{Lists}

Things to know about me.

1. I am not organised

2. I love lists

3. Point 2 helps facilite me to be more organised (point 1)

Recently I have seen more list based prompts or ideas for scrapbooking - Yay.

And where better for me to record some of these list style journalling than on my blog!? huh? I have been looking at 30 days of list & the list it products from ella publishing.

I'm hoping that I can then use my lists or journalling from these random prompts to actually turn into pages (like I don't already have enough to do?!)

I am not intending this to be a regular ( i.e every tuesday I will....) Again I am not orgnised!! but I like the idea of being able to write something, think about journalling or ideas for pages and it not be hidden away in my notebook (some might still be kept hidden away!)

Todays thoughts (in list form!)

I am happiest when

• I am with my husband
  



• I am being a mum
  



• I am baking
  



• I am crafting (scrapbooking, knitting, crochet etc)

• I am snuggled on the sofa with my boys



• I am watching a good film

Pictures taken on my phone recently.

That's it.

L

{Saturday Crop}

I have been a member of this crop in Cheam for nearly 4 (maybe even 5) years now. We meet once a month in a community hall in Cheam. It really is a lovely bunch of women. We are all loud, like to chat, the majority all drink tea (all with no sugar) and the majority also love the fact the community hall is next to a Sainsburys and a Starbucks!

It has been a long time since I have been able to go to the crop for the whole day on Saturday. Due to childcare, events (baby showers, birthdays and seeing take that in concert) and also with wedding prep. But this Saturday I was able to stay all day. It was a couple of the ladies birthdays recently so we had a little lunch and some cake.

I had packed up a few page kits (more that I could complete in a day) but managed 1 double layout and 3 single layouts - and seeing as I had a very slow start catching up with everyone, showing wedding pics and seeing my lovely friend Michaelanne and her new baby boys Jimmy.

I am a little worried about scrapping the wedding to be honest - so I did not do any of those layouts! So i did scrap my hen and some of Maxwell.

 This was using the starting point layout which can be found over at www.shimelle.com each weekend!

 This is a double layout - which I have not done for ages! and It took me a while - but glad I have been able to document some of the details from my Hen. I had two parts this nice civilised afternoon tea - which was then followed by a trip in a hummer out to a vodka bar!

Here is a little pic of one using M nursery pics - the main pic I took was not so good - but you get the idea!

 And finally...

A bottle of tea, yes he has it. in the morning with me having a cuppa - his is a very weak milky tea. But like mother like son. Now to tackle some actually wedding pics. Or maybe not?!

{It has been...}

18 days since my last post. Geez where has the time gone!?

It has also been almost a month since I became a married woman! Exciting times.

In that time I have been doing some crafting. Some scrapbooking, some sewing and some knitting. Last year I attempted to knit M an advent calender made up of mini stockings, however I am a novice. However I am now making an even bigger attempt to finish them by this Christmas, and I will post pics when they are done (hopefully) by December 1st!!. (there is a reason behind me telling you this promise!) I had been tweeting about the fact I am a slow knitter and that I wanted to complete this project  - and two rather lovely ladies Heather and Jen (who are also friends are the rather lovely Rach!) During the random twittering about my knitting socks - I commented on this blog post by Heather in which she talks about reconnecting with an old friend by letter - like actually real pen and paper letter and not text,email,tweet or facebook status! This made me smile - actual pen pals - did you ever have a pen pal? I remember having holidays and then writing letters to friends you had made on these holidays! Where have pen pals gone? Replaced by facebook me thinks.

Anyway I digress - In this conversation I said to Heather I would love her address so I could write her an actual letter too. We had had conversations over the previously mentioned social media networks but I wanted to write a letter. This exchange took place.

In between all this, my lovely friend Rachel had told Heather (whose crocheting is awesomesauce!! on many levels) about my blanket I was making on our recent trip away scrapbooking. This is totally a work in progress made up of odds and ends of DK yarn in bright colours (fact about me, I crochet way better than I knit and I do enjoy a bit of yarn related crafting - less messy but more stressful sometimes, and a lot slower!) Well Rachel had mentioned to Heather that I would love some DK yarn to add to the blanket. Well guess what came in the post.....

 A lot of lovely yarn, which will most definitely come to some good use in my blanket. And yesterday in the post, a card full of real handwriting!! and some lovely letters spelling out Maxwell (soon to be making an appearance in his room) Rachel has also donated some lovely yarn to my cause too!!

 So now I need more lovely stationary to send a letter back (this is writing etiquette obvs!) and as a request from Heather - my work in progress blanker. The pattern can be found here. But I think I will do mine horizontal instead of vertical.

It is a bit crazy in colours I know!! But I like it.

Enjoy your Sunday peeps! xx

{10 Facts about 'The' Wedding...}

1. I like the refer to it as 'the' wedding - you know like 'the' royal wedding!




2. My flowers were Calla Lille's, Gerber as, Roses and Lisianthus - and some diamante obvs!




3. I wore a lot of bling in my hair and had a lot of shimmery prettiness all over me!




4. K had a special wedding car of a Ford Mustang 1946 (I think) He is a real American muscle car fan




5. I had 3 bridesmaids (in 3 different colours!), a baby flower girl and K had 3 best men (also colour coded!) and Maxwell of course!




6. Our first dance was to Chakka Khan, 'Ain't Nobody'




7. I wore pink shoes and K had orange socks!




8. My something borrowed was the tiara I wore, my something blue was 'I Do' gems on the soles of my shoes, my something old was a bracelet which was my Nan's and my something new were my earrings from bridesmaids.




9. We had two cakes - a cupcake tier and a traditional Jamaican Rum cake 3-tier.




10. Our photos were taken by the very awesome Shimelle and SJ. (And check out Shimelle blog for some of the pictures Yay!!!)