Call This A Break From Work? Waste of 2 Weeks If You Ask Me

I said in my last post that I had ended up in hospital Tuesday night followed by having an emergency operation Wednesday lunch time.  Well here we are 4 days later and it is the middle of the night.  To be honest for 2 weeks prior to the op I felt like I had flu with a mild headache that went with over the counter painkillers.  Well let me tell you, 4 days later I feel like poo (that is the polite version folks lol).  I can't believe I had 'poison' inside me and now it has supposedly gone, I feel far worse.  To real add insult to injury I have to go the the nurses at my GP practice every day Monday to Friday and sit at home and wait for the District nurses at weekend and bank holidays.

Easter Bank Holiday weekend we are have visitors coming and I have to wait for the District Nurse who could arrive any time between 8am and 6pm.  Both Nurses have been super lovely and called me around 30 minutes before they arrived in order for me to take some painkillers as it hurts to pack the wound.

Saturday was just after 10am and yesterday was 1.30pm.  All plans that had been made for the Easter weekend are not happening now as we had visitors coming for the weekend and if we don't leave the house by around 10am with Bank Holiday traffic and more busier places when we get there, there really is little point in going.  So how do I now entertain an extra 3 adults and 2 children when I am practically housebound?  I don't want to cancel as with our busy schedules this is probably the only time we can all meet until the end of August.

Royal Wedding weekend we were going to have a few days in Wales, sadly this has now been cancelled.  The days out with friends next week are also unlikely to happen.  

I also missed the Solihull Crop yesterday and achieved nothing while I sat and waited for the nurse apart from tidy the kitchen.  Then the District Nurse was not happy with the wound so I spent a couple of hours at the hospital.  Antibiotics have been changed and I sit and wait today for my Nurses appointment.  All I can say is that I have wasted the majority of my 2 1/2 weeks leave!

Having said that I did manage to get some scrapping done on Saturday.  Some how I managed to complete 8 LO's.  All were made using Studio Calico kits; October & November 2010 and February 2011.  Really got to use these kits up.  They come with so much stash and I still have 2 unopened boxes and the other 5 I have just seem to have just been slightly dented!  Then there are the 7 unopened Sarah's Cards and Scrapagogo kits plus 13 half used!!!  And don't start me on the non kit papers, at aroound 28" high there are many many papers.  Where did this stash mountain come from???

I have the basic Studio Calico kit each month and usually buy the add on papers only and pick up a few of the embellishments from the UK.  I also stock up on cardstock, page protectors and mists and ink as they are cheaper then you can buy in the UK and p&p is one set price for the whole kit & extras.  I'm saving money, right?  Well that how I justify it!

However, in February there were no add on papers left so I managed to get all of them in the UK along with purchasing all of the boy and girl fine & Dandy range by Minds Mind Eye.  

This weekend, I have used a mix of my 'move around the page for hours' designs and sketches from Kirsty Wiseman's on-line Wednesday Crops and Pencil Lines.

Did I say I've been having trouble sleeping???  Well excuse the early hour and I'll be back later with some more scrapping as I need to do something to pass the time and what better thing to do?

Day Out In Stratford Upon Avon

Last Monday we had a day out in Stratford Upon Avon.  It was a lovely sunny day considering it was the first day of the Easter holidays.  School holidays, don't they equal rain?

We started at Mary Arden's Farm:

We then hopped on the Stratford tour bus which took us in to Stratford, a lovely drive around the town:

And then dropped us at Elizabeth Arden's cottage:

Have ordered some photos which will be here later today hopefully and with any luck I can have some scrapping time this weekend.  Sadly after my little unexpected trip in to hospital late Tuesday and an operation on Wednesday I have to sit in and wait for the district nurses over the weekend.  Sadly all those plans of photo opportunities to scrap for the holidays are not going to happen.


Off now to try and get some sleep, enjoy your weekend x

The Little Ford

Friday night we went to see friends and to the delight of Liam and Freya we passed a ford.  As usual they had to get out of the car and stand on the bridge as we drove through.  I have warned them that one of these days we will go through very quick and splash them!

It was so lovely to go out and have a bright sun in the sky and lots of daylight and know its going to stay light for quite some time.  Spring really is here now.

Kid Free Day

Friday was the only day I will have from now until the end of the month that is kid free.  We are now on a 18 day break from school then will go back for 3 days and then a long double bank holiday weekend.  Tried to make the most of Friday but didn't get as much done as I would have liked.  These are the LO's I completed:

This one is based on the Sunday Sketch Challenge over at the Studio Calico Blog:

This is based on the 4 x 6 Love course over at 2 peas:

I've been sorting through some older photos that I have not scrapped as I am getting a little bored of scrapping the same ones all the while.  I feel it will freshen up older albums as the pages are stored in date order as this is adding different papers and styles to the albums.

Bromsgrove Crop

Was a little bit of a strange crop last week.  I managed to scrap all day for an event that has not yet happened.....strange for me in that I scrapped without photos, something I don't normally do.

I completed the cover for our Summer holidays which incorporates my Brothers wedding:

Apart from the cover, lots of laughter I didn't do much else apart from cut pieces of patterned paper up into the small protector pages.  Will be back soon with yesterdays LO's, far far too sunny to sit inside and photograph them today!