Excited!!

I'm, off to Devon tomorrow for 2 exciting reasons.

Firstly I'm meeting up with the lovely Val tomorrow at the RHS Rosemoor gardens, which I've never been to despite being a member of Wizley Gardens, which is the Surrey equivalent, since '93. I'm really excited to be meeting Val as she's going to bring some of her embellishing samples for me to have a look at in the flesh, while we indulge ourselves with some naughties form the cafe.

The second reason for the visit is that we're going to a friend's wedding at Broomhill sculpture park, which looks amazing, so all in all it should be a very special w/e.

I would like to make a couple of thank yous in this post too.
I have been very touched by the number of bloggers who welcomed me back after my enforced internet break, it was so nice to know that my ramblings had been missed.



Secondly I was delighted to receive the 'I love your blog ' award from Carol this week, it's so nice to know that people enjoy your blog enough to want to give you an award.
At the moment things are pretty busy, so I think I will just have to say a big thank you and pass this on to all those who have given me so much friendship and support since I started blogging.

I have been promoted yet again by my lovely DD2 and am now responsible for the in stock baby carriers. You can see them here. Once again there have been a few tricky moments as I get to know the new fabrics and design, but I think I'm up and running now, but very busy with a steady work flow, so time is tight.

I'm still managing to keep my 2 DCD's (dedicated creative days) a week that I set out to do on Jan 1st, but they are now focused on the finish date in March next year for my C&G embroidery course. No mean feat considering it's taken me 2 1/2 years to get half way , so now I have to do the other half in 6 months, hmmmm!

Anyway the point of all this dribble is to explain why my presence might be patchy over the next few months. But I'm so nosey I dare say I won't be able to stay away for long.

And because I can't bear to put up a post without pics here's a few to be going on with.



I saw this lovely planter at a local NT house the other Sunday, made me think of my progress at the moment.



This lovely carved seat has been placed in a recently reworked little retreat garden at the Arundel Wetland Centre.



And this paper-cut design is the first piece of design work for the new module 5, which I will post about later, just wanted to prove I have been doing something creative.

Goodies

I've had a really good week this week as far as goodies are concerned, first of all I received my August CG PC from Jenny, which is absolutely lovely, the shrink wrap daisies are superb.



Then I got a real surprise when I received a parcel from Joanna and it contained my September CG PC. I was amazed, not only by the contents, but by her promptness, I hadn't even looked to see who my partner was for September! Imagine my surprise when I took the PC out of the box and found it was a fully working clock, amazing. The face has been manipulated in PS beautifully, and as you will know that's my favourite pass time so I was pretty impressed.



To finish the week off I receive the above award from Sue, for which I was very honoured and flattered.

The rules for this award are as follows:

(1) The winner can put the logo on their blog. (2) Link the person you received your award from. (3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. (4) Put links of those on yours. (5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I've given it a lot of thought as to who I'd like to pass this award onto and decided that I would like to nominate some bloggers that I have recently found and enjoyed visiting and receiving their comments.

So here is my list:
Pippa
Annette
Cait
Dot
Shirley

All these lovely bloggers have given me so much fun and inspiration.

Arte y Pico

I was absolutely amazed and honoured to be awarded the Arte y Pico award by Jacqueline and Sue yesterday and today, respectively.

This is a new award to me, I've only just noticed it in the last few days of surfing ,but it was very exciting to receive one with such an international flavour.

Apparently there are 5 rules, as follows.

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award itself.
4. The award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico' blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. To show these rules.

It's always difficult to be fair about awarding these sort of things , as ideally we'd like to give one to each of our friends as they are all special in different ways.

I've thought about this one for quite a while and decided that as blogging is so international I would like to make my awards to people from different countries who are highly inspirational and supportive in the blogging community.

So I hope they will be pleased as I nominate the following people.

Françoise from Belgium

Ro from Ausralia

Shirley from the UK

Helen from the Hebridean Islands of Scotland

Joanna from New York