I love Tuesdays!!

I think I have a lot of posts on this blog with that title but its true. I {heart} Tuesdays!! I do like my job. But I lurve my days off!! As I worked Saturday just gone I haven't scrapped alot in the last few days, so was extra fast with my cleaning today and started creating right away!
I've made this page today.  I loved the way the sunlight caught on the bark of the trees and made them look all ethereal.  The tag pulls out and contains some thoughts to that effect!

This is the last page I will make from my September GoGo kit. I have one double sided paper untouched and scraps so could probably do two more BUT that paper will be better used with loads of different embellishments so I decided to retire the kit!!!
I have just unpacked the October kit though so looking forward to scrapping that!! :0)

Here is a beautiful present that my mom bought me:

Isn't it adorable!?! It is a sewing box from Cath Kidston:

The bottom half of the house pulls out to be a decent sized drawer and the roof is on hinges and opens to reveal the inside half with the usual sewing box compartment tray etc. The chimney is a pin cushion!! Lovely!!

New shoes - swoon!!

I'm off to a wedding on Saturday which will be lovely and quite unusual because of what the bride is wearing (lots of photos and scrapbook opportunities there me thinks!!!)
I have a lovely dress to wear but was despairing about accessories. And then these shoes came into my life!!!

They are soooooo pretty and soooo comfortable too!! I can't wait to wear them!!

Look what I just bought!

I've just found this wonderful journal in the local trinket shop. Although I could have copied the idea and made my own I decided to just buy it and add my own touches to it as I fill it in!
It will be perfect to help with our house project- once we finally get it started!!

























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The Earth smiles in Flowers

There are some truly beautiful flowers in bloom in our garden at the moment:

And there was a rather adorable one inside the house too!!!!!

My little nest!

Here is a look around my Scrappy Shed now that I have moved back in after the winter!!
Here it is from the outside during the January snow- all pepperminty and lovely (if very very cold!!!):

The key-ring :0)

And the new and improved inside of my little haven:

This is the view from the door...

My cupcke storage boxes for bits and bobs and my embellishment baskets...

My very comfy chair and the all important electric heater :0)

My desk, my current paper holder and my cute peg hanger.  I keep stash I am currently using pegged here...

Cute drawers holding stamps etc.

My many many stash boxes filled with papers...

Ribbon, bloom and button jars...

Meaningful words on the walls:

And my absolutely BEAUTIFUL Amethyst geode to fill the room with an air of peace and tranquility:

I can't tell you how much I just ADORE being in this very precious place!!

New shoes...

Have you ever had one of those shopping moments, when you spy something across the shop and instantly fall head over heels for some inanimate object that (truly) you can live without but at that moment can't imagine life without?!?!
That was how I felt when I spotted these AMAZING shoes:

The trouble is, I just can't walk in them yet...at all...oh dear!

Tea for One

I just wanted to share this lovely teapot/tea cup set I found the other day! It is the perfect size for a nice lady-like cup of tea (so will be no good for first thing in the morning, when I require a bucket of tea!!!!)
The design on the tea pot, and gingham cup, were too cute to resist!!

Pretty things...

Another day of impulse buys today (my bank account is really starting to dislike me!!!)
I couldn't resist this purse and bag in the little shop near to my library. They are just sooooooo cute and I love the messages that are sewn into them. They really ring true to my own Goals for 2010 that I just had to buy them (thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!!!) I wish I knew how to sew and make bags like this!! The only down side is the tote bag is quite small and I do love to carry a lot of (ahem) essentials with me ;0)
Forgive the following amount of photos - there are far too many I know, but they are pretty things!!!

Hmmmm, how do I do this?

OK ladies, I need more advice.  This time about organising my album.  I have a 12x12 album for 2010.  Is it better to put the pages in as I scrap them OR to stor them in the album in chronolgical order of date (if its an event/ season etc) Help please.....

I had some fab responses to the 'how can I store my ribbons' dilema.  I took today as a sick day from work after catching the lurgy from walking in the snow and cuddled up in warm clothes with a lemsip and my ribbons! I copied the lovely idea of storing the in jars (although I only had 3 jars so need ALOT more!!)They will look so pretty when they are all done:

I spent some time in the afternoon scrapping and this is the layout I came up with. I loved scrapping it. I love the photo, I love all of the papers BUT I'm not so sure I love the page :0( I'm not sure that I have done the best I could have and wonder whether it all looks like a bit of a mess! Oh well, its in the album now and I'll just have to judge how I feel about it as time passes!

Cupcake Photo Boxes

I just had to share my impulse, bargain buy of the day. I popped into WHSmith's on my way home to get the recent Scrapbook Magazine and what should I spy on the sale display but these GORGEOUS cupcake photo storage boxes for half price!!
Each is justa tiny bit shorter than a shoe box.  The lids are hinged and they each have a set of dividers for separating the photos within. Wonderful!!

I miss my Crafty Retreat sooooooooo much! We still have a lot of snow on the ground and until I have an electrician in I need to use a long extension cable to get my heater and light to work. I'm worried at the moment because although my retreat is water tight it is so cold that when I put my heater on it creates alot of condensation inside - not good for a space that is filled with perishable paper goodies :0(

I MUST contact an architect about extending our nest. We are starting to get cabin fever and I think a bigger bungalow is just what we need to create a bit more synergy in our family!! Plus that way I get a scrap studio rather than a (however lovely it may be) shed! Blissful!!!!

I treated myself...

to a new album and a few scrap goodies today! I'm going to put all the pages I make for my2010  projects in this lovely new Papermania album.  I couldn't resist the cupcake embellishments and I got some Golf ones too to do a page about my man and his obsession ;0)

Excited to find some magnetic clasps for hidden journalling experiments and bargain of the day was a wooden alphabet set from the kiddies craft section - only 99p - yay!

As it was my day off I also treated myself to a well deserved lie in and a day of scrapping. I spent some time playing with digi- elements this morning before getting back to the style I love this afternoon and creating this page:

And then this evening I have been curled up on the sofa with Shimelle's latest digi page template on the laptop and I created this page:

All in all, a very very successful and busy day off. I can't tell you how depressed I am at the thought of having to be at work until 8pm tomorrow night :0(