lindschick's days

Gorgeous blog candy

2010-07-17T08:41:00.002+01:00

Check this lovely blog candy out. A gorgeous blog. xx

http://http//berryliciousblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/birthday-blog-candy.html

Easel Box

2010-03-14T16:30:00.003Z

My kind friend Kath gave me the instructions she had for this lovely easel box. I have made 2, one for my cousin who was 18 yesterday (which I forgot to photograph before I sent it!!) and the other for my friend who is 60 tomorrow (which fortunately I remembered to photograph). I filled my cousins draw with really sweet chocolate ladybirds and my friends with a friend minibook as she is on a diet!!

Why I scrap

2010-02-23T12:01:00.003Z

Here are two pages I've done for my 'why I scrap' album. They are one of George and Charlotte together and one of Charlotte. I've got loads of ideas jotted down to find the time to do, I did these first beacuse I like the pictures.

Why I scrap

2010-02-21T09:30:00.004Z

Hopefully I'll have time later to photograph the Lo I've done for my why I scrap album as well. George is making a lego animation today so much of the day is being spent finding free programmes for drawing lasers on photos, etc!!!

New LO

2010-02-21T09:11:00.002Z

This is a LO I made in the week of Gary taking George to see Chelsea play at Stamford Bridgel, this might be the last time they are able to go for a while as gary is going to havea back op at some point in the near future as it is it's a bit of a challenge him going at the moment and he has to take a waking stick which is hidden behind the flag in this photo. Once he's been he can't walk for 2 days but he's one of these men that would have to be very near death not to go to football!!!

I made a pocket for the tickets at the bottom of the LO as George likes to get them out and look at them.

Why I scrap, first blog!!

2010-01-17T23:02:00.003Z

I actually made a front cover and am blogging, I can't quite believe I a, remembered, b, got round to sitting down and scrapping!! and c, blogged about it. Maybe this is a sign of things to come.

This is the front cover and the inside front for my why I scrap 8x8 book. I've not done this size before as normally do smaller mini books and larger Lo's but fancied doing it this size for a change.

Sorry about the bad scanning but it's too late to take decent pictures so scanning it was and even though I tried many times it just wasn't going to go straight!!! I'll replace these pics with decent photos another day.

A bit of a late post for me as I'm trying to stick to going to bed at a certain time and getting up at a certain time, I wan to see if that helps me feel less sluggish in the morning, personally I think I'm just not a winter person and hate getting up when it's dark but it's worth a try.

Thanks for stopping by.

xxx

Why I scrapbook

2010-01-16T15:35:00.003Z

I am going to try and take part in Shimelles latest project, why I scrapbook and hope to keep my blog updated with the outcomes (whatever they will be) of the project.

Pop on over to www.shimelle.co.uk to find out more.

Cyber Crop

2009-11-15T14:55:00.003Z

A Cyber Crop on ukscrappers has inspired me to scrap again, which is great. I really enjoyed doing this LO and am working on some more.

This one is a class from Shimelle and is a story about a boy and his bear. George made this bear Noodles, at his friend Annalise's build a bear party and he loves him dearly. There are more photos of the two of them folded behind the front photos.

Family crop!!

2009-08-05T18:25:00.003+01:00

We had a family crop yesterday afternoon/evening the kids and I. We really enjoyed doing it together.

George used some pictures from our camping holiday and Charlotte used 2 of her cousin and her. I did the pictures of my new baby nephew, Oliver who arrived 10 days early on Saturday night and also the photo I took of Charlotte and her friends at her school leavers disco.

I used sketches from

http://52sketches52weeks.com/

which were convieniently sitting in my inbox when I got back from camping. Just what I needed to spur me on.

I'm also doing as class by Shimelle at the mo and am hopefully going to do a page tonight.

I'm working the next 2 days so will do some more scrapping at the weekend and hopefully it won't be more a month or more until I blog again!!!!!!

Thanks for looking and hopefully commenting.

Crop Layouts

2009-06-14T13:49:00.002+01:00

I went to a crop yesterday and finally scrapped!!!! I have done a couple of Lo's in the last couple of months but not much. Yesterday I scrapped 1 whole Lo from a class Jan did, with a flip flap book and 2 half Lo's that i've finished today.

I finally felt I had my mojo back as it's been missing while I've been doing my college work!! Nearly finished so back to scrapping properly (I hope) soon.

Blue Layouts

2009-03-11T22:11:00.004Z

I did these two LO's over last weekend. Can you tell I was in a blue paper mood!!!!

They didn't photograph very well, but I am happy with them. Must do a LO tomorrow of our new addition Pickle the Hamster!!!

Weekly blogger

2009-02-23T22:36:00.003Z

I seem to have turned into a weekly blogger, I've been in bed really early all last week and worked yesterday so don't feel like I've been about on the computer much. I did these 2 LO's last Friday and have remembered to take their picture today. As you can see the pics are old but I wanted to use some from my photo drawer and get strated so this is a start. Charlotte and friends when she was 6 and the candyfloss one is when she is 4 and my little fat baby boy is only 6 months, ooh those chubby legs are so cute!!

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment it is much appreciated I love reading the comments.

xxx

It's Saturday.

2009-02-14T16:42:00.005Z

Blogger hasn't wanted me to blog over the last couple of days, but it appears to be letting me on now.

This is the only picture of George I could get as he flew by on his exercise ball!!!! However it captures the crazy spell he was going through this afternoon perfectly!! Charlotte's out at a Brownie Sleepover so no pic of her today. George really misses her when she is away as they generally play happily together obviously they do have the odd disagreement but mostly they play well.

Also a picture of some goodies I got for sending a card into beautiful cards magazine which was published in issue 29. I was very excited when it came in the post a few days ago. 2 great stamp sets, some decoupage and lovely ribbons.

Finally Layouts!!

