Playtime...

...more colouring in.
As promised...here are a few more images that I have coloured using my fab Copics & Promarkers.
I really enjoy sitting and colouring in - it is such a peaceful occupation (unless you pick up the wrong colour of course **rollseyes**). I just love sitting down with a batch of stamped images and trying different colour combinations.
Really must get round to stamping up another load of pics, especially as I have soooooooooooo many stamps to work my way through LOL
I find the Copics easier for general colouring and blending but the Promarkers great for more detailed stuff - personal choice I suppose but hey, itsn't that what crafting is all about............

Copics and...

...Promarkers.
As you can see, my photography skills haven't improved whilst my PC has been poorly and I've not been able to blog LOL but I thought I'd better make a start on showing you all what I've been doing recently.
I am now the proud owner of a complete set of Copics & Promarkers so I decided to take myself off to a couple of lessons to try and learn a few more techniques on how to use them.
The lovely Andy over at Pinnacle Crafts in the Barleylands Craft Village provided the venue and I attended a short weekday lesson and an all-day Saturday lesson.
Both classes were fab and Andy provided a lot of tips/suggestions for getting the most out of your pens...I've done loads of 'colouring-in' since and I will get around to taking some photos so that you can see what I've been playing with. In the meantime, the little golfer is an image I coloured at class and then turned into a card for DHs birthday (timing was perfect) and the little miss was a stamped image that I coloured at home and then turned into a retirement card for a colleague. Hope you like............................

The Brits...

...2010

Love him or hate him (I love him) you have to admit he is a showman and to me it was the best way to end the Brits - a medley of all those songs that have driven all up & down the country with me...what Robbie fan would have anything else playing in the car LOL

Congrats Rob on your well deserved Outstanding Contribution to Music award.................

Yipee...

...I'm back **happy dance**big grin**

It would seem that the problem was to do with the Anti-virus programme that DH installed - removed it, re-installed my trusty Kaspersky and here we are - up and running and able to access my blog...soooooooooo happy................

UKS folk are...

...the most wonderful people in the world.

It never ceases to amaze me how thoughtful all the lovely folk over on the craft site UKScrappers are. Friends I have made through this medium have so kindly offered to rescue my pics from the gallery cull - you are all so truly wonderful.

DH managed to get the PC to work today but thinks the Mother-board is probably on the way out...oh the joys of the technology age - how we have come to rely on these boxes springing to life at the touch of a button and how we panic when things don't work as we expect.

So for the time being, it is still just occasional visits when I get a moment at work................

I'm still here...

...honest!!!

But my PC is dead again **sob boohoo**.

Despite a new hard drive before Christmas things have gone wonk again and it is getting sooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating. Oh if only I had some spare cash to go and get a completely new PC but that is just wishful thinking and there are other things on the list of "must save for" that are far more important.

So yet again...I apologise for not dropping by and for not updating on here.

What is even worse for me is that I've just seen that they intend to cull the gallery over on UKS - considering I lost all my pics when the PC died before Christmas I am now panicing that I'll lose even more due to the cull cos I have no way of downloading or saving these pics.

Will someone wave a wand and tell me that it has just been an awful nightmare and that when I wake up everything will be okay - PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky...

...lucky me!

Despite the PC still not working the way I want it to, I am still trying to visit my favourite blogs where possible. This is not being achieved in all cases and I apologise now to my lovely bloggy friends who have dropped by but I've not returned the visit...I can assure you it is not from want of trying.

Paula & Eleni, I am trying to keep up with you via my 'watch' list on the dashboard and I promise to drop by when I get into work next week - I think it must be something to do with the format of our blogs because I can actually comment from my work PC whereas it normally prevents me from doing so on most blogs.

You are probably wondering why this post is titled "Lucky, lucky me" when I am still having these problems...well...I can access the Pinnacle Crafts blog, which I did a few moments ago - what a lovely surprise was waiting for me.

Every 1st of the month Andy picks someone from the blog followers to win a lovely load of stash. This month - IT WAS ME!!!!!! What a lovely way to start 2010 - thank you Andy and all the Pinnacle's crew.

I can't wait to collect my new goodies so that I can have a play.

Happy New Year everyone.................................