Clown and Jiggler on Tour!

Well here I am playing catch up again. I really don’t know where the time goes. I think only a day or so has gone by and then I realise I haven’t updated for a week.

I have this weekend off from the pub (yippee!) and I’m finally going to do a bit of crafting for the first time in ages. With the exception of a few (generally late) birthday cards I have done nothing in the way of scrapbooking or the like since the last cyber crop. However, this weekend Shazzer and I (along with Missy and Fluzzie) are heading to Alexander Palace for the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show. I am expecting a laughter filled weekend, full of classes, drinking and shopping – not necessarily in that order (although I am NOT buying anything – I have FAR too much stash already!)

Unsurprisingly, Shazzer and I picked almost all the same classes, so on Saturday we’re doing Twinkle Twinkle (her) & Vintage Elegance (me) and a water colouring class. On Sunday we’re doing Festive Fun, My Favourite Thing, Christmas Pearl Delight and Hitting the Bottle. We had originally expected to do 3 classes each day but the one we wanted on Saturday was full so we had to switch to Sunday. I am really looking forward to the weekend especially as it’s been far too long since I last saw Shazzer.

UKS is 5 years old and is of course celebrating by holding a cyber crop (I haven’t checked the forum out properly yet but I’m sure it’s next weekend). The theme is (as if there could be any doubt) Birthday party and so the teams are related in some way. As usual there are 4 teams, the jiggly jellies, the clowns & balloons, the party puddings and the completely crackers. Also as usual Shazzer and I ended up on completely different teams – she’s a clown and I’m a jiggler, hence the title of today’s post.

I am sure cyber crop madness will follow shortly, although I may have to resort to some real life scrapping as I still haven’t managed to sort out Publisher since I tinkered with my computer a few weeks ago (I really MUST learn to stop doing that). I desperately want to do some digi scrapping as I now have hundreds (quite literally) of fantastic photos from my sisters wedding since she kindly sent me all of Gerard’s and the official photographers photos and I find it so much easier, quicker and tidier to do it digi. Of course if I go for the real life scrapping then I suppose at least I’ll use up some of that massive pile of stash which is threatening to completely engulf the lounge and have a chance to fill one of the many scrapbook albums I’ve been hoarding *LOL*

I want to recommend the film ‘Snow Cake’ starring (yep I bet you’d already guessed) Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver. So desperate was I to get my hands on this film I ended up with a Polish copy and it took me some 20 minutes to work out how to turn off the subtitles. It was definitely worth the trouble. Sigourney gives a fantastic performance as a high functioning autistic woman and Alan is lovely as Alex the traumatized driver of a car which killed her daughter. The film is by turns sad, funny, poignant and yet never overwhelms. Definitely a recommendation from me for what must be one of Rickman’s best films yet. I was also lucky enough to find on the internet Anthony Minghella’s ‘Play’ which was part of the ‘Beckett on Film’ set. This was an odd little piece also starring Juliet Stevenson and Kristen Scott Thomas as urn people, which I actually strangely rather enjoyed. I am now waiting for ‘Dark Harbor’ and ‘The Search for John Gissing’ which are both winging their way to me from the US and ‘Judas Kiss’ which is on it’s way from Holland.

Finally just wanted to say a quick Happy 40th Birthday to my mate Andrew. We’re off to the pub to celebrate later so I’m sure he’ll be having a good day!