An excuse???

Does this count as an excuse for not doing the washing? Hope so, cos its my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Mickey sleeps in the strangest of places! He particularly likes sleeping on paper!
Have niece Emily and nephew Joe with me today. Took them and Kyle to see How To Train Your Dragon today in 3D - first time I've seen a film in 3D, it is good but the film was better - if you've been thinking about going to see it, then stop thinking and go! You'll enjoy it!

Had a very creative day yesterday - what, again? I hear you cry - yup! I'm using up my GoGo kits or at least trying to! Not all my own Mojo at use, a few lifts but credit is given!

First, a mini book (from October 2008 kit) called Concentration - with pics of Kyle concentrating on writing a story and playing the Wii! Painted the back of each chipboard page and used similar papers that Nicola on the GoGo DT used and kept the journalling very short & sweet!Then before the remnants of the kit were 'filed' away, I created 2 layouts

"Rocky"
Rocky is my wolf in the spirit world who looks after me, my family and my home. I bought this picture about 20 years ago after seeing it in a shop, going home then having to go out again to get it! But I only found out about Rocky being my wolf about 4 years ago!

And lastly "Priceless" - my first LO about my dear nephew Dylan - this photo was taken just before his 1st birthday! He's now 2 1/2!

Posing!

Some more creativeness and another blog post - 2 in a week, whatever next!

Firstly my LO 'Just Posing' created for March Week 5 Challenge over on UKS. Used Cosmo Cricket Snorkel range - only to realize that this is now the second LO of Kyle after a bath using the same range - oops, oh well, it just lends itself so well to Bathtimes!

Just Stalking The Dog is a LO about something Kyle did on a regular basis once he learnt to crawl. Luckily the dogs (only Sam showing in the photos) were very good with him and would do a gently growl or move away, which of course, meant that Kyle would carry on chasing them!
I used the March GoGo kit and heavily lifted this LO from one of the DT members, Angie, using Bella Blvd Superstud paper and Sassafrass Amplify papers & letters. I'm a sucker for papers that I can cut something out of - its very therapeutic!

Also using my GoGo kit I completed the project kit of BoBunny Arrow Mini Book - all about Kyle and his posing!So for the 3rd month running, I have made an extremely heavy dent in my GoGo Kits IN THE SAME MONTH - only embellishments left really and some cardstock but plenty of use out of the stamps! Wonder if I can manage it for a 4th month or even all the year!? Hmmmm.....

Monster Post Alert!

OK - I admit it... I'm not very good at keeping my blog up to date but I think I can be ever so slightly forgiven due to the pregnancy sickness! Now 15 weeks pregnant, only 25 to go!!! Had a 2 week break of sickness but it came back this week but thankfully it hasn't been as bad as last month!

Have managed to get my creative streak back into gear though and throughly used up my February ScrapaGoGo kit on the next 3 LOs and a cute mini book - I don't think I've ever (in the 2 years of subscribing) ever used up a kit so quickly!

This was Kyle enjoying his 'Valentine' biscuit in Feb 2009 and as the title shows, he wasn't sharing!!!

Should really have this LO in my section of Photos I Love - photo of DH taken on our first trip to Disneyland Paris. Created the background circle/scalloped edging by hand and used Fired Brick Distress Ink for the scallops.

Created this LO about how the two men in my life get on so well with each other. Did this LO for the March Week 3 Challenge over on UKS.

Then on UKS it became time for my team The Indecisives to set a challenge - being an indecisive bunch, we actually set 3 challenges. I wasn't well enough to get my LO completed before the challenge went live, but I've finally completed it today...

This was for our Challenge No. 2 - where we had to scrap our favourite holiday, using colours of the flag of the country, 1 or 3 photos, use Stamping as a technique (see the stars!), follow a sketch (created by my talented teamie Katy Fox) and use a form of journalling that we haven't used before - as you can see my Dymo machine got used - only had it about 6-7 months without using it, so this seems like an ideal time.

Remember the mini book I created using the Feb GoGo kit, I selected just a few of my favourite and sometimes funny photos to do a mini book just about us as we are now (before Bump arrives!) Here are a few pages from it...

I cut up my GoGo box into 3x4" pages, used some acetate pages and some tags and ended up with a 24 page mini book. Can't take full credit for this little book though - I saw the idea a while back on Kevin & Amanda's blog here to create a mini book using scraps!

On top of those LOs and mini book, I've been doing some circle journals as well. Only a tease of a photo to show you though, can't have the recipient knowing too much about their CJ before they get it back!

This is using the ScrapaGoGo kit for March using a mix of the Sassafras Lass Amplify range and the fabulous GoGo designed stamps.

Now I will try not to leave it so long til my next post - Honest! I'll Try!!!

Ally

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