Sunny yellow and leafy green

mixed with a little white and pink.  A colour combo suggested by Tara Anderson over at the Copy and Paste Project.  It sounded so clean and fresh, I had to do something with it - especially as I was looking out of the window at grey clouds and drizzle.  Just a really simple little hanging - I wanted to do a rectangular one but it just wouldn't come together - I'm much more of a square kind of a girl!

Tara's blog had so much lovely fabric on, I decided to go with that theme and used fabric, felt, ribbons, ric-rac and stitching.  I like all the raggedy edges! 

Getting to know me ...

OK, I know I'm behind the times with everything but I have just found the Copy and Paste project, run by Julie and Kirsty - it's chock-full of inspiration and I can see it being somewhere I visit a lot!  Anyway, it's their first birthday/anniversary this weekend and there are lots of fun things going on.  I know I'm a bit late to the party - they've probably eaten all the best cakes and pass the parcel has already been won - but I'm still hoping to join in a bit.



So I've 'copied and pasted' (see what I did there?) the q&a section - here's all about me.


Everyone knows that I love sweet things but you'd never guess that I rarely have a pudding when we eat out.

I'm proud to admit that I prefer to read rather than watch TV but my guilty pleasure is programmes that audition the next Andrew Lloyd Webber musical star.

I'm inspired by things children say and it surprises me when they're inspired by me!

I'm always on my iPhone but I'm never making phone calls.

I've got lots of  beautiful mugs but I've always wanted a Mr Frosty!

I tried to have another child and it wasn't meant to be - but I am so lucky to have the one I've got.

If I never eat celery again it will be too soon.

I didn't finish the bottle of wine last night and now I can have some tonight!

It's not that I dislike UK theme parks but I'd really rather be at Disney.

Doing nothing makes me really tired - what's that all about then?

Someone once told me I should marry someone tall so our children should have a chance to turn out normal sized and then I met Nigel - 6' 4" ...

I'm happy to say that I fulfilled my lifelong ambition to be a teacher and even after all these years, I still love my job.

Some of the answers are pretty random - but they are the first thing that popped in my head!

A little bit of cyber-cropping ...

There was a Monopoly-themed cybercrop over on UK Scrappers a couple of weeks back. Some great classes and challenges and lots of fun to be had, as usual! I was even on the winning team - the Ships! Just thought I'd share a few of the things I made.

This was the layout I made with the Mystery Kit, from Sarah's Cards. It was a gorgeous kit and the colours just lent themselves perfectly to the photos of Nigel and I dressed as Mr and Mrs Potato Head at a Murder Mystery Weekend.

This was the pre-crop challenge - to scrap someone who had been a big influence in your life.

These are a couple of the challenges - Vine Street (to use vines) and Water Works (water-based photos) - gave me a chance to get some of my Disney photos scrapped.

This was Angie's class - to create a layered frame. Love this photo of Stephen and his baby cousin, Ethan.

This was Sarah's class, with hand stitching. Great to get these photos of egg rolling scrapped and I had only got the Girl Paperie papers the day before, so was quite impressed I used it, rather than just stroking it!

This was Bexter's class - the frame is huge, but I love how the layout fills it. This is going in our kitchen. I really enjoyed playing with shimmer mists for this one.

Finally, we learned how to make flowers with anythingbutordinary - and I used lots more of our Disney photos!

It was a really great weekend and I was lucky enough to win a fantastic prize voucher from Pickleberry Papercrafts for my pre-crop challenge, so thanks to Fi and all over at UKS for all your hard work!

New blog!

Ooh - a shiny new blog!

Let's try out a photo.