& so it begin's!

Hope you all had a great holiday/christmas with your family/loved ones!!

I will begin & end this christmas album, i have worked all through december upto christmas & back to work again tomorrow, so i have'nt had time this year to do a december daily, but i do intend on doing a christmas album with all my photo's that i have taken!!

{{{hugs n kisses}}}
Sarah xx

Merry Crimbo EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

This is all of us on christmas day {yesturday} its been along time since we were all in a photo together!! but my friend took this photo & as i was trying to get everyone to pose for me on the sofa this was a good opertunity for us all too, nevermind the fact that i have no make up on & we spend the day in our pj's....we all did!!

I took way too many photo's to ever get around to scrapping them all! but hey ho here is a few of my favorite's....starting of with my 3 boys in my life, corey-max, gary & mikey


My girl & my family, chloe & abby my best cousin's, my bestie's little girl who is also my girl's bestie & my girl, kaci


Gary bought me a external flash for my camera for christmas so i took alot of picture's experimenting with it, I SHOULD DO THIS MORE OFTEN!!! ilove to capture the REAL life photo's not always posed ones, kwim? & i love how i capured these two boys doing there thing with technoligy & also how i captured ernie in the middle of them, lol


& then today i took loads more photo's, im really pleased with how i have captured them in these photo's....her infront of the kinect & ernie with his toungue out haha




I also had a uv nail kit from gary & so today i practised using them for the first time...i need alot more practice!!!


To say my house is a mess is a bit of an understatement, we did a bit of a clean today but yeah waiting to do that "after christmas" clean out now!! ...but my kids are well happy & thats all that matter's right now, we are off to see family tomorrow so more photo opertunities!!

I hope you all had a joyus & happy christmas, from us slade's
{{{hugs n kisses}}}
Sarah xx

Its begining to look alot like christmas!!!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS & i get so excited every single year!!!
Im entertaining my mum brother, my cousin & her 2 girl's & my friend & her little girl this year, i think thats why im so excited, i love entertaining & i love christmas

These photo's are all experiment's with my camera of course & these turned out amazing!!!


Saturday i looked after my friends little girl, it was a cold winter's morning & we had cheese toastie's for breakfast with hot chocolate whipped cream & marshmallows & then we all went ice skating, it was a perfect day!


& here are just some of out decorations






This is my hall, you can say i "decked the halls with bails of tinsel" lol


Hope you all having a cozy christmas
{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

I havent done any scrapbooking in over a month!!!

I have just realised, i have not done any card making or anything realatly scrapbooking, unless you want to call creating decorations for kaci's birthday party scrapbooking!!

Tomorrow evening im going to print of her birthday photo's & mikey's birthday photo's & then at least i have them on my desk to get started!

My list of things to do was way long before, now its even longer, christmas is around the corner & i need to start getting prepard for my journal's

i have not even a photo to share but i can say ITS 34 SLEEPS TIL CHISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND we are due snow here too

Merry christmas
Sarah xx

they had great party's!!

It was kaci's birthday on saturday, she had a princess party at home & invited her princess friend's














Mikey wanted to go bowling & then we ate at frankie & bennies & after we went home to his birthday cake, i have other photo's on my phone also i need to upload!




2 birthday's down & 1 to go! then i can concentrate on christmas, yeay

Thanks for stopping by
Sarah xx

birthday celebrations ahead!

& i have made a start on creating birthday decorations for my daughter 9th birthday party


Sorry about that crappy image but i had to take a picture of them before kaci whipped them away to be sent off, so impatient sometimes that girl, well i dont blame her they turned out gorgeous if i do say so myself!! haha

So im all set on these rosette's i have been busy working on too from the ribons & rosettes cartrigde by cricut!!


Loads more in the making & i will try to photo everything before they kids make a mess of it all too as im going to have a house full of girl's the day before for a sleep over, i must be so crazy!!!

Happy days, take care
Sarah xx

My favorite time of year

I love this time of year, when you can feel the season change & i have loads of celebrations to look forward to with ALL 3 of my kids birthday's, a memorial, halloween & christmas, im loving it.

& so with my new cricut mini that i bought a few weeks ago & a few new digital cartridge's that i already had, & i purchased princess party & ribbons & rosette's, late last night & now i cannot stop playing with it, im having loads of idea's, & with kaci's birthday first, im trying to get stuff done now before kaci gets home from school so she dont see, i want it to be a surprise!!



