First Tooth!

On the way to school on Wednesday, Sienna's tooth fell out! Between tears, consoling, encouragement and finally giggles she realised that she was actually onto a winner! Daddy returned that evening and got in touch with the tooth fairy; whose visit not only guaranteed that she stayed in her bed that night she also left her a beautiful certificate. She is the first in her class to lose a tooth so is enjoying her own celebrity right now!

I am still full of cold so have not managed any scrapbooking this week - truth is I was barely coping with teaching my class. Have posted above the Last page I made using my Studio Calico kit.

Head full of cold

Batch Clan at TGI's KUWAIT

Barely able to type this but have taken that many cold/flu drugs I am rattling to day. Finished my 2 week Easter Holiday and in true Byng style woke up on Sunday morning ( 1st day back at school) with a killer cold. 9 members of our teaching staff are stuck in UK due to the Volcanic Ash cloud so no chance of me phonig in sick!

Did have a good family weekend doing our usual BRUNCH thing - basically an excuse for Naomi not to cook or do dishes a tradition now and one that I will be encouraging the family to

maintain! The interiors in the new TGI's was very cool that have some fab wall collages. Talking of walls on the way back home we stopped off at a bank and I saw some

graffiti that I couldn't resist taking a photo of Sienna with it. Just been on to Tracie Hudson's blog and she is giving away a fab RAK this month including the very inspiring Pencil Sketches book.

Pencil Lines Sketch

This week's Pencil Lines Sketch I used some Websters Pages and came up with this Family LO, which I have framed and is now pride of place on my Tibetan Blanket Chest in our lounge. These papers are hard to work with at first but when you start cutting them the possibilites with the papers are endless!!

Recently read FEB Martha Stewart LIving magazine they had this cute idea to make printed roses out of rolled up cardboard I gave it a go and came up with these two LOS above.

New Los to share!

Found a fab article in Feb edition of Martha Stewart's Living Magazine which used Rolled up cardboard to print and decorate paper and Valentine Cards had a go my self and came up with these two Los.

Badgetastic!

So having read a British Interior Design magazine - LIVING etc at Christmas I have had it in my mind to make a picture for my scrap area using badges. American Crafts do fab -self adhesive badges that make them really easy to use. My little creation took less than 20 mins - to the trained eye the heart is off centre and I did toy with printing out a heart, blowing up to A3 size then sketching it onto the canvas but for those that know me they'll know that

SLAP, BANG, WALLOP

is the way I like to go!! I am going to take it to a Framing Company to prolong it's longeviy but I am really happy with it - the kids loved it too!

Maya and Michael catching some cuddles- Maya adores Michael .

The photos above were from our Friday Brunch at the Movenpick with the Pearsons. Brad had flown back from Abu Dhabi so it was a great opportunity to chill together.

We all enjoyed our food Sienna was especially delighted as she managed to consume 2 bowls of icecream!!

This weekend has been the normal jam packed Batcheller weeklend. I finished working on the Lo below - inspired by Sienna's rockstar tendencies - she is all diva, make up, outfits and heels - her singing is a little less desired though.

I made the LO using lots of old Hambly overlays that I had. The flowers were made by puching out 3 circles, inking them and cutting out the petals, then I fixed each one with a brad.

Still one more week of Easter Vacation left and a new stash arrived from TwoPeas. My marking is still going to have to wait! Tut Tut!!

Sisterly Love or Not?

Sienna and Maya can be the best of friends but there are so many days when I find myself breaking up arguements between them! I found the title of this LO in an old story book first printed in 1974 so some of the ideals are a bit outdated nevertheless it made me smile! I don'y expect my girls to get along all the time but as along as they realise that after the fight they still have each other!

To create the LO I followed this weeks Pencil Line Sketch by Elizabeth Kartchner. I included in the Lo an extract of the text and a picture which reminded me of my two!

Sisterly LOv