What a cool yule!

Merry Christmas!! Did you have a good one? I did! Despite having a bit of a misery on because I don't get to see much of my family-I had a lovely one. Christmas day with Dave's family was lovely, the kids LOVED their gifts and I got a lot of lovely things including a Kindle!! Wow- was not expecting that at all! So I've downloaded loads of books and think I might try to make a point of doing a free download review each week. What do you think? The layout above is because I'm on rabbit duty while my friend Anne is skiing! This one's Harvey- he's fat dumb and very cuddly! Rory is small grumpy but quite smart. Millie is just plain cute! so I'm feeding and de-pooping them as well as my menagerie! Busy times! Made some lovely tiffin Christmas puds. The recipe is on IACW- pop over and give them a try- super yummy. I will make the most of these gluttonous times as come new year the weight watching will be back on! Catch you soon! xx

I can toot now!

Several weeks back I got an email from The Scrapbook Magazine's editor telling me I was a runner up for scrapbooker of the year!! I couldn't post about it until now- so when I mentioned working on pages I was using for competition- these were the ones! Hope you like. The pretty gen is on acetate and features crackle glaze and paper clay leaves, there's lots of stitching for the title on EM and I raided Andrews jars of sea glass for the sea glass one! So yay! Runner up!!

A little bit of sunshine

....on a fairly gloomy day! That's what this layout makes me think of! the sky is grey but the day isn't with my lovely Emma- although she's at school today and Andrew is at home with a pal. so I've snuck in a quick post before I serve up lunch! Have fun with your day xx

Helloooo!

Thought I'd share a bright little number to match the bright weather outside! An oldie in the cupboard- made several month's back. It's based on the Ting Tings song of the same title. We are very fond of pet names in our house- but at one point Emma wasn't! You could call her anything but Emma! " That's not my name!" she'd pout! So that's how the title came about- and the black strips across the page? ingenious! Black bin bags! I'm not convinced it archival safe- but they look all punky and fun so who care's! I have the photo on file and this page was all about fun! hope you like!! Lx

My 1st IACW post!

It's up and it's here! Please do pop over and have a look- and leaving a comment would make me feel ever so special_ if you have the time! It's a card related one, a close up above of one of my extra personal ones! this was a wedding card for a couple of medical students- so the cake is made out of ribbon bandages! Catch you later! xx

Bit of blog housekeeping!

Trying to get one area of my life organised- so here's a few more of my teamies added to my side bar!Ifa,Jayne,Karen, Katherine, Katie and Kerry!

Check them out and in particular Kerry's post on IACWIn the meantime, here's a recent wedding card for a couple who like motor baots! hope you like! x

Tawhit tawooh!

A little owl offering for you today using my often used ribbon writing technique and a little feltie owl I made to embellish. My first IACW post is ready to go ( 10th nov!) and the the posts so far have been amazing!! Please do have a look and wile you are at it, you might enjoy visiting their personal blogs.So far I have added the following IACW Design Team ladies to my side bar. Do look them up and hopefully my temperamental computer will le me add more tomorrow!
Alix,Caroline,Caz,Debbie,Doda, Eleanor,Erika and Gabrielle!Enjoy

I set myself a challenge

....the other week. How many different ways to use a ribbon on a layout. I managed 3 techniques, my favourite being mummifying chip board letters! They didn't match and were quite big so I wrapped them up and tie knots here and there- and it turned out quite cute I think! Keep and eye on my side bar as I'm going to be adding links to all my extremely talented DT mates from it's a creative world! the blog is now posting a regular piece of inspiration- daily!