LSNED - pages so far and day 5

and what did I learn on day 5 ....
that  you can sometimes win on a scratchcard ....yay me - £20 ! .tee hee :-)

LSNED day four

I gave in to myself the other week when there was a Christmas Craft Day on tv and ordered an  Anna Griffin card kit.
It arrived after a couple of days and I keep promising myself that I'm just going to sit and make Christmas cards one Sunday - soon....

......Lesson today... It really is never too early to start Christmas and it's ok to 'cheat' a bit when you've got loads to make...

LSNED day three

 What have I learned today ??

No matter how many times we do it - my heart always hurts on the day of the Uni  drop off.....

I've finished the book cover now- I decided to leave the tape off and leave it as it was and have added a couple of grungeboard hinges which I painted black then had a good old spritz with Antique Gold.

LSNED day two - help please

I've been making my book cover today and I've certainly learned that I really really do like messing about with inks and paint and stuff and should do more of it ........The album  started life like this

An American Crafts 8x8 album.

I've painted it and alcohol inked it and covered it with some Tim Holtz Craft Resist cardstock- then inked over the Craft Resist ........so far it looks like this...

 I could do with a bit of help - I can't make my mind up whether to leave it like this or add this abc tape - I will probably ink over the tape to make it not so white - opinions please........

                                            
  I keep putting it on and taking it off and still can't decide.
  I think I might add some hinges on the spine too.....

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LSNED- Day one - what did I learn ?

Work really can be quite fun sometimes ..........

Not only do we get nice visitors

One of my colleagues has a Dachsund - she came in for a quick visit ....I had a job getting a decent photo of her on my phone as she was right up the other end of the office...settling down beside her owner...

Then she  popped up to my end of the office to say hello so I snapped a quick photo.....

Not only that .....

the Accountant pretended to be her.......

Shimelle's sketch of the week

All dressed up !

One of quite a few photos of the day -may be a bit weird to take this - but you know what us scrappers are like- preserve every bit of the memory! Even the shoes..

Friends and Blogland

I had a lovely suprise in the post the other day -

this had come all the way from Arizona USA.

I happened to mention when we last had a bar-b-que that the men/lads here all love Paul Newman's ranch style dressing.

Deb Turtle did no more that pack me up a pack of this yummy stuff - and I can report back that 'they all loved it' Deb! ..himself even had it all over his hot pasta the other night!

Thank you so much Deb - it warms my heart to have such lovely friends - especially as you have such a busy time at the moment ♥

Speaking of friends, I had a lovely time out yesterday catching up with another Deb,

We caught up on all the latest news, discussed scrapping projects and generally had a nice time. She had some lovely cupcakes for us - and did we think to take a photo of them? nope.

At last I've done some scrapping -yay! - here's my take on Shimelle's latest Starting Point challenge....