Friday, January 29, 2010

Later than I planned...

...but my Friday post is here.
And,I have a page,my first one of 2010!
I was feeling very uninspired so I asked my friend Julie to set me a challenge.
It was to use only photo's,a title and one of those Basic Grey sticker sheets.
The result...


Simple but I like it.
I love this Origins line....I pop dotted the bigger sticker,it was too flat just stuck down!
I'm going to remember this for whenever I'm stuck for an idea,talk about quick and easy.
Then I actually made another page.
Then I started a third,maybe just maybe I am on a roll again :)

Hopefully back Monday,with more pages and a bit of a catch up.
I'm off to keep warm...it's freezing :)

Friday, January 22, 2010

Coming soon...hopefully!

Regular blogging!
I just haven't been in the mood to blog.
Nothing worth sharing...just everyday run of the mill stuff.
No scrapping has taken place.
So I'll post the remaining unseen ones from last year.
One I started on NSD last May....

An older one for Ad's album...need to start working on this again.

One from October...


And this one that I started back in October but didn't finish up until December...

Which looks really washed out for some reason.

Hopefully I'll have something new to share next week.

Well it's a cold fresh morning out there and I think,perhaps,just maybe the sun may shine today........at last!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Can we...

...just an an itsy bitsy show of sunshine.
I dislike snow.
I dislike freezing temperatures.
The only thing that gets me through winter is the sun and blue skies.
Neither of which I have seen for days.
It makes me grumpy :)

I am so far enjoying taking my photo a day...despite the lack of sun.

The boys finally went back to school yesterday and I've played catch up on errands/groceries/cleaning ever since.
Nothing much happening this weekend and nothing wrong with that at all.
Most likely some skiing for the boys.
We also heard a friend is in town,who we haven't seen since we left the UK,so that should be fun,catching up.

I haven't scrapped.
I have been backing up photo's though.
Whilst doing that I found some layouts from last year I never posted.
So I'll post a couple of those since I have nothing new to share...


Super simple one.
I'd been wanting to get this story down for a long time.
Title says it all really !
That was Ol's reaction when he finally got the frog back in his possession.
It's a long story.
With a happy ending......thank goodness.
We have not lost the frog since !!

This one has pictures from '08...


It was in the October issue of BHG and was one of my favourites from last year.

OK thats all I have for today.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Hello 2010 !

The last 2 weeks have just flown by.
It's been nice and relaxing with lots of time for just the 4 of us.
The only busy thing we did was drive to Craig and Nic's Christmas morning to spend a few days.....first time we have spent Christmas with any family members for 4 years.
The weather was kind of weird and not the greatest to get out and about in,which is a shame when there is so much to explore.
Michael and Brad got quads for Christmas,so Ad and Ol had a little go on those.
I even had a go,kind of fun,but Nic has the photo evidence of that.

We did see a couple of porcupines up a tree and plenty of tracks of various other wildlife !
We walked out to the swamp,which was being to freeze over,lots of stuff to take pictures of !!
Since then we've taken it easy.
Boys have seen a few friends,been skating and sledging.
New years eve was just the four of us,sushi dinner and movies.

I'm not one for making resolutions or any of that kind of thing but I am definitely going to make even more use of my time this year.
Spend it wisely.
I feel towards the end of last year I wasted a lot of time.
All in all I am looking forward to 2010.

Anyway it feels good to get all the Christmas stuff down.
That prompted a grand old tidy up and clear out yesterday that has been continuing today.
That has of course left a huge expanse of wall in my dining room that I have to find a cheap solution for !
The boys are still off school until Thursday.....then I can get back to completing my long overdue sofa covers and cushion making in peace.

I haven't scrapped since before Christmas and not sure there will be time this week either but I am dying to get back into it....so many photo's just waiting.
I also need to sort out my albums.
I will post this 8x8 double page,one of 3 I made for Patti's birthday album...

I do intend to try and continue to post a layout every Friday.

I have also decided to do the 365 photo challenge,I'm posting those on flickr.
To keep it interesting for me I'm going to include a few simillar things each week.
I'm sure there will be photo's I love and photo's I hate but it's all about learning and trying to improve.