Gap tooth Love

A quick LO with a large photo and a few bits and bobs as embellishments. The photo is Nancy on the beach showing off the gap in her teeth when she lost the bottom two.

Ambition fulfilled

it has been a long held ambition of Arhtur's to be picked to volunteer in a show in Covent Garden. its not really to do with the show itself but more to do with the fact he has seen the volunteers get a five pound note to then encourage the crowd to give generously. He has put his hand up many times but never been picked. recently we went to London and we arrived as the performer was setting up, he selected Arthur as we walked up to take a seat, Arthur got his five pound note, ambition fulfilled ( yes a have spelt it wrong on the LO). Arthur was even more pleased to find that in all the other shows we saw that day no other child got money, one got a bag of sweets, the others- nothing.

In Fear of My Life

This is for a Shimelle sketch. The sketch also asked you to use a title on the photo. This photo is from our trp to Gibralter at Easter.

I hate heights at the best of times, I hate being in tall buildings but put me in a cable car and 8'm even worse. I become a quivering wreck, unable to function normally, my legs turn to jelly and my brain fails. So when we went to Gibralter and the only way to get to the top of the rock was a cable car I knew it would be bad. I couldn't manage to take photos of the view myself, I could only hang on and wait. james had the camera and took great delight in taking photos of me in my moments of panic.

The phot is me in the cable car, the title is...... In Fear of My Life.

Face and Hat

This is the kind of thing that can happen if my husband and children go out unsupervised. This Mexican Cactus,complete with hat, face and moustache came home with them from the garden centre. I then had to keep it in pride of place on my window sill.

I used the sketch at Shimelle for this and yet again I changed it a bit. I didn't have any smaller photos to use and as usual my printer is almost out of ink so I used the square letters to replicate the sketch. I did manage to get the misting in that was suggested by Shimelle.

Rosetta Stone

This LO is for the sketch challenge at Dutch Dares. They have great challenges if you can translate the page. I feel a little bad joining in even though I don't live in Holland any more. Sometimes I try to use photos from our time in Holland, this time no but in my defence Arthur is wearing his H and M  Netherlands top and  the orange button at the top came from the Albert Cuypstraat market.

The photos are Arthur with the fake Rosetta Stone at the British Museum that you can actually touch. Arthur was really excited to see the real thing  but super excite by the fake one that he could run his hand across.

It happens all the Time

This LO is for the sketch challenge at Sarah's cards.  The sketch is a a bit different to the LO  in that I shrunk it and then put it in the middle of the LO.

It's called " it happens all the time- feet" . The children think that I am forever taking pictures of my feet- which is a lie but when we are on holiday I do tend to take a few. However I rarely scrap them.

The photo is from our half term trip to Zeeland in the Netherlands. I took a few photos of the washed up jelly fish on the beach and then of course I needed a picture of my feet because they were in my view.

Evening Bike Ride

So this is my second effort at the Shimelle sketch that asked you to use a favourite paper. As I said before my fave papers are wood, grain, polka dots and ledger paper. This time clearly I decided on  a polka dot paper.  Yet again I haven't followed the sketch exactly.

The LO is from our last holiday in the Netherlands. We went to Limburg and every evening we went on a cycle ride that took us across the border and into Germany. This was us in the nearest German town. If you look closely at the photo you can see Nancy in the front of my bike with a bottle of milk in her hand.