Mmmmmmmmmm !!

Blogging et moi do not seem to be getting along in 2010.
I apologize,since I do believe some people actually do read it !!!!!
No real reason why.
Life's just plodding along.
Every one's fine and dandy.
I was actually surprised to wake up to a few inches of snow today...fancy that,snow in Quebec,in winter,who'd have thought ;)

No scrapbook pages to share but hopefully next week as I have scrapping on the agenda this weekend.

I do have a few cards to share since February is full of birthdays.....


and these 2...

I actually pulled out the ribbon box....it was rather dusty,sitting up on that top shelf.
And this one...


Which leads me nicely into this,which i think I will try and scrap this weekend...
My photo from Monday,it was a slight cheat being 12 instead of 1 but I don't consider that really cheating !
My 365 photo a day project is still going strong although I am longing for spring for some new inspiration.
I want to try and get a photo each month of my boys,to compare them all at the end of the year...


Ad is my reluctant subject at the moment so I was glad to catch this one when he came home from school this week...although I'm sure he could have pulled that hat down further !

Oh and thank you Moe for your lovely comment :)

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.

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 couple of cards

A while a ago I was making cards regularly,2 or 3 every month but not anymore.So when I saw the challenge on the American Crafts Blog last week,of using Thickers on a card I knew I wanted to do it.

So here's my birthday card......


American Crafts Supplies: Paper: Kids(playdate,Red Rover,freckles),Thickers: Giftbox(letters) and Vera(accents),Rub-ons: Minimarks Laurel.
Other supplies: cardstock:Bazzill

And because I'm lazy I copied it to make a fathers day card for my FIL also using American Crafts !


Why not :)

Unofficial start to summer and some layouts !

Well it's been a great start to the day so far and it's still early.
I got up at 6 and went for a run,got home as Stuart was leaving,the boys were still sleeping,it's a ped day.So I started on the laundry,baked some cookies and tidied up a little and it's still not even 8.00am !

Anyway,some layouts and thanks for all the comments on last Fridays post they are very much appreciated :)
Sorry to say these pages have nothing to do with summer......both I made back in April......

It's called first snow in case you can't read it.My pictures don't seem to come out very well on here,they look fine on my screen but not on blogger.I messed up the title,I had to improvise a bit with cutting up a rub on !

Here's a Halloween page.....

I finally got to use that making memories paper I bought last year.

Here's a birthday card I made for a friend.......
I forgot to mention on Monday, that last Friday we saw our first hummingbird of the year.......smack bang on the same date as last year.......we've seen them all week mainly in the morning and evenings.....

No pictures yet this year,the mornings and evening aren't light enough for getting good pictures........and I should give credit to Stuart for having the patience to stand wait for this shot.

This weeks gone really fast and I am really looking forward to this long Victoria day weekend,the unofficial start of summer,it should hopefully include

• some long walks
• lots of photo taking
• family time
• wine........funny how this one always creeps in there :)
• games and reading
• hanging out and relaxing
• maybe some fishing
• some more planting

Here's hoping the weather co operates and I'll be back with Tuesday with a photo heavy post I'm sure.

Have a good one :)

It's here..........Spring !!

Yep it's officially spring today.....Woo Hoo.I am so,so,so pleased about this !
This year it really feels like it could be too ! Yes,it's a tad chilly out there this morning but the 2 week forecast is giving above average temperatures.It's also giving some rain,not too thrilled about that but at least it will wash away all the dirty,disgusting piles of snow that are still here.

So I had to quickly whip up a card for Mother's day,since it's Mothering Sunday in the UK this weekend.I had these papers left on my desk after I'd made a page,so used them to create this..............

Super simple but I think she'll like it !

What else ? Well since it's Spring and I'm all excited about plants and flowers,how about this double page that's in the current Creating Keepsakes magazine.....

The photo's ( that aren't very clear here,unfortunately,) were from Victoria day weekend last year at our friends cottage.

On the topic of my friends cottage as I've been sorting pictures for my favourites on my other blog I came across our dragonfly pictures that I've never posted,so I put those there too,just here ! in case you want to take a look !
Still flower/spring related,well sort of.....

A page from February.I don't think you can see the photo's that well but I loved them.The one in the bottom right has a dandelion seed on it and it's all covered in dew.This was one of those pages I just made because I loved the pictures.

Easy weekend ahead,weather's looking sunny so hopefully lots of fresh air and some BBQing,a little get together with some great girl friends on Saturday,should be fun :)

OK better stop wasting time on the computer and get my act together as I've got to get groceries and tulips !

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.

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 ;)

I can see it.......

The light at the end of the kitchen tunnel ! Yesterday should have seen the fitters back to finish all the little bits but someone either Home Depot or the cabinet company didn't order the panel so it's next Wednesday now BUT we got the stove top and the sink in this weekend so I no longer have to cook on the BBQ and I have running water in the kitchen,life's little luxuries !

So now I just have the tiling to do and I do believe it could be finished by the end of November,just in time to start all that Christmas baking.Although I thought ahead and cooked my Christmas cake at the beginning of September and have been generously lacing it with rum ever since !

Not much else except this............ we got our notice to appear to write our citizenship test (better start reading the booklet because I only have 2 weeks to prepare!) It's probably not very exciting to anyone else but us. I'd put this to the back of my mind,we applied this time last year,we've been eligible for a while but whenever we had the money something else like snow tires or a leaking pipe took care of it,unfortunately.The notification which we received in February said 12 to 15 months so it was such a surprise to find that in the mail yesterday.Happy mail,got to like that so fingers crossed that soon we will be 4 Canadians in our house and not just one.

My Father in law turned 80 the other week so I'll leave you with the card I made for him.

Cards

So here are the cards I talked about below,we had to make either a card or altered item to go with our 3 pages and of course I chose cards.I can never just make one,so with the scraps on my table I quickly made these 3.............

and then realised I hadn't used the magic mesh in the kit,so made 2 more................

All in those lovely colours !!