Everybody loves .............

Friday :)

I've been slack on the blog front this week but it's Friday which means movie night with the boys and then this show later for us,love that it's back on after a break and that we can get this on HBO. It's the only way I can handle current affairs....with some comedy thrown in !

Spring break next week and oh how I'm looking forward to not having to make lunches or supervise homework for a whole week.We'll be taking it easy here.I had thought we'd arrange a few play dates with friends but seems most of the boys mates are actually taking off.My response was yeah but who needs Cuba,Disneyland or Whistler when you can stay here and have Ikea and organisation................yep that was met a huge amount of enthusiasm ! Although the main objective is to get Adam in his own room by the end of the week.I think I'll have to throw some sort of fun activity in there one day though !

ETA........For my English readers.........Spring break is one week off from school the only break they have apart from Christmas,and 2 days at Easter.None of this week off in October,Feb and May plus 2 weeks at Easter stuff you have back there in the UK !!

On the scrap front I did actually manage one page this week but I'll leave you today with 2 older pages that I just put in my flickr albums.For some reason these images always look dark when I load them into blogger ? Anyway I did both of these at our cottage scrap weekend last September.

A double page,this one took me a while,mainly trying to find the right letter stickers.2 page layouts are a rarity for me but I wanted to use all these pictures from one of our trips to our friends cottage.

This one I had all planned out and then..........

Julie challenged me to use the whole sheet of paper,because me being me was only going to use a bit of it ! I don't think she was too happy I even took a tiny bit off to make a border :) I actually really like how it turned out and the photo placement wasn't too different to how I'd planned it I just ended up overlapping them slightly as a tribute to my challenge master !!

OK,got to get going groceries to get and pizza dough to make.

Love it or hate it......

......it's Monday !

Another fairly quiet weekend here, Ad had homework projects to finish up although it did involve a friend for one of them so not so bad for him.I'm not at all fond of homework that's project based,even less so when it involves team work and no time is given during class.

We went for dinner at friends Saturday night,which was fun but resulted in a late night so Sunday was a bit of a wash out ! It snowed all day too,nothing heavy but at 4 O'clock someone decided they really wanted to play outside and as there was no big brother to drag outside the job was mine !! I cleared the path and steps while someone whizzed down the slope at the front of the house.I took photo's because I realised I didn't actually have any pictures of either of the boys playing outside this year.Anyway not the best pictures since it was getting dark and I had the big lens on but someone had a blast and it seems the harder the fall the more fun it was........

Couldn't resist trying to get one portrait shot......

OK well two because that toothless grin is too funny !

I've spent the morning cleaning and tidying so might actually try and start a page before the boys come home.I finished up a page Saturday that had been sat on my desk all week,just wasn't feeling it last week but I got a bunch of older pictures developed so I want to make a start on those.

TGIF !

Another week nearly over.It's been a long week.One more week before Spring Break and I'm not sure who's more excited about that me or the kids.

Went to another class yesterday,still aching from Tuesdays's and so this morning everything I do is accompanied by a small pitiful ow ! No pain no gain :)

I'll leave you with this super quick one I did last month........

I have been dying to use that American Crafts paper ever since I bought it a while ago.I loved it,one because it's polkas dots and two because it reminded me of a malamine beaker we had in the bathroom when I was a kid !

Ow ! Ow ! Ow !

I ache,not as much as I thought I would but it's a good ache ever if even walking is hurting this morning !

I signed myself back up for a couple of classes in the community center,it sounds a bit lame and when I first took these classes 4 years ago I thought they probably would be too but Natalie does the best muscle conditioning/fitness/yoga classes I have ever taken( and I've taken a quite few over the years) I like that she does the whole class with you so is left with sweat dripping off her nose too !

I hadn't exercised for 3 months. I hadn't been to one of Nat's classes for probably 12 months.To be honest,I loved them they worked but I got a little bored with them,sure she'd mix things up but after 3 years I'd had enough and that's when I decided to try running.This year I did better than last but come the beginning of Novemebr when the weather took a turn for the worse and I decided it was just too cold to run outside,that was it on the exercise front for me. I don't have the commitment (or is it stupidity) that the old guy who lives a few streets away does,out side everyday rain,snow or shine doing his daily run.

My mind and body needed the work out and I knew I couldn't wait another 7/8/9/10 weeks until it was good enough to hit the tarmac again.I just need to stick with this because I know how easy I can talk myself out of not going,between the boys getting on the bus at 7.30 and the class at 9 I can find a whole range of excuses not to go,other things that need to be done !

So tomorrow I will drag my still aching body back again for more torture but by 10.00 when it's over I'll be glad I did.That is until I try and get out of bed Friday morning !!

A post with no picture...........I'll be back friday with a layout :)

My favourite....

.....day of the week is here again ! I think it's just the feeling of how good it feels to have the house to myself and get a whole lot accomplished without having anyone else here to need/distract me.

Well this weekend brought Valentines day and I got to search for my hearts again (I mentioned it here) Ad got invited to sleepover at a friends although it was a tough decision for him to make as he knew we were making sushi for dinner and it's his most favourite meal.Anyway we promised to save him some,in the end we made too much so it wasn't a problem at all.

We are getting better at this,the rice was much better than the last time we made it and we put more filling in,although we still need to put more.It's not the same as getting take out but it's fun and a lot cheaper :)

Sunday we went for a drive,didn't see much but I like the look of this nest so I'll leave you with that instead of a page today.

No scrapping at all this weekend..........just wasn't in the mood unfortunately.

