Rose lemonade!

Rose lemonade is my favourite drink... but it's incredibly hard to find! I hoped I could find some in London... looked everywhere... Selfridges....sweet shops... had just about given up when went into 'Little Waitrose' in King's Cross station to get a sandwich...  there it was! Got a couple bottles. That was a week go and I've not touched them... because I know it'll be months before I find another bottle! (Fentimans, if you're reading this, please get stores in Doncaster to sell this. I will buy it all.)

Papermania Capsule Greens backing paper, die cut & glitter flowers

Webster's Pages paper

Dovecraft doilies

Papermania Bellissima embellishment & notelet

Santoro brad

Papermania Vintage Notes bloomers

Cath Kidston needle case (upcycled!) 

The Works cameo

Grace Taylor embellishments

Hello! It's been a week or so since I last posted...

On Tuesday we went to London for a day! It was so much fun and flew by. (Scrapbook pages to follow next week!). 

On the bus into town that day to get the train I heard some kids saying 'have you got a sore throat too' 'yeah', so obviously I caught something and spent yesterday feeling poorly and it was horrible and I was so frustrated because I couldn't do anything... Luckily, Nathan came round for a bit to make me feel better. (I didn't ask, he insisted, even though I told him not to because I felt such a mess!) Feeling a lot better now though but getting my appetite back wouldn't go amiss.... There is cake from Betty's Tea Rooms (courtesy of Nathan's mum) sitting on my desk right now and I don't feel like eating it. Hmph

Anyway

I dedicated this morning to getting some scrapbooking done. I've been in a dilemma because my scrapbook has page dividers stuck throughout and they can't be moved so I had one page - divider - another page before I had another double page spread and I've been stuck for something to stick on the single pages. 

So I had a rummage through my pictures folder and found this photo of Nathan modelling the scarf I knitted for him. For some reason I always end up surrounding such photos with flowers and butterflies... but they match the colour scheme. And purple is his favourite colour.

Papers - Mambi/Webster's pages/Papermania Bellissima/Papermania spots and stripes/Aspire crafts

K&Co flora & fauna border/embellishments

The Works embellishments

Papermania chronology die cut

Going to Festival of the Plough in Epworth tomorrow (because there's a craft fair and fluffy chickens) so maybe I'll get a scrapbook page or two from that as well!

Knitted myself a hat!

Now the tops of my ears won't get cold in winter!

Scrapbook pages using photos from our day in Scarborough last month!

It seems so long ago now... It was such a lovely day (bit chilly mind)... but I took my camera and got some lovely photos of the beach and bay (and of course the customary selfie...haha)

(My dad came home with a new printer last week and this is the first time I've printed photos with it. Prints really fast and the quality is phenomenal!)

Nitwit seaside papers and embellishments (free with scrapbook magazine)
American Crafts 'Atlantic' papers
Papermania green paper, pastel die cuts, 'All Aboard' alphabet, 'Alice' alphabet die
Tilda decoupage stickers (been dying to use these for MONTHS!)
K&Co chipboard embellishments

Manchester MCM scrapbook pages!

So a few weeks ago we went to Manchester for Comic-Con.

I kept the first page much brighter than the second, though they share a lovely balloon theme.

The first page features one of my favourite pictures ever. A professional photographer asked to take some photos of Sam and Nathan in their steampunk attire and then offered to take one of the three of us together using my camera. 

I wanted to keep this page fun because of how much we enjoyed the weekend. Put the train tickets there too because the conductor was cool and punched our tickets with a teddy-bear punch... made me smile!

I cut out bits of the balloon paper so it overlaps the photo a bit to bring the page together.

Papers: Webster's pages (balloons) and Grace Taylor 'Parisian Chic' scrapbook kit (embellishments are from this too)

Gorjuss memory pockets

This second page features the best photo I took from the weekend and my steampunk shoot with the guys. (Sam had made steampunk guns by painting Nerf guns and they looked really cool!)

I wanted to use just one photo here because often I use three or four and I want to start focusing more on layouts. On that trip I went to Fred Aldhous and picked up some K&Co goodies and told myself I'd use the clock hands for this page... and I remembered!

Papers: Curiousity Corner/Gorjuss

Black lace

Papermania Chronology papers cut with hexagon die, plus Chronology decoupage and embellishments and Madame Payraud sticker

K&Co clock hands (from Flora & Fauna borders set)

Other embellishments from The Works

Hope everyone's having a good weekend!

Bit shocked!

Yesterday I messaged docrafts saying 'hey your website still won't let me on the members area even though it's said the problem had been fixed', so they fixed it and asked for my address so they could send me something as a 'sorry'. I expected a pack of stickers or something...! This is from the new range that isn't even out yet, too. 

Started knitting a scarf!

Its for my boyfriend, because it wanted a new knitting project and I don't want him being cold while we're waiting for the train to uni in winter. It's only the third thing I've ever made and I found a really cool pattern :) Hopefully I can get it finished before it starts getting colder!