November calendar page

Both girls feature on the November LO. Taken at the end of half term holidays when we visited the Brooklands Museum.

Embellies are Prima flowers and s/a pearl, K & Co felt ladybird. Crate Paper Kaitlin heart, B G button and Chatterbox alphabet.

October calendar page

Halloween and this year the girls decided to take
part once more. DD1 had a Horror Ball at her school and then on the 31st went out with a couple of friends trick or treating. DD2 is more timid about the evening andhad to be somewhat pushed into collecting her sister and trick or treating on the way home. DD1 managed to return with a bucket ful of sweets and DD2 somewhat less but by the time DD1 had passed over the sweets she didn't like, DD2 had as many as DD1.

Embellies are Chatterbox alphabet, 7 Gypsies stickers, Colorbok stickers, Prima silk flower, B G buttons, a little quilted handbag (tick or treat bag), Papermania s/a gems and punched leaves.

September calendar page

September sees the girls back at school. DD1 has learnt to be a little ..... erm free -er with the wearing of her uniform. Who am I kidding she is very free with it. !!! How short is that tie!?!?
DD2 is still a good girl with uniform as it should be worn (except in this photo lol) but she is still only in junior school. Next year will be a different story with her I am sure.

I love this paper from the Que Sera Sera range of K & Co. Embellies are Prima flowers, BG button and alphabet, Papermania pearls, K & Co stickers and a couple of other flower stickers.

August calendar page

August is Tots birthday so who better to feature on this month's page. Here she is with her new toy - George the Giraffe. She loves him as you can see. Lol.

K & Co die cut flowers, 7 Gypsies sticker, punched leaves and B G alpabet.

On with the calendar - July page

Thought I'd forgotten to come back did ya? Well here I am with the other 6 months worth of the outlaws calendar.

This is DD1 taking part with her school in Hamble Week's festival.

Embellies K & Co die cut Citronella shapes, Prima flower, B G button and die cut sticker, punched leaves and Papermania s/a gems.

June calendar page

The girls love to go strawberry picking even though DD1 hates eating them. It certainly makes for a good June photo shot though.

Embellies K & Co die cuts and die cut stickers, Prima flowers, punched leaves, Papermania pearls and B G buttons.

May calendar page

What a difference a haircut makes. When Spring arrives the girls go from long to shorter hair. This was the first time DD1 took a photo idea with her to have her hair cut. Hmmm little girl growing up. !!!!

Embellies Prima flowers, K & Co G A die cut butterfly, B G button, dew drops and Papermania foam alphabet.

April calendar page

April has DD1 in her school show Fashion Rocks attire. Lots of attitude and make up.

Embellies K & Co epoxy sticker and die cut flowers, B G buttons and alphabet.

March calendar page

March shows DD2 ready for Red Nose Day at school. Oh and Eeyore of course.

Embellies are Prima flower, K & Co epoxy, B G die cut sticker, button and alphabet, Papermania pearls and punched leaves.

February calendar page

Here is the Feb offering featuring DD2 last Feb when snow caused her to have an extra day on school.

Embellies are Primas, BG buttons, Papermania pearls, Fancy Pants die cut shapes

January calendar page

Here is the Jan page featuring our gorgeous Boxer dog.

Embellies are Prima flower, Woodware punched leaves, Sizzix die cut flower using Kaitlin by Crate Paper, stickers are 7 Gypsies and K & Co butterflies. The button and alphabet stickers are B G.

OMG I'm back

Where have I been? I have been crafting honest, but life has also been heaily in the way most of the time for me to get here. Anyway I was meant to be putting more of my USA holiday 1989 LO photos on here and I haven't got round to it ...... so far. I will do one day. but for now here is a calendar I've made for my outlaws for Christmas.

I set the members challenge on the Charmed Forum this time.

The first is to make a desk calendar. Can be any size (depending on your desk), with or without photos if a larger one and I would like you to add the following: Punched or die cut shapes, ie flowers, tags, frames ...... Blingy things ie dew drops, glitter, s/a pearls, gems ....... Sewing ..... or doodling

The second is to make a crafty Christmas present for somebody. This could be anything, like covering and decorating a notebook to personalise it, making a post it notes decorated holder thingy (technical term there ), make an address book, make a shopping list holder for a pad (to go on the fridge maybe), decorate a phone note pad holder, make and decorate a photo frame or ........ anything else you can think of. Use whatever form of embellishments are suitable for your chosen gift idea but include some ribbon, and chipboard somewhere and somehow.

Here is the front cover of my desk calendar.

All the papers are K & co. Flowers are die cut Wild Raspberry from K & Co and the felt embellies are Fancy Pants.

9.25 on the rim

Our final view of the grand canyon was as we left. At 9.25 we went to one of the high viewing areas to take the last photos of it. (like we probably didn't have enough already lol).

Papers are Papermania Retro (for a change), buttons are B G, flowers Prima, G/A is K & Co and letters are Papermania.

Always Changing

Sunrise is very like sunset. The main difference is that is starts of very cold and warms up. Lol. Colourwise it is as sunset but in reverse.

Papers K & Co Happy Trails. Alphabet is Papermania. Journalling square is Creative Imaginations.

Sunset

As our hotel was just 10 mins from the edge of the south rim of the canyon it was easy for us ot make a date with watching the sun set. Watching the sun set over the canyon is very colourful. The rocks change constantly as it gets darker.

Papers and Grand Adhesions K & Co Happy Trails.

Bright Angel Trail

There are trails all through the canyon. I actually wsn't keen walking down this trail into the canyon because so much of it means walking on a norrow trail with a huge drop. I don't do height well so felt quite un-nerved by this, as did the 2 people with me. This trail was close to our hotel.

Paper K & Co Happy Trails and G/A K & Co Happy Trails- Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon

I went through a whole roll of film and a half to take shots of the canyon whilst flying over it. that's a good 50 photos. It was hard to whitle them down but I managed to get 8 shots on this one LO by making a couple of mini albums.

The whole flight was an amazing experience and I would do it again.

Grand Adhesions are K & Co Happy Trails - Grand Canyon.

Fly the canyon

It was the trip of the holiday. Flying over the Grand Canyon. The joke of this photo is that I took a photo of any old plane and ws going to tell people that I went on that plane. In reality I DID go on that plane. Lol.

Paper K & Co Happy Trails. Chipboard stars from American Crafts. Papermania letters and ribbon.

Oak Creek Canyon

On the way to The Grabd Canyon we passed through Oak Creek Canyon. It is very much used as filmland especially for westerns. Up hair pin bends you get some amazing views. Sadly they were into the sunlight for me so aren't as clear as they could be.

NO paper this time just C/S. !!! Ribbon and ric rack from Papermania. Chatterbox sticky alphabet letters. Embellishment from Jolees.

Bus Trip U S A

So on with the 1989 USA holiday LOs. (and you thought I'd finished or forgotten lol.)

We made a stop out in the desert so we could see seguaro cactus up close. It also gave us an opportunity to capture the tour director and bus driver on camera.

Papers as usual K & Co Happy Trails with a G A from the collection too. Chipboard letters are thickers.