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Back In The Swing

Its a while since I updated, but now I have found the time! My New year resolutions were simple - keep the house tidy after all the hard work in December sorting it out, and do more scrapping. And I am still on course with both! Maybe one is the result of the other!! I also read 9 books in Jan and am on my 2nd in Feb. Work remains difficult and we have all been down with colds and bugs!

I have been following the Shimelle Scrap Like You Mean It Challenge - here are my first 5 Los!

Journal Your Christmas

My 2008 cover for Shimelle's JYC class is done. I am using a paperchase kraft journal (as last year) but have replaced binding with a BIA bigger one, and ribbon with Christmas words twill. Scenic route paper, chipboard word from bubblyfunk, angel and reindeer c/o Tesco. I am determined not to buy any PP this year, and have put everything Christmas related in one pizza box so I am not chasing around for stuff every day. This year I might do more quotes, songs & poems and less photos, but will see how the mood takes me. With all the stress at work, I am not feeling very Christmassy, perhaps starting the journal will help!!

Catching Up With LOs

Though I have been a bad blogger due to work commitments and general busy-ness, I have managed a LO or two - and some cj entries, so here is a bit of an update.

The Halloween LOs are done with a Little Yellow Bicycle Kit - I had loyalty card points to spend at Craftology, so instead of spending a fortune on Halloween papers, stickers etc which then hardly get used, I decided for once to buy the kit. I am really pleased with the LOs. However, I think my Red Devils look more like a girl band gone astray than scary Halloween creatures - and, yes, they did borrow my lipstick!!

The Surfing LO is one of my favourites of the year, it shows DH, DD and my nephew enjoying their surfing on Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. These fab papers are by We Are Memory Keepers. I put the individual pictures behind scalloped edges (done with a paper tearer) to give the effect of being in the waves, and also used rikrak for a wave effect.

The CJ was my entry in the Lift Offs "Moving Words" CJ, and I managed to find photos of Mountains and Stormy Seas that I had taken to illustrate the words of "You Raise Me Up" - my favourite song, especially when sung in concert by Brian Kennedy.

Christmas Thai Style

The shops in Bangkok are always quite OTT at Christmas!! I couldn't resist taking these shots in the department store in Siam Paragon. The bauble tree was the height of about three floors! And I wished I had had more room in my suitcase - those sparkly poinsettias are fab!!

Hello from Bangkok!!

Well, here I am, in Bangkok again - arrived Sunday lunchtime and have been so busy ever since that I have had little time to myself!! Hoping to remedy that today - after 3 late nights in the office (earliest left 7pm, latest 8.30pm, having been working since 8.45) hoping to leave early as flying back tonight. Went for a wander on Sunday pm and found an amazing shopping complex - but we got lost and had to phone our boss's wife for instructions how to get out, and by the time we worked out where we were, we had to get back to the hotel to change for dinner. We have eaten some fab food - Italian, French - Ossobucco to die for last night! But as ever looking forward to going home tonight!! The temple by the way is an ancient temple nestling among all the huge shopping centres. I also included a photo of the sunset as I have never seen one in BK before - normally it just goes dark!! Or so it seems from inside the office!!

BANGKOK CJ IS HOME

Can I just say a massive thank you to the girls from my UKS All My Own Photos CJ hosted by Kathb for the wonderful entries in my CJ - I am overwhelmed, they are all so brilliant and I cant wait for the second round - you are a great bunch!! I loved having photos provided, makes it much easier, I think. Thought I would share!! And a special thanks to kath for being a great host, and for organising the next one.

Think Pink - Update

Thanks for the good wishes - here I am dressed in pink with my pal Posh. We had a great day in the office - everyone wore pink, including the guys, and we had pink tablet (Scottish delicacy, pure sugar, if you haven't tried it, you haven't lived) and pink cakes with our coffee - and the pink raffle went down a storm!! Posh came to work with me too as she loves wearing pink. I promised her I would blog her photo too. We raised over £100 - and a few colleagues who weren't in have said they want to donate as well, so I am really pleased!! Things aren't easy at work at the moment, and it was nice to cheer everyone up!!

Thinking Pink

I have organised a Think Pink Day for tomorrow at work - to celebrate the recovery of my Mum and my colleague's wife from Breast Cancer - both were diagnosed just a year ago, and have had great treatment and support, so I wanted to try and raise some funds. I know Think Pink day is Friday but lots of us are off, so ours is today. I have organised a few things for a pink raffle (and DD found pink raffle tickets in Tesco), so we should raise a few pounds, even though there are not a lot of us - most of the girls are making pink cakes - but as baking is not my thing,I have done the raffle - you can see the prizes above - there is a bottle of pink wine in the bag!!