I'm in the blogging mood!

Well because I have such a bumper crop of Lo's to share.. here are two more.. one I did last weekend too (at the Green Buttons retreat) and one I did at the crop I went to a little earlier in the month.


Here is one of my DH showing his love of gardening.. rain do NOT stop play!

and here is another wedding LO of my DIL getting ready for the big day.

Productive weekend

Well... after saying my mojo is back in my last post .. it well and truly is! I've been so busy scrapping I haven't had time to blog about it!

This month has seen a MASSIVE leap in production... I've done 23 LO's and two CJ pages so far.. and I'm off on a retreat again next weekend so I have no doubt there'll be even more LOs completed.. although I am hoping to try some new techniques there.. so maybe not as many as 18 that I completed last weekend on the Green Buttons Retreat at Harborne Hall, Birmingham that I went on with a group of girls from UKS.

With so many LO's to choose from I am only featuring a couple of LO's here.. just my favourites.

The first one I was particularly proud of as I was, admittedly, scraplifting a digi LO. I don't know about you but I always find it hard to scraplift digis. Anyway.. here is my first LO. A picture of my eldest son when he was just a toddler. I used a dabber with white paint for the cloud, then cut the moon and added lots of stars and then, my piece de-resistance.. I hand cut the little sheep and added that. I was so pleased with it. ...I didn't know I had it in me...lol 

The second LO here.. was made at a crop I went to early in the month and it is of my Daughter in Laws wedding dress and shoes taken on the day of her and my eldest sons wedding back in June. .. yes the same little boy in the first LO.. my how he's grown. I called the LO 'Perfect' because her choice of dress and shoes was just that.perfect for her tiny frame and lovely features. She's is such a lovely girl I'm lucky to have her as my DIL.

I have no doubt I'll be adding more from my bumper crop of LOs over the coming weeks but first I have to find time to blog about them! Hope you enjoy!

My scrapping mojo is back!

After almost a month of being too busy to scrap..yesterday I finally found time to rediscover my Mojo! Hurrah I hear you say! She's back!

Well here I am having completed two CJ pages yesterday and three layouts.. I am really rather pleased with the end results. At this stage I can't share the CJ pages or one of the LOs but here are the other two. I'm happy to have my mojo back!

The first os a LO based on a holiday in 2000 to Seville to celebrate my Mums 70th birthday and the second is a Pumpkin patch that I saw in a Victorian walled garden in Guernsey last autumn. 

Thanks for looking. 

Too long since my last post

Forgive me crafters for I have sinned.. it's been 4 long weeks since my last blog! After saying my Hail Mary's I will begin with the excuses! I've been crazily busy with the preparations for opening my B & B and that has stopped me from doing any crafting.. well nearly!

I have had my first two paying guests and they both went well... both were very complimentary and wrote nice visitors messages in my book.. so it looks as though I've pitched it right on the style/service front! Phew!

I've also just got back from a few days in the Lake District... I took my 83 year old Mum with me so I wasn't able to do any walking as she needs assistance these days so I was her companion while my husband went walking the mountains!

Anyway as I said I have very little in the way of crafting to share with you so I thought I'd share the stash  I managed to find on my little holiday... I found a shop called The Paper Warehouse... (which sounded more impressive than it actually was) and I did manage to find a few goodies. I have been trying to build up my collection of nesting punches recently so I managed to find some Xcut scalloped ovals.. (coming soon to a LO near you!) and some papers and card that may help me with my sons wedding album including some lush glittery embossed white card and three double sided papers that caught my eye.. Teal is SUCH a difficult colour to find in the right shade so I bought some card that I hope may make a few elements to accent the colour scheme on my LO's. .. along with some pins and some more tags too. There are a few basic things in there too, like mounting pads, tape etc and I bought a new plastic storage box to keep my ever growing collection of washi tape in.. I bought 4 more rolls while I was away too..but I haven't rescued them from the bottom of my suitcase yet!

As I'm off to the first of two cropping retreats in three weeks time, I am going to spend some time in my craft room this weekend sorting my stash, new and old, and doing a couple of LO's as I need to catch up with some challenges that I have missed.

I hope you all have a lovely crafting weekend (as I plan to do) before getting back to work on Monday. BTW.. I gave my notice in! However, they wouldn't take it, so I have agreed to drop down to a three day week and do less B & B than originally planned. Watch this space for more news!

