Thrifted Stash

I'm always on the look out for bits and pieces I can use on my layouts. I love finding something that can work as an embellishment on my pages, especially with vintage photos. These are a few of my recent finds...

 Bingo chips and cards

Vintage pins

Cocktail sticks... I'm thinking coloured sticks for mini flags!

Slide mounts... These make cute little frames

View Master slides

Pin badges

Cut out paper dress up dolls and clothes

I found loads of these dolls and clothes cut out from magazines or newspapers, plus a little bag of hand drawn and coloured in ones too. It must have taken someone ages all that time ago. 

Hopefully there will be some more thrifting this weekend. We have been busy with Elizabeth's friends birthday parties the last few weekends - it seems they must all be really close in age. So this weekend its nice to have no real plans, although my iPad died this week :(  so I will be taking it to the Apple Dr this morning. Just hoping it doesn't cost me a fortune to get fixed!

Hope you have a good weekend.

More Vintage!

It was our local monthly crop this week so I managed to complete a few layouts. Its great to go and catch up with my sister and have 3 hours of uninterrupted scrappy time.

I have used some more vintage photos, as again I was not organised enough to get some recent photos printed off and had to go through my little stash of 'oldies' I have that are already copied and ready to scrap. Oh to have a photo printer at home again!  But hey at least it means my vintage album is finally looking a little fuller.

This first one is my Nan when she was younger near the beach where she worked in a little kiosk. I love this beach, its one of the things I miss most about living on the Isle of Wight.

I used some vintage fabric for this one. And more yellow! I am loving A Month of Sunrays on Julie Kirk's blog 'notes on paper' this month and that inspired me to join in with this layout.

This is the house where my mum grew up. You can really see how remote it was from this landscape photo.

I love this photo of mum and her friends when she was younger. Its just so 60's, with mum holding onto her Beatles record.

Im really loving punches again at the moment. This one was a little tricky getting them all evenly lined up though!

She's 4!

I cant believe my little girl is four already. Those 4 years have gone by so fast. She is such a big girl now, getting dressed all by herself in the mornings (zips, buttons and all!).

She has her party tomorrow morning so I have been busy making up party bags.

We went shopping on the weekend for a party oufit and bought her this gorgeous dress from here. I am just loving this colour combo. I would so love this dress in my size!

She is sooo super excited about her party tomorrow, a bouncy castle and 20 of her friends - eeek! Then we are catching up with some friends and family for lunch.

Have a good weekend. :)

Park Life

Hello, I have a few layouts to share today. I have been busy scrapping away in the evenings this week. Some times weeks go by and I have little inspiration to scrap and then others I cant wait to get my paper and glue out and have a play when the kids have gone to bed. Well its been one of those this week.

I think Elizabeth would like to play outside all the time if she could. On this day we went to the park and I was absolutely frozen but she just doesn't seem to mind. When I drop her off at nursery she goes straight out in to the garden and I know she will be outside when I pick her up.

The next couple are sketches fom just C&S (64 and 65). I didnt make loads of changes to the original sketches as I loved the simple designs

I loved these photos of Archie and Elizabeth painting, even though they are not the best quality. Elizabeth completed quite a few masterpieces, where as Archie had a quick go and then decided the rest of the garden needed a little colour and set about painting the bushes and plants.

Love Love Tatty Devine

I got this lovely Tatty Devine Hexagon necklace in the post today. I have had my eye on this one for ages so when I looked and it was in the sale I figured it was meant to be. I love it.

I managed to finish off a couple of layouts today. I'm having a bit of a yellow phase at the moment - bright yellow and mustard!

We have been trying to get out and make the most of the sunshine lately, even though its super cold! Archie really loved it on the Bob the Builder car at the beach but was sooo unhappy when we had to leave. I cant believe that tantrum age is here already!

My January callendar page. We didn't really do much or go anywhere apart from the normal stuff this month so just a few Archie firsts noted down.