2009-02-11T21:44:00.004Z

These are the Lo's I did at the crop on Saturday the waterfall one was a class that I did and the other I did in the afternoon. I love that picture of George it is his first 'school' photo (4 years ago) and the day before he'd crawled into the coffee table and given himself a slight black eye, as I was comforting him crying I remember thinking 'oh no your having your picture taken tomorrow'!!

I just have to add some journalling I as going to add some buttons but I think I like it simple. I also have to add the journalling on the camping LO and I have a little journalling shape the same shape as the stripy paper that I cut on the cricut they provide at the crop (such a fab item)

This is the little book I have made for the page maps, it's small enough (4 x 4) to keep in my tools & bits case and will provide just that little bit of inspiration I sometimes need to get going!! Thanks to Tamsin at my crop for the idea.

Shimelles New Class

2009-02-11T17:47:00.002Z

This looks a fabby class, here, there and everywhere, and well worth a look. Here's a link,

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/74400/

back with pics of my LO's when I've walked the dog!!

What happened top last week

2009-02-10T21:41:00.003Z

I forgot to be a blogger last week, not sure where the week went but I'm back now, typing as I listen to Charlotte coughing her head off, bless her everytime she lays down and is dozing off cough cough cough and she's awake again. She only stops coughing when she is deeply asleep so it takes ages for her to drop off.

Todays photo is the moon, when I was driving home from the leisure centre the moon was so full in the sky but i didn't have my camera. When I got home from my house it was so low you couldn't really see it through the trees but I got a few shots anyway I tried a few functions on my camera and go tthe best shot with the macro although I had to lean on the wheelie bins to stop myself wobbling otherwise the moon looked a very strange shape.

I went to a crop on Saturday, which was great, there was only a few of us and it was a really nice day out. I did a waterfall class in the morning and did another LO in the afternoon, I will pop them on here tomorrow. One of the ladies had made a litle flip book of page maps, I loved the idea so much that I am making one this evening, it's great for when you're having a mind block, just for a little inspiration.

Snow Day

2009-02-02T19:59:00.008Z

Obviously I had to do a snow LO today what with a whole extra day to the weekend, no minding babies came and my two were off school so after I'd taken them out to play in the snow we settled in and they played Lego men and watched a DVD while I did a double LO of the pics we took this morning, never have I scrapped photos so quickly!!!

I also have finished Charlotte's book bar a little bit of journalling which I'm going to do now, below are a couple of pages.

I've done a few little tag pages to go in the pockets that have journalling on the other side and I've left space for journalling on most of the pages. She's really pleased with it, which is great.

Self Portrait Sunday

2009-02-01T20:33:00.004Z

I decided it was about time I had a picture with Gary!! We never, well hardly ever, get our photo taken together so Charlotte took one of us in yet another messy area of the house!!

I'm just finishing Charlotte's paperbag album so I'll hopefully upload that later.

Kids Photo Saturday

2009-01-31T20:33:00.003Z

The kids were willing posers today, next Saturday I must take one outside otherwise I just keep showing pis of my half decorated house, we may be finished by the time the kids leave home!!!

Charlotte has been out all day at her friends and they also went into town together (such big girls now) and George and I had a good day building K-nex models, a bridge and some vehicles. K-nex is such cool stuff, we also played Lego Starwars on the Wii, I'm rubbish at it but George doesn't seem to mind too much and only shouts at me from time to time!!!

Homework

2009-01-27T20:35:00.002Z

This is a regular site on our kitchen table although usually at the weekend but last Friday Charlotte forgot to bring her homework home so she had to do it over last night and tonight.

Very difficult maths!!! to begin with but we did it together and once we got in the swing of it she knows how to do it, hooray. I was never the best at maths but 'Mr Thomas' (my old maths teacher) would have been proud of me tonight!! I thought it deserved a photo. I appreciate Year 6 sats aren't going to be the hardest problems we face but it's a start.

Tagged

2009-01-25T21:38:00.004Z

I was tagged by Ginny http://my5bratzcreations.blogspot.com/ and Vicki http://vickicanning.blogspot.com/ thanks Girls, this is a fun tag. You have to go to the photo's on your pc, go to the 6th folder and find the 6th picture and upload it to here,

My 6th album was an album of photos George has taken and this here is the 6th photo, a lego man!!

I can never decide who to tag so today I've tagged the last 4 people to post on the uks blogathon, as I love everyone's blogs on there.

http://scraptasticfunandotherramblings.blogspot.com/

http://www.craftyred.blogspot.com/

http://acraftingjourney.blogspot.com/

http://www.craftyallotments.blogspot.com/

Have Fun with this tag.

xxx

Self Potrait Sunday (already)

2009-01-25T20:26:00.003Z

The week seems to go by so quickly. Today I took a photo using the timer which is challenging when there is a dog involved!! I'm not sure why Joey looks bald on his chest he's not really!! It was his 5th birthday today so it was good to include him in the photo with me in my regular attire for walking him in the rain.

Handbags and Gladrags

2009-01-24T21:30:00.004Z

Charlotte and I went shopping today and she bought a lovely Roxy handbag with her Christmas money.

We plaited her hair into crazy plaits and she looked cute, or so I thought!! she thought she looked funny!! she is going to keep it in overnight and see how crinkly it is tomorrow. We also went swimming today and bought leisure passes so that I am encouraged to take them swimming more often so that Georgie can practice as he has swimming lessons at the mo.

George then decided for his poses he had to look cool!!! but I'm not sure he achieved that! He's eating a cola bottle although you probably didn't want to know that

Next week I might remember to take photos of them in the daytime!!

We also poppped to 'the glitter pot' for some DST and saw the cutest paper 'Smirk', by Kyla May.

(trimcraft)

Cosy & Warm

2009-01-23T22:13:00.002Z

Even though the childminding babies and I weren't cosy and warm today as it was so chilly. The little people were very cosy in a new boot bed!!!!!

