some holiday photos

Blog back in business. More pics tomorrow.

blog grief

I've been disconnected for what seems like weeks as I have been incapable of remembering my google and yahoo passwords and have been locked out of here all the while. What have we been up to? Well, we've been enjoying the warmer weather, working on the garden (photos to follow soon) and trying to keep up with Katy's social life. This weekend she had a party, a tea date and chatted in church with more friends this morning. We are so glad things worked out with school in the end; she is so happy there. Getting told off for chatting more and more though.

On the crafting front, I've hardly had the chance to get to my desk, so I'm posting some older pages. The top two were made from my Little Red Scrapbook kit. This one below was part of a challenge I took part in on the Studio Calico forum; basically to scrap a photo from another member. I was sent this beautiful photo by Christi and hope she likes it.

This last one is from this month's Studio Calico kit; I loved the colours here. Katy and Daddy in Legoland.

teeth

are falling out here. Katy's first tooth came out last week and she has another one wobbling. She was thrilled to find the tooth fairy had visited, and very quick to spend the cash!

We are enjoying having Diane here this weekend, Katy loves having family to visit, especially all the extra attention she gets.

loving the sunshine and the snow

The sunshine must have come as Katy's freckles are well and truly out. We've been doing well here, just plodding along really. Now the weather is better we've made good use of the outdoor pool at the gym, which has been wonderful.

Over the late Easter holidays Katy and I had some nice days out including two trips to legoland. We were lucky that both days it was really quiet so made the most of it and went on some rides many times. We also had a great day out in London, when we went to the National Gallery, Covent Garden and to Hamleys. Katy really loves going into London, she has far more stamina for daytripping than I do.

We also had snow one Sunday in April.

a day of cropping...

...must be one of the best ways to spend a Sunday, especially when the weather isn't nice enough to do anything else. I had a great time today at the Ickenham crop, very relaxing!

Tonight it's ironing uniforms and getting ready for back to school tomorrow, Katy can't wait. Not sure she'll feel the same in the morning.

more crafty stuff

Been having a blastcreating lately, here are a few samples.

a very happy mail day

I had the nicest surprise this evening - my Studio Calico Easter swap package from April came today, and I was blown away by her generosity. Basically the swap was organised by Rebekah, who linked us up with someone else to send a bundle of Easter loveliness to. I was lucky enough to get paired with April. Look at all this stuff!

April had gone to so much trouble, all the little packages were decorated with these lovely handmade tags, all different (which I am soooo using in my layouts!).This was a fab handmade magic box - April if you read this I'd love the instructions for this!

There are two packs of CTMH stamps.

All these gorgeous handmade embellishments,

and a sofa full of paper from so many different companies.

Look at all this paper! April, thank you so much you made my day.