And the winner is........................

Sorry for the delay but i am up to my eyes in Wedding invitations for my brother.

But Daniel has picked a name out of the hat for me today and its Froggie

Drop me a email with your full name and adress and i will get it in the post to you. Well done Froggie

And thanks to all those who left a nice comment.

Back to the invites, arhhhh

In the mix swap

I am hosting a swap over on UKS. Now regular readers will know i just love making mini books but i fancied a challenge.

So i decided to host a swap for mixed media which is so popular at the moment. Here are the details

For this swap you must make a mini book (No bigger than 8 x 8") with at least 10 pages (making 20 sides!). Please make it big enough to fit standard size photos.

This swap requires that there is at least one of the following included as pages:

• Acetate page
• A page made from material
• A page incorporating lace paper ie Maya road or KI memories style
. Shaped page
• Chipboard Page
• Painted page
• Newspaper page (I know this is not acid free but its at the discretion of receiver how they use these pages)

This is the minimum that all books must have but you can interpret this however you like.

Decorate each page minimally with papers, embellishments, rub ons, ribbons, bling, buttons etc, but please ensure you leave spaces for your swapee to add in their own photos and journaling.

There is no theme for this swap so papers, mixed media supplies and stash can be any colour you like.

Bind your book any way you like with book rings, BIA or ribbons etc

Each swapee should spend approx £5.00 on card, mix media, stash to make your book. Why not take advantage of some of the New Year sales from UKS sponsors. Also check out CAroline's closing down sale for lots of mixed media bargins.

If you fancy joining up, head on over to the thread and then PM me with the required details and i will add you to the list.

I cant wait to get started now, i fact i am this afternoon

Sarah

Blog Candy and sneak peaks

As i mentioned yesterday, today is the second aniversary of my blog. I cant beieve its been going for 2 years now and i am having a ball updating it every now and again.

So as a little gift for my faithful readers and anybody who happens to find there way to my blog, i have some stash to give away.

I have put together a little parcel full of papers, buttons, ribbons etc. Its very pink but i love pink and being in a all male household i dont get to use all this pinkness i keep buying.







And as promised yesterday i have some sneak peaks for the next round of scrapbook apprentice, which hopefully i will get to see.





And this is the LO that is up for voting on the creativity life blog



Oh and i have been busy making a LO for Shimelle's new challenge, scrap like you mean it. I have started but i will probably not finish, i never do with challenges, lol











Still no internet at home so i am going to be an inflequent blogger for a few days i think.

And remember to leave a comment if you want to be in with a chance of winning the blog candy. I will get the boys to randomly pick a name next Sunday

BFN
Sarah

New year pictures

As it was the anniversary of my Grandads sudden death around new years eve time we decided to do something different and headed away from home. We went to Inverness and took the boys to see a film, bed time story. Oh you have to go see this film as it is so funny, a right feelgood film.

We then headed in to Inverness for the winter festival which was family orientatated. We didnt stay long as it was so cold, -6 and there was no where open to get any food except a dodgy kebab shop.

We watched the candle lit parade and the opening ceronomy fireworks display and headed home to a take away and a bottle of wine to see in the new year.

Here are a few pictures i took on the way











I have a vid of the fireworks but thats another time as i havent figured out how to put vids on the blog yet, such a technophobe, lol

Thats all for now folks

Sarah

Round 2 of Scrapbook apprentice

Well this month's LO's and cards are up on the creativity life blog for you to see and cast a vote. If you like what i have done with this bumper kit of bright PP, my favourites then go ahead and vote for me. If you like somebody elses then vote for them, lets keep it fair.

Its such a shame that we had to loose somebody and i think that looking at the voting already and the fact that i made it by the skin of my teeth last time may be a sigh that i am going soon anyway. I hope not as i just finished this months challenge last night and i have to say i think its my best work so far. Sneak peaks will follow tomorrow as i have a special post as its my 2 year blog aniversary.

I cant believe how my scrapbooking and projects has taken off since i launched my blog, I seem to want to be more productive and display it for the world and his dog to see on my blog, lol

Catch you later and have a happy crafty newyear

We are thinking of you Clausey

As it was the 1st anniversay of the death of our little Clausey on boxing day, he has been in our thought alot laterly.

I want to remind you of a LO i did the very next day, whilst in floods of tears trying to select 12 photo's that summed up the 12 years of his life. I love this LO and have it framed so i can look at it and be reminded of the good times and the few bad times we had including the infamous great escape episode where he got lost for 3 days and ended up in Elgin which is 17 miles away from where we live!!!!

We are not as sad as we where since we now have the crazy dropped on head at birth Koby to help fill that little gap but we do still miss him.



Off to blow my nose now as i am all chocked again just writting this, lol

Some sad news

I have recently heard from Caroline over at Carolinez Craftz Kitz that she is closing down due to ill health. I am really sad about this as i love the shop for all my chipboard bits and i loved playing with Caroline's fantastic kits each month.

I wish Caroline all the best and with the business gone she can finally chill out abit and get her health back up to scratch.

You can take advantage of a 50% reduction on all stock by using the code CLOSING. As the majority of orders will be heavy P&P will be £4.95 for each order during the closing down sale.

Head on over to the shop before its all gone

So i thought id show you are few pics of our xmas. Too much food but lots of laughts.



He is not usually this gozzy eyed, doing it for the camera



The boxing day buffet, oh i feel sick just looking at it



The present opening



Koby getting in on the act, lol



More presents, shiny new trainers

And yesterday i got on the wii fit and just did half an hour. I mainly did the hula hooping and ski jumping but boy does my rib area hurt today. And tomorrow i probably wont be able to walk as we took the boys out on their new bikes and my bike got stuck in first gear half way round so alot of peddleing was done by me!!!!

Any way gonna chill out tonight as i have been trying to research Ecoli 0157, the nasty one for an essay due in on the 5th of Jan. So spoiling my christmas break and i am dying to get some scrapping done with my new stash i got for christmas.

Bye for now
Sarah

Did you see......QVC

I got to watch QVC craft day for most of the day yesterday as the boys were watching movies in there room or on the wii.

So i sat and indulged my shopping senses, not that i bought anything as i am like the queen now adays, and carry no money, lol

I had a shopping list wrote down but as most of the american crafts stuff i wanted sold out i am hopeing there is some left for DH to get me for xmas.

But did you see Becks Fagg demonstrating all the new creativity life stuff and show caseing the scrapbook apprentice participants stuff. I saw loads of the other girls stuff but not a sausage of mine. But they were there.

The loverly Mel posted this link for me and it shows the Sweet LO i made. This is the one that is up in the voting list. You can see it here. The lo is in the flock demo and is about half way thru the clip.

The voting is still up for this month before it starts all over again for January.

Speaking of which, i had a flash of inspiration for the next month's challenge which is to use cardstock only. I never do CS only LO's as i have to have my PP on there. But i was inspired and got snippy with my scissors. No sneak peak yet.

Anyway, off to food shop soon, arh, i forsee a nightmare.

see you soon

sarah