Rain

2009-01-22T16:51:00.003Z

Rain has been a predominant feature of today as everytime I've gone anywhere I've got wet!! I've worn 3 different coats and they are still not dry so it seemed only right I should take a picture of something to do with the rain. These raindrops were on my back door.

Gardening Pancakes and Playdough, not necessarily in that order!!

2009-01-19T21:42:00.003Z

Tonight I have finished my gardening notebook, it is simple but it is a thick notebook that I can write in and put articles from magazines/newspapers & internet in.

We made pancakes tonight, we love them and eat them with all the wrong things, chocolate spread, lemon juice, sugar (not all together!!) but not very often.

Charlotte took this action shot, I love to flip pancakes and usually manage not to chuck them on the floor. I really look like I'm concentrating, don't I.

We also made playdough for the first time I felt I should as it's quite expensive to buy and only ends up getting hard and yucky. It was really easy to make I just goggled making playdough and chose a 1 min one which didn't involve heating it up on the stove so that it was easy for the little ones to help with. It is really good and we were very pleased with it and made some lovely aliens.

Finally Some LO's

2009-01-18T22:18:00.003Z

I did these 2 LO's yesterday. The first is the kids getting their first pair of proper shoes and the second is George's lovely haircut. Please excuse the terrible photos my HP express wouldn't show them for me to crop, silly thing!!!

Tonight I have been covering a little book I am going to use for my vegetable garden plannung, I started growin my own veg last year and got a good if small crop of carrots, beans & peas, radish and lettuce so I;m hoping to be a bit more methodicl and have something growing for most of the year from the spring.

Self Portrait Sunday

2009-01-18T21:32:00.004Z

I got an award which I wanted to thank Ginny for, http://my5bratzcreations.blogspot.com/ I will forward this award in the week. Thanks very much.

I got Gary to take this photo today as i couldn't do it on the self timer!!

I love my car, I'm the only driver in the house, so the lifts, etc. are down to me. I love to drive and will drive anywhere, I drove to London to work 4 days a week when we first moved which mostly I enjoyed. I like the long drive to Devon to see my family, either on the motorway or down the A303 depending on the time of day( A303 day, Motorway, night) and the kids are really good when we go and have landmarks so they know roughly how much longer, without asking too often!!

It seemed apt todays photo was with my lovely blue 1.2 Fiat Punto.

Shimelles class

2009-01-17T22:07:00.002Z

I love the classes Shimelle runs and was excited to see this free one.

http://www.shimelle.com/classes/404/a-free-mini-class-to-say-thank-you/

Pop over and have a nosey.

The picture is her beautiful class picture, it makes me feel all warm and spring like. Which can only be a good thing on these cold days.

Saturday Kid Pictures!!

2009-01-17T18:36:00.004Z

I think they are fed up with the Saturday pics already, but it doesn't help that I forgot till the last minute.

George just loves Watermelon, he would eat it all day if he could. I appreciate that using the flash inside so that you could see Charlotte's eyes would have been much better, but I was lucky to get one at all so beggars can't be choosers!!

Friday 16th January

2009-01-17T18:33:00.001Z

A picture of my lovely new shoes, well got them at Christmas, I love them. My mum has a matching pair, but we don't see each other often enough to look like twins!!!

New Phone

2009-01-15T23:19:00.002Z

My old phone was dying a slow death, saying the battery was dead when it had a call, not ringing out loud just vibrating, etc. So after 6 months of putting it off I got a new phone today, half price in the sale so I was pleased. I couldn't get a decent pic of it as I left it too late & it was dark so I will photograph it again tomorrow.

14th January 2009

2009-01-15T23:17:00.002Z

Exercising with Mr Motivator, I used to love doing his exercises when I was younger so was very pleased to see him back on tv. It's become a mornng routine of doing our exercises before we leave for school.

Blue sky

2009-01-13T20:55:00.001Z

Today I saw some lovely blue sky, it was glorious.

So obviously it had to be todays photo.

12th January 2009

2009-01-13T20:45:00.003Z

I was tired last night and so didn't blog and yesterdays photo was taken late, they looked so cute sleeping I couldn't resist!!!

They were not impressed!!!

Self Portrait Sunday

2009-01-11T17:54:00.004Z

This is my cleaning look!!! I don't know why but it feels better to keep my hair out the way. I've given my floors a good mop today, I can't wait until we get new tiles in the bathroom and kitchen though as the old ones never really look properly clean, I want shiny ones!!! I've also been to the dump with some rubbish from the garden and a few broken things, so I feel happy that I can scrap tonight.

I have so many lines on my face that I can see in photos but not when I look in the mirror. I don't ever wear any make up so I guess I'm just going to look older and older. I suppose I'll get used to the older me, in my head I still look young!!!

Frost & Cooking

2009-01-10T21:26:00.005Z

So winter is really set in here as the frost didn't leave the trees and bushes all day today, it was

really pretty. At least the fog lifted so we could appreciate the prettiness, when George and I walked the dog we had frost on the ends of our hair and the dog had frosty whiskers!!! I also took pictures of the spider webs today.

As it was too cold to go out far I did some cooking, I'm not a cook, I can't bear to cook in fact. Normally I find it tedious get bored half way through, do something else while I'm waiting and then it burns!!! I had an urge today to make soup, strange as that may seem, it must be the cold weather. So I made vegetable soup and it was delicious, even the kids thought so. I used a recipe from the Sainsburys site but had bought the ingredients from Tesco as Gary works there. Then as if that culinary masterpiece wasn't enough I also made Sausages and Roasted Vegetables for tea, which the kids weren't so keen on but I guess you can't win everytime!! No photos of the cooking I was too excited that it looked edible and wasn't burnt, I'm going to make some more soup tomorrow to freeze for the week!!! This soesn't sound like me at all.

I've decided to take pictures of the kids on a Saturday regularly, obviously on other days as well but at least on a Saturday so that some get taken weekly throughout the year. Today they were on the computer a lot of the day so it seems appropriate that todays photo is this one. They were playing Club Penguin and doing some missions, they managed well together most of the time with only the odd fight!!!

