I missed Tara's Gallery last week for the first time ever..... I hope she didn't notice. I just couldn't get a food vibe going that could get any place near my good pal @cosmicgirlie but give me theme of the girls in my life and I am all over it.
Enjoy.
My girls. ModelGirl left and FunnyGirl right.
Cheryl - my baby girl. xx
Purdy Wurdy - my puppy dog, completely stupid but we love her all the same.
Apple - my latest Blythe
Amy Lee - My first Blythe. My Christmas pressie from my hubby this year. She continues to be my most photographed girl. She is stunning.
Rosie of Scribble... named after my adopted blogging sister @rosiescribble. She is beautiful inside and out, just like her namesake. If you haven't stopped by her blog lately then do it now. She's been on her own adventure of late - to Cameroon with Pampers UNICEF. You can help save a life by reading about her trip. Rosie - you rock. xx
If you haven't seen my comp round up post get over there now.... you can win all kinds of things including a Maclaren pushchair worth nearly £600. So you don't have a baby - so what.... win it and give it away to a fab charity - or a children's ward. They will really appreciate it.
Me.... I'm not a winner..... and I didn't do anything even slightly spectacular to be recognised in this way... but I have been.... so there. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the great Rosie Scribble.... when I grow up (even though I am probably old enough to be her mother..) I want to be just like her.... pink bunches and all..... She has bestowed on me the Kreative Blogger Award (though i'm thinking it should be called he Kreative speller award....). So in order to adorn my blog I have to share seven previously unsaid facts about me.....
I love Art Deco.... Clarice Cliff pottery in particular. I bought my first piece when I was just fifteen at an auction, the auction's catalogue was questioning the pieces authenticity. I knew it wasn't fake, begged my dad to stump up the £40 it went for. It was later valued at £600.
I was in National Youth Ballet and National Youth Dance. I have a fascination with murderers..... My bookshelves make interesting reading..... I collect Ladybird books. I have over 3500 (at last count). I would move to Thailand in an instant. I get traumatised every time I enter a shoe shop. I have also had dinner with Gladiator.... and I'm keeping schtum too!
I now have to pass the award onto seven other bloggers who can take up the following challenge, if they wish:
Copy the award to your blog
Insert a link to the person who nominated me
Tell you seven things about myself that I haven’t told you before
Nominate seven other bloggers for the award
Link to their blogs
Tell the nominees about their award
So I am passing the buck awarding this amazing award to......
Firstly this is where I apologise to all of my readers and Twitter followers that have become Blythe obsessed since I started going on and on and on about her....Only in the last hour there have been two new additions to the sisterhood in @WivesDaughters who is complaining that first I turned her into a Stokke freak and now a Blythe freak too...
And if you could rely on anyone to jump on the bandwagon well that would be @lolas_mum who is simply not content with laughing at my daily misfortunes..
I do have to say though - that if ever a Blythe looked like her owner (want to say dog but..) well hello - they really are twins.
So without getting side tracked even more - here she is... my beautiful new girl... Big Blythe respect to whoever can tell me which original Blythe she was before her customisation!
I have named her Rosie of Scribble, after the original BMB Blythe babe @RosieScribble who is currently sporting blonde locks with pink glasses!
How ever will Liz @Livingwithkids and Karin @cafebebe cope with so many of us looking the same?!
In a show of solidarity to her 1972 roots, Rosie has commissioned her very own Stokke® Tripp Trapp® - and boy does it rock!
Which is of course ironic - since I am THE most grumpy person that I know. So firstly thanks to Nickie at Typecast for well... typecasting me and secondly to my pink haired soul sister Rosie Scribble for having too much time on her hands and coming up with the meme in the first place.
The rules are..
1. Name a song that makes you happy - a song you would listen to if you needed a sudden injection of happiness;
2. Post an image that makes you smile. It can be anything - a silly photo, an image taken from the internet, anything that puts a smile on your face (and isn't too rude!).
So... being such a miserable cow is not all Morrissey and Portishead you know.... I have thought, pondered and wracked my brain searching for a tune so cool and intelligent - that would blow you all away - but the cold honest truth is that High School Musical is where it's at in my stereo (and every one in the house) right now!
FunnyGirl loves this song and we have re-created Troy and Gabriella's roof top dalliance around my bedroom on many occasions. This simple interlude and the memory from it that is etched inside me will never stop lifting the darkness.
And if you can't stand that - then it really has to be a spot of The Smiths.
I challenge anyone to find a place that HSM and Morrissey are referenced in the same edit but here I go! Even though I cried myself to sleep every night through my sixteenth year listening to the extended 12" version of this master piece in it's full orchestrated misery, it now offers me great comfort and warmth.... enjoy!
A girl and her daddy and the sheer love that I captured in this kiss. How could this image fail to melt my heart. My FunnyGirl and her daddy... every time I look at this image I wish that that kiss was shared with me..
I tag @lolas_mum @ilovemonty @20somethingmum @That_Kat and @swhittle
