Dance Buddies

Love this photo taken in the dressing rooms at our dance concert. Aimee is a special girl, and she insisted we looked like twins, maybe Arnie and Danny, but the photo turned out well. All decked out with our stage makeup. Aimee was already in one of her costumes but I was still in civvies....

Two kids; two santa los...

is a must. So whipped this one up last night. I cut out the flower from a Basic Grey paper called Santa's sleigh and then just stamped around it. I painted a frame for the photo and added some alphas and hey presto the second lo was complete. I am in love with stickles (another brand like kindglitz) and find it really easy to use, so the flower and some of the stamped swirls are adorned with this marvelous product.

A day to scrap....

With today being a public holiday and all the chores done after Xmas celebrations, I took the opportunity to scrap. This layout is for Scrapbooking Premiere's December challenge. They threw in the colour blue on a lo for a Xmas tradition. We also had to use the colour red, felt and stamping on the title and photo plus some hand stitching.

The second lo came from a kit from Tarisota. (Why it is at the top of by post I do not know, but I imagine there is a glitch in the system!!) I only used their design as a guide as I just wanted a very simple lo to show the ladies group after the concert in November. I do not usually put a lot of journalling on my los but decided to put a little story on this one just to remember how we actually got to be in the end of year concert and how much effort each one of the ladies put into this. Most of us also had children dancing so it was really interesting having to dress kids and ourselves, but like the real troopers they are they all came up trumps. I am proud to be associated with each and every one of them.

A Christmas Wish...

To all of you who visit my blog:

MAY EVERY CLOUD ABOVE YOU,

GIVE WAY TO SKIES OF BLUE,

AND ON THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING,

LET ONLY JOY SHINE THROUGH!

All my best wishes for this festive season....

Scrapbooking Premiere Challenge December

This sketch was such a simple one, I thought I do have time to do just one more lo before Christmas, and I must say I did relax whilst I did it. Not much of the relaxing thing happening for me for the next two weeks. I will probably run and adrenalin as sleep won't be an option, however the two photos I have used on the lo called for a simple background. The two girls took no encouragement to pose back stage at this year's concert. I think the older they get the more they like the interaction with each other both off and on stage. I only used bazzill c/s and alphas plus a paint dabber. So quick, easy and simply. Enjoy your lead up to Christmas everyone...

LO drought broken, only slightly...

Even though I worked yesterday morning, I just needed to do some sort of creativity to get me out of this nightmare mind set of Christmas chaos. I cannot believe how much stress we put ourselves through. It has been an emotional couple of weeks for me and I still feel a little raw around the edges, so doing this lo helped me a little. It shows the ladies jazz class in action at the eisteddfod, such nice memories to scrap by yesterday. I hope every one's Xmas preparations are going smoothly, (boy is there such a thing!). Enjoy the balmy summer...