Scraplift Results!!!

So the Scraplift Challenge is over and I have all the layouts in. All I can say is 'Wow!', they look amazing! I really can't believe how well everyone's layout turned out!

First up was Rach with this gorgous LO (one of my favourite ever Rach designs!):

Next up was me, I took Rach's 11 1/2" x 8" and turned it into 12" x 12" and gave it a boyish theme:

Lauren took the basic layout but added patterened paper in the background and used a b&w pic instead of colour (I love this colour scheme!):

Next up was Marie, who's phsycic ability was on fire as she's taken Lauren's LO and gone back to a white background and colour pic matted on starry background paper. I swear that girl's inside my head:

Julie was up next, who's kept Marie's layout but put her journalling on the out side and used text to border her (so cute) picture:

Rachel then kept Julie's colour scheme but has moved the title, journaling and ribbon back to the original position (I tell you, us scrappers are an intuitive lot!:

And finally was Kim, who has brought the scraplift full circle by finishing off with a girly theme and retro papers, just how Rach started!:

I am so proud of this, I love every single layout! I have such talented scrapping friends!

A special mention to Lauren and Julie, who had never done a scraplift before, and yet rolled with it and came up with some fabulous work! Well done girls!

So, I'm busy thinking of more scrapping challenges as we speak; watch this space!!

365 Sleeps!

This time next year, I'll be on one of these...
...drinking 1 (or 5!) of these...

...on the way to here...

...to see her...
...marry him... Yup, we are now on official countdown to the big Antigua wedding! 365 days isn't that long, surely!! I've also started using this birthday present...
to save up for my dress. It's a piggy bank but with no stopper in so the only way to get into it is to smash it! I'm putting the odd pound coin in here and there so hopefully by next year, I'll have enough to buy myself something swanky! Unless I do a Pamela Anderson and just wear a bikini, but would I really wish that sight on the good people of Antigua?!

Just to finish, here's the latest layout. I'm actually scrapping Xander these days!!

Trip Down Memory Lane

So, I came on to blog today about our weekend, then realised that Rob had taken the camera to work! So, no pictures to download so would have been a pretty pointless post!

However, as I feel like blogging I'm going to blog some of my favourite ever pics (well, the ones that are on the pooter anyway!) and have a bit of a nostalgia trip!

First up, my 2 favourite baby pics of Emily:

Emily at Disney World. Did you ever see a face sum up Disney World as well?!!...This picture still melts my heart: Emily's first meeting with Xander...Xander's first smile...Xander and my lovely wonderful Grandad...Emily and her Daddy...My beautiful smiley boy...Just last week, my beautiful but oh so grown-up girl...And finally, my favourite wedding pic...Aaah, feel all nostalgic now! There are lots more, maybe I'll blog those later!

Good Luck Wendy!

Just a quick post to wish my dicky ticker buddy, Wendy, lots of luck for today. She's going in for heart surgery and it's her first for 42 years so I know she's a little nervous.

Good luck Wendy, I'll be thinking about you all day and will be in to see you as soon as you're up to my inane waffling!

Scraplift Update

Oooh, it's getting exciting people, the scraplift only has 2 more rounds then it's done! Can't wait to see them all!

So far it's gone from Rach to me to Lauren to Marie to Julie and is now sat with Rachel. We then just need Kim to unpack all her scrapping stash, do hers and we're done! Yay!!

In other scrapping related news, one of our dear fellow scrappers has hit a milestone today! Yes, Rach has come over to the wonderfulness of her thirties today! Basically Rach, it's just an excuse to drink more wine as you're a proper grown up now who's terrified at the prospect of 40 so have a legitimate excuse! Happy Birthday Rach!!

Anyway, as I can't get a cake to her in time, here's something much more yummy for her! Delicious!!

Well, I Was Having A Break From Girlie Scrapping....

Just for a change, I've done a bit of scrapping lately!

First of all, there's another page from my Xmas scrapbook (my aim is to have this finished by THIS Xmas!). It's of the kids decorating the tree and I had so much fun actually making a tree out of the pictures!

Next up is one for Emily's baby album. I love this LO which was featured in 'The Best Of British Scrapbooking' and got all carried away with my eyelet puncher! I also wanted to use these papers as they were a birthday present from my crop buddy Lauren! However, I then spent hours threading the ribbon as I didn't have quite enough of the lilac and so had to cut individual pieces to make it fit. It then became a vendetta to get it done but finally it was finished!

So, having looked through my scrapbooks, I realised that Emily has almost 2 full ones whereas Xander's first one isn't complete yet. So, it is now a girlie free zone round here for a while while I get the boy caught up. However, after starting a LO yesterday in boyish colours, I'm now wondering whether to infact go back to pink and flowery after his latest craze: he has an obsession with mine and Emily's shoes...

If he's not wearing them he's throwing them out of the catflap! Strange boy!

Can I Claim This As A Family Heirloom?!

This weekend, Emily and I have been on a girlie weekend to London, to visit SIL Zoe.



We travelled down on Saturday and met Zo at the beautiful new St Pancras station and had lunch under this...

Afterwards, we caught the tube (which I hate - note the expression!)to the National History museum which I've always wanted to see and I thought it'd go down well with Emily as she has a bit of a dino obsession at the moment! We saw lots of dinosaurs and some great big creatures in the Blue Whale exhibition (seriously, have you seen the size of blue whales? Amazing!)On Sunday we were complete tourists and did the open top bus tour. We started off in trafalgar Squsare which was hosting some kind of moped rally, which Emily thought was really cool...Then we boarded the bus for a trip round the touristy bits.First up was Tower Bridge, which we first drove across then walked across...Then we went to see the giant telescope which travels 3000 miles under the Atlantic so you can talk to people in New York (honest, it does really do that!). We got to talk to a couple of people and ask what they were having for breakfast!Next up was lunch at Pizza Express where Emily got to be all sophisticated and have a 'Bambichino' after her lunch (OK, it's a cappuccino without the coffee!)We then caught a boat down the Thames to see one of Emily's highlights, the Houses Of Parliament, and of course this fella!Then it was back o the bus and down to visit the Queen, where Emily was very happy to see our Liz was actually in residence and probably watching us peasants from her parlor!It was also a chance for me to show Emily a bit of family history, as my Great Grandad painted the gold on the Victoria monument outside Buck House. I will shortly writing to Her Maj and requesting my family heirloom back!After a quick bus ride round Picadilly Circus and Regent Street it was back on the tube (which Emily seemed more than happy with and had not inherited my subwayphobia!) Then back to Zo's for a spot of dinner, some wine and a reminisce courtesy of some 20 year old rock videos!


So, we're now back to school, studying and deciding what to cook for tea! But a lovely weekend all in all, thanks Zo!