Still alive!

Hey everyone - if anyone is still out there as I am such a bad blogger! I thought I'd stop by and show you some of my paper scrapping I've been doing lately and also tell you about our house renovation.

The house is coming along well, my craft room/office is completely done as is our bedroom. We've moved on to the guest bedroom now and are hoping to have that done in a few weeks. Hubby has been working so hard and he has mostly painted the top of the outside of the house where we had horrible dirty grey render. It's now a lovely cream colour and looks much more like a country cottage :) I will show some photos next time, I promise.

So, here are my layouts - the first is a challenge layout for the GoGoGetaway that I am going to in a couple of weeks.

And these three are chinese whispers layouts that I've done so far this year.

Sorry it took me so long since my last post - I will try to do better next time! TTFN.

Thank you so much!

Wow - you are all so sweet - all the comments and emails I've had have been so lovely. I don't know what to say! That's a first my hubby would say :-)

I know lots of you have said that you hope I come back soon, but I have to tell you, I can't really see that happening in the near future. Our house renovation is going to take at least 2 years and that will keep me busy. Plus, now we are in the country, I feel compelled to be outside a lot more than before - either walking or just sitting in the garden watching the birds or reading my kindle and taking it easy (and yes, maybe a glass of wine may be involved)!

I want to say thank you again to everyone who has supported me over the years. I also want to remind you that there are still some freebies available on my blog for you to collect - please do get those over the following couple of weeks, because I intend to disable them all once I retire.

I'll just leave you with a photo of a goldfinch from my garden recently and a photo of my new house to show you what I'll be doing while I am not designing :-) Actually, the house is the original photo - it has changed a little since this was taken. I will post some updated photos soon. TTFN.

Farewell.....

Oh my gosh, it's been so long since I blogged that I don't even recognise the back end of blogger for writing posts!!

Well, this post is a sad one for me - I am retiring from designing. I have so much going on in my life right now that it's impossible for me to find the time for designing kits. So, I made the decision to retire for good. At the end of this month, my store at My Memories will close for good and none of my kits will ever be available again.... :(  The good news is that all my kits are just $1 for the entire month - I'm going out with a bang! Please go take a look and pick up any that you want for your collection before the end of the month.

All there is to say is goodbye digi world - I'll miss you. Over the following month, I will post some layouts made with my kits to remind you what's available. After February, I may post life updates from time to time, but no more digi.....

Thanks for all your support over the years - you are all fantastic!

Just a few layouts...

Well, I had hoped to be telling you of our house move by now and showing you some photos of the renovations, however nothing ever goes quite as smoothly as that in England when it comes to house buying! We had to let our first buyer go as it became apparent that she did not have the money to buy our house, so we had to find another buyer, which luckily we did within a week. We are now hoping to move in about 3 weeks time, so news to come at a later date :)

Today, I wanted to show you some paper scrapping that I've been doing. As you know, I am taking a break from digi, but I am determined to use up the paper kits that I have been collecting! I subscribe to two kit clubs, the first is ScrapaGoGo and the other is Scarlet Lime. I love both of them - ScrapaGoGo because it's a perfect package of coordinating goodies and Scarlet Lime because it's really varied and contains items that I probably wouldn't have bought myself and I can get to try new things out!

I have been on a layout making mission recently since I unpacked a small amount of craft stuff that was already packed so that I could keep my sanity during this stressful move! Unfortunately, I can't remember which box my inks are in, so all my layouts are ink free!! This first layout is my Chinese Whispers layout for July with ScrapaGoGo using the June kit - great kit for Vegas layouts!

And another Vegas layout, this one uses the June kit too - it's based on a sketch by my gorgeous friend Kirsty which I love!

This layout is of the Grand Canyon - so HUGE and I thought it would be great to get in the tape measure paper to highlight size - works well I think! This uses a Scarlet Lime kit.

These next two layouts I made using the ScrapaGoGo July kit. It was perfect for our work boat trip on the canal.

And the paper with the big wheel was perfect for a photo of my 'niece' on a swing!

These last three are from the most recent Scarlet Lime kits which I really adore. I subscribe to both kits - the main and the add on kit.

I used a Paint The Moon action on the photos in this one called 'Awesome Sauce' - if you haven't checked out PTM actions, make sure you do - they are 'awesome'!!

And I adore these photos of my friend's little boy - they work so well together - it looks like he's looking down on himself! I even added a little bit of paint to this one as the paint was in with my pens and tools for some reason - I only have blue there though, so a bit limited! :)

OK, so that's it - I hope you didn't get too bored! I will be back soon, hopefully with good news on a moving date! TTFN.

Something funny...

This is a totally non-scrap related post - I said I was taking a break and I truly am :)

So, as regular readers of my blog will know, Lily has epilepsy - not badly, she just has a seizure every three months or so. Before she has a seizure, she always makes a lot of choking noises before being sick. Pompey is scared of her seizures bless him and always runs away from her - to alert us or just to get out of the way if we're already there. That in itself is not funny, but bear with me....

So this morning, Lily, Pompey and I were laying on the bed chilling. I was playing on pinterest (if you haven't tried it, definitely give it a look - great inspirational fun) and they were sleeping/snoring!! Lily knows that Pompey doesn't like her choking noise because he fears a seizure is coming, so suddenly, she pretends to choke - I know the difference and I am telling you it was fake! Immediately, Pompey jumped up and ran to the other room bless him. As soon as he was gone, Lily stretched fully across the bed, let out a big content sigh and went back to sleep! Can you believe it? Sneaky little thing :)

I am hoping over the next couple of months while I take a break to do more posts about Pompey and Lily and what's happening with me - I hope I don't bore you too much, but it's a great outlet for me and I love hearing your comments :) You'll probably hear about my new house a lot when we eventually get there - hopefully at the beginning of August. It needs a lot of work and I am really looking forward to decorating it - it will be a completely different style to my house now, so a big challenge.

Oh and I just wanted to show you my favourite few photos that I've taken recently - I will do more of that too as I am really enjoying using my camera again since my Vegas holiday. I have a place, person and animal shot to show you. This first one was taken on the canal when we had a day trip with work - it was the perfect day - the water is just amazing.

This is a photo of a bird I took at Longleat last weekend - I was really pleased with it.

So that's all for now, I'll be back soon. TTFN.

Rose Sunset alpha

So sorry it's late - I just got home from Vegas yesterday at 6pm and was a bit tired for blogging :) So, check out the alpha for Rose Sunset. Be sure to pick up all parts of the kit - it will be live for a while, but not forever - perhaps a couple of months only. I will give you a full report on Vegas soon, but for now click here to download the alpha. TTFN.