First days at school

Yep finally blogging first days at school, better late than never for me yet again! Mols started secondary school so we had to go out and buy all the uniform.... blazer, tie, house polo top, pe top, pe shorts, pe socks, skirt etc etc....

it looks much better on ......

though she looks a bit wonky and nervous in this pic! She was much happier when her friends arrived and they all left for school together (but not got permission from the other mums to put the girls on here yet!)

Els on the other hand remains at the same junior school and the only new things for him are his teacher and a new back pack and pencil case!! He is as cool and relaxed as ever as you can see...

Spiders!

Well autumn is officially here and I have been finding rather large spiders in the house for a few weeks now.... yikes!! Currently I have a huge one living in the lounge that has escaped death on several occasions.

This is one of it's friends that sadly (or not!!) is no more....

do you like spiders???

Creative card crew challenge a recipe!

Just getting this card into the challenge by the skin of my teeth!

The recipe was 2 papers, 3 flowers, 2 brads, a button and a ribbon over on CCC blog.

I have used an image courtesy of Nikky over on her fab blog all cut out and decoupaged up! I thought it was just too cute not to use for a halloween card. I took inspiration from the recipe and think it has turned out ok!

56 brand new colours from Letraset Promarkers

I have just completed an amazing blog hop starting from and organised by Passion for Promarkers. They are very generously offering the 56 brand new colours of Letraset Promarkers (see the piccy above!) as the blog hop grand prize!! How fab is that!!!??? Take a lookie here.

The DT's blogs are worth a browse in themselves as there are so many talented team members and I am just learning about promarkers (I have had one to try from Rainmac and have requested some for my birthday!!) I think this is such an exciting prize and wish you all good luck in winning!!!

Promarker pack of 5 on offer!

Lil Paper Pixie is celebrating the opening of her local Hobbycraft store, guess what it is within walking distance!!! Look here to see the pack of 5 promarkers you can win (fingers crossed!)

Arthur's 18th

I have several 'grown up' Nephew and Neices and Arthur is now one of them having just turned 18. WE all got together for a family lunch (thank you Catherine!) and had a fantastic time. I traditionally give 18 presents for an 18th birthday so it is lots of fun and it keeps me busy searching for fun and useful mini gifts (the 18th present is always money so the most useful of all!) I worked out that I will have a neice or nephew turning 18 every year for 5 years, whereas my oldest has to wait 7 years before she reaches the same age!

Anyway I downloaded this fab kit from Funkyhand that is aimed at making wedding cards/books. I was uninspired as to what kind of card to make my nephew and thought using the book idea as an 18 card should work! I changed the colour to black and white to make it more masculine (??) and printed the second set of numbers out so I could make them pop using foam squares. I used a few dark grey adhesive stones on the front and a metal embellishment inside and out..... I think it worked what do you think??? I am entering it for the Funkyhand challenge, to make a boys card hope they like it!!

Here is the birthday boy himself....

Happy Birthday Arthur!!!!

Finally, my cards for the troops!

Long time no blog I hear you say!! I have so much to say and so many photos to share but have been so busy since September arrived but I will be back with updated pics and chat soon I hope.

Anyway the lovely Marg on MSE suggested that our current challenge be making Christmas cards to send on to soldiers oversees who are unable to get cards for their friends and family back at home. What a fabulously worthwhile course!! Thanks so much Marg for thinking of the idea (along with Hamish).

I started making the Christmas puddings a couple of weeks ago using a stamp and 4 different coloured lots of card, then pieced together. I added glossy accent to the berries to try and simulate the shiny roundness of fresh berries!

I sat down this afternoon and had to finish of the cards and I ended up making a few more. They are a real mixture of stash sent to me by Rainmac, embossing from the cuttlebug, pyramage from a Kanban sheet (first I have ever tried!) and some bits and bobs from a Christmas card set!

I hope someone will find them to their liking and I am keeping my fingers crossed that making these will further spur me on to start on my own Christmas cards!