Chilly Friday

2009-01-09T19:11:00.002Z

We have been chilly today, but we also managed to appreciate some things about the cold weather on our way to school this morning. The frost had made the spider webs look so pretty but must have made the spiders have very chilly feet!!! Did I have my camera to take a pic, no but I will bear it in mind tomorrow and try and get some snaps if we have frost which it looks as if we will because tonight it is very cold and foggy.

Fried Eggs

2009-01-08T21:46:00.003Z

These are one of my fav foods, Gary even said I make them better than him today, which has to be a first as I'm a rubbish cook and he likes to cook and rustles up some delicious dinners. I've decided to take photos of the kids on the weekends as it's a bit pressured on weekdays with everyone here and them being at school all day.

Todays photo is very eggsxting!!!!

Cookies & College

2009-01-07T21:54:00.003Z

The Childminding babies and I have been making cookies today, everyone thought they were yummy and the big ones were very excited by fresh cookies when they came in from school. Heart, Stars, Circles and some very odd shapes!! I also started back at College after the Christmas break. I'm doing a Diploma in Homebased Childcare, I'm just more than half way and will be finished by the summer.

It doesn't want to upload my photos today I'll try again tomorrow.

Hopefully here are the pictures

When we ate them though they went a bit crunchy not sure how to make them softer!!

All wrapped up

2009-01-06T13:44:00.004Z

I was all wrapped up ready to go to do the school run when I suddenly decided to get Charlotte to take my phot, so after rushing about finding the camera I was boiling hot!!! Must do that every morning before I go outside!!

This is a LO I did for scrap like you mean it, which is a challenge Shimelle is running on UKS. I'm the one on the left as you look at it!!! Such a cute haircut!!

Lovely to look at but a bit chilly!!

2009-01-05T16:19:00.005Z

SNOW, we woke up to a covering of snow today, the kids had to go back to school so we alked to school in the snow making prints and snow angels, brrr.

I only had one minding baby while the others were at pre school so we made the worlds smallest snowman!! (can you see it) but Brooke who was 2 today as well was very happy with it as you can see from her face.

Here's a close up, he has small cat biscuits for eyes!!

Cats sleep anywhere

2009-01-04T18:46:00.003Z

I was going to finish off the college essay that I got halfway through this morning, but.....

well as you can see, what's a girl to do wouldn't want to disturb him!!.

Can you tell Ijust shoved everything up and didn't tidy, whoops, photographic evidence of my messy weekend/holiday craft space. Must put it all away tonight.

Hair cut

2009-01-03T22:05:00.003Z

George loves his hair, he always has wanted long hair ever since he could express an opinion (quite young!!) I did get it cut once when he first started pre school and it looked cute but he hated it even at that young age so we let him grow it again and just had it trimmed. Today we compromised and he had it cut out of his eyes and the length shortened at the back, it looks so cute!!!

Before

After

Icy

2009-01-03T11:21:00.005Z

I love this, went out to the garden today as it was really sunny to have a survey of what needs tidying. I promised the childminding babies that I would sort out the garden by fencing off the uneven part so that they could get to the play house and have some outside time at home. We haven't been using the garden the last few months, just going out to the park alot and they have missed the play house. Anyway to cut a long story short, I'll be busy tomorrow!!!! The picnic set was out and had iced over so when i lifted a cup out the whole lot was stuck in the ice, my 2 thought it was 'well cool'!!!

This second photo is a LO I did using the sketch from http://cleocrafts.blogspot.com/ I wanted to keep it really clean and simple to emphasise the freedom and clean start I felt when getting rid of all the old paperwork that was cluttering up my drawers all around the house. It was a great feeling watching it all burn away.

2nd day

2009-01-02T21:25:00.003Z

I have been taking these berocca for the last couple of weeks, I love the slogan from the advert

'you but on a really good day'

and decided that's how I wanted to feel so I've been taking them to see if I feel any bouncier not that I was particularly unbouncy but you know how it is with work, kids, life, etc. I'll see how I feel next week when I'm back in the swing of minding, school runs, etc. I decided to hail them in todays photo.

It has been a lovely day here today quite sunny so we went out to 2 parks, the kids had so much fun on the curly slide!! and bumped into a friend in the first park so a good time was had by all. They should sleep well all that fresh air.

2009

2009-01-01T19:45:00.008Z

These are some of the pages from a paperbag album that I received from my friend, she sent me the album and some lovely bits to go with it for my birthday, I will add some more journalling and some ribbon for the edges over the weekend. It was great to collate all the Christmas photos together as I've not done a christmas alum before.

Lets see how long this whole taking a photo each day lasts!!

I took the photos and then realised I was wearing the funny headband that the kids laugh at me in!! Never mind the camera batteries on charge so I'm not taking new photos, the colours were really odd as well so I changed it to sepia and it looks better.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

2008-12-31T14:58:00.003Z

Happy New Year

I'm not one for making resolutions exactly but this year I feel I have to take control of some things and so am going to at least have some aims, these are:

organise our finances in a logical fashion, budget and save!! Ok well definately budget so that the money and the month run out at the same time and not the former running out well before the latter!!

continue to appreciate the kids while they are still young and full of wonder and bright ideas, what happens to those great ideas and enthusiasm for little things as we grow older?

Scrap and make cards as often as I can.

(I've nearly finished a christmas journal that a friend sent me for my birthday.)

Read more books and listen to more music.

(I read a whole book on Tuesday, Sophia Kinsella, Remember me. It is a brillant book and well worth the read. I don't think I've ever had time to finish a book in a day before certainly not post children.)

That'll do for now.

See you in 2009

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

2008-12-07T21:37:00.004Z

We went to Hyde Park Winter Wonderland today and had a fab, rare family day out. We all really enjoyed our skating and Charlotte has a natural ability for skating, she has only been once before about 2 years ago and was whizing round like a pro, we were all very impressed.

