Glitter Girl challenge and a catch-up

Hi everyone and welcome back ME. Life has had a rather busy sting of late so all my lovely blog plans went slightly out the window and into the snow. Yeah it SNOWED! Did you notice?

Anyhow, I am now back and managed to do this week's Glitter girl challenge. This week was all about colour and how to use patterned papers when you've got a photo with loads of colour. I actually had a photo with a big colour of grey and so used that as my starting point. It's a collage I did when I made lil sis's 40th birthday album. I got some small pictures on it which I thought I would use at a later date and it felt just right for this challenge.

So here is my layout......................

The picture is about 8 x 6 from Boots and I loved all the little images. Because the predominant colour was grey I felt I could go with quite bright patterned papers and went for a bright floral design and then added in some accents of pink, red, yellow, blue to highlight colours with in the collage pictures themselves.

Although you can't really tell, the thickers are black glittery letters which I felt was good for a birthday/celebration layout.

If you want to see Glitter Girl's video you can watch it below..........




Also it Snowed and South Horrington looked like Narnia. Willow being the cat she is went out playing and I caught her for another layout.............

I am a little behind with Project Life because of life events but I sat down and watched some online TV the other day and made a load of card inserts of the right size ready to get it organised. One of the things I have decided to do is add in my Project 365 photographs each week as a collage which is really easy to produce using Picassa.

Here are my collages for weeks 1 and 2.................

I'll be back to explain the week 2 and week 3 choices probably tomorrow. Picassa is really great for screen captures too.

Anyway hope you are all safe and warm wherever you live and I am counting the weeks down to our bloggers meetup in March.

Snow day

A few pictures of yesterday's events......................

 Snow in Tesco carpark..........................

my neighbours cottage............................

 other cottages and the chapel.........................

 trying to catch snowflakes..........................

this is rather random but the shop assistant in Tescos dressed for their pirates charity day.................fun.

 This morning we have approx. 6 inches of snow and it is looking more foggy and snowy cloudy as the minutes go by. Hope u are all safe and dont go out unless u have to. As for those of us in warmer climes, no bragging please, heehee.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.............................

Welcome to December 2nd 2010 and day 2 of JYC, Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas and 2nd day of Hannukah. Today I woke up to this.................

Pretty isn't it?  I have to admit I stepped literally 2 steps out of the door and nearly froze and ran in pretty quickly but hey I went out, ;-)).
And coincidentally today's post for JYC is weather. Over the past few days my conversations with my best friend have revolved around snow, snow and more snow. He has no transport now and the roads are even worse than before. Fun isn't it. Anyway, there are snowflakes around my home in a variety of creative ways. I tried resurrecting the handmade paper snowflake, I may put it in the journal, not sure yet. But there are some snowflakes in a crafty woollen project................

which are sort of secret so if ur reading lil sister, shhhhhhhhh.
Finally the wonderful person I call my big brother Colin posted this today on Facebook and youtube and I wanted to share it with you. I wish we had this much snow, I wish I brave enough to do snow angels and I'm glad I don't have a cheeky son who does that to me! Plus the music is lovely.




Oooh advent calendar today was a bell.

It's been snowing a little.

...........so this morning we woke to fairyland. Isn't it pretty? These are a few pictures of the hospital site..............


This was the front entrance

View down the cricket field across the fields........

AWH poor old fluffbun!!!!!!! I made her go out :)

One of the flashier flat entrances.

Monday morning

Morning all and what a day so far. We have upset the Pretty baqby girl today by brushing her Persian coat free of knots..............I'm not kidding it was bad. Plus the estate agents have confirmed officially the removal of my notice to quit the flat...................hurray for that. Now I can unpack again!!
There is still snow............view from my window in daylight

magic paw prints...........

and my CPN has been over for a pre-Xmas check-up. Luckily he will be on duty when Dr Who is on so I can phone for psychiatric support should it be needed and I am sure it will.

Let it snow..............

Some of you have asked for pictures of the snow so before it all melts away here are some views from my window this evening.

This is a view looking up to the old chapel

At last....................

IT IS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!