{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

Spread your wings my little butterfly by create & my loot!!!

Hi bird's, i have my latest creation to show you, i am very happy with the way this page turned out as its one of those page's you think about & then it turns out so differently but yet you still love it!


I used my new cricut mini to cut out the fonts & butterfly wings, i used my making memories slice to cut out the square's with the silloette image's


& some close up's


I am finding i am writing straight onto my page's more which i am enjoying even though i still think my handwritting is messy!


I hope you like it too??

I was out doing a bit of retail therapy with my friend on monday & i came acroos alot of jewellery & hair pieces se as "jewellery" i thought maybe i can break it all up & use it on some of my page's or project's!!


Thanks for stopping by
{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

FREEBIE: heidi swapp calender download

Get over to her blog & pick it up! Its really cool, i love calender's & i love creating them but these are all done for you all you have to do is print them off & add the number's!!

http://www.heidiswapp.com/blog/

Here's what i did with mine,






My 3 favorite page's so far


Of course im still adding to it & i have enjoyed putting this together

{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

Cards, i never make cards!!!

I have been feeling very rough with the "man flu" i tell you i thought i was dying, i felt so bad but i been using karvol these last couple of days & covonia & its worked a treat i have been feeling alot better, alough i have wanted to get creative i havent had the energy or mojo to do anything, even my house work has come to a halt, so i decided that i can create some cards as it doesnt involve me moving around great deal, lol









I have some crate paper & embellishments, little boy blue & little bo peep to play with, they are my favorite at the moment!! & as for CHRISTMAS only being 12 weeks away i thought id start on some christmas cards too, using echo park, this paper line has been my favorite these last 2 yrs

{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

I swear i have man flu & they broke my embellishments.

I swear i have man flu or at least i feel like i am dying, all i want to do is sleep!! There was a hoo-da last week in work when a resident came back from hospital with suspected MRSA!!!! {so you can imagine how it seemed when i started getting my flu like symptoms??} But it has since been cleared up that the resident no longer has it & is no longer infectious!!! PHEW!!!

Ok so i did go out with me girlies on saturday night without no coat & just a little strappy dress, the odds are i caught my cold because of no coat, im a divvy!!!

I walked into my scraproom this evening to find the crate paper wooden embellishment "baby" BROKEN IN HALF!!!! & appaerntly nobody did it!! i have NO energy to argue with them tonight at all

{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

How to make your own insta frames

...or i think at least, that is what they are called! haha

Ok so i came across this by accident {isnt that the best way!} & so i needed some images that i cut with my making memories slice, the thing is they had a square around the image too & i usually just lift up the machine off the paper if i dont want this extra image to cut, so this time i left the machine to finish his job & ended up with my carstock left like thi


So i trimmed off any access scrag ends & tided up the cardstock a little, i then cut around 3 of the edges about half a centametre & leaving a centametre on the forth side


& there you have your insta frame, ready for the next project or page


Have a go, you can use any square you have, punch or die cut!

{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

Always giggle using crate paper, little boy blue

Im really loving this "little boy blue" line, it really make's me want to scrap it, as i have 2 boys anyway, they are grown up teenager's now & dont usually want thier photo taken im not usually scrapping them, at the moment it's been all my daughter who is quiet happy to pose for me & even though i did buy the "little bo peep" line too i wanted to get these boy ones out first for a change!!

& what else make's a change for me is that i "usually" cannot scrap unless its in mono order, so this line really is something special as i found some baby picture's of my first born mikey & instantly i wanted to scrap them, this is what i came up with






The journalling read's:
Mikey, mummy didnt scrapbook when you was a baby. I wish i did because i cant remember how old you were here but i love these photo's so much i do remember i was trying to get you to say "cheese" haha But just wanted to pull faces & giggle & laugh x

Thanks for stopping by
{{{hugs}}}
Sarah xx

Back to school page's

I love taking picture's of my kid's when they are all syked up & ready to go back to school & cannot wait to see thier friend's again!! Although i am sad because i will miss them & they are yet another year older, time goes by so fast. Thats why i capture these moment's. Mikey Corey~max Kaci On each page i added some journalling that they wrote themselves about thier first day & i also cut out thier intial using my cricut. Thanks for stopping by {{{hugs}}} Sarah xx