It's Me, Sarah

I don't know why....

I haven't been blogging and I don't know why really!

We are all getting ready to 'chase the tigers' at Haven again when the kids have broken up for the summer.  It should be even better this time because Mum and Geoff are coming with us so Ben and Charlotte are going to love having Nanny and Grandad at their beck and call for a few days.  Also, when Mum and Geoff go back home Mark's sister Sharon is coming up to join us with her daughter Holly.  Mark and I may even get a night out whilst we are on holiday as I am sure someone will kindly babysit for us.

Talking of Sharon, we went to visit her on Saturday and she has bought a gorgeous little puppy called Charlie.  He is a Border Collie / Sheltie and his little face is utterly adorable (I should have taken my camera).  Ben and Charlotte spent a couple of hours playing with him in the garden.  I like him because he is only tiny and will also only grow to knee height - I am not a lover of big dogs, they scare me!

I have been scrapping a lot but it has been for magazine work and the August kit from Bellaboo (which is lovely especially if you have boys!).  I did do this layout this morning that I can share with you.  It shows two pictures of me 20 years apart and DO NOT want you to laugh at my 80's perm!

I used KI Memories papers and lace cardstock.

Summer Fair!

On Friday Ben and Charlotte had the school summer fair - well, I say summer but the rain was so bad it had to be held in the school hall and the bouncy castle was sadly out of action.  Still, Ben and Charlotte enjoyed themselves regardless and I got to have some nice conversations with teachers and parents.  Of course, face painting was on the cards and Ben decided he wanted to be Spiderman which is par for the course, but did he want to be Spiderman with a nice red face?  Um ... No!  Ben wanted to be 'Black Spiderman' - both the teacher doing the face painting and I tried to convince him not to have black paint smeared all over his face but to no avail (she did check whether I had plenty of face wipes at home first lol).  Hence I walked home, in the rain, with a butterfly and a black Spiderman!

We have had a pretty normal weekend.  Ben and Charlotte had their swimming lessons on Saturday morning and the rest of the weekend we just had some family time.  I really hate it when it is raining all the time, it literally puts the dampers on everything.  We are all getting excited about going back the Haven in the 'summer' though and  Ben and Charlotte are asking daily how many days it is until we go (that and how many days til Christmas? and How many days until their respective birthdays? !!).

I am looking forward to Saturday when I will be going to a crop to catch up with some friends :) 

Oh, also Mojo went up on Friday and we were inspired by Shannon Montez.  I created this layout using some photo's of Charlotte's dollshouse which I had already printed out because Charlotte's teacher asked if she could bring some in to show the class.  Apparently she has been telling everyone about her dollshouse - bless her!

Well, my shopping is being delivered any moment and I am housebound today waiting for the man to come and service the boiler!

I'm Not Gonna Lie to you....

...I love this programme:

Tidy!

Quickie

Just a quick post to remind you that the Bellaboo July kit is on sale today.  The design team have come up with some gorgeous projects using this kit so don't forget to check out Liberty's kit newsletter.

Here are the projects I created with this kit (+ an older layout that uses elements that are contained in the kit).