Photo of the Week

A few days late thanks to poorly baby suffering a rotten cold, which she lovingly gave to me on Sunday, leaving me not up to doing much in the way of blogging or scrapping this weekend, but a Picture of (last) Week

When Carrie met Harry...

My best friend K {finally} had her baby on Thursday evening, a week after her due date.  A very quick labour (2hrs 15 start to finish!) and "little" Harry was born weighing a whopping 10lb 15oz!  Up early Friday morning to make a Congrats card, now that I knew "Sprout" was a boy ( I was betting on a girl so I guessed wrong this time!) and dropped card and present round to proud Papa and new Big Brother D after work Friday, then I patiently waited for K to come home and Saturday morning found me getting my first cuddles in :-) 

He's gorgeous, but definitely doesn't feel like the 5/6lb newborns I've held over the last couple of months (bit of a baby boom going on 'round here!)

Now I'm off to write the post I originally intended to put up today, before remembering that I hadn't finished this one...

C x

Picture of the Week *a day late*

Well, another very busy weekend here, complete with a Royal themed Street Party on Saturday.  The "Royal" street party was actually a cover story and the party was a surprise 70th birthday do for a close friend of our family but it was great fun with a Red White and Blue dress code which made for some interesting outfits!
We've also had a week of Easter egg hunts, a trip to the zoo and lots of outdoor time playing in the garden - I really don't want to go back to work tomorrow!

But, on to the Picture(s) of the Week... I hope you'll forgive the multiple photos, but they are a sequence :-)
On Easter Monday, Miss H learnt to push herself up to standing without holding on to anything! We have had the odd wobbly step for a couple of months now, and she is an expert at whizzing around from chair to sofa to table so we thought it wouldn't be long and then by Friday we had....
Uppp....

 Upppp....

 and awaaayyyy...

No stopping her now! She's up and running!

I am hoping to upload some more scrapbooking pages today too.. probably should post February's Document pages as we are now in May! 

In the mean time.. A sneak peek at some of February by sharing my Project 365 entries...

1^st -                On audit, counting shotguns – sometimes I love my job! :)

2^nd -              Switched Miss Hannah to cow’s milk

3^rd -               Stress-relief baking – chocolate fudge cake

4^th -               Dean was delighted at the arrival of his new tyres

5^th -               Miss H playing on our bed after her bath – blowing raspberries on Daddy!

6^th -               Hannah (& I) got to see Dean’s new toy up and running

7^th -               Very casually sneaking upstairs – no one will notice…

8^th -               Dean made us enchiladas for tea – yummy!

9^th -               First McD’s for Miss Hannah as I met VJ for lunch in town

10^th -            Miss Hannah helped to unpack the shopping, all over the lounge floor!

11^th -            Nice hot bubble bath to relax was followed by a surprise from Dean –a White Hot Chocolate waiting for me in bed!

12^th -            Miss Hannah started having weetabix for breakfast this week

13^th -            Poorly baby has the measles!

14^th -            Valentines cupcakes

15^th -            Dean spent his day off trying to find our bedroom after moving my craft stuff in!

16^th -            Dean had to leave for work before 7 this morning, so Miss H and I headed to Nannie’s for breakfast at 7.30am!

17^th -            A moonlit walk to Nannie’s this evening – a lovely night

18^th -            Big hugs on a visit to D (& Auntie K of course!)

19^th -            I met baby R for the first time – he’s sooo tiny!

20^th -            Daffodils in bloom in my garden J I love spring flowers

21^st -             Lattes at our crop at Rachel’s house

22^nd -           Miss Hannah wore her new shoes for the first time!

23^rd -            Ball-in-a-Box – Miss Hannah’s new favourite game!

24^th -            Finally – coming home in daylight at last (just!)

25^th -            Stealing Mummy’s crisps – straight from the pack

26^th -            We took Kira shopping to Primark as she has out grown all her trousers again, and I bought one or two bits for Miss as well (of course!)

27^th -            Waving Daddy off on a ride out

28^th -            Copying the Music Lady from Baby Club – anything and everything is now a drum!

Back soon with some pages hopefully

C x

Scrapbooking Layouts **at last**

Ok, so it may have taken just a *little* longer than planned - but I have finally found time (and a camera charger) and have taken pictures of the start of my "new" project.
A while ago I shared the first of my Project 365 by blogging the January collage and detail here and promised to come back when I had a camera so that I could show you how it would be incorporated into a paper project (here is the original post if you need a refresher!!).

Two months or so later, and I'm back!!  This is the start of my Document 2011 album!

January's feature page..

The envelope page..

and lots of little pics of the happenings in the month, which incorporates my 365...

I will be back soon with February, which I finally finished at our crop yesterday, and I have almost done March too!

I have also completed a few pages from my "To Scrap" box so I am feeling quite pleased with how these crops are working for me!  These layouts have been circling in my head since we went to a friend's wedding in June last year...

The wedding was our first full day out after we had little Miss - a few photos - the happy couple and our group of school friends all dressed up!

I love this picture - very cheesy but great all the same!  The gorgeous heart embellishments and ticket on this page are from the True Love kit from The Make and Create Shop - I was delighted when I saw them as they perfectly fit the page I had in my head! 

