Design Recollections

Well its been a few days since I could muster the energy to update, so not like me!

Saturday I went to Angel Crafts Crop and had a lovely day in the company of all. Got my CJ entry in hand and a few pages ready for my 42 journal. Had fun with ink, paint and water although it did raise an eyebrow when I got the iron out lol! There were no forfiets to be issued as all challenges to complete work were met. Way to go girls!

There was some exiciting news but I am not aloud to tell yet hahahah! Ner Ner…..

We were busy little bees and everyone got something done. I was however a bit on the quiet side, not like me but its been a tough few weeks and the ‘time outs’ that I had planned in did not always work out as they should, such is life.

Sunday was a tad drab and fraught with tension as I tried to wizz through my ‘to do’ list and made a crap job of it in the end.

This morning our ladies group (LALA) had an invited guest from the local camera club. I was really looking forward to this and as I had my new baby Nikon D80 with me I was extra pleased! Got a few tips in the midst of a lot I knew already but its was still good all the same. Nice guy. I also found out that the group meet on a Wednesday night. My first thought was YEAH! Andrew is home and then I remembered it was parents night at school By the time I got home I thought bugger this, I am not missing out again, so I phoned the school and changed the appointments for the girls to Thursday afternoon, so now……I am going.

The day ended badly when a call from a lady I had already talked with last week from our insurance company. To cut a long story short the loss adjuster who visited us two days after the break in is claiming he never took away all our receipts and valuation certificates. To say I was shocked and angry was an understatement!!! How dare he?

I now feel I have been done over twice. Friggin incompetent fools and I won’t stand for it. The lady dealing with the most valuable items is also quite shocked and assures me that she has no doubt about our ownership but just needed a nod from the main insurers so she can validate our claim by our description. It seems so unfair when we had everything and the loss adjuster has clearly lost it and now is adjusting his loss by lying.

 My husband is anal about receipts for things, even the groceries!!  I am not finished with this yet but I need Andrew home and I need all the details of the handover. Not being there when it happened made it difficult for me to scream even louder with the details.

I was tired, stressed, Nicholas had been throwing hissy fits over everything today, the one pictured was over my saying no to sweets! I had 3 other kids all playing silly buggers, dinner on and I had to be out by 5.30pm for Rainbow Guides…..no, not the best day I have ever had.

I feel like I am riding a rollercoaster, one minute up and then the next I come crashing down.  Maybe I am just getting to old to shrug off the stuff I used to.

One thing I did learn tonight was that my new Guider at Rainbows, the lovely Gill, is a scrapper! We had the girls cutting flowers with my big shot tonight and using a sticker for the centre (Rainbow ‘Promise’ related) and it came out when I explained why I had the machine and dies lol! You just never know the minute eh? She said she would like to come to one of the classes at Craft Heaven, now that would be nice.

So sorry to have rambled but it does help to let it all out on here. This is my voice when I am alone and we all need a voice.

Here is to tomorrow and better days…….cheers!