Ribbons, Paper & Things…

Today my daughter and I took a trip out in the car to a fab wee shop in the next town that sells allsorts…

I had a couple of things in mind, ribbons for my cardmaking (they have a dressmaking dept), and some new dinner plates to replace the ones that have been chipped thro the dishwasher.

In their dressmaking department they have started selling card making stuff (yay!.. cue me being like a kid in a sweetie shop!).

I bought some, well quite a few, different types of ribbon, some 12 x 12 backing papers and a pack of 3 acryllic blocks, for when my new sugar nellie stamps arrive next week (fingers crossed).

Here are some of the ribbons that I bought, I just love the heart ribbon, I bought 2 different widths of this it will make some really nice valentine cards with those :).

    

And here are the 12 x 12 papers I bought… I really love the little sweet pea paper its just soooo cute!

      

 I got a serious bargin with the plates, they were reduced in the sale, plus I got an even bigger bargin with these other plates I bought, they only had 2 left so I bought them both lol, they will be great for putting my homemade cakes on when we have visitors.

The plain white square plates started off at £7.99 and after the reduction I got them for £1.74 each

 

The Flowery cake plates started off at £5.99 and after the reduction I got these 2 for £1.49 each 

Then I spied these little beauties, cant wait to make some more muffin sized fairy cakes to put in them 🙂

I’ve been tagged!

 This morning I was checking out my blogroll sites to see what everyone had been getting up to and over on Mud Ranch and found out that i’d been tagged.. now being a bit new to all this (baby blogger) .. the rules are : 

• Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.
• Post the rules on your blog.
• Post 7 random or weird facts about yourself on your blog.
• Tag 7 people and link to them.
• Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged 
• 7 Weird/Random Things About ME!

1. I have a mole that lives on the top of my head (thank god you cant see it!)
2. Like Joan on Mud Ranch I love to torment the life out of my cats with cat toys, especially the fishing rod type ones with the featherd toys attached to the end as bait! (great exercise for hovis our Birman house cat).
3. I love to cook all our food from scratch.
4. My neighbours think I’m nuts because I have 2 chickens in my back garden! One of them calls me Barbara (off the tv series many yrs ago called “The Good Life”)
5. I’m a bit of a soft touch where animals and people are concerend an like to look after and care for things…. even since I was a wee girl, I used to bring home all the waifs and strays.
6. I love my old LandRover series iii
7. I have 9 pets … 2 Springer Spaniels (1 x rescue), 1 Irish Setter (rescue), 1 Birman Cat, 1 Silver tabby Cat (rescue), 2 Chickens and 2 Rabbits (rescues)

 I dont have 7 people that I would feel comfortable about sending a tag but will do my best 🙂

ok… here goes…. the people that I wish to pass this tag onto are….

Wild Garlic     The Pondering Sheep    The New Shed   Mud Ranch