Vanilla scraps

white on white

2012-01-26T16:13:00.005+11:00

I haven't entered a Southern Girls Challenge since I left the DT and I miss the girls. So I was determined to enter the next challenge and boy is it a bit of a toughie. White on white. End result very hard to photograph properly, an exercise in frustration, essp on a very overcast day here. (what is that all about? it's Australia day - it's supposed to be stinking hot not sort of mild!!)

I thought a black and white photo would work best and Meaghan had taken this stunning (I think anyway) photo of her cousin Emma. I haven't cropped it at all, she is a natural photographer (am I biased? probably!).

I used a woodgrain mask and gesso to create the textured background and layered on the lace and flowers. The gesso does make the cardstock buckle a bit but love the look. And I am a bit pleased with the way it turned out!

Oh the look on Emma's face, while it looks deep and meaningful is actually the glazed look of a child playing Mario cart on the Wii...

Have a great Australia Day. We are off to friends tonight for a barbie, kids will swim but too cold for the more sensible (boring) adults. xxx

Scrapfit Simple challenge

2012-01-25T11:35:00.006+11:00

I feel like I've been missing in action lately. The kids are on hols at the moment (still 2 weeks to go - much as it is good - and easy- to have them home, I'm ready for them to be back in school..) and my life seems to be driving Meaghan all around the countryside. So far since Thursday she has been at three separate sleepovers, two that were out of town on farms, and been to two movies, ice skating, horse riding and bowling today as well as some babysitting.

I only vaguely remember when she lived at home, she spends her time on catch up sleep when she is home now!! Anyway she loves her social life but school will be a nice rest for her (if only that was a joke..).

And this is my new reality - packing boxes-

I am currently feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of junk we have and that I have to sort through in the next 6 weeks. eep.

After preparing for delays as all building projects are (hey, we watch Grand Designs addictively) apparently we have gotten from initial meeting to submitting plans in record time so instead of an initial starting time (ie tearing house down) at the end of april, may, june, sometime, now it is whenever we can get out of the house. Ok, hyperventilating...

Anyway the bonus of cleaning is finding unexpected treasures like this note I found that Meaghan had written to Henry. I suspect that any note written today would have a slightly different message...

Such a little note but it made me smile for the rest of the day. So I thought it was worthy of inclusion on a Lo and the message is simple but happy so I am entering it in Scrap Fit's challenge this week. (not the best photo of a LO, sorry)And I have discovered that I have very few photos of Henry and Meaghan together when she wrote this note. Any photos at this age are Henry watching Meaghan, learning and copying her. Sweet but not suitable for the note. By the way i have a gazillion photos of Matt and Henry together but Matt's handwriting is unreadable and as such he doesn't do notes (and he is male as well..).

Ok, having said how I haven't had time for crafting, I have managed to get a bit of reading done. The pick of my summer reading has been The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
I could not put it down, cannot recommend it highly enough and I dropped a tear or two at the end (in a good way). Love finding books like that.

Long rambling post, unlike me I know (HA!!) back to packing now, have a good week. xx

Last Sketchy Thursday Challenge...

2012-01-17T16:48:00.003+11:00

Very sad week in my scrapping world, one of my fav sites, Sketchy Thursday is closing down. Completely understandable as running a challenge site would take an enormous amount of work but still a bit sad. Here is the final sketch -
and here is my LO -

So the perfect photo to finish with, my new nephew Dylan. We got to visit with Dylan last week, with his big two sisters ( Henry is exhausted, he had no idea what having two very attentive, very talkative cousins around him was like).

Meaghan and Henry thought he was a bit too little to hold (he is just over 6 weeks ) but were content to have the occasional head pat. So very cute but I am glad I no longer have to contend with the sleepless nights and nappies!

So that is it for the moment for Sketchy Thursdays - thank you ladies for all the wonderful work over the past few years.

On a happier note, The new additions to the DT over at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge have been announced - glad to see my friend Mitra made the team!! Pop on over and congratulate the latest girls, very talented one and all, so happy to have them aboard.

Off to fill our paddling pool as the weather is finally getting hotter xxx

Winter and Summer

2012-01-16T12:17:00.005+11:00

It is cold here today. It is January where we normally get 30 degrees plus every day. This week getting to just above 20 is an accomplishment. Although it means we haven't needed the air conditioning, we have needed doonas at night. And my tomatoes are refusing to go red. Anyway, no doubt the hot weather is just around the corner...

