Oh dear seems my computer is very sick just now. Not being very technically minded, I have no clues as to what could be going on. Rather than springing to life, when I flip up the lid, it sort of emerges from a deep slumber, like a tortoise coming out of hibernation – ooh s o o o s l o w l y.
Slowly the pink tortoise. Heehee!!!
How frustrating when technology just refuses to work. I am getting a little sick of looking at it's meaningless messages (Not Responding). That is a response, after all, isn't it? Is it me?
I am hoping it's not a terminal condition and that it just needs a bit of tlc and tidying up.
On a brighter note, as every parent of teenagers knows, it's almost impossible to get their co-operation for a photo and so the ones we do get become all the more precious.
I was delighted to see this amongst some recent pictures at Mum's and couldn't wait to get home to scrap it.
Saturday morning found me all alone - Children all off doing their thing - and so time to get to it, and indulge myself with a little me time for some scrapbooking.
First on the agenda was to go paper shopping, naturally. LOL! After all, I really needed a new herma refill and it doesn't hurt to look at all the fabby new goodies in the shops does it?
(If you think all I did was look, you really don't know me at all. Ha!)
But having got some new supplies, I got straight down to it.
So here they are DDs 1 and 2!!! I love this picture and was smiling away to myself all the time.
Please excuse the badly lit photo. Daylight is still a bit scarce here.
Basic Grey and Studio Calico papers with Making Memories trims and some Prima pebbles.
Lots of neat stitching on this which doesn't really show up in the picture, sadly.
I'm loving these letters from a Studio Calico kit, and already starting to look out for more.
...And yes, Adele's eyes really are that blue, and Steph really is as crazy and fun loving as she looks.
Love these girls so much.
Speaking of Studio Calico, what happened over there on Saturday morning???
Having gone out on Friday night, and having all morning to lay in bed if I wanted on Saturday, I set my alarm for 4.45, to be on-line in time for the kit reveal this month.
This is a rare treat, as usually I'm dead to the world at this time of day.
By 5.10am I was happily plopping add-ons and few other bits into my cart. By 5.20am when I went to check out, lots of stuff had just disappeared. Sold Out!!
Quickly grabbing what I could I paid and then went to check the message boards. It seems everyone was having the same experience and by 8am that morning everything was gone!
Amazing! The equivalent of a stampede in an on-line shop!
I did manage to get most of what I wanted, but there were a lot of very disappointed scrappers in the UK that morning.
So a lesson learned, hopefully by both the kit subscribers, and the SC team, who we can only hope will increase the stock levels of their lovely kits.
Just to square the circle, and make sure no-one's left out, here's the piccie of DD3 and yours truly that's been sitting in the side bar here, and on my hard drive, but nowhere else for a while.
One of our favourites from last summer.
Finally got it scrapped.
Journalling reads,
"So, now both the girls have moved out, most times it's just you and me. That's the down side.
And the upside?
Well, that is most times, it's just you and me!"
It may not be perfectly balanced, but I like the way this turned out. Particularly pleased with the dimension in this one.
More stitching and more SC and October Afternoon papers.
That's it for now, but more to share tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by...Sx
