Happy New Year

Hi all,

Happy New Year to you all. I for one am really looking forward to welcoming in the new year tonight. I am staying at a friends and shall be up to see 2012 in, watching the fireworks in London on the TV. Next year will be a big year for me, with many exciting and daunting times ahead. It will be a year of decisions, travelling, finding my feet on my own and continuing to work my socks off. Bring it on, I'm looking forward to it.

I've just been having a look back, looking at this blog and everything I've made and shared with you over the last year. Wow, it's flown by, I can't believe I made some of those things nearly a year ago. I've made a little compilation, with a project from every month of this last year :)

There's been scrapbooking, mini books (which I still haven't finished!!), cakes, photography, digital scrapbooking, jewellery making, cards and canvases. It's been a busy old year :)

I apologise in advance for periods of absence this coming year. I have modules in January which I am already having to get revising for and panicking about. I shall fit a little crafting in where I can and pop by every so often.

Just thought I'd mention to you, if anyone is looking for a way to kick start their crafting in 2012, Miss Smith is running a little class in January called Just One Sketch. It's only £5 to join, and the money is going to help Kirsty fund her trip with GirlGuiding. Visit here for more details and to sign up :)

I hope you all have a great start to the coming year, and enjoy any celebrations you have tonight or tomorrow :)

Thanks for your continued support and delightful comments, you're all lovely.

I'll be back next year :)
Hannah :) x

Can anyone help?

Hi everyone,
I hope you're having a great weekend.
Today I need your help. I was searching through blogs and commenting the other day, when I came across a photo of some flowers. They had been handmade, but looked like these prima ones.

Sorry I've changed the picture as I have remembered it was these they were as copy of

Now, whilst these look as though they may be quite straight forward to make, a tutorial would be very helpful.
I cannot remember who's blog I was visiting when I found these handmade flowers. The blog page gave a link to the tutorial they had learnt how to make them from.
If you know which blog had the image on, or where I will find the tutorial, then please let me know :) It may not have been a very recent post, as I was enjoying looking back at a few people's blogs :)
I have searched all of the places I can think of to try and find it, I am either missing it or not looking in all of the places.
Sorry if it was your blog that I found them on, I was busy at the time when I saw them so didn't click to find out more, but now I wish I had as I'd love to find the tutorial :)
Thanks for your help :)

Only 3 days to go until the TPV Blogaversary!!!
I am really excited about it, and I hope many of you will join in where you can. I have made some projects for it that I am extremely pleased with, so do pop back each day to see my posts and hopefully play along :)

It's going to be BRILLIANT!!! :D

Also, have many of you tried the new blogger interface? I LOVE it, it's so nice and easy to use. Now, when you are writing these posts, you are not restricted to seeing only a tiny amount of writing and have a much larger viewing box :) It's great :) We have also updated our Internet to Google chrome so the new blogger interface is happy, and so are we, the format and speed of Google chrome is brilliant :)

Ok, right, that's it from me today.
Bye for now :)

A nation together

So who watched it then, the royal wedding? 
I was amazed at the amount of people who were in London yesterday, and the amount that must have been sat at home watching it.
I watched it, we ended up getting together as a family, my Uncle, Aunt, Nan, Grandad and us 4, all crowded around the tele watching it. Well, I say us 4, James watched part of it then went off to watch/do something else. Wasn't it incredible!! I wasn't expecting to watch it all and feel the way I did about it, but it felt such a special and momentous occasion, the thought that we have just watched a completely normal young woman marry into the royal family. My favourite part, although I never actually saw it, I have just seen little clips and photos, I loved the drive back down the mall in the Aston Martin. The reason I loved it, they looked like a completely normal and everyday couple, that's the sort of thing anyone would do, and it was so great to see :)
It was a very strong reminder yesterday that really, anything is possible. Kate will have grown up, very much like me and many others including some of you, playing dressing up, putting on a tiara, pretending to be a princess, watching Disney films (well, that isn't very me as I'm not a big Disney fan). It just goes to show that we don't know our future, we don't know who we'll stumble into, and which of our dreams may very well come true. They both looked so happy, so joyous, and what a wedding, she can't have ever expected a wedding like that, not in her wildest dreams when she was younger. So, congratulations to them both, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge :)

So, onto some crafting. On Thursday night, I added a girl to the bright background I made about a week ago. I am very pleased with her, here she is

 As the backgroun was very bright I felt it called for a very summery girl, wearing a summer outfit. So I gave her a vest top and demin shorts.

