AC Layout

Don't ask me how but I found time to do this weeks challenge !!

A layout with a favourite photo and 2 or more AC products.
I have favourite photo's all the time but this is a recent favourite...

This years Christmas card photo.
I blogged about it here.

AC Supplies:
Paper........Backyard(Boing) and Merrymint ( Fudge)
Thickers.....Cappuccino
Rub-ons......Minimarks,Kate.
Other supplies...Bazzill cardstock and SEI Sticker.

I think that's me done for scrapping for 2009.....Novembers page total was 7 and with 5 for December brings my yearly total of 81 layouts !

I doubt I will be around to blog until after Christmas...too much family fun to be had :)

So to those of you I know and those I don't that are reading...have a great christmas !

2 more sleeps 'til Christmas !!

That's the countdown I get from Ol every morning.
I don't know why every year I am surprised by how fast Christmas actually comes around.
The boys finished school yesterday and very happy they are about that :)
I have everything bought and wrapped and very happy I am about that :)
Oliver still believes in Santa but I have a feeling this may be the last year...his logical brain is ticking away....to be honest I'm surprised he's believed for this long.
Anyway,this is last years Christmas day page,recently finished !!



Our tree hunt wasn't successful this year....

Seems the next few years the tree farm will be low on trees to cut,so that may be the end of that tradition for us.
It was such a dark day.
It started snowing not long after these pictures.
The boys entertained them selves with snowball fights while I said no to a dozen or more tree's.
The someone got bored !!

So they wasted the time making snow angels until the tractor came to take us back.
We ended up driving back here and getting one from our grocery store !!
It's not as big as usual but I'm happy about that...easier to decorate.

My good friend Patti has a special birthday today.
I have pages we made for an album for her but they will have to wait until another post as I need to merge them !!
We went for dinner last night to celebrate.....for once not hampered by a snow storm as so often happens when we plan a get together of any kind.
I can leave you with the card I made for her though...


Back tomorrow with a layout for this weeks AC challenge.

Lots to say...

...but no time to say it :)

Hopefully here Wednesday,complete with a few new pages....because despite everything else I have found a little time to scrap :)

This weekend.

In a list,because it's been a while....

• Movie night (Ol's pick this week) and home made pizza tonight.
• Time for our annual Christmas tree hunt(hoping it's more successful than last year)
• More baking,pork pies,cookies and more.
• The males of the household are cooking me a late birthday dinner Saturday night.
• Some snow shoveling......deck needs clearing :(
• Some scrapping...need to do my page for last week from my photo a day.
• Catch up on more Six Feet Under episodes,love this show and love HBO for re-running it :)

This is the last page from our crop weekend....


It's become a bit of a tradition to do these age photo's on his birthday,this year he did it without me asking.Shame it took me until October to get around to scrapping it !!
Although I am only now doing last years Christmas day pictures...as long as they get done,eventually !

Enjoy the weekend :)

Today..

...is my birthday.
Happy Birthday to me :)
Just like last year,look what Mother Nature brought me...

A snow storm.
Not the best piccies but really I took three steps out my front door and one out my bedroom door....it's horrible out there!
Since I've had two,next year I think I can do with out,thank you very much.
This years is a lot worse than last,which has meant the cancellation of lunch with friends.
Better to be safe than sorry and we can do it some other time.

So what to do instead ?
Bake a pan of brownies,make some coffee and scrapbook :)
This is one of two pages...


I finished up that I started on Monday when I cropped with my pal Carine.
We haven't done that in a while and it was fun.

OK,I'm sure there's some snow that needs shoveling......maybe later :)

The weekends coming....

It will be another quiet one here....love that!
We have a Christmas party to go to but that's it.
Stuart wants to get some baking done.
I need to make some Christmas cards.
Other than that......nothing.

Since it's Friday,here's a layout....


It's an older one,from way back in January !! but I like it.
I never got to post it here as it was requested for publication by BHG,it was in the August/September issue.

Enjoy your weekend :)

Another layout

I started this one at the weekend but it fell to one side.
I wish I'd finished it up earlier because it is unbelievable dark here today,so excuse the poor image.

It's for the challenge on the American Crafts blog....to make a page about something you are grateful for...


I've wanted to scrap this photo for a while,so it worked out perfectly.Not sure about using my grocery list scrawl on this one but hey !

American Crafts Supplies:
Paper........The Goods(Pumpkin pie),Merrymint(fudge),Amplified(The twist)
Thickers.....Subway
Rub-ons......Minimarks,date(Hildi),words(Kate),heart(Catwalk phrases)
Other supplies...cardstock..bazzill

Well,better finish up my cup of tea before I head out to pick up Ol at the school.
They are having a used book sale and since we are severely lacking in French books I thought I should pop in.

Middle of the week.

After all my blah,blah,blahing yesterday.
Just a layout today.
Another from our girlie crop.....


I have a feeling I was going to add journaling to the outside of this.....

While I'm at it the Fathers day card I made this year,since I don't think I posted it .....



Hopefully another layout tomorrow.....

A photo a day

Where Oh where has this year gone ?
Anyway,it's the first of the December,whether I like it or not.
So two days ago in a brief email exchange,Patti and I decided we'd do another photo a day challenge....no rules this time.......well maybe the odd weekend one.
I believe Nathalie is joining us too :)

Anyway after a little thought I decided I needed some kind of theme(for want of a better word) for it.
I definitely want it to be Christmas related but also include more shots of us and the everyday things that we do.....I kind of got away from that as these challenges became more about me finding out more about my camera and what it can (and can't) do and generally trying to take better pictures.
But,what about all the times I know I'll be drawn into the garden to take something nature related as I did in April.Every time I do one of these the nature shot nearly always beats whatever else I've taken that day.

The answer.............2 photo's a day !!

The everyday pictures I want to scrapbook as a weekly page.
It's my solution to not getting my act together with the December daily album for the second year running.
I hope to scrap them as soon as I can so they don't sit there waiting for me to do them in 4 months time !
I think Patti's got her own version of a December album in mind for hers.

Anyway,enough waffling,the photo's as always will be on my other blog but I'll post today's here,since this post needs an image.

The everyday.....


As soon as he gets off the bus and comes in the door we have to go and get the mail.
From the garden.....

The droplet it's self is a little out of focus,as I was standing on tip toes and rushing a little as I knew any minute it was going to drip !! I just love it for the bokeh background.