New adventures for the hound

After getting totally soaked on Wednesday when we got caught out in a hailstone storm and major downpour, we've been trying again to get Clyde to let us put his coat on.  Dave managed it yesterday while they were playing in the garden so he had his first walk wearing it.  He doesn't bother at all with it when it's on, it's just the getting it on and off he doesn't like.  He does look a bit of a dude though.

We've given up trying to get him to stop digging in the garden.... it's in his nature and that's that.  So in an attempt to stop him creating little craters all over the grass we have given him his own little dig pit.  Has he been in there having fun?

...... nope, apparently not if his 'what? I haven't done anything' look is to be believed.  Blimey Charlie, my OCD hormones are going mental!!

UKS challenge LOs

I've managed to do another couple of LOs this week.  This one is using our crop March sketch and combining it with the criteria for the UKS April week 2 challenge which was use a nursery rhyme/fairytale for your title, photos(s) of an animal and several papers/types of paper.

I've used Little Star, as in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, photos of the hound of course, and quite a few different papers (mainly scraps) and some paper rosettes.  Thanks to my fellow Crumblies Sal for the thin acetate which I used to make the swirls with liquid pearls and Mary for the tip about using shanked buttons and glossy accents to fill the centre of the rosettes.

At the crop this morning I did this LO using the sketch for the UKS April house challenge.

Can't really see the journalling on the photo, but it stands out more IRL.... 

I half did a couple of other LOs at the crop too, just need to add titles and journalling.  I had a pretty productive morning!

April week 1 challenge

I'm on a bit of a scrapping roll, helped greatly by having DH at home over the Easter weekend to supervise all the small people in the house.  A bit late in uploading due to the naff weather yesterday which meant I couldn't get a decent photo, but here is the LO I did on Sunday for the UKS April week 1 challenge.  The criteria was to use the sketch provided, a photo to make people smile and lots of buttons.

The photo is FIL and the boys hanging off the bars at a local country park.  They love just dangling there and have fits of giggles while having their photo taken.

Venice LO

I finished the LO I started at the last crop today, it's using a Total Papercrafts kit.

and yes despite saying I would not be hand cutting the floral pattern from the paper, today I sat for ages doing it....

Clyde update

As I'm updating the blog today, I've some recent photos of Clyde to share too.  We're still house training.... it's getting better but we're still living in the kitchen when he is awake lol.  He's really changing in his looks now, losing his puppy fluff and growing 'proper' fur and his face is becoming more Westie-like too.  Here's a couple of photos, he's much bigger than when I last posted....

 Not sure why his head looks so enormous in this shot?!  It is normal size, honest.

The Crumblies weekend

Been a bit lapse in the blog posting recently - sorry about that!  I have actually managed to do some scrapping, but most of that is due to the weekend away with the 365ers, now known as The Crumblies.  Was really great to meet up with everyone again, as it has been a while since we have all been able to make it our annual retreat. 

We stayed in a lovely place in Foxham, and as seems to be the habit with our meet ups, the weather was gorgeous.

They had one of those old Fisher Price record players in the games cupboard.  I remember having one of these as a child, so of course had to have a go.  It didn't work but I had fun being DJ Alli doing some scratchin'....

Shirley gave us a messy play class - and even I took part albeit wearing gloves lol.  It was a lot of fun, and I was surprised by the number of different effects you can get using distress stains.

We did a jigsaw swap too, the theme was handicrafts and Kay kindly worked out a grid so everyone had one of each.  Looks great finished doesn't it?

Mine is the middle piece - many thanks to Barbara for her help with some ideas to get started, I was really struggling!!  It was much better when I stopped thinking so hard lol.

And here are the LOs I did (well I finished 2 there, and had to add some journalling on the rest when I got back home):

Project12 for November and December - just got the opening and closing pages to do now and the album is finished...

My UKS team sketch for February - I've had this photo ready to scrap for ages and finally got round to it.

UKS March week 3 challenge - criteria was to use spring colours, sewing/fabric/ribbon and something to do with food.  I used one of the sketches from the retreat for this one.

And finally, a LO using a February Total Papercrafts kit:

It was so good we decided to go back again in October - can't wait!