
Millie has had an operation to stop her having babies so she is wearing a cone at the moment to stop her getting at her stitches. She is so active though I think the wound has opened a little. It is almost impossible to stop her leaping about in excitement. Unfortunately she can't scratch her ears so she sits beside us and pleads for us to give her a scratch. The look of pure bliss on her face is so funny.
I had my usual Sunday Scrappers chat this evening. The change in daylight saving time in the US caused a bit of confusion for us all. This is an international chat but the chat is based on the US time of 3pm. As the UK had not changed this meant it was 7pm and not the usual 8pm. It is crazy how the clocks change on different dates all over the world. This year it changed in the US today, it will change in the UK on 29th March and finally Australia will change on 5th April. This makes it very confusing for all concerned!
Jill gave us our challenge for this week. Luckily it is a replay of the old challenges as we have so many new people joining in on this Sunday chat. It is a good idea for them to try these out as well. My favourite one is the wordle one. Here is a wordle layout I did last summer for Sarah when she was due to go off to University. 
1) Wordles http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...ad.php/?t=32980
2) SketchDo a LO using a sketch by Sarah http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...9&ppuser=22839/
3)Text http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...ad.php/?t=33067
4) Headlines http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...ad.php/?t=33431
Go ahead try one of these out, or at least have a look at some examples. I love looking at interesting web sites which offer new ideas to be creative.
I am also heavily into swap bot as you know and one of my swaps is to make a fabric postcard. I did a google images search for fabric postcards and came up with some amazing fabric postcards. http://cyberfyberexhibition.blogspot.com/ has some amazing examples. I wish I had been able to go. This is one of the winners, isn't it amazing.
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