Knitters Delight

So tonight i have just got in from here

Love this shop, and this is where i head to most thursday nights, i dont know anyone but everyone is lovely and i tend to go with a million questions and they are always super happy to help. But tonight was a special night, they have bought the empty shop next door to make it into a giant super shop!

how exciting and the launch night was made even better as by the fact that Ysolda Teague was going to be there. Being a newbie i didnt really know how she was but i had a look through her first book and its super cute but anyway she was officially opening the shop and there to launch her new book.

So here is everyone lining up outside to get in the new shop, people stare in the shop enough as it is when they walk past, but being as there was maybe 30 of us all lined up in the street, well they had a good old gawp on the bus.
But ooh pretty things were in the shop


Verity welcoming Ysolda to Leeds

Verity (the shop owner) and a cute hedgehog

Some super cute none knitting stuff in the shop

Now seriously knitting needles with mushrooms, yes please santa! I WOULD LOVE THESE hint hint!
I even had time to have a little lesson on buttonholes yippee so think know how to do them.

So apart from knitting, this weekend we are heading to Lincoln, we both went to University in Lincoln ( for those to dont know) and this is where we met so it will always be super special, however we havent been for 3 years in fact the last time we were there i was doing this


I'm super excited about going up 'the hill' it has lots of lovely little shops and at the top is this

Lincoln Cathedral where i was luck enough to have graduated.
Well thats all for now, we are planning on hitting Ikea tomo night then going straight to Lincoln on sat morning.

One final thing, my sister lives in melbourne and tomo (today for her) is her last day at work before she leaves that job forever and she is heading back to good old England next week for 6 weeks yippee so enjoy your last day nicky

have a nice weekend x

Freebie?

Over at Sarah's we have all been working hard on a sketch, however this month we have had a bit of a twist. Do you want to win a £10 e-voucher that can be spent in the shop? as well as that join in the January sketch and have your work posted on the Sarahs Cards blog want more info? check out the site here


This was my layout of the sketch using some fabby photos of my new love for Yankee Candles



well i am getting there with my knitting so best get back to it :) TFL x

A sewing kind of day

Well after a day scrapping and a evening knitting, i set today aside for quilting. This quilt i am working on is the one for our bed, its the lovely Daisy Chain by Amy Bulter i had a play a few nights ago as to layout


I ordered 9 fat quarters which i had delivered to the hotel whilst we were in florida.
Our living room has been taken over by fabric and yarn this week

So today i finaly got around to the sewing bit, i played a bit more with the layout

And then i decided the fat quarters were too big and they should be cut up into 4's so i started after a while cutting on the floor was hurting my back. The previous night we had be discussing the table we used to have in the kitchen in the flat being moved from the harry potter cupboard (under the stairs) and putting in my scrap room. So i cleared a space, well moved a whole table and a lamp and got all set up



Although this was loads easier my cutting still wasnt exactly even which has caused no end of problems. Although im not a very exact kind of sewer even i could see they were all different sizes but i just went for it, i sorted it all into piles

Worked out where everything should go

Checked my wadding was wide enough

This doubles out to 54' so im fine.
Then i put it all together

TA DA well this photo is the wrong way round and just will not change but thats it hurray! A huge quilt, now i need to find some nice backing fabric im tempted to get some amy butler plain fabric and the front it so fancy but they will require either a order from the states or a trip to John Lewis who i hear sells Amy Butler fabric but thats in Sheffield, so it will just sit and look pretty for now.
Also i thought i would show you how my knitting is doing

My first attempt at this scarf and its a bit too wide but only my first go, safe to say i have mastered moss stitch though.

I dont think i ever showed you this

this is our fab statue that stands outside on our front steps, pretty shocked he hasnt been stolen yet but i love him.

