How is it Sunday afternoon? Why does the week go slow yet the weekend go super speedy? I have to admit, I’ve taken quite a few short cuts this week at home, and we have managed on a small budget for food. We made a beef casserole which made roughly 5 meals or so, and [...]
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Having a play…
I’ve not played around making a digital kit in many years. Now this kit in particular is aimed towards my special crafts site as a freebie, but I have been toying with the idea of removing those theme specific items and releasing it as a mini kit for here. But I still have a lot [...]
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(Paislee Press/Fei Fei’s Stuff “Montage” kit. Template from Cathy Zielske) 2011 was undoubtedly an awful over all, but there were some noteworthy moments. But onwards and upwards, because 2012 has GOT to be a good year for us!
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I had a lunch date with Gareth, and one night I got out of the bath to find some nibbles and we used our Mickey Mouse champagne flutes for the first time – with diet coke and blackcurrant squash LOL (me and Gareth don’t drink, except maybe the odd one or two days throughout the [...]
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I love it when I’m working on nice smelling crafts (bath stuff or baking!) because it makes the flat smell lovely If I am covered in glue, glitter, paint or ink… I’m happy In actual fact, I have been planning in my head a reworking on my Hanson crafts site over the christmas break, [...]
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I was lucky enough to get to see Hanson in Birmingham last night. I had an absolutely FANTASTIC time! Firstly a big Thank You to Chrissy & her bf’s dad for the lift to Birmingham and home again. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have made it there in the first place. I also met [...]
Read the rest of this entry »December daily > Coming together
I thought long & hard about which album to choose and what other things I had to hand. I bought some shapes from Silhouette Store and Kerri Bradford, and jumped for joy when I remembered my Glitz and Glitter border stickers – one in particular saying “believe” which I knew just HAD to be on [...]
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I have been devouring my magazines, had my first Red Cup yesterday (peppermint hot choc), and I have watched The Holiday and Four Christmases. My Hollyday papers are ordered for my December Daily, and Gareth has his Starbucks Christmas Blend. We are already in the swing of things! I have been trying to come up [...]
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I can’t get over the fact it’s November already. This time last year I was in Florida, at the Animal Kingdom if I remember right and we were attending Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party that night (actual halloween had a premium cost to attend & we were worried about adjusting to the time zone [...]
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Halloween is fast approaching & I had every intention of carving a pumpkin & doing a paper model of the haunted mansion. Surprise, surprise… I haven’t. It’s bittersweet as last year we were in Disney world. We don’t celebrate Halloween here & it’s sad. That’s why I wanted to do something this year. But I [...]
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