Happy Halloween

How adorable does my little girl look ???
Any excuse to get dressed up, be creative & have fun! I do like halloween !

This years costume, sticking with the pumpkin theme for the 3rd year running, less scary & soooo cute. Plus i often refer to Bella as pumpkin, so *win win * really !!



This is a picture taken on Friday at music but rest assured Bella has also worn this ALL DAY today too! It was certainly party time at nursery :)))

Lastly our pumpkins, we had 3 but the smiley face on the 3rd upset Bella, so we binned it!!

Inspired by pinrerest & Disco balls this one was sooooo simply done, using an apple corer!!
I reallllllly love it :)))




And for Bella.
Daddy carved this little beauty! & she loves it !!! Happy face!!!




Happy Halloween:)

Cropping Friends

Last night i met with 3 of my local friends to have a good old catch up and an evening of food and scrapping. I don't get to see Debs, Carla and Lisa altogether very often, but when we do catch up its always great fun. Thankfully we know each other well, so tend not to take offence at some of the remarks shared!!! Maybe that's something to detail on a layout soon!!

I was brave, i decided that as i had a zillion images of Bella playing with some of her birthday toy, i would have a go at a DLO! I know, scary stuff. I was keen to make the pages look alike, but i didn't want to make 2 pages the same, nor totally different. I think i am pleased with the finished result and at the end of the day, the memories are scrapped and that makes me REALLY.

I also kept with the theme if presents for the second layout, but worked on just one page this time. I used a recent Studio Calico kit and very little else for all 3 pages. i do get lazy and times with kits, I like the ease of just bringing things to the page from the same pile of bits, knowing they will match. Cheating really!!!

In other news i am NOT at all ready for the weekend away, i am in mind, but not in organisation. I will sort those things over the week. I popped onto the UKS thread for the retreat earlier and the girls on there are all ready and put me to shame, although to be honest i have the whole of Friday to get ready so not to worry!!

Any tips on what to take and what not to take would be great. :)))

i have a chocolate pudding in the oven that's waiting for me to release it and be eaten so i will bid you farewell.

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Excited much??

There has been so much going on recently its just crazy & there is so much on the Agenda in November I can hardly wait! I am shattered but all the fun makes it sooo worth it!



Over half term we went to tge super fab awesome Peppa Pig World in the new forest, it was so exciting! I think jack & i loved it as much as Bella did!! So if you have little ones that are big fans of Peppa or George then i highly reccomend a visit!!

Bella really believed that all the characters were there & totally real !!! I love the innocence in this age & the excitement! Its just amazing to see :))



Daddy & Bella very excited to see Mummy Pig on top of windy castle waving at us :)




I have a gazzillion real pictures but for now iphone ones will do & ill post the rest via layouts soon :))

Next weekend its the Sarahs cards retreat & my first time there. To say i'm excited is an understatement, ive stayed at de vere hotels before & they are very fancy, so there's a treat in itself. There is also tge serioys amount of me time to be had & the awesome catching up with friends side too :) i have seen the supplies list & sneaks from lianne so my appetite for the classes is truly whet! Woooop!

Then in a few weeks we have the girls weekend away with my scrappies, these girls seriously are so awesome, i have made a bunch of lovely new friends & am so pleased to know them all , i honestly miss them at times! We live further apart than i would like , but are all in touch most days which is lovely. I am so pleased to be seeing them really soon, the last time was my beautiful friend Leanne's wedding, so with more time to catch up at the cottage I am sure to get my dull on scrappy girls fix!! Ohhhh & maybe catch a new baby cuddle too! Now that would be fab :))




So i'll leave you with a little sneak (kinda) of a project or 4 i have been working on for something realllllly special!!

Ttfn

Mwah!!
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My Beautiful Girl is 2 !!!

Time travelling fast and all that!!1 seems to have been my reoccurring statement over the last few weeks, i am still in shock that Isabella is 2!!! It's crazy!!


But my oh my is she showing us that she is more grown up! In more ways than one, her speech is coming along great guns, her understanding of what we say and ask her is brilliant, and her motor skills are crazily developed, she can pop a screw driver into the head of a screw!! ( whilst "helping daddy" and whilst daddy was watching her like a hawk i might add!!!) We are both so proud of the little girl our tiny baby is becoming, its just so wonderful to sit here and think back on all the wonderful memories we have of her already and look forward to all the wonderful times ahead. I know, we know, that we are very lucky and blessed to have such a daughter as Bella, and for that i will always be grateful. *Sigh*



I thought i would share with you a few pictures of how we celebrated Isabella's 2nd birthday this year.



It was a relatively large affair given that it took place at home, but thankfully the sun shone (and was actually hot! kin October!!!! and all went swimmingly.

So we went ahead and chose a sweet shop theme, and this is what it looked like;


The pick n mix bag style cake. Made by Jack and I.

We put up a huge gazebo type thing in the garden and filled it with all the food and decorations, hoping to keep as many people in there and outside as possible!

Jack made the background pink stripes from crepe paper and lining paper. I think it looked fab!!

The bunting was made for Bella's christening over a year ago, so i felt i got my use out of it using it a second time. The sign was a quickie on some card, but the bit that all the kids (and adults) loved was the selection of sweets. We borrowed a friends cash n carry card and went and filled our boots with boxes and boxes of haribo!!! It went down so well and those Kilner style jars from Ikea were a steal at £1 !! brill!!!

We even managed to get those blue scoops from Amazon ( thanks Leanne!!) and some old style sweetie bags too,i stamped these myself, so quick & easy & saves a fortune !





Oooh & on the door was this, to help Bella's little friends find the fun :)




The party bags, green for the boys and pink for the girls :O))) more sweets in there!!!
Inside the tent.....


Don't you just love those lanterns? They were interspersed with tissue paper pom poms too!!

Oh yeah and there was also quite a lot of real food too, not just sweets!!!






It was honestly an amazing day, it took a lot of hard work and planning i some respects, but it was more than worth it. Bella had an amazing time, playing with her friends on the bouncy castle and with her garden toys. I can safely say we are both so pleased we decided to throw her a party!!



I have more pictures to share of the happy 2 year old herself so i will post those separately later, I am aware that a lot of the party shots contain other children and am less keen on posting those on here, so whilst i filter out those, I'll leave you in peace!!


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