Birthday Blog Hop

My Scrap Sister teamie Rebekah is celebrating her birthday this weekend with a blog hop and you are all invited!!  It will be heaps of fun, loads of tutorials and I understand there may be freebies as well!!  So pop over to Rebekah's place and see when it is to start and have some scrapping fun!

WOYWW

Is it Wednesday again?  Where did that week go?  Wel, it's a beautiful morning here, bright sunshine and a cool start, obviously plans on warming up a bit as the day progresses!!  But, you aren't here for the weather report are you?  So here is what is on my desk at the moment... and has been for a couple of days now so perhaps I will actually get it finished today and can start on something new!  If you are wondering what I am rabbiting on about check out the Stamping Ground and see what is on lots of peeps desks today!

It's a mini book for my neighbour who is leaving at the end of the month.

and to the right of my desk I have a table that I use for cutting larger items and this is what is on it... Tom-Tom enjoying the sun shining through the blinds... not sure what he is laying on... hope it survives!!

A Little Retail Therapy...

I went into Jubail this morning and popped into one of my favourite shops, Big World.  Big World is sort of like a 99p shop but the stuff is better and the prices are lower! LOL I thought I had better stock up on ribbons and other bits before we leave here in a couple of months.

Look at all those lovely ribbons and flowers and threads... to be seen on a mini book near you soon!!

I love these bracelets... they look fab hanging off the spine of a mini book.

oooh, and I found these!!  Aren't they lovely?  Would have neither the skill or the patience required in making them so they are a brill find!!

I also found a set of three trunk type boxes which are going to be great in my scrap room at home and they are so pretty, I really don't have to do anythign to them!

I decided the biggest one was great for the ribbons I just bought!

Zutter's are giving away Hang-It-Alls Kits on the Bind It All blog, just a couple of days left to get your name down for a chance to win some!!  I haven't managed to get my mitts on any of these yet but they look like they will be heaps of fun for beyond the page stuff!  Leave  comment and you may win!!

WOYWW

It's Wednesday!!  I am teaching the other half of the class on a mini book this morning and as I think most ladies will have done their homework and get it all completed by lunchtime I decided to put together a quick 'make and take' for them.... and that is what is on my workdesk this morning!!

Now don't laugh... the best thing to make little calendars with is beer mats.... but this is Saudi Arabia and I couldn't pop out to the nearest pub and cleftywollah a heap of them so I had to cut this little lot from a chipboard sheet!!  And the smaller ones.... and then corner round them all with my Round It All!!  Guess who has a sore wrist? 

Hope they like them, it will be a fun little thing to make anyways!!

Dream Banner

You know when you keep looking at something and you aren't sure you are quite done or not?  OK, this is one of those projects!!  It is up temporarily for two things, one to photograph and two for me to decide if I need to do anything to it!! 

The papers are Amy Butler and I think they will look fine in my scraproom back home... at least I hope so as it won't look fine anyplace else in my house!! LOL  I used my Martha Steward border punch... I really like that punch,

and I used 1/2" owires and my BIA to punch holes in the tops of the banner pieces to thread onto the ribbon, the idea for which I borrowed from a fellow DT'er over at Bind It All, Jennifer, who makes the most stunning banners!! 
It is Friday here... and I guess it is also Friday where you are!!  But our Friday is Sunday.... so we have the day off and I think Chris has plans to play with his dead people (geneaology) so I am in the scrap room preparing materials for the scrap class on Sunday.