Time to slow down...

I can't believe it is weekend already !!! Where does the time go? Well I suppose that then answers Shimelle's blog prompt for the "My Freedom" class I am busy with.
I want the pace to slow down. Right now, my week consists of work, work and more work. I leave at 7.30 am in the morning and return at 7.30 pm. That leave me 3 hours to spend a little time with my kids, husband, and me. It is just not fair!!
I had all the intentions of keeping up to date with this project, I am not stressing though because I have to be realistic about how much time I actually have available too me.

Thanks to this gorgeous rainy weather, which I call scrapping weather I will get down to being a little creative so watch this space.
xxx

a New Look ...

I gave my blog a little make over. Now that I know what to do with the title, I will design something more elegant !!! Last night I moved all my digi scrap stash and photo's onto an external hard drive, something that I have been meaning to do for ages now.
For 'My Freedom' the blog prompt was "What is in your suitcase", it was fun reading all my fellow class mates blogs, besides all the normal stuff like clothes and underwear ect... I always ensure I have my hairdryer with me, nothing worse than having fizzy hair on holiday.

Time and Travel ......

Today for Shimelle's 'My Freedom' class, the blog prompt is about what would we do and where would we go if we could travel in time for just one day.
This got me thinking because I would like to do so much. Firstly I would like to travel forward in time, I am not to sure how far forward, just far enough I suppose until space travel is available to us common people. This is want I want to see and where I want to see it :


Then I would like to travel back in time so that I could spend just one more day with my mother, there is so much I want to tell her still and find out about, mind you a day would not be enough. I miss you Mom !!!
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I really love these two topics that Shimelle has given us to ponder about, I have done loads of thinking, now all I have to do is make a note of what I thought about.
Today while traveling into work, I had the time to just sit and think about my earliest clear memory, this has brought back many memories that were stored and filed away. I must be honest, I have always envied my sister because she has always had such vivid clear memories of our childhood, now I know how she retrieves this information; the same way as what I did today by just sitting and thinking about it all.
I can already see that this class is going to be amazing! All I have to do now is remain focused and make the time.

Can you believe it is already July...

I cannot believe that it is July already !! We have been in the UK now going on 8 months, it feels like just the other day we were packing up our lives in South Africa and getting ready to move. The last couple of months have actually been a blur, I think it may have something to do with the fact that it took 6 weeks from the time I got the signed job offer to us getting on a plane headed for Heathrow. When I look back now, it was amazing how Sean and I actually coped with everything. Things are settling down for us now as a family and we just loving every moment being here and making this our home.

I thought I would share two of my LO's that I have done recently. I have made a commitment to myself to do more meaningful layouts, even if they are simple. I really want to capture my thoughts and feelings versus doing just pretty LO's all the time.

Emma is such a little miss, she loves the camera and loves posing for me. She thinks it is a game to see the photo I have just taken immediately on the LCD screen of the camera. Yesterday when I showed her this LO I had done of her she said ' Wow ! Mummy that is beautiful !! '




The LO above is my eldest son Liam, this is the type of LO I want to do all the time when it comes to the journaling, this is what I call meaningful journaling. The journalling portray's my feelings and thoughts.

I joined Shimelle's 'My Freedom' online class today. I can't wait to get going on this, and yes I am going to commit to doing it now and not leaving it for later! I have decided that because I am on a stash diet I am going to make my album from my own stash too.