Valentines Day

Feb 14th is upon us and with my knee operation looming towards us rapidly I kind of forgot to organize a card for Batch - shame on me!! Rushed home from work - got out the Nikon and fired a few shots off!! Maya was given a gorgeous T-shirt for b'day which I really want to use as inspiration for a LO! I love the funky hearts and bling watch this space and see what I come up with! Any how I did manage to make a card in half an hour and Brad loved it ;-
.....................objective achieved !

The girls argued throughout the photo session showing no love at all!! But managed to catch one decent shot together - ahhh sisters!!!

family pic

Forgot to add the family photo taken at the Bowling alley not the most flattering but the most recent! I have evil red eye

Maya's Party

Today was Maya's party at the local bowling alley. She wanted to have some of the boys from her class this year, ohh how times have changed!! There were 22 kids and the best bit was we didn't have to do anything, everything was arranged by the party coordinator!! Needless to say fun was had by all as you can see by some of the photos!

I love the bright colours of the bowling balls, can't wait to do a LO of some of these. I did manage to do a Valentine LO last night. I found an oldish photo of Brad scanned it and turned it to B&W so that I could lots of bright colours in the LO. I had some Elsie F cardstock which I sanded to the white core. Then using an EK folk heart punch I punched loads of hearts from scraos and a paper dollie. I was pleased with the end result.

Double Digits

Maya hit double digits today!!! Not sure if her turning 10 or me turning 40 this summer makes me feel worse - but I do feel older today! As the tradition now on the 7th Feb, no cake was eaten instead Banoffee Pie was made and consumed ( Maya's Fav - and far easier to make too! )

Finished my LO from the weekend - it was inspired by the ever creative and wonderful Lizzy Kartchner
I love her use of pretty colours and retro touches. I made the flowers for the page using circles of PP and punched hearts which I then inked and secured in place with a brad - dead simple but pretty!

Beach Weather

AS I mentioned before Spring is in the air - Brad and Sienna cleaned out loads of toys today. I came back from my Ballet Classes to see bags of toys & clothes ready to be passed on! I did have to rescue a few things first, including my teddy bear!!! The very nerve!!!

Here are some photos of a beach trip yesterday Maya is barely dressed but it was freezing! Love these photos too, have made a page of some of this but have to wait for some decent light to photograph it as my scanner died a death!

this and that

I have had a fairly easy going week manage to get creating but really hanging on for some new products I ordered off a http://www.acherryontop.com/ to arrive. It's been nearly two years since I last bought new stuff to play with and I need some inspiration. My scrap supplies right now almost feel as outdated as the huge bag of clothes I have just removed from my wardrobe! The good thing with chucking stuff out is that you make room for new stuff to fill it's place. Spring is definetly in the air here in Kuwait, the gardens in our neighbourhood are now blooming.

I love this time of year out here, the weather is gorgeous there is a bit of a nip in the air but my kids are happily running around in shorts and vests. Sienna had some fun doing some photos with me, she can't sit still and will pull the craziest of faces! We did manage a couple of cute shots though I love the photo with her wings!

Maya turns 10 in a couple days. She was the inspiration behind my scrapping this week, every year I try to do a fav things LO so that we can mark the changes of the years. Maya's list hasn't changed much since last year but she did include her christmas pressie, i-podtouch, as well as her clarinet . Her party is being held at the bowling alley next weekend, she

decided to have boys at her paty this year - ohh how things have changed! Guess I just have to face facts she's hit double digits she is gonna want a whole lot more besides in the years to come -Hoping I will be prepared!