The End of a Week Off

I've had 9 days off work and now I have to go back to work tomorrow...
I did my first double layout today which if you're a UKS member you can see in my Gallery. I'm also thinking of a mini book that I can do using my acetate for pages, I've also bought lots more supplies so you'll see alot of new papers in my work. I've done some more crocheting and also almost finish my CJ entry which I can't wait to post on and gain another one!

I've watched Sex and the City seasons 5 and 6 ready for the movie, I've seen Made of Honour at the cinema and started reading The Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife and also started reading Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult which intrigues me more at the moment than Demented Housewife does. I did some of the Charmed Cross stitch I've been working on and watched both High School Musical Films and listened to the Soundtracks. I'm going to see it on stage on July 1.

I went to visit Michelle and Lee the other day and we went for a drive and ended up in Faringdon to buy chips which I have to say tasted LOVELY!!!!!!!!

I think that at the moment that sums my week up!

Layout

This is what I've created for the May Week 1 challenge....

The title reads Sing Along and is done by drawing round wooden letter templates. You can't see it on the picture but there are little gems stuck in the letters.

The flowers are made by stamping onto black card and heat embossing them to make them stand out and again there are gems on the ribbon.

The journalling reads "Sam and I love to go out dancing and singing along to the music!

I bought a DoCrafts goody bag today and I'm going to open it up in a minute and have a proper look at the stash. I then might have a go at the May House challenge but I don't have a picture of my favourite place so I might have to find some ideas for that one!

Next project is to finish my Maze book that I started and then work on making a book with some acetate pages!

Paperbag Album

This is the first album I've made from paperbags and I'm really impressed with it. I bought a kit that was black and white and came with quite a bit of stuff that I haven't used so I have extra stash to play with!!

Digital Scrapping

Today I've been Digi Scrapping. A few posts below is my Digi Sketch for the CC. Looking at it now and comparing it to my other two I have to say it's rubbish lol although not bad for my first attempt.

Here's my layouts titled A Night with the Girls and Chester.

Scrapin' Baby!

How sad am I that the CC is over :(

I had such a cool time. I created 4 layouts, a tag and a digital sketch. That's more than I normally do thats for sure.

I've set up a tribal pages site for my family to keep track of my family tree and I've bought myself a notebook to keep myself better organised!

I'm getting ready to start my CJ - its going to be called Back In The Day and will be filled with everyone's icons from a past era. I can't wait for everyone elses either although I will have to sit and plan before I actually work on their books because I'm very scared that I'm going to screw up. One wrong mistake and there will be one person with a screwed up CJ and I can't bare the thought that it could be me creating that mess!

I'm going to colour my hair in a bit and then watch Waking the Dead.

Craft Stores

Now SPS isn't what I'd call a "proper" craft store - more like one of those that you can find goodies in when you least expect you!
Today I went in there and got 2 Embossing powders, a stamp, 4 sheets of acetate and some wooden capital letters! I was quite impressed with myself.

Now I'm sitting down and completing another page of my Birthday scrapbook and then after 2 more pages all will be done!

That'll be another project completed!

Quick Post

I've been busy preparing stuff in my room that I can sit and craft tonight.
I'm picking Reece up from nursery at half eleven and we're having a couple of hours auntie and nephew time where I have bits to do and we'll pick some sweets or cars or knowing good old auntie Hannah both along the way.

I'm taking a camera into town to be developed so there should be some funny pics from Saturday night to look at!

I've been looking at Her Space My Space (HSMS) lately and it's really cool. I've read about it on different Scrapbook sites and in different magazines and decided I'd find it out and go from there.

Thought I'd post my first ever digital layout done using PSP 9 for the UKS CyberCrop Challenge. It's a pic I took of me and my friend Hetal on the bus!


Anyone that knows me would probably have a laugh right about now as I'm sat here with a towel around my hair and thinking I really should finish drying it but with so much scrapbooking stuff to look at online its so difficult!

It's nice and sunny out today and already I've washed up, done bits for dinner, looked at UKS, Celebrity Loop, read my e-mails, looked at HSMS and read Shimelle's blog. Also I'm in the middle of looking at a blog that belongs to a member of UKS and she has some AMAZING stuff on there.
Later on I'm going to create a list that shows all my fave blogs to go to!