Blog award and holiday pics :)

Hi, I don't have anything crafty to show you today I'm afraid, but I thought I'd pop by to blog a lovely blog award and some holiday pictures.

A few weeks ago, actually, just over a month ago (sorry Becky), I received a blog award from the lovely Becky Brombley at the Craft Jar. She has a lovely little blog, and creates a gorgeous mixture of things, from cakes to cards and many things in between, I only wish I had more time to go over there and comment a lot more often than I do. So, please do pop over and see her and her lovely work.

Now, as a recipient of this award, I need to tell you 7 things about myself. Arghhh..... right ok then, here goes,

1. My oldest proper memory (I think!!) is visiting my Brother in hospital when I was 4 and buying him a packet of the magic stars chocolate sweets from the hospital shop. I think it's an accurate memory, although no-one can definitely say that it is accurate, but I like to think it is.
2. Marmite. You either love it or you hate it. My opinion, I HATE IT!! :)
3. I also don't like rice pudding (which is odd as I used to eat it a lot when I was younger) or baked beans (which isn't helpful when you are trying to do a really simple meal when camping).
4. I love notebooks and pens, when I was younger (well until relatively recently actually) I would buy a notebook and pen from anywhere I went with a gift shop. I wasn't interested in toys, take me to a zoo or somewhere and I'd come away from the gift shop with a pen and notebook, and sit scribbling.
5. I hate being told off or shouted at. Luckily it doesn't happen often, but when it does I hate it.
6. I want to travel, and I hope I will in the future. There are so many places I'd like to visit, in the UK as well as abroad. When I get the opportunity to travel, I know I will, I just keep thinking of all of the photos, scrapbook pages and memories, oh it'd be great :)
7. I don't have a lucky number, colour, object, anything, and I'm not particularly superstitious. I count magpies if I see them and work out their meaning from the rhyme, but then just turn around and forget about it, I don't believe in it all.

Wow, so there are my 7 things. Quite random, I've just sat here trying to think of vaguely interesting things and that's what has come up, really very random, but hey ho :)

Now to pass it on to 7 people. There are so many blogs I follow, and I really do love scooting around everyones blogs as they're all so interesting and unique. One thing I would really love is more time, so I could actually get around and comment on people's work, I've really struggled recently, you're all just producing too much great work for me to keep up!! :D :D So, here's my 7, I love looking at these peoples inspirational work.

1. Miss Smith of Curiouser and Curiouser.
2. Lisa of Artfull Scrapbooking.
3. Anne of hobby d'un jour.
4. Georgia of Starting to Scrap
5. Tessa of Perfectly Precocious
6. Anthea of Our Life Story
7. Leah of A Musing to Create

Take a look over at their work for yourself, such amazing talent from them all :) Thanks again Becky, it meant a lot to know you enjoy reading my little old blog :)


So, now for some pics of our weekend break camping in Norfolk.

It was the first time we had used our new tent, and we really appreciated the large living area and the fact we could stand up, even James could stand up in it!!

Cooking - It was such good fun cooking for ourselves, it was the first time we have really cooked whilst camping

Some lovely group shots from the hol, we all thoroughly enjoyed it and I think it shows in these pics (maybe except some where James just wouldn't smile nicely :D

James especially enjoyed playing on the beach, as you can see, we all had our feet buried at some point :)

I love this photo mum took, that jumping pillow was such great fun and it was great for posing action shots :)

These are a selection of the many photos I took of the beautiful sunsets. It was World Photography day on Friday, so I had to get the camera out and snap away. All of these were taken at varying times on Friday evening :) It was brilliant to finally get a chance to try the slow shutter speed effect on water :) I was quite pleased with the result.

One of the best bits was being allowed to have camp fires on the camp site.We had a camp fire on 2 of the 3 nights and it was such good fun, although I can still smell it in my hair!! :)

I hope you liked the pics, and I'm so sorry it's been such a great big long post. Well done if you got this far :D

Bye for now,