Great Crop Today!

Had a great time today, did 5 LO's, picked up my order (20% discount offer 2 weeks ago!), chatted for England with Penny and the other girls & got some more Xmas Papers - woohoo! Penny liked her Cupcake Apron and I got a belated prezzie & card - lucky me, every time I use my paper crimpler I'll think of Penny.

 

Birthday Cake Made!

Made the base for the birthday cake - a large chocolate cupcake (equivalent to 20 cupcakes!), will decorate when I get home tomorrow and post a photo then.

Getting sorted for a crop

Getting organised for a nice relaxing crop tomorrow with a good mate, then back home to get pampered by DH, then family triple birthday celebration lunch on Sunday - great stuff. Also to celebrate the news that daughter and her family are coming to live in the same town as us!

Completed Album - LSNED 2010

30 LO's + Front cover, inside front cover & back cover totally completed in 95% Black & White Theme, with occassional splashes of colour. 

Thoroughly enjoyed the whole month of scrapping & chatting with Maggie on SKYPE, MOJO well & truly nurtured.

LSNED 2010 - Final LO

Final LO was about my Birthday, collage of pictures and more colour - had a great day, thanks for all the Birthday messages, had loads & loads.

Well it is my birthday LOL!

I have looked after my grandsons today, had a great time, had lunch out with family and had a gorgeous tea cooked by my darling hubby + a bottle of white wine with my name on. All that coupled with bagging myself a Swarovski Crystal Special Edition Breast Cancer Pen with pink ink, a Radley pink heart keyring and a mini pink flash light for my key ring makes it an amazing day! xxxxxxxx

Busy Girl!

Well I've scrapped, cooked and beaded today. Made Granary bread again as one  yesterday was not quite right. Done my Shimelle LO for LSNED 2010 and finished a beaded needle case for my friend Babs, I still have one more to complete in lime greens for her, but here is the turquoise beaded one which I just love. 

  

Hope Babs like it too! 

29th September - PJ thru' the Looking Glass

 Lesson Learnt - I want to change my life - so I am having to look at my existing life with great detail.

Crafty Challenge - Look out the window - what's the first colour you see? Use it on today's entry. It was grey LOL!

28th September - 4 Generations (Memories)

 Lesson learnt - Memories - dear to my heart

Crafty Challenge - Incorporate stars in your design today (the stars are made into flowers)

This picture is of 4 Generations of the female side of my family, sadly my grandma has passed now, but I am lucky to still have my mother and I now have two grandsons, so we are still 4 generations I have journalled on the hidden tag and doodled over the background paper.

27th September - The Boys (the furry kind!)

 Lesson Learnt - The Boys (the furry kind) are a major part of our lives

Crafty Challenge - What can you make by folding double-side patterned papers? (The flowers close like a camera shutter)

Glee Club - Bring On the "Alternative" Assignment - Week 2

Train song title, chosen from a list supplied - For Me, It's You

LO is based on the album cover for the song title which is For Me, It's You, shows my two grandsons in a touching pose. I tried to emulate Train's style for their album cover as much as possible.

 

 Link to Dixie Pieces Gallery

Supplies List: Scrapworks, Florabella - Sampler Patterned Background Paper, hand cut title and angels from Bazzill cardstock, inked flowers & letters, doodling on letters, stamped and inked grungeboard wings, grungeboard flourishes + Delish Designs letters, stamped embellishment with ribbon.

26th September - Autumn

Cold sunny mornings always means Autumn has arrived to me, that along with the colours in the garden changing.

Lesson Learnt - Autumn is a time of change.

Crafty Challenge - Grab an older sheet of stickers and spell something with what's left. (Amazingly I had enough letter to make the title)

Crop Results

Had a great class with Cleo Jarvis @ the Artcards Crop, in the class we distressed the papers to within a inch of their lives to produce a great LO.

  This was my LO, showing pictures of my parents in their youth! I still have to add a title.

I also managed to complete 5 LO's, admittedly some of them only needed titles

I think people appreciated the Lush Lemon Squares & the Caramel Toffee Ring I took, lots of kind people commented how yummy they were! And I didn't bring any home (I can be good sometimes!) 

