Simon Says Stamp DT, A Question & A Cutie

Hello peeps,

I've had a busy but lovely couple of days :)

Ali & I had a craft day on Monday & true to form we were shouting at each other within about 5 minutes of her arrival, Ali's fault of course lol. The kids love our entertaining craft days, Gareth says he wants to film us & put us on You Tube as we are hilarious, naughy boy lol.

I popped out to the shop earlier and I was just about to pay for my grocery's when my mobile rang so I stepped out of the queue to answer it & it was an unknown number & I couldn't understand the lady's broken English very well so I apologised that I couldn't understand her & hung up thinking she was trying to sell me something. The phone then kept ringing so I hung it up at least 6 times & it rang again as I was leaving the shop and I answered shouting "what do you want"? & this time a man who I could understand shouted back "Please don't hang up, we are calling you from Prudential & just need to let you know we underpaid your bond by £700 & it's now in your bank account"! Oooh lovely but oh dear, note to self, be polite when answering the phone, just in case it's someone being nice lol.

Before I get onto my DT project I have a question to ask!

Has anyone paid for goods by an Instant Bank Transfer (IBAN), if so did your bank charge you? 

I'm asking because I did recently & it cost a whopping £15 for the pleasure of making the payment to a store in The Netherlands as they did not have PayPal, but I understand not all banks have these charges so I am curious & told the lovely lady who owns the store I would ask others if they had also been charged for making an IBAN payment!

Waffle over, now it's down to business :) 

Today is new challenge day at

SIMON SAYS STAMP

& this week our challenge is 

TAG IT

My fabulous teamies & I are showcasing Tim Holtz products this week, so if you have them we'd love to see them & as always it's not compulsory for you to use them to enter our challenge.

Ingredients -

The Tim Holtz products I've used are - Weathered clock, Vintage Shabby papers, Vintage Photo distress ink pad

Image - Magnolia Tilda with lovely lace shoes

Medium - Copics

 Flowers - Prima, Magnolia & stash

Doily - Royal Lace

Tag - Magnolia Doo Hickey scalloped tag

Pearls - Hero Arts

Copic Colours used - skin E000, E00, E13, R30, R20, hair E25, E31, E50, top B99, B95, B93, B91, trousers C4, C3, C2, C00, shoes E02, E01, E00, CI, C00

As always our lovely Heidi is sponsoring our challenge with a whopping $50 spending spree in the

SIMON SAYS STAMP SUPERSTORE

Don't forget to keep an eye on the STORE BLOG for lots of lovely inspiration, new products and lots of lovely give aways :)

I'm entering my bottle tag in the following challenges -

Crafty Sentiments - love, Crafty Boots - Valentine, Kreative Stamp Friends - Valentine

 Before I go I have a couple of piccy's to share which were taken yesterday. Jodie was babysitting our little Ollie (great nephew) & she brought him over to see us & I must say that gorgeous boy broke my heart by dumping me, & on Valentine's Day too sob, sob, lol. Hub's had a day off work so I didn't get a look in, he even fed hub's his soggy Wotsits, mmmmmm nice lol.

He was fascinated by Brad the goldfish & he sounded soooooo cute saying "fisssss" before the tired little man  once again made a bee line for big old softie Uncle Ian for a cuddle aww, & I'm only allowing Ollie to come round when hub's is at work from now on lol

Thanks for stopping by, I think I might just have to do a spot of shopping for some candy now :)