A just because,a layout and a toot.

Ol: On Friday Josee will give us a stamp in our agenda(said in best french accent) of the guy with the arrow,you know what's his name,Oh,erm Stupid

Me: Do you mean Cupid ?

Ol: Ohhhhh, yeah that's him.

I think Stupid might actually be a better name but there you go !

Just a quickie and I'll leave you with another page for my friends album.........

I need more pictures,matey chops :)

Oh and I had a layout picked up by BHG Scrapbook Etc for their Made in Minutes column.

Spring and sorry

Spring................well for a day anyway,in the pluses yesterday and it felt good even if it was only a little tease although today with all the rain,kind of feels like spring too...........or England ! Turning back to snow and winter tonight.

Sorry....... for boring you with a couple more layouts,I'll run out soon. I read this post on Cathy Z's blog last week.I have to admit apart from the people I 'know' I don't really read a lot of other blogs,I go to them mainly for the pretty images,I have lots of pretty picture blogs !! Anyway I related to that one because it's something I've always done not in the exact way she mentioned there,but in one way or another because for no other reason than it just make the whole process a heck of a lot easier and it gives me an intro in to posting these two pages.

The Jr Jays layout off to the side there has become 3 other pages since the beginning of the year like this one...... thought for hours over that title !

This one is a complete lift of this one here......

Both going in different albums so it doesn't matter.If I have a photograph I really love,such as that one of Ol above,I'll find a page/design I really enjoyed and use it again.........I'm all for making life easier whenever I can because life's just too short.

Off to work on those closets..........

Good Afternoon.

I always try and post on a Monday and squeezing this post in before Ad starts typing up his homework assignment.

That blah kind of week I had last week extended into the weekend but feeling better today with all that sunshine outside and it feels warm,enjoying it while it's here.

Since it's a Ped day here,Ol had a party this morning so I dragged Ad to Ikea,which he wasn't exactly ecstatic about until he found out it was for stuff for his new room then he didn't mind tagging along so much.So operation closets is going to start for sure this week,I'm raring to go !

Really I have nothing much else to say,I did manage to complete 2 pages this weekend,I'll post them later this week as I still need to photograph them.
Right now I'm working on something I said I'd never do which was re-do a page........I was flicking through Ad's first album,working out what pages I should try and add since it's severely lacking ! when these two just leaped out at me,I can reuse the photo's and bits and pieces of stuff on the pages,should be simple and quick......famous last words !

Anyway I'll leave you with this older page I did the same day I came home with the yummy SR celebrate line.....
In fact I did both Ol's 5th and 6th birthday pages that day. Also this one.......

I finished at the end of last month. Such a fun day but man was I disappointed the roof was shut because it made for appalling lighting conditions in there !

A nothing week

Yep,this week has just been one of those nothing sort of weeks.I didn't really accomplish anything,meaning those closets are still waiting to be tackled,I think I need an Ikea trip to pick up a couple of these to get me inspired and get going ! I know once I start it will be done and organised in a day...I just need the kick to start it and a good home for all the outgrown clothes and toys !

I felt a little guilty about my lack of getting anything done so rushed around in a cleaning frenzy this morning,so the house is clean,neat and tidy(all ready to be trashed this weekend by those 3 untidy males that live here!) and my 3rd load of laundry is going right now which is why I'm here,taking a well earned coffee break at 10.00 !

That's about it,the pesky groundhog kindly reminded us that there's still a way to go until spring.I hadn't had a uurgghhh winter moment until this week when I realised,crap it is still ages until I'll see anything green again.Although I did manage a chuckle at the chaos the snow has brought to England.

I could bore you with the fact I actually got my hair done this week,be gone you nasty grey hairs ! I even let her convince me to chop an inch off,I'm sure she took more.For some reason that I didn't notice until she was half way across she decide to feather in my fringe................I'm sorry I just have to say that I've tried I really have but I just can't use the word "bangs" it just doesn't make any sense to me..........I quickly mentioned that we cut it blunt but it was too late to correct it as I'd of ended up looking like this !

That's it,the boys have a Ped day Monday,so a long weekend for them,although there's homework assignments to be finished up,what fun ! Roll on Spring break when we can have a homework free week.

I did actually scrap 2 pages this week but I'll leave you with this one,that isn't one of them !! This is an older one I did at the cottage weekend back in September.I keep finding pages to add to my flickr sets,for someone so organised my filing of layouts on the computer was a little lacking,this year I'm much more organised.

Love those Pink Paislee letter stickers used them on one of my pages this week too.

OK until later..........

ETA.......Why is it that you can check all pockets but tissues still get in the wash and why do they only ever find there way in the dark wash when you have lots of things that can't be tumble dried.............so I am now on my 4Th load of laundry :)

More pages.....

I thought I'd post a couple more pages,so here's my October and December photo a day layouts.I finished the October one a couple of weeks ago and I got around to doing the December one this weekend.

Originally I was going to make them along the lines of this one,that I did for my May 07 page but in the end I just wasn't feeling in the mood for double pages and I had more pictures than before and couldn't choose which one to highlight ! So I made one page layouts and just took the big square block element from my original page.

I wasn't bothered about the images being so small as I got all my photo's printed at 4x6 to put in their own normal photo album.As I was feeling lazy I basically just copied October's for December's,just centered it up.

I had one less photo for December so I used that for the date.

So my scrapbooking tally for January is 11 pages,consisting of 10 single pages and 1 double page. I didn't get around to completing any older photo layouts but that's OK I have one planned for this month.