Quote Inspiration from Pinterest (10 Things)

I have been loving Pinterest for a while and am currently using it as my bookmark area for things that I want to use as inspiration.  I have the obvious ones, Scrapbooking, Cards and Craft Inspiration boards for future crafty items, as well as My Style (for fashion/jewellery/hairstyles), Food Inspiration, and For the Home boards for the more general items.  For today's 10 Things post I  have decided to link to my favourite 10 quotes that I have pinned on my Inspirational Quotes board.

Source: prettygirll.tumblr.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: embers.typepad.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: a-ladys-findings.tumblr.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: jenniferjohner.typepad.com via Rachel on Pinterest

These first 5 are what I try and live by.  I have to be happy for myself and no-one else.  Life can be hard, and throw lots of different things at you but I choose to appreciate what I have and try not to look at other people's lives and wish mine was different.  I love my husband and love my kids, and now I love my job too. So I just have to remember that and enjoy every day!

Source: lifebehindthepurpledoor.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: homegrownhospitality.typepad.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: etsy.com via Rachel on Pinterest

These next three are about getting things done. I'm a procrastinator and I always tend to put things off until the last minute and use these to remind me to get on with things.

Source: etsy.com via Rachel on Pinterest

Source: etsy.com via Rachel on Pinterest

These last 2 are are spiritual quotes that remind me about my faith.

I'm linking up with Shimelle's 10 things today, click here to see A's 10 things and there's even  more 10 Things here.

Do you use pinterest?  If so leave me a comment about what you use it for or let me know what you use for inspiration instead.

Fountains at Cardiff Bay

A fun page for Shimelle's Sketch of the week celebrating our love of the fountains in Cardiff Bay.  Another Digi layout using Cosmo Cricket's Snorkel Alphabet and papers and twill from Splendid Fiins all from Jessica Sprage's shop.

WOYWW - 25th May 2011

Here's my desk today, loads of projects on the go this week and running out of time to do them!  I need to make some father's day cards and I've 2 layout's on the go:

this one is using Cosmo Cricket's Cogsmo for a Robots style layout and

and this one is a snowy one of the kids playing out the back in the snow.

Shimelle's Scrapbook Sketch of the Week

I've been wanting to take part in the sketch of a week for a while but not had much time.  Decided today to take her latest one and have a play with it digi style.  I bought Echo Park's For The Record Element Pack 1 and Recipe Cards in last week's One Buck Wednesday and have been itching to use them ever sine.  In the Element Pack 1 there was a sheet of paper already divided into quarters and when I saw Shimelle's Sketch I instantly thought of this paper.  Here's my finished layout:

Posing for Mamgu (Welsh for Grandmother)

Journalling reads: Kids posing in the hallway to take cute pix for mamgu's driftwood frame.

Not much crafting but having fun at the Sessions!

I've had 3 shift's at the Active Living Centre in Bettws over the last few weeks so my weekends have been very busy and that knocks onto my crafting time.  The only thing I have done since Wednesday is a quick digital LO following the Scrapbooking with a Digital Template course at Big Picture Classes.  I seem to have fallen out of love with digital scrapbooking for the moment, I'm sure I'll enjoy it again but doing this LO didn't light my fire!

On Friday night we went to the Sessions and Open Mic Night at the Riverfront.  It's a Boutique Market held in the foyer of the theater with some lovely stalls.  My favorite was By Charlie's Hand, she does the most amazing papercuts on a huge variety of subjects.  At the moment I can't decide between this butterfly heart one and this lace heart one.  It will probably be the butterfly but am taking a couple of weeks to decide.  There was also a book stall that A loved, he managed to pick up a couple of rare books so he was a happy bunny. Other lovely stalls included Ginger Pig Designs, Jewellery by Rachel Mary (love the Lego collections, great gift ideas!), Emma Passey Design and Rachel Kinchen's Vintage Shop (could have spent a fortune on Vintage buttons).

Sessions is on the second Friday of every month, so looking forward to June's already.

WOYWW - 11/5/11

Good evening, really late with WOYWW. Thanks for the lovely comments last week I am loving doing all these layouts and this week it's another 4 by 6 photo love layout.





Pix are of the kids eating M&Ms on the train to Tenby on Easter Sunday.

WOYWW - 4th May 2011

Welcome to another WOYWW, thanks for all the lovely comments last week.  As you can see my desk is still relatively tidy as i haven't done much crafting, been too busy enjoying having the kids off school.  Gutted they've gone back today, the holidays were far too short! What's on my desk is 2 quick layouts I did on Monday night as I still have to glue the flowers on to the first one.  The 2 layouts are from Shimelle's 4x6 Photo Love class on two peas, only got this month's to do and then i'm up to date!

To see more desks go to Julia's blog, there's loads there!