Sorting.....Sorting.....Sorting!!!

I've finally come up for air!! As the craft room is still quite a way off being finished I want to be as organised as I can be so I only move stuff in there i'm going to use!! I've been sorting and tidying so much in the last few days but today I haven't stopped, only to pick Charlie up from nursery until he went to bed! I've spent alot of time under the eaves in the cupboards so my back is a little sore now! Hey ho, it's all coming together nicely and i'm going to be SOOOOOO organised in my new haven!!!! :D

Recent scrapping!

I seem to have had a few days of crafting! Friday I spent most of the day whilst Charlie was at nursery preparing Courtney's book (2 coats of acrylic paint and ink mists.) and also did the digi layout of the sheep! On Saturday was Chorley crop where I decorated Courtney's book and made 4 layouts! On Saturday evening when I got home I put some finishing touches to a couple. On Monday I created the PNE open day layout and today i've made the Illuminations layout! (which to be fair was very easy, LOL! I just created the picasa collage below and stuck it onto white card!!)





The Scrapagogo LO's are scraplifted from their design team and the Echo Park LO's are ideas I saw on 2Peas

Blackpool Illuminations

At the last minute yesterday we decided to have a trip out to Blackpool as Mark had some of his work cancelled. We went to visit Aunty Ruth first in a nursing home, she is looking really well but had a fall earlier in the summer so it looks like she'll be in the nursing home for a little while. We then went to have a mooch around Tesco, we had a little coat to exchange for Charlie and bought Courtney some dishes and cutlery. Mark had been asked to do a measure in Blackpool so we tied that into our trip out next then went for some good ol' fashioned fish and chips on the (very windy) sea front! We knew the switch on was at 8:00 and we were a little early so we had a quick play in some amusements, Charlie quite enjoyed putting the pennies in the slots! We then walked along the 3D displays until switch on, our timing was perfect, we'd more or less reached the end of them when the lights came on! We walked back to the car and changed Charlie into his PJ's before driving down the prom to look at the rest of the illuminations but it all proved to much for Charlie and he fell to sleep about a third of the way along, bless him.♥

Day 13

After almost 2 weeks of not seeing the builder at all he finally came back yesterday. He has been having trouble sourcing roofing materials and yesterday we went to have a look at some. The one we've decided on is a little over the original budget but it's an all in one composite so much better. I've taken some pics this morning of yesterday's work. It's starting to feel a little more like a room now and I can really see dimensions! With the new roofing it has been decided that the peak of the room is now going to be exposed (as it is finished off on the underside of it) which is what I wanted in the first place to have a feeling of height so i'm really pleased!
Outside looking in

The peak is in place

Inside looking out

♥Courtney's Little Book♥

As part of the adoption we have to make a little book for the child to see before they meet you. I've made this one for Courtney, it has taken me hours but I love it! (i'm chuffed to bits how well the colours co-ordinated with the dolly in the end, that was purely a fluke!!)
When I made one I made for Charlie i'd found a soft toy doggie actually called Charlie and we all had our photos taken with the dog and I made his book. I wanted to do the same for Courtney so this time we bought a cute fairy dolly! The dolly will go with the book for her to cuddle as she looks at the photos♥

How the book started out

2 coats of white acrylic, ink mists and a whole lot of girly bling later......

Sunflower success!

You may remember this post from a few weeks back and how we'd comforted ourselves with this surprise sunflower as the three we'd planted didn't seem to be growing much, well when Charlie and I got home from nursery on Friday we spotted this little cutie in the front garden! :D One has grown after all!! LOL!

Evening scrapping!

I realised with all the sorting I have been doing for my scraproom I haven't actually scrapped for a while and am a little behind! I've got about 5 paper layouts planned but decided to do a 'quick' digi tonight but there was nothing quick about resizing 22 photos, LOL!!!