Beautiful Derbyshire

We had a lovely couple of days in the Peaks with Hannah, and manged to get up to Buxton this time. I'm so glad we made the effort as it is such a beautiful place.

I scrapbooked some of the photos I took of the Pavillion, there was still snow on the ground, and the water in the park had ice inches thick!

To make the page I used the Portobello range as the vintage look of the papers really seemed to set off the black and white photos. Dies are Tim Holtz (flowers and small alphabet) .....

and X cut for the foam title and bunting.

Thursday already, can't believe how quickly half term whizzes by.

Happy Valentines Day

He did get the card on time, I'm just late posting it as we have had a couple of days in Derbyshire with Hannah.The card front was cut using a new cartridge for the eClips which I can see being really useful.

Simple Recipes

On UKS this year a monthly challenge appears called the Simple Recipe. It is designed to get us searching through our stash to find things to make the page, and is a brilliant idea for helping to clear those old papers.
This month we had to use an unusual range of colours, pink, orange red and turquoise on a LO. We could limit the colour pallete, but I decided to use all 4! Once I'd ferreted through my stash i found this lot...

and after a couple of hours had managed to make this page!!

Only the American Crafts splats went back into the stash to see another crafty day, or I might use the recipe again and try to include them.

Snow Shots

Got up early as the snow was already starting to melt, it is still fairly deep. Harry has been out twice on his toboggan, once with us, and with his cousins too.

I managed to get a few good photos, take a look at this slide show....

This scrapbooking design created with Smilebox

It's snowing!

The first this year, and a decent amount too. I hope it stays put until the morning so i can go out and get some photos.

Almost Friday

..and almost half term, time to catch up on my crafting then :)

I know lots of you enjoyed this page in my recent Christmas journal, so here's the 12x12 page with Katie and her dad sporting matching facial hair.

Maybe you can guess whose is real!

It was a really handy page to use up the little bits of stash left over from the journal.

Musical Blog...

One of my favourite musicals is Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

I first recall hearing it played using a scratched 33rpm record in a music lesson at my secondary school back in the 1970s (showing my age now!) We loved it, and used to sing along to the songs in class.

I'd sort of forgotten about it until the 1990s. One of my daughters came back from a camping holiday with the Brownies. Brown Owl had taken the group to see Joseph, and Hannah loved it too, so I bought her a copy of the music and it was regularly sung about the house. It was shown a few years back at my local theatre, so I took the girls along (twice!) and it was even better live.

At school last Friday our Year 4 teacher retold the story of Joseph with her class as an assembly for the school, and they sang lots of the songs from the show, bringing back happy memories. I was delighted when another member of staff told me that Joseph was being re-staged at The Belgrade, and so booked tickets for the spring.

There are some shows worth experiencing far more than once!