times are hard!

I have made a decision not to buy anymore craft stuff - I have way too much. As the result of being a chronic hoarder, I buy new bits all the time and so much is left unused and stored all over the house. Because of family circumstances I dont have a craft room at present, so now is a good time to get my stash down to a managable level.
However I did do this weeks challenge on UKScrappers, as a digital layout on Scrapblog. Also I have to make 2 spidermen and 1 fantastic Mr Fox mask by thursday - or I lose Grandma status!

Happy New Year

I thought about resolutions but i only want to improve my crafting. I wish everyone a great new year.
I hope that this year will be a good one, althought the snow is a really bad start. I love it when it first comes and everywhere is white and clean, but once the snow turns to ice i am soo over it.
i am making an effort to scan lots of my fathers old papers. He was a soldier when he was young and an athlete. My mother discovered some very old newspaper clippings and his old army pay book after he died. I used that last year to claim his medals for her, this year i want too scan the papers and them she can give them to my brother with his medals and i will still have a copy. I hope that they can be passed on down the family.
The document above was from when he served in India. I like that oone of the subjects in his examination was Army and Empire, if i had known this paper exsisted when he was alive i would have loved to ask him what else they did there. I know he spoke some words of urdu that he learned there, but not much else.

Getting ready for New Year.

I used the pencillines sketch 115 for this Layout it is just a collection of family photos, my mum, my grandchildren,daughter and the the dog all caught in the party mood. The Title is "Young and old we love a Party" because we do! I wanted to enter it in the Craft Garden challenge, i found it through a link in the UKScrappers site.

Getting ready for

Getting ready for

Happy Christmas to everyone!

Had a very nice break in Scotland and even though the trains were awful - why cant we cope with bad weather?- It was a lovely time. I gave my cousin her album and it was well received.
I have done this weeks challenge for the uks and here it is. I wish everyone a fabulous christmas and a wonderful new year.

Halloween is Fun!

I have added a little Halloween Scrap blog at the bottom of the page just for fun :)