Yay! Sunshine!! Although admittedly, clouds are a-forming over head as I type!!!
I've got some scrapbook pages to share with you. I've hit a new record for myself and have actually made three pages in just two days, which I've never managed to do before (aside from at crops/retreats). Go me! I think it's something to do
with the size though, 8.5x11 seems to flow more easily and come
together more quickly.
I've been meaning to scrap Ellie, now that she's away and crawling, for a few weeks, but catching a decent photo has proved impossible as she's just too quick! However, Ali Edwards made a LO using a blurry pic in the latest edition of CK, and advised that if you want to tell a story and all you have is blurry pics, just go ahead and use them anyway - the story is the important thing. How true. So I did. And I think the blurriness actually accentuates the theme anyway, hence the title, Life's a Blur. It's a bit freestyle-
ish and was fun to do.
Excuse this next terrible photo, it's all shapes!! I can assure you that all the papers are all straight in real life!! This page is for my niece telling her all about these two special people, our
Auntie Jean & Uncle Bob (who aren't actually our Aunt and Uncle, but rather are distant cousins), and how excited we were for them to come and stay to visit her for the first time earlier this year. The
journaling is hidden on a tag you can just see poking out from
behind the pic.
And the last one is a cute pic of her when she was just 3 weeks old! It seems so long ago now!!
Well earlier this morning I used the opportunity of a bit of sunshine to nip out into the garden to cut back all the stuff the recent bad weather has drowned and killed. I was surprised at how much I had to get rid of, but hopefully some will grow back before the end of the season. I had left all the rubbish in a garden tidy ready to put in the compost bin, and when I nipped to the kitchen to take my photo for
todays' HS:MS
Holiday Game, I found that two little
mischievous monkeys had decided it would make a great bed for a spot of sunbathing!
Millie:
Bella:
Anyway, my word for today was Sugar. I'm sure there's loads of it in this. Seeing I went to the effort of cutting a huge slab and putting it on a plate to take a photo, I thought it was only fair I cut a small slice off for myself afterwards. Jolly nice it was too!!!!!
Speak soon
blogeroonies xxx
The info and origin of this idea is here. And to share the love around, I would like to nominate my own blogging peeps that I think particularly rock, too:
Also, a stolen car was dumped and set alight in the field right behind our house. We had no idea of how much petrol was in it and how quickly it could blow up. It was quite scary watching from inside and hearing components shooting off at the high pressure caused by the heat. It seemed to take forever for the fire brigade to arrive and in the mean time I was petrified it was going to blow into firey smithereeens which would rain down on our house. Luckily they got to it in time, and this was the result the next day.
It was my sis's birthday last week. My bro in law asked if I could make her a card from Ellie (her first birthday as a mum!), so I whipped up something cute and simple, I wanted it to be childlike. I chose the flowers from the old scenic route paper as Kat had pointed it out to me a few days before and really liked it, I got to give my new Elsie rub-ons an outing. I haven't had time to sharpen up the pic, but I'm sure you get the gist!
I made this one from me & Lee, with a little help from a sketch on the CPS blog.
Now, I'm not going to pretend to be any kind of great literary critic, as I'd be the first to confess that I don't read any decent literature anywhere near often enough. As a child, I'd always be found with my head in a book, but since my late teens it's one of those things I struggle to make time for. However, I must share this book I've just read with you. I picked it up on a complete whim on Wednesday, mainly as I was on my way to work and there were no decent magazines in Borders that I had not already read (when I say decent, I really mean the likes of Heat and other trashy celeb mags, which says it all!)!! It usually takes me a few weeks to finish a book in dribs and drabs, but I read this over my three night shifts this week, I really couldn't put it down, so thought I'd just give it a little heads up for anyone looking for a summer holiday read :) 
While I thank my lucky stars that we haven't seen the devastation that some parts of the country have seen this week, I am pretty infuriated by the appaling weather! As you know we're trying to grow our own fruit and veggies this year, and all this wind and rain has meant our crops have taken a battering. It's July the 1st, and still a storm rages on outside my window :( Most of our crops need sun to ripen them, so most have fallen by the wayside. We were lucky with some early strawberries, but I doubt we'll get many more, and I think there's no chance of us getting any heat-loving peppers or aubergines now. However, we appear to have plenty of courgettes on the way:
We're already enjoying plenty of lettuce, spring onion and radish;
And over the last couple of days I've noticed the beginings of some cucumbers and what just may be some flowers on the tomato plants which should eventually be replaced with juicy toms. All we need now is sunshine!!
Here's to sunnier days! xxx
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