Glasgow

We had a lovely weekend in Glasgow. The weather was perfect. Here we are in the park, enjoying the autum colours. Katy loves being outdoors and is usually happy to try everything.

I'm getting better at handing the camera over to George.

It was Halloween on the Friday so Katy got all dressed up to trick or treat at Fiona and Stuart's. She had been disappointed that she would miss the chance to trick or treat at home, but as it was she was totally spoiled by Fi and Stuart as always (thanks guys). Here she is as Pirate Katy.

And she also enjoyed this fab park, after getting over her fear of the super high slides.

It was lovely to catch up with family and friends, and to have the chance to spend a weekend with Mike and Sue. We had talked about them coming to Glasgow for ages and I'm really glad we managed to do it.

more crafting

All these were made using the Confections kit from Studio Calico. Looking at them all together they feel a bit samey - maybe it's the pink felt on each page!

travel layouts

Just sharing some of the pages I've done using the Via Airmail kit from Studio Calico. I'm enjoying getting some of the photos from our trips finished, this kit was perfect for these layouts. I just need to get some more journalling onto them now.

birthday day out

We went to London Zoo on Saturday as Katy decided that's what her Dad would really like to do for his birthday.

She loves giraffes and could watch them for hours. Everything else she just sees, looks at and then is like 'OK, next...' but with the giraffes we have to nag her to leave. It was such a hot day, sadly the winter coats we had brought were no more than excess baggage which we were none to happy to carry around all day. Word of warning - there are no lockers at the zoo. Anywhere.

Afterwards we went to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner, which was pretty nice. Which was a relief after some of the reviews I'd seen.

At the end of the night George was presented with a bowl of cream (yes really) so that the restaurant could sing happy Birthday to him.

a room of my own

A year ago it looked like this. Now we've finally settled on what room is what, and the 'blue room' is now my space. I love it.

Since these photos, I've put my sewing machine on this chest of drawers at the foot of the bed, and will maybe put my cricut there too.

Now all I need is a bit more time there.

the great outdoors

We've been having such lovely weather these past couple of weeks, so one Sunday we decided to get out there and enjoy it. We did the circular walk around Old Redding, which is about 3 1/2 miles. Katy moaned and moaned about doing a lon walk. The she asked if it was like a hike, so we said yes, it was just like a hike. 'Oh, I want to do it if it's a hike' she replied. See, it's all about the packaging!

It was beautiful out there, we all really enjoyed it.

Katy was very excited by the reindeers, thankyou to the kind people for sharing their reindeer food.

And with Aleida in mind, my first in my commitment to get more photos with me in.

And lastly, some layouts. The first two are using the via airmail kit from Studio Calico.

George in Sri Lanka, 1998. And below is our first stop on the Big Trip of 96-97, Sanur in Bali. Those were the days.

The layout below uses the Confections kit from Studio Calico. Love all the bright colours.
And this is using a gorgeous kit from Little Red Scrapbook.

changes

Looking back from one year to the next; Katy's first day of reception and year one. Look how much she's grown!

Don't you just love those shiny first-day-of-school shoes. Needless to say they are already scuffed.

Been in a thoughtful mood this weekend since those of us who spend time over at Studio Calico learned of the tragic death of Aleida in a car accident leaving a husband and two young children. She was a huge part of the board and was a lovely warm, kind and oh so funny woman. I looked back through some of my layouts yesterday and she had left comments on nearly every one. Recently on her blog she had been thinking about how she needed to make more of an effort to step out from behind the camera and be in more of her photos, that one day she wouldn't be here and there wouldn't be any photos of her with her kids. Apart from giving me mega shivers, that definitely gave me something to think about. And something to work towards.