Friday 19 November 2010

From Celtic Tiger to Celtic Meltdown

How did it happen?
Sorry for the OT title, but I can't help wondering.

Anyway, here's a suggestion of what to do in lean times.

My daughter got this blouse in Penneys.





It was marked €3, but at the cash desk we found out it had been reduced to €1.

I asked if she'd like if I added a few crochet flowers around the neckline. She said yes.



I'll try to take a photo of her with the blouse, it goes really well with her colouring.

Nice weekend!

Thursday 11 November 2010

Celebration blog hop

The Baker Dozen is celebrating its first birthday of being Shimelle Laine's Digital Creative Team with a blog hop.

Today I am celebrating my family - the family I grew up with and the family that my husband and I made.



* Digital Paper: Bazinga! kit by Shimelle Laine @ Two Peas in a Bucket
* Frame: Write it Down Prety Labels by Shimelle Laine @ Two Peas in a Bucket
* Title Letters: A New Leaf by Paislee Press and Audacious Designs
* Font: CK Ali's Hand Official

The next stop in the hop is Rani.


And here are all the Blog Hoppers:

Karen m. http://talesfromthescrapheap.blogspot.com/
Kate http://libertycottage.blogspot.com/
Avital http://www.CreativityPrompt.com
Dolly http://dollysdreamings.typepad.com
Elisa http://hybrid-alien.blogspot.com
Rani http://www.scrapyoga.typepad.com/
Yvonne http://yvonnes-inkyfingers.blogspot.com/
SJ http://www.scrappyfairy.blogspot.com/
Anso http://glitteradventure.blogspot.com/
Nadine http://hello-love.org/
Sheri http://www.auntierere.blogspot.com/

Take a look their fabulous creations! 

Monday 8 November 2010

Halloween - from 2008 to 2010

I am convinced that I have only 10% of the stash of an average scrapbooker/paper crafter. All my papers fit in a since shelf. Another shelf for my bigger embellishments, and a few shelves for bits and pieces - so what's on the rest of my lovely shiny white IKEA storage cabinets?

Magazines (tons of them!). Plus "things-that-could-be-useful-sometime-so-I-wont-get-rid-of-them".  So I hit on this brilliant idea: why not actually use these things instead of only storing them? I'm a genius, don't you think?

Like this 7 gypsies mini book that is probably 5 years old. Since I had previously made a mini with the Halloween photos up to 2007, this one starts where the other one stopped.

Very simple, most of the digital elements are from Karla Dudley's kit which I won in her blog.

 cover

For every year, I wrote a short journaling about the kids' costumes
the opposite side was looking bare so I added 4 tiny photos from the same year

Two photos of each  child per year, sometimes with word art or doodles


there's even a photo of the 4 of us, taken by a neighbour while we were trick or treating
TFL!

*Digital elements: Swank Labels by Jennifer Pebbles @ Two Peas in a Bucket (frame), Paper Crave (bat image, not seen), Spook by Karla Dudley @ Design House Digital
*Mini Album: 7 Gypsies