The rest of us managed ok and didn't fall much (me not at all!!!) and Charlotte and I managed a couple of quick laps once the ice quietened down towards the end of the hour and while the boys were drinking their respective drinks, hot choc and beer, you can guess who had what!!!!

We also went on the observation wheel and had a look round the German Market that was there with some lovely stuff. Charlotte and I brought a bracelet and Charlotte also brought a very nice ring.

What a bad blogger I've been!!

2008-11-17T22:41:00.003Z

A little catch up, I've been busy with college coursework and the kids,etc so not much scrapping or card making.

We went away for the weekend to Portsmouth and stayed in a lovely hotel called Queens in Southsea, it was brill. I think if I won a lot of money I might have to live in a hotel, no cooking, washing up,etc. Someone making your bed!! The reason we went away was to celebrate with my family for my Nana's 80th Birthday. It was a lovely weekend and the birthday girl had a lovely time. We all loved going up the Spinnaker Tower and the kids loved the glass floor area!!

I've also been following the stories in hand class from jessica spragues blog, it is a lovely idea and I hope to keep it up!! http://www.jessicasprague.com/

I've done the printing and made the binder so off to a good start. I'll take some pics and let you know how I get on.

UKS challenge

2008-10-26T15:31:00.004Z

I thought I'd do this challenge with some photos I took yesterday at the halloween festival at Tulleys Farm. The kids really enjoyed the pumpkin chuckin'!!

The challenge was to follow a sketch, use Autumn colours, 10 of something and outdoor photo.

Littlegreen Crop

2008-10-19T17:20:00.003+01:00

I had such a lovely time at Littlegreen crop yesterday and did my first scrapping in ages. I did a 12 x 12 LO of the kids on the trampoline called bouncing anda star book class where we made the 6 x 6 star book and I've been decorating it today, interupted by making a card for my friend who had her baby yesterday. I will also be making a tag book for her so will get on with that tonight and then we can add photos as they come.

Olympic Parade Photos

2008-10-16T20:26:00.007+01:00

Here are some pictures from the Olympic Parade today, it was fantastic. The kids and I loved seeing all the athletes we had cheered on in Beijing.

Mark Foster (swimmer) and lurvely!!!

Tom Daly (Diving), Rebecca Adlington (2 golds swimming)

Ellie Simmonds

(2 Golds paralympic swimming)

Andy Hodge (gold, mens coxless fours), Phillips Idowu (silver, triple jump) Tim Brabent (Gold, Canoeist)

Doodlebug house

2008-08-25T17:24:00.005+01:00

Charlotte and I made this doodlebug house today, she choose Halloween style and we had a nice time making it together. We were pleased with the final outcome of our cute first little house.

I also did this Lo for a challenge on UKS which was to use shades of the same colour and use a sketch. I found the big picture of Charlotte and Gary and wanted to use it in a LO so this seemed a good opportunity.

The journalling says, When we lived in Dillwyn close Daddy used to go in the loft wher his record player was. On this day you clamboured up with him and listened to REM's Green album at top volume.

Another LO

2008-08-21T15:08:00.001+01:00

This is a LO I did last night following a sketch from the uks summer stash bash.

Excuse the photo.

Circle minibook

2008-08-18T20:43:00.003+01:00

This is a circle minibook that was on UKS, by Annette (voodoo vixen). Her site is so lovely and her minibooks are fab.

http://scraphappenshere.blogspot.com/

Mine don't quite do hers justice but I really enjoyed what I've done so far. I need to go on a shopping trip for a few more embellishments, etc so that I can finish it off.

Year 6

2008-08-18T07:48:00.003+01:00

When Charlotte goes back to school in September, she'll be in year 6. She had a list from school of things she will need to have. She was very excited about getting it and a lot of thought went into exactly which folder and pencil case she wanted. She chose a Mr Bump pencil case and a Mr Men and Little Miss Folder amongst all the other things, I think it's a preparation for secondary school. She was so pleased showing her dad and grandparents what she had that it really deserved a LO.

The sketch is one from UKS Summer Crop, (Friday 15th)

I'm in the process of doing 2 mini books as well, and will hopefully finish them tonight.

Veggies

2008-08-17T21:45:00.002+01:00

Ok, so I know that it's not exactly enough for us to live on but everyone has to start somewhere!! As I am normally unable to keep a house plant alive for very long you can imagine how excited I was when i got all this from my veg patch and apple tree!!! You could here me shrieking with excitement up and down the road and the kids even ate the runner beans.

Camping

2008-08-10T15:14:00.002+01:00

We have spent the last week camping in the Forest Of Dean with my brother and his kids which was fab. We all had a lovely time and feel revitilised by our break. We visited a number of places, Sculpture trail, a 4.5 mile walk which the kids did without any complaining. Puzzle wood, great mazes, Gary and I went to Chepstow races as we had won tickets and we had a lovely day out. The kids went with my parents to Dick Whittington Farm Park. Swimming, Clearwell Caves and had a picnic by the river Wye. Some of the photos are here at slide.com, thanks LK for showing me this site!!
http://www.slide.com/mscd?pxcid=nzTNjDdsU9UqUrVas1vUb3V0QzaN59VcuR19x2LZn1DPb9_3SXdsZ3lVTYbg-ikM&nc=

Legoland

2008-08-02T00:01:00.010+01:00

Well my dad has been home for nearly a week now and seems fine, apart from a couple of headaches, thanks for all your best wishes. We will see him next week as he is coming to visit us where we are camping. So that will be great.

We took the kids to Legoland on Thursday and had a brilliant time. As you can see from the pics I hope, we rode on the sky chairs, watched Johnny Thunder save the day, raced on the fire trucks and put out the fires!!! enjoyed our watermelon, and rode on the wave riders. All in all a good day was had by all and we certainly all slept well when we got home.

