Its the 25th again!!

I am really not doing very well with the Shimelle Save the Day thing - I have taken photos on each 25th - just not managed to put together any pages yet!! :( I think that will be my challenge to me this week, do April, May and Junes pages - otherwise its going to be really difficult as my memory isn't what it used to be!!

Speaking of memories... the weirdest thing happened yesterday. I decided to start using Chris' camera, its much nicer than my old digital so I had a practice run and took some photos of the garden. When I transferred them to the PC I found some old photos on the card too... this was one of them... I was looking at Cuddles!! Cuddles who has been gone since 2001. How did Cuddles get on the camera? The camera was bought in South Africa just as Chris and I were going to Victoria Falls for my 50th birthday - 2 years ago. Its a mystery....

The Little FAT Book of Tags

Going along with the theme of the new header photo (yep, I'm still chuffed that I managed to do that) - this is a little fat book bound with the BIA that I have made with photos of the masks and background info on the tribes that carved them. Yes, I know that some people think its a pretty weird thing to have covering your lounge walls - but I love them!! :)

This is it alongside the masks and other African artwork.

I did it!!

I managed to get a photograph of my lounge wall of African masks onto my blog as a header!! Its only taken me a month of trying to get it right and lovely instructions from Helen (Enfys). I think it looks pretty kewl!! :)

Bad, bad blogger...

I have been a bad blogger, life got in the way and I haven't blogged and I haven't scrapped and because he was ignored, mojo decided to go walkabout. Now I'm not sure what other people do when missing their mojo but I tend to have a really good clean up in the scraproom, order some new stash and hope he comes back! So I thought I would take this opportunity to share a couple of things.

This is a printers tray I did last year and when he was home on leave, Chris put it up on the sun lounge wall for me. I am not completely sure it is finished, but it certainly looks better up on the wall than tucked behind one of the cane chairs! ;)

When I got up this morning, mojo had sort of returned so I got the pile of chipboard tags out that I had Gail at Craftspirations cut for me - all 50 of them!! I have an idea brewing and its quite therapeutic to sit with a glass nail file and sand all the edges of the tags with Radio 2 playing in the background....


When I went to Lidl last I saw these glass topped wooden boxes that were for putting teabags in - the sort of thing you see in hotels at breakfast - well, I couldn't resist picking one up as it looked perfect for displaying my growing collection of ATC's that I have been given or swapped. Its so much nicer than having them hidden away in a album or box and when I sit in the sun lounge with a cup of coffee I can have a look through them and admire them in all their tiny beauty.

The Book of Flowers

When I saw this black flower shaped mini book from Carolinezcraftz I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it! I love black and white combined with a splash of colour and I think it showcases the photos of the flowers that are in bloom in my garden at the moment beautifully. I used a chipboard tag book for the centres of the flower pages and a little flower tag book for some extra pics just to add some interest.