2010....

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE......

Was going to be staying home with the kids as Allan is away but we ended up round at Libby's friend Charley's house for tea and stayed for the bells.... Had a very chilled and relaxed evening... Of to a party at my brothers in the afternooon and then round to Jen and Pete's for tea so all in all a very good Hogmany after I thought it would be quiet...lol....

Thank you to everyone who has left a comment or become a follower of my little blog - it is very much appreciated and I looke forward to catching up with you all over the year to come....x

OH YES...

I forgot to say I have added a 365 Calendar bloglist to my sidebar so I can keep up with all your wonderful creations - if you can't see yourself on it give me shout and I will added you to it- I was going by Kate's list on her blog but I was confusing myself going back and forward between the two blogs (not hard to do I know!!!!)....x

SOUL JOURNAL....

At long last - another journal page, have been so busy the last couple of months that this kinda fell by the wayside but after doing the calendar pages I am fired up with new enthusiasm for it... Watch this space...

This is my Soul Armour and I am following some daily prompts that I printed out a while back from Caspiana aka Sarah Whitemire.... I am also going to try out some techniques from the wonderful Teesha Moore and of course all this came about after attending the Art Journal Workshop at Scrap Attack 09 with the brilliant Dyan from Art From The Heart.

The one thing I do keep forgetting to do though is photograph the stages and this one was pretty far on before I remembered..... I used the Tim Holtz method of rubbing two different coloured distress ink pads on the heat mat and spritzing with water, then laying your page over to transfer the colour..... one of my favourites so far...

I then found the great suit of armour on a website highlighted by Sarah in her prompts pages.... added a flourish up the side using a Stamping Up roller stamp and ink and some stickles to highlight the dots and flowers on it.....

And that's about it apart from adding a couple of words which I am definitely going to try harder at this year....lol...

BACKGROUND CHANGE (AGAIN)...

I have also decided to swap my Christmas background for a normal one again and as I really wanted one with the vintage notepaper look I decided on this one... Hope you likey!!!!

STICK FAMILY...

I have added the pets since Tammy was asking about them... Although technically Robbie-Ray is a hamster and not a rabbit (no hamster pictures) and the fish are called Socks and Pants, only Pants didn't fit in the dialogue line...lol...x

Oooh, Only just remembered to post that it is my doggie's birthday today and he is the ripe old age of 14.... Happy Birthday Haggis old man....

I keep getting sad about him cos he is old and we lost our other westie Charlie about 2 years ago suddenly and I still think about him a lot... Haggis is blind now and probably has bronchitis and it's quite scary how he has suddenly aged in the last 3 to 4 months...

BLOG CANDY TO BE WON....

Hop on over to here to Tracie's blog - The life and times of a 12x12 addict to win some lovely blog candy... it's very cute....

MY FAMILY....

Thought I would move my little family to the top of the page cos nobody ever goes to the bottom do they and they are just too cute to miss out on...lol...x

2010 365 CALENDAR CHALLENGE...

I have decided to take part in this fun challenge from The Kathryn Wheel. I have almost completed the first month in readiness for some mini journalling starting on Friday....x

I am also hoping that Sonja will take part and keep me company and keep me motivated to complete it (no pressure there then...lol...)...x

PS - Can anyone tell me why when you double click on my photos they don't enlarge... What am I doing wrong when I either save or upload them????

PPS Did you have a wee look at my little family at the very bottom of the page.....x

OOOPS... ALMOST FORGOT...

Ooops... I almost forgot to show you the lovely parcel (hand picked and ordered by myself of course) that I received from Allan....lol...x

6AM... RISE AND SHINE....

Well that was a bit of a shock to the system... getting up at 6am to take Allan into the heliport... we were going round Danestone Tesco by about 7.40am... was very quiet. Got to the tills though and there was only one check-out operator on-typical!!! So all in all it's been a very long morning....can't believe it's only 11.30am...

Christmas Day was fab - Morgan nearly caught us sorting stockings and parcels at about 12.30 but I think he was still asleep when he came down...lol...

This is them before going of to bed on Christmas Eve....

This is Niamh with the snowflake costume she was convinced she was getting to keep after the nursery nativity - I actually got the lady to make an extra one for her and she was delighted with it!!!

And this is her looking for that last elusive parcel.....

This is Morgan with his DJ Hero....

And Libby with her Goldigga jeans (now she is just like her big cousin Kelly who is 22 in February)...
This is Ellie with said cousin Kelly...
And here is a rare photo of me (with Ellie)... And last but not least it's the boys (Allan and Pete) after having their hair styled by the girls, verrrry nice guys!!!!!

CHRISTMAS EVE....

Well here we are guys... It' Christmas Eve.... all the presents are wrapped (well almost all), the cards are sent (not by me I'm afraid), all the animals are freshly laundered, the turkey is just waiting to go into the oven and tonight's gonna be a good, good night.... Ellie has her last panto performance of the season at 7pm and we are all going to watch from the front row - The Cook Family, The Moultrie Family and The Adie Family... Can't wait, then it will be home to bed to hang the stockings and prepare the vegetables for tomorrow, Allan will be doing that - he is the chief veggie peeler and chopper in this house and fingers crossed for the rest of the day that he doesn't get a phonecall to go offshore cos I hate peeling spuds (only joking honey)!!!!! Ellie has loved being in panto again this year and I hope she goes on to do it again, it's a wonderful experience for her (and she gets paid for it too which is always an added bonus)

Yesterday I went into Aberdeen with Audrey, my sister-in-law. We split up and then met up again for lunch. I had a very enjoyable last minute mooch around the shops. Went to Next and they were giving away all the giant Christmas decorations from the window, unfortunately they had none left by the time I had finished shopping - I would have loved one of those....

Have a Very Merry Christmas everyone and I hope Santa is good to you all!!!!

MORE CHRISTMAS PARTIES AND A VIST FROM SANTA...

Here are the pictures of Niamh before going to her nursery Christmas party... she has a scowl on her face because she didn't want to wear the sparkly tights 'because they itch'... she drives me mad with this... every day is a constant battle trying to get her into clothes that don't itch or the socks that sit 'just right' when she puts her boots on!!!

The only one I didn't manage to get a photo of in his party gear was Morgan and that's because he took his stuff to school and changed there... I did however hear good reports from a parent council member that his table of boys was very well behaved unlike some.... so well done boys!!!

Anyway they had a lovely time at the party and I was there helping out... Santa came and I was worried in case she didn't want to go up but she was absolutely fine with it as you can see...

Sorry the photos are a bit rubbish... I don't have the best camera (and even if I did I wouldn't be able to use it...lol...) and the lighting in the hall at school is pretty awful for photos....

Ellie is of to panto again this afternoon and I am trying (really trying) to get the kids to tidy their rooms out... even the threat of cancelling Christmas isn't helping... Going to try and get them into bed early tonight so I can get some wrapping and sorting of presents done.... Still got a few stocking fillers to get...x