Wedding Brag Book Pages three, four, five and six

Here are a few more pages from the wedding brag book, I am really loving scrapping at this size and might well have to do it more often. Don't think you can beat the huge sizes for lots of journalling though.For some reason photobucket is linking me to the original image with the lilac text not the fixed version with the black text so just incase you want to read it, (edited to add now its working correctly typical lol)
Journalling reads: You have spent ages getting ready, hair andmake up done Tiara firmly pinned to head dress and shoes are on and youare ready toleave all thats left is to be nervous.
Credits:Layered template by Wendyzine, From This Moment by Rina Kroes, Always by Jen Reed and Journalling brushes by Atomic Cupcake.This one I actually made last night and wasn't sure if I liked it so I saved it as a work in progress and went back to it today, amazingly it survived completely untouched lol. Credits: From This Moment Rina Kroes,Shiny Papers Vicki Stegall,Wedded Bliss Peggy Brutcher,Ad Challenge 30th July Kelly Mize,Paper by Denise Docherty, Dotty Fun Layered Template from Building Blocks Brag Book 3 by Heather Heinzer.

Credits:Layered template by Wendyzine, From This Moment by Rina Kroes.

Credits: Layered template by Wendyzine, From This Moment by Rina Kroes, Tranquil by Jeannie Papai,December Fun by Terry Hines and Paper by Denise Docherty.

Will update with some more as soon as they are done.

Wedding Brag Book Page Two

As you may have noticed these pages are in a completely random order, I am scrapping whatever appeals to me or I have the energy to work on at the time.

I do have a huge thank you to extend, in all my vast collection of Digi Stash I couldn't find any suitable wordart, I posted over at Digishoptalk for a ideas of where I could find something suitable and a very lovely lady made me the perfect thing (well actually she made me two perfect things the other one will go on another page lol) so huge thanks to Janet Lawrerence aka as you wish, you rock!

Credits: From this moment by Rina Kroes, Tranquil by Jeannie Papai, 2UwithLove contribution by Traci Reed (recoloured), Father Of The Bride wordart by Janet Lawerence, Layered template by JennV

Wedding Brag Book Page One

I'm working on making Brag Books for the family with the wedding pictures in them. But so far the computer seems to be conspiring against me. This week I have lost 6 layouts. 3 when photoshop randomly froze up and/or closed itself, 1 when Lukas turned the computer off by accident earlier, 1 when we had a power cut and 1 because the menu bars in photoshop wouldn't work and I couldn't save it very frustrating.


But anyway here's the first page I have managed to complete.

Credits: Layered template by WendyZine, From this moment by Rina Kroes and Atomic Cupcake chalked action. Font is 2peas Hearts Delight.
Hopefully I will have a few more to share with you tomorrow.

Do you ever get the feeling

That there are not enough hours in the day? Not enough days in the month and not enough months in the year to achieve everything you want to do?
See my love of digiscrapping is simple, its my release from all the stuff I don't like in my life. I can do it while Lukas is at school, playing his games consoles, watching tv or doing anything else that makes him happy. I can scrap when insomnia hits and I cant do anything else at night,I can indulge in my happy while they indulge in theirs, but what I can't do is scrap without feeling guilty. I feel guilty that I am not cleaning, tidying etc but I just don't have the energy and before I know it I have made a layout (if i'm lucky) and it's time to pick Lukas up from school.
But men don't seem to feel guilty, a great example Mark played the playstation almost the whole day yesterday, Conor and Lukas were in the room with him and wrecked the place, he was completely oblivious to it all. He didn't care about all the hours he had spent doing nothing and never even noticed the huge pile of washing that needed to be put away or his dishes everywhere. This isn't a rant about him it's just I don't get it.
I start out at the beginning of the month and I think, I need to scrap this and I want to scrap this, I would like to take parts in these challenges and then come the end of the month I have a folder full of layouts, but none of the ones I thought I would have in their lol.
I have reduced my workload and commitments because I couldn't keep up. I am no longer part of the New Crew team at UKS, and there are various other things I no longer do. Yet I am still struggling, my energy levels are through the floor, all the doctors keep telling me to come back {insert timescale here} and sometimes I just think do you know what I don't actually want to drag all the way back down to see you, I don't want to waste my precious time being asked how my mood is when all I really want is help with the pain or the tiredness I don't care about being a miserable cow. When I am stood in queues in shops I think I could be doing so much more with my time, but I just don't have the energy and tonight thats really annoying me. I'm tired but I can't sleep and its not more hours in the day I want at all its just more energy to use in the hours I do have. Right now I think I am going to threaten my husband that if he doesn't stop snoring he will be sleeping in the garden lol

ADSR Week 5

Challenge 9 Oscraps

Complete an 'All About Me' page with advice that you would give to your childhood self.

Amazingly enough I managed to scrap this really quickly, not only would this serve as great advice to myself as a child it will make a great future reminder to myself. Am I confusing you yet? Once you see the layout you will understand a bit better.

Hopefully you can read the journalling if you can't leave me a comment and I will add it for you. Credits: Sunshine by Miriam Lima, Layered Template by Liz Newberry and Happiness quote by Michelle Ramsey. Fonts:TullysHand and Pea Donna.

What other news do I have to share with you today? I haven't scrapped anything else well I have but photoshop munched it. So need to redo it tomorrow. I have made a small decision today, I think I am going to restart doing blog prompts on here, it gave me something to ramble about. Some of them would make amazing Book Of Me pages as well.

January seems to have flown by and with all the wedding and feeling so rubbish all the time I don't seem to have achieved much. I have scrapped a bit, but I don't think I am anywhere near my goal of one layout a day.