I attempted sunglasses and I am very pleased with them. I used a canvas another member of the class had done for inspiration for the hair, then created some sunglasses to sit up in her hair. I love the words I have written on the canvas, something I really believe in, they read 'True beauty comes from within'.

So, I hope you like her. :D

Bye for now,

Happy 1st Birthday....

..... to my little old blog.

A year ago I set up this blog, like many other crafters, just so I could follow some of the amazing inspirational blogs out there and post a few of my layouts on here.

I never thought that a year later I would have had posted 89 times, had over 4100 pageviews, 360 lovely comments and have 32 amazing followers. So........

It really does mean a lot and brightens my day to come onto blogger and read some gorgeous supportive comments, so thank you so so much :D

So, it got me thinking this morning, what was my favourite LO over this last year......ummm..

I think my personal favourite is this one

I don't know why, I just really love it.

And that got me thinking.......

Which of my pages has been your favourite?

So, if you find time today I would love to hear from you, which has been your favourite?

Once again, thanks for your support over this last year, I hope it may continue.

Thanks you,

Lots of love xxx

Welcome to my world

Hi everyone,
As I said in my last post I have been re-arranging my bedroom and giving it a bit of an organise/spring clean. We moved into our house over a year ago but because there have been many other more important things to do around the house my furniture was just chucked into my room and left. I have finally had time to re-arrange it and make it feel more like my room, my world.
I love it and the final addition was added this weekend. I thought I'd share my little world with you.

Here's my new addition this weekend, my photo ledge. Ikea, isn't it a great shop :D I love to make my bedroom really me, and so I put many of scrapbook pages and photos on display. As you can see, most of my photos are of family, I'm a very family orientated person :)

Ah, my necklaces. I love jewellery, I still cannot have enough, I'm always seeing new bits I love. It's quite a jewellery collection, and once again, thanks Ikea, your multi-use hanger is great for my necklaces :)

Here's my room as a whole, OK, I'm quite an Ikea based person, that is an expedit unit, in fact a lot of the things in this photo is from Ikea

My Christmas present from my Aunt and Uncle, this incredibly cool photo frame is great to display lots of little pics. My smiley earring holder, that's also new, I had too many earrings for my other holder. :)

So that's my little world, and I love it. The lights along my shelf are great, originally I just wanted them for really pretty decoration, but last night I realised how amazing they are when I want to lay in bed and read, the light is so bright I no longer have to worry whether I'm straining my eyes or not. :D

On to other things, I didn't get chance to do any scrapbooking over the weekend. We did do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch though.

As you can see, I did more than just watch the birds!!
We have done the birdwatch for quite a few years now, but it's the first year we've done it at our new, more rural house. It was great, sitting in our sitting room, watching the wildlife which is so close to our patio doors. It's so close that I couldn't resist fetching Mum's camera and taking those shots. I sat taking photos for a few minutes whilst Mum finished off the count, but as soon as we'd finished the count, the camera magically swapped from my hands to Mum's and I never saw it again :(

Anyway I was pretty happy with these shots. I hope you like them.

Bye for now,
Hannah :)

Monkey Madness !!

Hi everyone,

I have followed Helen's amazing craft blog for a while (click here to visit it), she creates some brilliant little gifts which have inspired me for gifts this christmas (dare I mention it!!) Helen also has another blog, her monkey blog, which I just love. I stumbled across it and thought the monkeys were so gorgeous, at first I thought Helen had knitted them, but when I found the post mentioning buying them from ebay I couldn't resist.

So here they are, our monkeys which we managed to win for a brilliant price. I've told James he can have the small monkey, which he has named Boris, but am still to come up with a name for mine, so any ideas would be welcome.

It's coming to the end of our half term now, I've been a bit naughty and not really got much work done, but plan to over the next few days. I did have an aim to start and complete a piece of artwork for my bedroom wall over this half term, I've started, but I'm not sure it'll get finished!! I'm not even half way through it yet! This is how it looks currently, it's a collage of things I care about and are special to me, plus bits that just look pretty!!

(Sorry about the colours in the photos, I've taken them this evening so the lightbulbs have made it look orangey!!)

I hope you like it, I'll blog any more progress I make.

In the meantime, any name suggestions for my monkey are welcome, and I hope you are well.

Hannah :)

Arghhh...

I saw this yesterday and thought I'd quickly share it with you

arghhhh how scary is that, this year has just flown by, and the photo was taken yesterday so now it's only 103 days!!!

I'll blog properly tomorrow, I've a bit to show and say :)

Night, Hannah xx