* Beautiful Lily *

Just wanted to share a few more shots taken in our garden this week!

Our beautiful lily!!

I'm learning so much from Shimelle's LYPLYP class and enjoying taking some different shots from different angles and experimenting with my little camera.

Just need to find some time to scrap the pictures!

Skip...skip...skipping!!!!

Isn't it amazing when a child suddenly gets the hang of something? Something they have Sooo wanted to be able to do!! Like, riding a bike, swimming or saying their 5 times tables, or whatever else they want to accomplish!!

H has been practising her skipping at almost every opportunity. Somehow the co ordination of turning the rope and jumping at the right time was not happening for her...until this week!! She was out in the garden playing with her rope and managed 10 skips, then it was 13!!!

Without stopping!

Without getting tangled up in the rope!!

Her record so far is 33!!!

She is so happy!! And I'm happy that she is happy!!

* Shopping Day *

On my day off last week I treated myself to a little shopping trip! First up was Dunhelm Mill where I got some housey bits and pieces....new ironing board cover, storage boxes, cake tin and these pretty mugs!


I did buy 4 but my coffee was in the 4th one when I was taking this picture!

Then I went for a browse in Accessorize and got a new bag, reduced to £10 from £15, so pretty pleased with my new purchases.

Yesterday's prompt for LYPLYP was about adding text to photos so I had a go with the photo of my new mugs! Really pleased with how it turned out and will definately use this technique on my scrapbook pages.

Right, must get off out to do my grocery shopping!

Have a great Sunday!
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* Love Your Photos, Love Your Pages *

I am so enjoying Shimelle's new class!

Hi to anyone else taking the class! :)

I have to admit I haven't yet done yesterday evening's prompt which focuses on still life and finding different sources of light inside the house, mainly because I can't make up my mind what object to photograph, so I got stuck into prompt 2 which is all about photographing flowers. I must have taken about 30 photos or maybe more this morning of one of our hanging baskets of sweet peas.



As it is a little hanging basket I was able to take it off it's hook and move it from it's usual spot hanging on our rather aged, old shed to different spots in the garden. I particularly like the ones looking up towards the blue summer skies!

Shimelle suggested taking a shot towards the sunlight.

Can't wait to scrap some of these!

In other news...I'm still busy sorting through boxes, files, shelves and cupboards as I continue with project "Declutter The House", at last I can see some progress and I feel as if I'm reclaiming some space at last :)

Right, I'm going to settle down with a coffee and take a look around blog land. If you have popped over from the LYPLYP forum, do leave a message so I can come and visit your blog too!
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* Summer Garden *

Following on from today's challenge at Shimelle's new class, where she asked us to grab our camera and take a spontaneous photo of something, it could be anything at all .... just so long as I took it within the next 5 minutes!

So I popped out into my garden and took this...

So then I took a few more, these are 2 of my favourites....

Our garden is fairly small, but this Summer it is looking really nice with all the flowers giving lots of colour! Sadly I can't take credit for it! I am more than happy to wander around with a watering can but that is about the limit to my gardening skills...it is thanks to my hubby that we have flowers and veggies growing!

Shimelle's New Class!

Although I would dearly love a new camera, an SLR would be very nice, I have to make my do with my little, digital point and shoot, which is around 6 years old now. Sometimes I manage a great picture but it's usually down to luck rather than my photographic skill or knowledge of my camera's settings.

It always seem easier to scrap the great pictures. If I like the photo I love the layout.

So, when I read about ShimelleLaine's new class "Love your Pictures Love your Pages" I couldn't get signed up fast enough!

I haven't got much scrapping done lately so hoping this class will inspire me to get going again! Class starts tomorrow but it's not too late to sign up here if you want to join in the fun! I can hardly wait to get started!