Lucky Heidi Grace find

I just popped into the QVC outlet shop today and found 2 Heidi Grace kits so I bought them both for £15.00, saving myself about £20 on the proper QVC prices. Both kits are rather nice so I am looking forward to using them tomorrow.  






It must have been a day for spending ( even though I don't have any) as I bought 2 Northern Nights pillows for £16.00 - again in the QVC outlet shop, which sell for £50 on the show! I have  2 already  as they are lovely but refuse to pay such high prices as on the telly.

I also went back to Anne Harvey and bought the size 18 trousers in the sale for £19.99. I tried them on again and they felt a little bit looser but still not quite right - but I don't want to pay £45 in a few weeks when I will need them.

I then drove to Telford (Wyevale craft central) and bought some craft things that I had seen when Steven & I popped there on Sunday. I bought a 2" square punch, a tag template and some small metal embellishments.

Then after dropping Liam off at Kumon I popped into Dobbies and bought a Yankie candle car freshener as my old one had run out - got ginger citrus this time - its lovely.

But enough is enough as I also bought some groceries from ASDA & Sainsburys ! I thinks that I have spent far too much today - - must not spend anymore now until payday next month - 
saw the EK sucess circle cutters at Telford I have my eye for August!

lucky ducky

Again another quick layout - I don't know whats coming over me!

I was looking through Jessica's photos for something specific and came across this one. She looks so pretty and happy I just had to use it - but when I rang her to ask her the name of the girl in the picture she said - 'oh I hate that picture'- oh well too late now.



There is some hidden journalling underneath the photo, telling how the picture came about. It was taken by a Shrewsbury Chronicle photographer when Jess and Lucy were manning the lucky ducky stall in the square as part of a fun day thing to raise money for SYT (Shrewsbury Youth Theatre). I think she was about 10 in this picture - I wish i had dated more of my photos!

I used a new technique with this layout as well - I stapled the photo in place - quick & easy - I usually machine sew them in place if I want to put a tag underneath but this was much easier.

weigh in time again!

Another good evening at SW - I lost another 3.5lb!

I am pleased with this as I have made an effort to eat a lot more this week and was worried that I would have put on! I think my theory about eating plenty is right - just have to be careful not to overdo it though.

If I can loose 2.5lb next week that will take me to my 1.5 stone loss. Is it good to have targets or not ? I will be disapointed now if I don't get it and and might have a little slip!

Some lovely Loccaitane goodies

My Locciatane TSV arrived from QVC the other day and its lovely.
It cost £36.00 + P&p so I only ordered one set but it is just so
 gorgeous that I wish I had ordered more.

I love the almond shower oil - I use it in 
the bath for a lovely smell and it makes
 my skin so soft.                                              


I liked the look of the new cherry blossom bath and body moisturiser - but when it came - it was even better - the smell is lush - really wish I had more of this. Will see if I can pick some up in the Loccitane shop in Norwich 
next week.



The lavender shower gel is OK but I prefer their soap so I am not sure how much use I will get out of this.

Some more layouts!

Well I have surpased myself with some more layouts!

Jessica's album is actually finished but when I was going through all the photos to start on the other childrens' albums kept finding loads of Jess I want to use - so I have started on album number 2 for her! Even been and bought her a new album - a lovely lilac colour one.

Well this first one about her being a football mascot was inspired by a layout in issue 28 of scrapbook Inspirations. I have copied the stripes and scalloped edge. I made the holes in the green edge with my new crop-a-dile which was quite easy to use and I think looks very effective.

The other layout is a double layout feauring our visit to Cromer, Norfolk in March 2007. This quite a palin and simple layout - but I like the soft colours of the cardstock as I think it matches the soft coloursof the photos well.

At last some scrapbook layouts

Well considering this was a joint weight loss and scrapbook blogg - it has been severly lacking on the scrapbook front but this will be rectified now. I went to a crop last Staurday run by Kathy Bridgewater at Radbrook Green community centre so had to get organised to take some things along.

this first layout was very spontaneous - just found the pictures the evning before and thought I would use them - usually each layout takes days of thinking about first so I am quite surprised at myself and I really like it.





This beautiful girls double layout was done with a Mod scraps kit featuring Autum leaves - french twist papers. they are lovely and I can't wait to use more of the kit.

I have lost my first stone!

Yes I have done it in just 4 weeks so I am feeling rather chuffed with myself at present!





My goal for last week was 1 1/2 lb which I thought I would do easily as I had been loosing 3 & 4 lbs a week. I had also had much less to eat last week as we were so busy at work and I did extra shifts so I thought I would have lost more than the actual 2lb I did loose! I should not really be disappointed with a 2lb loss but i was a little bit. I think in fact I had not eaten enough so have eaten loads this week - i bet I will end up with a gain this week. it seems to be all about getting the balance right I think - plenty of food to stop your body thinking it is in starvation mode and hanging on to the fat versus eating too much and gaining! well lets see what the scales show this week. - a loss please.


Any way had to buy myself some new trousers this week as my old ones were falling down! They were in the sale at Anne Harvey - £19.99 which I don't think is too bad as their quality is excellent. I tried on quite a few for size and found that the size 20 was just right. My trousers at present are 22 & 24 so an improvement. I did try a size 18 on but they were a bit too tight. I did not buy them which was perhaps a mistake as they were in the sale but I don't want to tempt fate and never actually reach size 18.