Anna's kits are always gorgeous and are very reasonably priced at £6 for a great selection of handmade embellishments and colour co-ordinated fabrics ribbons and buttons!

C x

Photo of the Week!

We have had some truly glorious weather for the last few days and that has meant lots of pictures to choose from!  I thought I would choose one of the photos of setting up the paddling pool, but then I have just downloaded my camera from today and changed my mind again!

We all went round to Mum & Dad's neighbours for lunch today - bit of a catch up as we haven't had a proper get-together and chat since Christmas.  We all ate too much and had a Pimms or two and the girls made the most of the gorgeous gardens to explore and run around.  I just love this picture of them playing together - Miss Hannah has her cousins wrapped round her little finger! :-)  Definite signs that Summer is coming though, as VJ's girls are getting lovely tans already - I am very jealous!

Well I am off to bed now as have a crop on tomorrow and no doubt I will be up early with Miss!  I am really hoping to find some time in the next few days to pop on and share some of the scrapbooking layouts I have completed at the last few crops - you may note that some of them are a bit out of date but I keep hoping to catch up!

Night all,
C x

Busy Busy, but still time for a Pic of the Week!

Well it seems these weekly posts are coming round faster and faster... from a quick read around Blogworld I don't think I'm alone when I say that April is just far too busy!! 

We've had several family events so far this month with three birthdays and today we travelled to the Christening of two special bubbas.  It has been lovely, but I find I'm looking forward to the long Easter break (although I don't want to wish another week away!) as I am hoping to find time to catch up on some blogging (perhaps even post some of those Blogging for Scrapbookers prompts that seem to have been forgotten in these busy weeks!).  I may even manage to post up some of the pages I finished at the last two crops, before our next one at the end of the month!

So, a Photo of the Week for you, from Saturday's family day out.  We went off to a local woodland for a lovely walk to see the bluebells and other spring flowers coming out and then enjoyed a cream tea afterwards.  It was a wonderful afternoon with some gorgeous sunshine and we couldn't resist parking Miss H in a patch of bluebells for a Photo-op!  Just need to photoshop in some wings onto my beautiful woodland nymph!

Now I'm going to make a cuppa, grab some biscuits and then I'm off to catch up with Mel's Alphanumeric Blog-Hop - don't want to miss out on all the fun!

Hope you all have a lovely week
C x

Party Day and Picture of the Week

We had Miss H's Birthday Tea today - 15 friends all under 3 round to Nannie's house.  We were lucky to have glorious weather and all the little ones played out in the garden under a gazebo - it was great fun but I'm exhausted!

We have had three close family birthdays this week and I think everyone is finally all caked out, but for an appropriate Picture of the Week - a sea of cupcakes!

80 cupcakes all decorated ready for the party (no, I didn't make them - I had them made for us to save me some time for party prep!) - I did however make three birthday cakes this week, so I think I earnt my little cheat for party day!

It has been so busy here that I haven't even touched my scrapping supplies - but I do have lots of pictures to add to my To Scrap box!  
I have a (rescheduled) crop tomorrow morning, so I will hopefully get something finished that I can share with you all later in the week!

C x

A Weekly Feature (hopefully)!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mummies out there!
It's my first one - I've had a great day and hope you have too!

I'm hoping to start a regular weekly feature of a quick Sunday post of a...

Photo of the Week!

This weekend has been lovely - the weather has been kind, with gorgeous spring mornings, although it has greyed over in the afternoons.  We have mostly spent the days visiting. 
Saturday morning Hubby was out so we went to my Mum's house and Miss Hannah had a great time playing in the garden.  We started out laying a sheet down for her, but after a bit of complaining about the damp grass, she soon set about exploring.  She loves the swing seat and trying to pick Nannie's flowers - but is still not too impressed with the tortoises...  she likes to pat the "rocks", until they move!
Then today we had a lay-in until 7.30am as she slept late (bliss!) and then played in her cot happily for ages. We went out for a (cheating) breakfast at McD's then collected my Mum-in-law and headed over to visit Miss Hannah's Great-Nan and Great-Grandad (Hubby has lots of generations compared to my family - I do wonder if Hannah is going to think every family member is either a "Nan-nan" or a "Grrrdad") 
Their garden is an even bigger adventure than Nannie's - they also have lots of grass, and a swing seat too, but they have a pond full of fish... and they have chickens...! So for my first Picture of the Week - a shot of Miss Hannah dragging her Daddy up and down the garden chasing after the chickens!

I will be trying to choose my favourite photo taken every week - I think this may be quite difficult some weeks, as I have been known to take a *lot* of pictures - especially of Miss H.  I will however be trying to mix it up a bit and select photos of any key events of the week, or any photos that I hope to scrap when I have the time and hopefully these posts and any accompanying notes will serve as reminders when I do get the time.
I am still reading and making notes for Shimelle's Blogging for Scrapbookers course, and intend to cover them all in time (probably by the end of BFS part two knowing me!!) but reading her suggestion about a regular feature made me think of this as it has been going round in my mind for a while in my "wouldn't it be nice to have/do/try" after seeing it appear on Rachel's blog (and I'm delighted to see it has re-appeared there this week too!)

Night all, thanks for stopping by!

C x