Catching up...

Its half term at the moment and I'm catching up with bits and pieces  which is good but its been hampered slightly by:

• Our main pc is a little the worse for wear and so a nice man has taken it away to (hopefully) make it better.. (you know how computer help lines always tell you to turn the machine off and on again - well ours was doing that all my itself!!! ggrrrr) and the laptop doesn't have a seperate mouse (just one of those plate thingies in front of the keyboard - aaaargh I just can't get on with those - I need a mouse!! lol)
• I've run out of glue sticks - how is that posible - I was sure I had a load in a drawer somewhere but apparently not!  I discovered its quite hard to craft without a glue stick - and not just any old glue stick - a Tombow glue stick - love Tombow but dislike that its not overly widely available.. I've been online and bought 6 sticks - I almost bough 10 but decided this may have been a bit obesssive! lol

What else has happened in JoLand - well there was this last friday:

Hubby arranged these - he never does things by half!!  These balloons couldn't be any bigger or pinker could they!! lol  v v fab - but Bertie & Lola are a little unsure about them - especially as they have bells on (the balloons not the cats! lol)

There was the first of 2 ArtsyCrafts weekends - which was really good - lots of lovely ladies making lots of lovely stuff... The projects were really really nice - The ladies who are going to Warrington this weekend are in for a real treat.  I'll post photos once the second weekend is done & dusted.

I downloaded the NewYork photos (loved New York!) ready for the pc going to be repaired - here are a few photos (there are soooo many I can't show you them all - and I'm sure you've got better things to look at on the internet than my holiday snaps! lol)

I loved the NewYork brownstone houses - elegant and tradional against all the skyscrapers that everyone associates with NewYork (and yes we did see the Sex & The City street but I didn't walk down it ala Carrie Bradshaw - I didn't have the right shoes (trainers rather than Manolo Bkahnik's) lol)

I took this photo down on the Lower East side - love the peeling posters (the posters might even have been painted on).  This was near the Tenement Museum - if you go to NY you really HAVE to go there. The museum is just wonderful - its been put together with such care, love and attention that its a definite must see.  The guide who took us round almost reduced me to tears twice.  Very moving.  This one tenement building had 7000, yes SEVEN THOUSAND occupants over a 50 year period!! Can you imagine! That works out to be, on average, 140 new people through in each year!!  10 approx a month!!  I have trouble getting my head round those numbers!

 And this is the view from window on the journey home - oooh fluffy clouds - they look like you should be able to bounce on them! (and coming into land it did feel like the plane was bouncing on them!) and I love the Union Jack on the edge of the wing!

Well thats all for today (got to go feed the car (yes the car) & then catch the shops before they close) - tomorrow I might have some creative bits to show you! ... but I'm not making any promises! lol