Me on Monday

It was an 'oh my goodness how nice to see you after so long' catching up with blog/scrap friends,eldest moving his things back in whilst they look for a house AND after having a word with myself catching up on friendship squares kind of weekend for me..
Imagine my surprise upon turning up at a bi monthly crop to find my seat and who should be sitting right there next to me but 'Scrappy Sandie'  Lots of chat ensued and the day flew by.

Of course we had to have a selfie - I really hope Sandie enjoyed her day back scrapping,it was so nice to catch up.
So the other thing I did was to make some more friendship squares - apologies ladies but I really really am back to it now and there will be three more posted tomorrow

I'm joining in with Sian's me on Monday blog feature today - so I'm waving hello to her and all the others playing along too.

December in January

Happy New Year bloggy people. I find with there being so many ways of keeping up with people nowadays - Instagram-Facebook- Twitter. I don't update my blog as much as I would like so here I am to put that right.

I've got quite a few Christmas photos I want to scrap now so the other evening I set to and found my Graphic 45 stash
This layout is using the Time to Flourish collection - we had some great Christmas Crops in December this one being Ann's where we had a 'Christmas Photo Booth '

For the background I used paper from the 'Twas the night before Christmas' collection.

Some good old fussy cutting of a couple of Poinsettias and some sparkly sequins finished it off.

Here's another page I posted in the Facebook group in case you don't have Facebook that I made using Webster's Strawberry Fields (are you humming it?) They were so apt as my youngest son has just gone travelling for 6 months so the journaling cards were perfect

I used a star stencil with some distress ink to add a bit of interest - I just can't leave that white space! and die cut some stars too.

I hope you are all looking forward to a nice bloggy 2015 !

Bloggin/Journalling my December Daily/Christmas

I made my mind up that I really was going to make the effort this year and document December and the build up to Christmas
I actually did prepare some of the book in November so It made it a tad easier.
I thought I'd share some of it here
I used some of the Webster's Pages All That Glitters range for the front cover - I'm using a bit of a mixture for the book - mainly Simple Stories with some other bits from my stash thrown in

A certain four legged furry friend wasn't too happy that I was ignoring him and cutting and sticking so decided to stand right on the stool  I was using as a table right in front of me letting me know he wanted to sit on my lap!

My start to December was a really great one with some shows on Create and Craft - so I had to document those

I've been taking pics all the way through December and am definitely enjoying the more 'Project Life ' type of approach to it this year.

Will be back with more soon

Are we all enjoying the build up and are we nearly all ready ? no ? neither am I !!

Fun at the NEC with Create and Craft

Good  Sunday morning to you. I thought I'd share some photos of yesterday at the NEC on the Create and Craft stand

Sue Dindale and me did a lovely make and take  using the gorgeous Kanban Denim and Lace kit.

The tickets all sold out at 9 oclock in the morning so we knew it was going to be a busy time.

These are the fabulous cards Sue designed that we made

Busy working away

This young man was amazing - he does lots of crafting and was whizzing away !

All too soon it was over and tidy up time - every one went home with a goody bag and completed cards.

It was good to see 'our Leonie' and have a catch up 

  

I really enjoyed it, I was really nervous but it went well and was interesting seeing it from the 'other side' !

Denim and Lace

I've been very busy lately preparing samples for  the latest Create and Craft shows for Aspire Crafts
The new kit is gorgeous and I really enjoyed making cards with it
Here are some of the samples

It's a really pretty kit with some cute owls - right up my street !

                 I will be busy packing clothes and crafty supplies later for a retreat this weekend with Scrapagogo - can't wait!

Me on Monday

It was a  getting wages done before I go making sure id got enough pills,dog sorting, packing,and last minute thinking my eye was going to play up- better get some drops - making sure dogs have enough fishy treats and set Strictly to record sort of weekend for me

So now it's an at last I can relax , catch up on blogs ,read a bit and generally chill kind of Monday for me

I'll miss these little fellas, but they are in good hands with number three son at home dog sitting 

It will be oh so nice to be me for a few days. I'm determined to catch up on some books I started ages ago - all sitting there in my iBooks .... Fractured ( thanks to Deb's recommendation) Gone Girl is another one . Anyone read them? I'm also planning my friendship squares too so I can get cracking as soon as I'm back ... I might even blog some more ! 

I can't quite get the hang of doing it on my iPad though - it seems ok till I post a photo then the keypad keeps popping up when I don't want it to - hey ho no doubt I will get used to it.

This post is joining in with the lovely Sian's Me on Monday  - pop over to her blog and see what she's been up to.

What do you blog about

When you really don't think you have much to say ???

Well funnily enough I have been flicking through my blog and actually In the past I've had lots to say - so many nice comments and so many nice memories like the memory of 18 months ago - REALLY ?? was it that long ago ??
i am very happy to re- visit this post - ah wasn't it a grand weekend ?

25/03/2013

Blogfriends Unite

A few years ago I started this blog. Just to keep a diary of life,crafty bits and general 'stuff' for me to look back on. I never had the time to sit and write stuff - so thought this would be far more interesting for me. Then I decided to do an online class run by Shimelle, as lots of my friends were doing this 'picture a month' thing and it sounded great fun. After signing up I started to discover other peoples blogs.I saw their pages and crafty makes -also learned  bits about their lives and began to think of them as real friends.
We have shared happy moments and sadder moments between us and have always thought how wonderful it would be to actually meet in person.
Well,this weekend,some of us did. I'd posted about a crop that my friend Deb  and I go to which is run by Karen  a few times and the lovely Deb from Arizona had said she would love to be at one of our crops one day ..........
This weekend, we fulfilled that ambition. Deb and her lovely daughter Carrie came to the UK for a visit -  and Alison flew in from Spain - so Karen arranged a wonderful set of papers ( with a tiny bit of help from me ) and Deb very kindly hosted it .

It was just like our crops,we had cupcakes

We scrapped and chatted 

We even went to a 'typical English pub' for dinner and ' pudding'. 

The day after was also a perfect day.

Even more lovely ladies who have all been friends via blogland came together in London.

There were eleven of us altogether, a real international gathering. Helena came down from Scotland,Alison flew in from Spain, and of course  Deb and Carrie from USA.

We all got on so well,it was like we'd all met before .. it was an absolute pleasure to meet each and every one of these lovely ladies

Deb and I have shared some very happy emails chatting about our joint love of a certain Mr Donny Osmond - and some very emotional emails when we both went through some sad and trying times with both of us losing one of our parents,we always said how lovely it would be if we could make those cyber hugs we used to send each other real - this weekend we did ...and it was amazing.  

and it was so very hard to say goodbye.