Scrapping Tonight

and Chocolate Brown have got to be my absolute favourite colour combination of all time, and it is now the colour scheme of my bedroom, and i am as happy as can be!!!. Peter let me have a spending spree in the DIY store and we got some beautiful wallpaper, new bedlinen, and cushions for the bed. Ordered new carpet and our brown leather bed, which has been in the garage all year! is now made up and sitting in our newly decorated bedroom. Well nearly decorated, i have about half the room still to wallpaper. Peter was eager to fit the carpet and put our bed up. I will be off next week to purchase new lamps and start arranging our wall of pictures, oh i am so excited. For those that don't know, before the children, I ran my own Interior Design practise and wrote a weekly editorial for our weekend magazine called "Style on a Shoestring". I love decorating and the whole interior design thing, i guess most women do. I don't get to play so much these days, and with a house twice the size of our last and all needing decorating it is taking its time and toll on the bank account. Usually our bedroom is the last room in a house to be tackled, and to get ours done so early in the renovation scheme of things has made me all smiley.

Izzy with Holly's goggles

Lilly going for Gold!!

Gurning!

Sue and Geoff

I realized I haven't uploaded this weeks Pencil Line sketch to my blog!

wow, I cannot believe how many of you posted. I normally pick a name out of a hat but due to sheer volume it is the Google random number generator today and the number is 77.
The lucky poster is

WILLOWTHEWYSP

congratulations, please can you email me your address so i can post your goodies :)

I will be back tomorrow with creations, photos and news from the bank holiday weekend!
Hugs
Anna xx

candy floss love

the T Cups

Yesterday we went for a walk and then headed of to the Town Carnival and Fair. I love the Fair Ground, brings back many fond memories of my childhood too, toffee apples and candy floss, yummy!!!!

The girls had great fun and then we came home and had a BBQ, ending the night all in our PJ's watching the bats, the stars and the night life starting to venture out for the night. The girls loved looking at the moon through Peters Telescope, and sitting at the end of the garden watching our 2 bats flying about. Saturday was a feel good day!!

And today has been the same. I had a lie in, had breakfast and Peter and I lounged on the sofa watching "A Place in the Sun" on TV for hours!!, while the girls played super heroines in the garden, clean washing blowing on the line. Oh I love the lazy days of summer.



This afternoon i decided to make a couple of cards "Nancy"style using up scraps from the Junkitz sponsorship we had for Pencil Lines.
This evening I may crack on with a LO I have to do for a magazine gallery, the theme is food. This is not a difficult subject for me at all, lol. Probaly going to do it on my love for Sushi...

Decided to start a photo blog last night, do pop on over and take a peep. Its very down to earth with photos of my "studio" and things that make me go mmmm, as well as photos i love of friends and family!

It just leaves me to remind you all its Pencil Lines new sketch upload tonight, do pop around, am so excited about this guest, she is a fashionista, a wonderful person, and a super talented scrapper. So go check us out!!



And to celebrate my feel good weekend and that its a Bank Holiday here in the UK and that Peter is off for a week, phew!!, I am RAKing some of my Basic Grey to one lucky poster. Just leave a post below and I will pick a winner tomorrow night. Lots of BG paper some c/s, BG stickers, BG fibres and BG tags and chipboard as picture above is all packed in a pizza box ready to be shipped to a lucky poster....

Oops, think they call it burning the candle at both ends!!! Ended up in bed at 8pm last night with the girls, although I did wake at 11pm for a bit of surfing and then back to bed at 2am!! But today, Izzy told me "Mummy you must take a day of work and rest" Bless, when your 6 year old is telling you enough is enough its time to throw in the towel. So i left my deadlines in a pile on my desk and have had a looong afternoon snooze!

I really got thinking today when answering a whopping amount of interview questions for a Brazilian magazine today, about the important things for me. One of the questions was


"What is your idea of perfect happiness",


and whilst i thought of the usual materialistic stuff, and having Dad back, although that would make me happy in a selfish way ,not Dad due to the pain he was in, it really boiled down to just 2 things, and i have them both, so my answer was;


"Perfect happiness is where I am right now. Married to the man I love with 2 beautiful healthy daughters."


