ONLY JOKING

Sorry I haven't been around for a while but I've been suffering! Suffering from lack of mojo. Don't know if it's because the boys are off this week and just haven't got the time but that doesn't usually stop me. Just can't seem to get myself going in the creative way this week. I sat down last night with a stamped image and thought "come on Jo, just do a bit of colouring". So I got my Prismas out and put them away again after 15 minutes because I started sharpening the ones I wanted to use and one of them kept breaking off which was making me very angry!! Does anyone else have that problem with them......that's the second one now. I get very uptight about it because they're meant to be high quality and they're not cheap!! Anyway, enough of the moaning! Something really nice has happened to me.....I got the Excellence Award again from Fran! I love visiting her blog 'cause her work is fantastic and I really enjoy speaking to her becau...

What a gorgeous Saturday morning.....the sun is out, although still a bit cold, and I don't have to do any crafting today cause I finished the book at 11.10 pm last night!!! What a relief! It's my Brother's 50th birthday next year so I was thinking, perhaps I'd better start a book for him now lol!! Anyway, here are the rest of the pages I did yesterday........you WILL look at them!!!! Despite having to rush, I enjoyed these pages the most 'cause there was alot of babies in them....see if you can spot my two. I love the photo of Lewis and use it alot in my scrapbooks which he is not impressed with at all, bearing in mind he is naked in the bath and he is now ten years old.....must be embarrassing for him!! Now we're off into town to my Sister's to deliver the present....she'd better like it or she won't make 51!!! Planning a nice relaxing day today so hope to get back to normal and catch up with my blogging. Enjoy your weekend.

Thought I would quickly share the other pages I have done with my book......are you as fed up with this as I am !!!! Sorry the photos are rubbish but it is really quite dark down here today and the flash kept bouncing off the pictures and I really couldn't be bothered to play around with them - me stressed? NEVER!!!! Right, well I've now done the parents, grandparents, great grandparents, brothers and sisters......now I just have to complete ten pages of nieces and nephews!! Got the kids off school today as well so I am praying they will understand and behave for me.....fingers crossed!!

Hi all!! Just to let you know that I am still around but things are a bit hectic for me at the moment. In true "Jo" style, I put off making my sister's scrapbook until the last minute and had a bit of a hairy scary moment yesterday when I realised her birthday is this Saturday....yikes!!! So everything else has been put on hold for this week while I get on with her book. So please don't think I'm being rude and not visiting your blogs.....I hope to catch up with my blogging at the weekend. First I'd like to announce that I got another award....it was from my good pal Denise and I take this as a real compliment because I find her work an inspiration! I would now like to pass this award on to three people who really do inspire me - Denise!! - just take it right back girl! I know you've already been awarded this but I love your work and hey, it's mine so I can give it to who I want - right?!!!! I'd also like to give it to Claudia of Pretty Pressings.....

Kimmie has got a whole load of challenges going on this week to celebrate her birthday! Challenge #1 was to alter something. Well, I was stood at my craft desk trying to work out what I could alter and the answer was staring me right in the face. I had made this accordian book in a box for Tony for Valentines Day and thought this might fit the bill! This is a picture of what it looked like before: I painted it with red acrylic paint and then used various papers including HOTP and Basic Grey. Alot of the embellishments are what I have accumulated over the years!! And this is what it looked like when I'd finished it! I must admit, I was really pleased with the result and plan on doing some more of these in the future. Will be back later to post a card.....it's been all go here at the moment with everyday stuff (got to go out again in an hour!) and have been up until Midnight most nights trying to catch up on my challenges ....think I'm beginning to get there!!

Fran has some blog candy up for grabs...it's to make something, other than a bog standard card using a stamped image. At the moment, I'm desperately trying to make a book for my Sister's 50th birthday and I've finally got around to making the actual book and cover. The inside will have photos of Gt Grandparents, Grandparents, etc., so thought I would enter the book as it is at the moment. I've used 8" x 8" covers and pages and put the book together with my Bind It All. The paper is from K & Co., and the stamped images are Magnolia's Tilda with a watering can and the winter tree. These have been coloured with watercolours and Brushables. The flowers are from Poppicrafts and the brads, metal "Family" label and sticky "Roots" letters are from my stash. I love making books and have made quite a few recently, however, now have to do the inside of this one - 20+ pages!!! Off out again today, but hope to load something else later.

Sorry, but this is going to be a very quick posting mainly because of the boys and their out of school commitments, so thought you might like to see the photos of a book I made my Niece, Katy, for her 30th birthday. The book came with it's own box, however, had to paint the whole lot before I could get started. You will see, if you look closely, that the lid of the box has a piece of acetate attached to it. This was used as a pocket to put the birthday card. Hope you like?