Another notebook!

I am so loving altering notebooks at the moment that I did one for the student teacher we had in our class as a leaving pressie!
I used an A4 book this time and lots of quotes about teachers!! The papers are Autumn Leaves French Twist and lots of bazzill card!!





I also made this mini maze book for the Alphabet Funk blog. Visit the blog for full instructions on how to make it!

Feeling arty!!

I've been altering a wall in the spare room!! The wall was rough and had a hole in it so I decided to decorate it in my own style! I borrowed an overhead projector from work and magnified stenciled images onto the wall then drew around them. I painted these using acrylics. I made the hanging pockets with a length of vinyl and some plastic pockets. Again, I stenciled shapes onto the material and painted them with acrylics.(not too confident hand drawing!!) The pockets were sewn on, then I added eyelets at the top to hang it. The nice thing about the pockets are I can change the photos/ pages in them when I want!
I made a page to go in the large one and mounted some photos of the family in the small ones, as shown.

Notebook swap

As usual, there is always another swap going on over at the Bubbly Funk forum!! This one is for an A6 sized notebook to be altered in the theme of "black and white". I enjoyed this project and am now making an A4 sized altered notebook as a colleague's leaving pressie!! Here are a few piccies of the black and white one.





I have even got the kids at school involved in altering notebooks for the school fete, it's such fun!!

Catch up time!

Life seems to be wizzing past at light speed these days and I sometimes wonder how we fit everything in! What's new since my last post?
- Luke competed in a gymnastic competion and won 3 gold medals
- Molly progressed up to the intermediate class in gym
- bought a new camera and am trying my best to learn how to take more creative photos
- Got a new tent and spent last week camping in Goodrington!!

Time to take a deep breath and show you some of the phots that Rob has taken with the new camera. I think they're brill and are great examples of what can be acheived when you come away from auto focus and play around with the settings!

Modern technology!!

It's not all it's hyped up to be!! We've been having so many problems with our computer restarting it's self at inappropriate times and then generally not working the way it should that we've now got a new one which is all singing, all dancing! I'm liking the windows vista and so far everything is working ok with it. Totally unrelated to the new computer, our modem, which was 5 years old packed up at the weekend so we had to wait 4 days for someone to replace it. Took them 5 minutes!!

So now I have no excuse not to keep up with my blog and other projects!!

Forest of Dean!

We got back last night from a weekend camping in the Forest of Dean. Apart from a few clouds, we had good weather. We took the bikes this time and did a 2.2 mile ride out to Symonds Yat Rock which has stunnings views down through the Wye valley. Here are some photos Rob took.


Yesterday morning we thought we'd have a go at mountain boarding and had such a laugh! Mountain boards are like over sized skatebords with tyres and places to strap your feet in. As it was a spur of the moment thing we all had on quite decent, new-ish clothes which ended up with lots of grass stains!! Luckily they have come out in the wash! Here are some pics of us on the boards and our bums!!




Tip: If you are trying for the first time, be prepared to spend a lot of time on your bum, back or knees!! It's something we will definately do as a family again. The aches I have today were worth it!!

Tagged!

Rosie has tagged me!! http://freycob.blogspot.com/

I have to give seven facts/ habits about myself. I'm not going to tag another seven people though as they are the same ones that have already been tagged!

Here goes:

1. I passed my direct access motorbike test first time in May 2005.

2. I was in the front row of Ant and Dec's Saturday night takeaway!

3. I collect Eeyores, and even have a tattoo of him on my back.

4. I met my husband, Rob when I was 18 at a Halloween night party !

5. I am stubborn and have to have the last word!

6. I love my job.

7. I am addicted to crafting!!

Sorry if they are a bit boring, couldn't think of anything else!!