Well this is the start of my 4 x 6 photo love album. I am following along with shimelle's online tutorial and have decided to make it into an album, they are all random photos, but follow the concept of each number of photos for that month of the year. Above is january, one photo, you get the idea right ?? I am now wondering if i should have chosen the background paper to be the same all the way through, to have continuity in the album, its something i can change on a later date if i want to.

This page is a combination of a few ideas, i saw sj's blog when she made this cake and i used the idea for my class to make it as an Easter cake, each pupil made a cake and chose the colour they wanted. I can honestly say they loved making it and i will be doing this again.The cake was so big we shared it among a couple of classes and the office staff, the secretary's were chuffed to get a slice.
Three photos, i have a slight obsession with this vampire, and the twilight books.
This page was great to make, i love interactive pages.
I havent done page with 5 photos yet, instead went onto six and seven !! Also changed it a bit to suit my landscape pics.
Seven photos was interesting and works really well.
Flap opens to the left to show pics and journalling,
and to the right to show 3 pics.

Now onto something else. i bought this in a second hand shop and have an ides to fill it with scraps of paper, small items of house love. I have painted it white to give a clean base coat.

I have also been making a few cards, i love these flowers ade with old book pages, just punch out scalloped circles, stack 5 or 6 together and secure with a brad. scrunch up each layer, fix a button in middle and voilà... a flower.



Thanks for gettting this far, i wont leave it so long next time.

tfl

x

Long long time no blog !!!

Well i haven't blogged for well over a year and this is due to family issues that have taken me away from blogging and crafting.I won't go into details now but lets just say it was life changing , devastating and scary all at once. I am getting back into crafting now and am also trying to blog again, so with that in mind i thought i would start with my new craft room.Some of the family changes meant that i could knock down a partition wall we had put up and return the room to its original size, for a craft room for me. This was painfull and pleasureable at the same time, but i was excited to see it take shape.I didnt take photos along the way, shame but never mind.We painted the room, two walls blue and two white.Laminate flooring was layed, easier to clean i think.Then came the best part, shopping. I used Ikea room planner, it was great to see the furniture in your 3d room, i would advise to use this. Then actual shopping, we made a few trips to Ikea to get everything i wanted, and a few extras too !! This is a recent purchase, a 2 x 2 expedit unit on castors, i saw this in ikea and loved it, it's my new stand up unit to use my new vagabond.
This is a display shelf above the expedit.
This is my Jane Dean inspired memo frame, i have blogged about it before.
This vika Alex unit is on castors and at the end of my large long desk.
This vika Alex 9 drawer unit is at the end of a wall of units.
This vika Alex unit is at the end of my expedit desk which is attached to the 4 x 4 expedit unit.
This is the 4 x 4 expedit unit with desk attachment. I love this desk and it my sewing area.
This is a 2 x 4 expedit unit on its side which is my cutting table, holds all my cutting machines, dies,etc.
This is my desk, i saw this on the Ikea website and fell in love with this , it is a huge desk, with two vika alex 5 drawer units at each end.
These units are from the children's nursery range,i fell in love with them and got them.I love how my new craft room looks and really love being in there, creating again.

Some of the furniture i had already, a couple of the expedit units, and metal drawer units, the others are new.

Well i hope to try to blog at least twice a week, that's my new goal, so lets see hoe that goes.

Tfl

money, money, money..............................boxes.

I visited my local and new 99p shop and found these tin money boxes, they come in all different childrens tv characters, at the moment it's spongebob and high school musical. Well after wandering around with them in my hand, looking at them, thinking about how i could decorate them, i finally had an idea and so bought them. I do have a tendancy to choose an item in a shop, ( no matter what shop, it can be any, clothes, food, books etc,) and wander around said shop deliberating with myself if i really want said item, and i admit at times i have put said items back on the shelf. Well three of these babies came home with me. So here is the before.......................

and here is the after, this is my first attempt, photo taken in bad light so sorry. This is my tin for my weight watchers money. I have started my diet in ernest again and instead of going to a meeting i am doing it at home and will put £4.00 in it as if i am paying someone to weigh me. This is my plan to make me stick to my diet and i am very positve.It doesn't show it but on the front bottom is a sticker that says " you're changing right before my eyes".......which i thought was very apt. I then used my Martha Stewart butterfly punches to cut them out from some of the lush papers from the cosmo cricket nutmeg collection, also the sticker came from the pack too.I love how the butterflys go all the way round the tin. The base of the tin is covered in sticky back wood grain vinyl.......my love for this con-TIN -ues......excuse pun. lol

The next tin has a story behind it and needs a little background, so here goes, every year i save for christmas by using Park hampers and i order vouchers to buy all my presents with. Over the years ( i have been doing this for eleven years ) it has been great. You get used to putting the money away and sending it to the agent, and when november comes around you get your vouchers, as if by magic you have all this money to spend and it sort of feels like someone has given you a lovely wad of money to spend. Anyway now my son is 17 and not so easy to buy for i am not getting the vouchers this year. But i still want to save, as i won't be doing christmas this year. So here is my christmas saving tin, i will put in the same amount i used to save for the vouchers.

