It's WOYWW ~ 10 November!

Today I have spent a blissfully happy morning at the dining room table scrapping. Not particularly productive. Lots of cups of coffee. Several pretty papers shuffled about. Boxes and baskets of embellies rifled through. But I was happy.

I ran about like a mad thing first thing this morning. School run, dashed around Asda to buy ingredients for tonight's lasagne ( Oh yes, and a HUGE tin of Celebrations chocs ~ to be stashed away until Christmas!), did the hoovering and other boring houseworky stuff in record time so that I could give myself the rest of the day off! To craft!!!

If you have arrived on my blog via Julia's blog, Welcome and thanks for stopping by. The pic above shows the table with my 2nd layout of the day mid progress. There's the obligatory coffee cup and at the back there is my newest purchase .... the rather cute Martha Stewart butterfly punch! Oh, how I love this punch!

If you haven't got a clue what I'm on about pop over to here to see what WOYWW is all about!

I'll leave you with the one layout I did manage to finish this morning!

Journalling reads: "I am probably biased but you have such a beautiful smile"

This is a scraplift of a layout by Liberty Chance that was in issue 49 of Scrapbook Magazine.

Scrapbooking & Card Making Kits FOR SALE!

I have put together some kits using stock left from the closure of the shop.
I only have a limited number of these so if you would like one (or more) please let me know by e mailing me sarah_sjr at hotmail dot com

If you need the kit(s) posted to you this will cost extra.

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Christmas Kit 1

3 Sheets of Patterned Paper from My Mind's Eye Colourful Christmas (nb. designs may vary to those shown in picture!)
5 sheets of bazzill
Snowflake Punch (Woodware)
Glue Pen
My Mind's Eye Brads (to co ordinate with papers)
6 felt snowflakes
1 pack of Papermania Shimmer dots
1/2 sheet of adhesive clear gem stones
4 lengths of co ordinating ribbon (at least 50cm of each!)

Worth more than £22.00
Kit price: £11.99 !!



Christmas Kit 2

3 X Little Claire Clear Stamps (Molly & Tilly get ready for Christmas, Jolly Happy Snowman, Decorating the tree)
1 X Wooden Stamp
1 Pack of gold dots stickers
1 Pack of mounting pads
Silver Stickles

Worth more than £25.00
Kit price: £12.99 !!

K & Co Poppyseed Kit

4 Patterned Papers from K & Co Poppyseed Collection
5 Sheets of Bazzil
K & Co Mat Pad
5 Packs of Poppyseed Embellishments (these may vary from those shown in the picture
but will be an assortment of words, letters, flowers etc)

Worth more than £25.00
Kit price: £12.99 !!


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* Blue Sea...Blue Skies *

Hi Bloggers!

Can't believe how long it has been since my last blog post! Sorry!

I have been back from holiday over a week now and it's only this weekend that I have had a little time to myself to blog about it. I think I must have got buried under the holiday washing, don't you just hate the unpacking and laundry when you get back from hols?!

We had the most relaxing holiday ever in this beautiful place.

Portinatx, Ibiza!

A small, quiet resort on the north coast of the island!

We were lucky enough to have great weather, and enjoyed 21-22 degrees, sunshine and blue skies apart from on 1 day when the winds picked up and it was a little chilly. But the change in the sea from the calm, still waters that we had played in the previous day to the huge waves crashing up on to the sand and rocks was amazing to see and made for some great photos.

On one of the days, we took the local bus (an experience in itself!) to the capital of the island, Ibiza town. Exploring the Old Town was one of the highlights of the week for me!

I was going to post a few more pics that I took but for some reason blogger won't let me upload more than 2!!

I'm having a day of sorting out my craft stash.

Then tomorrow I will make stuff!
It's been too long since I did some crafting!

x

* 10 Years *

Yesterday was my birthday! I celebrated A Big OnE!!!!!! It got me thinking how my life has changed in the last 10years.

10 years ago We had just moved into our new house, a small two bed mid-terraced house. I was looking forward to decorating it and making it ours. I was working long hours in and loved it! We were engaged and busy planning our wedding!

10 years on and my life has changed a lot....I have been married to the most wonderful man for too many years to count. I became a Mummy to a beautiful little girl. We finally moved to a bigger house. I gave up the long hours in my career to concentrate on being the best Mummy I possibly could. Our baby girl grew up and started school. I started my own business. Life was hectic. I closed the business and made the right lifestyle choice. I'm happier now than ever before.

What will the next 10 years bring?

My hope and dreams for the next 10 years...

• Our daughter has the opportunities to realise her dreams and hopes.
• We can afford to get an extension built on the house.
• My family and friends continue to enjoy good health.
• I can give my daughter the little brother/sister she (and we) long for!

If you have read this far, thank you for bearing with me whilst I get my thoughts written down. I plan to include this post as journalling on a layout soon.

Oh, and yes I had a lovely birthday, and got spoilt rotten!

x

Ally Pally!

Yesterday I got up at ridiculous o'clock to catch the 7.20am train up to London to go to the Big Stamp And Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace.



I had a great day looking round all the stands, watching demos and enjoyed numerous coffee stops!!

Do you wanna see what I bought??

Lots of lovely new papers...October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket....

Some fab new alphabet stamps from Creative Expressions (love these and spotted 2 other stamp journal sets from CE I'd like!), an EK Success Border Punch and a few new embellies.

Quite a few stands were demoing stamped images coloured with promarkers. I used to make a lot of cards like this and watching the demos made me really want to get my promarker pens out again and do some colouring in!! Got meself a new Lillie of the Valley stamp to get me started off again. As soon as I get chance I'll be getting my pens out and getting started on some Christmas cards!!

It was a long day and by the time I was back at Waterloo for the train home I was shattered...

........but loved it and can't wait for the April 2011 show!!

Right, off to bed now as I have another early start tomorrow with a 1 1/2 hours drive to a course for work!!

* One More Sleep .... *

...Until Ally Pally!! Yay!
I am seriously excited to be going to the Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace tomorrow!!
I have been away on a course with work this week, so I'm more than ready for some "Me" Time! Not looking forward to the early start to get the 7.20am train up to London though.
I don't have a lot of money for stash shopping but will get a few new bits and hope to see lots of demos and get some inspiration!
Anyone else going?

* Happy Sunday *

Happy Sunday Bloggers!!

Thank you for all the get well wishes for the "Young One" . She is now a lot better, after a visit to the Doc on Friday morning. She is now on antibiotics, so hopefully will soon be 100% again!!

I haven't got anything crafty to show you, sorry!! But thought I would share some photos I took in and around Christchurch as I know a few regular readers have mentioned they like to see photos of the area I live in. A couple of weeks ago I decided to make the most of my day off work (I had been working a lot of overtime!!) so ran round like a mad thing doing laundry and shopping in the morning so that I had the afternoon free to take my camera out.

This is just a few of my favourites...

The castle ruins alongside the river

The "Ducking Stool" ~ like used in the olden days to punsih naughty villagers!!

The beautiful gardens at the Red House Museum!

Sometimes it is a walk in the sun in a garden like this, with hardly anyone else around that is just what I need when life gets too fast!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, I'll be back later to visit all your blogs!!