I've gone Scrap Mad

Well who has been a busy girl these last few days, I HAVE. I think I've almost caught right up with my scrapping. I had two cj's outstanding, but yahoo, have done them both.

Both are Love / Hate CJ's, first one was to be based on what you love / hate about scrapbooking and is below for you all to see.

Second one was a free for all, you could pick anything, well I had already been using a pack of the brilliant American Crafts papers and decided to stick with them, (something I saw Kirsty do at the Luxurious Angels retreat - she played the whole weekend with a pack of Dasher and made some lovely layouts that where not at all Christmas related), so I copied her, cause I'm a copycat and away I went with one pack of paper.

I've actually managed to do two layouts, a CJ entry and I'm halfway through a starbook as well, so the pack is now almost finished.

Sorry I digress, back to the CJ's, as I was saying the second one was a free for all, so I chose Christmas trees and how I love how they look when all Twinkling and Bright (pic of tree decorated is actually Heathers and not mine)I manged to make this by creating a spiral which you open up to reveal the pics underneath. It was a nightmare to make, I thought it would take me an hour or so, but no, three hours later and with some help from Heather, downloading a template for me I was finished.
I also did the BOM Prompt for January and uploaded that to UKS today, this one has to include the word 'YOU' and either some gold in the layout or at least 4 pattern papers.

Gerry took these pics of me on Christmas day with my new camera and the quality is amazing, I love my new camera so much, might have to take some lessons off Gerry though for how to use it, seen as he did so well. It does not show up well on the pic, but everything was edged with a gold Krylon pen.

Next I did a layout of the family that was taken a few years ago at our nephews christening.

And lastly I did a lovely layout of my God-Daughter Natascha, she now lives in Canada, but her Dad sends us pics on a regular basis and I chat on MSN to her nearly every day, here she is, my little Snow Angel.

So I now have a few DT things to do, but then thats me, fully upto date, yahoo, took a while but I got there, I was so glad of these last few days and the opportunity to scrap.

Today I spent with the amazingly funny Heather, I love going over to her house for play time, the kids all tried to drag me off to show me there toys, and play etc, but no, not today, today we where both on a mission to finish off CJ's and projects and amazingly we where both productive as you can see from my lot above. I had a lovely day, we chatted, we sat in silence, we laughed, we ate we scrapped, what more could a girl ask for.

News from home, Gerry has the dreaded Man Flu, I swear to god we will have to take him to hospital soon for admission into intensive care, or at least you would think so, with the amount of groaning and moaning he is doing.

Ben is completely absorbed in his Xbox, I know its not good to let them sit in front of the TV for hours on end, but you know what, its his holiday season as well, and come next week, when he is back at school, he will be back to normal service's, so I'm gonna let him enjoy it whilst he can.

Joke of the Day:

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their P.J.'s, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers thrown all about the front yard. The door to his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house.

Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.A lamp had been knocked over, and a throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, Breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand lay piled up by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and other piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried that she might be ill, or worse!!He found her lounging into the bedroom, still in her pajamas, reading a novel.She smiled, looked up at him and asked how his day went.

He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?"She again smiled and answered, "you know everyday when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?""Yes", he replied reluctantly.She answered, "We'll, today I didn't do it!!"

OK, think I've given you enough to last a week in this post, so I'm off now to see what havoc I can cause in the house. Take care of yourselves, kissy wissy's to you all. xxx