Sorry blogger wouldn't let me turn pic, the really great thing with these money boxes is that they have no hole and stopper at the bottom. So to get your money out you have to use a tin opener. Now that's what i call a good money box. Well i hope you like the tins, and well done for getting this far, and i need to buy more of these as i have another plan to make some for a bunch og ladies who are saving for a trip to dublin to celebrate their 40th birthday.

tfl

katharine

oooooh presents!!!

Well christmas certainly came to our house this year. I got some lovely presents this year and am so gratefull for my gifts.We also got a new small printer, a canon selphy.We were so pleased, thanks to my boyfriends mum and dad and sister and brother in law, as they got it as a joint present.

I got these today with the money that i got from my link childs family, i look after a child from the school i work at after school.

These are the presents i got from my boyfriend, plus, not photographed the wii fit plus game.I consider myself to be very lucky to have received these lovely gifts.

These were the gifts that were in my stocking, yes..... we do stockings for each other, i love having a stocking and i also love buying gifts for his stocking, finding little presents to go in it. Can you tell that i love the wizard of oz.I got a W O Z cup, tin,money box and purse. I also got a pig pin cushion that i remember seeing months ago and remarking that i liked it.I love my red polka dot pencil case, with pencils to match.

Now this beauty is my present to myself as i had some money left over from a gift, and i saw this and fell in love with it, she is so adorable, i also luuuuurve robots, especially cute ones that will look cute sitting pretty on my chair in my craft room.I am thinking of calling her robbie.

I also received lots of twilight goodies from my friends that i havent taken pics of yet, i got a metal lunch tin with flask.....mmmmm my lunch is gonna look so cool when i go back to school next week, a new moon calander, 2 robert patterson calandars, keyring, magnet and the twilight book with the apple on the cover... mine is the film cover, that was from my son as he knew i wanted it to match my others...sad yes i know.

I also got some clothes and the usual smellies...gotta love dove. Scarf and gloves set. Oh and a lovely glass mirrored picture frame with the word memories in bling.

Well that's it

tfl

katharine

I made this today

Well today i have had to wait in all day for a repair man to come and look/repair my washing machine, so i thought i would do the house work then set to making one of these. I had had this inspo file on my computer for ages from shimelle Laine from two peas. So i gave it a go, it was easier that i expected and so much fun to do.

Well it is 5.35pm and the repiar man has till 6pm to get here, he had better get his skates on, i can foresee a telephone call to whirlpool again.

Will post pics of my finished quilts soon too.

tfl

katharine

The Lion King

Well i have been an absent blogger, never mind lots of work related stuff going on and getting ready for a school christmas fayre. On to better things, such as the Lion King. We went to see this show in london on friday night and all i can say is oh my its amazing. It was my first time to see a live show in london, and i have been wanting to see this show for a very long time. I was not dissapointed, as it amazed me with its beautiful sets, dancers, singers, actors, puppets and puppeteers, truly spectacular. It was uplifting, sad, and happy throughout and truly had me in awe of it.Timon was so very good, funny and cheeky at the same time, very cleverly done.Timon is in the picture above, he is a meer kat ( i think ) . This is one show that i would love to see again, if i had the chance. My son loved the film when he was little and would watch the film over and over, and would be one of the ways to calm him down, so this has quite a lot of meaning to me, also its a great story and film too.

I did, at one point become a little emotional in the show, didn't quite shed a tear but could have done if i wasn't surrounded by about two thousand strangers!!! This show was the one show that my beloved mum would have loved to have seen, but sadly wasn't to be. That is another reason its special to me. I can also cross it off my list of 37 things to do while being 37. Seen a show in london.

The scenery was wonderfull, and throughout i kept thinking to myself, " how did they make that ?" or " you could make that with so and so ". I love to make things, arty, scrpbooking, cards, etc.

Well onto other things, i have started my december daily but havent taken any pics yet, will do tomorrow, its a little slow going what with work, but have now got to catch up till today.

tfl

katharine

First aid for three days

Bandages bandages everywhere!!!!!!

Hi blogland

i am on a first aid course for the next three days and its quite intensive. I have been wanting to do a three day course for awhile now, so am glad to be doing this. Today we learnt how to do cpr and the recovery position, and bandages. Tonight i have to practise these and know them off by heart by tomorrow. It's been a while since i had to hit the books!!!!!!

Well on the crafting front i have made a start on my friends wedding album and am wanting to start prep for the december daily/ jyc album. I have a bo bunny 9 x 9 album or a 12 x 12 album to do this with, not sure which to choose??? What is everyone using if you are doing this.??