Braedon on Study Ladder

Braedon is quite into Study Ladder at the moment, set up by the school for the kids to log into and do maths work, exercises set by the teacher of the class. I just had to take some pics of  him at my laptop concentrating

CALICO Ghost Town Layout

This layout is one of a set I am working on of our US holiday last year... OH Dear I can't believe I haven't scrapped those pics and now I have this UK trip this year to do too.  Oh well. I will get there I'm sure. 

Calico Ghost Town was a wonderful place in California  and was  developed in 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. I have lots of pics of Calico so chose to do a double layout which is something I don't do that much.  
I used some old corrugated cardboard and mostly products from stash.
Letters from Crafty Secrets Vintage Booklet Boys,
Cherry Arte Chipboard Morroco
Kraft Cardstock

Bents Basin and the kiddies

Some pics Aimee took at Bents Basin this weekend. Just a spot of fishing, not that they would catch anything in Bents Basin  - its just really a swimming hole.  A big swimming hole that is and quite a nice spot.
I remember it quite well, going there with a group of kids when we were teenagers. We thought we could all swim across the Basin. hmmm Ok if your a strong swimmer, Not ME,  I nearly didn't make it and even now I remember how I felt struggling to get to the other side.   But I did make it across and I'm here to tell the story.. I haven't been back since.....

So this pic is of Kody and I think Aimee had the camera set on colour replace which can replace the main colour with another colour so she ended up with purple looking water. Looks quite effective.

Kody and Mason

Our Savalloy

Well it's not really Savalloy but Savannah, she just gets called Savalloy for some reason or another.  She is the bossy one of the four chihuahua's... I bought them collars with Bandana's on them, look rather cute don't they.

 

New Blog! New Look!

Well this is my new blog for just family, house and life in general stuff.  Of course that's not to say there won't be any scrappin on here, of course will post all my layouts and other work I do.

Layout - Let Your Light Shine Through

 Love these photos of Braedon taken last year when he was in a real co-operative mood with the camera.

Can you believe I used the rest of my  Daily Grind Papers. Plus lots of other products in this layout, all of which I have tried to list below.  This layout has been sitting on my desk for about 3 weeks.  I just wanted to finish it before we left on our trip.  I love the MME Diecuts and thought they would go very nicely with the pictures of Braedon - the circle diecut I thought was appropriate and stamped the arrow pointing to "sitting", which is very unusual for Braedon.

I still plan to do atleast one challenge before we leave, will see how we go. lol  - I haven't even finished packing yet.

Anyway here is the list of products.....

Cosmo Cricket 8 x 8  Daily Grind Papers

HOTP Hearts and flowers Rubons

Cherry Art Chipboard Shapes Morrocco

Mini Manilla Folders

A to Z Scraplets Chipboard Corner

HOTP Swirl Brads

Red Ric Rac

Hessian 

Tim holtz Memo Pins

My minds Eye Laundry Line Coastal Diecut and Flirty Diecut

Carolee's Creations Random Cardstock Stickers

Open Mesh Trim Apple

Artesian Diecut

From my stash

Heidi Swapp Gel Flower
Pebbles ink I Kandee Twist Ties

Green Brad
Lifes Journey Clearly yours alphas

HOTP Stamps (little row of stars)

     

Finally some scrapping

How did that happen p - slip of the finger and the post was posted without any content.

So here are some of my latest layout -Braedon at the beach, I love the hues in the photos caused by the light on the sand.  I found some old hessian in my stash, I must have about 2 mtrs of it.  We must have collected the biggets bucket of tiny shells which I also used.  I'm just waiting on a sea charm to arrive in the post to finish it off .

Again I used a lot of my scrap papers a bit of Basic Grey, Kaisercraft.

The diecut on the left is here in the store. I also used my fav white American Craft Thickers