Saturday is crop day!

So yesterday was crop day for me. I host a regular, once a month, scrapbooking crop in Shrewsbury and it happened yesterday. 

All my scrapping friends were there and we had a great time eating chocolate cake catching up on each others news and scrapbooking of course. 

I always prepare  a kit for the girls who want one. This month I used the new Simple Stories Domestic Bliss papers and they went down very well. On the one layout I tried a bit of thread winding to create a dream-catcher. Something I have wanted to do for a long time, it went down very well though it did test the patience of a few ladies while they were creating it. 

Here are the two layouts from the kit. 

I also completed 3 pages for Billy's school album which I am endeavouring to complete this year. Billy is now in year seven but I am still scrapping his nursery pictures. I am happy that all the ones from his infant school are complete but then I have the Junior department to start and finish  and thats four years worth!! 

until next time A x

Here I go again!!

So after many years I am suddenly aware that I haven't updated this blog in years. I have no excuses other than being busy with other things like work, house, Billy etc and sad to say that other than the odd holiday to Tunisia, Pembroke and Jersey not much has happened either.

Today I was asked to post a link to my blog .....and that set me thinking. Yes I have a blog but why don't I use it???  Probably because I have no idea about what to blog let alone how to blog. So I am hereby setting myself another challenge to blog more often and hopefully I will learn how to blog a bit better along the way. if anyone can help  - please do all help will be appreciated.

As a scrapbooker I was always told to start with the present and work backwards so I will apply the same rule to this blog entry and start by showing you my latest layouts.

I love seeing how Billy Photo Bombed this picture of my sister and her husband, taken at our New Years Eve party a few years ago. Nobody knew he was there until we had the photos printed!!

This second layout is from our family holiday to Tunisia a couple of years ago. We had a great time but it was so so hot.

I cannot take credit for these layouts as they were from a class by Denise Holmes at Crop in the Country last year. I didn't do her class but I bought the kit. They are my 'twist' on Denise's lovely class and I really enjoyed doing them.