I suppose instead of sitting here thinking of ways to ramble I could put the washing away, or clear the desk, pick up the rubbish or go to sleep. There's lots of things I should be doing but I just can't be bothered.

More Layouts to share.

When I can get Hello to work properly I will go back to using my scrapping blog for layouts rather than swamping this one.

First up I have this one for you. A little something I put together for mark for Valentines Day.

Credits: Pajamas 4 Love collection and Lovey Dovey Layered Sketches by Traci Reed.

Next I have something featuring my very special little man.

Credits:Layered template by Kelley Macdonald.Baby Boy Oh Joy by Royanna Lea Fritschmann

Font is: Lucida Sans

Since I can't scrap one little man without the other

Credits: My Boyz All That by Royanna Lea Fritschmann and Crazy for Chipboard by ScrapFX.

Font is 2peas GG Mix

And I figured you might like one of them together.

Credits:Angel Baby by Royanna Lea Fritschmann (recoloured), Artistry by Krista Mettler, Always by Jen Reed, Brilliant by Retrodiva (recoloured). I also have a few of some of the other special people in my life. Ella - the pictures in both of hers were taken at the wedding and Ella and Conor - pictures were borrowed from Lisa for her calendar I still haven't got around to finishing lol

Credits:QP by Kelley Macdonald (recoloured)

Font is OrsonsHand

Credits:Amy's Texas Princess by Traci Reed,Layered Template and eyelet lace by Amy W, Angel of nostalgia by Royanna Lea Fritschmann (recoloured and glittered by me), Candied Christmas by Miriam Lima (recoloured and glittered by me), Another Try by Retrodiva (recoloured) and Diva by Daniella Puess.

Fonts: 2peas Hearts Delight and Pea Johanna Script

Credits: Au Natural by Denise Docherty and Distressed Nouns by Merkely Designs.

That's definately enough for now lol.

Another race week over

So sad that's its nearly all over, thankfully I am still going to be overwhelmed with inspiration thanks to the new challenges at Digiscrapdivas. 15 challenges are posted on the 1st of the month and you have until the 15th to complete them, then 15 new challenges are posted on the 16th and you have until the 30/31st to complete them. Each round of challenges earns you parts of a kit. Works just like the challenges used to at Scrapmommies. Anyway I am rambling.
So you have already seen my entry for challenge 7 if not go back to this post http://lukasmummy.blogspot.com/2007/01/adsr-week-34.html.
For challenge 8 I didn't actually have to do anything since it was a roadblock meaning whoever did the challenge at Elemental Scraps didn't have to do this one.
So since I have nothing to show you from the race, I will leave you with links to go leave Amy some love!
Her Scrapbook shadowbox was for challenge 8 and her interpretation of the sketch for challenge 7.
But I will start another post and share some stuff I have scrapped.

This is all I have left to share (except guest pictures)

I will share some pictures of my guests when I get a minute.

Oops Up Side Your Head Crystal Needs To GO TO BED!

Enough posing lets get straight to the embarassing stuff, first off I have a layout I made yesterday. Very accurately named Party Girl.

Credits: Oh So Curvy Layered Templates, Holiday Chic (recoloured) and Inspiring Charms by Traci Reed. Fonts are: Dymo, Sunnydale and NedsHand.

I also have pictures for you. First up is one taken while we were making the speeches. I have it on my to do list to scrap Marks speech when I have done it I will share it here. I really wasn't asleep on his shoulder it just looks that way lol.

Cutting the cake - can you say WASTED lol. The little thing you can see next to my cake deserves a layout all of its own its a little groom on a his hands on knees on a lead held by the bride rofl. For my grand finale today may I present Dancing Queen lol.Oh alright I will show you the others of me making a tit of myself. But I need another new post

Reception Recap

Well it's taken me a week but I have finally made time to share details of our wedding reception with you.Before I do that I do have to take the time to mention a few things.

1. I don't drink very often, I have never drunk champagne before and I had nothing apart from an orange for breakfast to eat. No-one warned me of how lethal it was.

2. I was functioning on two hours sleep.

3. I dance like a loon whether I am drunk or not lol.

Ok so those are my defences for the pictures that you will see at the bottom of this post rofl.

So here goes, when we got back to the reception I had already had a bottle of vodka mixer and a glass of champagne, but I was still sober and I managed to drop my wedding dress in a puddle. Amazingly Mark had already gotten out of the car and gone around and opened the door, it never occured to him to say "Mind the puddle" before my dress went in it.Typical man lol.We walked into the hall expecting to see our guests standing around with glasses of champagne and orange juice and the disco to be playing. High hopes the disco was just being unloaded and there was hardly anyone there. Oops lol.Eventually the disco was set up and people started to trickle in. We posed for photographs, I realised how much smiling hurts and I got rid of the high shoes I could barely walk in, swapping them for the lovely green/turquoise platforms. (I never said I was conventional). Then I decided I needed the loo, hitched dress up a fair bit so I could get up the stairs, note to self tiny cubicle, huge amounts of material not a good mix lol. While trying to hitch up the dress enough so none of the parts fell down the loo I managed to whack my hip on the loo roll (charming bruise the following day lol). My darling dad who has never been known for his role model skills kept buying my alcohol, and as the night went on I got more and more drunk lol.We finally got around to making speeches, but no-one could hear them because of the static/feedback from the microphones and the fact that the charming DJ couldn't even be bothered to turn off the music and announce us. The worst part is the DJ was my uncle!

