Been gone....

.... but hopefully not forgotten!

Woah, has time flied since my last post. Reasons being? Mainly a lovely fortnight in Tenerife, followed by the recommencement (did I just make that word up?) of my degree the day after we got back!

Anyway, the holiday was absolutely lovely and just what we needed. Lee was well for the majority of it, and seems to have stabilised a little now. He went back to work last week anyway, so fingers crossed everything is on the up. Still no sign of an appointment with the consultant though, apparently we are now looking at December - and that's an emergency referral!

Have not had much time to sort out my holiday pics as of yet, what with being thrown straight back in the course and continuing with my summer job at the weekend (bleugh!!), but here are a couple to give you a taster of the lovely time we had.

Sangria!

These were everywhere around the hotel - growing like weeds!

Lee found the largest of the three pools was best for bobbing around on a lilo!

The smaller pool at sunset

I'm sure more pics will follow as I work through them!

Not had much time for scrapping :( I feel that I've lost my mojo but hopefully once my holiday pics are organised I'll find the inspiration I need to get creative.

I did however organise all my stash, out of necessity rather than choice as my study-come craft room had turned into a dumping ground over the last couple of months. I'd developed the tendency to open the door just enough to dump stuff in and then shut it again without having to face the chaos that lied within! But getting back to uni has meant I needed a clear space to work and access my files and books, so it had to be sorted.

As a result I found that three quarters of my scrapping papers are no longer my taste, so relegated them to a huge storage box which is now almost full of paper and scraps which, whilst I no longer want to scrap with, thought they may come in handy for other things. So I've started making some cards to use them up.

Now this is scary! I am not a cardmaker. If I had a picture of my old cards I'd post one, but they're all on disk somewhere - probably best never to be seen again! They were pretty basic, and it's hard to believe I actually used to get orders to make them and people paid for them!! So, showing my new cards is a bit nerve wracking really cos I'm not very confident at it, but I've tested them on an audience of close friends and family, who think they are ok (course they would though eh?!). I mean I don't think they are amazing or anything, but a little better than the crap I used to make!

So, I decided to use some teeny scraps to make these little geisha-inspired girls (and a boy!), they seem to be everywhere at the moment and I think the bright coloured dresses are so lovely and lend themselves well to my scraps!! I made a few, I don't have a pic of the girls on their own, but have used them to make a couple of cards. The first one is the wedding card I made for Lee's sister and her husband in July (never had a thank you but there you go! She must have thought it was crap!).

Next on my agenda is making some little girls in the style of Russian nestling dolls, seeing those everywhere at the mo too.
Off now to catch up with six weeks worth of blogs!! Catch you soon xxx