Happy St Patricks Day

I won't be celebrating St Pats this year like I used to, especially not like the year I only drank things that were green or Irish (believe me Guiness, Baileys and Green alchopops do not mix!!) When I was a dancer it was a big event, we use to go round the Irish bars dancing or doing big displays in all kinds of places and it was so much fun but not this year but hey, there will be plenty more.

To mark the occasion I thought I would do a LO of a photo of me in my dancing days. This months GoGo kit was just perfect colours so I managed to create this....

I had this photo taken at a competition where I did really well, the journalling says about how I wasn't expecting to do very well and was actually in another hall watching a friend when the results were read out and my Mum had to come and find me!

This LO is of when we went out for Curry last week, I managed to snap my Dad singing his head off! The title was partially inspired by a LO on Lauras's blog where she used a misheard song lyric as a title. My Dad is absolutely famous for this for example 'I think I better deep fry it now' by Will Young, and his very favourite 'Chicken Tikka' by Abba! So it tied the LO up perfectly. The photo doesn't show it very well but I even used the string that was packaging something on my page (just below the n of chicken.)

Anyway enjoy the rest of St Patricks Day!

Slainte! (Cheers)

Bxx

3rd Time Lucky

I know, 3 posts in one day, some kind of record but I just found a challenge on the October Afternoon blog to show all of your OA projects. So here they are.......

Night xx

Quirky

A few weeks ago I bought a lovely Quirky Kit from Crafty Templates and tonight I turned it into this...

Its for the Scrap Like You Mean It challenge over on UKS. I haven't been playing along with it so far but this grabbed my eye so I thought I'd give it a go. I kind of wish I had now so I might go back and have a go at a few of the prompts.

So the prompt was Scrap with Fabric and I decided to push it a little further by scrapping about fabric too! I have been thinking about some of the projects I did for my textiles A level and thought as it was probably the time in my life so far when I worked my very hardest, it was worth scrapping about. I chose this photo because it is of my final piece that secured me my A grade, I was so proud of it, I must dig it out and have another look at it!

I loved using this kit, doing lots of stitching and even stamping on fabric. I cut the title from the sheet of felt using my sizzix. I will definitely be buying more Quirky Kits and using fabric again.

TFL xx

It Was All Yellow

Yellow is not one of my favourite colours, infact I'd probably go as far as saying I don't like Yellow. Except that is for one day every month, when a lovely sunny yellow box arrives full of beautiful GoGo goodness like this.....

OOOOh so yummy, but more about that later.

Yesterday was Scrapaholix at Kim's. It was a lovely sunny kit for a lovely sunny day and I had a great time making these two layouts...

I was so pleased with these LO's especially the second one as I felt it did the photos justice (and it's yellow!!) I had enough time to do a third LO but didn't have any more photos that went with the papers so I used some of my own.

Just love this bird cage paper, so so pretty and perfect with my Birds Galore stamps.

So back to my March kit, called Wanderlust so kind of on a travel theme which is great as my travel album is the one that needs filling up a bit. I did this LO of Dad, Matt, Dan and Harry at the Beer Fest at the Trout, its another redo LO that I just wasn't happy with before.

I also bought the mini kit which was so gorgeous, especially as it had some sweet smelling Puffy Thickers in!! I based my Layout on one by Lisa Bond over at the GoGo Clubhouse.

So all in all a very successful scrapping day. Am very tired today though, think I've overdone it a bit, am gonna try and take it easy today.

Have a good day xx

GoGo is coming to Town

When I found out that Scrapagogo were possibly coming to do a day event in Bristol I was so excited. So now less than a week later I have bought my ticket and am counting the days til the 19th of September, I just can't believe how quickly it's all come about, those GoGo girls are super women!! They even chose one of the venues which I suggested which is just fab cos it means that I can save my precious energy for scrapping and don't have to worry about the travel, yay!!!

I had a lovely surprise this evening when I checked out the Indigo Mill blog and saw this infact I'm still blushing! I was so grateful for the fab service that the lovely Steph provided that I sent her a little thank you gift and was so proud to see that she loved them enough to blog them.

Here are my next four 365 pics:
9.3: We dog sat!
10.3: My new cutie Cup Cake socks!

11.3: My Cousin Danielle at our curry night last night, (which I thoroughly enjoyed, it's usually the way when you don't feel like going that you end up having a ball!)
12.3: Chloe saying her fave word: 'Hiya'

I have a new camera to get used to, I had to take mine back today as it was faulty. I was really gutted because I had really got to grips with it and was really happy with it, but I'm sure I'll get my head round the new one. I should get a chance to practice when I go away next weekend.

Am in school in the morning, I think we are doing something Red Nosey, so I'm looking forward to that, although I will be rushing home as its time to start stalking the Postman for my yellow box of GoGo sunshine and mini kits from Indigo Mill. So tomorrow night will hopefully be spent in front of Comic Relief scrapping the night away.

Will you be doing something Funny for Money??

B xx

Pimp Part 2

Have been a busy bunny! I did two LO's yesterday, one using my Gogo kit, this is number 8 and I still have enough for at least 1 more LO and the new kit is despatched tomorrow so this kit has lasted me a whole month which I'm so pleased about.

I used my new Bella Blvd papers to do this LO of Mollie on her first birthday. The papers were perfect cos they match her little stripey sleeves. (Sorry for the rubbish photo)

I was talking the other day about redoing some LO's. I took this one.......Removed the photos and created this LO using the top photo.
I love it, its just so much better than the old version. Wasn't I cute?! I'll put the other two LO's on another page.

Am going out for a curry tonight. We're spending our quiz team winnings that we've been saving up for a year, about £100 and 12 bottles of wine, between about 12 people, not bad! Typical though that I hardly ever go out and when I do, I don't feel like going. I'd love to snuggle up and watch corrie! Ah well better make the effort.

TFL xx

More 365

A quickie to bring you up to date with my 365, I will get better at this, I promise!!

1.3: My homemade storage
2.3: Magazine arrived

3.3: I finally get my Stampin Up stuff!

4.3: The now famous ATB tapes and storage

5.3: Went for Coffee at the local Garden Centre with my friend and made the most of the lovely weather to have a wander and take some snaps.

6.3: Chloe!!!!

7.3: Jake wanted to do his own photos like on photomylego.com

8.3: The 29 boxes I prepared for school

I had the whole day to play in the craft room today but just couldn't get inspired, I shuffled some papers around and achieved nothing! My friend is coming round to scrap tomorrow so I have prepared some page kits to hopefully stop this happening.

Off to bed now

Night xxx