We didn't have a first dance because the CD I provided apparently didn't work (but it had played fine in the registry office) and Andrew never bothered to find a suitable alternative

I very vaguely remember cutting the cake and then I went to sleep. Yep you did read that right I fell asleep at my own wedding. I was home and in my bed by 10:30pm leaving everyone else to party the night away. I don't recall some of this dancing but I had a fab time lol. Everyone said they had a great time. Even though the night ended with a slight disagreement between my uncle Malcolm and my uncle Andrew (the DJ) after the music was turned off with no warning while the floor was full of dancers, but hey I wasn't there so I can't comment.

I was also told when they woke me up to go home I burst into tears about my mum not being there. She really did ruin what should have been a perfect day and this time she did it by not even being there.So time for some pictures.

First off I have some from the lovely photographer, what I refer to as the posed ones. Please note bride actually has bouquet roflmao.

Mark with Conor (The Best Man)
Me and Nan (Great Grandmother for anyone that doesn't know)
Me and my Dad
I could now show you pictures of Marks parents etc, but I am not going to and would you like to know why?
Because they came to our wedding and told everyone that they weren't staying because they were going to a banger racing party. When we first told them the date of the wedding Mark's mum had said to me that it was the same day as the Banger Racing party but I didn't actually think she meant anything by it. When they left early and please note we left at 10:30 and they had been gone ages, we thought she was feeling ill because of the cancer. So when I bullied Mark into phoning and checking she was ok and she replied that they had a great time at the Banger Racing party, I hit the roof!
It's just so bloody ignorant leaving your own child's wedding to go to a Banger Racing party.
They didn't even see us cut the cake, and then when Mark gave her a bottle of champagne that had been left over I went mental again. So we have spent most of the first week of married life arguing about his bloody parents. I won't speak to them because I am furious with them and I will say everything thats on my mind. But then I would look bad for shouting the odds at a woman with cancer, so silent is better. Anyway I promised you pictures of me making a complete fool of myself didn't I, Better start another post for that because blogger doesn't cope well with lots of picures in one post.

Where are my flowers?

Remember I confessed to forgetting my bouquet when I went to the wedding?
Well I could have just lied and done a little bit of photoshop magic to the pictures, but that's not very me. I want Lukas to know that I am a complete scatter brain lol. So I scrapped it.

Credits: Petal Power Layered Sketch by Traci Reed Summer Lillies by Jeanelle Paige (recoloured) He Loves Me and Here Comes The Bride by Royanna Lea Fritschmann (both recoloured)Always contribution by Krista Mettler and Always contribution by Jen Reed. Fonts are:Persimmon and Artistamp Medium
The next ADSR Challenge is up, Challenge 8: Polka Dot Potato Okay, this week is a ROADBLOCK! This is a project challenge for the Racer who did NOT do the January 8th challenge. Now, don't panic...don't stress...this is going to be fun...promise For this weeks Roadblock, you are going to need to think outside the box a little. I want you to use your digiscrapping skills to decorate your house. Yes, that's right...decorate your house. It can be anything really, from hanging a layout on your refrigerator to adding brush swirls to a picture in a frame on your shelf. Anything that puts your skills on display This project can include just digital art or digital art and pictures - the choice is yours.

This challenge just suits me down to the ground. I made Nan a calendar for Christmas and I liked it so much I started on one of my own, but instead of making all 12 pages at once I was making one a month so I can do Februarys page a little in advance and have the challenge all sewn up. I also need to make February's desktop calendar. I love my layered calendar templates so much lol.

I scrapped a few other layouts today want to see?

Credits:Artistry Paper Pack by Krista Mettler Urban Playground by Misty Cato Jessicas Heart by Jen Reed (recoloured) Wordart by Stacey Trueman Pixel Play Ronna Penner Sisters by Heart by Lynnie Smith (recoloured) Chocoberry by Traci Reed Love Notes by Clara Wallace (recoloured) Custom patches by dedicated2digital.com Font is Pea Lis.

Also made this one with my photos that came this morning.

Credits:Credits: Sketchie by Miss Tiina, Baby Boy by Annette Farrelly, Fairy Wishes by Carolyn Bender, Baby Blues by Angi Jones Grab Bag by WendyZine Twinkle Twinkle Mini by Andrea Sampson Lots of Dots by Seebees Freebies (glittered by me) Black and White actions (Soft B&W) by Ginger T Font is Oopie's Ma

My scrapping style seems completly different lately, I have to be honest though I am quite liking it. I forgot how much I enjoyed scrapping, it got to feel like a chore for a while.

Photobucket is the best!!!

Remember when my computer went wrong before and I lost all my pictures of Leo?
I had uploaded them to photobucket but when I had tried to get my photos back, I only got thumbnails so at least I could still see them.
Well the other night I had a brainwave, they do prints!
I checked and they also did CDs, I ordered one just hoping for the best, it came this morning and I have all my pictures of Leo hurray.
I only wish I had uploaded my videos of him as well, but pictures is better than nothing.
So expect to see lots of pictures of my little man lol.

ADSR Week 3/4

Challenges for week 3
You can find Challenge 5 by Atomic Cupcake in this previous post
http://lukasmummy.blogspot.com/2007/01/race-update.html

Challenge 6: RAKScraps
Amazing DigiScrapping Race partners need to swap photos to create layouts! They can be photos of absolutely anything – yourself, your family vacation, your dog, and you can use any kit you’d like.

This was really difficult because of the time difference between me and Amy as well as all the wedding stuff. But we got there in the end.

Prizes for this week, we only had the one to collect because of receiving the Atomic Cupcake one slightly earlier than planned. Thanks Cindy lol.

