Bootcamp Finished!

Bootcamp finished today and I soo pleased that I have actually finished something on the last day, instead of running way behind as usual.

The last four words were:

Full Bodied - well what else could I have except a nice bottle of red wine!

Hush: thought this was different - as the football is on rather a lot at the moment - the word 'Hush' is often to be heard in our house just now.

'Smooth' - thought of a stone with a smooth surface

The last one was 'Smile' - this is the top of a pencil that we are giving next week to the children who have been coming to JIGSAW as part of prize-giving.

My thoughts on Bootcamp:

well I enjoyed the challenge of taking photos to match a word and will definately try and take more photos over the summer.

a lot of the journal prompts didn't really speak to me, but I jotted down a few points for most of them.

was very pleased that I have actually finished it on time.

will try and put some time in my diary to create on a more regular basis.

still would not call myself an 'artist' though.

If you were playing along what were your thoughts on Bootcamp?

Fly

I have fallen behind a little with Creativity Bootcamp - but I am not stressing! I wasn't greatly inspired with the journal prompts over the weekend, but thought I should try and post a couple of photos for some of the words.

For the word 'Fly' I thought of this photo taken last summer when the boys were out flying their kite on the beach.

For 'ornament' I took a photo of this cheeky chap who sits in my garden.

And for 'Drizzle' - well living in Scotland it had to be about rain didn't it!! Although this year we seem to be getting a lot of sun at the moment, so I used this photo from a couple of years ago.

8:8 Photo

In blogland this week, or at least amongst the blogs I read!, there is a challenge to go into your computer where you keep your photos, choose the 8th folder and the 8th photo, then show it and talk about it. Well never one to be left out of something - here is mine. It was taken in 2007 on a forest walk we did. There is a lovely forest park not too far away from where we live. It has various walks through the forest and a great adventure playground for the kids - and  a nice coffee shop too!

I took this photo as I like the way the trees looked as you looked up at them, they seemed very tall and to go on right into the sky!

Why not have a look at your folders and choose the 8th folder and the 8th photo and blog about it!

Light

Yesterday was a good day, took the kids to Kirroughtree Forest Park. There is a super play park there, they played for ages then we went for a walk through the trees. It was a really good day. Today was also really sunny, so Gordon took the boys golfing all afternoon while I did some studying for my OU course.

I have fallen well behind with the photo prompts from herspace:myspace, but I have managed to do this one for Light.

First Workshop

I'm just back from doing my first workshop at our local craft shop and it went very well. It was for a beginners stamping class and there were 6 ladies there, some had done some stamping before and some hadnt done any. They were all lovely and enjoyed themselves. Here are the cards we were doing.

This first one was quite simple, the flowers are embossed, then coloured in with pens. The stamps were unmounted sets from Woodware. I used a corner punch for the edges of the card and the mounts.

The second one was using shadow stamps for the background then the flower stamps, mounted on yellow, then green card with green and yellow ribbon behind it.

The third one was stamped and embossed, then mounted on gold with the corners rounded and the image stamped and embossed again straight onto the card.

The last one we really didnt have much time for, it was stamped with Versamark then chalked, then the paper torn and edges inked, a bit of ribbon down the side with a couple of brads at the top.

I'm falling a bit behind with the photo prompts, but I have managed to do Heart today. This is a heart made with Hama beads which my children made for me.

Back Again

Feeling a bit better now, back to work tomorrow. I really hope thats all the bugs Im going to get this year, although I do still feel a bit tired. Never mind three more working days until the Easter hols, then off school for two weeks and off to Rome two weeks tomorrow. Gosh I'd better get thinking about what clothes to take.
Finished making my second Birth year CJ for Andrew, but forgot to take a photo, it had to be posted today. I really did it almost the same as John's though.

The photo prompts are back on her space:my space and here are my latest two offerings. I think I will need to make them all into a mini book or something.
Here are music and sew. No, I don't actually play the keyboard or sew much for that matter, but they are in the house.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all mums everywhere. I had a lovely day today, got breakfast in bed. The children had made cards and I got a book, "The Tenderness of Wolves", X-men trilogy on DVD (I love super hero films) and some choccies. I baked a cake this morning and the children decorated it, with some help from their dad!

I've also been busy catching up with the photo prompts from her space: my space. The ornament one is of another wood carving that Gordon brought back from Malawi.





















Plastic is some of mountains of Lego that we have accumulated over the years,














Soft is some of Andrew's soft toys collection and Curvy- just cos I liked it!

20 Years

It's my wedding anniversary today, we've been married for 20 years, sounds a long time doesnt it. Going out for a meal tomorrow tonight as Gordon is working tonight and then we are going to Rome in April for a few days on our own. We weren't getting each other presents but Gordon gave me a lovely necklace as a surprise. This is an altered canvas that I had done for him, the picture is of Keswick in the Lake District, where we have spent many happy holidays (although not always in such good weather!!)

Today's photo prompt is Alive. I have still got a few to catch up with, but am really enjoying getting used to my new camera.

Blue Day

Went back to work today so feeling tired again tonight. I went to the Health Shop and got a tonic so hopefully in a few weeks I will be overflowing with energy. Well at least a bit more than I am at the moment.

Almost finished making my Circle Journal, just got the sign in pages to do now. Here is my LO for it. This is John when he was born, almost 13 years ago. Where does the time go?

Yesterdays photo prompt was blue, which is one of my favourite colours. It was hard to decide what to do but I was using some of these ribbons for my CJ so I though I would take a photo of them.

Lazy Sunday

Another lazy day, still not feeling very great, so had a long lie this morning. Started making one of my Circle Journals for UK Scrappers. I have joined two new CJs, birth year journals for each of my sons (well I couldn't do one without the other could I?). This idea is that everyone does an entry on something that happened in that year, which I think is a really nice idea.

Also managed to take some more photos for the daily prompts. Today's was Brick and I thought I wasn't going to be able to do it today, as its raining heavily here and I was not going outside to get wet. Then I remembered that our fireplace is brick so I took a photo of that. The other two are Reflect and Storage.

Photos

I was off work again yesterday and in bed all day today with a sore throat and no voice - yes the rest of the family think that's a good thing! I'm not too sure though as I missed going to the craft fair at the SECC, probably a good thing for my credit card.

I still managed to go to Digital Photography last night though. We were looking at layers which I found very interesting. Finally managing to feel like I'm getting to grips with Elements - although still a long way to go.

Here are another two photo prompts - Green and Tap

Photo Challenge

Check out the new photo blog by two very talented ladies, Anita Mundt and Kirsty Wiseman, at her space:my space. They are posting a title a day to challenge you to take a photo. Well having just got my camera I thought I'd give it a go. I am quite a bit behind but have done two to start with. Also have to admit to only using the new camera on auto setting - but at least I've started using it.

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