LSNED Day 6

We had a Circus Skills group into school today to teach the children new skills. With the usual arrogance of adulthood I thought it would be easy! But it wasn't! I was useless! Needless to say the children were fab at it!

LSNED Day 5

Hmmm not very inspired with this one! Had the lesson, couldn't design the page! I didn't take a photo so I found it tough to do. Oh well, I used up a fair few lilac and purple scraps and I'm movin' on to tomorrow!

LSNED Day 4

Day 4 and we were supposed to be thinking about whether our lesson today needed to be a general comment or very specific. I spent most of the day baking cupcakes to take to school (for the staff) and also dictating recipes to Jess as she typed them up for her Uni Cookbook! I learnt that when I cook I tend to treat it as an art rather than an exact science. I add a "bit" rather than a tablespoon; I cook until it looks right, rather than for 20 mins. This is fine when I cook but less helpful when I am trying to impart my cooking knowledge! I felt this phrase just about summed it up!

LSNED Day 3

I'm still keeping up, even though it was my birthday yesterday! Our prompt was to think about what you have learnt from your feet! Sound a bit random you may think but actually my feet tell me a lot. My page is about how I have put off exercise for years saying I was too busy to go to the gym, didn't have time to go swimming. In July I started running and miracle of miracles, I still am! I run every other day for about half an hour and although I haven't lost any weight I do feel better. I can't say that I actually enjoy it but my i-pod does make it easier. For my birthday my husband bought me a groovy little pedometer which calculates allsorts including how far you have run and how many calories you have burnt. I haven't set it up yet but I know that it will help me to keep at it once I realise how far I now can run! But fundamentally, the bottom line, all you really need is decent trainers!

LSNED Day 2

Lesson 2 was "a lesson learnt from inside or around your home". Well I went back to work, but I did decide what I had learnt. I had to take the photo today though and it is of the beautiful blue sky through some late roses in my garden. I once again did my "pick the first 2 scraps that go" technique but today I added the dimension of grabbing one of my boxes of extra bits (flowers, but some butterflies had snuck in there somehow) too.

LSNED Day 1

First day completed! This year I have decided to think of the words, choose a page and then some co-ordinating scraps from my "bits" box and then stick 'em down. Boom, no messin'! Maybe I will get it finished this year. I might add "stuff" later when I have more time. Today I learnt that I should check just which magazine (of several I read) has the pattern in I want rather than spending an hour and a half huffing and puffing and internet searching to try and find it!

Learn Something New Every Day

Do you remember this Shimelle class? I have done it for the last two years but I didn't finish last year. I thought that I might try again to keep up with the daily prompts and see if I still learn anything! So in preparation I today made the pages for this year's book.

I gathered an assortment of old exercise book pages, some lined and a few squared, and stitched them to the front and back of different coloured cardstock.

I think I shall just pick a page colour that suits my mood each day and then use the lines and squares to journal on. Let's see how we go this time!