Week #28

Welcome to my Week 29:

Week 29 in Birdie

Week 29 was quite quiet, managed to catch up on my reading, caught up with a gossip with one of my friends, and my partner took his son on his first ever nursery trip.

It also came out at the weekend that actor Cory Monteith has passed away, I'm a latecomer to Glee but that show is addictive. It is very sad news and at only 31.

Smudge's kittens are over 2 weeks old and getting huge, on Wednesday, it was very upsetting as we lost the last of Maggie's kittens and one of Smudge's so a very sad day for us all.

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Gemma
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Weekend Haul

This weekend I ended up going to both the Metro Centre and Teesside Park and got a great haul (a lot of items were on offer so grabbed a couple of bargains as well)

Staples - Metro Centre

I picked up some of staples own Sonix gel pens, I also grabbed an A5 notepad, Papermate Flexigrip elite (Black), and a papermate Inkjoy 550 in black.

Staples - Teesside Park

While we were at Teesside Park I had a nosy at the staples there to grab some more of the papermate flexigrip elite pens as they are fantastic to write with, I also stocked up on some Martha Stewart Tabs, colour coding labels, and thought I would try some other labels as well.

The Works - Metro Centre

I headed into The Works and found this tote bag (I've previously seen other bloggers using totes like this 1 and thought it might be a good idea. I also grabbed these sticky notes with little tabs on them thought these might come in handy in the future.

A5 Planner - Paperchase

While I was at the Metro Centre I just had to go in Paperchase and while I was in there I saw the planner above and thought it looked gorgeous so I had to grab it.

Deco Tape

I also found these tapes while in Paperchase and thought they would look good in my planner on the new pages.

Sticky Notes

I also found these sticky notes, the set in the tin I tried to order online but they stopped selling them so imagine my surprise when there they are in the store on the shelf.

A5 lined paper, roller stamps

 I also grabbed some A5 lined paper for 'Birdie' and I saw these roller stamps.

Paperchase Stickers

They also had a load of stickers on clearance so I had to grab some especially the camper vans

Toki Yoki

There is a store at the metro centre called Toki Yoki and they sell a lot of Japanese items I found a notebook and some stickers.

Hobbycraft haul

On Sunday we went to Hobbycraft, and I was able to pick up a load of sale items. I also grabbed some Christmas Stamps as well as deco tape ready for Christmas. I also managed to get a tub of pigment inks.

Stamp pads from the tub

As you can see I got quite a good range of colours from the tub, there where a couple of doubles but that's fine with me because if any run out at least I have spares.

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Gemma
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My Week #26

Welcome to another installment of my week 26:

Week 26 (Mon - Wed)

The start of the week was really quiet, I was off Wednesday due to my ankle sprain a couple of weeks ago, so spent most of Wednesday catching up with the TIVO box.

Week 26 (Thurs-Sun)

The rest of the week was busy, went to see 5 mini plays at Middlesbrough Library, where my partner was part of 1 of the plays.
At work I had UPS coming to pick up some boxes from a previous research team, and on Saturday, me and my partner, with my friend, goddaughter, and stepson to get my goddaughter her birthday present. I got a call from my mother on Saturday to say that 1 of our cats had just given birth to a kitten, so it was a surprise as we thought she might be we just weren't sure.
Sunday we headed up to Teesside Park and had a look at Hobbycraft (post is coming soon)

Smudge's kittens

Here are Smudge's kittens, they are so cute.

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Gemma
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My Week #24

I know I'm late with my week, but I was off work on Monday and Tuesday this week due to sickness so was unable to get to a computer.

Mon + Tues

On Monday as I was walking to work last week my foot went under me and I sprained my ankle so last week wasn't that much of a good one.
I managed to catch up with some shows on the tivo box and I bought myself A Good Day to Die Hard (Really good film).

Wed + Thurs

Wednesday I went round my friends so my partner could watch Imaginarium from Nightwish (he's a BIG Nightwish fan)
I did an order from washitapes (I finally bit the bullet and ordered from there)

Piglet

I had a problem with checkout as it didn't register my sale so I emailed washitapes and it construed that nothing had been received and because of the trouble it took me, I was given a 10% discount on my next order. I will be shopping there again in the future.

Fri + Sat

I spent most of Friday evening updating my filofax and updating my book journal, i also managed to get a hold of Neverwhere (BBC Radio 4 play starring Natalie Dormer, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, and many more), It was very good kept me enthralled for 3 hours straight.

