Meet Louis

Meet my new grandson, Louis, born on the 9th February, 2011 at 7.14 p.m., weighing in at 6 lbs. 15 ozs.


Unfortunatly he was born on a Wednesday, and "Wednesday's child is full of woe" seems very appropriate for this photograph.


Both his mummy and daddy are very proud of him ...............



.......... and Grandma is making sure she gets lots of cuddles.

Back to basics

It is long time since I did any knitting, but when Emily was given a new doll by her Uncle David and Aunty Aimee at Xmas, I had to start knitting clothes for her. My good friend Kath loaned me some of her patterns, and Emily decided Lucy would look good in this outfit.


Both Emily and Lucy loved the outfit. In fact Lucy does not want to take the clothes off.

Back to Blogging

It's months since I last blogged - thanks to my camera breaking down, and my grandchildren keeping me busy. Anyway I am back now and hope to blog regularly.

This is a book I made for Katie who was 1 year old in August.

Each page is a little bit longer than the last, thus giving more room for photos and journalling as she gets older and bigger.

This is the first page giving details of her birth and a photo taken by her dad just after she was born.

Each page has labels on it which show her achievements for each month.

Hope you like it.

World's Best Mum

These are two lovely photos of Katie and her Mummy, and I just knew I had to include a heart somewhere, then I remembered some paper doillies I had bought but not used. I also had a square of "mother" themed paper lurking in the stash, which was the colour inspiration.


The punched flowers were left over from another page, but just matched the colours in the photos and the green craft candy finished it off.

Craft Den Workshop

I spent a very relaxing evening doing a workshop with Lynne on Tuesday. We made a handbag card with a card outer covered in some beautiful papers. We decorated the cover with punched flowers with what I call Jellytots, but I think are called Craft Candy. I put a card on the front which I will add some writing to when I know what I am going to use the card for.

The inside of the card was made with five envelopes, each with a card inside on which to write or include photos.

It would make a lovely 50th birthday card, as you could put photos from each decade on each of the cards.

Thanks for another wonderful workshop Lynne.

K-K-Katie

Still trying to use up my stash, and found some pieces of pink papers which went nicely with the background paper, so managed to complete another two pages. The first one shows Katie playing in the paddling pool, one day when it was hot.


I used the Cricut to cut the letters for her name for the second page, and used the cut out K for the first page. I love this photo of her, though she does look quite serious.

All the other smaller photos were cut out of larger ones, which makes it nice to see each little area in detail. Obviously they are all perfect, just like her.

Spotty Dotty

These photos were taken of Katie when she had chicken pox a couple of months ago. Poor little love she was really covered with them.

I like to work in double pages, and the next page shows her studying a flower. I love the look of wonder on her face. As we grow older we often miss the wonder in things around us.

I decided it was time I made a start on using up some of my massive stock of paper, and as I am on holiday at the moment I am trying to get in lots of scrapbooking.