A good day.

The doorbell went mid morning today - it was the florists delivering a single red rose ... for Claire. I went up to give it to her and it didn't take too long for her to guess who it was from and why. She was right! It is the one month anniversary of her going out with Graham. Graham is away in Devon on holiday but had sent her a rose to let her know he'd remembered. She was a very happy girl! In other news, I went to Weight Watchers again today and am happy to report that I've lost another two pounds this week. That brings it to 8 pounds for the 3 weeks I've been doing the diet. I'm very pleased with that and am hoping it continues! Still a long way to go but I've passed my first goal of half a stone; now to reach the next goal of a stone! Have a good evening. xx

Are you fed up yet??

Are you bored with seeing the same layout design yet? I've got another two holiday layouts to share but then I'll try and take a break (or do something different) . These two are also from holidays in Chicago. For those who don't know me that well, Jon's brother and his family moved to Chicago in 1998 and we've been lucky enough to go over to visit them a few times. They have children the same age as ours and they all get on really well, so going to Chicago is an absolute pleasure. In 2006 just Emily and I went. She and Henry get on really well and it turned into a High School Musical feast for them. By the time we left they both knew the words to all the songs and I think they could do all the dance actions as well! Every time I hear High School Musical it reminds me of our time in Chicago. Though having said that, I've just realised that I don't have any photos of them singing or dancing!

The blog prompt for yesterday was: When was the last time you said yes to something new? Share that experience and what you learned with your readers.

I've been sitting here trying to think when the last time was and I honestly don't know. Perhaps when I was asked to teach a few card making classes at a local scrapbook store. I remember being extremely nervous before hand and went through my preparations a number of times but in the end, it went well and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Do you remember when you last said yes to something new?

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And one more ....

Todays Blog prompt : In general, do you prefer to scrapbook with single photos or a group of photos? Share a few of your favourite examples with your blog readers.

I guess I've more or less answered this one in the past few blog posts I've done. I have been enjoying having the time to do some scrapbooking and, as you can see, I've been using numerous photos on a layout. In fact, I have the layout I finished today to share. It's the second of my holiday layouts using the same format as the Chicago one in yesterday's post.



The blue and white in this layout was 1. because I like it and 2. because they're the colours on the Scottish flag :)

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A couple more layouts

My scrapbooking continued over the weekend and with the weather being pretty miserable yesterday it was probably the best thing to do.
I've wanted to do a layout of Claire and Emily as bridesmaids. They had wanted to bridesmaids for ages and finally got the chance when their Aunt Debbie got married last year.

Journaling reads: Claire and Emily finally became Bridesmaids for the first time when Debbie and Dave got married. The run up to the wedding was just as exciting for the girls as they got to choose the material for the dresses and find shoes and accessories .They had dress fittings at Deborah’s house and attended the kitchen tea at Angie’s. Claire came to do their hair on the morning of the wedding and they got dressed at the Effingham Park hotel. It was a beautiful day and one they’ll always remember (especially seeing as it was on Emily’s 11th birthday!) 29 September 2007

The next layout was made because I was looking through the photos from our trip to Chicago in 2001 and they made me smile so much. I liked so many of them and couldn't decide which to use for a LO for my general album so I decided to use lots and this is the result.

I love the way it turned out and have now decided to go through photos of previous holidays and use the same layout again. I thought I could have an album of holidays and each holiday would have a two page spread. I tend to make a mini album of the holidays as well but this would be holidays at a glance.

Let me know what you think.

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