Saying of the week...

Count your gardens by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the golden days, don't number clouds at all.
Count your nights by the stars not shadows
Count your life by smiles not tears.
And with joy on your birthday, count your age by friends not years.

Still at it...

Yes still at it...

sorting the photos, that is... as you can see, there IS a empty box, YEAH so must be getting somewhere, but it doesn't feel like it, it seems so never ending...

Can you see the little bit of floor space in the middle to the left of the photo, that is where I sit sorting, lol..


I'm running up and down the stairs whenever I get an odd free 5 minutes through the day, as I'm too tired to concentrate after Steven goes to bed. This photo was taken earlier today, is it looking tidier, isn't it?


(please say it is, lol)...

Saying of the week...

A faithful friendship is the medicine of life.

Not crafting but....

been sorting out my photos... which I suppose can be classed as crafting, sort of...

First of all I had to go round the house gathering up packets, albums and boxes of photos and lugged them all up into the attic, (that was tiring in itself, lol)...


Starting off was not too bad as some were dated, so sorted them into years and...



putting them into some boxes I bought from Lidl last year....



But still got loads to do and lots that are not dated, so am aiming on putting them into piles like holiday or schools, then hopefully will be able to work out when and where they were taken...

The reason behind all this is because I want to do make a scrapbook for one of Steven friends for his 21st Birthday in July. So about a month back, I realised it was nearly May and time seemed to be flying by and that I would need to get my finger out in starting the scrapbook. So went looking for some photos of the young lad, to then realise they were spread in boxes and bags all over the house, lol...

So no real crafting for me in the last few weeks and by the looks of it for the foreseeable future...

Just hope I manage to get things sorted in time for the young lads Birthday.

Carole's card and coaster

Thank you Carole for emailing pictures of the card and coaster I made for her birthday, as the photos I took were on the camera memory card that broke...

I tried to do them with a rustic feel, as I always think of browns, creams, pastel shades when I think of Carole with her lovely country style...

The card was made from pieces from the same magazine that I made Sue's card last month...



The coaster was made with a base of brown then I chalked round the edge and round Carole's name which were peel off letters coloured brown and finished off with Prima flowers. The leaves were made from a cut up green Prima flower...

Saying of the week...

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy minute of it.

More cards

Totally confused as lost this post and the comments, but luckily found it as draft and also had the comments made by Val, Carole and Sue in my trash email account, so have copied and pasted them back, sorry ladies, don't know what happened there...

I've actually managed to do the odd bit of crafting these last few weeks with all the Bank Holidays, which I took photos of, but to my horror my camera chip broke. That was upsetting for not only losing the odd family photos that I had not got round to saving on the computer, but also the card and coaster I did for Carole for her birthday and new baby girl card I did. So it meant trying to get a new camera chip to find XD are 'going out' of fashion and I could not buy one locally, but found some on ebay (thanks Sue).



I had a spare Easter card I sent to all my family, I did a batch of 10 all the same and had one left, so at least can show you that. It was a Dawn Biddy stamp, coloured with pro-markers and Tim Holtz ink round the edge and placed into a oval aperture card with a Easter peel off...



This one is for one of Steven's friends, again quite plain as he's autistic and doesn't like things too fussy... Embossed using the cuttlebug 'swiss dots' embossing folder, the presents is a Disney cuttlebug cut and emboss die, the name was using





Oh yes, don't you love birthday seasons (it's a law made by sue, not sure why, but think it's got something to do with her being late with her cards, lol, but we love the idea) ph this time she was on time with the cards, for both me and Steven,but I got a lovely birthday treat from her last week

and I also got this lovely book from Alma, (she had mislaid it when she sent me my present, lol)



so YES I do love the Birthday Season, thanks Sue, lol...

Saying of the week...

A woman's work is never done - properly by a man!

More Graduation

Here are the last 2 layouts of my daughter's Graduation.


Again at the moment kept very simple, but if when doing other crafting, I find something in my stash that I feel can be added to the pages I will...


Both were papers from HOTP Paper Pizazz Sheets 'Great Backgrounds' also the papers to make the rosettes were from the same pad, which of course is made using the Tim Holtz 'mini rosette' decorative strip. The blue, matching Sam's stole on her robe and the red, to match my dress.


You might wonder why I've put our names on the pages.

Well, that's because it stops me having to sit over people telling them who is who and for another reason is, if the books get packed away for years and years, then people will be able to know who they are...

As I bet you've got lots of old photos of 'not' know who people are in them.