Speaking of cold, the latest Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is up. And this month there is a sketch and a winter theme.
This is a rare Lo that features Geoff, the mysterious husband of mine. Every year he and one of hid friends take a couple of days to go skiing. Weather conditions are mixed (ok, they manage to get mostly bad weather). One year they convinced another friend, who is a non skier but quite active, to go on their trip with them. I got a phone call half way through the first morning from this friend asking if we could meet half way to the snow to pick him up as he had managed to bust his shoulder within the first hour of skiing. He hasn't been back...

These photos were taken on his camera phone, so a bit blurry but I think that adds to the coldness factor...

Thanks to a suggestion by Irini, who is starting out on their DT, I am entering this Lo in The latest Use It Tuesday Challenge - all about winter. Love the idea of using your stash up and I have dug way back in my stash for the snowflake stickers, from KI and I would have got them in my first year of scrapping, probably at least 4 years ago (actually dated 2005!). Cleaning out old supplies can occasionally lead to a useful item or two being found - huh - who knew???

And here is the sketch from AFSC -
And I have managed to get another challenge over at Get Creative done. This was a digi challenge by Anastasia (with a Lo to base it on, very loosely followed) so how could I resist? And another photo with Geoff in it!! This was how we spent New Years Eve, mountain biking (ok, just on some rough tracks) at the nearby bike park. Henry ended up spending more time running than biking but it was all fun. And it was a nice warm day.

Just about all the elements used are from The Lilypad.

I am hoping to get a Lo done for Sketchy Thursday today as they are closing down this week (very sad). And I have some nice new photos of my 6 week old nephew Dylan. I did get to have few cuddles with him over the past week.

Although I may just be running after kids today...

have a good one. xx

a list and a touch of colour

2012-01-07T13:29:00.004+11:00

My head is fuzzy - again- because next door were still away last night so another late night of loud music and squealing teens. But the parents are finally back so sleep will be most welcome...

Two Lo's today. The first is for Irini's challenge suite - Get Creative. I scored two fav mentions there last month - one for my card- startling to say the least!!

Anyway, this weeks challenge is to list 12 elements in your Lo. Huh, counting this early in the year - tricky...

let's see
1. cardstock
2. pp
3. mist (woodgrain mask)
4 photos
5. aeroplane button
6. title
7. stamping
8. tape sticker
9. hessian string
10. home sticker
11. stitching
12. staples

Lots of challenges this month at Get Creative, with the cool prize being a guest designer at Get Creative. Very talented and friendly bunch of girls there. (am very keen on the latest challenge - a digi Lo - love my digi).

And Over at The Paper Variety, they have had the very good idea of having my completely wonderful (and possibly slightly evil...) friend, Tina, as thier guest designer for the month.

The challkenge is to use black and white with a kiss of colour. In explanation, this Lo is reflecting my mood of jealously, that our close friends are currently in Vietnam and we are not. Sigh. For me, Vietnam is tied up with the colour red, so that seemed a likely colour to go with the photo.

This was the last day we spent in Hanoi, out side Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. Vietnamese line up for hours to view his preserved body (we didn't). They also had a live broadcast outside. The choir they had did some wonderful (or not) miming. Very funny. It was getting cold, Henry was wearing two scarves. Not quite ready to go home but we had to. Would love to be somewhere interesting again.

Have a great day and don't forget to go check out the latest challenge at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge site. xx

Happy New Year!!!

2012-01-03T19:19:00.003+11:00

Summer has finally hit Canberra - yay!! It is currently a lovely 32C here and we have spent the past few days in our wading pool - big enough for Henry to have fun in anyway. Still trying to find some extra money in our budget for a pool in the new house - maybe just a little one...

A new year means a new challenge for Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge. One last Christmas fling. This time take a trip back in time and tell us a childhood memory from Christmas. Being the bitter twisted person who never holds a grudge (ha) I was reminded of when santa delivered our disassembled swing set that my elder brothers immediately claimed as their own. So of course that led to a fair amount of stirring every time I wanted to use it - for a while anyway.

Most elements are from The LilyPad with a couple (the tree and the abominable snow santa) from Little Dreamer Designs.

Anyway I am over it now... possibly...

And the good news is, we are looking for some new team members for the DT! I love Anne's challenges, always make you think and the end product is a meaningful addition to your scrapbooking albums. So check out the details here, I know most of you are talented enough to join us, please do!

I will attempt to do some real live paper scrapping over the next few days, we did end up at the coast for a few nights, staying with Geoff's Mother. There we learnt that the only item of food that is more tasteless than a boiled onion, is a boiled onion served with silverside (aka boiled meat), boiled potatoes - no butter, boiled carrots and over boiled beans.

