Watercolour Crayons

Don’t these little beauties look absolutely yummy?  I love them!  Oh I umm’d and ahh’d about buying them and whether I should or not (after all there’s so much else in the Stampin’ Up! catalogue that I also wanted to buy) but boy am I now glad I did buy them .  They’re extremely versatile and I keep finding myself going back to them every time I want to colour.  You can make watercolour backgrounds with them so you can then stamp your image on top and not have to colour it; you can colour directly onto your solid stamps with them then spritz to get a dreamy watercolour effect; for vivid colouring you can colour with them directly onto your stamped image then blend with an Aquapainter or blender pen; or you can pick up the colour directly from the crayon using an Aquapainter or blender pen and then colour your image for a more muted effect.  There’s heaps of ideas!  Just e-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail.com for more ideas or for more information on the Watercolour Crayons and keep coming back here as I’ll have some card samples using the Watercolour Crayons up soon.  Don’t forget!  These crayons are also wonderful for your scrapbooking.

Revenge of the Remote (or how to screw with your husband’s head)

Well I got my own back last night.  You know how annoying it is when guys are constantly flicking the channels with the remote?  Well last night I had a plan.  The whole evening I sat on the other side of the loungeroom with a spare Foxtel remote control hidden under a cushion on my lap, and everytime Paul (my husband) clicked on “i” to see information on what was on other channels, I’d also click it on my remote so it would flicker on and off. Giggle.  Every time he turned the volume up I’d turn it up even higher at the same time.  Then he’d turn the volume down and I’d turn it down even lower. Giggle.  He’d change the channel and I’d change it back. Giggle.  And on and on it went all evening.  He lay there on his leather recliner mumbling under his breath about the stupid remote control and how we needed a new one.  ROFL!  I can’t believe he never caught on, actually I can’t believe I lasted as long as I did without bursting out laughing.  I couldn’t help myself though… I told him in the end – but I was good… I could have keep this up all week. LOL.

Life, Death, etc.

Well I thought I’d better put some reality stuff in here for those of you who like to see what’s going on in other people’s lives.  If sad stories bother you then you’d better stop reading now.

I’ve just come back from the hospital were I’ve been visiting my mum and also had a meeting with the pallative care doctor and others.  My mother has stomach cancer and hasn’t got long to live.  I knew this day would come as she has been battling various cancers for 8 years but it’s still very very difficult.  At the end of last week I was told that there was no cure, no more operations and no more chemo.  I struggled for a few days to come to terms with this but now I have to just carry on.  So now what?  Well that’s the hard part – we don’t know.  For now she’s being fed by a tube that goes straight to her bowel.  If she’s okay in a couple of days then she’ll need to go into a hospice, I don’t know how long for though.  They gave her the option today to just let her go and she dies in 2 weeks or to continue the feed and see if she can live some more months.  What a decision. :(   The doctors convinced mum to hang in there and see if she can extend her life a little more.  After a few weeks in the hospice if she’s okay then I don’t know what’s going to happen as it’s too difficult for her to go home and live there on her own.  My father is in a nursing home his last stages of Alzheimers and has no understanding of anything… he needs 24 hour assistance for everything which is why we couldn’t look after him.  There’s no room in my house and I can’t move the whole family over to mum’s place.  I’m annoyed now that she didn’t agree to both of us selling up and moving together into a larger house with us (with separate residence for her) last year when I suggested it to her… she knew she had cancer but she didn’t want to move – now we have to figure out where she will spend her last days.

So that’s it.  Life, Death, etc.

Boxes, boxes, boxes!

Oh I love making boxes!  This is one that I made for one of my Stampin’ Up! downlines and I filled it with ribbons and Hodgepodge.  The box features stamping and faux stitching and is made using all Stampin’ Up! products.  I’m thinking about making some of these boxes for Christmas and filling them with little gifts for friends.  What do you think?

Stampin’ Up!

A little about me and Stampin’ Up!  April 3rd 2006 Stampin’ Up! opens for business in Australia and there I am knocking on their door first thing in the morning with my Demonstrator Agreement Forms signed and waiting to join.  Why the rush?  I had heard great things about this company: excellent reputation, fabulous products and very much in demand.  So I signed up and here I am, demonstrator number 13 (lucky for some I guess) with a large and rapidly growing team, things are going wonderfully.  I have customers e-mailing me all the time to tell me how happy they are with their products and what great value everything is.  My bank account is growing nicely and I have a huge stash of products to keep me happy too (even happier that lots of them were free :) )  So if you’d like some information on joining Stampin’ Up! or would like to purchase some products, have a workshop or just would like some general information – send me an e-mail, I’m more than happy to help.

So how does this work???

Okay, I worked in the computer industry for over 10 years and I’ve been on the internet for about 15 years but this blogging stuff is new to me.  Please bear with me while I figure out how to make this all pretty.

Hello world!

Hello world! This is Angela Sargeant, welcome to my blog.  This blog will be mainly about my passion which is paper arts/crafts with a bit of personal stuff on the side for the “reality seekers”.  Come in, leave a message and please feel free to e-mail me.