Happy New Year.......almost

Good Afternoon Everyone

Hope everyone has had an amazing Christmas. 

I can't believe another year has come and gone - the older you get the quicker the time passes.  Thought I would share with you a few of the calendars that I have made this week.  I thought we could send some out as thank you's for TC's Christmas presents and also a few to my friends as thank you's following the wonderful gifts I received for my 40th birthday recently.  Sorry about the quality of the photos - I can never get the light right in the house and it's pouring with rain outside so I can't go out there to take any photos. (Not that I'm complaining about the rain - it's better than the snow - so I'm happy to have poor quality photos if it means the snow stays away).  I have just realised that one of the calendars looks a bit creased so apologies for that also - Mum and Dad will have to have that one.

Anyway I babble - and that's before I have had a glass of my M&S Kia Royale-  that's chilling in the fridge as we speak.  Not sure that Mr Kitty and I will manage to stay awake to see in the new year (we haven't done for the past few years) we normally get woken up by all the fireworks that are let off - or the phone ringing (note to self - unplug phone !)  I know it sounds a bit miserable but I feel so much better for the early night and not staggering in at daft o'clock - I feel younger now than I did when I was 29 !!!!!!!!!!!!! Not to mention my poor feet - I dread to think how many times I walked home from the pub with no shoes on cos my big boots have started to hurt my feet.

So it will be a couple of games of junior monopoly for us and maybe even a game of bingo (can't you tell TC is at that age).  A glass of cava a couple of alpini chocolates and a fab night in with my boys - perfect :-)

Thanks for stopping by

Have a fabulous evening and happy 2012

Kitty xx

Diamond Wedding

Good Afternoon, Just a quick post today as I have a list of things I need to so and the day seems to be going so quickly and my list isn't getting any shorter.  I have made this card for a friend's Dad who will be celebrating his Diamond Wedding Anniversary soon.

I have used the images from http://teddybo.com/ called TeddyBoBea tabs 001 I am also going to enter it into the challenge Clean and Simple over at /http://teddybo-and-co.blogspot.com/ (well that's if I can remember how to link things to challenges it's been that long since I tried !!!!!).

I can finally view all my followers again now (you have been missing for months) but I have finally discovered how to get you back !!!

Happy half term and happy crafting

Thanks for stopping by

Kitty xx

Baking At Kitty's House

Hello

We have been baking here at Kitty-Cat headquarters - Mr Kitty has been at work so once the jobs were done out came the scales and the mixing bowls.

TC made chocolate cakes, I made fairy cakes with dried fruit in them (Mr Kitty Cat doesn't do chocolate - which is a blessing cos it means more for me).

We have been inspired by the Great British Bake Off (although Mary Berry would have a turn if she did actually see my fairy cakes as they are all different sizes !!!!) my Tuesday nights are just not the same now it has finished, well done to all the contestants who made it to the shows but a special well done to Jo, I was proper chuffed she won.

So while the fairy's were cooking we moved onto making English Muffins following a recipe from Lorraine Pascale's new book Home Cooking Made Easy. Unfortunately I discovered that I had run out of strong white bread flour - so we had to make ours out of wholemeal but I am still really pleased with them. They were so easy to make - I couldn't believe it.

Happy Saturday, Thanks for stopping By

Kitty xx

Wedding Card

Good Morning

I can't believe what a bad blogger I have been and that I haven't posted since May !!! I don't even know what I have been doing - and I think I lost my inspiration a little - anyway hopefully it's back now.

I just wanted to share with you the creations I have made for my gorgeous friend Sophie who asked me to make her wedding invitations - Sophie and Martin get married next year in Cyprus and they wanted their invites to be a little less traditional than normal invites. Sophie came up with the idea of a flip-flop and I thought - I have got just the thing on the Life's a Beach cricuit cartridge. I am really pleased with them !!!

Sophie hasn't seen the completed set yet - they are sat on my desk awaiting collection as Soph and Martin have been on their jollys.

So if you are reading this Sophie hope you had a wonderful holiday and once again a big congratulations on setting the date for the big day - I wish you both all the happiness in the world.

........To the rest of my fellow crafting buddies and followers I promise to post a bit more often over the next few months.

Thanks for visiting, Kitty xxxx

Slice of cake - very few calories !!!!

Hello Everyone

I just have to share with you a little project I have been working on. Crochet slices of cake, when I saw them I just fell in love with them and thought I have to have a go at making some of those. I got the pattern from here http://www.etsy.com/shop/lynnespatternparlour and you can find Lynnes blog here http://lynnespatternparlour.blogspot.com/. Lynne has some beautiful patterns and her instructions are really easy to follow (I have managed to progress from Granny Squares to this).

Happy Tuesday, thanks for stopping by and for leaving any comments.

Kitty xx

Har Repotter from Bugaboo Digital Stamps

Hello Everyone

I can't believe it's so long since I blogged - I think I lost my mojo a little bit and I just don't know where the time has gone. Just a quick post today to show you the card I made for TC, who turned 5 a few weeks ago. I couldn't resist these images when I found them at http://www.bugaboostamps.com/. Although TC isn't a really big fan of Harry (I think he is still a bit young) he does know who he is and who all the other characters are (which is more than I do - hence why I haven't got the colours right of all the characters, hair colours, outfits etc etc as Mr Kitty-Cat kindly pointed out when I finished my card :-( ). When TC was really little (he's always been a talker - took forever to walk but would have a full blown conversation with any adult at just turned two) I think he was about two we could be out in the car and all of a sudden he would say 'look there is Harrypottomus' !! Mr Kitty-Cat and I would look at one another and think who's he talking about - we thought it was someone on Cebeebies. It was only one day when we were all sat around watching TV and there was a trailer for one of the films that we realised who he was talking about. We think we must have kept driving past a poster of him at the bus stop and that was where he saw Harrypottomus. - Bless him.

Anyway better go - I will try and be a better blogger this week !

Love and hugs

Kitty xx

Pop over to the new look Bugaboo Stamp Store.

Hello, just a quick post to let you know about Bugaboo Stamps new look and store. They have the most fabulous images- hopefully some of my creations using their digistamps will be posted here soon.

The link for the blog is here http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bugaboo-has-new-look-and-new-store.html

and the link to the store is here http://bugaboostamps.com/ .

Plus for the whole of May there is 50% off purchases !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by

Kitty xx