Stop six:RAKScraps
Prize: $8 gift certificate good for any collaboration kit by Jeanine Baechtold, Correen Silke, Rachel Dickson and Robin Cabana from Scrapdish
I bought: Beachy Keen I already had 2 of the other choices Wild Child and Berry Sweet and the fourth Seasons of friends: Fall just wasn't my sort of thing. But Eleanor fell into my basket lol.

I now get to what I wanted to show you.
Challenge 7: The Digi Shoppe ( I linked right to the challenge so you can check it out)
A fabby sketch challenge!
I scrapped my wedding speech with it!

Journalling reads:In the 5 years we have been together, we have been through many ups and downs. In all honesty we have probably had more downs than ups but the one thing that has never changed is our love for each other.Mark from the very first time I met you, I knew you were something special.I was intrigued by you, even though I was unsure why.It’s strange to think now that this relationship probably would never even have happened if you hadn’t made me so angry, you left your job without saying goodbye and I was furious, I intended to give you a very large piece of my mind, instead I gave you my heart. You have always been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my saviour.Even though sometimes you drive me insane, I am pleased to say that from this day forward you are mine and mine alone. I love you from the bottom of my heart and soul and I am proud to be your wife.Now probably for the last time ever I will let my husband say a few words on our behalf.
Credits: Sketch from the digi shoppe, NeoTokyo Papers by Tandika Star (Circle in centre) Baby it's cold outside by Retrodiva (Background) Mulberry Paper Pack by Scrap4Brains (Cutouts) Seasonal Sampler by Shabby Princess (Snowflake corners glittered by me) Parisian Peacock by Eva Kipler (stitching recoloured by me) Blooms for Mom by Stacey Kluczny (white stitching on ribbon) He Loves Me by Royanna Lea Fritchmann (Bride Charm) Bliss Mini by Carrie Stephens (Champagne glasses) Butterfly Kisses by Jeanelle Paige (ribbon) To have and to hold by Atomic Cupcake (alpha) Text on a path and Text in a shape by Rebecca Myers
Fonts: Pea Karynsig
Want to leave Amy some love for week 3? Challenge 5's entry is 1st Library Trip and Challenge 6's Your Special Day

Oh ok just a few more pictures

These are colour fixed only and belive me if you had seen the original bright blue ones (Mark's dad is an idiot he took them all on a setting I didn't even know was on my camera!) you would see the improvement, obviously these haven't had the ugly bits such as road signs etc removed yet but i'll get to it eventually. Apart from these I also have a computer being a pig again my external scrap drive is playing up so have been frantically backing everything up all day as well. Luckily I learnt from my mistake last time, all my pictures were already on the internal 250GB.
I have one more thing to show you before I go to bed (I am waiting for these last few files to be backed up lol) But I will add that in a post all of it's own.

Wedding Day confessions

Hiya,

I thought everything was supposed to be calmer after the wedding was all over and done with?

I don't quite understand how writing Thank You cards, sending cake and sorting all the wedding "stuff" can be so time consuming and exhausting.

I have tried a few times to write this post and each time had things that were "more important to do". But I will try and share all the details of my wedding day with you.

Ok so remember Mark had to go and clean up after the Burns Night celebrations?

He got home at 2am, I waited up for him and before we had both wound down and managed to get to sleep it was 5am. Mark had to get up at 7am to go back to the club with Nan to decorate it and make it ready for guests. Unfortunately one of my husbands bad points is he is bloody noisy first thing in the morning. He managed to wake me up (Let's just say I was not impressed)

I got up and cut Lukas's hair, had a bath etc and then the hairdresser came at 9am to remove my "alien head". Well what should have been in her words a "half hour max" job turned into a 3.5 hour marathon with much swearing and hairspray lol. But it looked lovely.

Mark finally came home to get ready at 1:30pm, while he had a bath and shave I tried to do my make-up. Would have been easy and quick but other things kept interrupting - like next doors little boy wanting his football back. But anyway we were getting there. Nan got home at 2pm, Lisa popped in with her and managed to very quickly apply the false nails for me. Mark started helping me put my dress on. It took so long to lace up the corset style back, Nan was running around panicing that we wouldn't be ready (Lukas at this point is still in his football kit lol). At 2:50pm Malcolm arrived to put the ribbons on his car, we had time for a few photographs of me in my dress and then we were off. The journey to the registry office seemed to take forever because everyway we went we couldn't go that way because of some diversion or other. But we got there and on time as well (yes you did read that right infact we were early :P.

We had to go and have a chat with the registrars and confirm details. I had forgotten the request for disabled access because of Aidan so I had to explain why it was no longer required.

I won't bore you with those details. We were finally told it was time to get married, and then it dawned on me that this was it, I was actually going through with it. We walked into the room to I swear by Boyz to Men and everyone's eyes were on us. It was amazing. I almost lost it when I saw my Dad standing at the back of the room with tears in his eyes but I didn't and my heart was filled with joy when I saw the look of pride on Nan's face. The ceremony was beautiful, very simple and elegant. We had some music while we signed the registar and then we dropped the bombshell with the simple phrase from the registrar "I would like to present Mr and Mrs Blake". Three of Mark's family shouted out "I think you mean Charlett", I just smiled sweetly and said "No actually it is Blake". Mark's mother was not impressed lol. We went outside and everyone came and hugged/kissed/congratulated us. Then it dawned on me that I had left my bouquet at home lol. We had some photographs done outside and Malcolm cracked open a £40 bottle of champagne for us. I don't usually like wine or champagne but that went down very nicely rofl. We came home and collected bouquet and there I will leave it. You can hear all about the reception tomorrow. I will leave you with a few more photographs these were taken by Mark's parents with my camera and I have spent a lot of time fixing them (just don't ask lol)

That will have to do for now because blogger is driving me nuts!

