Hello Blogland

We'll I've been in my new job for a month now. Its all still new and exciting and also very very challenging! I'm enjoying it but finding it a little tricky to get to grips with some of the personaililties I now work with! And of course as I'm the manager everything that goes wrong is my fault!!! So its been tough! Good...but tough!

A major downside to the job is the travelling :-( I've never regreted not driving before but I do now.  Although the town I work in is only 20 minutes away from my home, the bus times don't work out well. I'm finishing work at 5.30 but not home until nearly 7! Yawn! Except Mondays when I finish at 7 but don't get home until 9!! Double Yawn!!
What this has meant is that I never craft any more - sob!! I'm so drained when I get in and get changed, eat food, tidy up, that I just sit and then go to bed :-(
One of my major goals for myself is to bring back regular crafting into my daily life. It brings me such joy and I feel so sad without it there.
Thats me for now. I haven't been on the blogs I read for so long and I have missed you all alot. Thats hopefully going to change now my computer access is sorted and I can blog at lunch times again. Yippie!! Byyyyye for now x

Hello Mojo...where have you been all year?!

I have FINALLY found my scrapping mojo!! It's a little dusty for being all neglected but is alive and well :0)
Over the past 2 weeks I have attacked and destroyed my backlog of kits and created lots of layouts. Yippie! I feel like me again!
WARNING- PHOTO HEAVY FROM HERE!!!!

















A layout celebrating my childhood!














A double page spread for Shimelle's free 6x4 Photo Love course.  Below are the pages separately:























































From our holiday. I am loving working with smaller prints at the moment. They're patricularly great when the photo quality isn't top notch!!!

















As you can see from the next layouts, I am continuing to love Hipstamatic photos!!

















Not that keen on this Ludlow layout :0(



































The first of what will be many layouts from my brother-n-laws wedding last year! The bride wore black so tis allow for some great alternative layouts!!


















The following two layouts are back to back on a double sided piece of pattered paper as I loved both sides so much I couldn't chose between them. Woudl you believe these are only the 3rd and 4th layouts in my 2011 scrapbook (Oh, the shame!!)




































And thats it for now lovely blog land.
PS/ the photos appear all blurry and I'm nto sure why :0( I'm having bad experiences with uploading via Blogpress on my Ipad. Anyone got any advice????

Help ladies...advice needed!

Ok blog friends, I need help! I currently subscribe to one scrapbook kit (Scrapagogo). I have no local scrap shops for buying stash from so rely purely on this kit. I've just spotted that Sarah's Cards also do a monthly kit (swoon!)
The question is...is subscribing to two kits overkill????! I don't want to cancel my GoGo kit so this would be a second kit each month ( which I could easily use up!) I guess I'm just looking for a) justification to spend the cash or b) people to tell me no!!! Help......


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Exciting news!

Guess what... I've been given a promotion at work :0) It is a maternity cover post so is temporary for 12 months (my own job stays safe during this time) but it is a big step up for me as I will be managing a much larger library than the one I currently do! I will miss my lovely little place but I really do feel ready for the challenge!
Yippie!!!


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Confession time...

Right, here I am in my craft room. Preparing to scrapbook. Feeling a little apprehensive and unsure. Scrapbook. Hmmmm. You know, that thing I used to do everyday. That thing that I haven't done for, oh I don't know, about two months! Looking around. Lots of pretty things everywhere! Just not sure I quite remember what to do with them! Right! Photo, paper, double sided tape. How hard can this be...


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Art Journaling

I am LOVING my art journal! I only discovered art journaling fairly recently and have launched myself into it as part of the amazing 'Soul Restoration' class over at Brave Girls Club.
There are some great technique videos and inspirations over there if you are like me - someone wo never did art at school and really hasn't got a clue!!
One thing I have discovered is art is one thing, journaling is another but art journaling... thats a WHOLE thing on its own!!
Does anyone have any favourite art journal blogs or websites they can recommend to me?
I'm really looking for inspiration and am collecting links on Pinterest to inspire me.

Awkward silence ...

Well, I blogged everyday...then I went AWOL..then I came back and promised to blog everyday again...then I went AWOL...now I'm back again...cue awkward silence!









































































This time I am back :0)


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