Wedding Finery

Here I am in all my wedding finery! Last Friday Gordon and I attended a friends wedding, it was a super day and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

The wedding was held in the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. Both the ceremony and the reception were held there, the first time I have been at a wedding held somewhere else than a Church. The ceremony was really nice and the meal at the reception was lovely. We were also lucky enough to stay overnight there and it was great. It was great to meet up with friends that we haven't seen for ages.

This is the bride and groom, Wilma and John. I wish them the very best for their future life together.

Hen Night

A couple of weeks ago I was at a friends Hen Night in Glasgow. It was a great night, catching up with people I haven't seen for some time. We hired a stretch limo to arrive in style, after finishing off a couple of bottles of champagne, the meal was at Peters in Hyndland Street. We all got our photos done by a charicaturist, a very kind one!

This photo is off me wearing my masks, the theme of the night being "A Night at the Opera".

The wedding is tomorrow at the Piping Centre in Glasgow.

Cake

How many of you knew it was Calvin's 500th Anniversary on 10th July this year? How many of you had cake to celebrate it? Well this picture proves that we did - really any excuse for cake in our family!!!

Cotton Top

Before I packed it to go away next week I thought I would take a photo of this cotton top that I knitted. It is knitted in Sirdar Calico Cotton. Hopefully the sunny weather will return so that I can wear it.

Holiday in Northumbria

Our family holiday this year was to Beadnell, on the Northumbrian coast. It is a really lovely place, with great beaches. Our house was just opposite the beach and had great views from the upstairs windows. Weather was not too bad, bit cold sitting on the beach sometimes but we just wore more jumpers!

The boys liked to dig in the sand and try to build sandcastles.

Auntie Karen had to get in the act too!

Gran decided she would rather sit and watch!

Time for a Change!

I decided it was time for a change on my blog - a change of name and a change of colours!

I have decided that as I seem to do less scrapping these days I wanted a name that was less scrapping-like. After lots of 'helpful' ideas from the rest of the family I have decided on Fiona's Flotsam - all the other good names were already taken!

Hopefully these new changes will now encourage me to be more regular in my blogging.

Absent

Gosh I have been away from this blog for some time - I didn't realise just how long!!!

I have been working for the past two weeks in the Nursery - which is good for the bank balance - but bad for scrapping time! I have now got three mornings a week until the end of term, so things should get a bit less crazy - well maybe!!

I have also been back to the gym today, for the first time since January. Feeling a bit tired and sore but not too bad.

It was my turn for the challenge over at Faith Scrappers Challenge blog. The character this week was Samson.