School plays, Santa visits, Christmas Parties - yes festivities are in full swing in our house!

Christmas crafts

(thanks to my Norty Crew friends & chic-n-scratch site for the hints/tips/inspiration for these!)

December 1st!

So the decorations are up, presents bought (well most of them), cards written, Christmas crafts finished (will upload some pics soon) and everything is well under way for Christmas!!!

New stuff ..

Layout i did at Steph's class last Tuesday night A little book made out of loo rolls!!
Altered tins for money/giftcards

Little post-it-note holders

Post-it-note holder to hang

Recent scrapping

Here is 2 layouts i did using a kit that Stacey is selling at her monthly crop at Caffe Spice in Larne (next one is Nov 16th).

I have loads of bits and pieces leftover for a possible 3rd layout!

and played around in altering this little mini book ...

Done another 2 layouts for my American Album.

A Double layout of my visit to Chicago.

Belfast Giant's

Josh had a blast at the latest Belfast Giant's game - unfortunately they lost though.

Josh with his cousins Kaitlyn & Jassmyn

Happy Halloween

Josh was meant to wear his werewolf outfit, but we couldn't find the top! So he wore 2 outfits lol!

Busy week!

My little karate kid got his first grading this week ....

He also had a Halloween party at school
My beautiful boys playing with wigs and looking rather cute as girls lol!!
A cute little skelton!

Autumn snaps

Halloween is coming ....

I have been decorating the house
and i have been making little treat bags (based on Anne's fabby bags), cards etc

The Norty Crew get-together!

The 'Norty Crew' finally met up last weekend.

Some of us have been chatting on UKS for nearly 3 years and met for the first time.

We all headed for Blackpool & had a ball.

The girls were fab!

Stacey & I hired a car - independent women!!! We all checked into the Hilton
Watched the Firework championships on the promenade

Seen the Illuminationsand of course, hired a room for Saturday Scrapping!!!!

Thanks for a great weekend girls x

Bits and pieces

I have been making some greeting cards recently to sell at work and with family. Here is what Josh came up with for a space project for school - i thought it was very cute!

My baby is 6 years old!

Where has the time went?

We celebrated Josh's 6th birthday last week with 2 parties (1 for family & 1 for friends),

he was spoilt rotten as usual and loved every moment of it!

Catching up on my A-Z journal

I took some photos of my little baby today - he looks so grown up!

More layouts!

To celebrate my SIL Nadine's birthday - Happy birthday!

Me, Nadine & my other SIL Nicola got together for a crop and i was on a mission and got 8 layouts completed!

I'm delighted as they are all of our American trip

which was in 2005 so it's about time i scrapped them!

Apologises for the back quality but bad lighting - oops x