Happy Birthday baby sis. There is a reason I am wishing her a happy birthday here and she is not opening a card. I took it to work to put in the post and forget to take it out of my pigeon hole. Sorry. Might even send you chocolate to make up for it or maybe I will just eat it and think of you!!

Dale is now sweet 16 so I made him a cake. Looked OK but tasted foul. One of his favourite films when he was younger was The Italian Job so I decorated the cake using the film for inspiration.

Easter has been and gone and saw us visiting Wales. We had a great time exploring the area around Aberporth/Cardigan. I would recommend visiting the Fforest wildlife centre where we all did some canoeing and hubby and youngest son went kayaking. The walks were beautiful. When we visited the information centre, they told us about people seeing otters early in the morning so we set the alarm for 4.30 a.m. (I didn't know there were 2 4.30's in a day)!! By 5 we were on the bank and saw absolutely nothing for about an hour then in the murky water below us we saw a shape moving. A quick description would be - it looked like a dead cat being pulled through the water on a bit of string. Later we did see an otter tail disappear into the water when we were in the canoe so we could of stayed in bed!

Here are a few cards I have made recently. Maybe I should of taken the photos before putting them in the bags!

Gosh it has been a long time since I posted. No excuses. I have taken some photos of things I have been doing but haven't got round to putting them on the computer yet. A couple of weeks ago we visited my parents as they are having a sort out ready to move. One of the things they found was a box of slides. We have now got them transferred onto a disc and this is one of them. I have always loved fish and chips and here is the proof.

I have been looking back on some of the posts I have written and realised I haven't told you about me becoming a Stampin'up demonstrator. My reason is not to the hard sell and do lots of workshops but to buy lots of stuff at a 20% discount. There is a commitment to sell £250 every 3 months but that shouldn't be too hard to do as I have made up my wish list and it comes to about £750!

Here are a few links if you think you might be interested in the products or becoming a demonstrator. You can send me an e-mail if you have any queries.

stampinupmelissa@live.co.uk

http://www2.stampinup.com/gb/eng/ Home page for the UK

http://catalogs.shoplocal.com/stampinup/index.aspx?pagename=shopmain&fsid=e0cf817d-2765-41ee-be99-b913452e7429&storeid=1042907&circularid=14073 On line brochure.

During the really cold spell we had a few weeks ago, our central heating broke down. It was like watching an episode of House as they tried to diagnose the problem. First it was a something circuit board, next it was a pipe leading from the boiler, then the little blue box in the airing cupboard followed by a visit from an electrician who said it was the thermostat. Each time they thought they had sorted it the boiler had other ideas. Fortunately we have a few electric heaters and a neighbour lent us their calor gas fire. Any way by last Friday they finally sorted it and we thought it would be the last we saw of the gas men.

At the weekend we decided to finish the hallway. Gary decided not to use the holes already drilled from the previous threshold as they were not central so he drilled a couple of new ones followed by the shout "MELISSA. TURN THE GAS OFF"!!!! The photo is showing how clever he is at finding the pipe in an inch of concrete and drilling through it right in the middle!