365/day 5

It's freeezing here! Forecasters are optimistic we'll get up to 1 degree today. London should not be this cold! My day 5 photo was snapped during one of my brief trips outside, the tree looks so sad doesn't it.

365/4

This girl needs to go to bed I think :)

top 8 of 2008

I was challenged to post my top 8 layouts of 2008. It was hard to narrow these down from my favourites which totalled about 15, but these are today's favourites. I would probably choose a diferent set tomorrow.

This is an early photo of me with a nose in my book.

Katy's habit is to twirl her hair when she's tired, she actually does this less now that she used to so I'm glad I caught it.

A couple of very early photos from Katy's 2nd ever day. I think this is from a sketch but I forget now from where.

Our first of many trips to legoland.

Prima goodies here, I loved doing all the cutting for this one.

My scrap desk before I moved to the new room, I actually got a lot done here.

Not much product on this one but I like the result. There was actually a disaster on this page as I had originally used a grid rub on to the right of the photos but it was a horrible mess, wouldn't come off the backing then cracked and stuck everywhere, so I had to cover it with the swirls. I'm glad it happened!

The last one is much more muted in colour than the others, but I like the softness.

365/day 3

I haven't stepped foot outside the front door today, well apart from dragging the dried remains of our tree outside, so I had to look at the closer environment for today's photo. This orchid had all but died but a colleage persuaded me to wait and lo and behold a few months later it bloomed again. So it sits happily inside my front door. Makes me happy to see it there.

introducing 365 days of photos

Last year I read about this pretty hefty challenge - to take a photo a day for the whole year, and now that I have figured out how to use my phone camera effectively I thought I'd give it a try. I know my chances of getting a photo onto the blog once a day are slim, but if I uploaad in batches every few days I might do better. It seems to me to be a really interesting way to get the little details of life recorded, and will maybe get me off the auto setting on my camera.

So here are my first offerings

Jan 1st and 2nd

Yesterday's was taken at the station on our way into London, Katy enjoyed looking at the tree and catching up with a friend in Trafalgar Square. Here she is trying out her Christmas present.

Happy New Year

We had a lovely Christmas. We're going into London today to see the Christmas Tree in trafalgar Square, so that will wrap Christmas up for us nicely.

a whole month

...has gone by in a flash! Where did that go? Well, first was my birthday. For this day out Katy chose the National Gallery, we spent a nice morning there looking at the paintings. Afterwards we wandered to Covent Garden and did some Christmas shopping. There were some great street performers entertaining the crowds, we really enjoyed one of the shows in particular. Dinner was in Belgo, a fab Belgian restaurant where Katy decided she loved moules. She was also partial to the chocolate ice cream.

After dinner we walked up Regent Street admiring the Christmas lights, Katy was particularly enthralled by the Hamleys windows. Who can blame her when they have life size Barbies there.Then December came and the start of the advent calendar routine. Katy gets out of bed and this is the first thing she does. She then scoots downstairs to open the two she has there too! Check out that morning hair! Brushing this is what we fall out over the most.

One day we saw a rainbow....

and another day we bought and decorated the Christmas tree.

Added to that have been 4 performances (2 drama club Wizard of Oz shows and 2 class Christmas shows) and an open ballet lesson. We are so so ready for the holidays now.