a little of my life

Sketches

I love when the same sketch is used with two different final outcomes!

the sketch is up on the My Minds Eye Blog.

and to celebrate Fay getting into our local school - poor girl to have 3 schools in a year is tough but she is awesome~

and that using this months MME's layout sketch - check it out and play along to win 3 whole colelctions!!

and I used the awesome Kraft FunDay release from My Minds Eye to make a birthday card for the best Grandad ever!

anyways off to clean the crafting table and make some bread.

A year Long Project

 ...made easy

This is a super simple project that will end up as a complete album telling your story for the year... want to know more ? then go and download the Latest My Minds Eye Newsletter!

 

you can get the newsletter to be emailed to you directly every month by signing up on the My Minds Eye blog and you can catch up on all the previous ones by going *here*

little elves

We are now two weeks soother (blinky/dummy) free!! I know it doesnt sound like a big deal but it is - Lily has been very brave about it all and so far we've only had the odd hissy fit about it.

We did the whole "send it to Santa" trick and it worked but did take a lot of reminding and build up.  There were tears and a lot of big brave girl chats to make it work.

Lily though was more interested in making sure she got a red fire truck in exchange - although when she has a bad 10 minutes she asks to give the truck back for her soothers but she calms and moves on.

my bug bear about it all is that if it was a Teddy or a Blanket, no-one would bat an eyelid about Lily still having one at 3 1/2 but soothers seem to be a fire starter for a lot of people. For us, it was more the fact that when she would talk, she would spit out the soother to the floor constantly. Her speech is fine and so far Lily is showing none of the speech theraphy issues that Fay had (who did not like a soother). 

and Lily had decided she will not look at the camera to the point she'd rather burst into tears... so heres my girls in their party dresses :)Fay is getting all Grown up these days... scary times ahead.

Lots of things going on around here at the moment - hoping it calms down a little so I can think straight for 20 minutes or so so i can get the words straight and share it.

Holiday Hoopla Blog Hop!!

I hope you have been enjoying all the lovely Holiday Hoopla posts over on the My Minds Eye blog these past days - lots to inspire you :)

well today is a big part of those festivities - the Blog Hop :)

If you would lilke a chance to win complete collections of the 12 Days of Christmas collection and Kraft Funday, then you want to start at the My Minds Eye blog and follow through to everyones blog to get the winning sentance to take part in the draw :) 

To celebrate an amazing year, we're sharing our favourite layouts and cards fromthe past year... all the BEST bits of My Minds Eye...

using the Lost & Found 2 Stamps and the gorgeous new MME Swirls

 

using the Fine & Dandy collection

 

using the HipHip Horray range

 

 

my A to Z summer album

 

and one of my CHA layouts :)

**edited to add - the zipper flowers on this layout were made with the  Stella & Rose Hazel Memories Ribbon pack. I unzipped the zip section and treated it as regular ribbon just used a hot glue gun to stick it together instead of thread.

I am lucky to be part of this awesome My Minds Eye Design team - they always bring out all the best in our creativeness!

so take the next hop over to the lovely Laura Vegas's blog!!

Wishing you all a most wonderful Festive Season!

Flames and Light

I adore Candles in all shapes and forms and especially at this time of year with Winter nights and the Solstice and the New Year - a time for cosy evenings and reflections on the year past and spending time with friend and families.

Candles are a nice way to remeber those who cannot be with us during this time of festivities.

And I love making them special so I thought I'd share this technique... You can see more on the My Minds Eye Blog or the Bombshell Stamps Blog.

12 days to Christmas

Did you recieve your copy of the My Minds Eye Newsletter - if not, check it out here... I made a layout to go with Jana's awesome sketch.

and I hope you saw my Christmas Countdown Frame on the blog.

Its been raining hard lately so getting photogrpahs of artwork and children has been difficult. I'm working on a bunch of Christmas themed stuff that I'll share soon.

 

ps...

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Decorating for the season...

We're a bit sad about Christmas this year as our wonderful tree and our 13 years worth of handpicked ornaments are in a friends garage in Canada still as dont have the funds to get the boxes shipped across ($600 a pallet). Not sure if we'll get a small tree, but current votes are leaning towards a felt tree to hang on the door as space is abig concern but in the mean time, we've been making paper decorations to bring put some colour on the walls.

One of my addictions is Finnish Stars - so easy and so pretty...

you can get all the instruction in this months Newsletter from My Minds Eye... dont forget to sign up for it here.

and I might try making a bunch of the stuff I have in my Pinterest folder.. addictive site that one :)

Stamping in the rain

I am gettign used to the UK weather again, love lsitening ot the rain when i'm all indoors and warm... and playing with stamps... 

here's some of the lastest bits for Bombshell Stamps - you can check out the whole post on the blog :)

 

and a big post over on the My Minds Eye Blog :)

 

also heads up for MME fans... If you have noticed the misspelling of "December" on the bracket die cut in the Lost & Found Christmas Accessory Sheet, please know that we understand how frustrating this error can be to those of you who wanted to use this piece. to get a replacement die cut, check out this post

really... 8 years?

has it really been 8 years for this girl to go from this:

to this:

My beautiful amazing smarty girlie.. the child we never thoguht we would have and the child who constantly surprises us and makes us so happy.

my wish come true is to have a child making her own wishes on her cool totally icecream and chocolate cake.

We are blessed to have her in our lives.

Fay Rocks!