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About Me

I am a "30 something" mum of 2 beautiful girls and married to my soulmate, living in the Cambridgeshire countryside, whilst scrapping and taking photos of family life.

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My little place on the web

This blog is just that, my little place on the web.You will find my daily (or not so daily, hehe)life, my love for my new vegetable garden, baking, photography and my scrapbooking!

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My Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a way of life for me now.It has been for over 4 years. I love journaling, taking photos of my family and love colour and texture, these are all part of my everyday life and scrapbooking.

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Archive Layout 1

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/24/2009 06:49:00 PM 0 lovely comments
This is a layout I did for the Bad Girls Top Designer 2007! I still love this layout.
The Basic Grey papers are great for cutting out, which I still love doing.



Funny thing is I have just done a layout for The Scrapbook Magazine, with the same title! I obviously still need to "Believe " in myself some more, LOL!



Supplies :

Pattern papers : Basic Grey
Card stock : Bazzill Basics
Alphabet : Artic Frog
Ribbon : American Crafts
Rubon swirl : Foofala

Have you got a favourite layout you did a while back that you still love? Do post a link. I would love to see.

A quick giggle, and self portrait of me as the Wicked Stepmother from Snow White for Children in Need last Friday! Its pretty difficult to tell i actually had a crown on top of the baclava type thing; the cloak had a HUGE stand up collar!



Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Anna x

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No title

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/23/2009 10:54:00 PM 2 lovely comments
Seriously, I cannot think of a title, its gone 11pm, I am tired, is that a good enough excuse, LOL!

Well lately I seem to be more of a nurse than a TA these days. Another day off from work whilst I nursed Lilly. She's fine now and will be back to school tomorrow. The poor thing has been up and down these last 4 days, and this morning she had a bit of a temperature and was really tired, so i made the decision to keep her off school.
I have been busy scrapping and trying my best to catch up on everyday paper work. 2010 see's some changes for Pencil Lines, all good and very exciting, and that has also kept me busy whilst watching Fireman Sam (why does Lilly insist on still watching this?! beats me!).

Emails back and forth today and I have made some great progress with the new changes and I am very excited!!
This morning, when we had a few minutes of sunshine, I managed to photograph my layout for sketch 162.
I used my Jenni Bowlin kit from last month. I had fun playing with the stencil in the kit. I firstly inked the stencil onto my card stock, using an Orange ink pad, followed by some glimmer mist "cocoa". Absolutely love the effect!

Supplies:
Jenni Bowlin October kit
Sassafras Lass chipboard

This is a layout I did ages ago and forgot to share. Again using a Jenni Bowlin kit.





This is a photo of Izzy on our last day in Provence in April of this year. The owners of the Gite had a dog called Lola, who both the girls absolutely adored. Izzy was so sad to leave her, and I am so chuffed that I managed a few photos of her and Lola, this being my favourite.




Supplies :
Jenni Bowlin Kit
Tim Holtz Grunge Board
Scenic Route alphabet

Tomorrow see's me back to work, and then busy at the Post Office, posting heaps of gorgeous Kaiser Craft goodies, kindly sponsored to Pencil Lines for December!! How excited are we..
This week I am going to post some re visit old layouts. I was glancing through my albums, and thought what fun it would be to revisit some of them, and post here.
Back tomorrow with the first of an archive layout.
Take care and thanks for visiting
Hugs
Anna x

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Here's hoping...

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/22/2009 07:54:00 PM 2 lovely comments
that this coming week I have some time to blog!!
I have been so busy, I really have had no time to blog. I cant even remember what has happened this week, LOL,a part from i have done lots of sleeping, as I have anemia again! I seem to get struck down every few years or so with a low red blood count, lots of sleep has been in order
Today was our Christmas crop, and I finished my Pencil Lines layout, (I know really leaving it to the last minute), and by the time I got home it was dark so was unable to photograph it, ggrrr, hence no layout from me this evening, but you must pop by the site as this weeks guest is one of my fav artist, i drool over her 2peas gallery weekly!, and she just happens to be last weeks guest artist sister!
I dislike leaving a post photo less but i really don't have any!

Hope you all had a good weekend, i will ahve layouts to share for tomorrow, honest!
Hugs
Anna xx

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Layout to Share

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/17/2009 02:51:00 PM 1 lovely comments
For those that didn't get over to the Charity event at Scrapbook 101, I thought I would share my layout and sketch here for you all.

