You say potato I say potato

I have been really enjoying a month of toddler mayhem as they were both away from school due to half term and then illnesses. I think a perfect family month was just what I needed to get my creativity flowing again and I feel really inspired to scrap again. Thank goodness!

I really miss my sister as we have never been apart.. If I wasn't strangling her then I was playing monopoly with her. Now we live half an hour away it is really hard. I tried to get her into crafting but then she went and had a newborn TSK!! FINALLY I got her to get the stuff back out again and we have been scrapping together via webcam. I have loved every second just getting to be with her again... This is what I created last night:

I had so much fun playing with Basic Grey, it's such a shame they don't work with DO anymore.

My sister made a layout about me last night.. made me bawl my eyes out!! Emotion is great for the soul sometimes.. just to get a release and then let some happiness back in.

My team on UKS is currently conducting a swap with a different theme set each month. This month was a task set by me to create 50 journalling prompts to get your swappee scrapping again. Here is what I came up with for my friend Niamh:

A little envelope paperbag book to record her answers:

Inside I have slipped a co-ordinating envelope full of 50 prompts:
I really hope she will like it and that the prompts will get her thinking. I love to get people crafting :)

I was just playing Mr.Potato head with Logan when he messed the face up and said 'Look mommy.. potasso (Picaso lol)' which is SO funny.. got to love Toy Story!! He needed another nose and exclaimed 'Hang on.. I will just get one out of his ass'.. Oh dear me. Fair enough though, they are stored in his bottom and daddy did let him play Skate 2 which taught him the word 'ass'. What are dads good for if not undoing all our hard work, eh??!

Peace and love

♥♥ Mel ♥♥

Scrapbooking the snow and my gothic princess Emily

I haven't updated the blog for ages but I have been feeling so uninspired. Occasionally this mood hits me and I can't seem to produce anything other than frustration.. SO I kick back.. watch Lost and enjoy some Rock Band with my husband.

This weekend was the cybercrop and I only managed to produce the first two classes before I had to be reclaimed as a mother again but it sure was fun.. Mostly because my incredibly talented friend Anni provided the second class :)

Artbase Class 1: (My version)

Black and Blue Class 2 - Anni Barnett (my version):

I bought these awesome sorta gothic embellishments a century ago and they have been sitting there like some rare diamonds in a craft box shrine. I collect anything remotely awesome to my style and they all sit in this box, totally loved but never used. WASTE!! I have now turned into this insane mad woman who wants to use all of her stash RIGHT NOW!!

I think it worked out good for me though, I love this layout of my gothic princess:

I don't abuse my daughter and make her wear symbols of death for my own enjoyment, she picked that top herself :D She does however absolutely LOVE pink (wonder where she got that from..?) and I had to scrap her first day at nursery:

Like, dude.. even the wellys are pink!! Can you tell the gwuvs n packpack are hand me downs from bro? I mean.. there is only a year between them to be fair!

We have had awesome snow here and although I am not enjoying the cold and rheumatism, I am loving seeing the kids faces light up and the GIANT snowballs Emily seems to find. Who hasn't scrapped their snow pics.. Like.. Immediately!! Here are mine:

OK, if you click these images it should make them bigger so you can see them in their true beautifulness. This rule does not apply to everything. I stuck my finger in a cake.. did not make it bigger... Had to then eat the cake as I had stuck my finger in it.. shame.

I have recentely received an award from a wonderful fellow apprentice, Sarah Carrington. Her work is so stunning and she has just revealed her sneak peeks for the next round of The Scrapbook apprentice... Go check them out:

http://smellyblog-slcarrington.blogspot.com/

So to accept this award I have to:
1) first list 10 honest things about yourself and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep! 2) pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap


Ok here goes:
1) I have been making love 'on the dangerous side of life' for 2 years now and nothing has happened. It seems like every single friend of mine has become pregnant, even ones that really didn't want to. Every time I see a baby it kills me inside because I feel as though it is a reminder that I'm not good enough to get pregnant.
2) Whenever I go out, I always feel as though everyone is staring at me and whispering.
3) I am a very withdrawn person but everyone thinks I am the life of the party.
4) I have OCD but I am now able to control it.
5) I am a hard friend to have. One minute I will be your best friend, the next I will be gone. I am too scared to get close to people.
6) I am always right. ALWAYS. I hate to be wrong. I also hate people that think they're right all the time. Morons..see the irony?
7) I used to write songs. Sometimes those songs would be scary as hell. I guess they was my way of scrapbooking before I discovered the hobby!
8) I hate my body. If there is a mirror I will try to blank it out otherwise I will be down about it all day.
9) I can eat a whole big bag on sensations in one sitting.
10) When I go to McDonalds I have a chicken mayo AS WELL as a fillet o fish meal..

OK so there you go.. freak of the week unleashed.

Stay safe x