And this, i came home from yet another naf day at work last week to find rob has been playing with my desktop

My little lola made into santa clause hee hee how cute is she, right im off to bed, well to do a bit more knitting, really wanted to get this finished tonight but i must learn i cant do everything at once... but i can jolly well try! TFL X

Running before I can walk

I seem to want to make everything lately, I have seen so many cute knitted/ crochet things, but getting frustrated coz im not good enough to make them yet its driving me bonkers. but i intend to try and make this later

Now surely that cant be too hard, well we sat and tried to figure out this stitch for ages the other night and it turns out its tricky. So plan on doing one in moss/seed stitch so its not just plain knitting. So i will try and start that tonight, thought with chunky wool they would knit up pretty quick. As for crochet i seem to have hit a brick wall, im terrible at it,i ripped/frogged (as its known) all my crochet mittens out as i seemed to be increasing by accident and they were huge, hurt quite a lot to pull out but they were no use.

Anyway back to scrapping stuff, so i love going away with my scrappy friends but the problem is you see stuff you want, that you didnt even know existed like this

Now i never use my trimmer ever weather its coz im not a exact person or the fact its useless but i had a little go on this last weekend and it was great and what made it better was this

This is a fab blade that cuts your paper in a scallop now how clever is that? there are loads of different designs, i was super impressed you can get them HERE
Another thing i got into last weekend was cards, now if you read my blog i literally never make them but after a little trip round the table i had a little try of lots of stamps


Cute huh i truly believe everything looks better on Kraft, i took a real shine to these stamps by American Crafts



I rarely look in stamping sections on websites unless i have seen one on someones layouts, but i love these, they stamp so well and they are definitely on my 'Want those' list. But until i get my own i have tons already stamped hee hee so plan to get some used today, when i attempt to make cards. I have gone for the buy a4 card and make my own and bought some kraft envelopes from tesco (thanks for the tip Nat)
I also have my beady little eyes on these



I swear if there was no internet i would want for nothing ( i wont mention my amazon wish list) but as it is i want everything. I totally stole racheals buttons last weekend so now of course i need some.
Right i have the messiest scrap room to tidy, and tons of stuff to do inc my lovely xmas DT kit


Wish me luck TFL X

Twisted Sketch #023

So it is that time again time for another sketch, This week's twist is "to use a Punch" - any how, any way!
You can find the sketch here and this is what i did




Hope you aren't sick of this little brown face yet. This was last halloween, we never got around to doing a pumpkin this year.

So in other news i have been learning, learning how to do stuff. I have had my f-mil around tonight and we did a bit of granny squares which i think i have mastered, and we tried with a few tricky knitting stitches, and finally settled on a bit of moss stitch which is super cute.

Cant wait to put my new found talents into action this week. Big stay at home plans this weekend on my list to do it.

1. photograph the layouts i did last weekend
2. bind my red quilt
3. Design the proper bed quilt
4. Make some cards
5. do my Sarahs Cards DT xmas kit
6.Work on my mittens- need to rip out everything i have done and start again :(
7. read some of 4th Twilight book
8.read all the shimelle blog prompts as i have read 2
9. Work on my chunky scarf
10. start my cute neck thing

HMMM its quite a long list but these are the top ten things i think about at work when i should be working lol

Right im sleepy so off to bedfordshire TFL X

Lola lollipops

I love my little lola, she is super cute.(Nicky please look away now)

Last night we filled one of the tiers in her cage full of toilet rolls she loves though so she went a bit mad, and rob took the opportunity to use his new camera. For all to those who have never tried to photograph a hamster is blooming hard and i am so chuffed with these photos.

This is often the view we have of Lola, her little nose peaking through the bars

Not terribly ladylike but she looks like a little fur ball


She loves these things

She also loves peaking out of her little box, how clear is this photo chuffed!

So as well as loving little lola, i have been slowly getting photos from our weekend away so here are a few stolen ones

This is all 12 of us :)

How busy do we all look lol


The lovely Jen, me and Rach, it was great to see Jen again even though i had only seen her at the cabin a few weeks earlier, and rach is such a sweetie we chat online lots to great to meet her in real life, shame she spells her name wrong though LOL

And before you all desert my blog forever for not blogging scrapping, here are a couple to keep you going



Christmas Day last year i cannot believe how long my hair was and how blooming short it is now


The mighty monstrosity papers, rob wanted all his layouts from now on in these papers LOL this is another Rob special with the title Fast Food Nation, we could not believe the amount of food on offer in America.
Right thats all for now bath and bed TFL X

On my doorstep

So i might live in a city but look what i have 10 minutes walk away


Stunning huh?

