I'm back

Well as it says I'm back, not that I've been any ware its just been a bit hectic with the school hols and and more decorating at Ste's mums more feeling grotty (old age) and life plotting against me.

I bought some different toilet tissue and on the packet it said lightly scented after much sniffing I did conclude that it was indeed lightly scented, of toilet tissue I must find better things to do with my time also affecting my sanity is a song Andy keeps singing its very infectious and is about going to "Bognor Regis as we have heard they are panda free", I wont go on as you may value your sanity.

Today I am putting up two pages I completed for a Jenni's CJ when I received it I realized I probably could have done a lot more on my cover and Claire's pages are lovely but I think my pages do the book justice now I am ready to post it an ready to go on the next one.I have had printer probs so I have had to improvise but the CJ rules have allowed for this, I found some swatches of fabric to use for these two LOs and also I have stitched on them.

I'm going to start blogging again from Monday the kids are back at school and I hope that nothing else will interrupt my blogging (but don't hold your breath)

I didn't post yesterday as we went to Ste Mums house I wallpapered about half of her living room and we all got force fed bacon sandwiches, fish and chips, cream eggs, cornettos, cheese and onion sandwiches, fruit bread and frosty bars (I don't think I missed any thing and no we couldn't just say no the MIL is very forceful) I was shattered after all that.
The two LOs for today are the 6x6 CJ entries I wrote about the other day they are very exerimental and I am not sure I like them The effect I wanted to achieve was free and wacky all I can say is that it is totally different from what I normally do.

The State Of Things Today

The kids where doing their paper round and some boys started hitting Andy on the head and running off but in the end he turned around and pasted one of then as on lookers where doing their usual acting big by saying " touch him and I'll hit ya " but they kept backing away he had sense to go and knock on one of the doors. In the end some one from one of the houses bought him home and Ste went and had a go at them and got an apology out of them but it still doesn't make it right. Andy is all shook up but now he is watching a film with friends.

Today I have put up another shoe related page in this book all the titles are done with an embossing stencil but as I have no patients I have inked it rater than embossing. This was the first time I used a coordinating paper throughout a book but I think I was a bit stingy with it and could have been more generous with it.

Sparrowhawk

Well it did it again! no proper title yesterday I have put that right today.
I have not got much news today as I all I have done is ironing Andy deserted us to CLC(to sit on their computers all day instead of sitting in front of the one at home)Sam is sucked in to hers but has homework to do and Ste is trying to change light bulbs in the dash of his car.I cant scrap until every one is in other wise I would have to move all my stash again for dinner.

I have found when taking photos of LOs with glossy prints on them and the light is not good to use the red eye flash setting, that is what I did for todays photo and it has turned out a lot better.

Here is the LO I was working on yesterday, I used up all my green daisys on it and I ended up changing the colour of the brads buy using a black permanent marker (which in the past I have used to colour fabric flowers).I have had a mini sewing machine for a couple of years now and I never used it but now it will be getting used a lot more, I ran through some organza ribbon and because of the tension being off it ruffled the ribbon a bit but it looks effective.
The the sparrow hawk was in our back garden the photo was taken through the window so it was lucky to get a couple of good shots

I have been to library with the kids today Andy sat an read his war hammer book and Sam chose a pile of books which will only last her a couple of days, I wanted to know if there where any scrapping books and there where only two in the whole area so I ordered it in to have a look but what I did come away with was a pile of leaflets to use in scrapping they are about all sorts of things art galleries theater venues wildlife areas and general touristy things I also picked up some free book marks and post cardy things so they may come I handy.

I started a new Lo yesterday in keeping with my out of the rut task I have set myself, this LO is to have printed media from the computer (witch took ages to get printed off as Ste hogs the computer)Now I am planing extra stuff to on it is a bit scary to do things you don't normally do but exciting to!

Todays photo is another page from my book dedicated to fake converse shoes , I used paper clips on this LO and added ribbon to some and made tags for text on others this is an idea I plan to use again , the paisley is a foam stamp coloured with pencils.This book was another of my learning projects and now I look back on them and find ways of improving them or adapting them for use in more adventurous pages.

I Must Do Proper Titles

I must start doing proper titles again the last few blog entries have been so rushed that I have forgot titles. Things have settled down a bit so there should be more regular postings (saying that I bet something will rear its ugly head and throw everything in to even more chaos).

I am getting frustrated at our old camera I have to work on every photo I take with it adjusting the brightness, contrast and the colour an now Sam has just informed me that I should be doing it on a proper monitor as the lap top screen is not as good an all the photos I put up may look glarey on a proper screen.

Today I am putting up the finished LO from the crop I went to the other week I did have to change it a bit as when I bought it home the top seemed empty but with a bit work I have rescued it.