We are going camping for a week tomorrow, so catch you all soon. Hopefully with a lot of holiday pics for scrapping.

Weird few days

2008-07-25T22:13:00.004+01:00

After a scan yesterday my dad was rushed into his local neuro hospital within a couple of hours and had brain surgery that very afternoon, being 200 miles a way I felt a bit helpless but I think even if I'd been there I'd have felt the same. Anyway he's making a great recovery and should be home over the weekend!! Hard to believe brain surgery on a Thursday anbd then home 2 days later but we'll see how he goes. He's obviously made of strong stuff!!!

I did this quick little LO tonight for this weeks challenge on uks as i felt the need to do something, so another page for the kids dr who exhibition album.

Teachers Minibook

2008-07-21T13:59:00.003+01:00

This is a minibook I made for Georges teacher, as he has had a really lovely year 1 and enjoyed it a lot.

No LO's but some cards!!

2008-07-20T10:05:00.003+01:00

Have made a some cards with some images a very kind friend sent to me. Two for George & Charlotte's teachers and one for George's friend whose party it is today.

Loving these stamps

2008-07-10T13:06:00.001+01:00

A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of this gorgeous blog, I'm loving these stamps.

http://www.spiralwhisper.blogspot.com/

My fav is the giraffe, it's so cute.

My Crop Layout

2008-07-08T07:58:00.003+01:00

This is the LO I did at the crop. I'll put the sketch I folllowed up later as my minding children are here and need the computer!!

My first Crop

2008-07-06T13:44:00.004+01:00

I went to my first crop (Littlegreen crop) yesterday it was fantastic. Ihad such a great day. I did a sketch class and made a card in a make and take session using stampinup stamps which were lovely.

I met lots of lovely ladies and have got the next one in October on the calender already. Here area couple of pics I took. The school is in beautiful buildings in lovely surroundings.

Next time I'll take a pic when we are all sitting down I forgot to take pics till nearly the end!!!

British Wildlife Centre

2008-06-29T19:11:00.006+01:00

http://www.britishwildlifecentre.co.uk/ This is where we spent the morning yesterday well worth a visit and we are going back next week with a picnic for the whole day.

Sleeping rats!!, these rats made us lauhg so much becasue more and more kept piling in andthen the odd one would squeeze over all the others to get through to the other side, the kids were fascinated by them.

The first of these squirrels is Albino and happily eating his lunch while we watched him and the other just chilling in the sun, we liked him because he was lying so flat out.

These foxes had just been fed (dead chicks) by the keeper who was talking about them so they were running about in the open. The big one had just been licking the little one it was very cute.

and last but not least this gorgeous owl. My camera battery died at this point (even though I'd charged it) so fortunately that means another trip to capture some images of the otters, who were lovely.

Impromptu

2008-06-15T16:24:00.003+01:00

I decided lat week that I wanted some photos of Charlotte and I and obviously being me I chucked the camera at Gary and we took them then and there!!!! In the eating area of the kitchen!!! Background is everything I here you all crying but never mind and as it turned out I love the photos we ended up with.

You would not believe how long it took me to do this simple LO, George was insistent that I help him with 'where's wally the great picture hunt'!! so with a few minutes here and there I finally finished what I started yetsreday. It is based on a sketch and LO by Shimelle in this months scrapbook inspirations. I followed this as I haven't done much scrapping lately and decided this would help pull me out!!

Friends book

2008-06-05T11:08:00.003+01:00

I made this book for a friend of mine who is having a hard time at the mo, I followed a class on this gorgeous website.

http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/class_-_maze_book.htm

and actually remembered to photograph it before I put it in the envelope.

Generation Minibook

2008-05-26T17:24:00.002+01:00

This is three generations of my family my nana, great nana and great great nana and as far as I have got with my minibook this afternoon, while watching 'the sound of music'.

I've loved getting the pictures together and am endeavouring to find some back further than 1855.

My Vegetable Garden

2008-05-24T18:59:00.005+01:00

We finally got everything together for the raised veg bed, I wanted a rasied bed so that 1 I could have really good quality compost on top of my own improved soil which is a bit clay like ( I fixed it up a bit with some manure and grit!!) The stuff on top is really nice compost and it took 9 bags of compost to fill it. I have been growing some of the veg in a little greenhouse and after a slight disaster, the greenhouse blew over and everything went everywhere. So after I replanted everything and tied the greenhouse to the playhouse everything seemed to grow well.

The kids helped for a while!! they liked the raking best!

It's all planted out anyway and I guess we can see what happens!!!

Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrots, Radish, Runner beans, Peas, Onions, Garlic, Lettuce

Can you tell it suddenly got very windy when I was taking the photo and all the leaves are billowing over, hope they manage to stay rooted!!

Cyber Crop

2008-04-28T19:54:00.002+01:00

I loved doing this LO with a class from the uks cyber crop. I really like this picture of Charlotte on her Brownie holiday.

25th of the month

2008-04-25T23:50:00.003+01:00

I have started this class from Shimelle

check out her blog for more inspiration. It' free!!

http://www.shimelle.com/

I will upload my pics from today and my album cover that I've finished tomorrow.

Also the Cyber Crop has started on ukscrappers and so here is my first challenge LO, to not use any patterned papers.

Pre Cyber Crop LO

2008-04-20T21:18:00.002+01:00

This is the LO from the sketch provided on ukscrappers as another of the pre Cyber Crop challenges.

Cyber crop

2008-04-19T09:36:00.003+01:00

Over on ukscrappers next weekend, they are having another cybercrop this time it is oscars based. It is a weekend full of classes and challenges to get your mojo flowing. As part of the pre crop challenges there is a project each day. I have done just a few of them.

A tea cup charm, it was wine glass charm but I realy only drink tea!!

A Do Not Disturb sign for during the cybercrop.

