Easter Monday Ramble

I need to scrap but I think I've just forgotten how to.

Since moving back I've really only done pages that have had to be done, either for classes I've been teaching or for the LO I did for Scrapbook Inspirations £5 Challenge. I've not really done much general scrapbooking. This was understandable as I just didn't have the space in our rented house nor the stash as it was still in boxes distributed around the house.

But now I have no excuses I find myself generating them. I haven't got my scraproom just so, I need to sort out my stash better, I should update my blog first... and so on. And I still feel as if I've lost my mojo. I know I should just sit down and do something and I would then get over the hump.

So, I'm going to publicly challenge myself to create a LO, scan it and upload it to my blog by the end of today. I've been wanting to re-do Ali (Rowe's) fabulous doodling class that I recently took at Scrap Magic's weekend ScrapManic crop. The pink was just too pink and it makes me shudder just looking at it so it has to be re-done. So perhaps I'll do that.

Scrapbooking keeps me sane, it feeds my soul (I know very american mumbo jumbo but it truly does make me happy) so I know that once I get back in to the groove I'll feel better and my mojo will come back.

Not that I feel bad at the moment. I don't. Life is really getting back on track. Moving in to our own home is a big help, I'm loving the space and am excited about turning my own little part of it in to my own oasis of creativity. I'm currently looking in to storage and trying to find quirky, interesting ways to store stuff.

Ok, need to go as Harriet is nagging me to play on her new Nintendo DS game, Animal Crossing: Wild World, and sadly I really want to play too!

PJ {Day 7}

You know, I think I'm going to pretty quickly get completely hacked off with this whole "take a photo a day and stick it in a journal" thing. Today I feel more like "I'll tell you where to stick it!".

But I'm determined to stick with it. I have to, I took a trip to Borders and drifted into the Paperchase section and bought this gorgeous photo album/journal type thing, so I have to keep going. I think though after today my daily photo will be relegated to an album in my sidebar as I'm getting bored of seeing them in my blog, let alone any unsuspecting people straying my way. I mean, I don't want to bore the pants of people anymore than I already do.

So, now I'm torn, do I post a photo of my album/journal or the hyacinths my friend gave as a 'welcome to your new home' present? Hum-te-hum-te-hum....

Journal, I think:

Photo Journal {Day 6}

My scraproom is getting there, slowly, but getting there. You see it's got to get sorted as I'm the type of person who can only sit down to scrap once everything is just so, everything that has a place is in its place, and I have a clean, clear desk.

Once I actually start to work on something, then of course all hell breaks loose and once I'm finished the room looks like it's been hit by a hurricane. And worse of all stays that way until I'm ready to sit down and scrap some more. Where by the process starts all over again and I have to tidy up my work area before I can start on something.

Anyway, I digress. I have been working on my scraproom and it is getting there, slowly. And to prove it here is a picture taken, oh, 2 minutes ago, of my cardstock, all nicely sorted according to colour.

Doesn't it look pwetty? I'm actually going to move away from this type of paper storage and go vertical. Mainly because I've got so much less room than I'm used to and even though I am clearing out quite a lot of stash (I already have around 2 boxes full of stuff) I still have too much stuff that I'm not prepared to part with as it's stuff I love

Photo Journal {Day 5}

So, it's Day 5 in the Art Journal world (said in a geordie Big Brother accent) and seeing as it's almost Easter I have dug out my cute little eggs that I use to decorate my little twirly twiggy things in the dining room.

As I gathered them up by the loops I thought the colours were fab and decided to take a photo, hard to do with just one hand and an SLR camera, and at the same time change my blog header too (seeing as I was helping Chrissie, via telephone, to create a new header) to get me in the mood for chocolate on Sunday! LOL!

Scrap watching

So I'm waiting for some parcels. 4 parcels to be precise. And no, they aren't all scrapbook supplies! Oh, ok, if I'm honest 3 of them are!

2 of them I'm not overly worried about, at least not yet, but one of them is a parcel from A Million Little Things and was apparently sent off, surface mail, just over 6 weeks ago, and I still haven't received it. I've also just realised that I placed the order whilst still living in the rental house and didn't ask for it to be delivered to the new address, mainly because it didn't enter my head that the parcel would be sent surface mail and I thought it would arrive fairly soon-ish. I've spoken to our old landlady and she hasn't received it or even a slip of card saying that Royal Mail have tried to deliver it but no-one was home, that sort of thing, so, where is it? I suppose it could have been caught at customs and that is delaying it but I don't know, I'm getting nervous now and even worse I can't even remember what I ordered. LOL! I 'think' it could have been some Rhonna Farrer stuff but who knows.

The other 2 parcels are from Two Peas and are some pre-orders which I know have been shipped this week so shouldn't be too long in arriving and my first 2 months subscription to Scraptivity, a Canadian scrapbook kit company who do the most amazing stamps!

So, I'm back to stalking our friendly postman, Greg, who I think is on holiday at the moment and I think sending an email to A Million Little Things to see if they can tell me anything more about my order.

I need my new stuff, I'm blitzing my scrapping room once and for all today and I am then going to get my mojo back, even if it kills me in the trying.

Photo Journal {Day 4}

Our best friends came to visit today. I say our because they are all our best friends. Niki is mine, Cam (her husband) is Richards, our eldest daughters were born 9 days or so apart and have been best friends ever since, our middle daughters are good friends too, and their youngest daughter, Erin, has been patiently waiting for Noah to get to an age where he can be a good playmate too - and now he is, they were inseperable all day.

We took the opportunity to have a little birthday celebration for our big girls, who'll be turning 10 in the next few weeks, and the smiles on their faces say it all.

Photo Journal {Day 3}

Nearly forgot about my photo journal today. How bad is that, eh? Only day 3 and she forgets!

Noah got in to the Rescue Heroes big time whilst we lived in Canada and we finally got around to unpacking his boxes that they had been stored in. He was so excited and has played with them constantly ever since. Here he has proudly lined them up before going to bed.