Rock Your World Friday

I've rocked on over from Virginias Blog to share with you

Well this week it has been a real challenge to think of some good things.. we've had some upsetting private family news that rocked our world..not in a good way.

Then my extended family seem to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick and thought I was interfering when I really wasn't! I am, however, grateful for the support my immediate family have given me so, Mwah, Mwah! to them.

Then I am so busy at work that I'm not sure what way is up.. but that can be a blessing too so that doesn't really count does it?

The most exciting and momentous thing that has happened this week is that I have decided to open up my house as Bed and Breakfast accommodation... and I am going to have to leave my job, so for that I'm grateful. (Some of you know I had a stress related stroke last year and that will take the pressure off) 

We're currently redecorating the rooms we will use and my dear husband has everything under control.. so for that I'm also grateful.. it'll cost quite a lot to set it up though.. so that's not so good! You have no idea how expensive Public Liability is? but on the whole it's exciting.. and for that I'm grateful.

I am shopping for all sorts of exciting new goodies, crockery, bed linen, BEDS!, pictures etc so that's exciting.. and I'm VERY grateful for delivery drivers! lol

I am also grateful for the area I live in as we are surrounded by National Trust and Historic properties - here is a selection-

This is Chartwell in Westerham.. home of Winston Churchill for 40 years

This is Knole House in Sevenoaks - the home of Vita Sackville West and home to the last remaining medieval herd of Red Deer in Kent

This is the beautiful Penshurst Pace, that has amazing gardens and is right on my doorstep to the south

 and this is Chiddingstone Castle which is literally within a 30 minute walk from my front door... it is so beautiful and they have some fascinating exhibitions there.

These amazing properties (and many more locally) are a magnet for weekenders and people looking for a rural retreat.. so hopefully my business will take off... so if anyone wants an idyllic country cottage weekend away.. I'm your girl! 

That's about it for this week.. but its all fairly momentous so I think that'll keep me going for now. Here's my cottage if you're interested...maybe internal pictures will follow next week if we get on well enough.

Have a good week everyone. 

WOYWW 1st timer

Well.. Here is a peek at what's on my workdesk! I've never joined in this blog before but thought it was about time as I've been looking at all your fabulous workspaces and, although mine is far smaller than some of yours it is my little space of heaven regardless.

Today you can see the start of a circle journal double LO that I'm working on. The theme is 'Your favourite time of Year' so I am doing summer. I have started with some pink cardstock and have so far cut out a series of circular photos of roses in my garden that I will be adding on top of a doily. TBH it isn't going as well as I'd like so it's been a bit abandoned so I may go back to the drawing board and rethink it but I'm not sure yet.

I'll be back to work today so I shan't get it finished for a while anyway.

I'm off for a blog hop to have a look at all your other work desks now. Have a good day all

Use up your scraps

A very quick blog for me today as I'm off to work momentarily...

I was inspired by two things for this LO.. on the CKCB blog it asked you to use up some scraps- not from your kit.. well I used two tiny scraps from my kit and also scraps of washi tape (??) hope that counts?

Also over on UKS- the weekly challenge was to leave at least 50% white space and use die cuts and stitching. (Mine's faux but that was within the rules- so no worries)

Here is my LO using all the elements for both challenges... be back later! Thanks for looking!

A quick LO from me today

I had very little time to make a LO today (I've finally got my son moved out and into his new home) yet I was very keen to complete the August House Challenge on UKS( UK Scrappers). This is to take inspiration from another LO in the UKS gallery and scraplift it.

This was my inspiration from UKS member Daisychain... isn't is gorgeous?








Then of course, I wanted to start scrapping my sons wedding- finally! I've been a bit scared to get started as the photos are so special to me... and I didn't want to get it wrong.. then I just decided to bite the bullet and get going anyway.. and if it didn't 'make the cut' for the final album.. then so be it.

So here goes.. here is my take on this lovely LO

I wanted to make it as close as possible to the original..but I fell at the first hurdle.. the photo I had printed was much larger so I had to 'upscale' everything. I started with a biscuit tin lid and added teal ink around the edge- stamped two overlapping rings- and took an inky sponge and wiped it in lines across the (slightly sparkly) background card stock. I added a page of Kaisercraft Chapter One embossed paper and toned it down with more of the teal ink. I then added a layer of lace and a punched border, adhered the photo and added the bird cage, flower spacer beads, pearls and stocking flowers. I finished with the title, which I then added more pearls to in order to lift it a little.



