The One With My Confession.....

So I had a think about yesterdays blog, and couldn't really think of an interesting story to tell.  Which got me thinking, at the moment we're just going through our daily routine, and not doing much out of the ordinary.  We're both getting up and going to work every day, doing our usual evening socialising (and for those of you that are interested yes we still go to Salsa classes and have moved up to the intermediate class where they teach much more complicated moves), we work on the house in or spare time, and I study for my AAT qualification.  The only out of the ordinary event in the last week was babysitting for the twins on Saturday, but even that wasn't very exciting because they were fast asleep before we got there!  The twins are my other halfs nephews and are 16 months old at the moment.  Not that I'm complaining, I quite like our routines and we have settled in to living together (9 months since I moved in!).

I do have a bit of  confession to make though... I'm a bit of an Eddie Stobart fan!! Not one of those mad people that goes to their depo's for days on end.  I just like to count the ones that we see and watch out for their names - they are all named after women - did you know???  Anyway it all started when I went on long journeys with my mum down the motorways to fetch my brother from uni, then I started looking for thier names (I have spotted one named after me too!)  Then at Christmas my OH father bought me a membership to the fan club! Little bit sad I know but it was the only way to get the book with the full listing of names in.  So now I admit I do mark them off as I spot them! If I'm lucky I see one on the way to work unloading outside Tesco, todays was called Linda Swan :) so I dare anyone who is reading this to look out for Eddie's this week and list the ones on here that they've seen!  After a while it gets quite addictive! Link here is anyone is interested!

So... the whole privacy thing with blogs. Was anyone else really quite worried by wht Shimelle put in the prompt? It really made me think about what I post on here.  I do want to try to be as honest as possible because otherwise I don't see the point, but I also dont want to divulge too much, especially if its about friends and family.

But I do have an important family event coming up this weekend which I will be logging about and most definitely uploading photos from!

The One About my Christmas LO...

I know I'm a bit late with it, and its lovely and sunny outside today and Christmas has been long forgotten, but its the first proper scrapping I've done in months!! So I wanted to share a picture of what I'd done...

The pictures aren't great but I wanted to get them uploaded before running off to my usual Tuesday night aerobics class!  I used up stash from years before,  and kind of veered off the traditional colour scheme of red & green because I liked my turquoise sparkly paper!! A good a reason as any!

I've just had a quick look at prompt 2, but need to think about it first.  So I might pop on again later with my proper prompt 2 (if I'm not too exhausted from aerobics that is!!!).

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!!