Just a quick update...

Its been a busy and pretty hectic couple of weeks but we have moved into the new house and most of my furniture shopping arrived on the correct date... minus a lounge suite so we had a couple of days of standing about instead of sitting watching TV!!

The cats like the new house too... Chris bought them this huge climbing frame thingy and they love it... its so tall they can look out of the windows and see the world go by...

The house is a bi-level (which you would imagine was a two level but its got a basement so its got 3 levels) and has these amazing vaulted ceilings which means you have these wonderful shelves in completely barmy places and scratch your scrapper's head wondering what to do with them.... well, one small corner is now sorted!!

The lounge is looking ok, the dining room is looking ok, the master bedroom is getting there... the scrap room is definitely a work in progress!!  Actually, its not even a work in progress as I haven't found any furniture for it yet so unpacking the stash boxes is a bit pointless until I have somewhere to put the stash!!

So that is what I have been doing... can't wait to be able to sit and scrap again...

The Cat Files

I decided that having bits of paper and vaccination records and such like all over the place was not going to do much good when it comes to export Pandora and Tom-Tom home so I made up a book with pockets and things to hold all the important stuff in one place. I have kept the cover deliberately plain as I want to be able to carry it in my bag and didn't want embellies to be squished or torn off.

This is Pandora and the pocket with her vaccination documents.

A transparent pocket with all the vet contact details and Tom-Tom's documents.

Another transparent pocket to hold the bar code strips for their chips and a few blank pages for me to be able to add export documents and such like.

I wanted to keep all the bits from falling out and being lost so I used a piece of elastic to hold the book closed and keep all the stray bits of paper safe. I used eyelets to hold the elastic ends in place inside the back cover of the book.

 and made a wee half circle with my trusty Crop-a-Dile so that the elastic will stay in place.

Just a quick catch up...

My Mum mentioned she had been on my blog and it was still talking about Thanksgiving... so I thought I had better take a break from scrapping and shopping and doing 'stuff' and announce that I am still here... just a bit snowed under - if a person in the desert can be snowed under!!

So this is my Journal Your Christmas book for this year... I have completed half a dozen pages so I am lagging behind the prompts... will promise to buckle down and complete some more in the next couple of days!!

This is a canvas I have done for my friend Ping for Christmas (think I am pretty safe putting it on here as her internet speeds are as awesomely slow as my own so blog hopping is not part of her agenda)!!

Here are some close-ups of the bits... I may not have finished tweaking it yet... depends on my available time before Christmas!!

This is another Christmas pressie, for my friend Trudie, its one of the picture frame versions so stand up as a display album.

Here's a close up of the flowers and pearls and bits!! ;)

Oh and look what I had the compound joiner knock up for me!!  Two little cat houses for TomTom and Pandora... of course, neither of them is willing to step in and look around.... what did I expect? LOL

Her's TomTom looking so cute and obviously preferring the old cardboard box!

This is Pandora who prefers the back of my sofa for any napping....

CC Mini Book Class

This is the book I made up for the UKS Wizard of Oz cyber crop.  Its based on a photo frame in chipboard.

This means it will stand up as a display album.

I also made this version...

Whilst I was sitting and playing about I thought I would get rid of the nasty door numbers on my front door so I made this to go up instead!

and we have a new visitor who has made himself at home in the porch.

 He's named Tom-Tom because he must have some inbuilt GPS that made him turn up at my house!!  He's the sweetest, gentlest little guy and Chris has a soft spot for him... perhaps because he doesn't bite and scratch like Pandora!! ;)

When he comes in the house her nose gets seriously out of joint....