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!

A few bargains!

We're having a quiet week this week, tidying up the house sorting and a swimming trip. I'm pleased to report that T is feeling better, it was only a 24hr thing. Yesterday after taking the kids swimming in NISV we went to Tesco and in the left over Easter eggs aisle I found a Twilight Eclipse tin/sandwich box.


How cute is that. I've been fan of the books and loved the films so i'm sure I can find a use for this tin.

Then in the South Wales Echo last night I spotted an ad for a Bead Sale and Craft sale Marshfield Village Hall. So after lunch I decided to pop down and I was not disappointed. There were loads of beads on display different types on every table. I don't make jewellery but was seriously tempted to take it up after seeing all the lovely beads. I decided to buy some steampunk style pendants to use on cards or layouts. I got 2 types of clock faces, butterflies and a couple of findings to make a bracelet and necklace, some time in the future...


Time for me to say goodnight and enjoy the large glass of wine. Bye.