A Lime Green Life

A day for red, rose and pink

Trickier, today - there is a distinct lack of pink in my life and even the reds tend to be orange-based ... oh, well ...

A day for green ...

Month of Colour

Few more layouts to share - it's lovely to be scrapping again!

Still following Shimelle's Month of Colour inspiration.  There was another colour wheel challenge - I chose to use complementary colours and am quite pleased with how this one turned out, although the colours ended up very similar to one I did earlier in the week!

Look at the old, old stash - Chatterbox Scrapbook Walls!  They must be five years old!  Black stitched ribbon, MM Poolside alphas ... oh well, it seems to work ok!

Followed on with another one, using one of my favourite colour combos - turquoise and orange.  Love this photo that Nigel took when Jackie and I were messing around taking photos of ourselves with our cameras!

Shimelle posted a link to a page on Ali Edward's blog - ABCs of Colour Inspiration.  As soon as I saw the entry for 'W' - the World Wide Web, which was a picture of the Google logo - I thought of this; just couldn't resist!  How cute is my favourite nephew!

 

I've been doing some supply work this last fortnight; it has been lovely to 'keep my hand in' as it were.  We've managed quite a bit of caching too - we're working our way through a series in London called 'Flonopoly' based on the Monopoly board.  Today we got Park Lane and Mayfair - yeah!  Managed a few others, too, along with a trip to the Apple store (Stephen declared it a new family tradition to go there whenever we visit London!) and ice creams in Hyde Park.

We've also been busy in Windsor Great Park doing a mini series and enjoying picnics and glorious sunshine.  Most memorable cache was the one where Nigel ended up crawling under a bridge to get it!  Stephen and I stood on the side and made 'helpful' comments!

 

Colour Wheel Challenge

I am really needing some inspiration for my scrapping at the moment - lo and behold, Shimelle is running A Month of Colour.  Just what I needed!  The first challenge was to scrap about your favourite colour, which I am working on right now, but I have gone slightly out of order, as I just couldn't resist the colour wheel challenge.

I love my colour wheel - I even have it as an avatar on some forums!  I don't use it as much as I used to but it's always close at hand.  Shimelle linked to a great website that gives you loads of colour combinations at the touch of a button.  After flicking through seemingly hundreds of options, I decided that I was just going to go for it - the next option that came up would be the one I used. 

 

Hmmm.  Green and cream OK - but hot pink?  Do I even have any pink paper/embellishments?  I don't DO pink!  Well, ever ready to take up the challenge, I dug deep through my supplies, found a scrap of pink paper and an even smaller scrap of pink cardstock and had a go!

I'm quite pleased with how this one turned out - it's lovely to be scrapping and I managed to use up quite a few old supplies, including Bazzill circle chips, Basic Grey rub-ons and some Love Elsie stickers.

Also, just wanted to share a new app I am using on my iPhone - it's available as a website, too.  It's called Memiary and is a private online diary.  The concept is simple - write down five things you do each day.  Quick and simple - and far more likely to get done than blogging - oops!

Some photos to share

It's been a busy few weeks - including an OFSTED visit; aaaagh! - so just a few photos to share.

Love these photos that Nigel took - really captured Stephen's personality at the moment.

 

 

We have managed to get a bit of caching in - not much, but we did make the most of the sunshine last week.

 

 

We finally managed to get our hand on a Wii Fit this week - I haven't been brave enough to try it yet but Nigel and Stephen have been hula hooping and jogging around the island.

 

Today was one of Stephen's favourite days at school - World Book Day.  We weren't able to do too much last year, so this year he went to town a bit with his costume.  He made the teapot himself and did a great job!  It was strange not having to sort a costume out for Nigel this year.

 

Been a bit busy ...

It was cybercrop time again over at UKScrappers and, this time, it had a Mystery theme.  Loads of great classes and challenges, as always - I got loads done and it was so good to be scrapping again.  I really wanted to get some of our Disney photos scrapped before we went back again so I used the classes as inspiration for that.

This was my pre-crop challenge, taking inspiration from a Pink Panther picture.

 

This was the In the Frame class - I didn't buy the kit with the die cut frames but I made my own from an old pizza box!

Next up was this layout - my brother and I always used to play with these 'invisible dogs' at Disney - it was so funny to see Stephen doing the same!

Christy Tomlinson popped in for a chat and set a challenge - to do a layout with bright colours, using a non-scrapping embellishment.  I used Stephen's First Visit badge on this layout of him with his favourite character!

Not Disney, but the same trip - a visit to Seaworld.

 

Next challenge was to do a 'girly' layout without using pink - I hardly ever do pink anyway, but this seemed girly enough - some of my favourite Disney characters.