I hope you like.. please add comments as it's great to get feedback and then I'll decide if it's going to make the cut or not.  Thanks for looking.

Rocking your world Friday & CKCB LO's

This week I cannot compete with the sheer no. of photographs that Virginia has on her RYWF blog but I still have lots to be grateful for!

Saturday was a great day for me as I went  (as I usually do on the first Saturday of each month) to a crop in Golden Green, Near Tonbridge in Kent and created 4 LO's using my August Counterfeit Kit 

I have already shared two with you this week, but here are the other two so you can see the diversity of colours and styles that you can get out of one set of random papers.

This is a LO about when my DS and DH went to try on their suits for my other sons wedding in June. I couldn't go, so I had to make do with this photo that was sent to me by said DS who sent it to me by text. I wasn't expecting it, and when I opened it.. I just burst into tears! Emotions are a funny thing aren't they? 

and here is the final LO.. of my dogs one crisp spring morning earlier this year.. not a tear in sight! lol

Then on Sunday I had a lovely day relaxing and chatting with family and very little else.

Monday to Thursday I was back at work with a vengeance..boy was I busy- which is a good thing in my line of business! I am in sales and the housing market has, unsurprisingly, been in the doldrums in the last few years. This week however, everyone seems to have woken up and I have sold 7 houses! Happy days.. I may FINALLY earn some commission. I haven't been this busy in 5 years! Hooray!

On Wednesday evening I went to another crop and I made this LO.... but to be happy, although I love the Teresa Collins Far Away papers, I think my photos are a bit lost on it, so I'm not sure if I won't go back to the drawing board with it.. what do you think? 

Then last night I went to my sons house to help him start moving his stuff in there. Him and his new wife have been lodging with us since March while they do their house us.. and the light is finally at the end of the tunnel and the carpet went down yesterday. They are just waiting for their boiler to be connected and they will have hot water so they can actually move in.. they (and I) can't wait. I have loved every minute of having them here..but there's nothing like having your own space is there? Then it'll be just me, DH and the dogs again..maybe I can take back control of the remote again (my son had stolen it!)

So that's my week.. I'm off out today for lunch with a friend and then I will be home for a crafty hour or two to round off the day. I hope you all have/had a great week too.

2nd August forgery

Here is my latest LO from Saturdays crop using the August Counterfeit Kit.

The story of the LO is a good one... and it's what Scrapbooking is all about.. recording everyday events!

Back in May you may remember we held a pre-wedding garden party in honour of my DS and now DILs wedding in June. We invited many family and friends and the day was glorious..the first decent day of summer shone down on us..but... in typical English fashion... the evenings turned cold in the spring air and my dear Mum (who's 83) was getting decidedly colder and colder. So, my DS went and got his coat for her to wear but as the evening wore on she got colder still and we went and got a blanket for her so we could watch the sun set from the end of our garden.. as you can see by the shadows on the photos. She was determined to sit it out until the sun went down. then my DS2 and she got the giggles and I managed to take this lovely series of photos of them both..it was such a special day!

I made this LO on Saturday but on Sunday I noticed that the latest challenge on the CKCB blog was to incorporate something hidden so I have managed to slip some journalling in about the story of the day and this event behind the middle photograph with a concealed tag... I love these photos and couldn't wait to scrap them.

1st August Master Forgery

Here is my first forgery from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog

I had a day at a crop yesterday and made 4 LO's with the kit and I still have loads left. I thought today I would spend loading them here but sadly life took over, as it often has a habit of doing, and I ended up spending far too much time doing mundane things like cooking and cleaning!

Anyway here is the first LO I made so I will add the rest in order of how I made them at the crop.. thay will follow as soon as I have a chance to upload them. I hope everyone else spent time enjoying themselves rather than having a weekend like mine.

I used the reverse of a patterned pice of paper to start then a piece of pink card-stock as the mount to the photos and used 4 of the project life style cards as the banners and the title and then mounted the photos on too. I then made  tow washi taps fans and the 5 quilled flowers (truthfully I had been going to make loads and loads more, but I got a bit bored) so I reverted to buttons for the rest of the embellishments with bakers twine through them and added two pink brads, one that I used to secure the bronze birdcage charm that you can just about see at the bottom right of the picture. (As you can tell I'm still working on better photographs with my iPad whilst my good camera is out of action). I'll keep trying I promise! 

Catch a Falling Star

Here is my take on this months Counterfeit Kit ..The Confidence Kit.

