Pause for Thought

On our return home from the city we were driving along the sea front, we often see loads of people out walking many with dogs taking them for a stroll, joggers, power walkers, courting couples and generally people out for a bit of fresh air.

It gets less in the colder months as the North sea can blow a mighty chill through your bones.

Today I noticed a Mother walking with a teenage girl whom I took to be her daughter, the girl looked at me, a very pretty girl in fact beautiful, this girl had no expression not a smile nor a frown totally no expression, I could tell by the care she was getting from the lady who was with her that she wasn’t your average teenager, possibly Autism or learning difficulties.

This got me thinking, I love to hear and see my daughters laughing often winding each other up, chasing each other around the house, crying if the other is hurt, elated if they have joyous news. How often do we take that for granted, here was a beautiful girl with little or no expressive emotions, I really don’t know how I would feel as a Mother not seeing that from my girls.

Remember to count your blessings.

Digital Scrapbook Winner

I nearly forgot to announce the winner. I’m thrilled to say that the winner is….

53. Ursula

Drop me a line Ursula and dig out 10 – 15  photographs that you would like made into a digital scrapbook and I’ll get it started for you.

Thank you everyone that entered please don’t be deterred. I do have an offer on the software that I use, you could easily make your own digital scrapbook to give out to your family and friends.

by using my code you will only pay $29.97 for the software that's is $10 off the original price and you will also get a $10 voucher to spend on extra kits for the software.

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page.

Ragged Santa

I wanted to make a none Traditional Santa for my card and as soon as I saw Ragged Santa from Mo’s Digital Pencil I knew he would fit the bill.

I used a couple of my own backgrounds and one from Graphics45 a Cheery Lynn doily die and a whispers snowflake die, some Thickers scrapbook letters this one is Glass Slipper, Promarkers and Prisma pencils to colour the image and ribbon and pearls to finish

I added flowersoft to Ragged Santa’s fur trim

Dream Team Blog Hop–Make a Gift

It’s that time again and this Months theme for the Blog Hop is Make a Gift and Lori is the host and that is where the blog hop begins.

You should have landed on my blog from Pops so if not head back over there first. We will hold this every third Thursday of the month , we aim to give you a little inspiration and hopefully a few Oooo's and Awes along the way.The Dream Team is made up with some of the most talented ladies so be sure to give them all a visit and leave us all a comment as there is a couple of spot prizes up for grabs.

So for my project I decided on a couple of Angel tea light lamps.

This one was made using Michael available from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

And this one made with Henry’s little Lamb from Mo’s Digital Pencil

 

The pictures above were taken when the lamps were lit so I thought I would show you the colour of the images when the light were off.

For those eagle eyed amongst you, you will have notice that the lamp stands are nothing more than a couple of wine glasses.

Wine glass shade ideas and template can be found here

So this is the end of the blog hop so if you haven’t seen the rest of the girls projects hop back the start here

Remember, leave a comment on all of the projects to be entered into the spot candy draw.

Sketches

On trying to get back my mojo I decided to do some more sketches and share them here for you.

Here is two easy layouts for your cards or scrapbooks.

Tomorrow is a Blog Hop day and I have a fabulous project to show you all, it took forever to get the photography right but I'm really pleased with the finished items now.