Such a lovely day…

Another lovely afternoon was spent in Hinchingbrooke Park today. My friend Jacqui and her two boys, James, and Harry, picked us up at 1pm and off to the park we went. I took lots more photos, so this post is photo heavy. Please click on some of them as they look much better bigger.

Matthew enjoyed playing on these steps.

Matthew, James and Harry playing with sticks in the pond.

 

James trying to make a big splash with a stick.

Matthew practising for the 2020 Olympics in the Javelin and the Pole Vault.

A lovely windy path.

Harry with his light sabre.

James in the shadows about to pounce on Matthew.

Matthew trying out a wigwam.

A social gathering in the wigwam.

James and Matthew on a painful log??

Me and Jacqui… and Harry, lol.

My beautiful Matthew.

Matthew trying out his paparazzi skills.

A lovely scene.

HARRY! GET OUT OF THE WATER!

A tranquil Matthew.

A peaceful, calm scene…

And then… a short time later, Jacqui told me she’s moving in three months………………. to Australia!

Cute Card Thursday challenge.

Sorry Uncle Dave, another card for you to look at! I’m all out of gossip at the moment!!!

So… I’m quick with this one. The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday is to make a touchy feely card. Well, you can touch the flowers, touch the lacy ribbon, and feel the glitter on her dress.

I of course used my lovely ProMarkers… and I remember most of the colours – Bluebell and Lilac for her top and headdress, Baby Pink, Pastel Pink, and Antique Pink for her flower skirt, Leaf Green and Lime Green for the flower stem, Tulip Yellow, and Gold for the flower she’s holding, Ivory and Blush for the skin, and I give up with the hair… I’m not good at colouring in the hair yet. Cool Grey 1 to shadow.

Cute Little Panda.

I can’t find a challenge to fit this cute little panda card in… I normally pick the challenge then do the card, but I coloured in this little panda last night with my ProMarkers and then made the card.

I used one of the gorgeous little beads among the flowers. I’d inherited the beads from my friend Mandy who died, so I don’t know where she got them from, but they’re very pretty. You can also see from this photo that I’ve glittered the white leaves.

Today me and Matthew are off to the library in town. We need to take some books back, and probably get a few more out. Then we’re going to buy a few sweets and nibbles for next Tuesday evening – Darryl and Co are over for dinner and I’m making sausage and apple plait, and we’re playing poker afterwards. Should be a fun evening.

Wooohoooo! I won the I Love ProMarkers challenge!!

I didn’t know until this afternoon that I'd won. I’d been clicking on the link from my post from two days ago thinking I was going to the blog and would see the new challenge. I’d forgotten that the link just went to the challenge I was entering, derrrr, lol. I win £10 to spend in Joanna Sheen’s online shop… I’ve a feeling I’ll be spending more than £10!

Here’s a link to save you scrolling, to my card that won.

Thanks for my prize!!

A card just for fun.

I had a hunt around the challenges that are listed on my blog, and I found this challenge at Stamp with Fun, so I came up with this little piggy card. The little piggy is a digital stamp from and Etsy shop, click here to go to it.

I enjoyed colouring the piggy with my ProMarkers. Main colours used were Baby Pink and Pastel Blue… I really need to start writing these colours down, because I can’t remember what the shadow colours were called.

Matthew and I haven’t got up to much today, we had a stroll into town and bought some more Cadbury’s Highlights Hot Chocolate, and some banana’s from the market. That’s about as active as we got. Darryl popped in to give Matthew an Iron Man mask and hand glove noisy thing which he’d had to wear at the cinema while he was working yesterday. Matthew is happy, and Iron Man just happened to be on one of the movie channels too!

Well it’s cottage pie for dinner, so I best get off of here now to peel the spuds.

Today at sunny Hinchingbrooke Park.

Today was a lovely warm day, just right for a picnic in the local park. We were supposed to be going with Jacqui and her boys, but Jacqui phoned me to let me know she was ill half an hour before we were due to go. So as I'd already packed us a lunch each, I said to Matthew that just us would go.
Matthew had taken his little digital camera but the batteries died before he could take one photo! Here are some photo's I took with my digital Canon SLR instead...

Matthew sitting on something resembling a mushroom.

I tried to get some of the photo's similar to the ones that I'd taken with Amanda when we'd gone to the park just to take photo's in the Autumn. It's a pity I didn't get any in the Winter with all the snow on the ground as well, then I would just need Summer. It's amazing how different it looks in each season.
Click here to see the post where I show the scrap page made using the Autumn photo's.

Or click here to see the photo's from the Autumn walk with Amanda.

They think of everything... even a wooden sofa to relax on!

Yeah ok... I forgot to change the white balance when using it on all manual settings!! Still... I quite like it, so kept it. It looks kind of cold.

Matthew looking inside a sawn off tree.

And this little duck gave us quite a shock when we found it sleeping inside!

Matthew had no idea the camera has a self timer.

Two challenges in one.

The challenge over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is to create a card with spots and dots, and over at Colour Create, it's to make a card with Lilac, Grey, and White. This is the first time, I think, that I've managed to combine two challenges into one card!
Both challenge blogs are fab, so have a look around them.

See post below for another challenge today, and for my usual news.

I love Promarkers challenge.

This weeks (only up until tomorrow!) challenge at I love ProMarkers is to make a card with an animal on it... so here's my little card. I really should write down all the colours I use on the images...

Other news...
So today is weigh in day... and we've had Easter. So on Easter Sunday I had a Creme Egg.... a Marshmallow egg............... and an Aero egg..... and one of my big Easter eggs, lol, and a selection of Mini eggs, Smarties eggs, Milky Bar eggs... then on Bank Holiday Monday I had another 3 Creme Eggs, and another big egg, plus a few mini eggs thrown in. BUT, I have been doing at least 20 minutes a day on the Wii Fit. So, get to the point I hear you say... Well............................ I still managed to lose 3/4's of a pound!!!! Woohoooooooo. Just a pound and a quarter till I've lost a whole stone!! (14lbs in a stone for any American readers).

Just Things Scrapbook.

My lovely friend Jacqui bought me an 8 x 8 pink scrapbook for my birthday, along with some papers and ribbons. I decided to make a little album about me, who I am, what makes me me, things I like etc...
I spent the day at Jacqui's today, and our kids played nicely for most of the day, lol. I began work on my album. Jacqui started hers as well.

This is the start page with a few relevant dates, births mainly. I used my lovely Cricut E to cut out the lettering, and then I outlined the letters with my white Uniball gel pen. I love that pen! I want the album to have a doodly sort of look to it.
The Forever Friends bear is from part of the massive kit that Darryl and Abby got me for my birthday. It is one of the 3D elements stickers.

This is the first page about me being a daughter. I need to make the right hand side yet.

The first side to my me being a mum page.

And this is a candle holder I made tonight with one of the transfers stickers that also came with the Forever Friends Kit. I added some daisy lace to the top and bottom to match the stickers. I always think adding something at the top and bottom finishes of the holder nicely.

The diet...

...is still going well. I lost another 2lbs this week, bringing the total to 12lbs!! Although you can't really tell yet, lol... but my uniform is definitely looser. BUT... I had four Cadbury's Creme Eggs last night.............................................. AND a whole egg, lol.... 60 syns! I'm supposed to just have 15syns a day. Oh well.... it is Easter, and I'll work them off on the Wii this week!!