The Food Chain

Stephen's stop-frame animation.

Lucky me ...

I've been lucky this week! 

First, over at the Copy and Paste project, I won a drawing for the most adorable Alice in Wonderland mirror - yay!  And then over at Sketchy Thursdays, I won the drawing for a sticker pack!  Hmmm, they say good things come in threes - maybe I should do the Lottery tonight!

I do have a couple of layouts to upload but haven't taken the photos yet - will get those done this weekend.  I am looking forward to trying out a couple of things - Sketchy Thursdays have put up a sketch of a double layout - I haven't done one for ages and it might just be the motivation I need to get the pictures scrapped of Stephen at the Jedi Training Academy from last year.

And the Color Room has a new palette up - so not the sort of colours I would normally choose, but I am looking forward to giving it a try.

Had quite a surreal experience over at the Color Room, where a scrapper from India recognised me from the British Scrapboking book that was published 5 or 6 years ago! 

Anyway, off to Legoland to enjoy the sunshine (along with several thousand others, I imagine!)

Scrappy Sunday

I have been looking around inspiration blogs and have done a couple of layouts today.

First, over at Sketchy Thursdays, where there are some great sketches posted on ... erm ... Thursdays!

I loved these photos of Stephen's rosy cheeks when he went sledging in the snow earlier in the year. We had several snow days in January and it was lovely to spend some time together. Used Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly - hard to cut up but worth it, I think!

Also, some fantastic inspiration over at The Color Room - a sketch and a colour scheme to use.

Just my sort of colour scheme and I knew exactly which photo I wanted to scrap.  I went hunting through all the photos on my computer and couldn't believe it when I found it in a 2008 folder - I could have sworn I only took it a few months ago!  Just shows how quickly time flies!

I used one of my treasured pieces of Wordsworth paper - they were my favourite paper company and I have been hoarding it, but better on a layout than in my paper box, really!  Also a bit of October Afternoon - love those green spots - some K&Co butterflies, bejewelling and various bits and bobs.

Twisted Sketch

I came across the Twisted Sketches blog the other day and thought I'd have a go at their latest sketch.

This week's twist is "Colour" - any how, any way!

I had decided to invest in a DSLR and, as Nigel is accumulating a small collection of lenses, it made sense for me to get a Pentax, as we could then share the lenses etc.  When they brought out the K-x, it seemed perfect.  Great spec, fantastic reviews - and it came in a choice of colours! In Japan, there are hundreds of different colour combinations available, but in the UK, they brought it out in red, white, blue and black.  Who said a DSLR camera has to be black?  It definitely gets noticed when I go out!

Loving that TH transparency tape!

And look!  I've been C&P'd!  Jennifer asked if she could C&P my little robot and, of course, I was so flattered!  Love the card she made.

Not quite WOYWW

more of a WOYFW!  I have just unpacked my wonderful parcel of goodies from Kate at Pickleberry - all over the floor!  This was my UKS cybercrop prize - a voucher from Kate's shop and I had so much fun choosing lots of lovely goodies that I have not really been able to justify before.

Mmm, punches (inc that Martha Stewart loopy punch I've been eyeing up for ages!), TH dies and masks, stamps, a new cutting mat as mine is shot to pieces, butterflies - and black, white and kraft cardstock as I am a sensible girl and can never have too much of those! Thanks, Kate - I now need to find somewhere to store it all!

And what are you supposed to do with a poodle that just won't move out of the sunshine to let you take a photo!  Bless her.

 

Sewing, baking ...

amazing what you can get done with no kids around!

Another couple of things I did today, thanks to the Cut and Paste Project. First up, the gorgeous embroidered items from Sumptuosity. I've never really got to grips with a sewing machine but I do love to sew by hand, so I appliqued a little robot, in one of my favourite colour combos of turquoise and orange.  (I'm ashamed to admit it was a robot because that was about the only thing I could draw!) I'm pleased with this - don't know whether to put it in a frame or on a layout.

And Miss Cay from Domestic Sluttery (is that not the best name ever? Sums me up perfectly!) posted a recipe for Blueberry Boy Bait.  Wow. Normally, I would just drool over a recipe and file it away for later but, as Nigel had been shopping that morning and brought home a big box of blueberries as they were on offer, how could I resist?

Delicious - and the cinnamon crust is heaven.  And as for Boy Bait?  Well, even Nigel has eaten some - minus the blueberries, of course, as he doesn't like them.  Hmmm.

And a gratuitous photo of my boy as I am so pleased to have him back home - he has been on a PGL weekend with the Cubs and had a ball, but came home absolutely shattered! He was remarkably clean, though - they made them all shower before they headed for home - how civilised!

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!