Wedded bliss??

Well this is the first post I have managed since becoming Mrs Blake, yep you did read that right, Mark took my name much to his mother's annoyance. I have lots to talk about but very tired so until I manage to get back tomorrow I will just post a picture of me in my dress for you all to see. I promise I will provide a full recap of the wedding and reception and share many many more pictures (as soon as I have some) also have one of my little man in his suit (from when he tried it on not from the wedding he has a lot less hair now lol)

Eeeeek it's today!!!

Its 16 hours, 14 minutes until my big day. I am sat here wearing rag roller things that are giving me a headache and do you know what my future husband is doing? Cleaning the reception venue after almost 500 people celebrating Burns Night. Lisa worked and she said in all the parties she's done in there (and we're talking 1000's) it's the worst she's ever seen. The wedding saga seems to get worse with every passing hour. We went in earlier to put the lights up and couldn't because the walls were covered with Scottish flags. Everyone says if it goes wrong before it will be ok on the day, but somehow I just can't be hopeful. I feel like everything that could go wrong has done.So do you want to know what else has gone wrong?
Ok remember my mum was supposed to be doing the food? We went to Marks and Spencers to change the delivery of the cake to today instead of thursday because we needed food delivering as well. Yesterday we received a phone call saying they had made a mistake and they couldn't deliver food. We were thrown into a state of panic Lisa phoned them and got them to agree to a delivery. We went this morning to do the shopping, the range was extremely limited and the dates on the food were rubbish we got what we could and then went to sainsbury for the rest.
All the food has been delivered safely now. Things are crazy and I now have to try and sleep in as Lukas says "Mummy's alien head" Wish me luck

ADSR Prizes

We got our coupon codes for the first 2 rounds of the ADSR today.

From stop one: The ADSR Blog and NDISB
Prize:Each New Day Mini Kit by Cindy Simon

From stop two:Elemental Scraps
Prize: $10 gift certificate
I bought: Desktop Wallpaper Cheat Sheets:Calendar edition by Victoria Feemster
Snowflake brushes by Faith True
In a snap Brag Book Templates - Holiday Edition by Sherry Tierney
and since I have now have the other 4 sets these fell into my basket as well lol.
In a snap Brag Book Templates - ABC by Sherry Tierney

From stop three:Digiscrapdivas
Prize:2007 CD Case Calender by Digiscrapdivas Team

From stop four:Scrapix-Designs
Prize: $6 gift certificate
I bought: ATC Sampler Pack by Amy Teets
Artist Trading Card Starter Pack by Amy Teets
Journalling Block Stamps by Kelly Shults
Red,White and Blue Paper Pack by Kelly Shults

We were also lucky enough to get the gift for stop five: Atomic Cupcake a set of journalling brushes and an extra gift of Frameworks Classic Template and Element Set by Cindy Simon.
I also managed to get a layout scrapped for the sketch challenge at Digiscrapdivas.
I think you can read the journalling if not leave a comment and I will post it.

Credits:Credits: Layered sketch, Reindeer Games,Merry and Bright, Velvety Soft, Down Home, Miss Adorable,Holiday Chic all by Traci Reed,To Do list Gina Cabrera and Snowflake brushes by Faith True (yes the ones I bought this morning lol)

Fonts:Century Gothic,CK Love Life and CK Cursive

Looking forward to the new challenge being posted tomorrow and hoping I get enough time before the weekend to scrap something. Might have to resort to a QP this week just to make sure I get it done on time.

Race layout to share.

I actually got some sleep last night, but I am still shattered today. I managed to get my layout done for the ADSR challenge 5 this afternoon/evening.I have to admit it took a lot longer than I thought it would parly because I am so tired and partly because the computer was in need of a restart.
Journalling reads:After all that hassle of looking for it, all the stressing about notbeing able to find it, the book finally came.I gave you the parcel and got out the camera. Unfortunately you were so excited you kept fidgeting about.You looked at all the pictures over and over again.Begged for me to read it over and over again.Then you put it in the toybox and forgot about it.All that trouble and the appeal only lasted for a few days.Oh well the smile when you opened it was worth itEven though I now know the book word for word

Credits:This is my layout for the ADSR Race challenge 5.Created using layered template by Liz Newberry, PaintedMoments by dedicated2digital, Stamp from Pumpkin Cobbler by Miss Mint (stamp recoloured and glittered by me) and Mat from Book House Treasures Sampler by Carol Baumann

Fonts: Myriad Pro and Weltron Urban.

I enjoyed doing this challenge and it works quite well with the other one.
Thursday's challenge is going to be a lot harder. Because unless it gets done Thursday, I have food shopping to do Friday morning, Friday night I have to clean up after the Burns Night party, Saturday is the wedding and Sunday is the day I will have a hangover from hell lol that kind of leaves no time to do it. Hopefully it will be something simple and easy that I can finish quickly.

Anyway onto something different we finished putting napkins on the plates today, Nan washed the shirts, she would have ironed them as well but a certain husband to be forgot to borrow the iron from his mum.Nan picked up some other small bits we needed, and then Mark went and bought some more platters for the food. We also finally got the form and CD to the registry office. Still heard nothing else from my mum. Got a beautiful card this morning from Grandma with a £40 cheque in it, bless her. Also had a card from my dad which was fab. Lukas threw up last night so he was off school today, if he's ok tonight he can go tomorrow.Lukas, Mark and Conor are all currently fascinated by a playstation game lol. I think I am going to try and get some sleep.