I got home from my fabby weekend away at lunch time to find Rob had been out and bought a new camera, so we headed off to Roundhay Park. Here is what we got up to





These are our arty shots all taken by rob


This is a great little cafe which overlooks the lake



I love these photos and the fact we took them at arms length is impressive, the sun was setting through the trees, cant wait to scrap them. The sun setting made me think of this poster

Its out next week, i still havent finished the 4th book, and i havent watched the first film yet, i dont want to watch the film before i finish the books as i dont want to get the movie images in my head, i want the house/town/people to look like i think they do in my head and not like the film if that makes sense.

Right back to the photos, we went to take photos of kicking leaves, they were all a bit wet and we were on a hill but this is what we came out with


Only a couple as i was still getting used to the camera but i really like these 2.

Rob got this pic of me and some holly.
On the way home rob managed to find some good leaves in the gutter and i managed to get a good photo


Well thats it for now another early night planned for me, in a bid to catch up on my sleep, i did have big plans for doing the next step on my current quilt, but never mind. Nighty night x

Life at the barn

Could not have been sweeter. Such such nice ladies, Sarah and lianne and super nice, you should of seen all the stuff we could use it was bliss. We stayed up late, chatted, laughed, scrapped, ate, then ate some more. Just fun fun fun all the way, i had so much fun i stayed a extra night i was due to go home on sunday but as i had today off i thought why not and stayed and got home at lunch time, only be be whisked off to the park for kicking leaves photos, more fun.

So here are a few photos mine were just random ones so nothing amazing but a few that capture the weekend nicely.















You will/might notice i have added a section on the right of all the girls blogs, so i can keep more up to date with what is going on with them.
I still have literally 6 pages to share from the work i did at the Cabin to share, i didnt get chance to photograph my pages so that will not sadly have to wait until saturday when i will next see daylight again.
Right i have to get to bed and try and recoup some sleep night x

Oh go on then....

My google reader has gone mad with 5 favourites which was a prompt from shimelles class so i figured why not. here goes..


Gingerbread Pjs super cute and little robin socks


My lovely sleepy lola first thing on a morning


Red cups, not sure if its the fact i enjoyed myself so much last night but i feel the need to have another.. quick


I love that in 7 Weeks i will be going home to this lovely xmas tree


I am well loving candles lately, particularly of the yankee candle variety but either way loving them.
So they are my current favourites, also a favourite thing is being warm so i can off to continue my crochet in the warm living room, and think about the lovely barn i am heading to tomorrow. TFL X

In a Blur!

Seriously this week has been mental, work is super busy, i either crash out when i get home or knit like mad, sew etc so cant quite believe its Thursday tomorrow. And considering i have started Shimelles blogging class i have not been blogging much at all, mainly because my scrappy room is freezing.

But anyway last week my lovely friend Fran left and this week it is the turn of my other lovely friend Heather :( I know she goes not want to go and nor do i want her to go but alas she must. So this evening we spend literally a perfect hour together, we headed to Starbucks got some nice hot drinks and did a bit of crochet. NOw heather is awesome at crochet as you will see from her blog so i am trying to learn as much as i can before she moves far far away. So this is how our hour went.


I got a Hot Chocolate in a take our cup coz it was way cuter than the indoor cups :)

We admired the art work whilst sat in cosy chairs

Heather started me off (coz that bit if dead hard)


I took notes ..

Literally

And then i started, it was brief but blooming perfect I am going to miss my hooker friend hee hee!

