Staying at the Hilton no less

Evening Everyone,
Well here I am in Birmingham, in the Hilton Hotel no less after a bit of a trek from Peterboro.
Birmingham New Street station has obviously never heard of lifts or even escalators that go both ways to and from a platform, and there was absolutely no one around to ask.
I carried my suitcase (not a small one you understand) up and down 5 flights of stairs before I finally managed to find a train to Birmingham International that hadn‘t already left the station.. And then of course there was what seems like a 3 mile hike to the right Hall at the NEC once you get off the train. Still at least I didn’t have to go out in the rain.
I managed to meet up with the Girls from SirStampalot Crafty Lou, Chris, Mandy and Louise who had come to the show for the day. We had a fab time looking round and shopping for England of course.
And now I have just finished a very nice dinner in the restaurant and am sitting in the lobby trying to blog.
I’m sure that I will earn my supper tomorrow if it is anything like as busy on the stand as it was today.
Better get an early night and rest my poor feet.
hugs Kimx

Life could never be said to be boring.

Evening everyone
Have you had a good day? Well I never said that life was boring did I, and today was definitely far from normal.
As some of you will know I work in a petrol station, and we started the day with our usual fuel deliveries.
The first one was made by 'Mr Jobsworth' who blocked off most of the forecourt, causing utter chaos, which in my opinion was far more dangerous than allowing some traffic to get to the pumps.
Delivery no 2 was far more eventful, and involved a fire engine full of hunky firemen!!!!!
It is more than a little scary when you look out at the forecourt and see smoke coming from under the petrol tanker that has just pulled onto it.
Fortunately it was all quickly under control with the aid of an extinguisher, but the fire brigade attended as a precaution.
You would think that they would check the brake pads on a tanker wouldn't you. They had gone metal to metal and overheated which is what had caused the smoke.
Still we soon settled back to normal, and the rest of the day passed without further incident.

So my card tonight is how the poor tanker driver would rather have spent his day, it should have been his day off he was just doing some one a favour, that will teach him lol.
The card was made for my friend Vicky to give to her Dad on Father's Day.

The main image is one of the stamps in the Lili of the Valley Vintage Boys range. I actually stamped, embossed and coloured this one myself using Distress inks and then cut it out using a Nestie.

The background papers are from my stash put together following the Tutorial from Crafty Lou which can also be found on the Lili of the Valley website.

The background on the main part of the card is is a Woodware stamp designed by Jane Gill called Men We Love . I have also added all of the names by punching the individual letters from another Woodware stamp called Alphabet Background. That was definitely a labour of love, but everything else just seemed far too big.
I must say I'm feeling rather shattered, that's what a burst of adrenalin can do for you, so I think I will go and lie down lol.
hugs Kimx