La Dolce Vita

What a fantastic holiday we had. Rome was wonderful. The weather was fantastic, it is really lovely to be able to walk about without jumpers and jackets, even at night it was warm enough not to really need a jacket. We walked everywhere!!! I think we managed to pack in most of the major sights. I am really tired today and my feet and legs are aching - but it was worth it!

My absolute favourite has to be the Trevi Fountain, it was spectacular, even more so lit up at night. And yes, I threw a coin in - so maybe one day I'll get back again.

I'll share some more of my photos with you over the next couple of days - I showed them to my family today, not realising how long it actually takes to go through a slide show of 500 photos.

My sister and mum had a great week with the kids, they all enjoyed themselves and got up to all sorts of fun things - so a big thank you to them, and now you've done it once Karen the next time will be even easier!!!

Easter Monday

I suppose the sun can't last forever - its raining here today. I finished this mini book for Jennie's class on the Design Collective. Its a fab idea and Im sure I'll make more of these as presents for people. I have used Blonde Moments Spring Fling paper. Photos are of our Easter day activities yesterday and I'm feeling really pleased that I have actually scrapped them already!

Need to get a move on and pack my case now as I'm off to Rome tomorrow with Gordon until Saturday.

Happy Easter

I hope everyone has had a lovely day. We have enjoyed our day. After church we decorated our eggs then went out into the garden to roll them and have an Easter Egg hunt. We also managed to make some Easter bonnets this morning (well Andrew and Mum made one each). I have been really good and not actually had any chocolate yet, but will probably make up for that tonight.

I hope to try and scrap the photos we took today into the Design Collective Mini book class, I have made the book, its just waiting on the photos.

Mad Hatters

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
0h, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

The madness is happening on UK Scrappers the weekend of 27/29 April when the next Cyber Crop is being held. A whole weekend of fun, scrapping and madness! There will be lots of classes and challenges and I don't even have to leave the house - I'm really looking forward to it! I have been put into the Hearts house, the other houses are Clubs, Diamonds, Spades. I had better get a move on and finish my OU assignment so that I can spend lots of time scrapping that weekend.

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.

Big Ben

Here is my first LO from the Design Collective classes. We got 3 super looking classes this week. This one is by Kirsty Wiseman. I have used Basic Grey Hang 10 paper. It is another LO for John's London album.

I have been busy shopping for clothes for my trip to Rome next week. I finally managed to get a pair of shoes, couple of pairs of trousers, couple of tops and a cardigan. Now I remember why I really should be going on a diet as it was difficult to find clothes that fitted properly and that I liked. I am determined to go on a diet and get more exercise when I come home from holiday. We will probably walk about so much while we are there that hopefully I won't put any more on!

Managed to get the children to help with the housework today, we blitzed the place! Only have a couple of rooms still to do - the drawback of having a large house! Then we can relax over the weekend.

Sunny Sunday

A lovely sunny day here today. I should really be out in the garden and not in here on the computer. I wanted to upload this LO that I managed to complete yesterday at my monthly crop. It's another LO for John's London Album, this time of his visit to Legoland.

I didn't actually get much done yesterday at the crop, too busy talking! The kit was a Maya Road book, which I have painted but that's all. I think I am going to use it for some photos of our trip to Rome next week, so it will get finished sometime!

I really need to go and do some gardening now, I hate gardening and we have a large garden. I am going to cut back some of the bushes etc to see if I can make it look a bit tidier. Might try and rope in the boys to help, although that is often more bother than its worth.