Right so on another note i am going away this weekend with the Sarah's Cards DT girls to which i have met one! eekk! this is where we are headed




Seriously how lucky are we?? thats all for now, i have tons of cupcakes i need to ice for another charity event tomorrow at work. Then of course it is bonfire night tomo, we are going to the grand Roundhay Park Bonfire so hope to share some photos from there before i leave on friday but maybe not too. Right rambling over thanks as ever for stopping by x

Twisted Sketch #021

Sorry i am a bit late in posting the new Twisted Sketches work i have been doing, this week was a really easy sketch and the twist was to use a Alpha now surely everyone can do that, you can find the sketch here





I used some photos of our favourite meal in Florida at TGI's, they were huge and really cheap, my kinda meal lol

Something i was going to tell you about is a thing called PING if you have a iphone or a itouch you basically get free text to other people with the iphone/touch which is awesome, most of my friends use it and i have just discovered it, but its making want a iphone even more :(


But its a great app for your phone so would really recommend it.

So next weekend i am going away to a fabulous place with the DT girls from Sarahs Cards i only know Jen who i hang out with at the Cabin so be great to meet everyone, i have spent a couple of hours today making up page kits with new papers and photos and i have a grand total of 24!
Tomorrow i start the brand new Shimelle class which is all about blogging, so although i blog a lot i thought it would be fun.

Right i must share more pages which you from the cabin weekend and even pages earlier than that before i go away this weekend and do a load more. Just as well as i havent been doing much in the evenings, mainly been knitting and doing my quilting.





This page was from my xmas weekend i had a while back now, the awesome chocolate machine i wanted so much for like years so i was super surprised to get it last year but jolly pleased, thanks santa :) I have also had the spinning wheel on the lo forever and the green paper so glad yo finally use it up.




This is one of my cabin pages, everyone was into bunting that weekend so i jumped on the bandwagon.
I have had this photo since march from our road trip, we loved Brighton and would love to go again but its so blooming far away that it would have to be a proper holiday not just a weekend.
Well thats all for now, need some dinner and might do a spot of knitting and watch Seinfeld, me and rob are addicted to it at the moment, im baffled as to why it didnt really catch on in the UK. thanks for stopping by x

Trendy?

So lets talk knitting, i get grief from some friends for doing it, lots of people think of it as a old person thing to do or certainly not a hobby of a 26 year old. But frankly I just dont care at least I am using my time and money on making something, and I have something to show for it. So i thought I would share how this rediscovered hobby has been slowly taking over my little life.

I cant share the main project as its a surprise for someone, but I have started this...




There is a little story behind this scarf, i knew what i wanted to make, a scarf with pockets and a hood but i couldnt find a pattern so i have been copying from the shops as they seem to be everywhere at the moment however this scarf did start out like this.. (p.s note my lovely quilt) & apologises for the shocking photo, thats after work light and a naf photo on my phone for you.






But when i went to my lovely knitting shop i found they didnt have anymore and then actually costed up how wide i was doing my scarf and well it was lots so now that scarf looks like this



Very sad but have to be practical, so i am saving it to make something little but fabulous :)

A couple of other thing i have invested in is my very first Rowan (fancy stuff)



and i had in mind making these I LOVE LOVE the Attic 24 blog, I enjoy coming home from work and finding out what she has been making that day, also how cute are these now i just need to be clever enough to make them.

And because I am not a yarn snob just yet I indulged in some cheap but pretty acrylic


and a sneaky pic of my quilt in the day like and still lacking binding coz i just dont want to do it LOL



Finally Happy Halloween, we literally havent done anything this year besides me hiding at the back of the house incase someone knocks on the door ( its late now so assume im safe) however for the last 2 years we held a party, which were fun but the mess afterwards was just crazy so we didnt have one. We even sadly forgot to do our pumpkin last night and as OH is out i didnt want to it it alone so currently he looks like this



So thats it for now, hoping for nice weather tomo or at least dry so we can go for our annual leaf kicking photos in the park, thanks for stopping by x

TA DA!!!

here it is my quilt, minus the binding on the edges but still 99% there



Have to say im pretty proud of it and dying to start my next one.
In the scrapping world i have done nothing to busy quilting or knitting this week and last but still more layouts i havent shared so here are a couple more.



Bit of a controversial title but in the crochet world everyone refers to it as hooking so i thought why not. Not really had time to crochet but plan on making something cute soon, however my favourite crochet friend heather is leaving me for southern pastures new, and i am very sad to see her go!


