I hope you all had a lovely time over the Christmas holidays.  It was a quiet Christmas day in our house but a very busy boxing day and I have spent most of my time cleaning, cooking, eating, cleaning, cooking, eating etc……. so I am hoping that I now have some spare time to finish the ukstampers weekly challenge.  I am only up to week 41 and I would like to get all 52 done and dusted by 2012 so these last few will be rather rushed.
Week 40 is about birthdays:

• do you make a big thing of birthdays – do you remember birthdays?
• what is your most memorable birthday story?
• include some candles on your page

I do remember birthdays and I love sharing the celebrations with my family and friends with a good meal (much better than parties).  This year my brother Chris and his family cooked one of my all time favourite meals; slow roasted lamb over here and they did all the cooking and clearing up so I didn’t have to do anything thing.  Mum and dad came over too and we had a lovely relaxing day.   The most memorable story however would be at Harry’s 40th birthday BBQ in our back garden.  He managed to break his ankle just by picking up a CD from the floor and turning round awkwardly.  He ended up at A&E the following day and needed his ankle pinned and in a stookie for 6 weeks.

Inks:  Distress inks More mustard and Stormy sky, Memento London fog
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Tim Holtz Urban tapestry and Fairytail frenzy
Other:  Intense pencils and copic pens to colour