Race update

Want to see Amy's layout and ATC for week 2?
Her layout is called Techie Toddler and here's her ATC i'm sure she would appreciate it if you left her some love!
We managed to get our email in on time hurray.
So onward to week three we go lol. Not sure where I will find the time to make two layouts this week but I will have a good go.
Challenge 5 Destination 4 Atomic Cupcake
Welcome racers! It's time for pages about pages: scrap a layout about a book - your favorite, a loved one's favorite, the last thing you read, whatever.
Believe it or not I already have an idea for this that leads on from a previous layout (you can see it here http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/48/10602/320/The%20Great%20Book%20Race.jpg) I never actually got around to scrapping the pictures of Lukas opening the book. If I get time I will do a third page about how after all that trouble it was read a few times and then discarded for something else. Kids lol.
While I am here I may as well give you some updates on some other stuff, I went to the doctors today and have another urine infection, so have some antibiotics for that.
Lukas seems to be poorly he feels really hot and was asleep on the sofa when we got back from the doctors.(But then he was awake at 6:30am this morning) will have to keep an eye on him.
I do have some good news, I went to a crop the other night over at The Digi Shoppe to waste some of the endless hours of insomnia and I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from the lovely Miriam Lima.I'm working on some layouts using the stuff I got I have finished one already - Can't Please Everyone

Credits: Template by Liz Newberry (one from the scrap therapy set I was on about yesterday)Finding Amy by Miriam Lima.
Fonts:Nueva Std and Myriad ProSo I don't think I have anything else to say tonight, my downloads are almost done and I want to go to sleep lol.
Will pop in for a chat tomorrow.If I can't sleep I may well be back with my Race layout lol.

Scrap Therapy

There used to be a challenge at Scrapmommies before it closed called Scrap Therapy, we were given topics to scrap about, regret, laughter etc.
On my travels through Digiland I have found something similar at Scrapbook Graphics. They have a weekly chat where a template is provided as well as an inspirational idea for a layout.
Some of these topics are very deep. I have the templates now so I might well try some of these.
They will make a great addition to my book of me, I have to at least pretend I am thinking about something other than my mother trying to ruin my weddding lol

More wedding day stress.

I received an email from my Dad saying he was coming to my wedding, and he was bringing my Grandma. I phoned my mum to tell her and all hell broke loose. She said she wasn't coming if he was going. The kids weren't going and neither was my stepdad. She slammed the phone down on me when I pointe out that it was her that caused trouble at Leo's funeral not my Dad. She called Nan and started having a go at her, I told Nan to put the phone down. She told Nan she was bringing down all the sweet food Nan had bought and put in Mum's freezer for the wedding. She came she shouted I hit her! She was shouting her mouth of at Nan and I told her not to speak to Nan like that, she went to hit me and I belted her! We got into a fight and eventually she drove off at high speed in her car. I hate her so much for being such a childish pathetic cow about all this, she doesn't like my dad so bloody what. It's my wedding and he has just as much right to be there as she does! Nan's all upset that the kids won't be coming and no doubt she will spread loads of vicious lies about me and say I assaulted her. She's an evil evil woman who likes nothing more than to cause constant hassle and trouble. She has ruined every single family get together we have had.She was rude and obnoxious at Nana Bradley's funeral, Lisa's wedding she was a bitch, my 18th she was offensive to my guests, she caused a row at her own weddding, a fight at Leo's funeral and now she's done this before my wedding. I have been feeling ill about the wedding for weeks because I have been so worried what it will be that will set her off. I'm glad she's not coming but I really don't want to get married without my family there the day won't be the same. But the alternative of giving in and letting her have her own way, telling my dad he can't come and then being on edge all day that she will cause a fuss seems much worse than getting married without my brothers and sisters who I adore with all my heart. It would be bad enough if she was a normal person and we had a fight 6 days before my wedding but despite being a complete and utter bitch she's my mum. How hard would it have been to go and ignore my dad for a few hours??

Wedding Day rant

We had planned and arranged to go and decorate the reception venue on the Friday night after the Bingo. Today we were informed that we can't do that, because there was no bingo this week they were having a Burns Night celebration on Friday night.
But it gets even better that means the mess for that will have to be cleaned up by Nan on Saturday morning or it will be a mess for my guests. Saturday morning the hairdresser is coming at 9:30am!!!!
I haven't got a clue how we are going to get it looking even presentable let alone wedding reception ready.I had even told Nan she couldn't go to work Saturday because she would feel ill for the wedding or Sunday to clean up the mess. Nothing is ever just simple, a lot of people have told us they were coming and have now said they can't come for xxx reason. This bloody wedding has cost so much money, I feel sick every time I think about it and now this, I just feel overwhelmed by it all. It doesn't help that I feel ill either. Mark starts his holiday tomorrow. Two whole weeks of him being at home, I don't know how I will bear it!! I love him don't get me wrong, but he gets on my nerves when he is home because he does nothing, sport is on constantly and the room looks like a bomb has exploded. I think I need a drink!!!

That's week 2 all done

As you saw in my previous post challenge 3 in the Amazing Digiscrapper Race the challenge was A Sign Of The Times, I was struggling to find something that I could scrap about, the problem was lack of ideas it was idea overload lol. I finally decided to do something very close to my heart - Premature Baby Clothes.

Journalling reads:When I was born in 1984 weighing 5lb 1/2oz finding any clothes was an impossible task. When Lukas was born in 2002 things were slightly better, I was able to buy clothes for early babies starting at 5lb (he was 5lb 1/2 oz and they still drowned him) but they were better than nothing. When Leo was born in 2004 things had moved on a lot, we could buy clothes in the shops from 3lb and even found a mail order book that we could buy things from that were too small for him at 2lb 12oz.When you spend your times visiting tiny babies in it can be easy to forget that the jumble of wires and monitors is a little person, clothes that fit serve as a great reminder that it really is your tiny baby.

