New Year's Eve

Dec 31st

Sitting on the computer with my cat watching me type. Too shattered, too boring, too old!!! ha ha to go party! Family all jet legged and asleep it seems to have the opposite effect on me. So haven't written on here in a while and need to update about to make the usual boring resoloutions all of which i will fail at by wk 3 of JAN

SO - Blog and scrap more reguarly make time to create
Find patience wiTh my children and those that I care for
Shift that arse yep weight and my sedate approach to things.
KEEP off the FAGS
GET organised - use note books and phone to remember deadlines and stuff!!! Clean out
and throw out !!!

Enough I think ! Achiveable well we will see!!

January 18th

Weekend!!

Ok I'm a teacher and I know to many it seems like we have permanent holidays but I am so glad it's the weekend!! We have had a great week busy but great!! Why great ? WELL Sienna has only had 1 or 2 hissy fits as opposed to the normal 8 - 10. My Drs appt showed some signs of improvement on my leg / wound. Brad had a DR appt and all his general check up tests came back clear. So all is well in the Batch household - for now ( hee hee )

I have had a fairly productive week scrapping and have managed to keep on top of the 365 which really is prooving to be a challenge. Have also started doing the Elsie 52wk challenge at UKS - glutton for punishement I think!

Want to share some of my creations - Last weekend I finished a 6x6 book for my friend's mum the fab camel photo was taken at our BBq in the desert.

The Photo of Maya on the Harley was taken 2 summers ago in MT . Used loads of ribbon to back the photo then embossed the large flower. I used Hambly circles to fit with the circle theme of the page

The family portrait

So i am still doing the 365 challenge. Have impressed myself at keeping on task working fulltime and doing this is a challenge . Yesterday's prompt was to include a few more family members . My girls were bribed and changed and then spent then next 40 mins laghing and jumping on the bed. Sienna would not sit still eventually I got a shot that was ok ( see it on my 365 blog ). Looking over the pics this morning I realised there were some classic shots . Have shared them here but believe me some were priceless!!

For the UKS site I completed a lo - using a sketch, stitching, somethingnew, 3pps, and a doodle

Pics of Sienna were from last week - loved the colours in the pics

Jan 6th

Back to work today - a bit of a shock to the system but made all the more sweeter with news that the Islamic New Year will be on Thursday so we have an extended weekend - woo hoo!

My 365 blog thing had become a bit of an obsession - have got to scrap the last few days in to my G Journal.

This weekend was major clean up in the Batch house Brad rearranged the entire kitchen and I the sitting room - obviously that spring cleaning nonsesnse has some ring of truth in it. Sienna's reaction to the spring clean was, " Mummy wow we have a new place !!! " cute!!

The girls had their last blast in the park before school took some fab shots of Sienna bolting around like a nutter.

Came home tonight to see her totally wrapped in a book in Maya's room I snapped awat with the camera and she varely noticed me - wish she could be as chilled as that a little more often!!

Uploded some pics from tonight and park and a shocking photo of me which I used in my 365 project - clink on link opposite MY365.

ENFYS FLOWER

My fellow teamie on UKS is one of those super talented all rounders!!! I admire the hell out of her because what she can do with a needle would make a brain surgeon pale in significance. I was v. grateful for my recent Crimbo present from which was a pair of Daisy earings - however I couldn't let them go to waste on me so they got scrapped tonight ( well one of them did )

Check out her web by clicking on the link opposite. Rainbow Designs

Day 3

I am posting my 365 pics in a separate 365 blog - see links under 365 ( my 365 )

I'll post todays here then after that I'll just keep them on the other blog and leave this for my other scrapping and rambling stuff.

Took the kids to Green Island today a man made island made into a park in Kuwait the kids had a great time I got some fab photos of Sienna zooming around will try and scrap one later.

Finished my 365 journal cover last night - that was so fun to do. Used decoupage glue and finish to adda cool waxy effect tothe book. was flicking through Elsie's 52 book last night and was inspired by a LO hence the cover , covered in G's for GNOMES - thankfully g's are an alpha I have plenty of!!!

day2 365

Here is day 2 for 365 - BLUR