I am loving this kit. It just fits in with all that I'm loving at the moment. Although I could have done without being gotten out of bed by the postie this morning!
Ah well, I suppose it was worth it for all the Jenni yumminess. If I can find time then I'll post a photo of it later so you can all drool along with me.
***Edited to add picture (as promised). Late I know but better late than never is one of my motto's (and I'm often late!!!)***
Getting there. Plans, ideas, coming together.
And as promised here is a small sneaky peek of the class I'll be teaching this Saturday at PaperArts. This is all for now as I need to get going on the 2 classes I'll be teaching next month. I just wish I didn't feel so rotten. I was really sick yesterday afternoon, dizzy spells, nauseous, physically ill. I think there is a virus of some sort going round, well, that's what everyone keeps telling me. I am feeling better this morning but should probably take it a little bit easier.
That's my excuse for not doing the housework today!
"Strike that, reverse it" - one of my favourite quotes from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the version with Gene Wilder). {On an aside I love movie quotes and quote them in everyday conversations but forget that other people may not know what I'm talking about - what's so unusual in that? People probably never know what I'm talking about, LOL}
Anyway, back to topic. I am busy. Very busy. Planning classes (I have 3 to do in the next 5 weeks), actually having to do the layouts to support the classes, writing up notes etc. Trouble is often when I'm faced with lots to do my brain seems to go in to a freeze and I end up doing nothing. I have though accomplished a little today and have put the framework together for one class, added the photos and just now need to embellish it.
And on top of all this my brother, bless him, has asked if I remembered that shawl I offered to knit for his expected baby? Remember? Remember something that I spoke about for all of 5 seconds weeks ago, hey, I can't even remember what I had for supper last night. So, erm, no, sorry, I didn't remember and no, I can't do it. I have though organised my mum to knit (or crochet) said shawl instead and have offered to knit something once the baby is here and we actually know whether I can use blue wool or pink wool (I'm hoping for pink but I suspect he's hoping for blue...).
I'm also hoping by then that I will have time to sit and knit as opposed to sit and scrap. Hmmm, how do we feel that will pan out...
OK, back to the grindstone for me. If I actually manage to finish one of the projects I will post a little sneak peek here but don't hold your breath!
Yes it has. I have now officially become an embarrassment to my child.
You know it happens to other parents but you never imagine it will happen to you. After all, you imagine you're different to all the other mums, there will never come a time when your child criticises your clothes or your hair or your {whatever}, you're the 'cool' mum, I mean c'mon, you're a 'life artist!' {read scrapbooker! LOL}. But sadly my day has come.
Katarina has gone off on her Year 6 residential week away today and kindly turned down my offer of coming up to school at 11:30 this morning to wave her off on the bus. "No, you'll embarrass me" she says. I, obviously being the great 'cool' mum, respected her wishes and agreed to just take her, and her luggage, to school in the hopes that I would at least get to say my goodbyes and perhaps a kiss. Who was I kidding?
LOL! I was lucky if my lips managed to graze her cheek by the fleetest of touches. Oh well, I am proud of her. Proud that she is so self-assured and confident. Proud that she feels able to just go off in to, for her, unknown and not feel that she has to cling on to mum.
And secretly pleased that at home, away from prying eyes, she still loves to snuggle up to her mum for hugs and kisses...
Last year, the girls and I made our first very own gingerbread house. It was really good fun and Noah was mesmerised by it. However, the first thing he wanted to do was eat it. Obviously. But as we had worked so hard on it the girls wanted daddy to see it first. So after Noah kept asking all his questions I said he could just look at it - which is exactly what he did. Sat on a stool and just looked at it. Which meant I got this great shot of him :)
This is also my first Speshal dare attempt. I've been meaning to have a go at one (or two or three) for ages but just never seem to remember to do so. In fact this layout was sort of in my head (in terms of the "When?" question) and completing a dare was no where in my mind but when I read the last dare and saw the basis of this layout sitting on my desk I knew that it would fit and added that little bit of something to the title that I think it needed. I'm still not 100% happy with it (I very rarely am with layouts) although do like aspects of it, the big question mark for example, and am therefore going to call it finished. Done. Put it in the album. After all I still have a million other photos to deal with to waste time niggling at something that to all intents and purposes looks pretty well finished (even if I may think it just needs a little something more! LOL!).
Picture the scene.
It's a beautiful sunny day, the sky is blue but there is enough of a chill in the air to let you know that summer is over and autumn has arrived. You're walking, actually that should read dawdling at a child's pace, which is the way it should be because you are walking with your child down the school lane. Your sweet child is hunting and grappling through the undergrowth on the hunt for elusive conkers (Horse Chestnut trees grow abundantly all down the side of the lane), not only trying to find the biggest and the best but the most, which is a matter of the utmost importance.
When suddenly... PLONK! A conker falls out of the tree and lands on your poor defenceless child's head! Oh my... the tears did flow...
And the lesson Noah learned today? It's probably best to wear a crash helmet whilst conker hunting - well or get your mummy to get them for you!
What a great Saturday I had.
Firstly I got to spend the day with Cherry which included a quick (and I mean quick) shopping trip around Cirencester, in the pouring rain. It still amazes me though how I can spend so much money in such a short space of time.
Followed by another quick shopping trip to PaperArts although this time ostensibly to collect an order I placed on-line earlier in the week but, as usual, I couldn't just walk in and spend nothing. It's just not done, is it?
And the best part of the day? The fabulous workshop with classes by the, once again, fabulous Emily Falconbridge and Kirsty Wiseman.
I pretty much thought that the classes would be really out of my box but actually they weren't. They were so in my box that they were positively cubed! Acetate is my big love at the moment, actually not even at the moment, I've always had a thing about clear stuff. You only have to take a look through my stash - I have a whole boxed entirely devoted to my love of all things clear.
I've been feeling in a bit of a funk scrapbook-wise, oh let's be honest, whole life wise lately so just sitting and splashing around paint and stuff was just what the doctor ordered. I worried that because we were under time restraints and didn't managed to finish either product that they would both be doomed to end up in the deep dark recesses of the 'still to complete' cupboard.
But I am pleased to say that I loved them both so much that I have already completed Emily's project, even adding extra pages and it is now gracing my side table for all and sundry to 'ooh' and 'aah' over:
In the usual way you can click on the thumbnails for a larger view. What I loved about the class wasn't that it was a 'you will be doing this' type of thing but more of a 'let me show you a couple of techniques' and we could then go away and do our own thing. I particularly loved the masking tape technique and will definitely be using this again. In fact that's my favourite page in this little mini book, it's so vibrant and colourful and if it's one thing I've noticed about my pages lately it's that they are full of colour.
I LOVE COLOUR!!!!!!!!
Oh, edited to add that this is my mum & dad from the period when they first met (aged 17 & 18) until just after they had me. It was really freeing doing this as my dad died 8 years ago and this is the first of a couple of projects that I'm now feeling strong enough to tackle. I used the lyrics from Love Is All Around for this project, mainly because of the lyrics "you gave your promise to me and I gave mine to you" as I wanted to use these on the photo of their wedding day. I think I'll also do something similar but for Richard and I using 1 Corinthians 13 4:8 as I've been wanting to use this for ages.
