Jyc.... So close!!!

Last night i sat and made another layout for my secret assignment, which i have to say i am super pleased withit. Unlike my normal scrapping time this one took about an hour and a half to put together, totally, like ages for me!! So wanna see a sneak??




and as i was in the zone, and all my stuff was out i thought i would make my jyc cover, well i say cover its kinda the first page of the album..... I like this lots too i must have been on a roll. I didnt get out any christmas supplies so i just used what was on the table, and it worked well, oh apart from getting to the end the word christmas and realising i had no "s" !!!! Oooops enter an 8 cut up.. You know i'm ok with that!




Looking forward so much to playing along again this year, this is my 3rd album and Bella's 2nd Christmas and to say i am over excited by the season is an understatement!!!!

Am also really looking forward to seeing everyone elses journals too, its such a warm and fuzzy time, i love it!!!

See you tomorrow for prompt one!!!!!

Mwah xxxxx
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Which side of the fence do you sit on ?

With regards to snow! Seriously, it looks cute, and with the right lens can photograph really well, pretty even? , but after the initial fun i really think i am over it! Is this bad?

Today was Bella's first proper snow, well the first she could go out and play in. She was really intrigued by it and not at all phased, but really 15 mins outside for this 1 year old was plenty, man it gets cold quickly!!

So i figured i have to be excited for longer now i have a little girlie who wants to play, and that's fine. Just so long as snow only comes on the weekend when i don't have to travel to work!!!

Here are a few pics i took this morning before heading into town to get the last of the presents. I have more on the dslr using a cool lens so i'll upload those later!




Our garden and missy's swing first thing this morning..




Cute baby girl snuggly and warm.



Pretty path to the park.

I am half way through a really exciting project that i will share with you as soon as i can, its great fun, but taking a lot of forward thinking!!!

Happy snow day all xxx

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Man it's cold...& other stories

Chilly huh? Can't complain too much though, i love this season, it holds Christmas, hot drinks, log fires and quilts yay!!

This week has been different to most, but good, really good actually. I spent lots of time at home doing very little except catching a mamouth cold, but to be honest apart from said cold, I really could get used to this being at home business! Oh the simple life!!

So, last night i spent some much needed scrappy time with some really lovely girls , carla, debs & lisa. We scrapped, chatted and ate yummy food until gone mid night and i really enjoyed myself!

Although i did only complete 2 layouts, which in 5 hours is really really really slow for me! But i love both of them so all is good! I can't share them yet as i am a donut and left my album at Carla's oops!! So the only pic i have from the evening is this one, its lisa's cute sign!!




In other news if you are after some cheap simple shaped punches then you might want to check out hobbycraft, they have all of theirs on reduction, so i decided they were too good to miss at all under £5 and picked up these



A 2" scalloped square, a 1" circle and 1/2 " circle. Ooohh and a blending tool, so i can now use my distressing inks, whick i am slowly getting used to.

I will leave you with something tasty, i got the recipe for these yummo cookies from SJ, it's near as damit to the actual millie's cookies recipe as you will get, and let me tell you they taste devine!!


So why not pop over to SJ for the recipe and have a go for yourself. Yum!!!

Now its time for hot bread, cheese and wine ...... Yum!!

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Wooooop.... New lens o rama!!!

I am home with my still poorly girl today :0( which allowed me to avoid the annoyance of getting post then having to drive to the depot to get it!!!
Yay within about 10 mins both DPD & Royal Mail arrived to bring us 2 new nikkon lens's!!!! & to say i am over the moon is an understatement. I have been ever so lost without my Dslr.
So these are what we got




A new 50 mm everyday automatic.




& this, its a 35mm f1.8 lens, but this one is Jack's christmas present so has to stay out of my grasp at least until jack has played with it.

I am looking forward to using both and a "real" camera again!!

Be back soon with some shots to show, but for now i am curling up on the sofa under Bella's quilt giving her lots of cuddles and making her feel better.

Happy Wednesday
Xxxx

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Monday monday ( as the song goes)

Its been a funny ol' weekend mostly filled with a poorly baby and a bit of retail therapy ( which i have to add was for Bella & Christmas etc)
But i had a lovely day all the same and snapped some cute shots using instagram (new best friend!!!)
So thought i would share



Feeling super festive and all tradtional *cuteness*.




I have not shared this yet so here is the gorgeous quilt i made for Bella's birthday using her 0-3 vests & grows. I loved making this but wss not hugely happy with the finished result, then when i got it out on satursay i wax like "seriously i LOVE this, whats not to love ????" win indeed :0) xxxx

This has had muchos use this weekend helping my little squidge recover.



Finally asleep after a few rough hours :0(

So thats it from me for now, am hungry (obvs) so off to grab some breakfast *yay*

I promise to return with crafty goodness later.
Love
Sally xxx


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... the final installment

Thanks for bearing with me and my iphone posts you are all very kind :O)

The last of my "jordans" layouts are here, its been 2 weeks since i was there and I am missing looking forward to going so am looking forward to the date being set for the next one!! WOOOOP

I am hooked on apps and have found tons that i totally adore... without doubt my favourite is Instagram... but i do feel the need to photograph and share almost every aspect of my day LOL

Layouts then..