When I first saw this the colours that seemed to jump out at me were turquoise, brown and a hint of pink with some sand and beige. This was great as I had earlier seen a lovely LO in turquoise and pink and it wasn't a colour combination I had used before and I had decided I really wanted to... so this was the inspiration for my kit that I have called 'Catch a Falling Star'. 

Here is the original- found over at CKCB that I blogged about earlier today. 

First I started with selecting the card-stock in the colours mentioned above and then I chose all of the papers to co-ordinate... I had a ball choosing the papers and found some co-ordinating Project Life style cards.. one with 'Catch a Falling Star' on it. Then I found some brown and sand camera and globe stickers and thought that these went well with everything else along with the alphas in cream and turquoise with pink and brown chipboard alphas too.

Here is my take on the kit 

I then included ink pads, brown bloomer ribbon, pink and blue brads, pinky brown buttons, pink and blue bakers twine and a number of other embellishments here with some wooden words, some pink chips and pink and blue paper clips in the shape of an aeroplane finished off with a couple of bronze charms amongst others. 

I'm off to a crop tomorrow so I am looking forward to using this lush kit!

Rocking Your World Friday.. on a Friday!

I am celebrating my online friends this week! I consider myself very fortunate that I have some good virtual friends around me.. none more so than my team on UKS!

I had some very unexpected, but exciting, news on Sunday which I shared with them..and they were thrilled for me. More news on that in the future. 

Then my week went steadily downhill... work is getting me down a bit- but you have to get on with it don't you? So once again I turned to my team and shared the pain.. and they all chipped in with some encouragement.. and told me of their work pain they had been going through.. which made mine seem so insignificant in comparison.. so for that I'm grateful. 

Then I was chosen as one of the Fab Five in the CKCB blog for my choice of Counterfeit kits .. and I was thrilled. I am steadily getting to know the CKCB group and there are some fab designers over there.. so please hop on over and have a look. 

Then I asked to join an online sketch challenge group too.. and they said yes.. so here is my latest Lo for that... please forgive the photography- I used my iPad as my DSLR is currently broken and it looks all wonky- but it isn't honestly! 

Now I'm off to look at the August CKCB to get my kit together as I'm off on a crop tomorrow.. I'm so looking forward to it. 

Rocking your world Friday

On a Saturday! Lol- this is why I'm late

Well yesterday was spent (for once) with my gorgeous DH.. We went out and spent the whole day together (before he had to go on to nights) .. I may have mentioned he's a firefighter?

We started off going out for breakfast to a local farm shop...I had an all day breakfast! Yum! Their sausages are to die for so I came home with some of those! Blew the diet.. again! 

Then we went for a drive.. (we're thinking of moving so we're exploring new places).. Stopping at a really pretty pub for a drink as it was a gorgeous day.

Then we explored a little more and stopped in to see my SIL & BIL for tea and a catch up..very civilised.. Then home to wave DH off.

There are very uncertain times for him in his job with all the cuts to public services and his station if closing down so he's waiting to hear if he gets to keep his job or gets a transfer to another station.. And if so..where? Here's a LO of him that I scrapped recently

and one of my DS2..  who's also a firefighter... and whose station is also closing down.. so very uncertain times for him too.

he's coming to visit us this weekend and we don't get to see nearly enough of him.. so I'm super excited and can't wait for Sunday when I get to see him... and here is one of them both together in uniform.. two peas on a pod! lol 

Last weekend you may remember I spent several hours choosing the photos to print and scrap and those to go straight into a printed photo book? Well they all arrived this week.. Two photo books and 200 prints! The books were amazing.. So perfect ..one as a mini brag book to keep in my handbag and the other a beautiful leather bound affair. However the prints were terrible! The colours were all wrong.. The teal was turquoise and they were so bleached out.. Very wrong indeed! However, a quick online 'chat' with a customer advisor soon sorted it out and I have a new set on the way.. Then the scrapping begins!

Then I joined in my very first blog hop.. over on The Counterfeit Kit Challenge.. please see the information in my earlier blog.. below. 

All in all a satisfactory and mostly good week to be grateful for...hope yours was too!

So they're the highlights of the week.. The only LOs I was been able to complete fresh this week (other than my blog hop ones) is one for a challenge that I can't share yet so hence uploading some older ones... the next challenge is taking straight photos of my LO's.. I'm getting better but these were taken a while ago.

Have a good week all!