 

A layout based on symmetry was the next challenge - well, symmetrical-ish!

 

This layout was Cluedo-based - our team (Interpol) had Miss Scarlett (red), in the dining room (food pics), with the candlestick (glitter).  Fun! And it inspired us to play Cluedo this evening!

 

Finally, this class was called The Mystery at Magnolia Mansion.  I adapted it to make the house into Cinderella's Castle and filled it with some of our favourite photos from the trip.

 

 

 

Will add my Mystery Kit another time.  Thanks for looking!

Happy New Year!

Yes, I'm back - sadly, despite all my best intentions, JYC fell by the wayside by mid-December.  Things did not happen as planned - in fact, most of Christmas nearly didn't happen due to horrendous illness, but never mind - we are looking forward to a good 2009.

I have decided to have a go at a version of Project 365 - a photo a day.  I shall be keeping it really simple - just a photo and a little bit of journaling to slip in.  I am already a bit behind, as I have only just started to do it but should be able to catch up easily enough.

Anyway, here is Friday's photo - Nigel bought me a photo printer for Christmas and Friday was the day we got it all set up and started to use it - it's fab!

 

And here is today's photo - I picked up a Britain's Got Talent chocolate board game in the M&S sale for £1 so we played it today.  Haven't laughed so much in ages - especially at Nigel's rap version of the Hokey Cokey and his impersonation of a karate chopping squirrel!

 

Playing catch-up

Well, what with work, Christmas preparations and the dreaded lurgy (Stephen, not me), JYC has had to take a back seat, so I had a bit of a mega catch-up session today.  You will notice Day 12 is still missing - I need to buy something to make that page, so it will have to wait!

Day 10 was about paper - mainly wrapping paper.  Well, I don't have any yet - I haven't even started looking - so I went with a twist on this one and went for that old Christmas favourite, the Radio Times!

 

Day 11 was about trees, so I went with some old photos of my brother and myself (probably about 1978) and the silver tinsel tree we had when I was little. 

 

Day 13 was about music - I have focussed on the Christmas album we had when I was little - I have been looking for a version of it ever since, and this year I found it to download - yay!  I have been wallowing in cheesy Christmas nostalgia!

 

And finally, day 14, based on presents.  Last year, we had a new visitor to our house - the Tree Fairy - bringing little prizes for winning games!

 

That's it for now - last week at school now, so think I may be doing a bit more catch-up this week!

JYC Days Seven, Eight and Nine - and a birthday!

Well, here's the reason we've been a bit busy the last few days ...

   

My little boy is NINE!!! How did that happen?!  Happy birthday, Stephen - may all your dreams come true.

Here is the real Day Seven of JYC (see last entry for false day seven!)  Once again, I abandoned the prompt to document the fact that 7th December is a day when all Christmas activities stop and we focus on Stephen's birthday!  Appropriately, we got a nice wintery photo - we took a couple of his friends up to London to the Science Museum and walked through Hyde Park.  They have an ice rink set up there and, when they scrape off the top layer of ice, it is all being piled up in the park - the boys had great fun climbing on it and making snowballs!  Photo again - Stickles not yet dry.

 

Day Eight was about signs of Christmas around your home.  We started to put up some of our decorations on this day, so I got Nigel to snap a few favourites - a new bauble, my Christmas rag doll and our Coca Cola lorry.  All together now ...  Holidays are comin', holidays are comin' ...

 

Day nine - Christmas traditions.  I focussed on just one - the year Stephen was born, my mum bought him a decoration to go on the tree.  Every year, he chooses a new one - when he leaves home, he will have quite a collection!  The photo is of this year's - a dangly penguin - and the journalling lists all the ones he chose - it's nice to have somewhere to keep this information recorded, as I'm starting to lose track!

JYC Day Six - the one with the deliberate mistake

Well, I decided to leave it in - I couldn't change the 'seven' to a 'six' without either (a) starting again or (b) totally changing the effect I wanted.  And I'm so tired, neither seemed appealing, so I decided it would just be a feature of the effects of the season.

I had thought of using it for tomorrow's entry - doesn't really matter what order they come in - but tomorrow is Stephen's birthday, so want to document that.

Anyway, enough waffle! Today's prompt was about memories but, as I am trying to include as many memories as possible, I kept the focus on just one memory.  We always had Angel Chimes as our centrepiece for Christmas dinner - ting, ting, ting - but stopped when I was about 11.  When I saw some on ebay, I just could not resist!

Loving those swirly stamps and the little AB gems - when you haven't scrapped for a long time, it's like having new toys again!