Just a little bit to share...

It seems that my LOs are a mixture of allsorts of late. I mean, a mixture of photos that are new and old, and a mixture of kits/stash buys. This one was mainly from Studio Calico but alittle of Sarahs cards thrown in...(the little maya road velvet flower)



I am loving grey at the moment. And I love this American Craft paper which I had been saying for that LO. I think it goes well with the navy in the picture and the navy lacey/crocheted ribbon. I also love that thicker font too!

Eyelets!! OMG! A blast from the past. I alcohol inked them, kinda! :/ and added my rocket stamp I got from Ally Pally. I hadn't even got them out of the packet :( until now. And they were in a long line but I chopped them up so they are now six individual rockets.

It's documenting my new-ish now, trainers complete with rockets, robots and multi coloured star eyelets!

I love trees! (and houses) and loved making this one, adding gems and cutting out grass...

I used my sugar and spice stamps on this one and used the 'i' from the word with which I masked off so I could stamp the phrase 'I just love you'. I love that font too :D

This LO actually made me have a little tear when I took the picture. I spent every weekend getting drunk in this pub from the age of 15... I played pool here, I had an unhealthy obssession with a blokie called Mick Greaves here (LMAO), I threw up here (yes, I was young, and it was literally by that little brick wall you see), I wore my C & A (remember that store?!) clockhouse Jarvis Cocker stylee cardi here for the first time. I was sad to see that it had changed its name to 'The Boathouse' even though its a beautifully idylic pub by the river Soar, complete with narrow boats of all colours and pretty field views... for me, it will always be 'The Riverside'.

I never really talk about my dad. Not that I really call him that. I have very few photos of him and although I don't want to look at him, he does not deserve any attention of mine I am curious still. This photo was taken at my eldest sisters wedding, about six months before we moved from our family home. I wanted to document that even though I try to not let my past affect me now. It does.

And look how pleased Kevy is! He just got his new gaming joystick thingie for his xbox. He didn't expect it to arrive yesterday and when it did he was happy :D He played til gone midnight last night...

Also my dresses have arrived for Anthonys wedding do. Hooray, I think I like one defo, the other I am waiting to see once my Gok, suck you in underwear arrives...

And lastly:

The twiddley blog has a challenge, so go pop over and have a go! If you are lucky enough to win, you'll get a parcel of yummy twiddley bitz :D Which is well worth having a go for ;)

Lots to share...

...but alittle too hot to go back upstairs (it's like a sauna up there) to get my LOs to photograph.

I will when it's cooler.

Also need to get Emily ready for her third session at 'big' school.

Laters!

Hola!

Emily has taken to watching Mickey Mouse on Youtube. She asks everyday, while Ben is content with anything really... Kev fed him his tea the other night while Pocoyo was playing; in Spanish. He was very contented... these were the piccies that followed.

Too busy watching, no time for kissing!! Looking a rather hot and sweaty little boy who is in desperate need of a haircut :D Know anyone with the patience of a saint???

I am busy preping for my journo'ing class... I need to print out all of the handouts... in fact one huge long one :) Just tweaking now in between picking Emily up from old school, making lunch for Benji and me and blogging. Right, back to it!

Giddy :D

I have had a busy morning! Tuesday now seem to be the day that me and the kiddos 'do stuff'. Today, I really didn't fancy the beach so I decided we'd nip over to Barleylands. I was incredibly brave and just had Benji on his 'leash' (ok, wrist strap) and went to take something back to the shop, pick something up and I got talked into going into the farm. Benji loves the chickens. He is very, very fond of chickens and is getting a slight obsession for them. We also had a long bounce on the bounce pillow and then the trampoline and a play in the sand pit; along with feeding every animal we could... including a very friendly chipmunk :)
Benji screamed the whole walk back to the car when it was time to go home... I'm sure if you had your windows open in Billericay or Wickford, you would've heard him. And then the looks start. It makes me kinda cross because he is two (ok, three in September) just because he looks big, he is still little and he is quiet abit behind Emily in his developement, whether that be 'second child syndrome'/ the fact he's a boy and alot lazier/ or whatever. I just feel like saying 'quit looking, he's having a tantrum, he will get over it!!' Anyhoo, we had a fabby morning/afternoon. :D

Yesterday... I managed to make these few:


This was taken on our meal after Ally Pally on the Saturday night, after walking around for a good half an hour for somewhere suitable. This place was gorgeous inside, built in an old pump house with beautifully tiled walls, ceilings and arches. The meal was pretty good too :)

This has made me all giddy!! ~ Martha Stewart train punches!!! OMG! I just really needed this (and I also got the EK Sucess dino one too!!) It punches perfectly, which surprised me as it is such a weenie and delicate punch. I love it! I feel lots of train cards and LOs coming on.

No picture as yet as I need a suitable one with the kiddos and the copious amounts of brio we own. I might add little photos in the train window too... not sure. I just needed to use the punch!

And this documents my time at L/C. I covered the bottom pic as i'm not sure if its breaching confidentiallity showing a no booked carer to the whole of the blogging world. I'm guessing it probably would. Note Ann's plate that sits at my desk... the 'round tuit' which took me ages to get the joke but now I think its really funny. I'm sure that sometimes I should've been born blonde.

Ok, so off to try and get a certain little boy to have a nap and then I might get alittle punch of those dinos. Have a happy sunny, sunny day!

