A Day in the Life

What does a day in your life look like?
Do you document it?

I'm up to mid Feb in my PL Album.
I really regretted not getting the 'day in the life' kit from Cocoa Daisy this month, but made my page using my main kit and bits and pieces from the Blue Ridge addon.

It was a pretty uneventful week. The rain was still coming down. I took a photo out the front of our house one day. It was so bad.

I documented how awful the late night storms had been and how scary and all the trees that had come down in the village. There was a visit to my sister for her birthday. (that's our hands making a heart together)

 

I love the October Afternoon Washi so much. It's so cool!! 

I made a little pocket with the glassine envelope from the kit.

 

 

So that's what this week looks like.

Pretty uneventful, but I like looking back on the album as it's increasing in size. I'm so pleased that I started it.

 

 

There are some great tips for Project Life on the Cocoa Daisy blog today. 

Thanks for popping in xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Favourite Times

What and where are your favourite times?

As a family I do love our Friday evenings. We call them 'Comedy Friday'.
We catch up Modern Family, The Middle and Brooklyn 99.
We eat fun foods and have picky bits whilst watching tv.
We all look forward to this evening.
It's a welcome to the weekend.

I also love Sunday mornings if we have nothing planned.
Reading in bed with a latte.

And anyone who knows me in the tinsiest bit knows how much we love our Florida trips.

One of my Cocoa Daisy LO's this month were a series of photos taken on our last day at Disneys Animal Kingdom.

We were getting ready to leave the park. We'd checked all our bags in already and had to leave to get some dinner before heading off for our night flight.
Do you think I could get a serious photo of these two?

The blue sky and the green trees were a perfect match for this kit.
I used some of the Elle's Studio from the Blue Ridge addon along with the foam Thickers from the Emerald Isle addon.
It just all goes so well together. The green tape is October Afternoon washi tape that's in the main kit.
I love it so much!
The kit goes on sale here tomorrow.

Enjoy your Friday evening.
Hopefully will be a fun one here x

Christmas Moments

Hello.
Do you also have a tonne of Christmas photos?
I've been good with my December Daily and my PL pages this time. Shock!!!
But I'd also like to have a few LO's in the back of my 2013 album.

I've made this LO using October Afternoon and Simple Stories for Papermaze.

All the details and the story along with close ups are on their blog here.
Before I say goodbye though, here's the silly photo of my silly children : )

Please pop over and leave a little love for me.
They also have 20% off everything in there online store right now.

Have a lovely day xxx

Captured

Hello.

So, today 21.12.12
Will it or won't it???

Louis has been in a panic for months.
He's a worrier at the best of times.
We've been counting down the days left at school whilst he's been counting down the days til the world ends.
He didn't want to sleep last night as he was scared, but was straight out : )
Poor thing.

I have a DT LO to share today that I made for the Scrap365 January sketch challenge.
The challenge has gone live today and runs until January 17th.
Here is my LO.

I've used some fun October Afternoon 'Modway' papers on this LO. The arrows were all cut out from one of the papers. The metallic mists are from Maya Road.

I love the kids faces on this photo. It was a ride photo taken at Magic Kingdom on the Toy Story ride. It captured them so well : )
Louis ended with 603'800 points whilst Hollie had just 7700. The camera captured her looking over at his score whilst he was laughing at her. What perfect timing!!

And I've used bits and pieces from some previous Cocoa Daisy kits.
And I love that large 'Today' journal stamp from CD too. I've had so much use from that. It's great to have a journal stamp that actually has a decent amount of space to journal in.

Please pop over to the Scrap365 sketch blog to see the sketch here and see what the rest of the team did with the sketch.
The challenge is being sponsered this month by :  http://www.indigoblu.com/

The kids are finishing school at 1pm today, so Ade and I are going to wrap the last few bits. The Waitrose shop has just been done. So all grocery shopping now finished. I cleaned the frdige out before unpacking, so I think we are more or less sorted.
We are taking the kids to see Nativity 2 after school : )
We always like to see a Christmas movie at the cinema.

I hope you are feeling festive.
And good luck with the whole 21.12.12 thing **cheeky grin**

xxx

Home Sweet Home with Cocoa Daisy

Good Morning,

It's a lovely winters morning here. Bright and sunny and Ade had to de-ice the car before taking the kids to school. (Making the most out of him working from home now*smile*)

The Cocoa Daisy Reveal was last night. There was a real buzz about this kit. We had some fab exclusive stamps and some really fun colours and bits and pieces.

I thought I'd share my canvas first that I made yesterday. Remember those messy fingers? They are actually still stained green. Well this was the cause of theme.

A little 15x15cm canvas.
The main kit comes with some little wired house clips which gave me this idea. I based it upon the brightly coloured October Afternoon papers in the kit and used the 'hello' sticker from 'Simple Stories'.

I used some Maya Mists and ran some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam from the top.
It's now on the hall way wall as you enter through the front door.
Love those friendly colours.

I mentioned the little wire clips. I used one for this little card.

We have new neighbours over the road, so I shall pop this through their door later.
Isn't the wire clip adorable? I used it with a 'Simple Stories' journal card.

Can you tell how much I love this kit???   : )
Lots of deadlines to get done by the end of the month, so I'm ready to make a start now.

Have a sunny and bright day xxx

Somethings ....

....just can't be bought.

Like my friendship with my sister.
There's not a day that doesn't go by when I don't feel lucky to have her.

I was printing off some photos yesterday of our time together this summer and this photo instantly made me pull out my Cocoa Daisy Kit.



And I made this.
I used some of the papers from the paper addon along with some Basic Grey Sticker from the 'His' addon.


And a couple of Crafters Workshop Stencils and Maya Mists.


And because I love her so much I've just made this for her.


It will look very pretty in her house.
Funny, just whilst I'm blogging this at 10.30pm she just called. Six sense??


I love the October Afternoon butterfly paper from the paper addon.
Love those colours.


Better dash. I'm blogging and chatting on the phone at the same time : )
Lots of love xxx

US 3

Not really a big fan of snow. Hopefully it will all melt soon.
To brighten up the day I have a sunny page to add to my blog.
Full of October Afternoon goodness.
(click to enlarge)

And here is the sketch that inspired me over on the October Afternoon blog.



I've used these large alpha stickers for a small title and layered up lots of October Afternoon stickers. I backed them onto bazzill so they stand out a little more.



I made this sun and used the October Afternoon Sprinkler - Comet Tail. I love this colour.


A little tearing and some stitches here and there

I'm going to pop this on a little easle on my desk now. I need some warmth on this snowy day.

Talking of snowy, we are off to see Snow Patrol tomorrow at the London o2.
Rather apt.
Being the way Ade is, we will be very prepared. Snow shovel, blankets, water, flasks and food.

Keep warm : )
Lots of love xxx