A Walk too far

So where was I.....oh yes it seems only yesterday I said I would be posting more holiday layouts and before I know it a month has gone by. But in my defence it's been super busy at school, lots of crafty projects and a week away with the year 6 to Devon experiencing surfing, climbing, zip wires, kayaking and lots more bruises. Any how here's a layout about a walk to a waterfall that ended up in just a little to far and tricky. But fab photo's of Robert chillin next to the cascading water. Used diamond glaze on the butterfly stamp and inked Thickers alphas, lots of gems My Minds Eye and Anna Griffin papers.

Relax

Rest, refuel and relax.....a snapshot of a day in Slovenia. The other snapshots will consist of beer,cake, ice-cream, walking, cycling, waterfalls,mountains and bruises! Well I didn't take a photo of the bruises (received when braking on a bike that had too sharp brakes).

But now it's back to reality and work.....ugh. So here's the first layout of the holiday pics Using Bo Bunny Beau Jardin Wine paper, Making Memories Passport range fabric tag and lots of buttons. If you like, leave a crafty goodness message.

Rocky Road

Nearly time for our annual summer holiday and I soooo can't wait. I so need this holiday and looking forward to the familiar views of Kranska Gora in Slovenia. We just love this place and it's not just the cakes, beer and the Milka chocolate but the village has a really comfortable feel to it. We still like to visit new places and last year tried Slovakia (yeah we are trying all countries starting with S). Being at such a higher altitude the views from the top of the mountains were stunning but it was just too rocky to have a pleasant walking experience. Hence back to Slovenia as the other European alpine countries (Austria, Switzerland and Italy are just too expensive. Anyhow back to scrapping, here's a layout about Slovakia's rocky paths that was featured in this months Scrapbook Inspirations on the readers page. Love the natural tones I used and the naked alphas inked with a Stazon ink (because I'm too lazy to get the paint's etc out). Well back to planning our walks and cycling routes for the holiday......have you ever tried cycling up 1000 foot gravel path, it's not easy!

Candy Cakes

Couldn't stop myself from smearing my face against this cake shop window when we spotted it on a recent trip to Covent Garden. Not only where the cakes a sugar addicts dream but the pretty pastel coloured window and frontage was just too dreamy not to be scrapped. It made a good excuse to use pink in a layout for a change. Loved the Bo Bunny Blush Dot and the K & Co Citronella Cloudy papers. Don't know if you can see in this photo of the layout but you can see our reflections in the window. There's me taking it, Nigel looking away waiting patiently, Archie (Robert's friend) coming back to see what we are looking at and Robert's face beaming while eyeing up which one he wants. A happy accident of a photo.

Smile it's the holidays!

Well not quite the summer holidays yet but 4 working days and counting. It's been a really busy two weeks at school as we have been doing extra activities because it's near the end of term and because of our 'Health and Well Being Fortnight'. Managed to introduce my year 4 class to scrapbooking this week. The challenge was to make an A4 layout on 'Things that make me happy'. Had a sort out of all my scrap patterned paper and took in my flower punches. Other than those supplies I tried to show them a layout using only school stock. We had Lot's of raffia and sequined waste, so that was good. I also raided B&Q at the weekend for paint charts for our journalling. A good time had by all.

So as it's nearly end of term I made my thank you cards for colleagues who either I need to thank for their support or time in the gardening club, cycling courses etc. Or colleagues who are also friends and deserve to be reminded how I treasure their friendship and make work a good place to be on those stressful days.

So here they are...............

By the way to all you parents out there, T.A's hate being called 'The Helper' because as you can tell we do so much more, usually in our own time. (sorry to moan but it's the end of term feeling!)

Robert @14

Finally photographed some of my recent layouts. This was Robert enjoying his carrot birthday cake back in May. He's a funny boy at times, here's me thinking I could get away with a brought chocolate cake from the supermarket, but oh no Robert has other ideas. He wanted carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, no problem, got out my Mary Berry Cake Book (the baking queen in my opinion) and it was finished in a flash. Finished it off with a sparkler as we sang happy birthday but I didn't know you had to have special indoor sparklers, so hoped that the grandparents couldn't notice the ash from the sparkler (what with the poor eyesight). Anyhow had fun glittering odd chipboard alphas (loving the glitterness but not the mess, look like I've been to a 70's disco night with it all stuck to my face). Used the Core Definitions Card stock for the first time, wasn't really that impressed with it. Maybe I need to be more rougher with it. Any suggestions let me know. Talking of letting me know, please feel free to leave kind comments. it would be nice to know I'm not blabbering to myself. Thanks.

Ooh Pretties!

Last half term we took a trip down to London to visit a few of our fave. shops............layouts to follow.

While we were there I wanted to track down a haberdashery shop, VV Rouleaux that's been talked about recently in various mags (SI) and fashion TV programmes (Gok)..... I luv Gok! Anyhow it was one of the first warmest days this year, the tube was packed and my new sandals were giving me gip! But we eventually found it tucked away..........Ooh it's lovely. The only thing is that I have a habit that when i have too many choices and a small budget I end up not buying anything. In the end I just chose a few metres of ribbon that I knew would match some recently purchased papers and a feather butterfly. Some of the heaver braids and more fancier lace are pretty pricey but good to browse through. What i liked the most was that the butterfly they wrapped up in an inflated plastic bag so it looked like one of those fish you win at the fair! (I know your thinking how sad, but I thought it was cute). So I will leave you to coo over my purchases while I get going with some scrapping using those scrumptious ribbons and butterfly.