TallulahBelles has had a revamp....

You've got to know this is one of my fave etsy shops.....

and its been renamed and has a new look....

and the pretties - wow!

Check out the gorgeous kits!!!  Beautiful!

It'll be

'first in best dressed'!!

Check it out

HERE

Paige's Birthday...

Yesterday, Paige turned 15!

I have no idea where that time has gone...

Here's the birthday card I made for her.  She loves the little dresses I make

Happy Birthday Paige!!

Remember a while ago I made Paige this Canvas and told her not to peek if she was looking at my blog... weeeeell, I got away with it! She didnt even see it!

 Concentrating hard on were she was going to put her little 'hangers' to hang her jewelry up with.

We shopped in the afternoon and visited the farm with family and went out for impromptu tea

Paige had a great day

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In the meantime

SCRAPJACK had just uploaded the Dec reveal....

check it out here

Here's my DT sample:

Hannah

And got the first 5 days of December done in my December Daily

shown HERE

Once I get the whole DDaily done I'll upload it to this blog  (big smile!)

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Miss Maggie May.....

My gentle little Cockatiel

flew away last Monday night...

I opened the back door and from no-where she flew straight out over my head and gone!

Heart-broken...

And with all the rehearsal/production going on - it was almost too much

I rang the RSPCA and they took details, had an ad in the paper all week, put her cage outside with the door open, just in case (she was used to flying in and out of it) and went round the neighbourhood and parks calling (looking like a idiot) and nothing....

Miss Maggie has deformed feet, so I thought she'd not last long with a weak grasp. But she is a 'thinker'.  She has a little witty personality and is sassy - but she also loves to be cuddled and flies to people on command.

 AND TODAY - the RSPCA rang me one week later.... she has been down at the firestation for the last day of her freedom... entertaining all the firemen and they reluctantly took her to the RSPCA!  They said she flew down and landed on one of the firies shoulder and he carried her around with him.  They wanted to keep her but knew she must belong to someone because she was so well trained!  

She's so happy to be home,

And here she is..... home at last...and eating furiously!

We still cant believe it!

Scrap Therapy and 123 Challenge

I've been very scarce lately, and trying to just get through my dt commitments as much as possible because work has been overwhelming and today is the last day in the theatre and my production has come to an end.  The rehearsals have be unrelenting, and everything so far has been going well.

I've got my December Daily waiting and ready to be scrapped in but have only managed to have photos taken in readiness so far

In the mean time, my Room Challenge is up and on the go at Scrap Therapy...

Here's what you need to do:

This is a Christmas Challenge! 

I'm only going to show you my choice of one room and the LO I've interpreted from it  

What YOU have to do ...is the the same!

You have to PICK YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS ROOM!
Then you have to SCRAP YOUR OWN INTERPRETATION of that room and upload BOTH pics so we can see what you are working with!!  Its up to you if you do a Christmas LO or not - but CHristmas would be good!  Your room choice MUST be Christmas  

Remember that :
its about using the colours. This is a colour challenge.


You could also be inspired by the design and layout of the room- or use specific elements or shapes if it takes your fancy- because when voting for a winner... if more than one person works the colour well - then how you design your LO gets figured in too! 


You may indeed do more than one room - remember though - different room - different set of colours for each (max 3 so no different to the norm except - you are choosing your own rooms!)  

This Challenge is open until 31st Jan,

so I hope that give everyone a chance to scrap those Christmas photos and have a little fun along the way! 

Here's what I came up with:

Come in and join us!

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123 Challenge criteria is up:

Word: Make

Colour: Marigold

Technique: Your choice

My technique is a background as a story for the photo so have created a little Munchkinland for this little Dorothy (Hannah) with a Yellow Brick Road feel.

After today, I'm on holidays (YAY - very big YAY) so will at last be able to scrap and bloghop and visit everyone. 

Cant wait!

xx

Let's Get Shabby Challenge #30

Let's Get Shabby's #30 is up and its all about a List!

So check here what the list consists of and the fabulous prize!!!

Here's my DT sample
It's the box. I made the little star album for Scrap Therapy and it needed a little box to go in.

My four items from the list are

Bells

Tree

Stars

Ivy leaves

Here's what the box originally looked like

This is the first coat of paint...

