tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71964849387568145722024-03-14T03:08:59.414-07:00Pattys PlacePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-50451813546619464832013-04-10T09:08:00.001-07:002013-04-10T09:08:41.893-07:00Is it truly all but five months since I got on here? When my Mum used to tell me "time goes faster as you get older" I used to think she was a bit odd, but here I am saying precisely the same thing. Where did it go, that five month missing link? Well I had a week away in Gran Canaria over the Christmas period - my first one away and I enjoyed everything about it - new place, new people and best of all, really hot sunshine day in and day out all week! Seemed strange to spend Christmas Day in a Tshirt in the mountains, but it was splendid.<br />
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Since then I have also had a visit from my daughter for her Scrapbooking Retreat, then she and I both went off to Italy to stay with my son and his wife in their beautiful hotel (have a peek at www.hotelleone.it) and a few days away with the new man in my life at Gunton Hall to do some walking and visiting places along the Suffolk Coast. Such a shame it was bitterly cold and we all but got blown away along Southwold seafront!!<br />
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Have just returned from the A Trip Down Memory Lane Retreat weekend - absolutely fantastic as ever and I got a huge amount of scrapping done as well as making a metal-embossed photo frame and various other bits. Here are some photos of some of the layouts. Will post a photo of the frame once I have taken one!!<br />
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My up-coming travels include a trip to Centre Parcs at Elveden, a week's walking in Cadiz and then some weeks homesitting in France, so more chances to explore the countrysides and take some photos for my scrapbooks.<br />
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Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-64309199120534232372012-11-25T02:01:00.001-08:002012-11-25T02:01:22.119-08:00Fussy cutting!Here's a layout with rather a lot of fussy cutting, which I so enjoy. Mind you, it took me almost all day to complete the page start to finish. It is a rare photo of my brother and sister and their other halves, so I was keen to scrap it!<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-83521025055154310782012-11-20T03:15:00.000-08:002012-11-20T03:15:37.096-08:00Here's a few pictures of my mountains!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-38317361490748871872012-11-20T03:09:00.002-08:002012-11-20T03:09:18.574-08:00November newsI can't quite believe it is over two months since I posted on my blog. I have been travelling most of that time - first for a week in Spain doing some climbing, then just back from there and off to see Tim and Maddy in their wonderful hotel in Montelparo, Italy - just back from there and Mia arrived home for a while. All go - which has meant lots of layouts of mountains of course!!<br />
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Have just come back from a fabby long weekend with my teamies on UKS - what a whale of a time we all had together. Fantastic company, superb grub and lots and lots of scrapping. Who could ask for more? Strange really as we all met on the Forum of course and are very different in our walks of life, our geographical abode and age groups, but we all get on so very well. Are already planning next year's retreat in the same place.<br />
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I must try and write a bit more on here a little more regularly but life and travel get in the way sometimes. You know how it is!!<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-67718235783268224272012-09-02T04:36:00.000-07:002012-09-02T04:36:43.942-07:00September challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have just done this layout in response to Jo's September Challenge in the Crafty Magpies team. It is an especially favourite photo of mine - my DD and my delicious grandog, Bracken. I never tire of scrapping that beast! (the dog, not the daughter!!)Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-3434772235344379372012-08-08T06:47:00.001-07:002012-08-08T06:47:52.964-07:00Heritage Scrapbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have made a heritage scrapbook of Kenny's life for Neil's 50th birthday and although I thought I had it finished, I came across this last photo of him with the two kids when they were so young - it just had to be scrapped, didn't it? Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-90741521623977559762012-08-05T10:33:00.001-07:002012-08-05T10:33:59.442-07:00All-day Crop 4th AugustWent to a smashing all-day crop yesterday run by Jackie DaSilva. Great fun as always and this is a double layout I did there. Also, big news for me, I won the raffle which was superb. A pack of 100 sheets of textured Bazzill cardstock in all different colours. Obviously my lucky day, eh?<br />
