Scrapbooking

As the boys begin half-term holidays, this is what's happening right now... Watching - I have lots of TV programmes recorded on Sky + to watch, so this coming week I will be catching up on Castle, The Good Wife, TrueBlood, Glee and Relocation, Relocation. Listening - to the boys, why do they have to be sooo loud? Actually right... Read more →


It's all about Harry Potter in this house at the moment and well, I can't see that changing for a while. As I mentioned in my christmas post, Harry Potter has 'landed' in our house. The boys watched the first two movies before christmas and it's been growing from there. They got the Lego Hogwarts Castle and the Lego Quidditch... Read more →


Oh my goodness, how can it possibly be February already?! January has been a busy month of creativity, baby snuggling and helping at school. Before I can fully adjust myself to thinking about February, I'm going to step back in time a little and share some photos from the end of December and January. The photo above is from Boxing... Read more →


I finished my December Daily 2010 last weekend - hooray! It's definitely a project that is a labour of love. Every year it is a bit of a struggle to complete it, especially as I never actually stay on top of it during the month of December. Maybe this year (December Daily 2011) I will, here's hoping anyway, because although... Read more →


If October was all about knights, then November is all about pirates. For that's Matthew's school topic this half-term, and of course there's always a lego project involved in his topic home learning. This time he wanted to make a pirate story with lego scene pictures and writing. The first week he introduced the ten main characters which included Captain... Read more →


I have a notebook in which I write down scrapbook layout ideas. In May this year I wrote an idea to do a layout about my favourite TV shows. That's where that idea stayed until the lovely Cathy Zielske posted a free template on her blog this Monday. It was absolutely perfect. I got straight to work and came up... Read more →


Doesn't look very much like August does it? Fortunately it was milder than it looks and the boys really didn't seem to mind, they were happy to dig in the sand with their friends. I was happy to sit and watch them and chat to my friend Jo. {I should probably clarify that I have several friends called Jo, that... Read more →