My first scrap show

2008-04-13T21:28:00.008+01:00

Some lovely papers

Cute buttons for some cards

Letters, Stickers, etc

Minibooks, Chipboad shapes and a friends book kit.

Helen and I

Today I went to Alexandra Palace, the Big Stamp and Scrapbook Show. I met up with my tammate from ukscrappers Helen and had our picture taken to prove it. I had a great time and bought a load of great stash as you can see from the pics. Some stuff for my cards and some for my scrapping. After I'd finished I met Gary and the kids at Earls court and we went to the Dr who exhibition which was cool, the kids loved seeing all the costumes, etc.

The kids, the doctor and the Tardis.

The kids and the Face of Boe

Charlotte's Birthday Card

2008-04-03T17:51:00.002+01:00

Charlotte's birthday today, the grand age of 10!! I made this birthday card for her.

The Front

The tags that slot into the pockets, featuring a nice baby photo and a funny dressed as a devil one.

The pockets with the tags in.

Finally

2008-03-30T19:20:00.006+01:00

here I am blogging again.

Since I last blogged we've been to Devon to visit my parents over Easter weekend which was great despite the weathers attempt to dampen our spirits with consistent rain and wind!!!

Charlotte has also been on school holiday which had been causing us both quite alot of stress (mine hidden badly and hers plainly obvious) We both survived the 2 days!!! and the Layout
below is the product of that. Charlotte took a disposable camera with her which I was very excited about as I thought I'd be able to see her room, etc. Only to be sorely dissapointed when we discovered out of the 27 photos there were 6 you could see, this was because she forgot you had to use the flash indoors!!!! Bless her, although they weren't quite my words when I first discovered what had happened!!!

I've censored Charlotte's friends as I haven't checked I can include their photo yet.

Underneath the photo of Charlotte is a pull down with a map of the place they stayed in and their room marked on it. I've raised it slightly and folded the kit list we were given underneath, we've written little notes on it and I think that it will be nice to look at and remind us how we got ready for this first trip. I used part of the letter we got explaining about the trip, the name of the school and place of the trip and the date.

Underneath the photo I've written 'Don't smile' which is what they were saying to each other as Charlotte took the photo.

These Butterfly Fat Pages are for a swap I am taking part in on the cardmaking and papercraft forum. I will receive 14 fat pages from other memebers and have already got some lovely ones, when I get them all I will put them on here.

Mojo

2008-03-18T21:52:00.002Z

My mojo has done a runner and I've not scrapped for an age, today though I had a few ideas so maybe just maybe it's returning slowly. Watch this space and hopefully something will appear soon!!!

You make my day

2008-03-03T20:23:00.003Z

Mandi who is on my team on ukscrappers kindly included me in her list of you make my day people, Thanks Mandi.

People who make my day are

Lazykay http://www.freewebs.com/bean-sidhe/blog.htm

Tracey http://tj-runningwithscissors.blogspot.com/

I look at your blogs at least a couple of times a week and you always make my day. Thanks.

Final February uks challenge

2008-03-02T13:04:00.002Z

This is the last Lo for February, to include purple and ribbon (no ribbon) something sparkly, 29 or 2 & 9 of something, a water theme.

This picture was taken of Charlotte when she was about 2 at the Millenium Dome, we had such a great day there, even though the dome got a lot of bad press we enjoyed our day. Helped by the fact we had free tickets!!

The final edition!!

2008-02-26T17:16:00.002Z

Ok here is this finished LO, with the journalling and the shiny brad as the o in 'word'

I now think there is too much journalling!!! Never mind. I like it anyway.

What shall I do with the journalling?

2008-02-24T21:20:00.003Z

This is my LO for this weeks challenge on ukscrappers, just need to add a shiny brad, but stuck on the journalling, shall i write directly on to the Lo or use sentence blocks or word blocks? Any help much appreciated.

2008-02-24T20:54:00.002Z

2008-02-20T07:26:00.003Z

This is a LO based on week 3's sketch from the 52 sketches site, it's rotated. I'm gradually catching up!!!!

This moment in the racing car was so great for me because George hadn't wanted to drive one the whole time he was at the party (racing car party), as he felt like he might not be able to do it and didn't want the others too see him do it wrong.

So when the ladies who were running it said he could have a go at the end when the other kids went for their party food he decided to give it a little try. As it turned out they had gone up to the balcony to eat and so could cheer him when he drove round the track which he coped with really well. He enjoyed it even though he does look rather pensive in the photos.

Too much of a thinker for a 6 year old, bless him. I'll be grateful when he's bigger that he doesn't make rash decisions but at the moment it makes childhood fun hard for him.

I will add the journalling later as I want to hide it and haven't decided the best way of doing this.

Todays Card

2008-02-16T17:30:00.002Z

I took the whole day on and off, between doing other jobs to make this card!! One of these days I'll have time to sit and just make a card with no interruptions.

Get Well Card

2008-02-14T08:00:00.002Z

I actually made a couple of cards last night!! A valentines card for Gary (bit last minute!) and this Get Well card for one of our cousins children who isin hospital, he's a teenager so I didn't want soppy images, hopefully this will make him smile. Just have to add some words today.

Cry Baby Cry

2008-02-09T18:35:00.000Z

This weeks challenge on ukscrappers is

'Welcome to February and the first challenge set up the Scrummy Scrappers - we hope you enjoy doing it...February is meant to be the dullest, darkest month of the year - so we thought it would be a good idea to bring some colour into your lives so we challenge you to make a lo with bright, summery colours... This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster where 7 young Manchester United players sadly died so we want you to use 7 of something in honour of them... It is also the anniversary of the Beatles first arriving in America so we would like you to use a Beatles song as your title...The next part of our challenge is to not use blossoms - this was a real challenge to ourselves as we tend to use them alot...Finally we decided February is such a bleak month it needed even more colour... so we challenge you to use paint on your lo... go on get good and messy...'