This page is in honour of our new hobbies, rob really goes through stages with hobbies he is currently into comic books, thats comic books not just comic, dont mix it up. but at least he can do it in the scrap room while i potter on and doesnt need the tv or anything in the other room. For me in this page i am actually crocheting but i didnt think i would pick sewing up again but i am really enjoying it.
Righty tighty thats it for tonight. Its my other lovely friend, frans last day at work tomo, i swear all my chums are leaving gonna be some every sad times in the next couple of weeks as my chums move away from leeds.

Stitch in the Ditch!

So sewing, i technically have a degree in it (well ok i do) but have been reminded this week why i dont work in the fashion industry besides loving jeans and hoodies too much i have no patience, and am not accurate enough at all for this sewing lark. But i solider on, i am at the stage with my first quilt where i am actually quilting, i have basically gone round the squares thats it but its blooming hard work getting it through the sewing machine and my foot is aching from the pedal lol. So here are a few pics of what ive been up to.







So its not the neatest quilt in the world but its nearly there and im pretty chuffed, hoping to finish it well apart from the binding bit but i cant wait to use it as its getting chilly.

So over the weekend literally hours before the announcement of the end of SI i did this

Dragged all my Si out and put them in year order, i have most from 2007 which im pretty proud of

This was my first, its spring 07 which is the month i moved house and got into scrapping by going to a crop.
so this is what else i did with them

these are my 3 years of collections.

I then covered some naff looking folders with some fun wrapping paper i got in Primark.

I also made space on my expedit for my fabric, still to sort my yarn square out.

I brought most of my xmas dvds to sit on my desk coz i watch them so much

this is a little pic of my magnet board on my desk, i have random stuff, from old photos, to cute pics of lola, nice notes, pics rob has done for me, my sarahs cards loyalty card, i giant donut and some super cute magnets.
Well thats it for now, i have found as soon as i have my tea i flop on the sofa and dont get up so going for a late tea tonight so i can blog and get my quilt done, then i will finish this bit on my knitting before i go mad, i did 3 rows at lunch time with 96 stitches so its taking ages lol, thanks for stopping by x

Sunday

now i thought i blogged yesterday which proves how quick the weekend went lol. So i have discovered full xmas films on you tube very very excited so watched lots of cheesy films today whilst knitting which has been great.

Right more pages to share i havent done any this weekend so good job i still have lots to share and keeping int he xmas mood



love this photo is started snowing at like 10pm we were all ready for bed when rob agreed to go out and play in the snow so i could have snow photos : )


i had seriously always wanted one of these chocolate machines and had all but given up hope when i got one last year yippee!
P.S seriously how long was my hair then just how much have i had cut off!! this much ...

and lastly a few photos of me i stole from one one of the girls from our weekend away

This is officially my new hair, looks fab when its done looks dodgy when its not (currently not done )


this is my eeek everyone is looking at me while i get my photo taken face oh my!

this is me in SJ's hat which i love and a random tea pot.
Thats all for now will do some quilting blogging tomo nighty night x

Sad Times

So if you all in the blog world dont know the divine Scrapbook Inspirations is closing down, to say i am gutted is a understatement. Although we still have Scrapbook Magazine its not quite the same, SI had just got a awesome new DT most of which were my friends so very sad times. Now i do like Scrapbook Trends and although its the UK version its seriously not the same i love people spotting in SI seeing who i know and actually having the links to the UK shops where i can buy the products. RIP SI :(
So on another note i am currently full of cold doh! so i have been home today just plodding about not really doing anything, funny how when you are at work you are full of good intentions but when you come home you do nothing lol.
Anyway i have lots of pages to share with you first a couple from last week, thought i would give you a break from all the christmas goings on.




So funny story with this layout i was going to submit this one to favourite layouts for scrapbook inspirations, but as this is now no more i guess i can post it. This title is a song from a Paolo Nutini which i really like, very bright and summery photo for our last day of summer.(sigh)



This is one of the really old page kits i made up just before i went on holiday when i literally had no paper which explains the Elsie lol, the photo is me and my mate vicky, and how we should of appreciated college more, sitting making pretty things, playing with fabric and paint all day and how nice that would be to do now.

