Hello December

Hello Everyone

It's howling a gale outside so it's safe to say that being indoors, all warm and cosy, is the best place for me to be today. I hope the weather is rather better for you and you are enjoying your weekend. 

I'm sharing a one page layout that was completed way back in December ... it somehow got forgotten. And it is the only layout I've managed to put together to record Christmas 2014 ... I really should try harder!

I've used just a few strips and small pieces of patterned paper from the snippet drawer to put together a very simple page ... unusually for me there's not a lot of layers and no big clusters. The pink/white strips top and bottom were cut at an angle from one wide strip. I raided the Christmas stash for the pretty Christmas lights trim. That is a star printed acetate laid over navy blue spot patterned paper in the background and it's repeated in the punched circle embellishments. I spotted the title phrase on a blogging friends post and thought it just right for this photo showing the date, 1st December, on the perpetual calendar. That's the first Christmas ornament the EM put out before putting up the tree.

I sometimes wonder whether it is worth hanging on to the leftovers, or should they be thrown out and be done with, but I think this layout proves, to me at least, that it is. I'm really pleased with the clean simplicity achieved with so little. It was an exercise worth doing ... pity I haven't scrapped all the other December photos!

Mr Mojo (or should that be Mrs Mojo) is still not firing on all cylinders so not a great deal of creativity going on here just yet! There's lots I want to do, there's just not a lot of creative energy with which to do it. 

Thanks for dropping in.

Enjoy your evening.

Happy Crafting,

Friday Smiles

Hi Folks,

Once again I'm late but I've still got to join in with Annie's Friday Smile over at A Stitch In Time - after all it's the best way to start the weekend :)

My daughter and son-in-law spent last weekend in Dundee and these shots of the two of them with Dan Dare certainly made me smile. It looks cold but they clearly enjoyed themselves there.

After that I'll leave you with this week's joke:

Coming home from a trip away I stopped at a service station to use the bathroom.

I just sat down on the toilet when I heard a voice coming from the stall next to mine, “Hey! How’s it going?”

Although I was quite surprised, and I wasn’t in the habit of conversing with the people next to me in the stall, I nevertheless answered him, “I’m fine”  I said “thanks for asking.”

“What are you doing?” Asked the same voice. To be honest I was a bit taken aback by the brazenness of this fellow, but I would never ignore anyone so I calmly answered, “I’m having a pee.”

Then I heard the same voice again, “I’m going to have to call you back, some smart-ass is answering all of my questions.”

I wish you all a wonderful weekend.

Keep Smiling,

Scrapbook Workshop - Return to the Collection - Part 2

Hello Everyone

Thanks for popping by. I hope you are well. I've been working on a little project that isn't going too well ... in fact, it's proving to be a bit of a headache ... so I've decided to take time out and do this post instead!

Following on from the Part 1 post showing the kit and first two layouts completed with the help of Shimelle's Return to the Collection workshop I'm back to show two more today. 

The backing for this layout is one of my favourite papers from Basic Grey's Fresh Cut Collection - I love the watercolour affect and the bright and cheerful combination of colours. The photo was taken on moving day last year when my two lovely grandsons lent a helping hand to load the van, hence the title. 

The background paper used on this layout was included in the kit as a bit of a wild card. It's been in my stash for a couple of years, has no maker's name on it, and that green is bright! However, I liked that it had the word 'memories' and thought it would be appropriate for this photo of the EM and I, taken by a kind stranger on the ferry to Capri. Many of the heart and butterfly embellishments were punched from snippets leftover from making the three previous layouts. 

I'm submitting this to Pixie's Snippets Playground because of all those snippet hearts and butterflies :) I'd like to say that the snippet mountain is going down but the reverse is true - I'll swear they are breeding instead! 

There's two double page layouts left to share but it will have to wait until I have figured out the best way to photograph them ... so far every photo taken has been awful!

Right, back to that headache little project!

Take care and stay safe.

Happy Crafting,