flabby arms - good incentive to keep going with the diet

some pics from day out with janet & peter

I took loads of photos yesterday at Telford and at the barbecue- however I am not really happy with them. It was a beautiful sunny day so should have lots of good shots but to keep everyone from 
squinting turned everyone away from the sun 
- all their faces are now in the shade - should have used the fill flash - completely forgot about that!!!
At least I should not forget that next week on holiday - when it will still hopefully be sunny.

Here are some pics anyway. Liam refuses to have his photo taken now - its not cool at his age! I got one of him but he absolutely refused to smile!






And see how shaddowy Jessica's face is in this shot.

Our 26th wedding anniversary

Well 26 years ago - Steven & I got married.
He was very considerate with my anniversary present this year - 
see below.



What a good boy - no choccies this year! A pineapple is a much better choice.

Had a lovely day yesterday - Janet & Peter were up from Hemel Hempstead so we went out to Telford in the day and then had a family barbecue in the evening.

Something else different happened - Janet made me buy a new top and necklace. I hate clothes shopping and did not really want to buy anything but she made me try on loads & loads so 
in the end I said 'if I buy this one will you stop making me try things on!' -anyway everyone
said how nice the top was and in fact I am quite pleased with it really!



A pic of the old married couple. Steven is not on fire its just the barbecue smoke behind us!

yeah - 2lb loss tonight!

Another loss tonight - 2lb which I am very pleased with. I knew I could not keep up the massive loss of last week - but I have not done anything different - so there does not seem too be any logic in it. Only 1.5lb to go to get my 2 stone loss but as we are on holiday next week - I will miss class and put on some with all the hotel cooked food the week we come back - so maybe in a few weeks I can get there.

less haste

I rushed to get my last layout on here and even though I really liked it still felt that something was missing but could not think what - I have now found out and added to it.



I have added 'friends' title to the top of the page and it just finishes it off nicely.
I did practice inking around the edges of these Heidi Swapp ghost letters but thought it made them look too stark so left them naked.

These alphas have been a good buy as I used them on a recent layout - 'beautiful girls' - unfortunately there was only one f so I had to reverse a 't' for the f in friends. Again I think inking the edges would have highlighted this little alteration!

Talking of alterations - I have made another change to a layout I did a few days ago - celebrating Nanny's birthday. Just swapped the letters in the title to larger basic grey stickers instead of the smaller ones. I used the same colours so it looks similar but better as the letters are bigger.

Unusual pencil lines sketch tonight - just 3 small photos on a large layout - not sure about this as I really like to have my pics as large as I can - but I have some new Fancy Pants paper which is very beautiful and it seemed a shame to cover it up with big photos - so perhaps I can combine the 2 here.

the roll continues!

2 layouts in one day - wonders will never cease!



this is a pretty poor photograph of what is actually a lovely layout.  I could have done it very quickly but decided to hand sew sequins on it which has taken all afternoon. I followed another pencil lines sketch # 40 and the papers are basic grey - Pheobe. 

This weeks pencil lines sketch goes live in 20 minutes - can't wait. I love this site - 
it has given me so many ideas. Its funny with so many people following one sketch - how they are are so very different.

on a roll now!

Have done another layout - in double quick time - took about an hour and half and I like it!



This is a layout designed by pencil lines sketch no 42 and I used Mod Scraps monthly kit from January 2007. It all came together so nicely and quickly - the title is what I said as soon as I saw this photo. The pic is of Jess & Jess ready to go out to the skool daze party at the UEA LCR in May this year.

In fact we collected 200 photos from Sainsburys yesterday (£25.00) of Jessica's first year at uni and in all of them she looks very very happy. I have got loads to scrap now - I also have tons of from when she was a child - I think I need a plan or I shall be overwhelmed - perhaps I should scrap some today photos then some older ones.  or just scrap which ever I get inspiration from!

Had a lovely evening yesterday at Heather's. She is doing an album for Anna's 18th birthday in 2 years but because she works full time it is coming on very slowly- so we started another one last night. It is a lovely one of Anna and her friends last year at her birthday party. She has 2 scrapagogo kits so we used the Feb one and made a lovely layout - she just needs to add the title and journalling.

Steven & Liam went to Manchester yesterday to see the Arctic monkeys in concert plus lots of supports and they had a good time and the rain stayed off until they got in the car to come home. Steven took lots of photos of the bands but only managed to get one of Liam and that was not in the ground! Note the wrist bands he & Jonny are wearing - they were given them because they got there early and they allowed them to get in the front of the stage area so had a fab view.