Challenges..

...can be fun. I'm enjoying the ones on Designer Digitals. The LO above was done for this week's everyday inspiration challenge. We were given a template to work with, so I decided to add in all the pretty things in my garden.

You may note the later time of this post, this would be Lego Batman's fault. I've got caught up in it, though if Mothman falls off the ledge one more time I may throw the Wii controller through the telly lol.

Today's photo of the day is the fairly mundane but important Christmas Radio Times, when I make up these photos into an album I'll want a note of how I chose my festive telly viewing.

We spent the day at Mugdock Country park, there were lots of robins flitting around, and Amy had a great time throwing sticks for dogs, whether they wanted them or not!

My photo for yesterday shows one of Amy's favourite Christmas presents, her new toy vacuum cleaner. It matches my Henry (and in fact matches her granny's Hetty perfectly). She loves following me around while I'm hoovering.

Is Christmas over already?

I've had a fabby few days, finally got the presents all wrapped on Christmas Eve. Love them when they're all sitting in piles just waiting for morning.

On Christmas day we opened our pressies, Amy loved them all of course, then we went for a walk via the playpark. We went up to the grandparents for Christmas lunch, was great to see everyone. Amy had a ball,

The caption for the next photo is 'That one too, please?'

I loved the glee with which Amy ate her soup at Christmas lunch, messy but fun!

Today we went shopping in Glasgow, we got there about 10, though I now realise we should have got there about 7am if we wanted it to be even slightly quiet. We always park on the South Side and walk over the suspension bridge as it's much easier to park over there.
We had a successful trip, spent some of my Christmas money on crafty stuff in WHSmith, which turned out to be half price when I got to the counter!

Amy spent the afternoon playing with all her new toys, one of her favourites is Cinderella Aquadraw.

Now I'm happily curled up on the sofa with my Christmas chocolate and watching Hellboy 2.

Hope everyone had a fabby Christmas!

Most boring day of the year?

Don't know why, but I felt totally at a loose end today. Think it was probably because Peter was still at work, but toddlers has stopped for Christmas, and there didn't seem any point driving anywhere as everywhere would be so busy.

Luckily mum phoned in the afternoon, so we went up for a visit. Amy had great fun helping to decorate their tree.

Don't think Claude was too interested in helping!

Today's photo of the day is of my Christmas cactus which is behaving and flowering just now. This plant is a cutting I took about 5 years ago from the original which is getting on in years, and doesn't have any buds this year. It's about 20 years old, we got it at our school's jumble sale, where it cost about 10p, and was a sorry looking specimen. 

While Amy had her nap today, I played with Photoshop again. On Designer Digitals there was a template to download (the digital equivalent of a sketch). This was to create your own ATC and put it in your gallery so people could see what you look like, which is a great idea as I have no idea what most of my online friends look like:D. Here's my ATC.

More digi goodness and sweeties!

I've found another site for Digital Scrapping - Designer Digitals. There's 3 challenges each week, each with freebies, yay! I tried the colour challenge this week, where you got 3 papers to download. Here's my LO. 

I used a photo I actually used in my very first paper LO ever! The supplies were Rob and Bob Studio spirograph snowflakes brushes, lace from a freebie kit on Creating Keepsakes by Lynn Grieveson, the photo frame is from the Strawberry Lemonade kit by Jessica Sprague and brads from the Shabby Princess Happy Holidays kit.

Today I also made my annual pilgrimage to the sweetie shop to buy boxes of sweets for all the family (sorry to give away what one of your pressies is, mum, lol!). The jar is for Peter, and the one with the reindeer is for Amy. The ladies at the shop know what I want for when Peter gets time to get in for mine.

My hair's all shiny and red again, yay!

Been to the hairdressers today and got my hair all lovely and red. Now if only it would stay as vibrant as it is when you've just stepped out of the salon, lol.

So today's photo of the day is the one above, thought I'd be brave and include a self-portrait as one of the photos in the month.

Yesterday's one was also hair-related as we were going to a party. Amy went to stay with the grandparents, lovely kind people that they are, so I had time to properly straighten my hair. Doesn't happen often.
I love my pink, sparkly straighteners, in fact I did a LO about them about 18 months ago.

Looking forward to Christmas now, not long to go!

Hello, didn't write a post for yesterday as I was out at our crop's Christmas night out. The local coffee shop was open for us specially, and we had a lovely buffet. We could bring our own wine too.

I did this LO for this week's challenge on JessicaSprague.com. The challenge was to think of the first image that came to mind when you thought of Christmas, and to use it on a LO with journalling saying what it meant to you. The swirls are part of the Up and Running class materials, the trees, brads and papers are from the Shabby Princess Happy Holidays kit, and the 'spirit' brush is by Katie Pertiet.

This was my photo of the day yesterday. Amy was playing in her play tent. She'd crawl in, stand up suddenly and knock the penguin over. Then she'd rush out, shout 'My fault!', I'd stand the penguin up and the game would start again.

Today's photo is of Willow, also tried taking some photos of Tawny, but she's much harder to photograph.