Having said that, at least I didn't have to cook it so that makes just about any meal ok in my books..

Have a good first week - I am loving reading about everyones 'one little word' for 2012 - I am completely incapable of restricting myself to one word so I will just be inspired by everyone else. xx

Happy Boxing Day!

2011-12-26T11:21:00.005+11:00

Warning, first paragraph contains whinging..

Well, it's the day after the big one and I am officially a zombie. The neighbours have obviously decided to go away yesterday afternoon, leaving their 18yo son in charge. Just before 3am(!!) I dragged myself next door to request them (ok begged) them to please turn the music down... It infiltrated every part of our house and Matt and I are both light sleepers. Luckily the son is a nice kid, just his friends are all dickheads. So annoyed, words will be had (very politely of course, Australians are nothing if not polite) to the parents when they get back.

Other than that Christmas was a great success. The night before we went in search of Christmas lights, only one in three advertised houses were lit up - and we tried to get a look in the world record for number of christmas lights house (I know - Canberra!! who would have thought we could have something interesting!) But this was as close as we could get.

Half of Canberra had turned up on the night (although catching up with Francine was nice) and the line to get in was enormous.

We had a quiet one at home (to be honest we were wishing we were back in Laos again) and the kids got the gifts they wanted and were grateful for them in a nice way. my fav picture - I think Henry may have been happy with this present...

BBQ lunch and leftovers, (mini pavlovas) for tea. A good day.

Off to a friends for a leftover gathering and then to the coast for a few days. Then back to pack our house up. The bank has said yes and we have some initial plans from the builder so hopefully it will all come together in the new year.

And one last card before I go. This was for my very close friend Jo. Love her to pieces. And I used a card sketch from my gorgeous friend Irini's challenge site at Get Creative.

Have a happy week, back on friday with lots of beach pictures, although they may feature rain!

Hope you had a great day. xx

Naughty and Nice

2011-12-21T10:36:00.003+11:00

Ok, will admit to being naughty as I have completely forgotten to a) send out Christmas cards on time (expect yours somewhere between now and say ohh, Valentines day..) and b) more unforgivably, Another Freaking Scrappy challenge has had a new challenge up for a few days now and I have yet to let you know about it! bad me!

So the latest challenge is to scrap your favourite recipe. So many yummy recipes, mainly sweet ones for some unknown reason (is there a correlation between scrapping and having a sweet tooth?? could be worth investigating...). The lovely and very talented Nadia Cannizzo is guest designer with us this month as well, always great to see her take on the world. mmm Tiramasu....

Our family fav (except for Henry who is a vanilla ice cream sort of boy) is cheesecake. Geoff and Matt always want it for their birthday cakes. Very rich.

Oh and there is a sketch to go along with it -
Any vague resemblance will do, it's there to help and inspire!!

And I have finally gotten around to the latest Sketchy Thursday sketch which is thus -

and my interpretation of it - how could it be anything other than a tree trimming Lo?? Henry is our most enthusiastic decorator. With a bit of help and only a few arguments with his sister..

I had labelled the top 2012 and it was only just before saving that it struck me that something wasn't quite right... doh, luckily fixed in time...

Hmm now have to think of something nice I have done - will get back to you on that....

Christmas Cards!!!!!!!

2011-12-14T11:42:00.007+11:00

For those who don't know me, I do not make cards. I figure that I have enough crafty addictions, follow enough blogs without adding the whole card making craft as well. And part of my minimal christmas card send out involves buying charity cards, this year I think they were from The Breast Cancer association. So no handmade cards from me.

Until Now..

And I think this will still be a one off.

A number of planets aligned for me to come to this decision.
1. I have recently purchased a number of very cute images form both The LilyPad and from Little Dreamer designs.
2. My Cocoa daisy Kit arrived and it had some very sparkly ribbon, yummy mist and a wonderful snowflake stamp that needed to be used right away!!!
3. I received a lovely handmade card from Libeeti (sweet girl!!!)and thought it was rather nice to receive something made from scratch.

so here they are - all hybrid cards, digi images printed and cut out. Mostly pleased with the result, fairly simple but then again I am a simple girl....

The kids loved this one...