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Here is my little haven this afternoon, almost totally under water!! It is on the highest spot of Leigh on Sea, with the benchmark outside the house to prove it - wonder what those lower down are like?Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-20167747958197332242012-07-14T08:58:00.000-07:002012-07-14T08:58:51.020-07:00Here's a double layout I did at our all day crop today. It was for the sketch challenge we have on our UKS team - set by Stacey for July. Photos of the torch relay as it passed the end of my road. Needless to say the blue skies were NOT on the relay day!!<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-80456278924664936622012-07-01T11:14:00.001-07:002012-07-01T11:14:39.362-07:00Time to stand and stare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70tEjilUDt634nsGTLg90B5h-wW8p2_uy7SjyGkEB7mef_e2gI5pXZMqASZJfeJX14HtEIvwJt6h8c5cqVdyfxNZUNWiM7nuwBaQ9Kg3I886bUJSty3QFTdtXj2kYWN3GOUkpghQWw8Y/s1600/Time+to+stand+and+stare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70tEjilUDt634nsGTLg90B5h-wW8p2_uy7SjyGkEB7mef_e2gI5pXZMqASZJfeJX14HtEIvwJt6h8c5cqVdyfxNZUNWiM7nuwBaQ9Kg3I886bUJSty3QFTdtXj2kYWN3GOUkpghQWw8Y/s320/Time+to+stand+and+stare.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Another one from yesterday - Mia and I when I was homesitting and she came over for lunch. Such a happy day together.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-15026807665489656322012-07-01T04:53:00.001-07:002012-07-01T04:53:01.792-07:00Chinese gardeners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a layout I did yesterday at our little Special Needs club (called that because of our need to eat chocolate cake, drink endless coffees and chatter all day as well as craft together!!) They are photos of the incredible gardeners who work in Shanghai. The close up of the flowers shows some lovely stuff called Clearly for Art. You stick PPs on the back, die cut, then heat the plastic side and bend the flowers to shape, giving a good 3D effect. Lovely stuff!<br />
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Thanks to Total Papercrafts for their usual superb kit! <br />
<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-57815354105730994112012-07-01T02:05:00.001-07:002012-07-01T02:05:48.236-07:00OK - so I am showing off again!!My garden is looking simply wonderful at the moment, probably due to all the rain, so I thought the least I could do was share it with you all!! Justifiably proud I am.<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-26151416573179408412012-05-21T08:02:00.001-07:002012-05-21T09:19:42.801-07:00Thriving on neglect!You all know how much I have been away this past six months and my little haven of a garden has still done me proud. Here it is, thriving on total neglect, and still looking as though I have worked my socks off out there!! No justice, is there?<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-86185834767483143592012-05-17T09:45:00.000-07:002012-05-21T09:19:22.222-07:00I've been home less than a week and it has simply flown by! This was a class at the ATDML retreat ... big thank you to Jane Hewitt for this lovely class. Canvas was painted, crackle glazed, cut up, stuck on, rumpled up, etc.etc. and this is the result.<br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-16653969756273610562012-04-30T05:06:00.000-07:002012-04-30T05:06:04.424-07:00French homesitOh gracioous - just got started on making a blog and they go and change everything! Took me ages to find the place for a new post.<br />
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Have been finishing off some of the projects I started at ATDML and have had plenty of chances too, because it is probably the worst weather I have ever had here! Occasional bright days but mostly just tipping it down with rain. <br />
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Anyone who knows me and my scrapping style will know I love to handcut flowers and hand make them too so had a really good chance with the layout class taught by Karen Moss. Here is the result:<br />
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The second picture is the wondrous view from my bedroom one morning last week! Nice view to wake up to, I think. <br />
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<br />Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16139017335343733040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196484938756814572.post-11540811425752312112012-04-17T09:49:00.000-07:002012-04-17T09:49:49.056-07:00Layouts from Retreat last weekendHere are a few I did over the weekend. Amazing what you can achieve when you try!!<br />
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Next I went to stay with a friend in Finchley for whom I had designed a garden and we had three days of planting it all up, weeding, organising, etc.etc. with a fair bit of eating and drinking - oh, and chatting too! Again, another week with no scrapping.<br />
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Went to an all-day crop today though and made up for lost time, completing several challenges I had outstanding. This is a layout I did from a team-mate's sketch challenge where one member of the team does a sketch for the month and the rest of us do a layout looking vaguely like the sketch!! Another page done now for my friend#'s first grandchild's scrapbook - so thanks Emma (Little Dolphin) for your challenge. I enjoyed it very much.<br />
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Here is a layout I have done for a House Challenge on UKS. You had to interpret the word Joy and for me, it means the sight of all those fields of poppies in France - showing you don't need to weedkill everything under the sun, or we would never see these glorious flowers!!<br />
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