Happy Birthday L'il Sis

So, it's my little sister's birthday today.
HAPPY 36th BIRTHDAY TRACI Cheers and I'll have a drink on you later.

Photo Journal {Day 2}

Photo of the day, which is embarrassing as it shows that yes, at 5:36pm, I am still in my PJ's. But what the heck, we're having a pyjama day, this includes the children, they are still in their PJ's too. We don't do this very often but normally once during an extended holiday we have a designated 'Pyjama Day'.

Round and round and round again

You know how fashions from the past come back around again. The same thing obviously happens with scrapbooking.

I am in the process of seriously reducing my stash. As I am unpacking I am sorting out stash to sell, rak etc as I go. I have to, my scrapbook room is less than half the size I had in Canada and truly, there is only so much stash you need and can use.

Anyway, I get to my Zig writer scroll and brush pens, think about them for all of 2 seconds and decide I haven't used them in a couple of years at least so yup, they must get added to the list (I'm drawing up a Word document of everything that must go). I have about 20 odd or so of them. Why? I never use them! Next I come across a brush lettering instruction book(let) and then realise why I have so many of these brush pens. Remember Susy Ratto? And her lovely (!) brush lettering? I was laughing at myself, like you do, rather like seeing a photo of yourself in that Charlie's Angels jumpsuit you just HAD to have when you were 8, when I suddenly remembered what else I 'learnt' to do with those brush pens. Flowers! Very cute, almost Prima like, flowers. And DOODLING! Of course we didn't call it doodling then but when I looked through the book, that's basically what it was. Weird, huh?

So upshot is that my Stash To Clear list suddenly reduced by about 6 or so Zig brush pens, the ones which are good colours for creating flowers, and I feel a LO coming on, Susy Ratto style but updated for the year 2006!

Photo Journal

Jann, a friend of mine from Canada is urging her fellow Kindred Creations spirits to keep a photo journal. I think it's a great idea and will be fun to look back on in few months and see the little snapshots of life.

The idea, not a new one I know, is to take one photo a day, print it off and just stick it straight in to a journal. You can write a little about it if you want to but it's not mandatory. The main thing is to take one picture and just get it in the journal. No complications, no 'art'ing it up, no reason to prevaricate as it's supposed to be simple.

So, here's my photo of today. My lunch. A simple good old British bacon butty. Good decent back bacon was something I really, really missed whilst living in Canada.

Oh where, oh where has my scrap mojo gone?

I've lost it somewhere (and before someone else says it, I know it always seems as if I've lost it).

I want to scrap. I've been wanting to scrap for ages but now that I've got the space, in fact my own scrapping room, and my long lost, beloved stash, I. Just. Can't. Scrap.

I've lost my mojo, it seems. It's probably a combination of all the stress of the last few months catching up on me, this darned sinus cold I have and the fact that the rest of the house is in such a mess that I feel I should be doing THAT instead of scrapping.

You'd think after the ScrapManic weekend I'd be all fired up, but alas, no. In fact during the whole weekend I managed to create a whopping 2 whole LO's! Woohoo - not. The first one taking up most of the weekend. And they weren't that great either. Pretty simple, which does seem to be where I'm going at the moment, but certainly not worthy of taking all day to complete!

       

Oh well, I'm sure it will come back to me soon. I'm off to PaperArts for a crop tomorrow so maybe I'll be inspired by all my scrapbooking friends there?

Feeling blah

I've got this terribly irritating cough, you know the sort, a dry, pathetic cough where you never seem to be able cough enough to clear it, and it's keeping me up at nights. Then this morning I wake up with a pain in my sinus and feeling even more yucky.

And I have so much to do. I won't be able to scrap until I get my house sorted and tidied.

Oh, well, tomorrow is another day...

Playing blog catch up

Ok, I'll keep this brief but just wanted to get my blog all caught up with what's been happening in my world since my last few posts (author reserves the right to expand on a few topics at a later date!).

• Moved house, slowly, over the last few weeks, not as stress free as I'd imagined and now THIS house looks like a bomb site (what's new?)



• Major internet connection problems (which partly explains why I haven't been able to post for as long as I have). I think the initials BT stand for something completely different. In fact they have still not connected us and we are now in dispute with them (almost definitely more on this subject to follow)



• Loads of visitors to our new house in the first week (before we'd even really moved). My mum & step dad arrived on the Wednesday, left on the Friday, my sister (& husband & 5, yes 5, children arrived on the Saturday and stayed until Tuesday). Great to be with family but perhaps the timing could have been better?



• Mother's Day. Totally spoiled and pampered all day. Taken out for a very posh meal and obviously my 'Just in Case' section is working because he bought me the beautiful dichoric glass heart pendant {note to self 'update Just in Case section often'}



• ScrapManic - YAY! - last Friday and arrived home last evening (more on this later I think)

Now it's the first day of the Easter holidays and I'm looking forward to some down time. Where you don't have to rush around in the mornings (not that I do much, this is pretty much Richard's domain), no school uniform to get washed and dried, no going through the trauma of persuading Noah that "really pre-school is great and you'll have a fantastic morning darling" (knowing full well that within 5 minutes of dropping him off he'll be having a whale of a time, and no rushing around to all their various activities.

I'll catch up in more detail later but for now a great big hello to all my friends, cyber ones or not!