Embellish your World

It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas!

Finally (with some assistance from the small people in our home - who do love to glue and stick!) I completed my baking tray advent calendar using mainly Scenic Route papers and a whole tonne of festive bits and bobs I had hanging around from my card-making days.  I love it so much and have to thank the lovely Clare Brown for sharing the images of her baking tray, providing me with the inspiration to create one of my own.  A big thanks to Soojay too for getting the baking tray for me :) Gotta love teh sparkly American Craft thickers too - thanks to Mel & Jill at ATDML for those!!

    And due to my immenant hospital visit the kids put the Christmas tree up early too - Roxy has taken a particularliking to it and bauble numbers are depleting at a rapid rate!

And finally before I disappear for a few days - a photo of the pathetic wounded soldier and her shoulder injury from last weeks car accident!

AWOL, and very sore!

Not really AWOL, just resting after a minor car accident last week which has left me with a displaced bone in my right shoulder, meaning I am heavily strapped up, signed off work, unable to drive and thoroughly p'd off!

All this before I go in for an operation this coming friday that will see me out of action for up to 6 weeks :( Oh joy of joys, and to think the saddest thing is I am now pretty cool at writing with my left hand, typing left handed and can almost change a nappy one handed (small person willing!)

So not much to share crafty wise I'm afraid, though thankfully (daughters can be stars!) I have my stocking swap, advent swap and handmade hanging decoration for the festive season all ready to post off tomorrow on my way to the doctors (assuming my mum remembers to come and pick me up!!)

One nice thing about being off work (other than being less stressed of course) is that I have this little guys to keep me company most of the day :)

Great weekend at the ATDML retreat

Stories In Hand - day 3

And after much printing off - we will be ready to start the gathering of stories process from tomorrow.  I haven'tmade my book yet - but printed all items needed to take away with me this weekend - can't wait!

And I am still humming Joseph!

I cannot get the songs from the theatre Saturday evening from my head and I am sure I drove my colleagues insane today humming away!

Never mind, cannot be helped and I am sure there are far worse things I could be doing!

ANd so another week begins, one of preparation as I am due to attend the ATDML scrapbooking retreat this weekend, starting nice and early on Friday morning collecting Clare and Heather from Stanstead.  I still have to print off my photos for the classes, but I have started putting a few pages together to do, including some catch up on my Cathy Z course, and the making of my Stories in Hand book.

So before I head off to bed with my laptop to think about photo options, shall leave you with a few pages I have done recently, including this weeks PAWS sketch... at least I would if typepad would let me! MAYBE TOMORROW THEN!! night x

 

 

 

     

I close my eyes...drew back the curtains...

Awesome night out last night up the westend with Ally & Rach for Rachels birthday.  We saw Joseph at the Adelphi theatre and despite Lee Mead being on holiday, the show was utterly incredible and by far outweighed my expectations.  I want to go again!!

Followed up the evening with a mooch through Covent Garden and then a late dinner at Navajo Joes - yummy cocktails, a beer and a mighty fine steak, FAB!

Great evening and I want to go again (did I say that already?)

Love my friends :)

The lovely Shaulean purchase me a on-line SISTv scrapping workshop "Filling in the blanks" to thank me for helping her with a job application.

I am enjoying it so much, painting, inking and most of all journaling, and Eloise is doing her own version too so it's pretty cool.

Ally is being a superstar and picking up my slack on the crop, in preparation for me not being so active in the next few months, between her and Rach I know the crop is in safe hands (with of course deputy Emma on hand too!)

It is weeks like this week - I am so thankful for my friends x

Halloween 2008

Was super fun! and the first year we have been a little more creative with the pumpkins (thanks Clare!!) All 3 kids happily dressed up - made for one happy mummy I can tell you - watch this space for a pile of spooky layout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

And so today (Sunday) I cut Jamies curls away as the fine baby hair was matting too badly at the back and action had to be taken.  Might have been an idea to have checked with hubby that the clippers were on the correct setting BEFORE I started, now my golden curled baby has a no2. cut!