The real challenge wasn't the

no make up but taking and sharing a selfie when I have a break out of spots. Although for a good cause I talked myself into it, with a little help from my friends.

Thanks, I think Janice, Hannah & Karen.

*** Txt Beat to 70007 to donate £3, go on it's such a worthy cause ***

In other news in would appear that Spring has sprung here in Peterhead. Not that I'm saying it much warmer but it sure is looking pretty with all the daffodils in bloom.

Fast Forward

two years, hardly seems possible.

Another number that hardly seem possible is the 27 years that we've been married, yep we're celebrating our anniversary again.

The photo is from a recent walk along one of the many beautiful beaches to be found up here in NE Scotland.

Celebrating is being postponed until Jon's next run of days off but to mark the occasion I rustled up this little number which I like to think of as simple yet stylish.

This occasion

seemed worthy of writing a blog post about.

Together we have found a love that has grown stronger over the years.

Together we have built a life for ourselves, not grand but comfortable, real and ours

Together we plan to grow old but not just yet.
Together really is a great place to be.

Today we're celebrating 25 years of together.

As she's away and he was working

it was a cheap date for one.

Odeon's Senior Screen, today's offering Contagion and at just £3 including a nice cuppa coffee or tea whatever takes your fancy a bargain I'd say.

The Costa coffee was a little pick me up before heading off to do a little shopping.

The house

is Hannahless again.

The intention was that Hannah would go back to uni on the train after the Christmas break but after packing everything she brought home, her Christmas presents and a few sale purchases she'd made she looked like a bag lady and could hardly lift her bags.

So come Saturday morning Hannah & I loaded up the car and headed back to Norwich in the car.

Now Hannah's not a child young lady who makes a lot of noise, well most of the time but the house feels strangely quiet. A friend suggested it isn't the noise they make, it's the not having their stuff around.

There might be something in that but whatever it is it won't be for long as she's booked train tickets to come home for Jon's birthday in a couple of weeks. Lets hope she's learnt to pack light by then!!!!

It's been quite a

week!
If you believe that bad things come in threes I should be OK now but if you know me better you'll know that I should just change my name to Calamity Jane and be done with it.

My run of incidents culminated with this injury on Wednesday, a case door edge meets head!

The icing on the cake for Wednesday was dropping my iPhone down the loo. Thankfully the phone has since recovered thanks to the wonders of google and all those who have previously done the same and shared good advice.

Having

my girl home is lovely but very distracting. Sadly she goes back to Uni at the end of the week so I'm guessing 'normal service', whatever that is will resume then!

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.