On Saturday it was mine and Nathan's 4-year anniversary! I KNOW. We went to The Deep and it was FANTASTIC. Printed off my favourite snaps and made an anniversary page and an aquarium page using my new Grace Taylor scrapbook kit! The colours are so lovely!

We never did get up to Scarborough on Sunday. The forecast on every site said "heavy rain". Hopefully we'll get at the end of the month/beginning of August... so instead we popped to a garden centre (I don't mind them because they often have nice homewares/craft supplies/food) and I took this photo of an Allium. I had a page spare in my scrapbook so I made a page using the photo.

Happy Monday! 

Spent my morning making this page. I had a picture of Nathan being silly that I really wanted to use... and some close ups of the flowers in the garden... I die cut the photos into circles (to look like bubbles) and layered them up. 

-Papermania Botanicals papers/Vintage Notes bloomers
-Xcut scalloped circle dies
-K&Co borders and tags
-brads, ribbon, iridescent gems, rose charms

Managed to get to Hobbycraft today!

Went to Hull today to go to The Deep. I've been with my fella for four years today and we went on an adventure to celebrate and as always it was so much fun! (Well, apart from the sleeve of my favourite dress spontaneously ripping to shreds... More sewing/improvising to do. Hmph. )

Luckily, Hobbycraft was on the way back to the town centre, so we called in and they had the Papermania Botanicals range! Well, not the ultimate die cut and paper pack, but everything else, so instead I picked up the a4 paper pack and a decoupage pack. Nearly got the goody bag but instead I saw some Grace Taylor scrapbook kits for £5! Couldn't decide which to get... But I loved the colours of this one and picked up some die cuts as well. Then gems were on special offer.... I would have liked a dotted embossing folder but... Always leave something for next time!

So now I'm home and I've got to shower and pack my backpack again ready for going to Scarborough tomorrow! As always, the forecast on one site is totally different from the other. One says rain from 10am, others say sunny all day. But all I want is to feel the sand between my toes and run as fast as I can to the sea. 

Expect lots and lots of scrapbook pages to be added next week! 

And I will have to do the weekend blog hop on Monday! 

Hope everyone's having a good weekend :) xxx

Selling my crafts online!

Hi everyone
I did some research and uploaded a couple things to Coriandr. I'm going to put some more up there but I'm apprehensive that it might not sell (as I posted on docrafts about what site is best to sell on and no one got back to me and I really wanted to know other people's experiences with Coriandr and MISI and Etsy etc..*sniff*) (I assume not many people sell online). But if anyone does have any advice, I'd love to hear it!

I've spent my morning designing and making some memory pockets or mini envelopes or whatever you wanna call them. They were inspired by some designs I saw on Pinterest and I've adapted them to my own design. Took a lot of experimenting, but I think they're really cute!

I couldn't decide between uploading them to Etsy or Ebay; so I've decided on eBay and if not then I'll try Etsy. Or I could make another batch and put them on Etsy and see which set does best.. I don't know :(

Here's the listing...

Might make a few cards now....

xxxx

Got the craft space all sorted! We never used the box room, so we decided to utilise it for crafting! The shelf and chair arrived today so we've put it together and I'm so pleased with how it's all turned out :) 

Also, my docrafts magazine came today. Really disappointed in it, really. Just flicked through it and put it down. And 2/3 of the 'free' gifts are going on eBay... I can't see anyone using the glitter glue unless they have little ones to entertain, and I'm not going to use the Christmas stamps either. Would have liked more of the papers as well..
But, on Thursday my fella is coming to The Range with me so hopefully they;ll have the new Botanicals range in for me to throw my money at...!

Today I was still feeling a bit poorly... then I heard something drop through the letterbox... I wasn't expecting anything... big jiffy bag.... it seems I've won one of the Docrafts magazine competitions! Really cheered me up :) 

Had a look inside and WOW! The kit is so beautiful, everything I need to make nice cards. Just last week I was in despair at having no 'Happy Birthday' sentiments... now I have more than I know what to do with!

AND I've almost finished sorting my craft room out. Just a few more things, and will finish when I get back from the doctors/shopping tomorrow (that's my incentive to go to the doctors, to get to go shopping afterwards! haha) (but I'm a lot better than I was). Will post a picture when it's done!

Hope everyone's having a good week xx