Finally - some LO's!

Aria the little Lion cub

As the title suggests, I've finally done some Layouts recently. The Mojo's are going to be amazed LOL (UK Scrappers challenge team :)).

Our niece at my husbands 40th party

Apart from photography and LO's, I'm not doing that much really. We're pretty busy at work atm.

SIL's 30th birthday LO

I'm back on the CJ sequel to the first course earlier in the year so I doubt I'll get that much done as I finds it eats my spare time (in a good way ofc! ;)). I love doing it though :).

Well, I'm going to go and get ready for work - 2 days til the weekend :).

Dave's 40th Birthday party

I haven't posted for a few weeks as we've been trying to get our house in order for Dave's BIG 4-0 Party last Saturday. We had a great time, nearly everyone we asked was there plus kids so it was a bit packed in the house. I cooked Chilli and managed not to poison people, which is a help :). No seriously, we all had a great time even though the preparation was stressful. I've never thown a party before (I got to 36 and this is the first time..) but I enjoyed it.

Me and Dave Rock banding

Young Rocker with FIL Brian looking impressed!

And finally, here's our two month old neice with her Dad before the madness began. I have so many pictures of her with different people. She's already very photogenic - but I'm biased!

Our Niece with her Dad before the bedlam began

Anyway, I woke up on the Sunday ill and I only went back into work on Friday - turns out there was a lot of people in the office off sick.

And one finally note - I signed up for PWL the sequel! (early birthday pressie! :)).

Sheep and birthdays

Well its been my Mum's birthday earlier this week (happy birthday Mum!) and we visited her on Sunday. She lives in Northumberland near the Cumbrian border. It was gorgeous weather so we had a lovely sunday dinner and gave her a pressie of cards & Card making things - another craftie - now you know where I get it from. She paints watercolours in her spare time too :).



Anyway, we decided to go for a drive out to where we used to live and go to the church yard and visit my dads grave. Its been 9 years since he died but we dont get the chance to visit the grave much. After cleaning the grave up and putting in fresh flowers, we got a chance to make the most of the weather. The surroundings were beautiful and I love April because of the lambing season. I have to say these are pretty big sheep for the time of year.Anyway, I made good use of my camera and took 100+ pictures on the way there and back.



It took us over 5 hours travelling but it was certainly worth it and what beautiful weather for April too! Hope its been as good weather where you are this weekend!

Mireli x

Happy Easter! (belatedly)

Happy Easter !

Yes, this is my cat Tilly wearing some bunny ears. As you can tell, she's so happy about it (not). To be fair, I am holding the ears - I'm not that cruel :).

Hope you've had a great weekend. We've done very little really except some shopping today but its been lovely to have a break and good weather too. Back to the grindstone tomorrow though.

Hi to Sarah too :)

The End of an Era

Well, I've finally finished the Painting with Light course. I've enjoyed the photography so much that I would like to keep doing photography on a regular basis. I have to start taking my camera bag with me everywhere I go now! Its a habit that I must get into (I must, I must take my camera with me...).

One of the pictures I took was selected as a favourite on Module 5, which I was so chuffed about.


This is the image. DH agreed to have his picture taken as it was in silhouette and it came out much better than expected. Cheers hun!

I am feeling quite sad about the PWL group going their own ways but as many of them are from UK Scrappers to start with, a group has been started on there so we can all stay in touch.