Scrapbook Pages

As promised to some of my friends, here are some pages that I have been working on recently. Some of them use the same layout, but may look either subtly or quite dramatically different due to the papers that have been used. Some of the layouts have come from my head and others are inspired (or scrap-lifted) by Shimelle Laine.


These are the same layout, but one has been turned through 90 degrees

Close Up

These two both use the same layout:

Close Up

Again, these have used the same layout, but are meant to work opposite each other, so the papers are from the same range. Can you see the hidden information on the train layout?

Can you see it now?

These layouts are all singles, other than some close up details.

So for those of you thinking about joining my next class, I hoe there is some inspiration for you in these pages. You will see that I have a number of styles, both organised and geometric, and shabby chic/vintage. Don't get too tied to the 'theme' of your papers; the using the sepia photos used paper from a Bridal Range, but they don't look at all bridal as I have used them. Also, keep our eye open for pretty things; the corners of the sepia photo with the group of ladies, uses doilies that have been inked up to match the red highlight in the papers - the doilies were from a tea I had at an hotel I was staying at. Don't throw out clothing that has buttons without first removing the buttons, particularly if they are not just white shirt buttons. Remember that most blouses these days come with ribbon inside to help keep the blouse on the hanger, if you don't use them, cut them off, they are only going to stick out anyway; instant free ribbon.

Five Things I'm Loving this Friday - I'm Back

What a strange month June has been. By which I mean a number of things. The weather was more like April, I seem to have been rushing around like a mad person with no time to really do anything.

But I am back now, so:

Five Things I am Loving This Friday:

• I am really tired, but that doesn't matter because I have today off work
• The forecast for the weekend is really not too bad
• We have a good day planned, out and about and having fun
• Our National Trust Membership will be used again today
• Life is good

Fungi Comes in All Shapes and Sizes

Over the past few weeks I have seen a number of fungi and am fascinated by their variety:

Five Things I'm Loving this Friday

Five Things I am Loving This Friday:

• I have today off work
• Father is home and progressing well
• We have a good week planned; time with friends.
• Our National Trust Membership pack has come through just in time
• I am in a good mood.

Five Things I'm Loving this Friday

Five Things I am Loving This Friday:

• The forecast for the weekend is good
• Father is due to go home on Tuesday, with luck and a fair wind
• We have a good weekend planned; time for us, time for family, time for self.
• Nature is a wonderful thing that produces some amazing sights

• We had our own, wonderful, strawberries for supper. Yum!

'Come and have a look at this!'

'Come and have a look at this' comes the call from The Man. So I run into the kitchen expecting to see some of the neighbours' cats being cute. But no, this is the sight that met me:

I am not sure why, but it reminded me of A A Milne's poem, The Three Little Foxes:


Once upon a time there were three little foxes
Who didn’t wear stockings, and they didn’t wear sockses,
But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

And they lived in forest in three little houses,
And they didn’t wear coats, and they didn’t wear trousies.
They ran through the woods on their little bare tootsies,
And they played “Touch Last” with a family of mouses.

They didn’t go shopping in the High Street shopses,
But caught what they wanted in the woods and copses.
They all went fishing, and they caught three wormses,
They went out hunting, and they caught three wopses.

They went to a Fair, and they all won prizes —
Tree plum-puddingses and three mince-pieses.
They rode on elephants and swang on swingses,
And hit three coco-nuts at coco-nut shieses.

That’s all I know of three little foxes
Who kept their handkerchiefs in three little boxes.
They lived in the forest in three little houses,
But they didn’t wear coats and they didn’t wear trousies,
And they didn’t wear stockings and they didn’t wear sockses.

Five Things I'm Loving this Friday - a bit late

Things have got a bit behind this week for a host of reasons, so this post is a little late. But time to catch up now, so, Five Things I am Loving This Friday (Saturday):

• The sun is out and it is a beautiful morning
• After two weeks, Father is now out of hospital on on the road to recovery
• I work with some wonderful people, who are incredibly supportive
• I live with the most amazing man, who always (well, mostly) knows just what to say to make me feel better
• I have a day of playing with paper and glue planned, which always makes me feel good!