This features the snowflake stamp from Cocoa Daisy, with
the chipboard snowflake covered in german glass glitter

here is the layering in detail, some
embossing, some misting and some stamping-

can't beat an owl -

And I was starting to run out of ideas when I realised that there were card sketches in the big wide world and I snagged this one via Tina's blog. It was last weeks sketch from Freshly made. (too late for their comp but like the sketch)
Ok, one or two to go, now to post them...

have a good one. xx

The Advent Calender

2011-12-13T09:33:00.003+11:00

I have promised Henry a Lego Advent calender for the past couple of years, first year I was too slow and they were sold out. This time last year we were in Singapore at the start of our holidays so an advent calender wasn't the most practical item to cart around.

This year we got our act together (ie a month of Henry saying daily ' have you ordered the advent calender yet???). We were going to get the normal Lego Advent calender but Henry's eagle eyes spotted the Star Wars one (his two great loves combined) and offered to use his pocket money to pay the difference in price. So order we did. And I let hi have the box two days before first official opening to let the excitement build.

And at 6:30 am on Dec first, Henry arrived in our bed in tears. he had ripped the instructions for the very first one and everything was RUINED!!! A bleary eyed look from his mother, a piece of sticky tape and all was well in the world again. Phew!

Well worth documenting. And with a gazillion Christmas themed challenges out there, I loved the Get Creative challenge to use something that you will be wrapping your presents in this year. I have used a bit of Christmas paper and of course my current addiction, twine, which will get a good run this Christmas.

And I am in love with the numbered tape, I picked up a gorgeous tin with 4 rolls of different number patterns in a closing down sale (Pepe's paperie, I will miss you...). Think I will have to go back and hope they still have the alpha equivalent.

Have a greada - hbatters are gng n kebard and thas aken farn wr this.

Translated-have a great day- the batteries are going on the keyboard and has taken far too long to write this. (and this is the gibberish that it gives me...) xxx

My Twinery tree

2011-12-10T14:08:00.003+11:00

I had made an angel out of a Styrofoam cone many years ago. It fell apart last year and I was going to throw away the cone but had seen a nifty button tree in a magazine and thought I would give it a go. Ok, got distracted and ended up with no buttons on the tree but did end up with a twine encased tree intstead. And Henry likes it!! All twine from the Twinery, (of course). I love the patterns the twine makes on the tree and on the base as well..
I really like the simplicity of it, very easy to pull together. I have used an old cotton spool as the base with a wooden skewer (and some appropriately placed blu tack) to hold the tree up. Here's the full image. Hope you like it...

Have a great weekend. xx

Laugh

2011-12-05T12:27:00.003+11:00

I went out the other night with my loveliest of friends to celebrate a couple of their birthdays. (see pressie wrapping here).
It was enormous fun and although Ros had to leave early and Jo arrived late, everyone eventually turned up. When the camera came out, we got the usual lovely shots of us and then gave the camera to Katie to take a couple of me and Louise ( I cannot do selfies). So she proceeded to point the camera over to our right. Quite far over. So we had to look what she was actually taking the photo of. The wall and us in the corner of the frame apparently. (ok so there may have been a bright light she was avoiding but we couldn't see it!).

These are the resulting piccies. She was very pleased with the result and I have to say in the cold hard light of the day, I quite like them as well. We did take some more normal ones later in the night.

Most of the elements are from The Lilypad who are I think my fave digi store at the moment. And the sketch is from Sketchy Thursday, haven't played with them for quite a while....

Matt is settling back well. He does give the family balance and it is just great to hear the three kids chatting and playing again. He has yet to face his enormous files of photos but I have tackled his washing...

Have spent enough time at the computer now, go and check out the latest challenge for Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge, come and play!!! xx

He's back... and a new challenge.

2011-12-03T10:47:00.005+11:00

And looking remarkably well. In fact he was up way earlier than us this morning, long trip to Sydney and back is apparently more exhausting than a flight half way around the world...

waiting...

spotted..,

and the long awaited hug!!!

The car trip back was full of tales from overseas. Made the time fly.

We made it home just after midnight, Henry was too excited to sleep for another hour and Matt of course is 12+ hours out of synch so it was a very late night. Good to have him home.

Speaking of family reunions (ok very loose link), Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge has their new challenge up. This month it's all about Thanksgiving, and if you do not celebrate Thanksgiving (like us here in Aus) then scrap something you are thankful for or a family gathering/reunion. The challenge is not to use the colour orange at all!!!

This photo was taken a couple of years ago at Mum and Dad's 50th wedding anniversary party. With all the grandkids. Holly came a month or so later and of course little Dylan has just arrived so next family photo will have a couple more in it.

