A new scrap room in the house

I must be the luckiest person. When we moved to this house, we have a spare room that quickly became the scrap room designate. 'A' helped put up the shelves and the new lights whilst I painted the room.

The painting took a bit of doing as the room was initially lavender. It even came with an ensuite, also painted lavender with a purple sparkly floor. The room was decorated 10 years ago when the little girl it belonged to was just 7 hence the purple sparkly floor. I am not mad keen on purple so the first job was to paint the room something else. In fact, I tried various shades of pink but went back to my trusted "Croquet" from Crown. I have used this same shade in 3 houses now LOL. I am not very adventurous.

As you walk in, I have a dining table from Ikea sitting right in the middle of the room. This table is great as it is big and yet folds away when we have guests staying. The curtains were made 3 houses ago and have been altered along the way so at least that was one short cut for me. This room is south facing and can get quite hot in the summer so I might need to rethink the window treatment.

I have a sofa (bed) behind the table with some favourite cushions.

Against one wall, I have fitted some shelving from Ikea. On top of the shelves I have various boxes that I didn't get a chance to clear and sorted. Most should fit in the boxes down below. I am aiming to clear the top ( soon, I promise myself ). When 'A' saw this he said, "I thought you'll have some shelves saved for my papers". LOL.

Christmas shopping

Are you done ? I am still at the early stage. We went to a farm shop on Saturday so the turkey is ordered. If nothing else, at least we will have something to eat LOL.


I placed a big order on Amazon last week but unfortunately it was sent to the old address. The good news is the parcel is safe with the courier so I won't be out of pocket. But due to this county not being covered by HDNL, the parcel is going back to Amazon. Next time I won't be using 1-click! You'd think we live in the stick.


I am asking for this,

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What do you think ? Isn't that a great price ? At least that is one less parcel to stay in to wait for LOL.

I have a number of things on at school this week. H is doing a christmas concert on Wed and Thurs so we are quite busy but next week A has booked a day off so we can go shopping together. Rigby and Peller has just opened in town ( complete with pointy bra!!! ) so I want to check that out. We probably won't because he will be dead embarassed.

The Wicked Cybercrop

Did you join in ? I was going to, I even bought the mystery kit but sadly we had a house full of poorly people and any thought of scrapping remained just that. I am not sure I could have glued anything straight anyway.

I am delighted to have been asked to design a class. Did you see this ?

Having just moved house, I was sorting through my stash and found myself to be in possession of a lot of ribbon scraps. This layout puts those scraps to good use.

I also managed to do the pre crop challenge. We were challenged to create a LO is the theme of "Home is where the heart is". So here it is, a LO about our 'old' house that we've just sold.

I hope to catch up and do a few of the classes once the coughs have departed LOL.

Layouts from Exhall

I have had a couple of people asked to see these layouts. I have ran out of space on UKS so here they are. I must remember to clear some space on my UKS gallery before the cybercrop. If you haven't seen it...I am doing a class for the CC. Hope to see you there.

Sneaky for Exhall

I am getting excited about the crop at Exhall this weekend ( and even more nervous LOL ). Here are some sneaks of my classes. Claire did the image for her mailing and I think it is rather COOL.

It is almost half term

Where has the time gone ?

I have been busy meeting other parents at school, going to various parents' evening, taking up upholstery, fitting out my new scrap room, doing the garden ( well, A did most of this! ), making curtains, sewing a Greek toga for H...

I have also been asked to do classes for a couple of crops YAY. Claire Wheatley (Weetabix) has asked me to do classes for her crop in Exhall (Coventry) on 25th October. I am so excited to have been asked, thank you Claire. If you go to Exhall and you see one nervous person at your crop next week, please say hello! The classes are ready, I just need some sun to photograph. I am not at liberty to disclose information about the other crop though LOL.

All the news are great but a bit dry without some pictures, right ? So here are a couple of LOs that I can actually share.

We went to see Marlins vs NY Jets game in Miami. It was our first baseball game and J had to explain the rules and the scoring to us. Ok, he was a first timer too but he acquired all these playing on Wii Sport! Next is an H LO. We were on Hunstanton Beach and H was treated like a toy by his father and brother...they buried him, carried him, put him in the water....but as you can see, he smiled through it all.

First day of school

Both of my boys are at new schools this year. J has just joined a 13+ intake so he is with many boys in the same boat. Unfortunately H has joined Year 6 at a prep school, all on his own. It is a tough year to be moving school as it is the final year of school but I know he will cope well as he is a very sociable and likeable boy.

I haven't done anything with their photos but here is another "first day" LO that was in SBM Issue 40. I wanted to take on a slightly different angle to first day by extending it to first week. J's school was part of the town of the same name...in fact, the school was the town! School buildings were set out all over the town, much like a university campus. He had to do a lot of walking to get from one lesson to another. This LO shows some of the places he had to go and some of things he had to contend with. I have also included a map of the school and his prep timetable. He was very tired by the end of the week!