School holidays

I do love school holidays. Luckily my kids are young and happy to potter at home, playing together inside and out. But on occasion they do need a little entertainment.

Last holidays we used the idea of making a list at the start of everything we wanted to do and used it as a checklist. It was a great idea. We kept it on the fridge and whilst we didn't get it all done it was great to have a list for the kids to look at and say "I'm going to....play Lego, do dressups, have a friend over, watch a movie, write a book, draw a picture, have a sleepover at nana's. "

These holidays we have borrowed some lists from others.

100 school holiday activity ideas

100 ideas!!! Will be doing some of these.

And this one



Isobel and I just looked at this and she was very excited with this one.

Working 2 days a week and having Isobel's birthday and party in these holidays means we don't have too many free days but hopefully the weather will be good and we can spend time together doing things we don't always have time to do.

are you looking forward to the school holidays?

the amazing race

scrapbooking style....



I'm signed up!!!

and can't wait to get started on sept 1....

I need to be pushed a bit in my scrapping...and need some deadlines!

Head over to 

SCRAPBOOKING TOP 50

AND SIGN UP!

a new challenge

over at SCRAPFRIENDS...awesome sketch....very me!

I do love this page, and thanks to Jasmine Shea who suggested the hints of pink, yes you were right it does finish off the page!

another 123 challenge

awesome again this month...

the word "watch", the colour "green" and "texture paste "

just perfect for me...

In love with texture paste right now, use it everywhere on everything. An gauze, love it!

And no titles, or handwritten ones...just me being lazy probably lol

a scrappy weekend away....

with 8 other lovely women...lots of laughter, drinks, food and amazingly lots of scrapping...I think I did 9 or 10 pages plus a canvas. Pretty happy with that.

August 1st sketch at STUCK! Sketches

Quite like this page...except the gauze isn't the one I normally use so it looks a bit like a wet cloth lol. But do like the bits and pieces that tell the story of what happened that day.

Back tomorrow with more.

Lists

yep I'm a list maker....I make lists, add to lists, lists on envelopes, lists in a book, lists on my reminder app on my phone, on the To Do app on my phone, lists on a special list pad, lists at work... I make lists everywhere.




This week's list

and I'm linking up with Tam Milborn's List Lovers link up at Somewhere Around Here...each week there's a LIST PROMPT. This week is Lists I Make...

And I'm proud to say only 6 left (out of 13) from my list already...nothing like a list to make you productive.

And now to do something that's NOT on my list (but I'll go and add it so I can cross it off when I've done it LOL! Do you do that?) making Lemon Slice (thanks Tam for the recipe) and Sausage rolls for tomorrow night's dinner.

First Love letter

I just had to scrap Isobel's first love letter!


Purple, the word MY and CHEVRON.....that was the criteria at 123 Challenge for July, so I gave it a ago.

I'm in love with those alphas, love the natural look they give to a layout.

And whilst I don't normally like PURPLE I love how it goes with the ORANGE used in the love letter. I think I will fold up the love letter and tuck it behind the photo so it is safe.

Do you scrap your kids notes or work?