Today I am grateful ...

... that we moved the furniture in our living room. It is sooooo much bigger now!! It's all perspective :0)


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Today I shall mostly be ...

... sitting on top of the fridge freezer!
Love her!



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Link love!

For those who love Ali Edwards work, Click here to see a post on her blog full of Valentines ideas!


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Retreating into my creativity...

I've been feeling a little low this week after my dental work and an infection I picked up.
I've had a few days off to sleep it off but this afternoon I felt up to scrapping  a little.
I am joining in with a class over at Big Picture Classes called Creative Retreat held by the incredibly talented May. I signed up for this class weeks ago and am sooo happy it has now started! As part of this class I started the Art Journal I showed the other day.
The journal started as a lovely Victoria Francis diary that Kei bought me for Crimbo:

The diary was beautiful but just not something I wanted (I had already bought 2 diaries for myself).
Its is now a lovely altered book as I cover each page with gesso and paint it up.
I've created this page for my first notes for class:

I've create a few lovely layouts as I have ridden the wave of creativity class has inspired.

This layout is for the Scrapbook Stamping class over at Two Peas.  The challenge was to use embossing on your layout. Something I rarely do:



And finally a page from our holiday in August.  I picked up a bumper pack of printed photos yesterday so can now scrap like a loony!!!

I love this mini book

I'm so pleased I went with the teeny tiny format of my love mini book. I came home from work this morning as I felt yuk! I spent the day asleep on the sofa but was determined to do something crafty. The tiny format of this book that achievable despite the banging headache!
Yesterdays prompt was I love someone i do things with. Todays was I love to listen to. Here are my pages- and the cover:











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28 days of lurve!

I have decided to play along with the talented Alissa as she documents 28 things she loves throughout February.
She is posting a daily prompt on her blog for those playing along.
I have made a mini-mini-book!! It's a matchbook style using scrum my Pink Paislee journaling cards.
Here are my teeny tiny date tags:
















And here is the first card- the prompt was I love Old Things... I journaled about my 32 year old teddy bear {sigh}

Scrap, scrap, scrap!!

Well, I've been busy over the last couple of days catching up on photos from December that I wanted to scrap.
I am joining in with Shimelle's 6x4 Photo Love class over at Two Peas. As part of the class we will be moving from one 6x4 photo up to 12 throughout the year.  Shimelle gave a nice simple sketch this month and examples of a couple of pages she had made using this sketch.
Here's my layout for class:

I love this layout and the sketch it came from is so versatile I can see me making several layouts from it.
Here is a second layout I did. The papers are from the December GoGo Kit. Crate Paper and matching brads{swoon}:

And finally another page made using a sketch of Shimelle's.  She is doing a sketch a week project over on her blog.
Here is my layout from her sketch: