Nativity

So yesterday evening I babysat my niece and nephew and we put together this foam nativity scene. We lost a few sheep legs but it was good fun.

Shanna xx

Gingerbread House.

Last week my niece and I made a little gingerbread house.  I took lots of photos and made this layout. My first festive layout of the season. It uses this weeks sketch from Sketch Support.

 

Don’t you just love the new Holly Jolly collection from Echo Park.

 

Shanna.

10 on the 10th

So it was my Nan’s 80th birthday yesterday so I thought I would share 10 pictures of from her life.

1. 1930s

2. 1930s (i think)

3. 1940s

4. 1950s

5. 1954

6. 1959

7. 1960s

 

8. 1985

9. 2003

10. 2010

 

And here is the birthday girl.

 

Happy  80th Birthday.

 

Shanna xx

Best ice-cream

The best vanilla ice-cream in the world

layouts

Here are a few layouts I’ve made this week.

 

This layout is based on cutting instructions from Creating Keepsakes Budget Scrapbooking Issue.

 

Shanna

The books i read in November.

So November were all based on the works of Jane Austen, ( I had to throw in a few actual Jane Austen novels too)

 

Rebecca Ann Collins – The Pemberley Chronicles.

 

Jane Austen Made Me Do It – Laurel Ann Nattress

 

Captain Wentworth’s Diary – Amanda Grange

 

Mr Darcy Takes A Wife – Linda Berdoll

 

Edmund Bertram’s Diary – Amanda Grange

 

Colonel Brandon’s Diary – Amanda Grange

 

Mr Knightley’s Diary – Amanda Grange

 

Only Mr Darcy Will Do – Kara Louise

 

Pride and Prejudice – The Wild and Wanton Version  - Michelle M Pillow

 

Definitely Not Mr Darcy – Karen Doornebos

 

According To Jane – Marilyn Brant

 

Darcy and Anne – Judith Brocklehurst

 

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor – Stephanie Barron

 

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

 

Perfect Bride for Mr Darcy – Mary Louise Simonsen

 

What Would Jane Austen Do? – Laurie Brown

 

Bespelling Jane Austen – Mary Balogh

 

 

Mr Darcy’s Secret  - Jane Odwie

 

Prom and Prejudice – Elizabeth Eulberg

 

Confessions of a  Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler

 

Jane Austen Education, A: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

by William Deresiewicz

 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

 

And I could have Jane Austen Month  without

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

(Confession I did re-read Anna and The French Kiss mid month when I needed a break)

 

Only 25 books this month.

184 out of my two hundred books for the year.

 

Shanna.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to my America readers.  Since I live in the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but at work today I was listening to my iPod on random and this song came up. It’s seems to contain a lot of things to be thankful for.

 

Shanna

xx

Breaking Dawn

So in the past two days I have seen Breaking Dawn Part I twice (once with my mum and sister and once with some of the girls from work.

It was great although spoiler the wedding speeches made me cringe, and seriously even though they cut some of it I don’t think under twelves should see it.  Now it’s just a case of waiting a whole year for the next movie and hoping they don’t cut out my favourite scene (Emmett and Bell arm wrestling – it cracks me up every time I read it).

 

I’ve also been busy creating some layouts.

 

The first is based on a Sketch Support one page sketch and uses Weeds and Wildflowers Sweet and Simple kit

 

The next is based on a two page sketch from Sketch Support and a Weeds and Wildflower kit

 

The last is based on a Club Scrap ASLB layout and uses a kit from Scrapgirls

 

Shanna xx