Gosh, it's been how long?

I apologise for being away for so long, but have been mega busy working on stuff that I can't show you for a wee bit yet! You never know, it might be worth the wait.... ;)

This is a little chipboard book I made from the Kaisercraft Babushka papers. Once I saw those dolls I had to trace them and use them as a pattern to make chipboard pages - then found out that Kaisercraft actually make a chipboard book in this shape!! LOL typical... but I wouldn't have been able to get hold of it out here so I guess my hard work didn't go to waste.
I love those little paper beads dangling from the bottom of the pages - used instructions I found here by Nichole Heady to make them and they are so easy and look really great. I will be using these on o'wires in the future, I am sure!

Once I get home I am going to photograph the Babushka dolls that Chris bought me when he was working in Kazakhstan - they are so beautiful and such works of art... not your normal big thick Russian doll with about 5 or 6 dolls inside... these are stunning and contain 15 - 18 dolls - the smallest being the size of the tip of my pinky fingernail and still with all the painted face and dress.... some people have have infinite amount of patience.... cos mine would be blobs of paint way before I got to the smallest!!

And this is what my doorstep looks like all day... Mummy cat and her 4 remaining kittens (I found a home for one of them, another is spoken for and 3 are still looking)... they lay here because there is a cool draft coming under the door from the aircon in the lounge... well, more than a draft now as Chris and I felt sorry for them laying in 45 degree heat and removed the draft excluder from the inside of the door! What are we like? ;)

Oh and this is Cheesie... she has come to stay for 2 weeks while his owners go on vacation... and what a noisy parrot she is!! She has an interesting range of sounds.... her previous owner was a math teacher so you get interesting titbits like "the square root of 48 is 6.9" and I think he ate a lot of microwaved food.... ping ping piiiiiiiing.......... and last week she had to go to the vets in a car with a cat in a basket............ who cried all the way there......... so she has a crying cat off now too!
I'm thinking that in two weeks I could teach her some really good stuff, especially as she is the only thing still living that has had the nerve to call me 'sweetie'.... or I can at least persuade Chris to teach her some Cockney slang.... it's his boss' parrot so it may be interesting!! LOL