French homesit

Oh 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.

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.  

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:

The second picture is the wondrous view from my bedroom one morning last week!   Nice view to wake up to, I think.

Layouts from Retreat last weekend

Here are a few I did over the weekend.   Amazing what you can achieve when you try!!

ATDML Retreat

Have just come back (somewhat shattered!!) from another fabulous A Trip Down Memory Lane long weekend retreat.   They seem to just get better and better and I had a whale of a time.   You always meet old friends and there's a lot of laughter goes on all weekend, as well as a chance to take fantastic classes and get all those UFOs finished too.   Managed nine layouts and a couple of mini books as well as a really lovely class by Jane working on a hinged, crackle-glazed, four sided canvas which I have almost finished and hope to complete today.   Will put some pics on here i.d.c. but meantime here's a photo of me enjoying my little craft space in the cropping room.

Do come along Nanny!

Here's another layout done yesterday and finished today.   For the UKS House Challenge this month.

Another one - am on a roll now!

After a few weeks of not managing anything at all, here's another one I did for a UKS challenge this week.   My precious "smiley boots" came into their own as you had to use a sketch, buttons and something that makes you smile ... these boots have been longing to be scrapped so it was a perfect chance!!

Easter Weekend

Well I have been fairly busy recently.   Went to stay with my brother and his wife for a few days, just about got home and unpacked when I had to repack again for a week's stay with my son Tim and his wife Maddy in their almost-ready hotel in Montelparo, Italy.   Fantastic week there (but quite hard work!!) in very hot sunshine every day.   I was getting the courtyard and terrace gardens all ready and the watering system put in.   The week flew by, but of course no time for crafting!!

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.

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.