And after the 2nd coat and some decoration(the fun part!!)

here's how it turned out!

What a difference that made!

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Scrap Therapy

A star tutuorial

The tutorial also includes this using the star as an embellishment

And a little candle

And the result of my blind scrap

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Almost forgot to show this one

Global Scrappers Shabby Challenge

xx

 

December Daily, Lessology, Scrap Therapy....

 Its been so busy getting scrappy committments done on time, not that I mind because I love creating everyone of them  - its just a pain when work gets in the way LOL!

LESSology - Challenge # 6 Hanging Mobiles

Your challenge is to create your own Hanging Mobile

Here's what I came up with.

It was total joy putting this together and who would have thought that doilies were so versatile!

The awesome sponsor for this challenge is Nikki Sivils. The winner gets the fabulous Gingerbread Lane kit! :)

Go see how I made this mobile here

And see the other designers gorgeous creations too!

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December Daily

If you have been to Scrap Therapy to see the thread we have going over there at the moment, please do as theres lots of discussion and pics of Dec Dailys being constructed.  I've got mine completed now all ready for December 1st~!  I cant wait to start and to share the completed one here (big smile)

Here's a sneaky peeky:

Also over at Scrap Therapy we have Christmas projects on the go and hopefully inspire some organisation before December hits with all the festive flurry (another big smile)

I have had this OTP Kaiser Christmas Tree for so long, and it was about time to put it together!

You can find the details here

And  Julie's November Sketch

Julie has both a LO and a Card sketch challenge there

and the ABC's Challenge too, its 'D' this time

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Global Scrappers- Scrap That Tune

Miss Paige being silly for the camera before going to an all-girls party - all dressed up wearing a dress of mine from decades ago (now known as the  'vintage dress')!

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Just leaving you with these beautiful little roses in my garden at the moment.

They look such a picture!

December Daily

I've started mine!

Here's the covers:

I've used a fabulous Fancy Pants Transparency

And the covers from Teresa Collins Noel Kit (and a few bits of the papers)

plus glued Kraft over the very bold red and white print covers!

But mostly I'm using in the Dec Daily,

Simple Stories Christmas Kit

(please excuse my very unavoidable reflection in the overlay)

It will be finished all ready to go by December 1st, so I wont be uploading how I put the album together here on the blog - but you can see that part at:

SCRAP THERAPY

This link will take you to the beginning of the thread

where we are all sharing getting a December Daily together!

so far I've got pages Dec 1st - 14th uploaded there.
I've also put up pics of my 2010 December Daily there, and a the cover plus a couple of my pages of my 2009 one too.

Once my December Daily is properly completed with pics and journaling and final embellishments then I'll upload it here! (big smile)!

This will be my third one and I LOVE doing it!

I've Got a Little Note Above My Computer....

And that little note right at my eyeline says...

"Christmas doesn't have to be stressful'

And I'm making that my mantra this year and for once

be organised  at least plan/think about it as early as beginning of November!

I've got my December Daily on the go with my cover in bits being organsed on my scrapdesk

And I've started a thread over at Scrap Therapy to help us all get on our way with this fabby little project hoping we'll spur each other on (big smile)

I've got some Scrap Therapy

 projects to show you too...

Here's Tiff's  'Shoot It, Scrap It Challenge

and you can see the breakdown of products and how to's on this LO here

I've got a little tutorial on how to make up an OTP project HERE

along with the products used for this little star mini-album

Then there's the Room Challenge which are more like Festive Doors than rooms this time...but no matter - plenty of inspiration!!

Door #1 

Door #2

Door #3

Take a good look at all the fabulous challenges we have at

Scrap Therapy!

We upload new ones each Friday night!

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SCRAPJACKED is up too!

There's fabulous LO's to jack and from a the new dters too!

Here's my LO

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TallulahBelles is back!

If you love her gorgeous 'Pockets of Whimsy'

or fabulous dyed doilies...

Check it our HERE

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And dont forget to enter Let's Get Shabby's monochromatic challenge...

just one colour or tones of colour.... 

dont go trying to sneak in another colour no matter how tiny!!!

Thats the challenge (big grin)

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xx