Credits:AngeLeo by dedicated2digital.com

Simply Stitching Curved Line 1 by Christine Nash

Chocolate Roses by Anna Hoviseppä (recoloured)

Sweet Grandson by TracyB (recoloured and warped)

Seasonal Sampler by Shabby Princess (recoloured)

5th Avenue by DeDe Smith

Hand Stamped Alpha Brushes Michelle Coleman

Baby Blues Angi Jones (Baby wordart glittered by me)

Double Trouble Layered Template 2 by Traci Reed

Atomic Cupcake Inked Action

Fonts:FG Ester and Century Gothic

Challenge four: Third Destination Scrapix-Design Blog

Your challenge is to create a digital Artist Trading Card (ATC), all about you! Use this project to illustrate your dreams, desires, quirks, likes, dislikes, etc. You can use a picture of yourself, but it is not required. You can use words or any imagery that illustrates something you want to express about yourself. Just be creative and have fun!
While I like doing ATC's they often take me a lot longer to complete than full sized layouts do!

Credits:Sisters by Heart contribution by MoonEDesigns (Me)

ATC Collection Sampler by Caroline Bain Nightwolf Designs (rainbow background)

Moms Rock by Bella Gypsy (This mum rocks)

Distressed adjective sampler by Merkely Designs (Unique being the only one of its kind)

Born to Love by Royanna Lea Fritschmann (Born to love)

Birthstone Hearts by Melany Violette (gemstone heart)

Metal Zodiac Charms by Jeanelle Paige (tag)

Brushes:Hearts by Stephanie Shimerdla (glittered heart) ATC Brush free by Karen Aicken (outside border)

I'm still really enjoying this competition, some of the challenges have really made me think.

Evening Race Fans

Welcome to week 2.
Challenge 3 Destination 2 Digiscrapdivas
The topic for this challenge is Sign of the Times.
You will need to scrap a page about something that tells about the world you live in. It could be a song, an event, a place, a TV show, something your kids say or do...there are so many possibilities for this challenge!
Here are a few examples:- A page telling the differences between your childhood and that of your children.- A song that talks about a current event or something that happens in our world today, good or bad.- A photo of something that wouldn't have been around when you were a kid.
Please note that a photo is optional for this challenge. Your layout can be all journaling or could even use a stock photo if you prefer. The choice is totally up to you.

This sounds like a really interesting challenge, I'm 22 but even in just the time since I was a kid so much has changed. One example is mobile phones, if someone had told us when we were little that you would be able to have a phone that you could not only carry around and use outside but one that would be small enough to fit in a purse and be capable of taking videos,pictures, sending email and watching TV we would have thought you were crazy. My little sister has a great take on this whenever my mum says anything starting with "when I was younger" she rolls her eyes and responds with "yes mum but back then you watched dinosaurs as entertainment" Keisha's 6 in and her eyes my mum is ancient (she's not even 40 yet). I haven't decided where I would like to focus my layout yet. Technology is a huge part of my life so that might be a good place to start, TV programs would be a fun area especially since a lot of the stuff I watched when I was a kid is now shown as vintage TV lol.

I don't really have a lot else to talk about today, my chest is still hurting, I still feel horrible, Lukas still has earache and I am tired. So unless I have another sleepless night I will be back tomorrow.

Let's party

After the last mammoth post about the Amazing Digiscrapper Race, I realised I hadn't updated this blog since my New Year post, Oops lol.
Let's start with Lukas, he's poorly again bless him. He was awake the night before last screaming with ear-ache. He screamed so much he made himself sick. We had a lot of washing to do and he needs a new duvet and pillow. Despite being ill he insisted on going to Mark's uncles wedding last night (he had been really looking forward to seeing his friends lol). So we got him all ready to go, then offered to take Josh with us. The amazing part *shock* *horror* we were EARLY! that's unheard of for us. We are always the last ones to arrive anywhere.
Lukas ran around for a while and then decided he was tired, laid on one of the sofas and went to sleep lol. Slept for about an hour and woke up and ran around some more. He's currently asleep and burning up. I was so tired when we got home I thought I would sleep all night, wrong. I slept for half an hour, woke up had a drink, went back to sleep for another half an hour, woke up and was awake for the rest of the night. Insomnia sucks! I haven't had a decent nights sleep for nearly two weeks. The few hours I am managing in the day are just not enough. It's only 13 days until the wedding now. I feel sick just thinking about it. It's not because I don't love Mark it's just the idea of a whole day confined in a room with my family makes me feel ill, with the added nightmare of having to be the centre of attention all day. I prefer to be as unnoticeable as possible at parties. Apart for the dancing I don't care whose watching when I am dancing lol.
I like to be able to drink what I want, talk to who I want without getting a mouthful from my mother. *sigh* this time in two weeks it will all be over and I am sure these feelings will seem silly.