Next up is my layouts i did for Sarahs Cards this month, i used Pink Paislee Amber Road which i admit wasnt exactly up my street, but i did my best


My Bootyful books (rob came up with the title again) although i currently mad at them for making my feet bleed but they are far too pretty to stay mad at.... speaking of which


My little lola and her little cutie face


Doesn't everyone look better in black and white? i think so, the rub ons that came with the kit were very American but they can be adapted and used for us Brits, surely we are all thankful of something.


This photo was taken at Mickeys not so scary halloween party, which literally feels like forever again, maybe coz it was we went on the 11th September, they start things early over there, and to think its not halloween for another week.

This is turning into a long post, so this week i was off on monday and my parents visited, been a while since i have seen them so was great to see them. They brought us lots of winter plant things, bulbs and winter pansies and stuff like that so we got to work.



Rob also had a go at convincing my dad to get a mac! his computer now takes 20mins to turn on how wrong is that??


We also had a little change in our house, while rob wasnt looking me and my mam dragged the rug from the bedrom to the living room coz we thought it would be fun.

And you know we were right, our sofa is bright red, so with the green rug it looks very cosy/xmassy in there, will get a proper shot later.
Right that is it off to go and grieve over my favourite magazine. thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Adventure land

Hi guys, so slowly getting through my Christmas layouts so thought i would share some more with you.



This is Christmas Adventure Land which is near where i live, it appears in October through to early January, last year we went once but did every activity there was, we did this dry skiing through a enchanted wood,which was crazy tiring, we didnt know it was quite so long, so may be walking that this year lol.



Another skiing one, it took us a while to figure out how to get the camera to make the lights all pretty, but got there in the end.
Also over at Sarahs Cards, we have been doing something new. We have done a sketch for people to join in with you can find it here and this is what i did for it.


This was our fridge in Florida, rob loved all the crazy food out there so had to scrap it.
Thats all for now thanks for stopping by x

Cabin in the Woods

Yesterday i got back from a awesome weekend with some of my favourite people, here is how it went.

Long journey on the train, living in the north i think at 4 1/2 hrs I win longest travelled.

We ate chinese for tea, followed by...

Shimelles pumpkin cupcakes

We then got to scrapping, and had a very late night

Next morning there was more scrapping

and then the photos began, we have to think of something different to do every time we go, Shimelle came up with a awesome Polaroid idea so we got to work on that







And this is what we came up with...





We got tons more but they are on the others camera so will get them shortly i would think.
So back inside to warm up and scrap again before we headed out for some tea





Sunday was more scrapping, however I had a nightmare coming home, i booked my train home for the wrong day so had to buy a new ticket was seriously not happy!
But on to the scrapping, this work is actually from last weekend when i did a million xmas pages so thought i had best get some uploaded




There is no place quite like home at christmas is there?




My lovely lola's first christmas, she most most intrigued by the tree.
Well thats all for now, i have the day off and my parents are due to arrive any min for a spot of winter gardening, pub lunch and some help with my knitting lol, thanks for looking x

Twisted Sketch #019

Hi gang well im all packed and ready for my weekend away woohoo! i have not seen my girlies since June and some not since our last retreat in March so very excited about this weekend.
But first of all the latest sketch is up from Twisted Sketch which is my time :) so here if what i have been doing, this weekend twist was to us ink so not very hard and lots of fun



I literally wore my hair like this every day of my holiday coz it was so hot, but i got it all chopped again last night, for reason i ended up with a fringe which was not the plan so cue kirby grips ggrrr, no pics yet but will no doubt be taking 100s this weekend, its also bright red with highlights so something a bit different, right i best go have a great weekend x

OOOOHHHH!!!!

Look what arrived today ...



Hello October gogo its pretty darn yummy, i do have lots of the earth love but its all lush so i dont care so bit naughty but this also arrived



Brand brand new cosmo, the lovely Nutmeg Collection yippee and just in time for my weekend away.
Got to pack for that tomo but getting my hair done after work shorter again and all red high lights very excited, so will pack after that. i have also been working on my patchwork blanket so will share them with you shortly. lastly just a quick little xmas lo




thanks for stopping by x

Summer vs Winter

I have always had it in my head that i am a winter person, yeah i like to be cosy in my cosy jumpers as much as everyone but winter lasts forever so maybe i like summer but i hate being hot even England hot. So bit of a mix of pages here summer vs winter...



