SNEAKY SATURDAY POST - THE RUGBY IS ON!

Good afternoon, just sneaking a quick post whilst my boys are watching football.  Yes DH Craig is back home safe and sound, we had a lovely evening with a romantic candle lit dinner and then he played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on the Wii with said 10 year old LOL into the evening.  It is so nice to have him home, I knew I'd missed him just didn't appreciate how much until he was back.  So we're having a lazy family weekend, we've been food shopping and done a bit of washing and tumbling but that's about the sum of what we're doing today - bliss!!

What this actually means is that I get to scrap whilst they are watching rugby - so bonus decent TV and crafting at the same time - multi-tasking takes on a whole new meaning.

Anyway it was good to be able to put my Rocking post on at a sensible time yesterday, it's so lovely to come and visit and see what's been Rocking your world this week!  This is my take on the Scrapology blogs challenge this month, I really enjoyed working on the sketch and I've taken a slightly different slant on the 'bunch of flower' interpretation on the sketch.  I love sketches often they take me outside of my comfort zone which I'm always up for and this was no different! 

The detail you can see the build up of ribbon, stamped and inked hand cut leaves and punched butterflies

and then the journaling has been done on some nestability shapes that I've die cut. 

Hope you're all having a grand Saturday - if you pop by say hello it's always lovely to know whose been to visit!

SCRAPBOOK CLASS, ANOTHER 12 X 12 AND A NEAR MISS

Yes don't faint another blog post and it's not Friday what the hell is going on with the world!

I'm finding by blog posts the little bit of therapy I need to keep myself feeling sane at the minute - it's like having a chat to a bunch of girlfriends - well I suppose that's exactly what it is really!

On Monday night I headed down to the local scrapbook shop and finished off my 'happy accident leaves' layout (also known as serendipity) courtesy of the gorgeous Sandy Poppins - we'd sprayed and collaged and inked and die cut and heat embossed then we assembled - the pictures aren't up to the usual high standard so apologies for that but you get the idea - don't you!

 

You won't be able to appreciate just how gorgeous the leaves are but they really are so very pretty - poor quality macro shots but you get the idea!

 Not sure what I'm going to do now it's the last class before Christmas - how scary is that!

Another 12 x 12 that I've completed recently - I know I've already shared the photo of the butterfly a while ago - so here's proof that it made it to paper as it were!  Using up more papermania scrabble letters - although I'd run out of one of the letters so I went back over with ink - badly - so then had to do them all to make them all look the same and normal! 

and the stitching detail - I'd used a template and done a circle on the page - but it was lost - so rather than it being a broken circle I went around it again with my thread - so it was an unbroken circle and still it didn't float my boat!  So then I run a thread through each stitch on top of the paper and got this as the end result which I was mighty pleased with! 

 And finally the giggle of the last few days - 

said 10 year old reading the other night and said Dad not paying attention and said Mum asking the 'what?' question

He read "that as far as he was conquered was that"

"what?"

Mum that's what it says "as far as he was conquered was that"

Frown - stern look at hubby - who then puts brain back in gear - "err let's have a look"

"as far as he was concerned"

Mmmmm - guided reading extraordinaire my hubby!

then last night 

"Mum I'm watching Rosemary and Theme"

Puzzled frown

"You mean Rosemary and Thyme"

Nope "Rosemary and Theme - it's spelt t-h-y-m-e"

"Yep that spells Thyme as in the herb"

"oooh"

Giggle yep - but no where near the near miss in the car with my Mum

We'd been to Meadowhall and were chatting on the way back about her hubby potentially purchasing a new TV 

"I've told him that we can have a high definition one but that's it"

"Haven't you considered a 3D one?" I asked 

"I've told him I don't want one of those"

"Why not? - apart from the price the pictures are fabulous"

"I know the pictures good but I can't be doing with it?"

Puzzled frown across face - but what's the difference between that and a HD TV?

"Well it was bad enough sitting in the cinema for 3 hours watching Avatar with those glasses over my own glasses without having to watch the TV at home with those things on all the time"  

Laughed til I cried and explained she'd only be wearing 3D glasses if she was watching a 3D film - that the TV looks normal at other times - apparently this was a revelation! Love you Mum!