Ready, Set, Race

I have teamed up with Amydawn to take part in The Amazing Digiscrapping Race.
The challenges for week one were:
Challenge One:Create a layout, one or two pages, that documents in detail ONE goal you would like to accomplish in 2007. You must include at least one photo and at least a few lines of journaling that explain about your goal--maybe WHY you want to accomplish it, or steps you intend to take to get there, etc.
My goal can be seen in the first layout.
Journalling reads:Every year I have plans for your birthday and every year something goes wrong. This year we will celebrate on the day (3rd August) no matter what!This year we will take pictures on your birthday not afterwards. Tags under photo say 5th August 2006
Credits: My Boyz All That, 4 The Boyz and 4 The Boyz Two Royanna Lea Fritschmann.
Point it out layered template 3 by Traci Reed
Fonts:Myriad Pro,Bookman Old Style and A.C.M.E. Secret Agent

Challenge Two: First Destination Elemental Scraps
We all have taken series of photos of events in our lives, and lots of times, while we retain the photos, we loose the story. What we are asking you to do is to create a layout using a set of these photos and journal about what is happening... And we are going to make it a little harder for you - We want for you to create the LO without using two elements from any one designer. This means that each piece must be from a different designer.
Journalling reads:Why is it no matter where we go you find a ride-on.Cars, Spaceships, Fairground rides, boats, and any other kind you can find.They cost me a small fortune each ride costs 50p and lasts for about 30 seconds.I have no idea why you love them so much but the smiles are well worth the money.
Credits:Fiesta by Mmm Bisto aka Kirtsy Base (letter e)
Butterfly Sherbet by Wendy Whitney (stitching),
Carnivale by Kirsten Smit (background and mat behind title)
70s Retro by Designs by Dawn (ribbon)
Parisian Peacock by Eva Kipler (background behind filmstrip)
Crocs Rule by Jodie Patterson aka Gypsy Chick (slidemount)
At the shore by Sharon Walden (letter D)
Lets hear it for the boys by Tracy B (filmstrip)
A Bright Heritage by Debra Arif (yellow background)
Jessica's Heart by Jen Reed (letter s)
Funky Fiesta by Krista Mettler (letter I)
Freedom in the stars alpha by Royanna Lea Fritschmann (letter R)
Crocs Rule by Maria LaFrance (red paper)
Boys N Dirt Alpha by Tandika Star (letter N)
Adore You by Retrodiva (letter O)
Inked edges action by Atomic Cupcake.
Fonts:AEnigma Scrawl (BRK)

You can see Amy's layout for week one here.
I'm excited to see what challenges we will be given in week two.

Happy New Year

Hopefully 2007 will be a lot better than 2006.
This year I have decided that I am going to FLY.
Now if you read my blog you will know I expressed an intrest in the FLYLady programme.
FLY stands for Finally Loving Yourself. You can find all the details at FLYLady.net. But anyway I was determined that I was going to be more positive this year. I made some achievable new years resolutions and I have started a huge scrapping project - A Book Of Me.
I hope that by creating something for other people to know what makes me well me lol will help me understand myself a bit better and be a more content person.
Im hoping the wedding will help start the year off with a bang. But knowing my family and having been to previous family events I have a feeling the bang will have more to do with my mum starting a row.
Anyway I just wanted to share some layouts I have made with one of my Christmas presents - Pajamas 4 Love Collection but I don't have the images to hand because I am typing this on the laptop. If you want to check them out you can see them here. I will upload some pictures tomorrow when I can use my desktop computer.

Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday

What a crock of shit!!!
There was nothing merry, happy or remotely cheerful about either one. Let's start with Christmas Day, I got up I felt horrible, had a rotten headache, ached all over and it hurt everytime I breathed. I managed to stay up long enough for Lukas to open his presents. Then I spent a miserable day in bed. Trying not to throw up in between throwing up lol. Lukas spent the day being told off by Mark. Nan spent the day having a go at Mark for shouting at Lukas and Mark well he watched a lot of TV played games on the computer and generally tried his hardest to be a git!
Boxing Day I still felt horrible but we had promised to take Lukas to a Christmas Party. So I got up, threw up, got dressed, applied make-up (think the amounts they would use to camoflage a tank) and trotted off to party still looking like death. Nan moaned the whole time that my dress was too short (knee length in case you are wondering), Mark sulked because I was dancing with Lukas. Me and Lukas had an ok time though we danced, I drunk vodka lol.
On the 27th Mark went to work so me and Lukas spent the day lounging around and making thank you cards for Christmas. Somehow we seem to get more done when Mark isn't around.
28th I can't remember what we did Mark was at work again though. Now on the 29th things got a whole lot more interesting - my wedding dress finally came!!!
Apart from the fact that it's the wrong colour (ivory not white *sigh*) it's beautiful. Nan reckons it looks gorgeous. I think I am not going to comment. I am just going to silently panic about the amount of fabric and how not to fall flat on my ass wearing it lol.
Disco is all booked now Mum talked my Dad's brother Andrew into doing it. I think she's a cheeky cow since in 22 years I have met him twice lol. Suppose I should also mention he lives around the corner.
So my birthday, I got £20 in a card from my mum, Traci Reed's Reason For The Season Collection from Mark, perfume stuff from Lisa (cant use it will be going back when I can be bothered strangely thats the third year running she has bought that convinced its that one I like not that one that gives me a rash lol) I got some great cards and made Nan make spaghetti bolagnese for dinner. Sounds really nice doesn't it? It wasn't bad until Mark started a row, made me cry and then started another row. I cried myself to sleep and when I woke up he started again. Lukas told him off and has a new phrase that he says constantly now "cheer up, be happy, I love you". I love him so much he can make even the darkest day brighter.
Now I think that this post has almost met its quota of me whinging. Before I finish this post and go write a nice positive one I have one last thing to moan about. Last night was New Years Eve. I was ready to go to bed at 8pm because I am so tired lately. But I stayed up first because I wanted to see the new year in with Lukas and second because I was expecting a few fireworks around midnight that I thought he would like to watch. I wasn't expecting him to be kept awake until 2:30am because of kids crying outside, I wasn't expecting this to be down to a fight in the street outside, where people screamed and shouted until 4:50am and I wasn't expecting fireworks to still be going off at 5am. So I started off the new year exhausted, grumpy and fed up. Now time for a more positive post lol