The One Where I Decide my Intentions....

Well how excited was I today knowing that the first prompt for the Blogging class would be coming today!  I love Shimelle's classes (although I don't always finish them!) and I'm sure this one will be just as fab.  I'm hoping that it will help me record memories as they happen, I've been a bit lapse in that department in the last year or so, and want to try to record as much as possible here.  I'm hoping too that it will inspire me to do more scrapping, as again that has fallen by the wayside with real life getting in the way.  Although you'll be pleased to know I actually completed a double LO last Thursday about Christmas of all things! And I'm hoping to keep in touch with other bloggers that I have lost touch with over the last year (sorry  about that) and meet new bloggers too :) So... no pictures tonight, but hopefully tomorrow I'll have more time to upload something interesting along with my christmas LO.

The One About the New Blogging Class...

So I've just signed up for one of Shimelle's classes, in the hope that it will inspire me to keep an up to date blog, and to start scrapping again :) The class is called Blogging for scrapbookers. Hopefully I'll be able to do lots more scrapping when my new craft area is finished too! My lovely OH is building me a desk and drawers, shelves etc and I'll finally be able to put my stash away, rather than it being shunted from room to room in boxes and bags!

The One About My CJ that Came Home...

So last July I sent off my CJ about Sadie & Russells wedding. And last Tuesday it came home, and it is sooo gorgeous! The lovely ladies that worked on it put so much effort it, and even Sadie loves it! So here are some pics of all the entries:

My Entry:

Karen's Entry:


Jo's Entry:
Dee's Entry: Caz's Entry:

Arelene's Entry:
Liz's Entry:
Linda's Entry:
Kate's Entry:
AJ's Entry:
Anyway I love it! All thats left for me to do now is add some pages at the back about the reception - I sent the CJ out with rather a lot of photos, so I'm quite impressed that we got as far as we did. Thanks ladies!

The One About the Brownie Friendship Recipe book & other things...

Last week at brownies the girls put together their own recipes for what would make a perfect friend (which were really cute by the way!) I have then bound it together in a mini book with a front cover that I made:This has now been pinned up on our newly decorated Brownie noticeboard, along with the certificate we got for raising money for Water Aid last term! All that singing was worth it!!!

Then this evening I have completed an entry in a CJ (round robin to those who aren't scrappers!) which is actually the last entry, so its on its way home to the owner tomorrow! Here is my entry:

The theme was Louis's first months, and as you can see my month was October.

The One About the Mini Book...

So I've not blogged in ages, but thats mainly because I haven't done any scrapbooking! I'm now deskless so it isn't as easy to get all my craft supplies out! But this weekend I did and I made a mini-book to go in my handbag especially for those people who are forever saying 'what is scrapbooking?' Its only small with a couple of pages. Here are some pics:


I used some new Bo Bunny papers that I picked up a couple of weeks ago (they might not be new in the scrapbooking world, but they're nw to me!) and I had another go at cutting butterflies out on my craft robo! I really must try cutting other shapes out with it!!

The One About Two CJ Entries, the deer and the May Day...

This afternoon I got out my scrapbook stash and completed two CJ entries. The first one was for a 'Disney' CJ which was good fun to do as I've not been to Disney World since I was about 7 and have no photos to scrap my own pages. Here it is:

The second entry was for a ladys CJ about her nephews visit to see them, so I chose to do my 8x8 inch page about the Kayaks that they went on:
I've had a really lovely weekend, on Saturday I went to the May Day Parade in Knutsford with my friends and waved madly at any of the brownies that were in it! I'm not sure that they'll be speaking to me at Brownies tomorrow! Then yesterday afternoon I went back to Dunham Massey Park with Mum, this time on a mission to phtograph some deer! I was quite disappointed though, I was expecting them to be in a herd (is it a herd of deer?) like they would have been at Tatton Park, but they weren't. They were dotted around the park in pairs, or on their own. I tried to get close to them to get some good photos, but they kept running away, and it was hard to sneak up on them as the twigs crackled under foot! Anyway, this is the best photo that I got:

This deer didn't mind me getting close, which was good, and it told me off when I turned around to photograph my mum! Its a shame my zoom on the camera didn't get any closer, I need to think about getting a zoom lens in the future!

I've decided that I'm going to try to upload photos that I take on here as well as the scrapping that I do. Thats why I've put more pics up today!

The One About the Nail Art...

So last Friday I had the day off to go to the Stitch and Papercraft show in Aintree with Mum because she won two tickets. You would expect me to come home with at least a bag full of crafty supplies for my scrapbooking, well I didn't. Instead I bought a set of nail varnish pens which lets you decorate your nails with patterns and pictures that you choose! Anyway, once I'd had a go I took a photo of my feet because it ties in really well with my teams challenge that we're setting over on UKS next week I think it is. So I made a LO about it!

The rules for the challenge were:

1 To do the LO about something realted to walking (for the moonwalk)

2 To have something round to represent the moon

3 To use pink somewhere

4 To use ribbon somewhere

And for once I've actually managed it!