This is perhaps my most favourite picture of the two of us from our wedding, I have had it enlarged to 20"x30" and framed to put somewhere in the house, although it currently resides in our room, it looks awesome though!!!

Much Kraft love again and a range of Bella Bella papers from MME too, see i am also doing well on the embellie clustering etc Wooop!!

The look of love ... we really wanted to capture this shot and spent a while talking to the photographer about it and she did us proud. Although i am not too sure about the acutal layout, and its a shame that the corner got torn in tansit on the way home :O(

Cutebaby girl and some lovely OA seaside papers, i love how little she is here and how she looks so excited for her first outing to a hot tub. She really did love it too :O)

This slide was beyond awesome ... it was part of Bella's birthday weekend celebrations and was at the local farm park.. Thankfully there was no one around at the time because i screamed like a little girl!!! It was super fun, although i am sad that i didn't have enough E's as i wanted to call the layout weeeeeeeeee. I think woop is still good though!!



... and finally the epic find layout. Danes is our surname..and when we went to look at Bella's nursery back in Jan ( hence the snow) we saw this on the way home and were like WOW THAT'S AWESOME!!!! clearly a photo op if ever there was one... but from the warmth of the car!!! and with a camera phone too!! hee hee. So pleased we got it... so too was Jacks dad when we told him. It's not the most common of surnames so to see it like this really made my FIL pleased!! *cute*


My weekend is going well so far, but there is still much to do on the Christmas shopping front and I would ideally like to get it all sorted before the end of November if possible. So that's the plan for tomorrow along with a visit to my mums too. Busy bees we are.

Om so its time for sleep... i really am so bad at getting up when little miss decides its wake up time at 6am ( on a weekend... i ask you!!!) so I'll love you and leave you.

until the next time my lovelies
Au Revoir

xxxxxx

So this is the decision for jyc 2010 . 6x12 ac album, filled with kraft. I plan to use the new everybody loves christmas range from echo park too . I got the idea from sj whom i am sure did something like this last year on a much grander scale .







What do you think ? Am now on the look out for embellies so any thoughts let me know please.

Right i had better get back to painting some more canvases xxx
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I am here

I have been getting to know the new addition to our family ......the lovely little iphone 4 and i am really really hooked. All of the scrappy girls have them and i can now join the fun !!!! Woop !! And oh mai it really is fun :0) although i think i might need to get a different blog app as this one is text only ....and everyone knows those posts are not so good!

In other news i have made my decision on my jyc 2010 album and papers so i will share those tomorrow oh and i have the most super exciting challenge to complete (scrapping based) and i will share the details with you when i can...but watch this space its awesome
Right i am off to find more apps
Hugs
Sally xx

Told you there was more...

Here is the next installment of layouts... I don't know if i mentioned it but a while back i ordered a whole heap of prints and they came, i filed them away and when i came to look for them they had gone. I literally turned everything upside down, and eventually resigned to the fact i must have thrown them away by accident!!! So i re ordered most of them for the weekend away, no pics, new stash great inspiration Right?. Then half an hour ago i was looking through a basket in my expedit for a random piece of info i knew was in there ( found it by the way!!) and there they were, as bold as brass sat right at the front of the basket. I actually swore... i mean seriously!!!!!!! I had that basket out like a million zillion times and have looked more times than i care to remember ... Ah well all is not lost and this means i can now give some pics away to family without thinking, Ah i need to re print that now!!! Winner!!! Kinda!!

Layouts these are all about the same style really, i was clearly in the mood to embrace wither the top or bottom of my page and not the middle!!! Odd, but after a few layouts you need a change.

Old picture of Jack... a picnic in the car as it was raining, we were heading north to visit a friend for her wedding and then off the Edinburgh to celebrate out wedding anniversary, so we decided to stop off for a picnic at Chatsworth ( the place of his proposal!!!!) to reminisce and be us!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this one, meeting Grandpa... such a little lady. As I have mentioned before all the grandparents adore Bella ( its their job!!!) and this is such a lovely moment to have captured :O)
Cute pic taken by Lisa when on my first Sheen retreat with the Nottingham girlies. I wanted to remember how i felt about leaving Bella for a whole weekend, it was not as bad as i thought and i really enjoyed myself.

Down at the patch... i LOVE the autumn papers i have used here, and a huge thanks to Rach for the Carve bingo card... clearly it makes the layout awesome!! xx

The 4d scan we had of Isabella, this was at 25 weeks and i think really we should have waited a little longer, but we were desperate to confirm her sex, as the hospital were not 100%. We were so lucky the scan lady spent ages checking re checking, before letting us sit/lay there and just watch out little lady being herself all cosy and warm. Honestly it was the most amazing thing to lay there and watch her. *Love *

The official picture of the weekend away with the Jordans girls..... with the obligatory title. I really like this layout and love the polaroid shot. Thanks Laura:O) Using some more of the lovely Autumn papers from Bella Blvd ( i think!!!!)

