The 8th of the month has come around again so that means I'm up on the Hey Little Magpie blog today. This month I was lucky enough to get to play with the new Maggie Holmes collection Bloom, yay! I adore the Crate Paper collections and especially love the Maggie Holmes ones so I was a happy girl creating pretty... Read more →

A little while a go I was tagged on social media by a fellow Hey Little Magpie creative team member to share a favourite scrapbooking project or layout from 2015, one a day for a week. I thought it would be a nice to list them here too. Day 1. I chose this layout 'Fly', originally shared on the Hey... Read more →

Woo hoo, I can let the magpie out of the bag now...I am honoured and very excited to announce that I am on the Hey Little Magpie Creative Team! Hey Little Magpie is the new trading name for Sarah's Cards Ltd, a UK online scrapbook store. I will be posting on the Hey Little Magpie blog on the 8th of... Read more →

I've two weeks worth of Project Life to share, sometimes a week is busy that I can only find myself being able to grab half an hour here and there to work on it. This was the case with week 43. I always plan out what photos and stories I want to use with the help of the Momento App... Read more →

Hello week 42! This was the week... I completed my Week in the Life 2013 album I resurrected my blog My Studio Calico December Daily kit arrived all the way from America Matthew found out he'd passed his 11+ entrance test for grammar school and was eligible to apply for a place (we won't find out if he's actually got... Read more →

Back in the summer I wrote an article for the Scrapbook Magazine about Project Life. I wrote about the concept behind it, the products available, shared photos of my Project Life spreads and talked about my processes. The issue is now on sale, issue 76 for those of you interested. If you've not heard about Project Life before you can... Read more →

I'm in my second year of doing Project Life, a fantastic project that documents our day to day life in weekly spreads. I absolutely LOVE it. It has definitely reduced the number of traditional scrapbook layouts I've been making, but at the same time so much more is being recorded and each little insert acts like a mini scrapbook page.... Read more →

Oh my goodness, this feels really strange to me...writing a blog post, I've been absent from my blog for nearly two years. I think it will take a while to find my way around the 'backstage' part of this blog! Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on it, let's move forward... I am currently loving Project Life a freelance designer... Read more →