I have been busy with my new stash on this summery layout, it explains how picky i am with the weather that i hate being hot but get cold quick lol



Ah winter, it seems to get earlier every year, we already have the christmas lights up in Leeds thankfully they arent switched on normally 3rd Nov, but i love the tree that they have in Leeds its stunning, i got this title from a random search on Spotify ( a website that lets you listen to music but not download it) seriously you can search anything so Rob asked me to search the Polar Express soundtrack and this was one of the titles to the songs cute huh!
Well thats all for now i have more summer/winter pages to share, i was going to play quilting tonight but appear to have got rather distracted making a pie. TTFN X

Mission

Hi gang, so strange weekend in a good way, on saturday i did all my DT work for Sarah's so 4 Layouts, i then did 3 of my own, on sunday i did another 10! now surely thats some kind of record? Also i have failed to mention that 9 of the 10 yesterday were all Christmas layouts, i get bitten by the christmas bug early, always have, so out came the xmas films, have to say not for the first time this year, and proceeded to watch 5 films whilst i was scrapping now what a day!
But in the mean time i havent shared the latest sketch at Twisted Sketches have i now well its here twist is to use ribbon, easy huh, its not actually my week but i like to play along, i did a page of my lovely fella and his lovely new 'togs' as we call them in my house.



This boyfriend range is super cute although some are a bit odd, have to be a bit experimental with some of the papers.
Also over at Sarahs i have been doing some blog work, here are a couple of shots



Really fun range from Three Bugs In a Rug Spread Your Wings collection.
So on saturday i managed some scrapping all for me, which is has been a couple of weeks, not a long time for some but a long time for me, so i thought i would share one of my pages



This is one of favourite photos from Florida and we plan to have a big one on our wall in the bed room when we ever get around to it, i have used a mix of sassafras, crate, and october afternoon and i found these tickets which i remember having my heart set on and barely used them since so they make a appearance in quite a few of my forthcoming pages, simply because they are cute and in front of me. Well thats all for now, maybe a little xmas next time followed by a little summer x

STEPHEN GATELY 17th March 1976 - 10th October 2009

I loved Stephen when i was growing up, my first proper crush, i saw them in concert, i have t shirts with him on , photos, tapes every time they were on telly, its a sad sad loss to the world. My thoughts are with his family and his friends. RIP Stephen

Leeds Light Night and Sneak Peaks

hi guys a mainly photo based post before i run to bed, last night me and rob went to Leeds light night which was a lot of arty stuff all around Leeds was a bit odd but rob got some great pics.







Today i have been doing my DT work for Sarah's Cards so here are a couple sneak peaks for you



Been scrapping like mad tonight so will share tomo i think night all x

The story of our bikes

Hi gang i have been a bit useless on the scrapping front not done any for a bit well besides my DT stuff but i cant show you that now can i? so this is my last one, so will try and knock up a couple more tonight, i have got really into my knitting yesterday at work my boss taught me how to do ribbing, i had tried on my own and well it didnt woke so she taught me and i sat all my lunch hour doing it so i can tick that off the list. Also my friend talked me into going to a different knit night which was held in Leeds city centre in Borders, was really nice to do it with my friend Natalie but bit f a different mix to my lovely BAARAMEWE i will be back there on thursday but it wasnt completely pointless as she taught me how to do cabling so its a bit faffy but i can do it.
Guess we will see if we go again, i would go just to hang out with Nats LOL

But the story of the bikes, when i first moved to Lincoln to go to Uni, i worked for Blockbuster having transferred from my home branch, imagine tweeny weeny shop to huge giant mega store eek. Anyway i used to get the bus there from town and get a taxi home i did this till xmas this is where things turned around i had met Rob on my very first day of work he was the very first person i saw in my very first week at uni, anyway he used to bike to work it was a good 5 miles there and back again.
So i got a bike off my sister for my birthday (as you do)


