its like a nappy advert

this year is the first time in many years that we have missed the Festival of History run by English Heritage so to remind me of all its glory I'm posting this cute LO from a couple of years ago- Arthur had a go at the assault course for kids- his older brother wouldn't have a go- skulked in the background- shoved his younger brother in first- Arthur showed no nerves and threw himself at it- even with the commentary provided by a gruff and rather cheeky drill sergeant. His best phrase as little Arthur crawled under barbed wire " it's like a nappy advert"

here I am

I just loved this picture of Arthur at his friends birthday party- I was e-mailed with various shots from the party and this one was there- really its of Stanley's friend Jeremy but peeking over his shoulder was Arthur - looking adorable-if you could only see him for the flash glare

scared

I loved this photo of Arthur at the zoo- There is a massive window by the lions and its one of their favourite places to lay- this is Arthur posing with a lioness only a few inches away with just the glass separating them- he looks pretty petrified!

The tag on the LO is a clothing tag I kept from one of Nancy's cute T-shirts

Counterfeit blog hop July

Hello- welcome to the latest instalment of the Counterfeit kit blog hop- if you need to go back to the beginning click here

The challenge for this months blog hop was flower power- a creative way to use flowers on a LO- well maybe mine isn't really creative but I found the tutorial for these flower rosettes on Pinterest ( and I pass my version of the instructions on to you below)

The LO- my kit had a lot of yellow and black in that I wasn't using- so I punched my circles out of those papers- with the teal buttons on the black they flowers matched perfectly with some recent photos of the circus that visited our town ( actually it was on our street)

Here's a close up of the flowers

And here's how to make them

1. punch out four scalloped circles from paper- double sided papers look best as you can see the reverse side

2. fold all of the circles in half

3. overlap the halved circles- each half has to go over and under another half

4. stick a button in the middle

your next step on the hop is here at the fabulous Milissa's ( hope this works ok- I am trying to send this from a dodgy wi-fi connection while on holiday- apoligies if it doesn't work.)

FUn Fun FUN

Well I'm not sure about this sketch- it was supposed to be my last LO for Twisted sketches but it looks like I'm hanging on for a few more LOs

So anyway the LOs twist is FUN- I used three photos of NAncy dancing round the zoo and one of my lovely Betsy McCall paper dolls- the book paper is another flea market find- a handbook on piping from the 1940s its full of charts and tables- i thought it would be good for boy LOs but i stuck it on here anyway
Find the sketch HERE

Guitar hero

Soory about the glare from the flash- five days into our summer holiday and we had not had a day of sunshine - only constant rain!

I loved this halloween paper from American crafts with the stars on- not for Halloween pages- we haven't been able to celebrate it properly for the three years we've been in the Netherlands-but it made a great boy LO - with Stanley playing Guitar hero on Wii

bug hunting

recently I've veered away from coloured card as a background for my LOs - this is a LO from back in the day when I liked a coloured background- its Arthur in the garden finding woodlice- the final picture is him rolling one down the slide- on the actual LO you can see a tiny spot as the woodlouse hurtles down the slide at full pelt!