More SC Goodness!

I sat down on Saturday night when i'd finished my late shift at L/C (around 10pm) and started on these. I must have been in the company of my mojo that night as I managed 4 LOs. Yes, 4!

I used mainly cosmo on this one, all from my last month SC kit apart from the blackboard which was from a kit a long way back. It just fitted in nicely though...

How cool is this chipboard toast and toaster??!! Oh, I love them! And it's apt for the fact that Ben's favourite food is toast. With butter or cheese... anyway it comes he'll eat it :)

This one is alittle odd, maybe. I took these pics when I last went up to see my sister and went over the the cemetary to put some flowers there for mum and everyone else. Its hard to think it's been over 7 years now since she died. It seems sometimes like it was just yesterday and then others like she hasn't been around for much longer than 7 years.

This one is about documenting the journey back home which between 2000 and 2004 I did at least once every week sometimes 2/3 times. From London/Essex/Cambridge to Leicestershire/Derbyshire. I love driving and miss these times when I used to drive along with the radio up and clear my head.

I had a fairly lighter weekend of work with only doing one shift on Saturday, I am slightly ever so sad to find that one of my colleagues there has taken on a co-ordinator role and so will not be working out of hours any more :( Jodie, I will miss you!

Normal service has been resumed at home, meaning its only me who bothers with washing, ironing, tidying, hoovering and other household jobs. Including rectifying shopping mistakes! I am not happy about this. In fact i'm pretty narked off. And currently i'm re-washing clothes that have been sat in the machine since Saturday night :(

My Sarah's cards kit came on Saturday morning too, I haven't really looked at it properly. I'm not sure that this months is really me. I am debating on cancelling it. Hmm. Decisions.

Today is Emilys second session at 'Big School'! She is so excited :D Oughta go and make lunch for her and Benji before she has to go.

Studio Calico Scrappiness :D

I feel as if this month my Studio Calico kit has been slightly neglected. It was never meant to be that way... it's just I wanted to catch up with some projects and finish up some too... and tidy up alittle before I got more out (remember that? I still tell my kiddos that but it seems no one listens, even me!) So I hadn't really gotten round to looking in this gorgeous box of yumminess until last night.

Thursdays are ideal scrappy nights, kiddos to bed... supper eaten and then I sculk off upstairs and shut myself away with The Mentalist and my supplies. I had also printed off 11 pages of photographs so I had plenty of subject matter to scrap. This was a piccie I manage to get off my phone earlier in the week...

And I didn't think i'd ever find a use for this stamp included in one of the add ons this month but actually I did and I loved it. There stamps are just so kitsch!

I am also loving all the collage press goodies in the kit too, esp. these journo'ing spots. I love using them together, some flat, some on foam and journo'ing on them all in one big lot. :)

A LO documenting the fact that Ben is a 'Roberts' through and through. I occasionally see alittle of Kev/Lucas' in him but more often than not he is just so much like my side of the family.

This photo called to be scrapped with brown, seens as his face and hands were covered in chocolate! And the apt title... not alot of thought but he was so happy!

I used this wooden token (actually for 10% off) from the previous months kit. Cheating? Maybe. Along with the cool 12" x 12" rub ons, which I have never seen this make before, why??? They are super-de-dooper!

And a little cosmo. It would be rude not to, wouldn't it?

This one, I used a stamp set i've had for a while now. Since last August infact when I went to demo at Fidgeons. I thought i'd use them all the time but tbh i'd actually forgot I had them! That is when you know that you ought to stop buying stamps!!

Again, those cute rub ons. Although i'm not entirely sure about this LO. You know maybe because it's so plain and simple that I feel it's not me. The photos are abit wacky though, as it's near on impossible to get two small kids and one dad on a trampoline to actually stay still/look the right way for a photo. We nearly managed it. Nearly.

I have alot of other stuff to do today, including some ironing. Not much though seens as i've finally caught up with the ironing mountain that was taking over our room. I feel quiet smug about that fact. I love being on top of the laundry as its my least favourite household job.

And the random fact of today is that Northern Uproar have an appreciation group on facebook. Seriously. I just had to join. Memories of a wild youth. :D

I have no work until tomorrow evening :) So tonight, no doubt will be a late night scrapping extravaganza! Whooo hoo! I do have a whole heap of prep work to be getting on with though... and of course next week normal service resumes on the working front.

Productive Mornings.

Ok, I have managed a big fat ZERO on the housework front. But I finished two DT pieces for here... One of these will be shown on the 3rd of July and the second on the 19th... so all is good this morning.

We had a fabby meeting last night, it was great to all catch up and meet Louise, whom I have heard alot about (all good!) and of course hear Marion doing her heavy breathing crafter :D Nina was excited as she is off to Glasto next week and has even brought her tasch!!! We want pics ;)

I have my first journo'ing class a week on Sunday, which is fully booked! I am now getting alittle apprehensive about this seriously. *quake* I want to do it justice and make sure that everyone goes away happy and able to journo whatever they please. I am still bringing together a pretty hefty hand out which will cover everything I hope to talk about and of course it means that you can refer to it at home/crop/where ever. It also gives a heap of ideas on ways to journal. I am pretty excited about that bit :D

Right now though, i'm going to crack on with some twiddley loveliness...