My challenge was a sketch, surprise surprise, but I love them, love their versatility.
Here is the sketch I did


and my take







I used photos of Lilly from last a couple of years back when she started rainbows. Love these photos she is soo excited isn't she!

I actually used paint on my layout instead of lots of paper strips. I rarely use paint, as I am scared to be honest! I try too hard, LOL. But I let the brush just whoosh on the page and I really love this layout! Another fear is doodling, and I conquered that too on this layout. Do you have any scrappy fears?

Supplies :
Bazzill card stock
ScrapDiary papers by Lucy Folch
Making Memories paint

If you have a play with this sketch I would love to see what you do and how you interpret the sketch. Just leave a link in the comments and I will pop over and leave some love

Hugs
Anna xx

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Time is not on my side

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/15/2009 09:10:00 PM 5 lovely comments
Oh no, not at all. Yesterday we hosted a surprise birthday party for our good friends, Mel and Mike. It was Mel's birthday and Mike wanted a party for her friends and family. Not having the space at theirs, we just had to open our doors for a full on rock party! I did the catering, Peter was in charge of the entertainment (Rock Band), and the children were in charge of the coats and bags, bless them..... I don't have any photos! Can you believe that?! I am so gutted!

This morning we woke pretty early considering the lack of sleep, and the infamous cooked breakfast was put on hold for a Sunday lunch at Toby Carvery for us all.
Home by 1.30pm and the afternoon was a chilled out one, on the sofa napping. I then realised I hadn't done my layout this week for Pencil Lines, yikes!

No fear as I downloaded the free digi template from Pencil Lines and used supplies by Michelle (Filo).
I really enjoyed playing again with digi. I was able to sit in the living room with everyone whilst dabbling in digi scrapping!

I used a photo of Lilly from earlier this year when it snowed, I adore this photo so much, my little model!

Credits :
Template - Pencil Lines sketch 161
Vintage Treasures and Simple Pleasures by Michelle Filo
Hope you all had a lovely weekend, thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Anna x



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Charity : "Water"

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/13/2009 02:19:00 PM 0 lovely comments
I am extremely honored to have been asked by Amanda at Scrapbook 101 to join her this weekend to raise money for the charity "Water", that Cathy Zielske is promoting.



As you probably know, I am a great believer of doing our bit to raise money as a community, so I really did jump at the opportunity to do my bit.
Starting at 7pm (GMT) on Friday 13th November we will be hosting a BIG scrapbooking event. It will last for 48 hours and there will be games, challenges, special guests and PRIZES! A new challenge will be posted every 2 hours for the whole weekend! It wouldn’t be much of an event without a grand finale and we certainly have one of those lined up. Cathy Z herself will be setting the final challenge.

Here's a sneaky peek of my challenge!






I hope to see you over at Scrapbook101 this weekend.

Hugs
Anna x

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Skipping...

blogged by me domestic goddess On 11/10/2009 01:54:00 PM 5 lovely comments
When we were kids, along long time ago, in the olden days, as Izzy and Lilly would say!!, we didn't have computers and Nintendo and the like, Oh no, we had fresh air, and a skipping rope!



This weekend, whilst Izzy was lolling on the sofa, (which she has done her fair share off, I might
add), Lilly and I, accompanied by a skipping rope, headed out to the garden.

(Izzy pops out in her PJ's to give a helping hand, how funny!)

Izzy is a pro at skipping, Lilly on the other hand is still grasping the whole jumping and throwing the rope over your head thing, LOL. I do believe, half of her problem is the rope is too long. Anyways, she had a good try and lots of fun.





Me on the other hand, is tired and in limbo. Having Izzy off these last few days has knocked my sort of routine, out of sync, and I am completely in a tizz and so behind on "stuff". Today though I have at last managed to pack all outstanding RAK's, Yay I hear you cry, so if you are waiting on a blog RAK or a Pencil Lines RAK, they are winging there way to you as I type!! Well, they are in the hands of our useless Royal Mail, so lets keep everything crossed!
Another job I got off in the nick of time, is my first exclusive sketch for paper and digi scrappers, to Scrapbook Memories. I am really excited about working with Kristy from SM this year, its gonna be a blast!


Its turned nippy here in the UK, thank goodness we have heating now, LOL. Off out in a while to pick Lilly up from school and take her to Qi Kwan Do.
thanks for stopping by, and do leave a comment if you are passing by

Hugs
Anna x

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