My Birthday

My 29th birthday on saturday was quiet, but nice. We had some family around for homemade chilli with rice and nachos, with homemade rice pudding for afters (does anyone else call dessert 'afters'?).

After lunch we had an iced sponge cake - with a jam and blue buttercream centre  - made by one of our neighbours, which was lovely and so kind of them to go to all the effort.

In the evening, Paul, our friends and I met up so I could finally watch the last Harry Potter film, it was brilliant, I even cried in a few places, definitely worth the wait. If you haven't already seen it I highly recomend it. We then went for a few drinks at TGI Friday's before heading home.

 

So, over all, a pretty relaxed birthday.

Sunshine And Carousels Are Having A Giveaway

Erin from Sunshine and Carousels blog is having an awesome giveaway of a mustard yellow Holga toy camera, it's beautiful, I so want one. I really want to start collecting toy cameras, but due to lack of funds I won't be able to yet.
Anyway, go and check it out, and comment to win. Deadline September 11th at midnight (US central time).

For more info on toy cameras check out Elsie's Toy Camera Guide and Kaylah's amazing camera collection.

It's My Birthday!

29 today! I'm getting way too close to 30 for my liking (photo taken in the car in case you're wondering).

Shimelle's Hot Pink Hoopla

Shimelle's next challenge is to make a layout inspired by this one. I took inspiration from the colour, I used a 7"x7" square and I took inspiration from the sketch, but flipped it.

This layout's about my mother-in-law, the photo was taken new year's eve 2009.

Shimelle's Bingo Cards And Butterflies

Shimelle's next challenge was to "create something inspired by the video. It can be very similar to the page if you like, or you can take inspiration from any element you like – the colours, the photo placement, any technique – whatever takes your fancy."

I took inspiration from the Bingo card and the butterflies, and worked in a similar warm colour scheme for my layout.

As you've probably gathered by now I'm sticking to a limited selection from my supplies and then trying to use up the scraps on the next layout. 

Shimelle's Go Retro Challenge

The next challenge I completed was Shimelle's Go Retro Challenge:  "For this challenge you have to scrapbook a photo from before 2011. No current pictures allowed. If you can, embrace the idea and scrap something a bit retro or something from your childhood, but I totally understand not everyone has pictures like that at the ready. So anything that is not 2011 will be acceptable!"

By the way, the hearts over the faces of my mum and Grandma are for their privacy, well my mum's. My Grandma passed away a few years ago now, but still.

This photo was taken in Bath while I was at uni, over 7 years ago now, so I think this qualifies as before 2011! I love the colours in these My Mind's Eye papers (Andrea Victoria), gorgeous.

Shimelle's A Stickery Challenge

The next challenge from Shimelle is sticker related: "Create a project using stickers from more than one collection. (The stickers can be the same manufacturer or different manufacturers, but not the same paper collection – make sense?)"

Believe it or not, that's me on the left, yes I had Sid Viscious hair when I was in college.

The stickers I used are American Crafts, some from the Teen range and some from the Buddy range.