Cathy's Crafting

Bought some more stuff today for my new bedroom - this and this (which will go horizontally above the bed) and some cute ivory chenille cushions that have a silver thread running through them - now we just need to finish the decorating! Jon has now finished the fireplace and just needs to skim over the top and then we can get on with sanding and painting the rest of the walls and the woodwork.

We spent the rest of the day walking at Alice Holt and then cooking and eating Roast Lamb - yum! Here's today's blog...

Here's the first Christmas present I've made for next year :D - one of the scarfs from the kits I showed you yesterday. The kit's actually twice as long but as I'm making these scarfs for little girls I think the length I've done will be plenty (and I can make the extra wool into another scarf). It was great fun to make and very easy once I got the hang of it.

Jon has been busy taking out the fireplace out of our bedroom and bricking up the hole that was left. He's hoping to do the plastering tomorrow and then we can get on with the painting - it's going to look fab. I spent the day with the monsters doing a few jobs in town and playing all afternoon - good times :D

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I had a lovely package waiting for me today and inside was one each of these scarfs - the start of my efforts to handmake some Christmas presents this year - I have started the pink scarf this evening and it's coming together nicely. Jon is off out with the rugby guys tomorrow so am hoping to finish it while watching an evening of trash TV!

Have spent the rest of the evening trying to decide how to decorate our bedroom. We think we are going to go for an olive feature wall, ivory for the rest of the room and Chocolate curtains with this bed linen. Has taken hours to find the bed linen and most I looked at were a lot more expensive.

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Hurrah! Have finally done some scrapping! After sorting out my creative to do list the other day I decided it was time to make a start on it so have done 2 6x6 LOs for my Journal Your Christmas album, which had previously been abandoned around the 7th December :( . First LO is to explain what happened and what the rest of the album will be (all LOs to record Christmas 2009 but not in any sort of order, diary or journal) and the second is about Charlie and Owen's christmas PJs this year. Am so happy to have finally done a bit of scrapping and am planning to print off some more little snaps from this Christmas over the next few days and to get the album completed.

Spending the rest of the evening doing some salsacise, drinking some wine and writing labels for all the photos that are now in their albums. Here's today's blog.

We woke up this morning to MORE SNOW! Husband had already gone to work (someone skidded into him on the way there ggggrrr...) so when school was cancelled I had to take a day's leave to look after Charlie - we had a lovely day, playing in the snow, baking muffins and watching some films - very good fun. Anyway my creative activities today have been putting all the photos I sorted yesterday into albums and I am going singing this evening with my fab choir, the Park Angels. I thought it would be cancelled bcause of the snow so I am very pleased it's going ahead :D

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...that I need to get my album photos printed off. I've spent this evening sorting out 300+ photos from the last year and half into date order so they're ready to go into our albums - it would have been much easier to do 6 months worth 3 times - am going to write this on to my calendar so I don't forget - well maybe...

Am using the rest of the evening to finish this book. It's been an OK read, not sure I'd be keeping it if I had bought it, luckily it's from the library.

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Back at work today and back to normality, despite lots of snow still hanging around. Hopefully it'll be gone by the end of the week as I've had enough now and am ready for spring to start!

Spent my lunch hour going through my (probably far too long) list of blogs I have on my favourites list and having a bit of a cull - tried to keep those which are relatively up to date and mainly about craft/scrapping, rather than visits to the vet, people's holidays and other non crafty stuff. Still have far too many to keep up to date with but I do like looking at them for inspiration and ideas. Thought it might be fun to post one of these per day so here is today's.

After spending some time last night stroking some paper and not really doing anything I thought it would be useful to get together a list of aims for this year - not sure what I'll get done but it might help me get more focussed.

- Start Shimelle's Blogging for Scrapbookers class - this just didn't happen last year as I was too busy moving house
- Finish Everyone Has A Story - another Shimelle class, I started this one in Gosport in November 2008 and did lots of LOs for it last year, I then got a bit behind and the class format changed so I need to print off the new PDFs shimelle has emailed and get on with this again
- Do some Christmas LOs - JYC got dropped in a mad December, but we did take some nice photos and I did have a nice album made so this is probably my top priority to do, so I can put the Christmas stash box away for another 9 months.
- Am liking the look of Documented:2010 here - have my envelope already.
- Birthday LOs - I started in a minor way folders to keep LOs in for the boys birthdays - I have 4 to do for Charlie and 2 to do for Owen and a 5th birthday fast approaching in April so it would be good to do these by then.
- Other crafty stuff - have ordered some knitting/crochet your own scarf kits which are the start of my effort to give people home made stuff for Christmas next year.