sad day...

well, im obviously back from holidays, which were great. Had such a wonderful time over there and took pleanty of pics.. which is good cos I have come back to so many new kits to play with :)

Anyway I cant be bothered writing much today, and certainly not recapping our holiday, as we took Jessie to the vet today to have her put to sleep. So im devastated and exhausted at the moment. I know it was the right descision though but that offers little comfort. Its easy to make the descision but so hard to go through with it and deal with it!! Esepcially since I grew up with her, having got her when I was only 8 years old.

I decided last night after seeing her when we got back home.. she was waaay to skinny and was pooing all over the place, wandering around confused at times, and forgetting that she had been fed and crying for food every 2 seconds.

Anyway she sat on my lap for nearly 2 hours this morning and as soon as she did I thought hmm.. last time she will sit like this, and then the flodgates opened, and they havent really stopped!! Travis did all the ringing and arranging for me, and we took her at around 12:00. We sat with her while they gave her the needles and we took her home and buried her in the backyard. It was kinda weird on the trip back home, I had her wrapped in a towel, the vet arranged her in a curled up asleep position, so it just looked like she was sleeping, and only when we placed her in the ground that it really hit home. But she is at peace now, and pain-free and I bet she has found our little silky terrior dog called Orgy (thats short for August i think) who she used to terrorise by hanging onto his back with her claws while he was trying to run away from her!

This afternoon I just had to do something other than being curled up on a ball on the lounge, so I whipped up this:



I have already printed it out and its going in a frame and getting put on the wall as soon as this is published. The BG is a pic of a gorgeous sunset I took before we left.. I knew it would come in handy for something.

I made travis take some pics of us together in the backyard before we left. Well I think I might go sit on the lounge now. Travis has been bringing me teas and tissues all afternoon, did the washing, unpacked the suitcases and then made me dinner :) And the dogs have been giving me loads of kisses and hugs too :)

A gift!

I did these when I was bored, so if you want them you can have them!! Download from the following links.. they are "You send it" links so if they are expired and you want them let me know and i will re-upload them :)

Butterfly doodles
Flower Doodles
Swirl Doodles

Anyway only 2 more sleeps till we are on the plane :) How exciting!! I have had a cold since about wednesday and that is disappearing now so thats good news!! We have dives planned for the wednesday and thursday so I have to be completely recovered by then.... which I am sure I will be!!

hmm... not much more has been happening.... cos I have been sick I have been getting quite a few LO's done. I scanned a whole bunch of older pics cos I have gotten bored of my new ones! haha. Although I did get some cute pics of the dogs when I was doing an unwanted photo shoot with them!! LOL
oh well, time to have a cuppa tea and get ready to watch the football :)

Hope you enjoy the doodles :)

Just wanted to share....

THIS!
This great kit is called Absolutely by Lauren Grier. You can get it right here. I dont normally plug kits but this is just one fabulous kit.. I have been itching and itching to get my paws on it, and had all these ideas about doing a wedding photo or two with it... just fiddled around and in half an hour this is what I was staring at!! ROTFL. ooh i love those LOs that just come together with no effort.... havent had one for a while.

ANyway not much more to tell.... been madly pumping out the layouts this week for Lauren and Faith cos ive only just joined each team and wanted to use a few kits before going away.

Speaking of which.. only 2 more days of work for me!!!! yippeeeeeee not flying out until the 11th but I just needed those extra days off. The whole week I have been bored and restless just waiting for Friday when I am home!!

hmm.. well I have gotta keep taking as many pics of Jess as possible!!! She has started weeing on the carpet and on the dogs beds.. sooooooo time to think about taking her to the vet with a one way ticket! Poor thing.. she is 16, turning 17 in October and just sooo skinny even though she eats like pig!! LOL I have had her since I was 8!

Funny story about how I got her... I was 8 and we had chicken for dinner. Dad and I had a wishbone, and as usual i wished for a cat (mum and dad HATE cats so I knew they wouldnt get me one... had to ask my fairy godmother for one instead...)
ANYWAY so i wished on this wish bone, and I won!! And would you believe.. in a few days a stray tom cat appeared in our yard.. all scabby and scarred and obviously just been in a fight. I didnt care. I fed him dog biscuits and cared for him. Mum hosed him, dad threw rocks at him.. but because he was getting fed he wasnt going anywhere!!! fast forward 2 weeks.. I had the cat inside, was SOOOO attached to him and he wouldnt leave. Mum arranged with the next door neighbour {who used to work ina vet} to get him desexed on a Thursday afternoon, resigning herself to the fact that we adopted this pussy cat.

WELL HE had other ideas and did a runner before we could get the operation done. LOL ANd wasnt I devastated!!!! Mum was saying how he's gone to befriend another little girl, and thats what he does, hes not one persons pet, he gets shared. Meanwhile, I kept going on about how God gave me that cat because I wished for him, and she made him run away because he didnt want to get operated on {And who could blame him??!!}
so they gave in.. scoured the paper for a Free to good home ad, I went to this lady's house and had all these cats sitting on my lap.. and I pick the moody cranky, and unsociable one sitting in the corner with her back to me!!! ROTFL. And she hasnt changed! She is (and always has been) very temperamental, very mean and very spiteful! LOL But I love her anyway :) I still have scars on my arm that she did 10 years ago.. *YAWN* funny how I get on here to show of a LO and end up having a huge conversation with the keyboard.....

ANYWAY enough rambling from me. Told Travis to make a mini coffin and line it with pink silk to bury Jessie in when she dies!!! ROTFL wonder if anyone actually does that kinda stuff??? LOL I used to want her stuffed (when i was 10) but thats a bit freaky... I know our vet cremates them and puts them in a pretty urn with a nice verse.. dunno if Travis is too keen on that idea though!! hahahaha

well, going to finish off my scotch and coke and head off to bed!! Hope everyone has a great week / night / day... kath day night.. lol im tired.