Library Layout

Completed this layout on Saturday evening. I’ve always loved books and it’s an expensive hobby to buy new, especially when you don’t know what you’re getting as such lol. I’ve a collection of read-once books on my shelves!

Our local library is a lovely old building and very welcoming so as I’ve just started getting back into reading for pleasure after studying for 6 years I decided to document my love of books and libraries.

Scrapping this weekend has taken my mind off the fact that someone somehow has purchased £450 worth of stuff online on my card that I have no knowledge of! Cue emergency call to bank to get it sorted. Luckily it is all in the process of being sorted! Pure chance that I checked my account on Saturday to see if I could warrant buying a couple of dies for the cuttlebug!! They’ll have to wait a while now!

My Girl Dooley

My cat is the source of many many photos but only occasionally do I get one that makes me laugh out loud after the event.  On Tuesday I bought a new portable mobility scooter to go in the car and it’s currently in the conservatory charging up. Dooley likes sitting on it. Well yesterday Mum lifted her onto the seat when I had my camera and this is what I managed to take!

WOYWW

First time I’ve done this but as part of my plan to start blogging more I figured it’d be a good way to start!

I’ve only got a tiny table to craft on but I also use my desk next door if I have to lol.

I’ve got two projects on the go (well…2 that I have just started…there are plenty more sitting in other places waiting to be finished!), my graduation album and a mini book charting a year in our garden. I’m making great use of my nestabilities and my gorgeous little cuttlebug too!

Graduation Mini Album

I’ve made a start on the album to show off my graduation photos from the other weekend. I’ve taken a 7gypsies accordion book and cut the pages so it’s a regular book.

I inked the boards with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and edged the Blue Awning paper with Old Paper before doing the same with the mini alphabets. Along with a 7gypsies 97% sticker and some ribbon the covers were done.

The little card shows the date and location of the ceremony and is held in by one of the ribbon ties so that it will flip to reveal the picture.

Hopefully by posting the progress of the album here it will encourage me to actually finish something!!!

More Layouts…

A few more of my scrapbook layouts from the past few months. I’m trying to resurrect my blog which lost it’s way when I lost my way on the Blogging For Scrapbookers class so hopefully I can set it going once again.

Some Scrapbook Layouts

These are some pages from a while ago that I’ve never uploaded to here before. These were made using the Brenda Pinnick Mega Kit from QVC. I still have most of it!!!

My distressing journey

Ok so it’s not as bad as you’re thinking.  I’ve been buying again…blame the weather! It’s just too manky to go out anywhere lol.  Hence the new cuttlebug, nestabilites and now this…

I’ve invested in the Today’s Special Value from yesterday on QVC. I’m not that into the grungy look but I love the new distress ink colours and would love to be able to do more than cut and stick once in a while so I thought the kit would be perfect.

So now I can be messy!!!!!!

I had a very quick attempt using an ink pad I already have and a make up sponge (not really the best thing)… this is what I ended up with. It’s nowhere near perfect but for a first attempt it’s not too bad.

More to follow when my kit arrives!!!! I may even manage to update this blog more often!

It’s Only November 13th

And I’ve just wrapped my first Christmas present. Admittedly it’s the cat’s christmas present but still this is the earliest I’ve started wrapping!

I think I’ve been infected by all the early Christmas adverts on TV!

Another thing is, why when you’ve ordered things you really want do they not turn up (via Royal Mail) but the things you don’t want like free magazines from the Pet Insurance company do?

*grumbles* because I really want my pretty Cosmo Cricket stuff!!

Armistice Day – 11/11

I’m a day late posting this but live writer was playing up last night.  This is just my little photo post about the war heroes from my family (including the newly discovered relatives). They may not have been decorated other than the medals issued to everyone but they’re my heroes.

 

My great-grandfathers, Wilfred and William Percy. Wilfred or Farvy served in home waters during WW1 while William Percy or Pop-Pop served we believe in Gallipoli and the Middle East.

 

My grandfathers, Thomas and Reg. Grandad (on the left) joined up in 1943 and apparently went over to France a couple of weeks after D-Day. He was shot and sent back home where he was found to have shrapnel in his arm and lungs something which he suffered with for the rest of his life. Granna (on the right) was out in the Far East and was captured by the Japanese. I don’t know much about what happened to him as he never spoke of it but I know the experience haunted him.

There are so many men and women like these who aren’t the well known names from the wars but they deserve just as much recognition, so this is my way of doing that for the members of my family.

Writing…

Since I’ve been to school and through the Open University system I’ve come to detest writing. When I was a little girl I would spend hours writing little stories, admittedly all following the same basic template lol but throughout school and university you’re told how to structure everything, almost told what to write etc etc. Now when it comes to blogging or journaling I find I do the same. I can’t just write any other way.

I didn’t follow the prompt exactly today as I just couldn’t think of anything to write about but I did produce a layout about my problems with writing. The journaling is hidden behind the patterned paper and says the same as above.

This and the next layout also use part of today’s prompt whereby I did something I hadn’t done before and that used my new alphabet stamps and the mini stamps which are part of a Maya Road set, which I now love. The chipboard pieces come from the same set.

I know it’s a well known joke that it always rains in Wales but when we went to Snowdonia earlier this year it rained for 6 out of 7 days. The picture was taken on the Sunday when we had just come over the Llanberis Pass which had sent my Mum into fits because she hates windy roads with drops to one side. The scenery was worth it even if she did make us promise never to take her across it again!