Getting a fix

of R Patz, well with a Wednesday off it would be rude not to do an Orange Wednesday with my girl who's home for the holidays.

I was gonna take a picture of Santa who's making some extra pennies driving a bus but I wasn't allowed!!!!!

Love the Christmas decorations in town, really pretty.

Shame the photos don't do them justice.

Sometime we scrap,

and sometime we watch a film but this evening I got on with a little sewing project whilst Karen made more Christmas cards.

Love our Thursday evenings.

Where's the best place

for a little pre Christmas get together? Why Morrison's of course!

Actually all joking aside, Janice, Lorraine, Nicola, Zoe and myself enjoyed some lovely food, the company was great and the price well that was way less than a tenner.

I just has to be done

and putting it off is no good. So 'him & me' got our Christmas cards written this evening and they're  now ready to pop in the post tomorrow.

Job done, well except for the few that I need to make.

I did have a little

shopping to do but the fact the coca cola truck was in town made it seem like a good idea to do the shopping today!

There are exciting changes going on at

They're definitely worth a look see cause if you love the kits but you've been feeling the pinch there's exciting news that you'll want to know about.

So what are you waiting for? Go check it out here.

How lucky

am I?

My morning, wake up cuppa tea bought to me by hubby. I've done the whole alarm clock wake up malarkey but it's not nice, especially when you're more of a night owl than a morning bird.

I'm thinking of getting

a facelift! No not me silly, my blog which is looking tired and dated. Not that it was ever what you'd call exciting, it's just served it's purpose but now I'm ready for a change. However I don't have a lot of time to throw at this so I'm hoping for suggestions, what's your favourite site for blog templates (based on both looks & easy of use) & any great blog designers.

Hello Monday

Monday morning can mean only one thing I really must get myself sorted and off to work.

Am I the only

scrapper to suffer from the dilemma of crop days? Let me explain briefly. I love going to crops, I mean what could be better than spending the day in the company of like minded people/friends doing what you love BUT I'm often dissatisfied with what I've achieved. If I put my mind to it, put pages kits together then put my head down and scrapped I could get a few LOs done BUT what fun would that be? I do know that the answer lies in finding a balance between the social side of a crop and achieving enough to not go home dissatisfied but I haven't managed it yet. So what's the right balance for you?

I did enjoy a very social crop day at Electic Keepsakes, it was their Christmas Extravaganza yesterday.

Scrap, Chat, Eat and Be Merry.

Surprisingly enough I came home tired but content with my days achievements having got two classes completed and the third to a stage that it can be finished at home.

Having an idea

doesn't always translate into a good photo and that's definitely the case with my creative/festive self portrait for 12 Days of Christmas

Dear Father Christmas

It was quite a performance getting the assignment done, involving my trusty tripod and oh so useful remote shutter release. Rubbish photo but check out how I took the photo and yep that is by new camera perched up there.

I'm out tomorrow so I'm attempting to be a bit organised but it's not working out too well. Nothing new there.

P.S. Sheena we had bacon cheese burger and broccoli for tea and strawberries & cream for dessert yum yum

Who knew that finding

a 'santa hat' would prove so tricky!!!
Firstly I thought we had more an one 'santa hat' but it would appear that I was deluding myself, the only one we did have was Hannah's and she took it with her to Uni. However I didn't let that deter me, no I traipsed around town and eventually found a budget £1 'santa hat that wasn't very nice in fact it's pretty cheap andy nasty looking. Then disappointed with my first find I checked out more shops and eventually found a deluxe hat, not great but OK and the deluxe price? 99 pence go figure! So now we have two santa hats in the house.

My evening was happily spend in the company of this lovely lady, we chatted, drank tea and go on with what we wanted to get on with, for me that was a little sewing project I have on the go at the moment and Karen was wisely sorting photos for crop day on Saturday

In fact Thursday evenings with Karen have become a bit of a habit and very nice habit it is to.

I'm making a list

and checking it lots of times to make sure I don't miss anything important especially the deadline for my Self Portrait assignment for 12 Day of Christmas course.

My self portrait for last year's 12 Days of Christmas is gonna be tough to beat but I do have a couple of ideas, so watch this space

Happy Birthday Dad

As with most family birthdays we celebrated in a very low key fashion, I remembered the birthday card!

Love you Dad, hope Mum remembered and spoilt you rotten.

Theses are some recent photos of  Dad (and Mum) from when I let them loose with Incredibooth. BTW You need Incredibooth it's from the wonderful Hipstamatic people.

So without further ado

I have a winner. Andie lucky number 18 as pick by Random.Org.

Andie if you contact ScrapaGoGo they will make the necessary arrangements for getting your prize to you.

I'd like to thank everyone who stopped by and left a comment whilst on their ScrapaGoGo Blog Hop travels.

Sadly my table looks pretty much as it did however I did manage a little cutting and sticking, I just needs to add journaling as it has one of those photo that needs it's story telling. 

I also took advantage of the good lighting to have Him aka Jon to take a few photos so I could update my profile pictures. 

I used the B&W picture for now but also like the Scrabble name photo. Which do uou like?

Happy National Scrapbooking Day

Have you just hop, hopped over from Sam's blog?  Then a warm welcome and even if you've not come via Sam's blog and ScrapaGoGo's Blog Hop welcome.

It's amazing having a whole day to celebrate this wonderful hobby that is scrapbooking. I mean as a grown up, how wonderful is it to play with pretty papers and glue? The best if you ask me.

So what have I got planned? Well I definitely need to spend some time finding my table/stash again after a little deadline inspired scrapping session. I love my LOs but the messy least said about that the better.

Then I plan to indulge in a little cutting and sticking, at home rather than the crop I thought I was going to this Saturday! I have 2 photos in mind to scrap, this arty photo that I took of Hannah's Ugg boots she got for her birthday.

Plus this photo from Create & Co Crop last weekend.

So what will you be doing on National Scrapbooking Day?

Before you hop over to Dinah's blog,  don't forget to leave a comment to let me know you've been or you'll miss out on the chance of winning a prize.

What can I say

I'm feeling the love again so I'm back.

Thought I'd share a photo of me and my girl cause

well just cause it makes me happy.

Bella Blvd

kindly donated this kit for Create & Co members

Papers and stickers from Bella Blvd Socialite range

and this is what I came up with given that Him & Me don't really do New Years Eve celebrations.

Had to delve deep into my stash of old photos to find these!

Only 2 more sleeps until crop day so I'd best get something packed to do or I'll be twiddling my fingers for the day and it's a looooooooooooooooooong day.

I think

I'm in love! No I'm not taking about Him, that goes without saying. I mean ScrapaGoGo kit love and more specifically February's kit.

I know that the word gets used a lot but without a word of a lie this kit is Lush to the Max, totally gorgeous and has the most perfect name 'Happiness is ........ ' 

Well happiness is certainly the option to 'Double Up' so there'll be no more trying to decide which side of the paper you want to use, just Double Up and you can use both.

And it's definitely these little beauties design exclusively for ScrapaGoGo by Sam ..........

But lets not forget all the other goodies that you're gonna want, come Grab Its day ..........

Of course there's also the exclusive hybrids designed by Kirsty Wiseman and available to download for FREE. Yep these little beauties are simply stunning and will help your kit go even further. 

On this day

a quarter of a century ago I met a man, not just any man but the man I fell in love with and eventually marry.

Where did the time go?