It makes you realise what you have, right here, right now, and something we should all think about for just a minute each day.

a bit of Lucy love

What is your perfect happiness?


Hugs

Anna xx

• I have completed my first big deadline, packed and posted early this morning, a massive weight has been lifted. OK, so I still have the 1500 words to write but the creative part is done, and I am really pleased with my creations.
• I woke nice and early and cleaned the kitchen, did the washing, drying AND ironed the drying and hoovered
• Got the girls showered bright and early and to the hairdressers in time
• Completed my Pencil Lines layout in good time,
• Actually did a little surfing this afternoon
• The girls and I have had a lovely afternoon just being, no fights, no shouting, its been good!
• and finally sorted my 16 drawers of paper and put them into colour and manufacturers order (god I have far too much BG!!!), labelling all the drawers!!

todays sneak peak

The final task of the day is thanks to Izzy who got a large dustbin liner, and cleaned her craft corner in my scrap room, i felt all guilty and decided to join her and start on one of my corners.

So thats my day in a nutshell. Do you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Share your warmth with me :)

Hugs

Anna xx

I do love weddings, parties and a good Christening!! And we have had 2 out of 3 to attend, OK well Izzy did!

Saturday Izzy had a birthday party to go too, and Lilly and I went shopping in Town for Christening gifts and also purchased Lilly's first pair of school shoes, awwwww. Yes my baby soon starts her first day at school. Uniform is hanging in the spare bedroom with pristine white undies and socks, all ready for that BIG day.

sleeping Addie in Peter's arms

Sunday was the christening of Addie and Dean, Annie's children, and we were really pleased to be asked to attend the gathering. I baked my mini Victoria sponges and was photographer for the day and Peter was the videographer. Only problem we had was the weather was not permitting and no outdoor photos were taken, I did though take photos of the ceremony. Both children were as good as gold and no tears or cries were heard.

We then headed over to Annie's house so the children could play for a bit while i scoffed more of Annie scrummy zucchini loaf (much like carrot cake).

We did get one photo outside, and one that both Annie and I have waited 18 months for, a photo of the two of us, and Peter managed a couple and I am so pleased. I now need a decent one of me and Sue as we always end up with the girls taking it and not at a flattering angle!

We headed back home in the afternoon and Peter and I had 40 winks whilst the girls played quietly, bless them.Today I have been catching up with serious deadlines for magazines and Dt work. Received my copy of The Scrapbook Magazine this morning and was really pleased with how an article i wrote looked as well as a layout i had in the DT gallery. This months magazine really does look good and is well worth purchasing.

Here are a couple of the layouts I had published.

The first is Izzy in Cornwall on the beach, used Scrapping Angels July kit for this layout by Upsey Daisy.

The other layout was a BOM layout using Tinkering Inks Westminster collection, and lots of felt flowers.

Last night was Pencil Lines sketch 46 by Vicki Chrisman. I struggled with this layout only because i chose to do a layout with photos of me on with some "deep meaningful" journaling,lol.

I used :

Kraft card stock
Jenni Bowlin papers/chipboard and journaling card
Creative Imagination paper
Stamps away stamps
Foofala buttons

Rusty Pickle rik rak
Angel Kiss flowers



Journaling reads :
Nobody knows but me

That I sometimes cry
If I could pretend that I'm asleep
When my tears start to fall
I peek out from behind these walls
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows but me

by Pink

I have complete 2 dlo, 1 slo, and 1card today, that is a lot of creating in one day for me, i can tell you!. Will show you some sneaks and more layouts tomorrow, i have probably overloaded you all today.

Just want to thank my dear friend Sue who posted me some galaxy hazelnut chocolate, to cheer me up from my grumpy mood i am in, thanks hun you are a star!!!
Hope you all had a good weekend, I know we definitely did

hug

Anna x

Yep thats us alright.... BIG glasses, BIG fun, BIG digi camera and a self timer, produce a few fun pics!!!!