The first card I have made in about ten years....

I made this  for my friend's birthday today:

It is the first card I have made for a long long time and I actually really like it!!! Here are a few close ups:
The vellum:

The flower:

The cute little girl is on of SJ's Friday Freebies over at her Little Musing s blog. Click here to take a look!!

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!!

Special Friends...

The prompt over at Dolly's this week is all about that Special Friend in your life. To be honest I have 3 very very special friends and I just wouldn't be able to pick between them as they all mean the world to me!!
One I have known for many many years. She was the dreaded new girl at school one year and the teacher picked me to 'be her friend'!! (That's right, in our school, if you were the new kid, you were assigned your first friend!!!) Needless to say, these friendships rarely lasted. But ours did!! Everyone did (and still does) think we are sisters as we are so alike its scary!! Approximately 22 years later, after many many dramas and highs and lows, she is still my very very best friend:

I met my other two 'sisters' (for an only child, I have a lot of sisters!!!!) what seems like yesterday (but what is actually - and scarily - about 12 years ago!!! WHERE does time go to!!!??!!
We have literally been through hell together and they are the people I know I can turn to in times of utter despair as well as times of joy. No one knows me like they do (poor them!!) and I couldn't live without them in my life!

I have taken on so many projects this year that I am starting to slip abit. Rather than letting anything go and stopping one, I have decided to re-organise how I do them. I have decided to blog the Dolly prompts rather than completing pages. I would rather do this than not be involved as its a great project and alot of work has been put into it, thanks Dolly!

It's been a while...

Wow!! I haven't blogged for ages (well, 4 days is ages to me as I enjoying blogging everyday usually!!!)

I've had a VERY busy weekend.
Saturday was spent in wonderful company at the Bromsgrove Crop. Its only my second time there but everyone is so lovely and I just didn't feel like a newbie!!
Its great to have talented people with the same interest as you sat in a huge room with you - a constant source of aid if you have a 'Hmmmmmm, where shall I put this flower??' moment (like I did!!)
Here are the pages I completed:

This one is called 'Awakening' and is all about colour in my life.  It still needs the title to be added.  I want that to be in white thickers and need to buy them first!!!

The handstitching took hours, but I love the quilted effect it gives the page, and I found the whole process very relaxing!

I found these beautiful flowers at the second hand stash sale at the Crop - such a coincidence that they were the perfect shades for this layout!!

I also completed my February Document 2010 pageas at the crop:

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I completed my Go Go Yearbook February page today too, so all in all, I have had a very enjoyable and productive weekend!!

A whole new world of inspiration!!!

Whilst blog hoping todayI spotted a link to this amazing images website. over on Helen's blog.

There are some really really thought-inspiring things on there. Here's one of my fav's :

My One Little Word for 2010 is...

****PLAY***
I spotted a quick rerminder about the One Little Word concept over on Ali Edward's blog.

Hmmmmmmmm, thats food for thought!! :0)

Exciting launch of new templates over at Liberty Cottage - 100% of sales going to charity!

Kate over at Liberty Cottage has been working on some fun page templates for a while now. So far she has been giving them away as prizes on her blog, which has been great for the winners (I have been a lucky winner so know how good that feels!!!!) but gutting for those other people who really want the chance to play!!
Well, now we can!!
She is selling her elements for (get this) 75p each!!!! What an amazing price for some great page templates!

Here is what Kate has to say about the project:

Liberty Elements is a digital scrapbooking range which has a selection of fully layered templates that are named after elements in the periodic table (to be kooky and to fit in with my mad scientist (read:geek) background).

Liberty Elements donates 100% of the profit directly to charity. I do not make a penny on any of the templates sold from this blog.
I have selected Macmillan Cancer Support as the beneficiary charity. After a close family member was diagnosed with cancer, this charity was there for us at the hardest and lowest points of our lives. They were there to help the patient and the family, and I'd just like to be able to give something back.
The charity works across the United Kingdom, and whilst I appreciate many of you who will visit me here are not from the UK, I hope that you will dig deep and support this charity that is very close to my heart.

There are 10 great templates to choose from at the moment,  but Kate will be giving away more on her blog. Click here to pop over to her blog and take a look!! As part of the launch there is an amazing giveaway where one lucky winner will win ALL TEN current templates!!