See xmas 2004
We started 'courting' and we used to bike home together from work, so i did a layout to honour our little bikes




Ta Da thats all for now x

Patchwork Saturday

I had the pleasure of some lovely company yesterday....

these lovely ladies came to 'play' for the day. I played host and made lunch

Its risotto which i live on, and pleased to say it went down well.
So while Vicky and Natalie got on with some scrapping, Karen caught me how to patchwork. Calling on my old sewing skills (well i guess i do have a degree in it) and i got going

i swear i could have sat all day and moved the squares around, after a group vote we decided to mix them all up and pile them up and just sew them randomly, this saved literally hours of my day so here i go





Yes that indeed is my ironing board which has not seen the light of day since uni, its in such a mess because all i used it for was uni work so it has bonda web all over it, but never mind does the job.
Whilst i was doing this vicky and nats did some serious scrapping


Whilst Karen did this...


I know clever lady
so i was pressing and sewing away

So i did a bit more square placing


And this is it all sewn together


This is actually for the living room please excuse our dodgy brown blanket thats on there. So super chuffed with how its looking, now i have to invest in the backing and everything else that goes with it, so here i go with another expensive hobby.
Thanks to the girls for a fab day, now do i scrapbook, sew or knit or crochet help!

Doh!!!

So i was scrapping the other night merry as larry and it was literally 99% finished and i thought i would add a extra word in my title the word SO! so that was a mistake the blooming alpha packet stuck to my photo and ripped our faces off :(

To say i was gutted was a understatement, i had used loads of my rub ons on my photo so couldnt really just wack another one over the top.So i stormed off to bed in the huff!
So when i woke up in the morning i came downstairs to find this


Rob had printed the same photo out twice while i was in bed and wrote me a little note saying there are plenty of options. Now do i have the best boyfriend ever or what! i think i do. and speaking of which this is a very simple layout i did last weekend the point i dont think its finished, hasnt got enought stuff on for me lol


We didnt wear our watches on holiday so we never knew the time which was a bit silly as at seaworld shows were on at certain times, the bus came at certain times etc so we took photos and then viewed the photo with the time and this is what we did everyday so i had to document it.
Thats it scrappy wise, i made it to knitting the other night which was jolly fun i have finished a big bit of my knitting and got all the little bits to do so pretty chuffed. i have friends round today and for a bit of the day i will be learning how to do quilting so i am very excited. right got to dash lots to do x

Twisted Sketch #017

Hi gang so all you all playing along this week? This weeks twist easy as can be use bling and who doesnt love that huh!
so this is what i did...



This photo was taken in May and feels like a million year ago cant believe how dark its getting i have been taken a couple of photos each evening, i have a huge window in my scrappy room so tend to see the sun set




pretty huh, apart from the last one where i didnt turn the light out so no its not the moon lol, well thats all for now TFL X

New background?

Do we like it? not too much is it? i had a really nice red with white dots but it did terrible things to my lovely pink work that lovely SJ did for me, but this is quite subtle. Right lets think what i have to blog about tonight (brb checking iphoto)
Oh yes i am getting all exciting about my trip, me and some of my favourite girls are once again heading to the Cabin in the Woods (official title)

we have all kinds of fun here see..

We go 2 weeks on friday and im excited, its before the clocks go forward so might not be crazy dark lol but i will be wrapping up i slept in my hoodie last time in March lol
Not much in the way of layouts to share just yet as i have been working on DT stuff, but i have just watched a really cool program that was on last night, while i was zonked out on the sofa

Its really fun Erica isnt happy with her life and goes back each episode to try and re do it over, there was a double bill so i have been sat for 2 hours watching t whilst slowly starting my knitting again! shock horror really have to get a move on with it.
Afraid thats all best go and scrap so i have something worth while to show you lol TFL X

The Last day of Summer?

So saturday was amazingly nice weather wise, we got on our bikes and went to the park so here are a few of my favourite photos










Fun huh, afraid thats all for tonight my head might pop, will share some weekend pages tomo TFL X