The paper was part of the prize from Scrapbookers Anonymous Echo Park collection so well worth entering challenges to end up with cool stuff like this.

So come on over and play, there will be great prizes up for grabs again. !!!

I love wrapping...

2011-12-01T11:36:00.005+11:00

Last night, my friends and I celebrated three of their birthdays in one evening (never mind that two of the birthdays were in Oct and the other in Dec..). but that gives me a wonderful excuse to get out the twine, the buttons and some felt. had so much fun making these things. I love that by putting a few simple things together, the outcome looks so very grand.

I will admit to getting some of the ideas from a new magazine, that was full of Christmas wrapping tips. Stitch, Craft, Create is the first crafty magazine I have bought for an age but it was worth it. I have done the rolled paper flowers before but these are my first felt ones - and how cool is the green one!!
This contained my fav present of the night, a sparkly sequined silver cushion - suited my friend Katie perfectly.And to top the day off, my prize from Scrapbookers Anonymous arrived, full of lovely Echo Park goodness and I made these tags to match. (luckily I think they will be up to the letter 'E' this month so I am all set to go!!)
I made a Lo with some of the patterned paper which I shall show you tomorrow as it is for the first challenge of the month for Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge.

Off to make Matt's room presentable as he is home tomorrow night - wow!! I may or may not have moved all my stuff into his room while he was away as he has this wonderful long desk that just yells crafting area every time I walk past - what could I do??

Have a good one xxx

PS - My brother and his wife had their baby boy, Dylan Jack, on Monday - 10lbs14(!!) eep. Tracey ended up have a caesar but is well. Will hopefully have photos soon.

The end of the month

2011-11-28T10:58:00.006+11:00

Which means many challenges are closing soon. I have, miraculously,, managed to finish a couple more.
First up, my friend (and possibly twin from another life..), Irini's challenge site- Get Creative - a lovely sketch - and this is the closest I think I will get to a flower cluster. Ok, three probably doesn't count as a cluster, I tried to add more, honestly but it just isn't me. Much as I love the style I have resigned myself to the fact that I am not a cluster girl...

And here is my completed Lo -

This is Meaghan and her friend about to head off to a party. Gorgeous girls. Meaghan was most upset that I arrived ON TIME(!!) to pick her up. I was under firm instructions for the next party to wait at least 15 minutes until after the official end time to pick her up. sigh.

And a very overdue LO. This is Henry and his U9 soccer team this year.

Notice he is the only one in black shorts, because for some unknown reason, he stripped off upstairs one day and shoved his blue shorts under the couch, the same couch where I found 13 socks of his - why does he have a cupboard when his clothes seem to belong under this couch??

This is for the Scrap the Boys challenge- scrap your colours, ie scrap your boy in sporting gear/teams.

ok, off to watch Henry's athletics carnival for a little while. cheers xxx

Black and White

2011-11-24T14:08:00.004+11:00

Two challenges today - and guess which stamp I love from the latest Cocoa Daisy kit? (hint it features in both Lo's....). It's called the Dresden Quilt stamp and it's still available from here, how gorgeous is that??

First up is for the challenge at white with one - this month it is white plus a bright of your choosing and flowers. Unusually for me I choose pink! I was thinking of teal as I have just gotten some really nice teal things, but pink works well for girls, what can I say??? I love this photo of Meaghan and her cousin Holly (no news yet of new baby).

And then an old photo of me and my family off to church. I can't remember if I loved or hated the white woolly hat- - I suspect the later.. But the coat was a dark green velvet trimmed with white furry stuff - very yummy!!

We would leave Mum behind to cook Sunday lunch, which I gather was her time alone. Must have been a relief to pack us all off for a couple of hours esp when we were younger. Then we would pick Nan up and off to mass for an hour. Back to watch 'World of Sport' during winter and cricket over summer. A big roast for lunch. Every Sunday. We don't have set meals like that anymore.

This was inspired by the challenge at Black with Two - Black, lime green and cream. Love black and green together.

Only 8 more sleeps until Matt is back. I think he is heading towards Germany over the next few days. Henry is very excited.

And Meaghan is raking in the money by baby sitting lots of Henry's friends and their younger sister's. Could be a busy month ahead for her.

Ok, have a great day xx

Because I am going to be an aunty again..

2011-11-22T13:59:00.009+11:00

...very soon, Trace was due on Sunday, I have decided to do a LO in honour of my little brother who is about to become a father for the third time.

(wasn't he a cutie - and I got to use lots of blue and pink twine from the Twinery - still in love with that stuff!!)

