Be prepared to be dazzled with my blogging skills in the coming months.I have signed up to Shimelles fab new class for bloggers.
http://www.shimelle.com/classes/618/a-new-online-scrapbooking-class-blogging-for-scrapbookers/
I am sure my blog will be the next big thing in blogland after this course.If it is then miracles can happen.
I will have a couple of busy months ahead,will all this Shimelle stuff coming my way.Oh well sod the cleaning and shopping.Here's to the more important things in life.

she needs your vote

Hi,everyone.
Just a quickie.My favourite blogger Corinne over in Holland would like us in blogland to vote for an American friend of hers.We just need to click on the link and vote everyday if possible.Of course my motive is a bit naughty.Corinne is offering one of her fab scrapbook kits if I tell you all about this.So checkout her scrapbook friend Kaylee Aimee and give her your time.
http://www.sam-e.com/job/profile/810

Right here goes.Sandra has kindly given me some instructions how to resize my pics.So here goes.

Sorry this is my first attempt at putting a picture on here.For some reason it won't go any smaller.You have to click on it to see the full picture.
I am feed up with playing about.So I have given up tonight.

This is my finished LO from the Crafty stash crop kit.It was designed by the very talented Michelle one of Crafty Stashs design team.
I have added some of my own bits and am thrilled with it.I just have to add some pictures of my two nieces heads and I will give it to my sister for Christmas.It will go lovely in their new playroom.
I am tempted to do one for my nephews .They are identical twins.So that could be fun.The only thing is they are impossible to photograph.

I am keeping to my new resolution to spend,spend,spend.I am borrowing a SLR camera with zoom lenses from a friend.I want to see if I am missing out on anything.I'll have a play with it and then decide if it's something I have to have.

I have organised a trip to the States next year.We'll be off staying with a friend in Park City,Utah.Its in the mountains just outside of Salt Lake City.If you weren't aware Salt Lake City is supposed to be the Capital of scrapbooking!!!!!Oh well never mind!I'm sure Chris will love it.
We are going to cram in as much sightseeing as possible.They'll be no rest for us out there.

Also I am planning a trip to my favourite city in the World(apart from London)CHICAGO.There is nothing I don't like about this city.The people are great,food amazing and the scrapbook shopping aint that bad.

I also have a trip to Naples in Italy coming up in a few weeks,which was a surprise from Hubby.So hopefully there will be some great shoe shopping to be had.So from having nothing to look forward to last week,I now have lots to get excited about.
Now if you knew me well.You'd know that the suitcase will be down from the loft any day and trips and outings all planned.

Well ,What can I say but thanks to Sandra for sending me this "honest scrap"award. I have to share with you 10 honest things about myself.
Sandra is a long standing friend from my makeup consultant days.One bored day in the store we found out we were both avid scrappers and the rest as they say is history.Luckily for me Sandra is a scrap tool type of person.I am most definitely not ,so lucky me gets to use her box of tricks whenever I am in need at a crop.
She is a fantastic scrapper,and writes a fab blog.http://http//livinglifeoneblessingatatime.blogspot.com/ Unfortunately for Sandra there are only 2 followers so far for my blog and she's one of them!So I doubt Sandra,there will be a mass of new traffic coming your way.
So heres my honest list:

1.I am no longer a natural brunette.But at least the collar and cuffs now match!!!

2.I can only hug/kiss my dog,not people.

3.I hate listening to CDs,I prefer the radio and the mix of music/artists.

4.I love to be on my own,and feel lost in a crowd.

5.I am very lazy,and somehow I feel no guilt that my poor husband works hard to provide the beautiful home I live in.But I couldn't cope with the stress of a full time job.

6.Which leads to-I have no ambition apart from to always be a SAHM.I would rather be poor and happy than a "somebody"with a stressful life.

7.I have the worst fuzzy wirewool hair.Long gone are the days when I could blow dry my hair and it looked good.Its hair straighteners all the way now.

8.I couldn't live without skyplus TV and my hair straighteners (see above)I would rather be car less!!!

9.I could live in a dingy bedsit and transform it into a fab place to live.

10.I wish I could spend money without worrying.I have no idea what it is I worry about,but I give myself a hard time.I have no idea where this need to save has come from ,but I have always had it.I wish I could be more frivolous and am determined to make this a New Years resolution next year.And I always stick to my resolutions.I for one know that life is too short and you can't take it with you.It bought it home to me the other day when my husband and son said they are going to buy a Maserati with my money when I am gone.To think that I could go without things so that they could blow it on something I would hate.It made me sit up and think.So hopefully a new camera and a shopping trip maybe on the cards soon.Watch this space.

Well another 4 hours,trying to put on some links .But even my son can't put my slideshow on here.Its sitting all ready in photobucket.
http://s935.photobucket.com/albums/ad198/kaldrin/?action=view¤t=f2a7046a.pbw

I have a stiff neck today.Must be from catching a few ZZzzzzz on the way back from Sheffield yesterday.

After doing all my chores,I nipped to Scrap Revolution to buy yet more papers and have covered my Christmas journal.I am excitedly waiting for my etsy purchases and then I just have to wait until December!!!!!!

Hilary,kindly let me borrow her beautiful Christmas journal,and I have been enjoying sitting on my own working my way through it.I have to lock my neurotic puppy away otherwise there maybe only a pile of paper left.
Today Teddy has eaten a coat hanger,5 leaves,a stick,4 Tesco receipts and the paint off my new kitchen cupboard.Ah Bless him!!!!!
Each day is a new adventure for him.Uggs one day,Mums knickers another.I can't even have a bath in peace.He pops up over the side trying to lick the water off me.Once he even jumped in,thank God he hasn't repeated that again.

Anyway back to scrapbooking.I was hoping to finish my fairy layout from the Tempsford crop.But apparently my fairy wings are now behind my Husbands dashboard.When I asked him how they had got there,after safely sitting there all the way to Sheffield.It turns out he was testing his sport seats in his car????How you may ask.Well,driving 70MPH around a Stevenage roundabout is how.MEN????

Well 4 hours later and a couple of shandys.My Husband has managed to make a few changes to my blog.At least its not only me who is having problems.We both gave up trying to put a slideshow of my flickr site on here.Now I just have to try and load some more of my blinkies from Shimelles fab classes and I'm on my way.Yippee.........................

Phew,at last I have managed to post my Flickr site on here.
This is where at the moment I post all my layouts.So pop over and have a butchers (look)

I popped over to Willowtree Crafts in Watford today to stock up on some crimbo paper.I am going to attempt Shimelle's Journal your Christmas this year.I am determined to have everything ready and waiting when the time comes.I picked up some fab papers and an album all ready to cover.The only problem is ,it is taking me hours to change my email address on all my sites and to work out how to blog.So it looks like I will be getting very little done in the coming days/weeks.
It took me an entire day to download two sets of photos the other day for developing!!!!!
Imagine in the old days ,you just popped into Boots with your film and popped back two days later.Job done.I admit 80% of your photos were crap!
I stuck at the downloading all day ,as i had realised that since I've used a digital camera,I have been printing individual photos for layouts.This means when i am dead and gone,my children won't have albums and boxes of photographs.I was left 1000's of photos when my parents died,going back over a hundred years.I fear because we are all using computer so much now,all this will be lost to future generations.
So I am going to ensure that each year I get a job lot printed,labeled and put in a bog standard album.
Anyway,that's enough crap from me for a day.X

Well here goes another attempt.I have been told this is soooooo easy.But I don't seem to be able to get the hang of it.I really need to be shown how to do something and them I'm away.