Afternoon in the Garden

I was unable to fit in all the piccies I wanted to show in my previous post and, was not going to start all over again. So, above is a picture just to show you th pile of magazines I went through this afternoon drinking a lovely cuppa with the lovely company of my DD rolling & kicking about.
As I went through these I got inspired again. So many lovely projects that you completely forget about. More things to add onto my Project List. Below, is a picture of a Scrapbook that I bought for my DS down at RSMcColls. Josh just Loves to cut out like me! I thought he would like this to cut up and to draw on (he scribbles really) and stick things onto, like his stickers (another thing he loves doing). £1.19 it cost me and it is A3 size. thought that was rather good and especially when it has so many different colours inside.

Yesterday I was looking after both the children and it was good but, Josh was being ever so silly and his problem right now is He just does not LISTEN! It makes me very angry because he looks at me as if he is listening when really he is not and he makes no response whatsoever! It's soooo infuriating! Anyway it came to dinner time and he started it fine. But then, he was playing around on the seat and all of a sudden he fell with the fork in his hand and cried! I asked him if he was okay and he said he was fine and we had a cuddle to settle him. Then for some reason he just wouldn't eat the rest of his dinner. I asked him to eat up goodness knows how many times and chatted to him about not listening and ignoring me......still nothing.....I got rather angry that I told him to go to bed and that I didn't want to see him.....he just went and did so. I really didn't expect him to but, it just showed me that he LISTENED THEN! He woke up around 21:30pm and sat with us for an hour and boy was he funny! He told Daddy what had happened then he started cutting up paper at his cutting table because he wanted to cut like me ( I was cutting up my decoupage designs you see). So, that was funny! But, DH chatted to me as I am too soft on Josh and he said tht I need to learn to be more tougher with him. The only thing is I find it really hard!

Afternoon in the Garden

Our afternoon outside in our garden was bliss! As you can see! Ava lay looking at the funny plastic flower (in the pict. below) and rolled about onto her front and kicked her legs about. She had a whale of a time out in the fresh air lying in the garden of peacefullness.

Here we both are out in our peaceful garden. Do not like the pic of me though. Ava below after rolling onto her front and showing off her skills at 4 months 7 days of age.

Ava is reading my CB magazine, she takes to the pictures and colours so she does! I'm sure she will turn into a crft person just like Mummy! I do hope so anyway!

Crafts Beautiful Sept. Issue

I received my September Issue of CB last week and boy was I excited to see it pop through the letterbox! I was dying to read it so much but, didn't get round to reading it till the next day after receiving it! But, you know what....It was worth the wait!

I got myself to bed with a good old cuppa and lay there reading to my hearts content. There were so many interesting and inspiring projects and even. A couple of projects I really particualry enjoyed were the Shop & Go handbag (pictured above), isn't this just remarkable? all made out of card and paper. Really fancy trying this out at some point! Just don't know when that will be!

Then there was this "beautiful" Welcoming House sign that caught my eye staright away! How adoreable and different is that? The colours used are just lovely too. This make is definately going on my Project List.

Handcrafted Afternoon Makes

This afternoon, while Ava had her afternoon nap of 30 minutes, I grabbed this opportunity to get creative and make a couple of cards. With quite a bit of inspiration in my mind I wanted to get my designs out onto my bases. I had a beautiful afternon of handcrafting two makes. Shown above and below are two angles of the 2nd card I made using patterned paper I bought the other week while out with the mad ones! (Max & Maggie, fom CB Forum). Kept this card simple to let the ribbon and patterned paper talk more than anything else! The ribbons just help lift out the patterned paper along with the odd sequins and pearls.

A Close Up View

This was my first card made this afternoon, one I had started yesterday but, just needed finishing off! This turned out to be a little different than expected! As I had not planned to put on the punched flowers. But, now I am pleased they are on as they just frame the centre piece and adds a touch to the background base. Below is a close up view using my glittered flower paper for the punched centred flower.

Doing Vintage Style

I bought a lovely paper stack pad of Laura Ashley papers when I met up with my dear friends from Crafts Beautiful Forum - Max and Maggie50. I decided to create some Vintage style cards, which I did, then I went on and made this Vintage ATC to be put away for someone special! I particulary enjoyed doing this ATC as iI had fun creating something that little bit different! I am not actually a very big fan of vintage styles but, I like it when something of this style grabs my attention. I hope that you like this Vintage style ATC of mine!

Award

I have been given this Reward by Hels on http://pinkleart.blogspot.co

The Rules of this award are:

1. Only 5 people allowed.

2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award. Quite simple really, it is a way of saying thank you to those who take time out for the wonderful comments that boost your day.

So I would like to send this award to...

1. http://tiggertastic.blogspot.com/ Sarah-Louise

2. http://rachel-theowlhouse.blogspot.com/ Rachel Sian

3. http://icklepicklepumpkinpie.blogspot.com/ Rachael Mulhall

4 http://pinkpuppysblog.blogspot.com/ Louise

5. http://creativemakes.blogspot.com/ Jules Pollared

Thanx again Hels

Natalie x

THINK PINK - PINK KIT

Excited I certainly was when I recieved a small parcel from the postman this morning! I was more than delighted to see the parcel was from caroline Scattergood at Bubblyfunk. Inside was my THINK PINK - Pink Kit all in cause for Breast Cancer, where £2 of the purchase goes to Breast Cancer Charity! The quality of these goods in the Kit is just remarkable and I am ever so excited about going to play with it all and seeing what I can come up with! I also got 20x ATC Pearl Blanks, s I had run out, and a BRILLIANCE Ink pad (Black) as I need this for doing the Image swaps and just for general stamping too.
Above are the ribbon and buttons and more of accessories!

Above here are all the beautiful pinks, browns and white flowers....

Above here is a large Organza Bag with little card templates and ribbon with sequins on it...and below is two sheets of spotted felt....!