Christmas countdown

Okay so Christmas will soon be here & I cant wait! I love Christmas. Our Christmas tree goes up on the 1st of December. Even working in a card & gift shop doesn't spoil it for me .... though I must admit by the last week leading up to it I'm ready to stop listening to the same old songs on the DVD player!!!

I loved doing the 'tag books' & I decided to make something similar for myself but with Christmas in mind. I searched the internet & found instructions for making a Christmas countdown at http://www.makethemomentlast.co.uk/ which fit the bill. Its only half of their project but I decided I didnt want my countdown to be fixed to anything. It was a very easy & enjoyable project using allsorts of bits & pieces already in my stash or freebies printed off the internet - I have already made another for a friend & I have plans to make one for my niece & her 2 yr old daughter! I love the childishness of the 'sleeps til....'

Just Testing!

I’ve just downloaded the Windows Live Writer as recommended by a fellow blogger in the ‘Blogging for Scrapbookers’ class and this blog is hopefully my first of many!!

I won a raffle!!

I went my local scrap crop at Broseley on Friday night & spent a very pleasant couple of hours with other scrappy ladies. Not a lot of scrapping gets done because we natter so much! We all get entered into the raffle automatically when we pay our 'subs' & there are usually 3 or 4 prizes to chose from. My number was the first to be drawn so I chose a kit from CraftyStash that Liz had purchased online from their website. Its a lovely collection of papers & embellishments and it also had instructions for a layout to follow - so I did & this is what I made

I had great fun cutting out the trees from one of the papers! The photo is of me & my Gran taken circa 1965 in Manchester where my grandparents lived.

Hope you like it! xxx

The tag book

This is the 'tag' book that I made for mum while she was in hospital recovering from her major hip replacement/leg fracture"!! I found the instructions on the scrapbook-crazy website & it took just a couple of hours to do.

Sample pages from LSNED book

These are just an example of the pages in my LSNED book of September 2009

LSNED completed book

OMG! its October already?!!

Okay . . . . so I knew I would have trouble keeping this blog updated but August & September were completely ignored! I do have a good excuse though - My Mum broke her hip then decided that wasnt painful enough & fell again this time breaking her leg under the new pin in her thigh! She is finally at home recuperating & my Dad has become quite efficient at looking after the house & the cat & himself!!
My other excuse is that I joined an online class called 'Learn Something New Every Day' at Shimelle.com - We made a page for each day of September & showed what we had learned on each day. The pages were then put together to make a brilliant book to keep & look back on. I also made a lovely 'tagbook' of photos for Mum whilst she was in hospital which she loved (the nurses were very impressed too!!)