A Scrapbooking seed planted

Its February - yay! I like this month so much more than horrid January.
When I was blog hopping the other day, I came across this idea.....
I love it when one idea can start a ricochet of ideas in ones head. I knew I would have to make a book about this. Why do I scrapbook? My first reaction is for my kids but when I thought about it more, there were loads of reasons.
So piled up some yummy stash, printed some pictures and started to make....

I love this Making Memories range, Just Chillin' Girl.

So I don't want to give too much away until I have finished my book but I am in love with this project. I love Shimelles ideas, they are like little scrapbooking seeds which she plants in your head, then to grow into something wonderful.

Talking of wonderful, how cute is this?! Knitting Nancy

Not sure if I brought it because the packaging is so wonderfully retro or because I liked the thought of making the little flowers. Either way £2 cant be bad. I love charity shops. I cant go to the High Street without going in one.

Well best go and do the kido's dinner.

Freezing, breezing, lemon squeezing!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I am freezing, breezing, lemon squeezing! Even though I love it getting colder, it does get to about now and I start looking forward to spring time. Don't get me wrong, I love being all wrapped up but I am getting bored of wearing the same few clothes. Its only this week that I haven't been wearing leggings day and night under whatever have on! We did enjoy the snow though and whilst everyone and their dog hated it, we just got on with it. The best days were - 1. The Saturday that I was in the shop and it just bucketed down all day. Barleylands looked beautiful! And 2. the next day when we went sledging......

I have been making a few projects over the past weeks, this one was a present for my Mum as it was her birthday.

Even though she can look at my photos of her Grandkids anytime on Facebook its nice for her to have her own copies. This book has one photo from each month of last year.

The other projects are not quite finished yet ;)

Yesterday I posted over HERE with this ..........

Goals old and new

Happy new year blog!
So now the Christmas commotion has died down I am ready to start blogging again. I had a look at what I blogged this time next year and I came across my list of new year resolutions. Well I did stick to some of them, here is the list -
Not drink alcohol in the week - I think my liver has had enough
*This was stuck to for a month!
Be more patient with the kids and other people...
*Hmmmm have I been more patient........
Not get so offended by others words and actions, its their choice.
*Yes I stuck to this one.
Run the Race for Life and Brentwood Fun Run, I know I am not
supposed to run but I love it
*I did the Brentwood Fun Run and raised over £100 for St Luke's Hospice

Also I have some craft aims....
To be more organized with my classes at work
*Yes I was much more organized.
To actually make things for myself and not just work
*I did do this but maybe not as much as I would have liked
To make something from my Cath Kidston book
*Totally failed!
To be more confident about what I do
*At times I think this wavered at times but I did learn have more confidence.
So maybe I didn't do as bad as I first thought!

Anyway on to some interesting stuff. Over Christmas I got to do some making, or finishing I should say. This first one I made a while back but had no journaling mojo. I wonder if when I made this page I would have realised that I would be doing the journaling when it was snowing months later!

I really loved this paper but it had celebrate love or life or something and it just didn't fit with what I wanted to say. So I just covered that bit with a piece of white Bazzill and continued my title. I love trying to do multiple photo layouts, probably because I take so many photos!

This next one was a class I did with the fab Tuesday night ladies .

It has an exploding bit on the front, I pinched the idea from Polly.

The cool thing with this is that you can fit loads of photos in, down side is that you have to take it out of the page protector to see the buggers!

The photos I chose to use with this page were some recent ones of my Mum's birthday this year.I took loads of snaps of her opening her presents.

And last but not least this layout I did actually make over Christmas. If I could be a layout, at this time, right now, I would be this layout. Everything about it is me at the moment. The colours, the buttons (with the random gold one), gathered ribbon, bling.......


And stitching! I cant get enough of stitching on pages. I remember when I said 'a page isn't compete until I have stamped on it'. Well that's how I now feel about stitching.

And yes I sacrificed a book for this page. I did buy it to cut up though so that doesn't make me feel too bad! I think it looks super with a rub-on on it.

So this year my goals are -

To lose the rest of my weight

To learn to play my beautiful guitar

To do Pilate's so I can make my crummy body feel better.

Spend more quality time with the kidos because I know that it will be in a flash before my eyes and they will be grown up.

To enjoy life and take whatever it throws at me.

And in a creative way my goals are

To learn to crochet

To learn how to follow a knitting pattern!

To do more pages in my book of me.

To start painting again.

I wonder if this time next year I will be looking these feeling like I have achieved or not!

Notes of christmas

Wow its really nearly here! Christmas that is. Just thought I would share a little project which I posted on the Sugar and Spice blog the other week.....
I just have to have a Christmas notebook. How would anyone cope with out one?!

Things have been busy here as they probably have been in any house hold at this time of year. I have Christmas presents to make, one of which I cant make until a certain person goes out, so Thursday night I will press on!
Anyway here is a picture of our girlie night out

Got to say the next day I was still drunk and had to get a cab to the doctors to have my swine and normal flu jabs!

Hello!!!

Oops where did I go? Did I fall off the edge of the blogging world? Nearly. Fear not I am back!
Its been a busy few month and to be honest I am not sure where they have gone. I think being able to update my twitter status has taken over my blogging life!But I promise I will try harder.
Here are a couple of LO I have made since going walk abouts.. This first one is about Callum getting to that in between age. The panel at the top pulls out and contains the journo'. I love overlays but as one of the ladies said in class the other day, they don't look the same when they are in the page protectors.

This next LO is of a Christmas party our family had in January. We are always so busy in December that it makes sense.

I really loved doing this page, I think it was because I used old stash. Why didn't I use these rub ons before?One thing you cant see in this photo is the use of the glimmer mists, I sprayed the white bazzill .

Well I have made a few other things but I need to photograph them.

This time I wont leave it so long!

Stash shopping with kids!

Phew last month flew by!

I only took a few photos, most of which I have already posted, but there is a few which I haven't shared. That being our mad dash round Ally Pally.Now we didn't get there until 1.30 and it closed at 4 and I had 2 kids in tow!

Elli loved it. Callum didn't! I found it very hard work, not only because of the little time I had but because all I could hear is ' Mummmmmmmmmmmmmmmy!' and 'Can I buy this?' Elli was in craft heaven.

I did manage to buy a couple of bits but all in all I was quite good! This is probably because I work in the most fabulous scrapbooking store so see all the greatest stuff when it come in.

I love little trinkets!

Now I think this might have brought me luck yesterday

This lady made a good luck card for trying to get every ones Glastonbury tickets - it worked. I am going to Glastonbury 2010! Their 40Th one.

Thanks Pol!

Project peek!

Just a quick one to say that I posted this......

over on the Sugar and Spice blog the other day, take a peek....

We are all off the the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show today. When I say all I mean Me, Mum, Callum and Elli. Am I mad taking my kids? Yes probably but it was the only way I could have gone. The only thing on my wish list is an ice skate stamp or die so I can making Elli's birthday party invitations.I am sure I will find some other bits though ;)

Happy Sunday