Sunday - Father's Day

And as you all know Sunday was Father's Day.

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Gemma

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Local finds

On Saturday, I went into town to grab some father's day gifts ready for next Sunday, and I decided to have a look in Paperchase and a shop called The Art Shop (they do loads of art related items).

Paperchase

I first went into Paperchase and found a large clouds pencil case, handy notes sticky notes, small pair of scissors, stickers, and flowery sticky notes.
The handy notes look fantastic as you can fold the fingers down and make hand signs, I have currently placed in my Filofax a 'Call Me' hand sign, and I did try a rock one but it didn't go too well. We have had some hot days so i was looking for stickers that had some suns on, was unable to find any, but I did find some ice cream stickers and thought they would be a good alternative.

The Art Shop

I also headed to our local arts and crafts store and found some A4 card that I thought would make good dividers in Jack, and i also spotted washi tape so I grabbed 4, there is a cobweb, butterflies, robots, and music notes.

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Gemma

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Stationery Finds

While I was off on Friday, me and my partner had a look round the local town centre, and I found some good stuff:

Art Shop

We have a shop in the town centre that deals specifically with arts and crafts, I'd previously seen paper in there and thought they might make good dividers in Jack (My Filofax, I've christened him lol)

Dominoes, blue leaf, and the Wicked Witch of the West

Wicked Witch and Scarecrow

 These I thought would make great dividers (will post in the future about my Filofax setup still tweaking it abit).

 I also found these small sticky notes and some washi tape, thought these would make a good addition to my craft box (I will do a post on my craft box and contents in the near future).

Sticky notes, washi tape, date stamp, duck sticky notes, duck stickers, and some binding rings

 I also had a look in our local rymans and grabbed a date stamp for my book journal, then I saw the duck stickers and sticky notes (I love ducks, as seen with my banner lol)

Wilkinson's

Washi tape, sticky notes

 I also had a look in our local Wilkinsons and came across this washi tape, (I have been looking for a yellow one for the summer months) I also found the sticky notes and thought they would look good in October.

Washi Tape

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Gemma
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My Week: Week 15

Here is Week 15:

As you can see week 15 was quite busy near then end of the week.

Had meetings at work, and went to see Oblivion (very good see my post here). The green stickies are when I've started any books (helps me keep track of the dates I started books - I'm trying it out see if it helps with my book journal). Me and my partner took my stepson and goddaughter to Preston Park as it was a lovely day.

I ended up covering on Thursday morning, and we had a rep in doing an audit, it was also planned to do a medical supplies order (due to time constraints we didn't get a chance to do it)

Me and my partner also ended up babysitting for his sister's little girl on saturday.

Overall it was a somewhat quiet week, but a busy weekend.

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Gemma
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Paperchase

At the weekend while I was in the town centre I had to have a nosy in Paperchase, and I found me some bargins:

I managed to get some small rolls of washi tape that were on sale with a heart tape as well as some stamp rollers, also manage to get some sticky notes as well

Paperchase haul in all its glory

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Gemma
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Artbox Raid

I ended up finding the Artbox website and wow, there was some very nice things on there. Due to it being payday I made an order for some things.

Artbox order

You can see I did order quite a bit, this lot should last me a while (the operative word being should)

Washi tape (thought these were quite sweet)

Sticky notes (I thought the bear was good and the mini ones I can use for tv shows that I watch)

The 2 pencils were bought because of the design (I love London, and it had a Union Jack, and want to go to Paris)



Stickers, they had some great stickers, thought these would come in handy in brightening up my Filofax

 

Very chuffed with my order and will be ordering from Artbox again (have noticed some Rilakkuma notebooks  and tape that I might have to order next month)

 

Some of the stickers you will see in the coming weeks on the 'My Week' posts (Week 13 due tomorrow).

 

Thanks for tuning in.

 

Gemma

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Rymans / Paperchase

We took my stepson out to a fun day in the local town centre, and while I was there I did a little browsing and maybe a little spending (you can see it's payday)

Entered Rymans and found some nice stickers to add to my Filofax (grabbed some Santa's ready for December)

Ryman's Haul

Care Bears + Balloons

Fast Food + Care Bears

Had a nosy in Paperchase and found some stickers for birthdays (which is what I was after) and saw some nice sticky notes in the shape of french fries (I thought they were quite cute).

Paperchase Haul

Hearts, Rainbows, Santa

Crowns + Birthday messages

Hearts