Rocket Envy

I know, I'm being a bad blogger (again!). In fact writing that I'm a bad blogger is starting to become a habit, so I suppose I should just accept the fact that I am a bad blogger, live with it and get over it. I am though going to commit myself to posting something at least once a week, that way I can feel that once I've posted once during a week I can forget about it and stop agonising over the fact that I haven't posted in over a week because I will have... if you get what I mean? LOL...

Anyway, not much of anything happening at the moment. It's a school holiday this week and wouldn't you know it? The weather, which up until recently has been pretty gorgeous has now turned not so gorgeous! I do though have plenty to do: Noah has decided to hold an Invention Competition:

Contestants: Mummy and Daddy
Aim: To invent something (make a model)
Judge: Either Kat or Hettie, he hasn't quite decided yet but he can't do it because he is busy...
Prize: To be made by Noah

Now, I have some stiff competition because, unbeknownst (don't you just love that word?) to me, Daddy was given the 'heads up' yesterday and has already submitted his entry - a rocket! Now, not to make me feel inferior or anything but I've already had it pointed out by my dear son that "Daddy's rocket is amazing! Look at the detail, mum!".

Not to be out done, I had to come up with something pretty quick, I promptly said that I was going to make a car. With moving wheels and everything.

Now, I'm not sure whether Noah's living under the illusion that I am so much better than I am or if, in fact, I should be flattered that he feels I am capable of achieving what he thinks I can because his next comment was "Whoah, can you make it with a remote control?"... What?... With a remote control? I don't think so darling...

Just A Quick One

I do have a couple of digi layouts to post but just need to resize them for web first.

But I just wanted to say that the people at Dolce Gusto have been at it again and have now come out with the Mocha variety! They've probably been around for ages but as I'm very rarely in a supermarket nowadays (I do nearly all my grocery shopping online don'cha know! LOL) I didn't know. but Sunday we popped in to pick up some bits after church and there they were, boxes of Mocha, calling to me. So I bought a box, brought it home and then... promptly forgot to have one!

But I have now remedied this, after just getting back from the gym and feeling like I deserve one :D

It was good! I have to say though that the Latte Macchiato is still my favourite. OK, enough about that I'm even boring myself now :D

Will endeavour to post some crafty stuff, and something more interesting, shortly.

It's Back!

And that's all I'll say... well, that and the fact that we nearly missed it!!! Thank goodness for BBC3 is all I can say. That and Sky+ so I could tape the repeat of episode 1 and also manage to pick up episode 2 - so guess what we'll be watching tonight?

Week 3 - Digi: In Deep

So, I'm behind. So, what's new? Work has been getting in the way of all my fun. Lately whenever I'm on the computer it just seems to be all about the work.

However, I, along with many other parents in England, had a child home from school today because of the teacher's strike and so... I couldn't work - yay!

And so... I got to play and this was the result of week 3 of Jessica Sprague's Digi: In Deep class:

Click on it for a bigger version. I am so pleased with this LO. I learnt so much. If you ever want to learn more about digital scrapbooking then you can't go far wrong than taking one of Jessica's classes - they are just fab!

So what did I learn? I learnt how to create a photo cluster - something I've seen on lots of digi LOs but didn't know how to do. I learnt how to manipulate the photo cluster to show only colour inside the frames but black and white outside. I learnt how to take a photo with just the focal point on my finger and the rest of me out of focus - cool!

And yes - that fingerprint is mine - we learnt how to do that too!

I'm most pleased with my ghost flowers - that was self taught... I'm so clever... LOL...

Another Noah Gem

In future to just be referred to as ANG!

Driving back from his swimming lesson yesterday, it was a glorious early Spring evening and the sun was shining: "Hey, Hettie, if you look at the sun and then blink, then look outside the car, all around and blink, it's like painting with your eyes. It's really cool!".

A Couple of Digi Layouts

I've just realised that I didn't post the last LO of my Jessica Sprague online digital scrapbooking class, Now We're Rockin' With Photoshop, so here it is:

As I learnt so much from this class I enrolled on the follow up one. Jessica is fab and gave all those who signed up in the previous class not only a heads up on enrollment (releasing enrollment to us a couple of days early) so that we could be guaranteed a place but also gave us a discount!

Anyway, here are the two LOs I have done using the week 1 lesson. The first is a basic follow of the video tutorials she gives and the second one is our 'assignment' based on the things we learned. Not overly happy with the second one and I don't know why... any thoughts appreciated.

As usual just click on the images for a closer view.

 

Rumpus

Conversation with Noah last Friday:

Me: So did you have a good day at school today?
Noah: Yes, it was bring a game day
[Last day of term before Spring break so the children had an easy day]
Me: I see you took Robodoc, did you have fun playing it?
Noah: Well, not really the other children didn't listen very well as there was such a rumpus going on!

Rumpus? What 5 year old uses the word rumpus?

I decided to see if he really knew what the word meant. Hey, in our family it's ok to use your extended vocabulary but you've got to know what it means.

Rumpus definition according to Noah: Yeah, well it's like when you have a party and there's lots of noise and stuff and things going on. That's a rumpus!

Probably not the dictionary definition but close enough for me.

He makes me smile...