Merry Christmas

Not sure when I'll be able to post over the next week or so but I'll be back for sure in the new year,hopefully with some pages and maybe kitchen photo's and probably snow photo's !!

Until then........

Bad Blogger !

Nearly a week since I last posted.I haven't much to report either.The boys are finished from school so that means 2 weeks with no homework and no lunches to make !

I've done everything Christmas related apart from a few last minute fresh fruits and veggies and I can't believe Christmas is in 3 days,I'm not feeling very festive this year for some reason.

Yesterday was officially the first day of winter,really thought that started at the end of November with all the snow we've had so far ! Anyway another good dumping yesterday but luckily it was Sunday and no need to leave the house.I had time yesterday to make the 3 memorabilia frames for my wall in the kitchen,so hopefully if it's sunny tomorrow I will take photo's of the kitchen.

Still no scrapping for me,I did tidy up my space and put all the things back in their right places from all the cards and mini albums I made,so maybe now I will be able to create something.



I'm up to date here with my photo a day and above is a mosaic of the first 16 days,since I don't like to post without a photo.

I'm done !

At last....
72 pieces of cardstock,
24 strips of striped paper,
18 8x10 photo layouts,
2 tape runners and
half a booklet of AC letter stickers
later and I've finished my 2 mini albums I was making for my Mum and In-laws.They turned out quite well and considering they were very simple and basically the same design for each page they still took a long time.I'll post pictures after Christmas.Which I can't believe is only 9 days away !!

Not much happening here,just a few cards left to post and presents to wrap and I'll be done and hopefully it will be time to relax.I say it every year but this year I think my New Years resolution will be to write my Christmas cards the first week of January,that way I'll remember who sent them us and they'll be done.....of course I'll probably forget where I put them because I'll put them in a safe place !

Here's card I made and mailed today for my Mum's birthday,it's at the beginning of January and I forgot to put it in the parcel with her Christmas present so I hope she gets it in time.I've had very little scrap time for the last month or so so I thought I'd use some of my recent purchases on some cards.



I can post it here as she doesn't have a computer and unless she's taken up popping into Internet cafes,which I highly doubt,I'm quite safe in the fact she won't see it.

DT news and more photo's

After 2 years of being on the Scrapbook Centrale Design Team I've decided to leave.It wasn't an easy decision but it's something that I have been thinking about for a while.Lots of reasons that make it the best decision for me right now.

I am also hoping to actually get some scrapping done this weekend...it's been so long and I'm dying to use the October Afternnoon paper I bought a while back.

I just couldn't resist and went out twice more to take more photo's !!


The neighbours pine tree just captivated me !

My photo a day is up to date here as of now !

More snow !

We had more snow last night and overnight there was some freezing rain and yet more snow this morning but it made for pretty pictures !



They should all click bigger !



I love the ice on the branches.



and lastly.....



Off out now to take more as my son's just told me I have to go check out the neighbours pine tree !

I'm up to date on my photo a day too,check it out here.

Another year older.

Yes,today's my birthday and do you want to see what I got.....................



A lovely snowstorm !!(If you click on the picture you can see the snow falling) there was only supposed to be about 3cm but there must be 5 to 6 inches now on the driveway.Anyway,it didn't stop me meeting my friends for lunch,glad they all decided to brave the weather for me !

Sunday we went to get our tree.It was disappointing this year and the first time in 4 years we haven't cut our own tree.I think this is the last year for that particular field because the trees were all either very small or too big,even for us.So we ended up getting one of their pre cut trees and we went with pine again.It snowed like crazy while we were there so it made it festive ! I love the long needles of the pine but it makes hard work decorating it.Anyway this is what it looked like last night.



It's not touching the ceiling this year so it's about 10 foot tall.

OK I'm re posting this post using Html and it seems to be making a difference,thanks Susan :)

Another year older

OK this post is now residing in the post above,it's exactly the same but I got the photo's to work.

That Friday feeling

I can say for the first time in nearly 2 months I will not be working on anything kitchen related this weekend.............Woo Hoo !!

I plan on decorating the outside of the house,getting the tree and finishing off my in-laws Christmas gift.......that's it.

In scrapbooking news I won the Scenic Route monthly challenge this month with this page and the weekly SS blog challenge with this one .Good stuff :)

That's it off to enjoy the weekend and keep up with my photo a day.

Shhhhhhh

I'm supposed to be painting but if I don't write this now I'll never do it today !

I'm up to date with my photo a day here.

We are going to get our Christmas tree this weekend,ever since we moved out here we've been going here for our tree.It's fun,the boys love it but we always come home with a tree much bigger than we thought it would be,good job we have a high ceiling.This was last years tree.....

After years of having a silver and gold tree and 3 years ago making it silver,gold and purple.I'm out for a change and will make my kids happy by having a green and red tree,with silver this year.................................I will not make them ecstatic by having multicoloured lights.......sorry kids never going to happen in my home !!

It's Wednesday !

Middle of the week and I'm here to post. I am being good this week !

I grouted the tiles yesterday........it was hard.They have a beveled edge and scraping the grout off was not as easy as things I'd done before and it took longer than I thought but it's done and really finishes it off. A little bit of painting to do today and it done except for the picture frames.I really want to get to work on these frames but I have other stuff to do first. When we moved in I created a large clip frame with all bits and pieces of our lives before and after we met,concert tickets, restaurant receipts,plane tickets but I took it down for some reason and it never got put back up. So I'm re doing it in 3 separate frames to put along an empty unless wall we have..........I have an idea on how I want it to look but I know how those idea's normally turn out ! so fingers crossed.

Here are 3 more cards I made at the weekend.....I make them with intentions of sending them but then I realise I like them so much I don't want to part with them !!

I have loaded my first 2 photo's here for my photo a day challenge.

Oh and Ash "awarded" me this ! Thank you Ash,so I'm passing it on to my friend Susan who's blog I love when she updates it ;)

December DT

Let's see if I can post everyday this week !

This month for Scrapbook Centrale I got to use the Christmas line from Doodlebug.It was fun,bright and glittery..........

1997 seems a very long time ago.........the holly stickers are glittery and I liked them as we had a huge holly bush in our garden in England,something that makes me think of Christmas.

I also made these 5 cards using the Doodlebug stuff and it all co-ordinated so well with some coloured Christmas American Crafts rub-ons from last year.

I was on a card roll and made 3 others from Scenic Route stuff,I'll post those tomorrow.

Good intentions.....

....I had them I really did !

I fully intended to update before now but life got busy.

Friday I was not in the best of moods I was mad,upset and could totally understand why my son is so discouraged but after a glass of wine,lots of extremely loud music and a moan to a friend I'll leave it at some rules and regulations are just bloody stupid and some people are obviously set in there ways and there's nothing you can do about it.

The kitchen is almost there,really it is...................we tiled this weekend here's proof....




Well I tiled he cut tiles and took photo's,now I just need to grout and touch up the woodwork and voila.....done!

Since today is December the 1st it means I'm starting my photo a day again over here . I'm so mad with myself because the shot I wanted to take today I couldn't as I forgot to take my camera because I was not fully awake when we left the house at 6.20 this morning.......................Oh well,I'll find something else !

Oh and hopefully fingers crossed we passed our citizenship test today.It will be 8 to 10 weeks before we find out but I am 99.9% sure i answered everything right and the interview was good so just waiting for that piece of paper.