Over on the Scrap Weekly 2010 blog, it's my turn this week to set the challenge. Here's what I came up with: scrap with tags, but use them in a different way to how you would do normally. And that's it. On my LO, I used 10 tags in lieu of patterned paper ~ 5 … Continue reading Scrap Weekly 2010: Challenge #4
Today's suggestion from Shimelle's A Year of Blogging is to post a photo from years ago and write something inspired by that photo. Except that I'm not going to bother with the 2nd part. In this delightful school photo, you can see me and my sister. The year is 1974 and we went to Buntingsdale … Continue reading From The Archives
In Shimelle's guide A Year Of Blogging, she suggests sharing a tip for how you organise or store some of your crafting supplies. My tip is this ~ keep your embellishments where you can see them. I had a whole 12x12 box of flowers and an old sewing box full of buttons, both of which … Continue reading Storing Craft Supplies
In Shimelle's A Year Of Blogging, she suggests for today that we share a LO that has hidden journaling. In an attempt to embarrass myself enough to complete this album, I am showing you a montage of our holiday album from Lanzarote in 2008. And what do you notice? The spaces for the journaling are … Continue reading Hidden Journaling?
So, the final prompt from Shimelle today and it was all about the reasons why. Reasons personal to each of us but still the reasons why we choose to blog and scrapbook. For me, it's quite simple. I blog because none of my family live near by and it's a way to share our everyday … Continue reading Blogging For Scrapbookers: Day 15
I was very chuffed to read in today's class prompt that it's okay to blog about the ordinary! Isn't that what I pretty much do, anyway? The journaling on the mini LO reads: "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary" ~ Blaise Pascal. This is a quotation I can relate … Continue reading Blogging For Scrapbookers: Day 4
This West London Life 