More CC layouts

These are two more layouts I did for the cybercrop. A mini book by Angela at Craft at Home and a layout using white space by Sarah.

I see I have been tagged so will try and come up with some answers soon, have had too busy a day to think straight at the moment.

cybercrop weekend

I did this layout from a class by Cloclo on UKS, quite enjoyed doing something different. have nearly finished a mini book of our holiday in Prague too.

This morning Ian and I tried out the outdoor bowls as there was an openday there. It was good fun and in a nice location by the sea. Quite hard work though as you really have to hurl the ball down the green!

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A good day!

Ian and I decided to have a day out today as it has been quite a stressful week. We went to Walmer Castle near Deal, the home of the Duke of Wellington, Pitt the Younger, The Queen Mother and lots more. It was also used by Queen Victoria and her family who had a lovely holiday there.
I wanted to take lots of photos today so it was nice to have some different ones.















When we got home I quickly did this layout for the pre cybercrop challenge. It should be a busy weekend!

Have decided to do this class of shimelle's on UKS, we have to take lots of photos on the 25th of each month and scrap a page, this way we will have a record of the year.

meeting Minnie!

I made this layout for a team sketch challenge, the boys meeting Minnie Mouse! I was quite pleased with the result as I used papers I had from a kit last year, ones I didn't think I would be able to use, I think they go well though.

Have just come back from another visist to mum, the appointment went quite well but she is still very forgetful. We had a nice time with her anyway and were able to get a few jobs done.

I have just received some lovely stash from Rebecca's scrapbooking stash, she had 30% off everything as it was her birthday, I;m looking forward to using it. The UKS cybercrop is starting tomorrow evening so hopefully I will be able to use some of it there

Not blogged for a week!!

Oh dear, can hardly believe I haven't blogged for a week, shame on me!
Scraping wise, I have completed my next cj entry, fairies and folklore, and that is all ready to be sent off to Sharon. I found this one quite hard as I am not a fairy person, but I enjoyed doing it when I at last made myself!
I was at mum's on Monday for a hospital appointment and will be doing the same on wednesday, I suppose I could "choose" not to go but then what would poor mum do, she is very worried about it as it is, but I am dreading it too. As Jenny has said, illness takes choice away.
I beat Ian at bowls this week, hurray!, and I know he is longing to get his own back, we might play again tomorrow after we have planted our beans and peas.
Ian made me a lovely trough which is fixed to the garage wall, I was very impressed, we have filled it with geraniums and busy lizzies. I have also planted pansies, mirabilia and more which were seeds I collected last summer.
I made a pineapple upsidedown cake and a lemon drizzle cake today and have done a couple more recipes from Delia's new book.
Jenny and I are trying to cost out some of our favourite recipes and are finding out which supermarket is cheapest for various ingredients. It's going to take a while, but should be interesting and hopefully save us money in the future.
We went for a walk down to the bandstand this afternoon and listened to Birchington steel band, last year we didn't go to any concerts so we have decided we must make ourselves do it this year. It was quite pleasant but a bit chilly.
We have the last Foyle's War to watch tonight, looking forward to that, I do wish they would change their minds about ending it.

Crafty Sunday!

Have been busy today making these two cards. The flower one is from an idea by shimelle and the ribbon one is from Little Silver Hat gallery. They look better in real life, haven't scanned well, but I am pleased with them.

Also did this layout for the weekly challenge on UKS. We had to use a sketch, the colours blue, orange and white, 7 brads/eyelets and some ribbon.

We were going out for a walk this afternoon but the heavens opened and we had a hailstorm, so stayed inside.

We did book our holiday to Portland, mum and Gwen are very excited!

Looking forward to Foyles War tonight, shame it is ending soon. Watched Dr Who but can't warm to Catherine Tate, she can't act!
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First Shimelle class!

I have finally finished the first prompt from shimelle, to do a DLO of my home town.

Only 2 weeks late!

I have been putting off getting my photos sorted on photobox so must do that next as I want to do the mini book.

I used crate papers and painted the chipboard with copper paint.

Children's Festival at Dover Castle

We have just come back from a lovely day out with the children at Dover Castle where there is a Children's Festival all week.

Jamie and Becca had there faces painted, Becca wanting a dog, of course, and Jamie choosing to be Batman.

They all had a try at shooting with the crossbow.


And enjoyed a puppet show and making their own puppets.

We also had a good look round the Keep, which was set out in preperation for Henry 8th's visit. Becca was a little scared she might see him and did not want her head chopped off!!

There was a very good Jester, a chance to learn some sword fighting skills and much more , that, together with the lovely sunshine and beautiful scenery, made it a very good day out.

secret stash strokers sketch

I did this layout for the secret stash strokers team challenge. We had 2 weeks to do a layout using a sketch chosen by Jo, I have chosen the next one!

Love these photos of Ian playing footie with Jamie!

Holidays!

Came back last night from taking mum to her hospital appointment, she was a bit down about it all but I felt more positive. To cheer her up, Ian and I have decided to take her and Gwen on a short holiday to Portland, they should both be able to show us around and give us some family history at the same time, I feel another scrapbook coming!!
Not much other news, I really must start some of shimelles prompts but I want to get just the right photos.
The garden looks much cleaner, especially the drive after Ian's hard work over the weekend, need to do some more weeding now!
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