Scrapbooking

Well it's been a while! Just a quick DLO today. I am doing my pages for this year's album still and this was at the Villge Fete in June. Eliza was doing Maypole Dancing and I think I took about 50 photos but when it came to it these ones were the only ones that I really liked! A very plain LO but the colours are rather bright and unusual and taken from the girls' dresses!

Christmas Cards

Mmm yes well I am not quite sure if I should be proud that I have started making my Christmas cards or ashamed! My second doughter has her birthday just 2 weeks before Christmas so usually we don't really do anything to do with Christmas until after then. But today I had the urge to start making my cards!

Maybe it was because I have sneaked one or two suitable stamps into the basket when I have stocked up on essentials? Who knows! This year however I have decide NOT to beat myself up about doing loads of different designs. So today I did the first 3 designs and made seven of each!

I know they are all based on the same style but I have finally discovered that in order to make the quantity I need to send they need to be simple, quick and easy.
Now I just need to keep them somewhere safe until it's time to send them...

Accordian Spine Book

Today I have been busy making this accordian spine book. Way back in September we went to a Service of Dedication for a friend's son and I took lots of pics on the day. The intention was to make a book of the day to give them and it has taken me this long to get time to do it! The colour looks a bit odd but the pages are a baby blue with darker blue card forming the spine. I plan to use the patterened paper (in the background) to decorate the pages which are 6"x8".

Once I had worked out exactly how to do this (!!) it was a nice quick book to do so now I just have to wait for the photoes to arrive!

All Done!

So here it is! The finished, bound book! I managed to buy some 1 1/4" BIA wires today so I finished it off. I learnt another lesson on the way....don't put brads too close to the edge 'cos they don't fit in th BIA!

I am really pleased to finish the project. I did finish my Christmas Journal too so I am looking forward to doing that again this year. I bought the paper for it today....
Am I REALLY talking about Christmas already?
Thank you for all you encouragement along the way.

The last two days!

Ok so it took me a while to get the last few done but here they are! Day 29 was a very stressful, challenging and difficult day at work; both mentally, physically and emotionally. When I got in I had the overwhelming urge to make jam...from some more pears from school...despite being shattered and too busy to be jam-making really! But I did it and I found that the monotony of the peeling and waiting for the set really calmed me and seeing the jars all lined up lifted my spirits. What a simple being I must be!

Day 30 and what to do for my final page? Well I couldn't chose a photo so I decided to do a page without. I searched t'internet for a quote about learning and found this one...(from a bloke I never heard of and nor had Wikipedia!)...which summed up my month of learning!

So all that remains is to bind my new-found wisdom....and try to keep my blog up to date!

Days 27 and 28...

Hmmm bit late again! Sorry!! Had a really busy few days; school concert on Monday; Guides on Tuesday and tons of soap to wrap last night so this is the first chance I have had to scrap! Not sure I have stuck to the prompts for this one...tho' I think there has been one about "taking a chance". OH was on late lates lSaturday night and wasn't in til the wee small hours so I said I would walk the dogs...generally a blue job in this house! I decided to take my camera and was so pleased in the end as I got the fabby pics of the mist on the field where we go with them every morning.

On Monday I had to take Katy to school to perform in a concert. The school has been establishing a link with a schoool in Uganda. I have to say I went along out of a sense of duty really...but it was the most amazing concert I have been to for a long long time. The children were fantastic and so full of joy and energy that it was quite an emotional event. I am so glad that I went in the end!

Well I am off away on a Guides training weekend in the New Forest tomorrow...so no more til next week when I shall post my final 2 pages.

Day 26

Sadly the last (and the bulk) of my crop of tomato plants seem to be getting blight. The ones I picked earlier in the season have ripened beautifully on the windowsill so today I picked all that remained. Last week I was given LOADS of fresh chillis, some damsons and I scrumped some pears off a tree at school! What to do with all this? Well a few days ago I made High Dumpsie Dearie Jam (pear, apple and damson) and today I made tomato and chilli jam and damson vodka! Mmmmm! Next will be green tomato and chilli chutney.
Now when I go back to school on Tuesday I think there are still more pears on the tree so I think I might help myself to a few more as I have seen a recipe for pear and lemon jam...