Elijah in the pool, and Hinchingbrooke. Post is picture heavy.

Little Elijah has got his first paddling pool, and as Darryl and Co dono't have a garden, they filled it round ours. He had a lovely time. So of course, I scrapped a page of him... but this is before he got in the pool, and the second one is from a couple of winter pics Darryl and Abby took.

 Kit used Summer Fun from Just So Scrappy.

 Kit used Winter Frost - Just So Scrappy, and the cluster frames is from the Brrrr collection, Just So Scrappy.

Below is a mix of pics taken from Hinchingbrooke Park today. 

Woohoooo a paper page!

But first... another digital lol.

This one is of me and my lovely Justin. I used the Cherish kit available at Just So Scrappy.

The following page is a paper version of the Elijah, Wonder, digi page. It is lovely in real life!!! All touchy feely... ahhhh.

I'm going to have to slow down on these!

I'm going to have 20 printed when I've finished 20, and then put them in one of my 8x8 albums I have. I have a nice Forever Friends album that hasn't had anything put in it yet...

The first one here is of my gorgeous son, Matthew, having a bit of a chuckle about something. It was during a day out at Hinchingbrooke Park.

I used the Denim and Daisies kit again. (See post below for link).

 

...and here is me! LOL! Created with Happy Days kit and addons from Just So Scrappy.

And here is a gorgeous one of my grandson, Elijah, looking inquisitively at the camera. He is growing up fast!

Kit used is the same as the one above of me.

I'm getting addicted...

To digi scrapbooking!! I love looking at all the fabby kits you can download as well. I still love paper scrapbooking, but I haven't made a page in over a year!! I really need to do some because I have some lovely papers and embellishments to use... and a brand new Christmas album too, not forgetting a Disney album to scrap the two trips to Disneyland Paris photo's...

But, for tonight, here are two more layouts I've conjured up today.

This first one is reflecting on a farewell party that my friend, Jacqui, gave the kids before departing to Oz... and the second layout is a couple of photo's taken in October 2010 over Godmanchester river. 

 

 Kit - Just So Scrappy - So Jordon.

 Kit - Just So Scrappy - Denim and Daisies.

A touch of yellow?

2 more pages created over the weekend. The first one is of me with my best friend, Jacqui, a few months before she left for Australia. 

I used a kit from here called Sunshine of my Life.

 

The following page is a challenge on UKScrappers. We had to follow a sketch and something had to be altered... well it's a digi scrap page, and most things tend to be altered slightly to fit how you want them... 

I used a kit from Just So Scrappy, Denim and Daisies, a massive kit on sale for $1.50!!! So it was a bargain! Most of her kits are that price at the moment, with Brag Books all being FREE! It's an amazing site for digi scrappers.

Please click on the photos for a much better look, clicking on the new image will give an even better look! 

 

Like Father Like Son.

Have you noticed how I go in phases of what craftiness I get up to?? So now I'm in a digital scrapping mood, lol... I wonder what's next?!

Anyway, this is a photo I love. It shows my son, and his son. Darryl and Elijah. I love it because they're both strolling along in the park, and their same leg is in the air... 

Papers etc from Shabby Princess - Promise Collection.

My son - Beautiful.

D'oh, just realised, I meant to add the date to this page... well it's the 27th October 2010, lol, I'll add it to the right hand bottom corner later.

I love this photo, it was taken in Godmanchester over the river. Matthew had been having fun taking lots of photo's with his little digital camera.

I used a kit from Shabby Princess, a freebie kit, and the scrolly overlay wotsit was from Digital Scrapbook Place.

In other news!! Justin is enjoying his new job, and the "old" delivery drivers are having a laugh when they realise they're still delivering things to him.

I changed the Christmas page...

...into this.

I decided that the first version was too busy with the backgrounds... and here's what I came up with.

2 more digi layouts.

I've been playing again... with digital wotsits. The top one, the Christmas one, I used NitWits T'was the Night collection, and used Craft Artist to make the page, and the bottom one, the Valentine one, I just used Paint Shop Pro, and NitWits From the Heart digi collection. I like the easiness of being able to plonk something on the "paper" in front of lots of embellishments, and then being able to click a button for it to sit behind them, one at a time... that's with using the Craft Artist software. I've not found out how to do that with PSP yet... that's something I'll have to search up this afternoon.

Some GOOD news and a scrap page!!

SO the good news is.... 
Justin was made redundant on the first of April. He got a good pay off, which would allow us to be ok for about 6 months just in case he couldn't get a job... well, today, he got a job!!!! He starts tomorrow. Basically doing the same kind of thing he was doing before, controlling goods in at a mobile/laptop repair centre. So that IS very good news!!!

This evening I had a look at digital scrapbooking again. I do quite like it... I found a good place to get them printed at 8x8 size for around a tenner for 20 prints on thick photo card! A bargain I think. 
Photo printing here. 
Below is what I came up with. I used a Nitwits digital kit that my friend had sent me, and I think it's fab! Click on it for a better look. (Then click on the back button dad!!! lol)

A 2nd greenhouse!

We decided last weekend to buy another greenhouse, this one is bigger than our other one. We're growing more veggies this year - tomatoes (cherry and normal size), cucumber, lettuce, beetroot, carrots, onions, spring onions, parsnips, strawberries, raspberries, and potatoes, plus lots of various flowers too! I love pottering about in both of our greenhouses, although we do seem to be calling the little one mine, and the bigger one Justin's... lol. It needs some more shelving, so I might just go and get the shelf thingy today from Wilkinson's.

Later on today I have to plant my second raspberry bush/cane whatever it is you call it.

Here is a pic of our smaller one... although not in our garden, this is a catalogue picture.

Dad update...
Dad is now home and doing really well, he's very pleased to be back home, finally!

