Home-made Christmas

 Trying to work on some layouts but thought I should update my blog with a couple more xmas pics.

Well here's my very first Christmas fruit cake!! I was quite chuffed with the final product, plenty of fruit and brandy and very tasty. And yes...that's a little rottweiler on the top of  the cake....do you not know me by now ;o)

And yes of course my traditional Samurai Christmas cards. I wasn't going to bother this year with hand made cards as I didn't have a lot of time but it may be Samurai's last year with us as he's almost 12 now and my friends and family have always gotten a Christmas giggle out of them.

First Layout for 2011!!

Pencil Lines Sketch #219

Very excited to say that I've managed to complete my first layout for the New Year and even used a recent photo....one of us stirring the christmas pudding and making our traditional christmas wish. I used this very lovely sketch from Pencil Lines for my inspiration.

Stash and Tools Used: 

Gorgeous christmas papers are BOBUNNY NOEL

White Glitter Thickers

MM Red Glitter Foam Alphas

Distress Inks

Fiskars Border Punch

Bazzill Cardstock

ITS 2011!!! but heres some Dec Snow pics....

Well its been an obscenely long time since I've written in my blog....talk about a couple of busy months, with the move, mum visiting from oz, Kennys parents here for xmas, then new years etc etc. Well as you can imagine absolutely no scrapping done at all. Just thought I'd load up a couple of Dec type photos.....

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Catching snowballs!

Where's the flavouring!!

Chickens hate snow!

Family photo :o)

Snow Patrol!

We're Moving!!!

Well haven't had the time to write my blog for ages!!! We're in the process of packing, and moving starts tomorrow!!! The most annoying thing is that BT can't get an engineer out to sort out the line in the new house until November 22nd!!!!! Which means no phone and NO INTERNET til almost December!! ON NO!!

Tomorrow's the day!!!

Shimelles' new class starts tomorrow, definitely looking forward to it. Its all about writing and journalling, I'm hoping it'll help me improve my journalling in my scrapbooking.

Pedal Powered Walkies

Have finally done a layout if Samurai's latest mode of transportation. I was scrolling through Pencil lines website and came across this sketch to use as my 'inspiration'. I used Bobunny's 'Olivia' range of papers, plus a sheet out of their 'noteworthy' pad. Hand cut the flowers out and then covered them with rock candy distress stickles give them a little more dimension. Painted some grungeboard flourishes with a metallic teal ink (which took a bit to dry.....I got it everywhere!!!) And then of course got out my trusty craft Robo to make a scalloped matt for the main photo and to cut out the title. Must order a new blade for robo soon as the letters were a little rough so I think the blade may be getting blunt.

My New Job - Canine Physio Assistant

Well it's been ages since I've blogged so I thought I'd add some photos of me at work. Check out my lovely bright purple uniform!! There has been a few sad and quite heartbreaking cases as work lately so I wanted to write a little about the perks at work. Besides getting Samurai's tablets and food at cost price the best perk of the job is getting to work with some very cool dogs and their owners. Currently my absolute favourite client is a Bull Mastiff called ....wait for it.....ROMEO!! He's an absolute giant of a dog, the photos really don't do his size justice! He's an absolute gentle giant, really playful and really loving, you just have to watch out for those sloppy kisses...eck!

So Gorgeous!!

I've been scanning in a lot of Samurai's puppy photos this morning and I'm sure I've fallen even more in love with him! I'd forgotten what a gorgeous little puppy he was. He was only 6 weeks old, slightly cross eyed and weighed a whole 2 kg, my handsome little man and he's still just as handsome at 46kg! I love my doggy!!

More Birthday Cards

 Well its the month of October and to me that means 2 very important things......

1. I get to buy something silly for Samurai to wear on Halloween .....and
2. Its my 2 very best friends birthdays this month!!

I've made their cards....hopefully they won't look at my blog before they get it! Just need to get the presents!

Last one for September!

I managed to squeeze one more  layout for this month with Kenny away. Still using up my "My Minds Eye, So Sophie" papers. I love using multiple photos as it seems to tell more of a story but it does make things a little more complicated though.....some more to shuffle round my cardstock. I splattered some glimmer mist on the cardstock first to give it a more textured look, waited til it dried then ironed it profusely as it wrinkled up a bit.


I dug up the antique sewing machine I inherited off Kenny who in turn got it off his mum, it's an old Singer which she used to use when Kenny was a kid so I'm pretty sure it's older than me!!! Anyway its a cracker of a machine, perfect for scrapping and I managed to zigzag an almost perfect circle!! Nice to know I can still manage a machine. Mounted all the photos on some chocolate cardstock to make them pop a little more, threw in a tag with some journalling, a couple of staples, some fab foam thickers and I'm done! No time at all...pat on my back.....note to Mel : 4 days of paper shuffling!!!!! :o)

mmmmmmm.......

Got the munchies 2 days ago for a bit of cake and of course with Kenny away baking a cake is highly dangerous for my waist line!!! So I whipped up a batch of lamingtons, best thing about these is that you can wrap them up and freeze them individually so you can thaw them out as required. I expect they'll all get defrosted once Kenny gets home :o)

My favourite Layout....

Well ATDML are asking what our favourite layout is. I decided to go through some of my old layouts and post one of them on my blog. This is by no means my all time favourite of favourites layout but it certainly holds a special place in my heart and everytime I look at it, well it just makes me smile. I did this one in a UKS cybercrop class, it's a fairly simple layout, no fussycutting, no fancy letters, no expensive embellishments. But I love the way it turned out and I think it showcases the photos really well. It captures what Samurai is like when he's sleepy, looking so cute and cuddly ( well he does to me) and I just LOVE the last photo of him with his eyes scrunched up after finishing his yawn.

New Stash!!

Well ordered some lovely new papers from Bo-bunny''s Olivia range. Also order a bazzill match grab bag which is supposed to be 10 sheets of co-ordinating bazzill but I'm really not convinced they match at all!!! Wish the photo was better so I could get your feedback!

New babes in the forest!

We had a lot of little cuties in the forest over spring and summer and now that summers coming to an end its lovely to see some late additions!!

Mavis seems to have a little calf who is just GORGEOUS! Mavis is my favourite cow in the forest.....being that she's a hairy coo it's our own little reminder of Scotland. Not sure if the calf (who I've decided to call Ginger), is actually hers or if she's adopted it. It doesn't look hairy enough but time will tell I guess ;o)


Two more spotty foals about as well, even prettier than the others. Haven't thought of any suitable names yet, anyone got any ideas????

Cards Cards Cards

Seem to have lost my mojo for scrapbooking lately but I've had to make a couple of cards this week for birthdays coming up. The first was a belated one for Kennys' dad, and no I wasn't slack and made it late, they were away during his birthday! He's an avid lawn bowlsman ( is that what you call them????) so used that as a theme for his card. The giggle inside is a 'lawnbowls joke':

A little old man boards a bus with a bowling wood in each of his front pockets.  He sits down next to a beautiful young lady, and she can’t help but glance quizzically at the man and his bulging pockets. 

It’s an uneasy few minutes before, finally, the little old man can take no more. “Bowling balls,” he nods reassuringly.

The lady seems a little shocked, and stares on.  Moments later, she says: “Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow?”

Two more birthdays coming up this week for a couple of friends of mine so created the first with a bit more of a classy feel....for a classy type of gal :o)

And the second card very pink and girlie for a girlie girl!