Caribbean Islands, and the Blues

Caribbean island - for wisher includes a turtle at her request.

The Blues has a blues guitarist and a sax, a tribute to Gary Moore and my favourite piece of music "Still got the blues"

JIGGY TIME AGAIN !

I am working on my small jiggy pieces for a swap on ukscrappers. Being a duffus I got the date wrong and panicked because I thought it was posting on 22/02/10 but no! I had written it wrongly on the calendar so I have 4 whole weeks to do the last 2 pieces. Still I am busy as I am working on a scrap book about me, I am incorporating the new monthly scrapping challenge, and hope to collect a year in my life, and turn them into one album.
This piece is MIckey and Friends for sixophone

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