Ladies That Lunch
Hoooooraaaaaaay - I have finally finished the year end accounts! It has taken me quite a while over the past week and now I feel that I can reward myself with a little scrapping (or maybe a lot - I will just have to see how I feel). I am feeling quite giddy with the relief of getting it done.
Today, I had two of my friends over for lunch, Eileen an old friend (not in years as she is much younger than me) and Karen who is quite a new friend but both very good company and I am very fond of both of them. I made this for lunch

mmmmmmm delicious sundried tomato and smoked cheese flan.
We spent several hours chatting and putting the world to rights and finalising a little plan we have for the new year.
Karen also talked about digi scrapping - something I have been thinking about but a little too daunted to try. After listening to her I decided to have a go and am really pleased with the results. A lo which only took about 45minutes to complete - a first for me as my pages usually take ages because I 'faff' about so much. I used this template as the basis of my lo.
I am going now as I am doing the soup run today (sandwiches and hot drinks for the local homeless). I am quite excited about it as I have never done it on New Year's Eve before and am looking forward to seeing all the people in town dressed up for parties and clubbing.
Reasons to be cheerful:
1. A good lunch with good friends gives you a warm fuzzy feeling.
2. Doing the soup run makes you grateful for having a home, no matter how rough it is sometimes, at least I only have to stand in the cold, rain or snow for an hour - those poor folks have to sleep out in it.
3. This reason I am especially pleased about - I am one of the runner's up in the Scrapbooker of the Year competition in The Scrapbook Magazine.
Have a very happy and safe new yearxxx
Happy Days
I am really enjoying making the pages for my Journal Your Christmas book and have managed to keep up so far - I am determined not to give myself too much grief if, or should I say when, I fall behind.
I was up to a very silly time getting things ready for a craft fair I am at on Saturday, my first and I hope I have pitched my goods and prices right. To say I am a bit nervous about it would be an understatement.
The Christmas fairy keeps forgetting to come and put things in Gracia's Advent Calendar and then has to put extra things in to make up for it. The Christmas fairies have always come to our house to leave little gifts on the days running up to Christmas. In fact we used to have 'fairies' in the garden, who with the Christmas Fairies, would leave Gracia little notes and letters telling her about their day to day lives and asking her questions which required letters from her in response - a great way to get a reluctant writer to start writing. I still have some of the letters and her replies in my 'special box'.
My pages 2 and 3 from Journal Your Christmas.

Reasons to be cheerful:
1. I am going to watch the KS1 nativity play today and those 4, 5 and 6 year olds are just so cute.
2. Someone invented Red Bull - a staple in my lunch box this time of year!
3. Out to lunch - you may say that I am out to lunch most of the time (note: - 'out to lunch' is a phrase to describe someone who is crazy), with a girlfriend today, last time we went for lunch we were still there over 4 hours later!
Blog Hopping Love xxx
I originally started blogging as a way of keeping my parents updated of our day to day lives. They live almost 200 miles away, you may not feel that that is a great distance if you live in the states. Gracia is their only grandchild and so by blogging I was able to keep them informed of any exciting events that happened, complete with photographs which my dad would 'snaffle' off my blog and on our too infrequent visits we would find them on the walls in his office.
I than discovered the blogging community and was amazed when my blog hit 1,000 views in September, this year. I was surprised that people would be interested is our daily life!
I now blog more frequently than I used to and find it therapeutic to write down my thoughts and recollections of the day but I also, through Shimelle's class, have discovered a whole new world of bloggers that I follow for various reasons to add to the ones I had cyberstalked previously.
The blogs I follow most frequently are:-
Kirsty Wiseman - because there have been times when, whilst drinking a cup of tea and blog hopping, I have come across her blog, read it and snorted with laughter and tea has escaped through my nose! Not a pleasant sight but it happened!
Papermaze's blog - because of the awesome designs and brilliant instructions.
Pencil Lines - how can one sketch be transformed so differently by such inspiring designers?
Karen Cole - you have to go and look at this girl's work and you will be blown away!
Allison Kimball - a woman who is an inspiration to me, a wonderful mother, devout follower of God and an brilliant scrapper too!
SJ - just because she is one of the funniest people I know and she has such a way with words.
And a few new ones I have discovered over the past three weeks:-
Amy - love her scrapping and journaling style.
Sian - this woman is simply a genius at writing things down in a unique way - so funny.
Angela - another very funny lady (can you see a theme running through here - to get on my blog list you have to make me laugh)
Eileen - just because she is my bud and I like to know what is going on that she hasn't told me about (I am very nosey really perhaps that's why I love blog hopping)!
There are so many more blogs out there waiting to be discovered I just can't wait!
But I will leave you with a couple of peeps of a project I made this week.



AND yes looking at this you can see I hand cut 48 leaves for my tree!Reasons to be cheerful:-1. There is a whole world out there waiting to be discovered.
2. The heating is on - the water is hot and as soon as I pick Gracia up from her ballet lesson I will be in that hot bath I have promised myself all day.
3. Clean sheets on the bed to snuggle into after my bath - bliss.
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