Weekly challenge - August week 1

Still going strong on the weekly challenge target, so here are our LOs for August week 1.  Criteria was to use the sketch, the colour red, pink or purple and a song or film title from a list of people provided.  Joe struggled with this as he thought he could use any old song or film title, not helped by the fact he had no idea who the people referred to were!

Mine

Joe's

My month in numbers - July

Seem to be late posting these every month, but I guess better late than never.  No idea where July went, it flew by... even quicker than the rest of the months this year.  Anyway, here's what happened in July:

1 = the number of barn owls the boys got to hold at the school PTA BBQ.  It was gorgeous!

1 = the number of girly shopping days I had with my sister.  Had a great day, bought stuff I had been wanting for a while and really enjoyed spending time together.  Had very sore feet when I got home though!

1 = National Trust visits this month, we went to Tredegar House in Wales which was lovely although I thought the grounds were nicer than the house.

34 = the highest temperature seen on my car thermometer.  Phew, it was a very hot couple of weeks during the UK heatwave.  Poor Clyde really felt it....

1 = the number of school trips to Sandbanks - it was right in the middle of the heatwave but Joe still had a fantastic day out.

8 = the number of badges the boys earned at Beavers and Cubs during the last half term.  Lots of sewing for me before they go back after the summer.  They are keen to work on more during the holidays too :)

 

2 = the number of LOs I have done this month.  Hoping to do more next month!


And that's it for another month.  If you'd like to know more about the month in numbers idea, visit Julie's blog here.

Layouts....

Well my blog is quite neglected at the moment, really must try to remember to take more photos and post on here more regularly.

I've actually done some scrapping over the past couple of weeks.  I have Joe to thank for that, as he is doing scrapbooking for his Beavers hobbies badge and so we decided to have a go at the UKS weekly challenges during the summer holidays, using sketches.  So here's what we have done:

July week 4 - the criteria was to include something from your list of what summer means to you, include lines, and at least 3 colours from the photo provided.

Here's mine...

 

.... and here's Joe's. 

I also did a LO for the July UKS house challenge, which was to use a selection of colours from a photo provided.

July week 5 - there were lots of choices in last week's challenge all based around books/comics.  Here's mine...

.... and here's Joe's. 

I am so proud of how much journaling he wrote on this, and how neat it is.  He is using the information he learnt about Grampy's hot air balloon flight towards his Air Activities badge, so a double whammy this week :-)