Here is my effort this week, a picture of Charlotte at 2 days old, not very impressed at having to have a bath!!!! I'm starting an album for her!!! along with my many other things I'm doing. I like to have a lot of works in progress!!

A Knights Tale

2008-02-08T21:02:00.000Z

Well my little Knight went off to school all happy in his costume and he managed to the playground before he lost his nerve and his self conciousness got the better of him. But he looked cute for the photo. One day I'll remember to pay attention to the background of my photos as well as the subject!!!

Altered tin

2008-02-06T22:24:00.000Z

Ok so this months challenge set by one of the girls on cardmaking and papercraft is to alter a box, this is a tin ut I'm sure it still applys. It's for my FIL's birthday tomorrow as he always has a litle dish or something with bits and bobs in so I thought I'd make him a bits and bobs tin. It was a custard tin in it's previous life!!! I think I'm going to add a picture of him with the kids on the top as I took a nice one a little while a go fr a page Charlotte was making.

Generations

2008-02-03T22:28:00.001Z

This is a layout that I've been meaning to scrap for ages and today got around to it, as you can see it's Charlotte me, my mum, my nan, great nana and great great nana. I love all these pics and wanted to use them together.

My first Tag

2008-02-03T21:49:00.000Z

I've been tagged by Kerry (angelwings) http://angelwings2.blogspot.com/2008

My seven facts are

1. I grew up by the sea in Devon

2. I hate eating fish with eyes.

3. I'm 6ft tall

4. I love the colour blue

5. I've never had an operation

6. I was once run over and fortunately escaped with a few cuts and grazes

7. I have a springer spaniel/border collie called Joey

Here are the rules:Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

Here are the people I have tagged:

http://www.freewebs.com/bean-sidhe/blog.htm

http://stampinuplondongal.blogspot.com/

http://craftecreations.blogspot.com/

http://www.sillybirds.blogspot.com/

http://samm-l.blogspot.com/

http://www.shimelle.com/

http://carocrafts.blogspot.com/

Finally some cards

2008-01-31T22:17:00.000Z

Here are 2 cards I made for a neighbour who passed his driving test today. The L plates are raised on both cards.

Challenges

2008-01-27T20:49:00.000Z

Ok I think incoporating the LO's is cheating but I'm only doing it for me so I guess it's fine.

This LO is the first one for my overlooked challenges, the coffee mug, or in my case tea mug.

it uses the sketch provided for the 52 sketches/52 weeks. I aim to catch up with this one this week to get up to week 4 and be on track.

http://juliebonner.typepad.com/52_sketches_52_weeks/2008/01/this-weeks-sk-1.html

Dedication

2008-01-22T21:34:00.000Z

Finally getting back in the swing of scrapping, I thought I'd havea go at this weeks challenge on uks.

In 1924 the first Winter Olympic games opened in Chamonix, France.

So as a theme for your layout choose one of these aspects of Olympic games:

Courage or Strength,

Love or dedication (all athlete have a love and dedication to their particular sport),

Home or country = 10 pts

Use glitter on your photograph (can be any colour) to represent snow/ice = 5pts

To represent the downhill skiing or toboggan use a full length strip of paper or spiral (doesn't have to be white) = 10 pts

And because all the athletes are stars put at least one star on your LO = 5pts.Good luck and have fun!!!

I didn't use glitter on my photo as I obviously wasn't paying proper attention when i read the brief!! but the rest is there.

Dolls house Layout

2008-01-21T12:23:00.000Z

This is a Lo I've wanted to do since Charlotte got her dolls house for Christmas, she got a few more bits for it at the big dolls house show we went to on Saturday so now has very cute crockery, mugs saucepans and teeny tiny cakes. She lets her littlest pet shop animals and bratz babies live in there a the moment.

Do you think it needs a title or is it self explanatory? I can't decide what the title should be so I've left it for a bit

Here are some pictures of the dolls house, it's so cute!!!

My Computer

2008-01-13T13:58:00.000Z

is driving me nuts, it keeps shutting down, I'm changing to a wireless connection soon which apparently should help and they reduced the proce of my AOL package so I was pleased!! Nice to have something reduced for once.

The cat has taken a shine to my new shelves and I've had to leave a little space for him to sleep on one of the shelves otherwise he knocks eveything off.

I've not done much scrapping this week but I have altered a couple of notebooks as I've started my Diploma in HomeBased Childcare, (one evening a week) so I wanted my note books to look a bit nicer than a plain pad.

I've also been taking part in

http://thoselittlebigthings.blogspot.com/

It made my tigger mug feel very important having it's picture taken!!!

and

http://scrappingangelsuk.typepad.com/365_days/

I've been good and kept a little journal everyday, I'm going to do my LO for the first week this afternoon, I'll try and pop it on later.

and

http://itsacreativeworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/sign-up-today.html

although I am yet to complete my first LO, good job it's 2 weekly prompts

Great Free Shelves

2008-01-06T18:41:00.001Z

I saw some shelves yesterday and they said please take on the side of them, I couldn't manage them myself yesterday as Gary wasn't here so didn't think much else of it, until this morning when I walked the dog and they were still there so once we'd put the rook bars on the car we shot off to pick them up and now I have a very nice new set of shelves for my craft stuff!!! I'm very excited and they fit very nicely in the corner. Here is a picture of them before I put them in place.

I'll take another once I get everything on them nice.

Notice board

2008-01-05T16:12:00.000Z

One of the girls on the cardmaking and papercraft forum set a monthly challenge to make a notice board or clipboard so I revamped my exisitng boring chipboard pin board to make it look more attractive.

Book Of Everything

2008-01-02T17:55:00.000Z

I'm taking part in the challenge on the creative world blog to use the prompts given every 2 weeks to make an art journal. I'm not entirely sure what an art journal is and am hoping that it can be whatever you want it to be!!!!

http://itsacreativeworld.typepad.com/its_a_creative_world/

I've made the front cover of my journal and am all ready for the first prompt on Saturday.