My idea of bliss

Hi

Back home, in my own bed, good food, hot chocolate and time for me. playing with paper, feeling soft fabric and hearing the clean snip of the scissors. I have so many creative ideas buzzing around my head at the moment and hopefully they will materialise into something that can be posted up here.

For now a document of hands at work doing what I love most (Take that last statment out for revising though!)
This post inspired by this

Pinning

Cutting

Piecing

Clearing

Playing

Revising

Folding

Flying

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Loves xxxx

Snapshots of life

Hi

Posts have been thin on the ground lately, revision and work is being piled on and the best this shameful blogger can do is take hundreds of pictures in the hope that she will find a slither of time in which to post them.

Taking Snapshots. A record of a final term at school. A frozen moment of laughter. recording the details.
One day I figure I will look back on these posts and be glad that I took the time to record the memories, take the photos.
Little details of life as an eighteen year old...

Rounders fun with the boarding house

 silly faces, good friends, fresh air. Summer 2011

Pancake making on a sunday afternoon-boarding school style (yes, we were making them on the ping pong table!)

Competitive male dominated table football!

Spending time with this man and forcing him relunctantly into photoshoots!

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Loves xxx

I promise me..

This last term of school I promise me that...

I will take time to do the things I love, I won't stress over the little arguments, the disagreements, the stresses and the chores.

I will appreciate where I am, the people I am around, the comfort of somewhere I know. I will appreciate the pastoral care I get at school.

I will focus on work. I will get the grades I need but I will find time to relax. I'll work and not feel stressed and play and not feel guilty.

I will find the time to go and shop in my favourite places. The small unique shops where I can run my hands over bolts of beautiful fabric.

I will fall more in love with my family. I'll look out for my brothers and not take home for granted.

I will make time for the quirky, the funny and the eccentric.

I will decorate with beautiful paper.

I'll make sure I go to bed with a clear head each night, trying not to worry.

I will find time to snuggle up in bed and read.

I will appreciate the fact that I can see the boy every day. I'll appreciate every moment we have.

I will be creative.

I will worship my God.

I will laugh.

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The royal wedding

One amazing day, a stunning bride who's dress I love, a very sweet groom "you look beautiful" a crazy amount of people by the palace and TWO balcony kisses. I loved the royal wedding- especially watching it in a room full of girls! there were a few clearing of throats and lots of ooohs and ahhhs.

Here are just a few snapshots from our fun day at school- yes we still had a few lessons!

What did you do to celebrate the wedding?

Loves xxxxxxxxxx

Highlights from rowing camp

Hi all

Well I am back after an amazing ten days in sunny hot France. In typical fashion I took hundreds of pictures so have just included some of my favourites here...

wash from the speedboats, a lovely symmetrical line of moored boats, cooling those feet off and rowing, the main point of the ten days!

The big room in the boathouse where we worked and eat; yes revision did happen! oh look the boat picture again..oops!, an amazing wall in the way into town, a lovely tree lined avenue.

One big cathedral, crazy rides at the fair which I felt sick just looking at! A HUGE candy floss-this wasn't the biggest size! The castle which in my opinion looks like a disney one!

It was a great ten days. lots of rowing, lots of shouting for me (I am a cox), plenty of work and a nice time to relax and get a tan!

Back to school this evening...booh!

Hope you have all had a fab week, what have you been up to?

Loves xxx

row your boat.

Hi

Just a brief note to say that over the next ten days I will be spending a lot of time doing this in Sunny France.

Rowing camp is a great chance to get away as there are no phones, internet or tv's. I will therefore bid goodbye to blog land for the next week and a bit. Have a great few days!

loves xxxx

Sketch challenge for Sarah's cards.

Hi

I want to share a Layout today that I have been making the last few days in stolen moments from revision!
I followed the sketch on Sarah's cards blog which can be found here.

I don't tend to use circles a lot in my pages so it was great for me to move out of my comfort zone. I flipped the sketch 90 degrees clockwise and worked from there. I started making the Layout with just a circle base but after finishing I found it needed a bit more depth to stop it looking crowded so I stuck it on a sheet of Kraft.

 I have been meaning to make a page about blogging for so long and needed the perfect picture before I started. My old Blog header was perfect and had such deep colours so it was fun to pair it with these pale colours.

I tried to include aspects of my blogging in the elements of the page. therefore like my background i focused on it being shabby chic. I put buttons in there to emphasise the love of sewing, the stacked up paper for lots of ideas. Letters to emphaise all that typing and paint for a tad of mess! A few butterflies crept in there as well! Oh, and top tip, to make lovely glossy embellishments, coat them in nail varnish (I used a light bronze on the butterflies) Works a treat!

Thanks for stopping by

Loves xxxx