I have gone for a 12 x 9 album split through the middle to reduce the thickness.
And I have engineered the closures so that I can move the brads into different slots as it grows!! Who said I never learn from previous experience???
The actual pages are large pockets with a tag inside... so each pocket covers 4 days of prompts which should keep the whole thing under control and it will be easy to add extra tags for photos etc if I need the space.
Had my first play with the Zutter's Cover-Als with this project and I am impressed. I painted the covers, crackled, painted, stamped, embossed and Bejewelled and they didn't warp or bend out of shape like normal chipboard does!! Woo hooo... I can see me having fun with these!!
Check out the Zutter's DT Gallery to see what the girls have come up with... you will be glad you did!
I just stood on the terrace outside the scraproom and watched the prettiest sunset... makes me wish I had used a better camera!! LOL
Decided it was about time I started making up little boxes and bags ready for small gifts for Christmas... as it appears to creeping up on me and there are no visible signs to get me moving! No shops with carols playing, no Christmas lights, no bedecked stores... I hadn't realised how important all these small things are as a build up to the festivities! Of course... I also need stuff to go into the boxes... which is another challenge altogether! LOL
Here is Odelia and little Merrick in the shop - see.... I told you, you can have any colour you like as long as its black!! :)
Here is the wee mannie who takes the hems up and in a couple of minutes he had my abaya sorted and back in its bag - all for free!! :)
This is the owner, he was a little camera shy but didn't mind me taking pictures - more abayahs behind him.... yep, all black. 
Here I am in front of Mr Chocolate - the sweet stores here are beautiful - the chocolates are in these arrangement of baskets with all this decoration. And yes, I need to get my hair done but there aren't any hairdressers shops! :( Men aren't allowed to touch a woman to whom they aren't married, women aren't allowed to work.... so that's a difficult one!! Chris did offer to cut mine for me but I passed on that... there must be an expat hairdresser here somewhere, I just need to find her!!
and I did not buy this screen... Chris did, he says it is for our master bedroom - think the man has ideas of me being behind it throwing clothes over like in some '50's movie... he's better be using a lot of imagination, let me tell you!!
Found this beautiful Persian rug in the garden design, it will look beautiful on Chris' study floor.
This Nain Persian rug is very similar to one we already have at home except this has red in the centre instead of deep blue - and its beautiful, I had to take this photo from up the stairs to fit it in... its also signed which is a bonus and it took me three days to actually walk on it with slippers instead of going round it... yep, it cost that much!! LOL
Got two of these, they are for my lounge in Scotland and will have large masks on stands on them instead of a brass tea pot.
No, we didn't buy her at the bazaar, just thought I'd update you on her... after asking around it appears she is called Gypsy and she is homeless, her territory includes my house so she is quite happy to visit, eat and sleep on my dining chair all day...
So this is how we ladies go shopping. Because we aren't allowed to drive, the village puts on buses for us to go to the various malls - so this a group of us on the way to Al Khobar, which is a one and half hour trip there, shop for a couple of hours and one and half hours back again... now don't we just look fetching in our Abayahs?
Oh and look at the fridge magnets I found!! I love them... in fact, I should have bought heaps because everyone that sees them wants them!
Thought this one was appropriate for Remembrance Sunday - can't find a poppy anywhere here so a red and black butterfly will have to do.... the reason for the butterfly is explained in this post so if you feel like joining in, then that would be lovely.
Christopher passed his driving test yesterday!! Yahooooo.... 
and bought these beautifully beaded table runners... the red one is for Christmas, its prettier in real life.
and where ever we go I always pick up tree decs as a souvinir of the foreign Christmas and I love these with their camels.
and would you believe these little guys? Santa on a camel? LOL I am aiming to do Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas again this year and was hoping to find stuff to make the book uniquely Saudi Arabian... well, these will be on the front cover!!
Dan has made a template you can download to make butterflies which you can find here. Thanks Dan!
I used the sticky back suede and lace I found in the 'scrap shop' in Khobar and added some crystal danglies, sewed some beads into the lace and then added some Primas and bling with my Bejeweller!
Can you ever have too much bling? LOL
Used my BIA to bind it but made the covers so that the wires weren't visible, its going to be laods easier to do this look when the Coverals by Zutters hit the shops - I can't wait to get my mitts on them!
Used Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste papers - I love this range, add some ink and you get this lovely aged looking album.
Used loads of chipboard shapes and covered them with paper, I love the look of a fat book!
Isn't she sweet? She just turned up one day and talked to me...
and did a good impression of an animal in need of food...
so now she visits half a dozen times a day! LOL She is very domesticated and I really think she belongs to someone here but gets bored and comes to visit the weird cat lady who always has time to talk and smooth her... its no good getting attached to her because I can't take her back to the UK with me... 6 months in quarantine in Scotland to a cat that lives in these temps would be horrible.
This is my finished Christmas Journal 2007 with Shimelle. Now, its unkind to laugh... I had no idea it would get this fat!!
As you can see from the above photo... I had to bind it in two separate sections of 1 1/4" o'wires and then wire them together!!
