Studio Calico

Here is a page made with the latest Studio Calico goodies.I'm really enjoying this kit and have much more I want to create with it when time allows. I've even broken out my sewing machine once more!!

The secret is out! draft

Here is a clue....



















Some of you may already know, as hopefully your subscriber copy of Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine issue 58, like mine was delivered through your door.


I couldn't rip open the packet quick enough desperate to see in real life the much anticipated "new look" and especially the "new design team".


Now look carefully....do you recognise anyone in the photo??



















Third row...third picture along?? Yes its ME! ( Just DON'T look at how bad those roots are!! ) I am so excited to have been invited to join the team!

I'm looking forward to getting to know the rest of my new team mates. Do check out their blogs....


Laura Buckingham
Jo-Anne Cavanagh
Julie Kirk
Morag Cutts
Charlotte Poole
Chloe Harp
Andrea Gourley
Karen Cole
Helen Miles
Sam Ball
Jen Naulls
Jane Dean
Anne Parry
Mary Anne Walters
Cheryl Johnson
Anita Mundt
Shimelle Laine


I must say a BIG THANK YOU to my good friend JULI who is held totally responsible for my discovery of all things scrap-related 8 years ago!!

Where were you.....

...eight years ago today, Tuesday 11th September 2001?
Growing up I remember my parents talking about "where they were" when significant events happened in the world and how they would never forget. For me this was one of "those" moments.

My husband was getting ready to head off to work for a late shift and I was going to visit my friend Juli, when we heard reports coming through on the lunchtime news that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. We'd been in New York and visited the WTC the year before and couldn't understand why a plane would have crashed into a building that is surrounded by water. Then we learned of the second plane and it sunk in that this was perhaps not an accident afterall.

Juli and I spent the afternoon glued to the television, with the babies, then 3 months old, wondering what would happen next. London was not a place we felt too happy to be.

Eight years on events still feel as unbelieveable as they did that day.