Snow Day Fun & Layouts!

Ok... so I know i'm a couple of days late with my update... but i've only just had some time to myself!

Last Saturday was a crafty afternoon/evening with the girls... Nats & Rach... It was a lovely time, just chatting and catching up with each other... I really struggled to get the old Mojo flowing after so long out from scrapping... they had done two layouts each and I was only just sort of sticking a few bits down... but after an earlyish night and a bit of sleep... Sunday was another thing... I found solutions to my embellishment problems, seeing as though I had no Halloween type at all, I had to improvise and found my Penny Black Trick or Treat stamps along with Sakura pens and See D's Swirly Alpha set and I think I actually like the finished layouts!

This is Thomas...

This is Calum...

The photo's were taken back in 2004... they were going to a school Halloween Disco... since we first started taking them Trick or Treating they have always dressed as Vampires... hmmm maybe that's down to me as I read so many books/stories on Vampires etc whilst I was pregnant... I just love anything mystical and magical... LOL

Now for the Snow Day fun... the boys were off school Monday and Tuesday due to the lovely snow we've had! Monday we stayed close to home and boys just played in the garden having snowball fights, but Tuesday we decided to get out for a bit so dug the sledge's out of the shed and went down to the pavillion for a walk and some fun...

The boys spent ages building this snowman inbetween snowball fights and sledging down the hill... I got loads of photo's and hopefully I will get time to make them into a mini album in memory of Snow Day!!!

It's snowing yet again... I have shopping to do, but may wait until the boys finish school!

Think i'll spend the day working on the letter 'X' as I have a layout idea in my head and photo's already to go... Hopefully back a bit later with some more layouts!

Update...

Ok so blogger is now uploading my photo's I can do a quick update before boys get up for school!

Christmas was nice and relaxed... we stayed home this year... had grandparents and aunt come to us for an hour or so in the morning after we'd opened our gifts!

I was really good this year and didn't go OTT on the boys... their main gift was the Nintendo DS and by the looks of these pic's it was a well recieved pressie

Thomas...

Calum...

Christmas Day Evening was spent at grandparents house for the evening party... few drinks and nibbles along with one of the cousins bringing their Wii & Wii Fit... very hilarious when slightly intoxicated!
The rest of Christmas was nice and quiet... spread between home and Grandparents house!

New Years Eve... again nothing special... just a quiet night in with my thoughts and the boys!

Since the World of Warcraft Expansion Pack... Wrath Of The Lich King has come out, I have been playing it quite a lot... I Love my DK (Death Knight)... only have one problem... I now need a new pc as this is sooo slow at the moment, it'll grind to a halt soon :(

3rd of January... I was whisked out for some fresh air whilst the boys were out shopping with grandparents for their birthday pressies!
A nice ride out to Otley Chevin... very cold but sooo refreshing and I just love the view!

Yes I was naughty for not having proper bike gear on... but I will invest or get someone to treat me if I am to go on more often :P

I've not had chance to do much crafting what with WoW and trying to make a start on decluttering my house... I'm doing it slowly and also trying to downsize my furniture at the same time... It's a huge task but I will get it done!

This Saturday just past was an evening out for the boys birthday which is tomorrow... I feel sooo old as they turn 11... and it'll soon be time for High School!
We went to a lovely restaurant where you can see the pizza's being made and when the boys cake was brought out, the whole restaurant was made to sing 'Happy Birthday' to them! Here's a couple of pic's...

Today's task is to go get some bits for a little tea-party for tomorrow night when grandparents bring the boys gifts round!
I know for a fact the boys are getting the Wii Fit from grandparents as I had to order it for them... but... I wonder who will get most use out of that :P

Well... I suppose I best go get the boys up from their pits and ready for school... hopefully back soon with something craftwise to show you :)

OMG...

Time is flying by... I can't believe it's been so long since my last post... I must apologise to everyone before I go on any further... I just don't know where the days are going, so much going on and so much to get done... my head is in a spin!

Ok... so first off I'll post the layouts I did for boys A-Z Albums... now i've added the K in it's rightful place... Hehe... so here they are...

I've used some of my Scrap-A-GoGo Kits for these layouts!

I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't manage to finish the albums... still have U, V, W, X and Z to do... but they will be done and are my first projects for 2009 before I start anything else!

This was going to be a nice long post with lots of photo's but Blogger seems to be playing up and i'm struggling to upload the rest of my photo's... so will have to try and do several small posts and if that doesn't work... i'll try again tomorrow!

A.W.O.L Apologise's!

Well firstly I would like to apologise for being A.W.O.L for so long... I would love to say that it's because I have been extremely busy crafting, but that would be a lie... I hadn't done any crafting until Tuesday this week!
I think with the end of yet another year on it's way and with still so many family hassles going on I found myself turning inwards to try and digest it all, which entailed a slow descent back into depression... and I thought I was handling everything so well too!

I've still got lots of problems with the boys school and family etc but I'm back and not plan on going down that track again any time soon!

Ok... so I have done the 'T' and 'Y' letters of the boys A-Z albums but can only show you the 'Y' layout as i've a spelling mistake to correct on the 'T'... I missed a k but will be easily rectified!

I used the sketch from http://creativescrappers.blogspot.com/ but had to adapt for an 8x8 layout... hope you like it... A bit brighter and more dimension than my normal style and I love how all the papers just fell into place with the photo's!

Calum... Y for Yummy!

Thomas... Y for Yummy!

Supplies...

DCWV Yellow Cardstock

White scalloped paper, I did this myself by using Monica's http://www.monicas-passions.blogspot.com/ Tutorial which you can find in her video bar!

Stampin' Up Spiced Cider for the orange with green spots background!

A piece of white paper for circle, drawn using compass and then hand cut!

The stripey paper is October Afternoon (I think) from a Scrapagogo http://www.scrapagogo.co.uk/index.php?p=1Kit!

Light Blue DCWV Cardstock

Dark Blue DCWV Cardstock

Title is done using Doodlebug, Loopy Lou from a Scrapagogo Kit

Scalloped white paper using a punch and then the embellishment is Provo Craft!

I hope to be back a bit later with the fixed layout 'T'!

Hope you all are having a wonderful December!

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Thought i'd see what my Username meant!!!

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What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Just a Bit of Fun!

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What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?