Aidan

Aidan, originally uploaded by shazbucket103.

Aidan and his drums

Ashley hat

Ashley hat, originally uploaded by shazbucket103.

Ashley in her christmas hat

Todd and Ashley

Todd and Ashley, originally uploaded by shazbucket103.

One of my favourite pictures from christmas

Waterfront Winterland

Sorry about being a bad blogger. I slipped on the ice walking to work a couple weeks ago, actually twice in two days and hurt my hand so I haven't been able to type.

Quick update, all my presents are bought but still to be wrapped.

So yesterday we had a girly afternoon. Carol, Claire, Mum and I all went to the Swansea Waterfront Winterland after we had been to see the eagerly awaited Twilight. (Great film although I'm not sure about the guy who played Jaspar).

Anyway here are some pictures

Then coming home to watch the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Tom's show dance just made me smile.

Have a great christmas

Shanna xx

Busy Weekend.

I've had a busy weekend. I had to work yesterday morning then a group of eight of us went out for Christmas lunch yesterday. I was so full yeseterday I couldn't eat anything else for the rest of the day. It was great fun.

Then this morning we went to the library and shopping into town all morning, came home decorated for christmas. This afternoon my sister and I made a chocolate snowman, a gingerbread house and stained glass christmas tree biscuits.

It was a very festive weekend, now I just have to go to work tomorrow :(

Game Night

Last night I got together with my brother and sister for a game night. My sister's husband was out playing poker with some friends.

We played the new version of Cluedo (Clue in the US), some of the changes in the game made me think about the version we had when I was a kid. We lost some of the weapons so we used to find little objects to replace them.

For example we lost the lead pipe so we used a small twig.

It also reminded me that there used to be a tv show version although why I'm not sure why.

It turned out I was the murderer, but who kills someone in the spa or the guest bedroom?

It was a lot of fun and it was nice to spend some quality time with my siblings.

Shanna xx

Forget-Me-Not

Why I Love Digital Scrapbooking....

So I have this cute picture of my nephew Aidan and my adopt-a-nephew Kieran (my sister's best friend's son) when my sister went to visit them at the beginning of the month.

I wanted to make a layout of it, so I spent some time editing out the digger and my sister's arm. I liked the idea of bringing out the orange hints in the picture so I choose an orange background paper, and then decided it was too much so I choose a cardboard paper to layer over and turned it blue. I spent ages picking the right frame, I knew I had the perfect word art title, adding a stitched frame and names and date. I added some buttons which brought out various shades of blue in the picture here's what I came up with.

I went away from the computer because I knew something just didn't look right. When I came back I realised that the orange was too distracting it was what instantly drew your attention the blue cardboard washed out the picture and the picture needed more pop as it was meant to be the focal point of the layout.

Now if I had been making this layout the traditional way, with everything stuck down I would have either had to try to unglue it or had to start all over again. But since I scrapbook digitally all it took was a few clicks of the mouse and I have a layout I much happier with.

I used auto level to give the photo more pop, changed the background paper to black and turned the cardboard paper back to it's original colour and instantly the photograph was the focal point of the layout. I am so much happier with it. Now it's all ready to print and put in my album.

Supplies used:

Buttons from A Whole Lot of Buttons (freebie download a long time ago)
Stiches : LBA-Stichsquare from Little Dreamers Designs Vintage Retro Kit
Title: from Scrapgirls His and Hers Kit
Cardboard Paper from Weeds and Wildflowers Jolly Holiday kit (coloured and uncoloured)
Orange paper from Weeds and Wildflowers Happy Garden kit
Frame from Raspberry Road Away In a Manger freebie kit

Shanna xx

And it spreads

After I became addicted to the Twilight books, I insisted that my mum read them.

She obviously read the first one yesterday because she appeared at my bedroom door at 7.30 this morning wanting the other three books, by the time I left for work she had read a good portion of the second book.

Now she is reading and waiting for the film as much as I am.


So the vampire love spreads....


Shanna

Twilight

Okay, I wasn't going to get sucked in. I put it off but practically on every blog I've read someone said something about the books, I broke down last week and bought the first one, I got half way through before I order the rest and read them all twice.

Now I'm waiting (not so) patiently for the film to come out in the UK which doesn't happen until 19th December. That's three weeks.

Now I'm obssessively watching the trailer and this clip




I think I need help

Shanna xx