Things are looking up..

I have finished a layout, read another book and my laptop has been returned. So I have been very busy and the Norwich break laundry / ironing is still staring at me and being completely ignored!



I wanted to scrap some immediate photos so that my journalling could be more meaningful. Usually it says "I can't remember how old you were in this pic or what you were doing etc" so I wanted to document how I feel now, so chose this lovely photo of Jessica and Dad walking on the beach at Holkham on Monday. Jessica is a very touchy feelly girl and loves to hold our hands even though she is 19 and I wanted to record this lovely attribute. I hope this layout does it justice. I like most of it - just not sure about the journalling block. It was meant to go along down the right hand side with the 'hands' word along the bottom, but I could not fit in all that I wanted to say. I tired it on white printer paper first but that looked even more silly than this. I think I will have to dig out my clear acetate and try printing on that again.

I used Brown Bazzil cardstock, Basic Grey Arachaic PP and used the Sure Cuts A Lot software to cut the title on my Cricut - using Curlz TM font.

It is lovely to have my laptop back - now I can make a start on sorting out all my photos for the Gogo Getaway. Just had an email to say there are a couple more classes been added for Friday evening. These are sponsored by ScrapGenie so we won't have to pay for them - which is great -I have to find photos for 6 classes now which should keep me busy.

Having really enjoyed the Book Thief novel I thought I would read another one as my reading material is usually non- fiction.

This one was OK, but certainly no where as good as The Book Thief. This is a strange story about a woman who gives birth to twins, the girl having Downes syndrome. Her husband (a doctor ) delivering the babies, decides in the emotion of the moment to send this baby away and tells his wife that her daughter had died. The story follows the events of their lives, but it does drag on a little bit and I felt I had to keep reading just to get to an interesting part. I felt that the author was trying too hard sometimes. Anyway I have passed it on to Jess to read now - so it will be interesting to see what she makes of it.