Great to catch up with some people I haven't seen for ages, almost like old times, will be keenly watching FB for their updates in the near future.

25th September - Time for ?

Lesson learnt - Time is important!

Crafty Challenge - Include something that is not a traditional scrapbooking supply (I used a magazine clipping)

I use time for ?

• Me
• Family
• Home
• Friends
• Crafting
• Work

Not necessarily in that order I might add!

24th September - Talking To Yourself - A Sign of Madness?

NO, it's good for you, according to an article in The Daily Mail (23/09/10), which is good news for my best mate Maggie! She talks to herself all the time, and continually keeps apologising for the fact, it doesn't bother me, whether she's in the same room as me or we're SKYPING for hours & hours, it's quite comforting to listen to. Research now shows it perfectly OK to do that, in fact quite healthy, so she can stop taking the medication now LOL!

Lesson Learnt - Talking to yourself can be good for you!

Crafty Challenge - Include something clipped from a newspaper, magazine or today's mail.

Finally - Up To Date with LSNED!

I'm finally up to date with my Shimelle LO's, having the kiddywinks for 2 days a week, means less scrapping time, but I do catch up and I don't mind as I love having them, I consider myself very lucky.

Been a busy day already, had a swim, cooked two recipes (see post below), done three 8"x8" LO's and blogged and answered my emails and done the FB thing!

23rd September - Ideas

Lesson Learnt - I need to record my ideas when I have them, otherwise I forget them. I've always wanted to do a LO of Burnham on Sea Lighthouse as it's so beautiful, now I have!

Crafty Challenge - Use an ink pad, but not on a stamp. What else can it do? (I edged with black ink) 

Bake It! - I'm up to date

Couldn't wait to try the recipes, so baked both of them this morning after a swim, (well had to burn the calories so I could try some!)

This is the Caramel Toffee Ring I made as a variation to Amy's Toffee Pecan Ring, I used a Mars Bar instead of Rolo's and left out the nuts.

These are the lush Lemon Squares, I didn't have the right size tin so made 4 individual ones and 1x 20cm square one to cut into squares like Amy did.

A Grand Day Out - Almost!

The kiddywinks & I had a great day out at HorseWorld, we were very lucky with the weather, and even managed our picnic outside!

The day was slightly sad when we discovered that Apache (one of GS1's favourite animals) had sadly died on 21st September. There was a lovely note on her stable, but GS1 kept asking where she was, I told him she had gone to live in heaven and was very happy there as she could run around wherever she wanted and be with lots of other animals (including Thomas & Rosie, our much loved & sadly missed cats). He thought about this for a moment and then said "Nana, there will be someone there to look after her won't there?" I only just about kept it together, it was very hard. We bought a fridge magnet and the kind lady at the HorseWorld shop let him choose the photo he wanted to go in it.

Life goes on, sad but true, must dry my tears now.

22nd September - Love

Lesson Learnt -  With time the boys will love each other - really they will!

Crafty Challenge - Create a background with three bold stripes of colour or pattern.

Apple Crumble Cupcakes - heavenly!

I joined the Bake It! Club, well you know me and cooking, it's in my blood! Well the link is on the side, but basically Amy is trying to encourage people to bake.

Each month she adds a recipe to her blog for everyone to bake. All you have to do is get the ingredients, bake the recipe and write a blog post about it. SIMPLES - YES?

Well so far there's been 3 recipes: -

• September recipe – Apple Crumble Cupcakes
• August recipe – Toffee Pecan Ring
• July recipe – Lemon Squares 

I've tried September's Apple Crumble Cupcakes and they were yummy!

 

I'll be trying July's Lemon Squares tomorrow - the only alterations I am making are all recipes I follow will be lactose free so the kiddywinks can have them and of course there will be no nuts used!

Glee Club - Classic Rock Mini Challenge - Week 1

The challenge was to complete a card or tag with a sentiment on it. At least one word from my LO title must be used! 

I used the word NOW and made a tag for hidden journalling from the scraps leftover from my week 1 LO.