natural & organic tilda

well the challenge on Tilda & co this week was to go 'au naturale'...so here are my organic baby cookies accompanied by baking tilda and a little jute & raffia! eyelets on tags......would never have tried this had it not been for the challenge, but i'm quite pleased with the results.......... used magnolia journal block. hearts tied with string & bella nappy pins!........thanks for the challenge girls....Tx

Baby Cakes.........

Some weeks ago I made my first Nappy Cake for my friend at work....I really enjoyed it and themed it with the decoration in the nursery!....... i've finally got some photo's printed and scrapped it!....i handcut the BABY title and embellished with some fab stamps i got from Stampingbella, including a Nappy Cake!........and 'big' nappy pins!.....I used melissa frances papers and cardstock. I also used whispers pens for the first time for colouring instead of pencils, which I loved!

babies, bellas, & books..........................

blimey a week since i posted!....my friend had her baby last week, (the one who i made the nappy cake for) Jack finally arrived on Monday 14th March weighing a whopping 10lb 2oz!!!...wow first baby and a home birth.....mum & baby fine....so here is the card that i've made for them. I'm so loving my nappy pin stamp!....Stamps from Stampingbella, Papers, Heidi Grace....work has been busy this week and a little stressful, Gramps hasn't been too good, he has really swollen & sore feet so he's finding getting about difficult which frustrates him and makes him a bit cranky at times!!!!!.............my friend Lucy has finally set a date for her wedding, she is getting married in Mexico next March. Don't think that I can go as I have a 2 weddings to do stuff for during that time, (including cakes) and it's hard to plan that advance with Gramps. My friend is getting married in Cumbria in June and I haven't agreed to go to that yet!!....To BIG Congratulations, Love & Luck to you both xxxx

Fell over a fantastic blog this week which had the most amazing Bella card on. Here it is....how fab is that...what an inspiration....also read a great book this week whilst on the train to work, Acting Up by Melissa Nathan i've loved all of her's this was the first one published, she lost her battle with breast cancer last year which makes reading her books even more poignant.As most of you know I LOVE Pride & Prejudice and this is it in the 2000's!..all of her books follow the follow of one of JA's books....now reading The Stepmother, which is a follow on from The Godmother!.

Hoping to see Made of Honour this week, with the scrummy Dr McDreamey (Patrick Dempsey)...

post back later. Tx

Dots, Dots & more Dots!!...

Hi ATC Challenge on Tilda & friends this week is Dots...decoded to do a male themed ATC as i'm always doing 'girly' ones!...so here he is....used Dotty paper from Dovecraft, with Edwin..who is modelling a dotty tie!..embellished with Buttons & Brads....Tx

Superstar......

What a week..........Went to the London marathon on Sunday which was amazing.....we stood opposite the London eye just past the 25 mile marker. The atmosphere was fantastic. We had friends along the highway in the docklands and my uncle was at the 19 mile mark. We had roughly tracked what time Mark would be at the points due to his training plan, so we were able to predict what time he would pass. He did amazingly well completing in 3hrs & 51mins. He was 5mins behind Gordon Ramsey and just infront of Ronan Keeting. I am so proud of him, he ran past us as if he had just started!!He said that the crowds were brilliant and really lift you. I was really impressed with the whole organisation of it with 35,000 people running through London, it was a very humbling & emotional day.

This weeks challenge on UKS was to complete a layout using the following:
So … use a map or plan of some kind on your LO = 10pts
The sailors must have sailed a lot of seas, so for using the colour blue = 5pts.
Use a hand-made embellishment = 5pts
Use ink on your LO (eg stamped image, inked edges etc) = 5pts
Use eyelets and/or brads - 5pts
Challenge couldn't have come at a better time!!!