Counterfeit Kit Blog Scraplift a Master Forger

Hi there

I am super excited to take part in my first EVER blog hop.. I have never done this before so all being well you should have arrived here by way of Milissa here and you will be part way through your adventure of seeing what everyone else is up to.

As you know by now we were tasked with taking some inspiration from one of the Master Forgers blogs and I chose this one for mine from Ashleys Blog over here

.....of course.. mine is very different but I hope you will find it to be recognisable from Ashleys.

I loved her delicate colouring and layering and I do love banners and needless to say- they're still right on trend- so although I have used very different colours.. I have emulated those lovely banners too and mounted each one on co-ordinating card stock. I then added the 'punch outs' from my Martha Stewart Fan punch to make the spray and added little aqua gems for droplets. 

I then used a Stampin' Up stamp for the rosette beside the photos and I was just about done... how cute is this little tot (my cousins first grandchild) ???

THEN... 'cos I don't know when to stop crafting and I lose all track of time.. and mostly because I was so inspired by the Master Forgers blogs.. I created a second LO! 

This time I was inspired by Lesleys blog here and chose this wonderful LO....

So I created this LO here.. which co-incidentally (!) also complies with Challenge No 3 and encouraged me to Scrap about my favourite place in the world- which in my case is my home.. so here is mine!

I took pleasure is using a few little scraps of paper and some washi and I then cut out the lettering for the title with my Slice, added flags and a wooden house, inked with a teal Dew Drop ink pad and then added some gems to the entire background and finished off with a flourish of bakers twine. 

I hope you've enjoyed my efforts so thanks for stopping by... and now you should hop over to Dawns blog here 

 Don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you were here and happy hopping!"

The full blog hop list will be published on the CKCB blog so if you get lost along the way, head over there to find your way back onto the hop.

Scrap a sketch challenge.

Yesterday was quite a productive day as far as scrapping was concerned.. (Although that pile of ironing is still there)... lol

I was inspired by Sues Scrap a sketch challenge and created a layout that is my take on it

Here is the sketch that kick started my creativity

And here is Sues take on it.

As you can see I have switched the rectangles for hexagons and altered the number of photos but I think you can see the basis of the original sketch here.

The occasion of my photos for the LO was the day my (then) future Daughter in Law and I sat down and made 100 wedding favours for her and my sons wedding in June this year. We had decided to have wine glass charms as the favours and we ordered beads, pearls and charms to thread on to the rings. As our surname is King the wedding had a royal theme and each charm had a crown on it. The men had crown charms and the ladies had hearts with crown stamped on them. We had a bit of a giggle making them and it was a lovely opportunity to bond with her. After we had made them we put them all in tiny organza bags with a little message thanking them for joining in their celebration. I have included a wine glass charm and the paper message on the LO in addition to adding the actual charms as embellishments.

These photos bought back some happy memories of that day as we had such a nice time.

Thanks Sue for setting this challenge... can't wait for next months now.

Super excited!

Yee ha! I'm in.. what??!?? I hear you say!

Well yesterday I heard that I am to join in my very first blog hop over at the Counterfeit Kit Blog Challenge.

We go live at 7am GMT on Wednesday 24th of July... and I'm so pleased to be taking part!!

I have my LO all done just ready to share with you guys.. but to give you a flavour of what is to come.. here's a sneak peek

So pop it in your diary.. and make sure you pop by on Wednesday to say Hi!... I'm looking forward to seeing you!

Rocking Your World Friday

Hey all.. well here is my Rocking Your World Friday post.

I can't compete with Virginias naked chef (!) but I've just read Suzy and Sues blog and I am happy to report that my week went like this.

Needless to say it's been very, very hot.. so last weekend I stayed very close to home and stayed in my cottage with it's 400 year old, 2' thick walls.... where it was a very civilised temperature. I dragged some of my craft stuff down from my SCORCHIO craft room (it's south facing and has the only big window in the house) and created this LO of my youngest son and his, very lovely, GF.

The rest of the week was spent in a greenhouse (aka office) where we have glass on three sides and it was sweltering.. I was very grateful for my fan and the girls I work with who let me have their fans when I am having my own 'personal summer' moments...lol.

I also had a 3 hour appraisal on Tuesday and I'm glad to say it went very well! Phew.. I even got a small pay rise! Hurrah!

I got stuck in a traffic jam on Weds for 2 and a half hours and I have never been so grateful for air conditioning! In the evening things improved though and I went to a local crop and made this LO for this weeks UKS challenge. It's called.. Wanna Know What Love Is? and is a homage to my wonderful husband of 33 years.. for whom I am also grateful.

