Busy old time

I have not been blogging lately as i have so many projects on the go. Firstly i have been helping Sandra out with the PR and publicity for our huge scrapbooking event.



I have been making a few projects for the goody bags and i have a few more things to go in as well once they arrive. I have also been completing my pre event challenges and have had great fun doing that. They were

1. A summer LO featuring sandpaper/ sanding, buttons and ribbons and must include the word summer.

2. A name badge

3. A autume inspired card featuring leaves, and something gold.

4. As our event is being taught by Dyan from Blonde Moments the last challenge was to make something inspired by blonde moments, be it a technique, a style or colour.

I had fun doing this challenges and will let you see once the event is over.

I have been doing lots of team challenges over at UKS. Here are a few







I have also done a sketch challenge. This was quite hard as i always make my own sketch and found it hard to follow somebody elses design. But i enjoyed doing this and was pleased with the results. The sketch was curtesy of Paula from the spoonful of sprinkles blog, go check it out.



That me away to tidy my craftroom

Bye for now

Sarah

I am back

Time flys.....liturally

We are off on hour hols in an hour os so. We drive down to widnes today and then fly from manchester tomorrow. I am excited and nervous. I am waiting for things to go wrong. I have been in a angry mood all day.

Here are a few things i have been doing lately.

This is for my team weekly challenge over on UKS. It is about my mum and the palartha i had trying to take a picture of her.



The next is another weekly challenge for my team.



Here are the teachers presents we made for the boys teachers and dawn their school bus driver who is leaving them to drive the senior school pupils. Will post a better pic when i have more time.



Lastly i have entered a DT competition over on Carolines craftz forum. Here is my entry which will hopefully get me thru the next round.



here is the photo i made in more detail. I did it digitally and added some seriously heavy jounalling around the picture. I will write it out after the hols.


Lastly is the just for fun challenge over on sprinkles blog. The challenge this week was to use predominatly black and pink. This was hard as i dont tend to stock alot of pink living in an all male household.



Just a quick mention to louise, my new charlies angels team mate. I had a loverly ATC (artist tradeing card) in the post today. I have been toyiong with the idea of doing these for a while but when this card arrived i was convince to give it ago. I might be pants but its all for the love of craft.

Thats me done as Keithy will be here in a mo and then we hit the road.

see you in 2 weeks and hope the crappy rain stops, he, he.

Sarah

I am a bad blogger

We have had such a busy week that i ahve not had time to drop in. Keith booked us a last minute holiday to Rhodes so frantically packing and sorting for that.

I joined a team over on UKS to give me a kick up the bum with my scrapping. I am now a Charli's Angel. I have just completed my first challenge.

out with the old,in with the new



This is my first weekly challenge since i joined the wonderful charli's angels team.

This Challenge was quite fitting as this week i told my boss i had applied for a university place a s a mature student and that i would be resigning for september.

The journalling reflects the fact that i am leaving the job i love but am currently not 100% happy with to try new things which untimatly will benefit the family.

the journallimg reads
Yes i am sad to leave the job as a school technician but i will have more family time. Yes we will be poor, very pooh but more relaxed and happy.

It will be hard for the next 3 years but it will be worth it in the long run. I am doing it for the family.

Along the bottom i have listed all the things i feel whilst completing this LO
Imagine, adventure, new beginning, seize the day, believe, yes, the first step is the hardest, all part of life's journey, what if i hate it, it will be worth it.

I used new hamly overlays and paper from a Carolinez craftze kitz on the LO and old funky foam that i had to have 3 years ago when i first started scrapping and never used!

I did not have a pic of work or college so decided to use some witty cartoons from the internet. Here they are full size.

College life


Working mum


Off to tidy my well and truely christened craft room as i have trashed it. But now i can just shut the door and walk away and nobody knows what a mess it is except me, LOL

Bye for now
Sarah

I have a new craft room

We decided to start the craft room for me yesterday as the weather was so pants and we could not do any gardening. The room is a conservatory on the front of the cottage (porch really) meaqsuring just under 2m x 3m. After a major scrub and clean and the removal of all our junk it was ready for some rearranging. We placed the large ex dining room table in and our old comfy armchair. Keith made me a book case to house all the essentials and i utilised an old bookcase for storage boxes.

I stuck to the red to match the armchair and accessaries. The furniture is all solid dark wood and the new bookcase will also be stained dark. I wanted it to be modern and practical with a comfy old feel to match the granite stone work of the conservatory walls and the rest of the cottage.

All the red accessaries are from the living room from before we decorated and changed the colour scheme. It is not finished as the wallpaper still needs to go up and a carpet needs to go in. Keith is going to build me some 12 x 12 cubes for the large bookcase for my paper and then i will be all set. My wireless laptop and printer works great in here as well so I am ready to start scrapping. Just a pity I have lost my mojo and have no inspiration in me at the moment.

























Keith has just popped in and passed comment that is this where i can be found from now on, too right it is, LOL

Bye for now
Sarah

Another Sketch-I am on a roll

Here is another sketch for you to use and adapt as you see fit. I used this for another of Paula's little things challenge over at carolines craftz.



Here is the finished LO to go with the sketch



That is definatly me done for tonight.

Take care

Sketches

I am a fan of sketches. I occassionally use sketches from pencil lines or pagemaps if I have the dreaded scrappers block (like now) but I will sit for hours doodling and sketching in a notepad or any scrap of paper laying around. I thought i'd make my little sketches look a bit more professional so mum and my crop group could use them as well.

Here is my first one. This is the sketch i made for the "if somebody had told me" LO below.

Me again

I have been busy doing kids clubs and generally bogged down with family life, that I havent blogged recently. I found out last week that I won the prize for Pam's scrapbooking outside of the box challenge over at carolines craftze with my cuties LO below. So pleased other people like my LO's as much as I like making them.

I came across these blogging cartoons the other day that really tickled me. I seem to be a blog stalker at the moment.







Lastly, it was the last prompt from paula's little things challenge this week. The prompt was to have if somebody had told me... in the journalling. Mine was all about how i have enjoyed college so much and if somebody had told me how much fun it would be, i'd have gone years ago.



I just have one LO that i need to finish and thats all Paula's challenges done.

Bye for now
Sarah