This is the Journalling, the story of how I thought Rob was Elizabeth.

I was only 3 when Rob arrived on the scene. Michael and Geoff (Big brothers -ed) took full advantage of this fact when they ever so kindly informed me that I had a NEW BABY SISTER named Elizabeth (not very imaginative as this is my middle name). I was very excited although I am not sure when I came to realise that I in fact had another brother (and to be perfectly honest I preferred being the only girl..) Looking at him today I am sure he wouldn’t have made a very good girl.

This is Rob now, being chased by his daughter, Holly (such a cutie).

Not made to be a particularly petite girly...

Good luck Tracey!!

I am loving kraft at the moment, so theNovember Kraft it up challenge seemed appropriate as I had a story to tell as well (Kraft with journalling)

They are having a dt call at the moment, hmm could be good fun to apply, nifty sketch they have for the application anyway.

And to finish off, a couple more LO's from the Cocoa Daisy crop (yes, never ending I know but the challenges were so very cool!!!). And I will have more another day - yep I have done 15 LO's in less than 10 days - a world record (for me anyway..).

The challenge for this one is to use scrappy packaging on your Lo. I find the Prima packaging is so yummy that it is easy to incorporate.

Sharmaine chose a number of colour schemes from this website - design seeds -such a cool resource!! And I chose this one -

For this LO when Henry was a baby - turned out really well I think.

Time to get Henry from school, it has just started to rain here, after a really, really hot saturday (mid 30's already) the weather has turned cool again - not complaining.

Don't forget to come and play with us at Another Freaking Scrappy challenge site - some really great prizes are up for grabs!!

Have a good one and I will let you know when the latest addition to our family has arrived (need photos Rob!!!) xx

more from the crop

2011-11-18T22:20:00.005+11:00

I think this is definitely the most Lo's I have done in a week. The Cocoa daisy team have come up with such interesting challenges that I have been inspired, which has been rare lately I will admit...

Here are a couple more from the challenges-
first, one from Anna, use fabric on your Lo and have the subject be about you. here I am dressed in my nurse dress up with my precious bride doll -

then a hand lettering/title challenge. this is Henry as usual, not bothering to hide his complete boredom at being used as a model while I played with camera settings-

and lastly a poster inspiration - this Wilco poster became one about our cat wally, who is getting on a bit.

My orange isn't as intense as I would like it to be, maybe a digi version would have worked better - to be honest I never even thought of it - must be getting slow.

Very tired tonight, went for a long bike ride in the heat today and spent the afternoon/evening scoring at Henry's cricket. And just finished watching Young Victoria for the first time (OK, I fell in love with the prince as well) so that was a pleasant way to finish the evening off.

Meaghan is apperently at swimming parties all weekend, luckily it is hot here now.

Time to watch some of the Aussies play against the South Africans in big boy cricket and then a nice sleep in tomorrow - yay. Have a great night where ever you are

PS Hi Rob and Trace, hope the baby comes sooner rather than later, getting excited to be an auntie again. xx

All about books

2011-11-16T09:59:00.005+11:00

I love books. I have stated that I would give up many things before giving up reading so when we received this challenge from Another Freaking Scrappy challenge to scrap your favourite book, I was in a dilemma. Which one?? Anne of Green Gables is always high up there but really I had so many more. So I went with those books (and authors) that I reread on a regular basis. these include Little women, The Guernsey Literary and potato peel pie society club, Bill Bryson, Tim Moore, David Eddings and The Magician series.

Following this sketchHere is my Lo, loving digi at the moment.

I would love to hear what your fav read is, maybe your favourite childhood book, or what your current tastes lean towards. I know mine have changed from the books I loved as a teen (Stephen King, Virginia Andrews - who remembers how big she was in the 80's? - completely sick books and bad Russian revolution/romance combo books) to now where I can't read horror but don't mind a good vampire story or chic lit detective in the Stephanie Plum genre.

Please come and play, you know you want to...

and just a quick Lo to finish on, more from the Cocoa Daisy Crop from the weekend, this time the challenge was to use quilts as inspiration. I used a pretty strip quilt with bright colours on a white back ground. I love getting the camera back from Meaghan and finding arty photos like this on there. She didn't for once protest that I was doing a Lo on her.

Matt is now in Edinburgh, off to Dublin for a few days, then making his way to Germany to head home, he is very tired now and is looking forward to coming home. I suspect we won't see him much in the first week as his bed will be his priority...

Ok, enough rambling, time to go find your favourite book and come and play!!