My little sunshine...

Finished off this LO tonight, inspired by Pencil Line sketch no 113.... okay , so you must be asking, what is it with this woman, scrapping spring colours, not intentional I promise ! But hey, spring must come soon !! This will be our second winter in the UK, and this year I have felt it. Last year it was all new, no time to think, just get settled. Forget about the sunshine and blue sky's in South Africa and embrace the UK weather. Which I did with open arms, now, well, it is starting to get boring. Grey, rain, a little bit of blue and then grey again. But then you have to love the UK, it wouldn't be the same without the weather.

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Today I am actually a wee bit sad. I am really missing my family and my friend Valerie. I was so excited when she came online just now and told me some fabulous news. I also spent nearly an hour and a half tonight talking to my sister in South Africa, my nephew starts university and is getting ready this weekend and is soooo excited. I must be honest I felt a little old, I can still remember the day he was born, 18 years ago, now he is a big, handsome young man, and a beautiful child. Anyway enough rambling... Need to get to bed and ready for work tomorrow.

Pencil Lines Sketch - No 118

Here is my take on this weeks Pencil Lines Sketch.
At the moment I am scrapping 'oldish' photo's'. I am so fed up with printers at the moment, they just never seem to work when you need them grrrrrrrrrrr..... replaced the yellow ink the other day, and for some or other reason, the cartridge is damaged so it wont allow me to print anything, not even black and white. Maybe I should go back to the good old days where we print our photo's at a lab..... um, oh yes that was a crafty resolution LOL....

UKS 2009 - Scrap like you mean it.... Week 3

This week our challenge was to use some chipboard.... an easy challenge for those who are like me and have hoarded the stuff since the scrapbooking market first launched the product, too scared to use it, saving it for a special layout. Gone are those days, I have finally realised after 5 years of scrapbooking that if you hoard, one day , is one day that the stash wont appeal to you anymore.... So girls , there is not time like the present. Use it , and use as much as you like.

The chipboard I used was from Fancy Pants.... I have also been trying very hard to use my old stash, so the papers here are maybe 3 years old, some maybe even older. I have been making a concerted effort lately to use as much of my old paper as I can, because I am REALLY REALLY REALLY itching to get some new in .

Talking about New , have you seen the new Making Memories Love Notes range, just been launched for Valentines day... oh my gosh... I love it, I now understand why I have waited 15 years to do my Wedding Album.

Shimelle's Free Mini Class......

Go and have a look at Shimelle Free online mini class here. I have done a couple of Shimelle's classes and I just love them. All her classes are VERY inspirational.

Ooooh, an there are also some super cool prizes to win as a kick off to the class....

Seriously Cute

My little girl is such a clown sometimes. She loves the camera which is a good thing for me , not sure how long it is going to last though. Here she was acting with her new guitar, I laughed so much because she got the poses all right, just the way the rock stars do.

2009 Crafting Resolutions

I don't normally set new years resolutions, except for this year I have decided to set myself some crafting ones.... LOL

So here they are :

• 100 layouts in 2009
• Participate in a Photo a day, I am going to change this a bit and do a journal entry where I have not been able to take photo's. I know I should be able to take a photo each day, but sometimes it is difficult because of the time that I leave in the morning and the time I get home at night.
• Participate in Scrap like you Mean it 2009.
• Make cards and give them as gifts.
• Stash diet for 6 month , only purchases that will be allowed will be tools and alpha stickers.
• Do my Wedding Album.
• Do page calls for magazines.
• Update my blog with inspirational quotes.
• Print my photo's or at least 10% of them.
• More mini albums

This should keep me busy !!

Here is one of the layouts I did this weekend at our crop !!!

UKS 2009 - Scrap Like you Mean it...

I am REALLY going to try and keep this challenge going. All it will entail is 1 layout a week which should be achievable. Here is my layout for week 2, here we had to scrap with hearts or stars or both. I chose a heart and did this quickly. I used some of my 'old' stash too which is also one of my crafting resolutions for 2009.

I am getting somewhere .....

I am just so not with it at the moment. At the start of December I thought it was a going to be easy to keep up with everything I intended to do. Like my Christmas Journal, well that was short lived, because I went back to work, Sean started working in the evenings temporary and I just had to face reality that there was no time. But I did record my feelings so I could complete my Christmas journal later.

Today is the first day in 3 weeks that I have sat down in the study and being a little creative.... I managed a couple of entries for JYC and printed a load of Photo's . I am now going to do a layout :)

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I would like to also wish all my friends, and all those wonderful fellow bloggers that stop by to read my blog and leave comments , a Very Happy New Year !!!! May 2009 be filled with happiness, love and loads of creativity ...

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Here are a couple of the pages I did today for JYC...

Love and Hugs

B