Favourite things

I'm still running a day behind but at least i'm still going!

Things I love are:
1. Lush : I love their bath ballistics and bubblebars.

2.Lensbaby Lenses: Take a look at the Lensbaby group on Flickr or the official Lensbaby website. I love the effects you can get and have bought myself a set of optics to play with.

3.ArtsyCraftsy weekends: run by Leandra from Paperartsy and Linda from LB Crafts. They always come with the most amazing projects.

4.Tim Holtz - so inspiring

5.Craft time with my friends - we try to get together at least once every month. Sometimes we don't get much creating done but it's great to get together!

A Perfect Day (Almost)

I'm hoping to keep my blog a bit more uptodate with the help of Shimelles latest class - Blogging for Scrapbookers.

Thinking of a memorable day recently - in July my sister and two nieces came to visit me it London. I usually book us theatre tickets but thought this time we'd do something different - so I booked us tickets for Eurostar to Paris for a day trip. I was a bit worried that it would be a struggle to get the girls out of bed so early but they both surprised me! We made it to St. Pancras in good time, bought some breakfast from M&S and got on the train. The journey was so much quicker than I expected.

We decided to take the metro to the Louvre but the map looked so confusing, but we then spotted a help point - they were so helpful, provided us a map and marked out the route to take and where to change. I'd recommend using the metro - just ask for instructions its not as scary as it looks.

Heather and Lorna wanted to see the Mona Lisa, so we followed the signs and crowed into the room - I've seen it before but still surprises me that it's smaller than I expected. After we'd managed to squeeze closer to get a better look the girls had had enough of culture and wanted to go outside and sit by the fountain in the courtyard - I could easily have spent most of the day wandering around the gallery but this trip wasn't just about me.

It was such a warm day it was really good to sit by the fountain and we all stuck our feet in to cool down a bit. After we'd relaxed for a while we decided to walk down by the Seine, we ended up walking all the way to the Eiffel Tower - the girls did moan a bit - don't normally like to walk very far :) (To be honest shouldn't really have got annoyed as it was a really long walk on a very hot day)

The queues were just soooo long to go up the tower so we decided to have icecream instead - and then it started to rain - very heavily for about 5 minutes!
By this time we were all footsore so decided to take a sightseeing cruise down the Seine - this was wonderful, relaxing and very enjoyable.


It was then time to head back to the station when the cruise ended, we walked up to metro and stopped to watch some street dancers for a while - a surprise ending to the day.

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Originally uploaded by inky_yvonne

Bought myself a Lensbaby Muse with double glass optic and creative aperture kit. Only got it yesterday so went out to the park to play with it today. Take a look at my flickr slideshow on the sidebar - click on a photo and it will take you to my Flickr gallery page.

Painting with Light 2

Signed up for Cheryl Johnson's Painting with Light the sequel photography course and have been having fun with the the challenges each module brings! I would recommend any of Cheryl's course - take a look on her website http://www.feelgoodphotos.co.uk/

A few of my photos here:

More Projects

A few more photos of the projects I made on Easter sunday:

A Crafty Easter Sunday!

Many thanks to Bibi for hosting our craft day on Easter sunday! Had a lovely day - from 11:00 am to 10:00pm we crafted to our hearts content. I made little easter treats - acetate sour cream cartons stamped with paint dabbers and filled with mini eggs.


It was Bibi's birthday on the 10th and I'd planned to make a cupcake tower but the stand didn't arrive so just made cupcakes - they did turn out well though :)

We managed to do a few projects, a clock kit from Cleo's undomesticated scrapbook kits, Bibi bought us all a chipboard monogram, Sam bought us a mirror and I bought little tin pails(didn't get round to doing anything with that yet)and I altered a wooden birdhouse I bought from Paperchase.

February - already!

Happy 2009, I know i'm a bit late :) Had found it really difficult to get back into the swing of things after having time off for Christmas but back to normal now. This weekend was UKScrappers Cybercrop - a Murder Mystery themed one this time, I was a CSI! Didn't manage to meet the deadline for most of the classes but did manage to earn 100 points for the Mystery kit I'm really pleased with the way it turned out.

The other 3 LOs I completed were based on 3 classes from the CC.