Weekend Catch-Up

We went to visit some very very good friends on Saturday as we had arranged to go out for an Indian meal with them at lunchtime. The boys were both a bit bleary-eyed, as one of them had been out the night before and the other one just doesn't do getting up before lunchtime! Needless to say we made the most of ribbing them!
Lunch was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and it was so nice to spend time with our friends, I do treasure times like these as they are all too rare.

My friend has also recently become a falconer and took us to see the Harris Hawk she is working with at the moment, what a privilege. We had such a lovely day.
Other than that I am desperate to do some scrapping but but the house has been quite full and busy with the boys being home from uni, but I am not complaining as I love having them home. No. 2 son has left this morning, OH is taking him back to uni and No.1 son is leaving on Friday.

April

Here we are well into April already with all it's unpredictable weather - cold, sunny, rainy, windy, grey, bright - we are experiencing them all.
April also brings with it my other half's and both my sons' birthdays, and usually Easter too.
My family from Germany have visited over Easter for the last few years but decided this year that for a variety of reasons they would be unable to do so this year, which made it a bit of a strange Easter. We spent Easter Sunday in our pyjamas (unheard of!) lounging around. OH and me had decided to go to Brands Hatch on Sunday to watch British Superbike Racing but then he realised that he would have to work all day Monday to meet a deadline on Tuesday. He did work all day and I helped from 5pm until 1am and for a couple more hours Tuesday morning, we were both absolutely shattered as we hadn't slept well either. What a bank holiday weekend!

I have been able to bring my Project Life Album up to date over the last week or so which I've thoroughly enjoyed and it gives me lots of pleasure. I just keep forgetting to take pictures of it!
I have also been working on an album for myself using kraft cardstock and some of my Tim Holtz bits and pieces.

I'm still looking for a good background to take pictures of my layouts on!

I'm very pleased with the way the pages are turning out and I've been losing myself in the process of getting sticky, inky hands! I would love nothing more than to spend every day doing this.

I would happily get up early in the morning, travel if I had to and work all day if this was my job - not something I would say about my current job or any other jobs I can think of for that matter!
Well, I think it's time for a lovely long bubble bath as my men have gone to the pub to celebrate No1 son's birthday so I am having a little bit of me time.
Much love to everyone in Blogland! :)





Hope

I've had a strange old day today and have ended up feeling a little bit sorry for myself.
My Mum phoned this morning to let me know that the family can't come over for Easter for a variety of reasons, she sounded quite sad about it and I'm sad about it too. There was a little bit more to it than that, suffice it to say that I felt quite dumbstruck after the phonecall and took myself off for a wander round the local shops and a coffee to distract myself for a while, because I didn't feel like sitting at home going round and round in circles in my head.
Whilst out I started to feel a bit headachey and generally yucky, so I came home but then had to pop out again to run some errands, which I really didn't feel like doing but at least they're out of the way now.
All this, for some reason, made me think of the photo above which I took in Holyhead last week. I spotted this little cluster of emerging spring flowers in an otherwise still quite dry and wintery looking patch of ground. To me it symbolises hope and the fact that there's always something to look forward to even when things seem don't seem all that great. And some of the not so good news I had this morning also made me realise that I've got a lot to be thankful for. Which is nice. I think we need that reminder sometimes.

A little break

My other half has been working on Angelsey for a week, and as I am lucky enought to work part time from home, and my work is pretty much all done on a laptop, I have been able to join him. I have had quite a bit of time to myself and I made sure I brought some crafting stuff and some hookey, so in truth it's been a bit of a holiday for me really.
The weather has been a pretty mixed bag, windy more than anything and here is a picture of me out on a little stroll along the beach!

It was also veeery sunny, so the rays of light in the picture weren't deliberate - but I actually quite like them!

We are staying in a nice B&B in a huge room so I've been able to come and go as I please and spread out my craft stuff etc, read, watch a bit of TV - it has been quite blissful...

I brought a couple of chipboard books, an Easter paper pad and stickers with me and managed to make two Easter albums. All my family come over from Germany each Easter and I decided that I would prepare some albums as presents for them, which I will hopefully be able to fill with this year's photos of their stay before they go back so these albums aren't quite the finished article yet.

Not the best pictures in the world as they were taken with my I Phone by the window!

Now the weekend is nearly upon us, which the other half is very happy about, he has just got in from work very tired after a long week and now also full of cold so I'm off to administer some TLC. Hope you all have a great weekend.





Catch up

So, my laptop has been playing up and will not connect to the Internet anymore which is one of the main reasons why I have not updated my blog in ages. I am writing this on my I pad but I think the last time I did that the font didn't come out right which is why I have not tried to blog on here since, although using the I pad would be very handy a lot of the time. The days are slowly ticking by and it finally looks like spring might be on the way, the temperature is up and it is bright and sunny outside which always seems to lift my mood no end, I am definitely not a winter person. Dark, grey days really seem to get me down. I have been busy creating a supply of scrapbook albums which I am hoping to start selling at some point as well as scouring the net, books, magazines and so on for inspiration. I had a lovely day yesterday with my best friends at the Scrapbook Sisters crop, where in between the chatting, laughing, drinking coffee and eating (as always) the delicious carrot cake on offer I managed to bring my "Project Life" up to date. I also managed to make a little layout in a frame featuring my sis and her boyfriend, an idea that had been developing in my mind for some time. Now, I was trying to add a picture here but I don't seem to be able to do this on the I pad....aargh! Every time you think you've conquered a piece of technology another obstacle throws itself into your path. I will post this for now and continue to try and sort out my laptop, I hope you are all enjoying a relaxing and sunny weekend!