This picture was on our picture wall for ages before i took it down to swap it... and i have looked at it and looked and kept thinking darn it i must scrap that.... so i but the dear bullet and went for it and i love the outcome. Cute!!

This is the second 10 things LO i have of Bella, my plan is to do one every so often so i can document all of the new things she does/ says/ develops. Using some of the count me in range from sassafrass, i really like this, its great for girls :O)

Right I have a list as long as my arm of things i really want to achieve, Jack is still out at the supermarket and I wanted to organise another batch of pictures and also have a look at sorting out my JYC.... am wondering about Kraft as a background to ALL of my pages, i have a ton of it in 12x12 and I am planning on using Kraft to wrap pressies this year again too, so maybe that's the way ... hmmmmm off for a lookie.

Happy scrapping

xxxxx

Heaps to Share

Sorry... know i said last week that i would share these over the following week, but i never got any good light to snap them until Friday.... then life got in the way... well more crafting actually. So here are some now.... I plan to share them over this week in batches of about 5 or so. I may talk about them, i may not, its all time dependant.

In other news i popped over the the NEC hobbycrafts show on Saturday which i have to say was a mixed bag, but as i got a free ticket ( thanks Fiskars) and was on a mini course run by Shimelle, all was not lost and to be fair, i still picked a few things up.

I have been after a 6x12 album for like ever and after hearing that they are to be discontinued I thought it was best to pick one up now.

I had fully intended on using my green 8x8 AC album for JYC2010, but now i am thinking that i will use this and maybe save the other one for another year or indeed another project. One of which i am currently mulling over.

I was also after a new batch of punches and there were loads to be had, you just had to look around for the best price, the best one i got was £8.50 for the starburst one( which apparently are out of stock in most UK stores) and i picked one up for Rach too! The butterfly and button had been on my list to get for a while too, so i saved the postage hassle and picked them up.

So in all a lovely day really, and it was finished off by a Red Cupped Mocha from Starbucks and more yummy food at the inlaws!! BRILL!!!

Onto the layouts then....

Old hambly meets ,MME life stories on Kraft. Celebrating the choosing of Bella's godparents, i think we did a good job!!

This range i found hard to use so I decided not to be specific about it ( picking a sewing theme) and i just went for a lovely picture. Bella's paternal grandparents and us3 Love this one :O)

An old pic and some random papers from a mix of ranges including Cosmo i think (eek!!) I have loved using other peoples punches, it really got me into wanting a selection of my own! ...I really needed to get more wedding pics done, I wanted too, but i also felt the pang to scrap Bella too. This weekend away really helped with that problem :O)





Thanks to SJ for this title!!! LOVE IT!!!! and so does my DH too!! A lovely shot of him and his family just minutes before I became a Danes too. MME here too.... told you I love it!!!

My sister and I are always told we look alike, but i think this shot shows how different we are too, more MME with some AC and Prima thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for popping by, I am now thinking that the next task for me is to organise my JYC for this year, although i did that in advance last year i found that i changed it after a time, so i am not too sure what is best to do.

Any tips would be lovely!!

Mwah and happy Sunday to you all :O)

XXXXXXXXXX

Awesome Weekend....

I was the newbie, the virgin if you will, the novice amongst the experts, the nervous one and the SUPER EXCITED ONE!!!!! ( although everyone else was super excited too LOL!)

I went along, as I told you i would, to a weekend away to the Cabin in the Woods with a lovely gang of wonderful girls from all over the UK... and you know what I had the most awesome tastic weekend *Obviously*.

We spent time, scrapping ( i actually managed 22 layouts!!) drinking wine and fizzy pop ( Rachie also calls it pop!!!LOL) eating scrummy takeaway, concuming vast amounts of baked goods, taking part in the use of MANY buzz wordy catchphrases and having a brill time. I got the chance to meet and befriend 8 great people who i really look forward to seeing again soon. I learned so many new things, new techniqes, new ways of doing things. Chatted about all kinds of topics, relaxed and embraced our shared passion of beautiful paper.

Laura, Katherine, Shimelle, Katy, Rachel, Leanne, SJ and Natalie

were the lovlies that made this so fun...

I didn't take my DSLR ( broken! ) so i am using the group shots taken by SJ, Laura and Shim. How lovely are these? In years past there has always been a a ton of fun shots taken and this year was no different and I love the plan the girls came up with for this years shoot.... fun huh??

This is real clever i think :O)

... and the holding hands shot, which just evolved ( nand i think was also partly enginereed by clever Laura) fills me with joy, i love it trillions, I like to think of it as 9 girls all joined by paper... like Laura says paper dolls indeed!

I have so much more to share from the weekend but i am super pooped after a long day at work, so I plan to share most of my 22 Layouts over the coming week.

Thanks to all of the girls for asking me to come along and have such a fantabulous time, I am so pleased I came along and am already looking forward to the next one.!!! Wooop!!!

xxxx