So whose idea WAS this balloon launch anyway...?

I have been so busy these last 7 or so days trying to catch up from that awful coldy thing I had and being drippy around the house (in EVERY sense of the word!) for 3 weeks. Catch up on sorting out things both organisational and class wise for Scrappers Unlimited's next retreat in the Brecon Beacons, catch up on organising and making layouts for our Design for Design seminar in Reading on 25 March (...23 people booked and only 1 space left!), plus design a layout to teach to 100 Arborfield school children the day before (and order the paper...remember to order the paper Chrissie!!!), and design a Mother's Day layout for our scrapping evening here in Pontarddulais next Wednesday. As well as clean the house, make dinners, do grocery shopping, wash and dry clothes, oh...teach at Crafty Pastimes this Saturday, prepare Sunday School lessons, get Celyn to doctors appointments, school, ballet classes...and fit in time to see Desperate Housewives! (well...I mean...a girl's got to have SOME diversion!). Honestly, I was awake at 4am last night because Celyn woke up all freaked out by the dark, and I was lying there in bed with her, giving her a cwtsh, thinking, "Mmm...I need to order that paper. Oh I must design that layout. Oh must get the paperwork sorted..." etc. My head's spinning, and not in a good way - LOL

But we did have a fantastic day last Saturday at The South Wales Crop's 12 hour 2nd birthday crop. The lunch was scrumpsheelitious and we raised £145 for the breast cancer charity. But, oh...what a saga (and a laugh). This is how you go about setting off pink balloons:

1. Spend half the morning making pretty tags to enter into a contest and place on your balloon
2. Tie the tag (and a plastic bag) onto the balloon and discover that they all fall to the floor
3. Take off made tags and just put on return information for the finders
4. In the process of swapping tags, have some ladies let go their balloons so that they float about on the ceiling for the joy of all people attending church in the hall the next day
5. Go outside and take silly photos
6. Count to 3 and let the balloons go
7. Have half the balloons get tangled up in the tree (very pretty decor, but not quite what we'd planned)
8. Shake the tree...to no avail.
9. Swipe and then throw a broom and a mop at some of the lower down balloons in an attempt to dislodge them from the tree
10. Get the mop stuck in the tree too.
11. Break out the Tena Ladys because we're all peeing ourselves laughing
12. Finally dislodge mop from tree and give up on the 16 balloons
13. Discover that 8 of the balloons manage to free themselves of their own accord during the day anyway.

I really love those ladies at our crop, and I'm really proud of the South Wales Crop too. We really are the biggest and the best!

Anyway...cracking on...more layouts to design, more phone calls to make, shepherds pie to create....