Easter Greetings

Yes, I know I'm a couple of days late, but better late than never! My sister was down for the weekend and we had a lovely time. On Sunday we decorated boiled eggs and then rolled them in the back garden. This was followed by an Easter Egg Hunt (in between the rain showers!).

On Monday we went to Glasgow and went to Pollok Park and then the Burrell Collection.

Today it was back to school, which felt a bit strange. Only three days to go though until we stop for the holidays on Friday. I am really looking forward to that. We are going to Portrush, County Antrim the second week of the hols. Hoping to get lots of photos of the Giants Causeway.

Week 7

I have managed another LO. This time for Week 7 challenge - which was to use an artistic photo. Gordon this photo of the raindrops on the outdoor chairs last summer on one of the many days it rained! I have stamped and embossed rain drops effect on the background.

Challenge 6

This is a LO done for Elsie Flannigan's 52 Scrapbooking challenges, it is based on week number 6. The challenge was to use a ribbon cluster and my LO is scraplifted from the example in the book. The photo is of Andrew taken in 2001.

I am now so far behind in these challenges that I have decided not to stress myself and just do them when I can. I have also not got on very fast with my A-Z journal, so I think I will just put that on on hold for the moment.

Why has life got so busy? I am working slightly longer hours this month. Mainly it is because my OU studying is taking up so much of my time. I am enjoying it but there is a lot of reading to do for it. I got my first assignment back and was happy with the mark, the next one is due end of this month.

Andrew has been off school all week with a sore throat and being sick, and the rest of the house are trying to fight off various coughs, colds and sore throats as well. Roll on Spring and everyone feeling better!

Tea at Dobbie's

This is the LO I have done for Wk 5 of Elsie's 52 Scrapbooking challenges. The challenge was to embellish a floral accent. I have used felt flowers and have painted the chipboard flower then filled the centre with beads, the journalling goes round the centre of this flower. The photo is of Mum and I at Dobbie's Garden Centre, Ayr. We always stop off there when going up to Glasgow and it's where we generally meet my Sister when Mum is going up to hers.

Only two weeks behind now - I really don't know where the time goes to.

Words...

I haven't had much time over the past week and a bit for scrapping, I've been busy doing my first TMA (tutor marked assignment) for my OU course. Well I finished it on Sunday night so it's now the waiting game to see how I did.

The schools have been off for the past three days, but go back tomorrow - yippee. My sister was down for a couple of days, which was nice. We watched Ratatouille - which is a great film. Today we went shopping to Ayr as the boys had money just itching to be spent. They are now happy and broke!

I hope to get some scrapping done this week.

DIG

I did this LO using a number of the techniques from the Got Paint class at BPS, which ends this week. I have really enjoyed doing this class and will try and use paint more in my LOs. This LO is of the boys at DIG in York last summer. As I mentioned before it is a super place where you get to uncover what was discovered in York from different ages.

I used vaseline resist technique and masking tape to give an impression of age. The background is painted as is the title and the clock faces are stamped with paint.

Connect

This is another page for my Art Journal as prompted by Emily Falconbridge. I painted the background and the jigsaw pieces. The title is also painted.

This is another sample page for Got Paint over at BPS. It is using vaseline resist technique.