Then last night.. knowing I had a three day weekend ahead of me- I decided to download 928 photos of DS1s wedding in June. I am grateful that one of the large photo printing services have a special deal until tomorrow of 1/2 price large prints! Needless to say I have over 200 on their way to me.. and I am sure many of them will be seen on here in the not too distant future. 

I have also spent much of the day hiding in my cool lounge with the laptop sorting and organising two albums from the same large printing company (as they are also on offer) as I plan on buying an extra one for my Mum too... I am so grateful for the timing of that offer! and just because I can.. here are two of those said photos of my DS and my new DIL.. a LO coming soon to a blog near you. lol

Thanks for looking!

Deconstructed sketch 54

Here is my take on Challenge two of the Counterfeit Kit Challenge .  The great sketch on the blog was all the inspiration needed for this LO...  as it says on the blog... I love a good sketch! It takes the pressure off, but still lets me be creative.
Here is my inspiration:

It's so boiling hot here today.. about 30 degrees in the shade.. so the best place to be is indoors  in my craft room.. that is until the sun comes round and turns it into a sauna of course.. lol

I used a selection of papers and added a strip of adhesive ribbon through the centre and two extra yellow flowers from my stash but otherwise all of the elements came from my 'Cheerful Choice' kit which I'm loving right now.

My take on the sketch meant I replaced the threads with some paper piecing instead... and then I couldn't resist adding some little glittered paper pieces above the turned down corner. I hope you like... catch you all later.

Cheerful choice 1st LO

Here is a LO that I used my Cheerful Choice kit for July for. I found a fresh summery LO in one of the DT Blogs.. and then promptly lost it.. so I took the idea of the fresh Lo and then used a UKS weekly challenge to spur my LO.

Here is the LO.. I took this photo when out for my daily walk in the summer last year... it is such a pretty spot... and the wood cutters hut is nestled so peacefully in the woods.

July Counterfeit Kit- 'Cheerful Choice'

Afternoon all...

Here is my take on this months Counterfeit challenge. I have called it Cheerful Choice and will be starting some LO's very soon with the contents of it. First I have to browse some other counterfeiters and grab some inspiration. I also added some washi tape after I had photographed it.. so that may also appear on my Lo's

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have created...now all I have to do is put away all the 'reject' papers that are spread all over my lounge floor! lol

Romping through some LO's

Well- with the wedding over I now have some time to play with all my lovely stash so here is a LO I have just made with a lovely kit I got from Karen at Total Papercrafts consisting of Kaisercraft papers- Fantasy, Vision and Deja-Vu with some Prima canvas alphas.

I have wanted to scrap this photo for some time but needed the right inspiration to do so. This month over on UKS they have set a challenge for June with the following quotes as inspiration and it was just the prompt I needed!

1. Happiness is a journey not a destination
2. Smile and the world smiles with you
3. Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

I confess, my DH always makes me smile and so I created this LO for him. There is some discreet journalling in the bottom right hand corner beneath the roses- but it is a bit mushy for public viewing so I won't type it out here.

I hope you enjoy my LO's as much as I enjoy creating them. 

Love and happiness

Well as you may know by now my darling son, Adam, married his fiancee on Saturday and I now have a beautiful daughter in law- and I am so pleased to welcome such a lovely young lady in to our family. 

I will soon have a mountain of wedding pictures to wade through but until they are mailed to me I have made a LO of a recent photograph of them at a friends wedding which, I think, shows their love for each other.

The papers are mainly from Prima but I don't have the names of them all I'm afraid. 

This will finalise their 'Story so Far' album that I made them which is all about their previous four years together prior to their marriage. I gave them the album 2 weeks before they got married but I always intended to give them this one last LO too.

Thanks for looking!

Wedding day photos

Lovely, lovely day on Saturday at my sons wedding..

I now have the most beautiful Daughter in Law and the happiest son in the world. Everything went brilliantly well and we received so many compliments. I'm not going to bore you with too many photos but I know some of you have asked to see the photos so here goes.

The happy couple

I'm the one in the hat!                                                                The beautiful bride

 DH, DIL, DS, me, DS2 & my Mum (aged 83)

  

and then we became 5!

Me and my two nieces

The first kiss

The first dance

The room

The tables (the top table was dressed later)

The brides bouquet

The back of the dress

The bridesmaids

Me leaving the ceremony

So happy together

The Venue