Cookies n Coffee...

 

Homemade chocolate chip cookies, and a coffee in my new mug... 

The cookies were supposed to come out chewy... but the first batch, this batch, didn't... but still LOVELY!! I think the trick is to take them out the oven sooner... but how much sooner???? They are getting chewier with each batch that's coming out of the oven. I've read somewhere that you need to use melted butter to combat this problem... well that's rubbish, coz I DID use melted butter. Oh well, they taste heavenly anyway.

It's Shaun!!!!

 

I've had the weekend off work this weekend, and I have finished him!!! I love him! He was very easy to make... he may not be perfect, but who/what is?!

FREE SHAUN THE SHEEP CROCHET PATTERN!

Other news...

Dad maybe going home this week sometime. He is managing stairs, very slowly, but progressing a bit more each time. Here is a brief description of what happened... 

Dad had a major bowel resection on December 30th. Discharged from hospital on January 3rd. We get dad back home and he's VERY out of breath, and grey. I'd been told by the nurses that he was fit to go home, so who was I to say otherwise, even though I didn't agree before we left the ward. Anyway... after about 3 hours and after calling the out of hours doctors, I called an ambulance as dad was getting worse. We ended up in Resus in A&E (ER) and was there for another couple of hours before dad was taken up to Intensive Care. The following morning, I had a phone call to say that we should get to the hospital as they didn't think dad was going to make it - his blood pressure was dropping and they couldn't get it up and his kidney's had failed. When we arrived at the hospital, dad was doing better!! So dad spent two weeks in intensive care, then another couple of weeks back on the original ward, and then onto another ward as he wasn't able to go home yet, but there wasn't anything surgically/medically wrong with him then. So after another couple of weeks in that ward, he has now been in a self contained flat for about 3 weeks where he has a care team on site, and someone to help him in the morning, lunch, tea time, and bed time. They are now talking about sending dad home, once they're happy he can walk up the stairs. It's been a weird few months since Christmas... and I wouldn't want to go through all that again, and I don't think dad would either.

So... I need to finish my double bed blanket, and I'm really wanting to do a granny stripe waistcoat/vest sort of thing, but can't find a pattern...

So what have I been up to...

...in between visiting dad! Dad, by the way, is in a new place in the next street to me for a few weeks, just while "they" can work out what help he would need at home. So, apart from my daily visits to him, here's what I've been up to...

Here is Shaun the Sheep (still in the making!). I finished his ears today and sewed them on, but I've still got to make four legs yet.

 

 Here is the third baby blanket that I've made for the babies in A&E that don't survive... Crocheted in Wattle stitch.

 Below is a little Easter Chick that I crocheted for someone at work. It's a pattern in this month's Let's Get Crafting knitting and crochet magazine.

 A pink blanket, and beannie hat, for a baby due to be born at the beginning of April. The pattern for the hat was in the same magazine as the little chick.

 I added a little duck (chick pattern!) to the finished package.

I've bought some new books also. 

The one that I'm currently reading is The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes. 

I purchased three more on offer, in Sainsbury's, the offers are buy 2 for £7, which makes them £1 cheaper than if you bought ONE in Whsmiths! The other three I've bought and which are now on my "to read" list are...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Room.

Hothouse Flower. 

Click on the links to see the books... I think I made good choices.

Granny blanket update!!

Now this is getting seriously scrummy! I wish the colours looked as rich on here as they do in real life... nevermind. 

 

The lilac blanket on the right is an old blanket I'd made... the wool for that cost £120! The stripey one has cost approx £40, all from Stylecraft Bonus DK wool, which is surprisingly wonderfully soft.

Below are mine and Justin's Valentine gifties to each other... There is a broken glitterglobe there... it fell out of the bag as I was taking things out to photograph............ sob... I was quite upset about that. 

 

Below is a blanket for my supervisor and his girlfriend's baby girl that is due in April. The scalloped edge really finishes it off. I shall go around the double bed blanket with a black scalloped edge.

 

Birthday Digital Circle Stamps.

Here are my latest digi stamps. This time, a selection of birthday greetings. Please click here to purchase from my Etsy shop. They are priced at £1.47/$2.30.

Valentine Digital Circle stamps.

Here are some Valentine Digi stamps I've created. If you wish to purchase them, please click here.

I am enjoying making these digi stamps. 

The image here isn't the correct size. Please click on them to get a better view x

My Etsy Shop!

I've branched out into the world of digital greeting stamps! I adore the circle greetings and decided to have a go at making my own. They are priced at £1.47 each, I know, funny price, but Etsy sell in dollars and this is what it works out at...

Here is a link to my Etsy shop.

Glittered Cobwebs Designs 

Here are the current digital circle greetings stamps sets that are on sale. They are not full size here.

I love ProMarkers - Keep it Sweet and Simple.

 

I Love ProMarkers challenge this week is to Keep it Sweet and Simple... and I'm not sure this is simple, but it's definitely sweet.

Its' a thank you card for a lady that has really helped me out over the last three weeks since dad has been in hospital.

I used an old paper pad for the papers, new flowers I'd bought from Wild Orchid Crafts and a digital stamp downloaded from Funky Kits Home of Adorable Stamps. This stamp is Grace Standing. Love her!!

The photo isn't too great, it was taken on my mobile phone.
See post below for another post from today.

Passion for ProMarkers - All You Need is Love

 

Passion For Promarkers challenge this week is All You Need is Love... ahhhhh... and here's my attempt. 

I used a rubber stamp from the new Do Crafts Bunches of Love, and the red paper is from Lover's Lane, again Do Crafts, and the green paper is from a digital download freebie. Coloured with ProMarkers.

The picture below is trying to show the glitter on the flowers.