Little Jazz cat has grown

Jazz came to us September and she's just a little bit delightful and growing so quickly.....

Happy birthday Lou

It was lovely to see my craft buddy Lou celebrating her 40th this week just gone...and we had a short crafting liaison...where i experimented with papertrey stamps to create backgrounds for my christmas Tilda's...
Hope you had a night to remember clubbing with you girlfriends on Saturday....

Spellbinders cards

Had such fun creating these cards with a gorgeous sunflower fairy stamped image and my spellbinders this autumn just a reminder of the summer months with one of my favourite quotes...

blog tidy up

i'd struggled for a couple of weeks to get these photographs onto the blog so have created a smile box to showcase these creations from the last couple of months..... enjoy..

Make a Smilebox slideshow

commissioned album for a special 18th

birthday blessings

I've taken the week of work to count all my blessings this birthday ...why not? time is the greatest gift to give yourself or someone else..i feel i'm having the best day ever, listening to jack savoretti surrounded by images of cupcakes and angels and my promarkers as i am colouring in! sounds like heaven on earth and it is...thankyou i'm blessed happy birthday me!

new mini albums inspired by Harry and India's birthdays

I'm in the process of completing a range of mini albums...i started with two cards and a mini album each for my buddy's wee ones who have birthdays in September and October.Here is a little taster of the work so far.

Tidy Craft Room Tidy Mind!

I've reorganised the craft room! although my son and hubby are relieved my passion and debris are not spreading around the house they often remind me this room was not supposed to be mine...so i thank them once again for their patience and tolerance...it looks great, all organised with a great surface at the right height to work on... and apart from a dubious 'floating'shelf that may come away from the wall and succumb to the laws of gravity shortly (we never have luck with mounting shelves not cut out for DIY only cut out for crafting)is really practical....and Julia my noticeboard is up at long last! Time to get ready for my constitutional run with K back to the craft room later..

A scrumptious celebration album

My most recent project i've a had a little extra time to spend on.I will be posting it out on Monday.With a little more time the detail you can add to an album is endless, however, it now feels just right.It floral fantasy in scrumptious pastel and sherbet pastel colours...the last of my Basic Grey gypsy Romani collection with a little bit of Lily Kate... I must find some more of this gorgeous paper! a photo is coming once i've posted and know the album has been given to it's recipient.These 8 x 8 celebration albums are a sheer pleasure to create and all individually created with someone special in mind.I've bound this one differently by adding an additional 1 inch and using metal posts as in the large Prom album.

large album

Recently i created a large prom album for a lady who'd purchased a small album from me.She gave me a challenge of creating something on a budget a lot larger (10 x 12)than i usually do.. here are some snaps of this album before the photographs were mounted. Thankyou Adele I loved creating this for you.

Edinburgh Festival

This weekend we had our annual short break to enjoy the Edinburgh Fringe and Festival.It was great!Rather than creating a few scrapbooking pages in my album I've brought back flyers and mags to create an album for scrapbooking thoughts and reflections on our experiences.There'll be room to revisit these every year in this album Chella loves his comedy and we were well and truly comedied out infact i sought a little sanctuary in a few art galleries as my brain was buzzing. I hope to post the album later on this month.
I'm off for a whole week and have some albums that i'm looking forward to creating for others...so i'm immersing myself in crafting having heaven for the next few days(although have to fit in some home DIY and decorating in between trips to heaven!)

Creative hours

There are often just not enough hours in the day to be as creative as i'd like to be...which to me is probably the real sign that to work part time sometime very soon and focus more on my passion and what i really love to do has to happen.Now i've written this i'm committed to this decision it's just the plans around doing it that have to come...and completing this card at 2 a.m in the morning reminds me that my creative mind comes first and just will not sleep until listened to and acted upon..

beautiful things to celebrate beautiful times

The week has flown by and every day does to...Celebration albums have to be one of the best one of a kind albums for me to immerse myself in creating...Thankyou for the privilidge of creating the beautiful album.I enjoyed every moment.

Life is beautiful album

I created this album last month.The papers were aching to be used and the blues and different swirly flourished backgrounds appealed to me .I have such a collection of lovely little albums i've cretaed in my free flow time i'm having to pass them on now as i always have agoal of loving making them and then hoping they bring some joy to others.

graduation memory keepsakes

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Love my little Sweet Pea!

The thing i love about crafting is the opportunity to create freely using as much imaginiation as humanly possible! in the hustle bustle of adult working life that creativity can be hidden away but here i am following my dreams of a more creative path. I could natter and ramble on ! Here at last are the fruits of my Sweet Pea ideas.....i've wanted to create with this since he beginning of the year and it is the sort of project that will grow and grow and grow...I plan to make range of baby keepsaking items with Sweet Pea in mind i've create a few items to get me going and will see where this goes.