I heart Autumn!

Despite a dreadful forecast this half term week hasn't been that bad. Had a lovely day on Monday with the kids and their cousins and Sis in law. Got some lovely pics of very tame squirrels, leaves and lovely autumn ness! Here are a few:

new kit in at Truly, Madly, Crafty

Maxine has a lovely new kit in at TMC and it is gorgeous!!!! As soon as I opened that box I loved everything in it!!!! It's called AUTUMN MARKET and the colours are wonderful. Here is what you get:

Autumn Market Kit includes:

- 8x 6"x6" Crate Paper Farmhouse Patterned Papers

- 8x 6"x6" Bazzill Cardstock - 2 sheets of 4 colours

- 1 piece of 10x10cm Apple Fabric

- 6x Jenni Bowlin Farmer's Wife Journaling Cards

- 8x Jenni Bowlin Decorative Brads

- Crate Paper Lemon Grass Rub-Ons

- 5x 24" Lengths of ribbon

- 48" of Twine

- Approx 28 Buttons in Autumn tones

- 1 Jenni Bowlin Paint Dabber Optional, please select from the drop down menu below (You will receive 1 of either Chicken Feed, Cough Syrup or Brown Sugar)

Here are the things I have made so far using the kit, but I have plenty left:



1 cute little tag with a fave quote on it

a fun card

and two 6 x 6 layouts, a great size to work at for something fun and crafty if you dont have lots of time on your hands. They look really dinky too!


Go and check out the kit and do link us up if you create something with it!

Truly, Madly, Crafty....

has a new challenge up for this month, as we have finally hit Autumn we are asking you to use leaves on your project. Make sure you link us up to your project! Here is what I came up with, I love all the autumn colours and love taking photographs this time of year especially if there is some delicious light too!

New sketch

There is a new sketch up on Truly, Madly, Crafty today and I had the pleasure of coming up with the sketch and a layout based on it. Here it is:




And here is the sketch:


I used some new Amy Tangerine patterned paper, AC thickers, Elles Studio tags, Echo Park stickers, and some mica mist in rose pink. If you would like to use the sketch please link up to what you have created with it.

a little something...

I made for the new ECP challenge which is to use SIX patterned papers on your project. I went small and did another little ATC, with six different patterned papers using a stamp shaped punch and a nice little quote. I really like doing these, they take a few minutes, a few scraps and a few words. Why not give it a go?

New job!

Yesterday I had a nerve wracking morning, as I I had an interview at a local Secondary School for a little job in their art and photography dept, and I got the job!!! It's just 8hrs per week, so I can still do my design work and magazine stuff, but it's something a bit different and I'll be supporting the art teachers and students. I start next month sometime.

Back to school and some kind of normality

It's been VERY quiet here, mainly due to the 6 weeks school holidays, a 2 week trip around Europe and getting ready for going back to school. Here are a few pics from over the break:











So, today the children are back to school and the house is extremely quiet. I am getting organised, planning work, writing lists and generally getting back to it.

Here are two projects I've done in the last week. Firstly a page for the Truly, Madly, Crafty challenge blog, the theme is 'new':


I used all 'new' stash, which was lovely and the journalling is about Freya leaving infant school and starting in her new junior school.

This one is for Easy Craft Projects and the theme is yellow, I also used one of the digi images from the sponsor, which was a very funky rock chick girl!


Go and check out both challenges and take part!

I am also thinking about doing Shimelles LSNED this month, I did it before, but already it's the 5th and I dont really have anything to show for it, so it may be a notebook and pen job and then I'll pull it together into something else.

I plan to post here on a regular basis this month, so come and see me and say hi!