Do I have to show it? LOL

SO I was doing some blog hopping and stumbled across the Show Us Your Stuff Blog. The second LO challenge for December really struck me as something I wanted to do - reflect on 2010. The only problem was that you must include a handmade item on your layout.

Using one of my pps for inspiration, I pulled out some Fimo I bought ages ago to make a lolly jar ( which incidentally I haven't finished) and relived a moment of my childhood. It took a while but I made a lovely big hot air balloon which I promptly put in the oven to bake.

So here's where my problem started. My fimo packaging was ripped so I turned to the Internet for baking times. 275° for 15 minutes. I set the timer and headed back to my scrap room to start the layout.

Seven minutes later I went back into the kitchen and smoke was billowing from the oven and the house smelt toxic. Crap. My gorgeous creation was a charred mess and I could have burnt the house down if I had waited for the timer. Imagine my "2010 in reflection" then. It turns out that 275° was Fahrenheit and it should only have been 130°C. Derrr.

After de-fuming the house, I didn't have the inclination to make another one the same so I made a dodgy little one that is well, dodgy. You will see it at the top left of the page.

Anyway, 2010 has had many highs and many lows for me. I have listed those I could think of. Not sure why I always seem to remember the lows more the highs. Quite sad really. It will all be behind us in just a few days. Happy New Year everyone. x

The Color Room #37

I love checking out the gorgeous work at TCR but never actually have a go at the palette myself. The colours in this weeks palette though were soo girly and gorgeous that I wanted to have a crack.

I scrapped a pic taken from Molly's first professional photo shoot which was organised by my cousin for Molly's first birthday. I was lucky enough to get the disk with all the pics on it but this pic is my fav.

SO here is my girl, the light of my life.

So, who has been good this year?

Here is my entry for the latest Kraft It Up blog challenge - to scrap a christmas pic using non traditional christmas colours and incorporate knots in the layout.

I took this pic on the weekend just after S and his boys had put up the christmas tree. The boys love putting up the tree and each year we are told not to do it until they are there. To be quite honest I didn't want the tree up this year. It is just one extra worry for me as Molly loves putting anything and everything in her mouth. We came to the agreement that it would be secreted away in the theatre so I could close the door and keep Molly out.

She loved pulling things out of the boxes as the boys decorated. Her first snatch at an ornament though ended in tears as she tried to pull a surprisingly sharp edged plastic star off the lower branches and cut her little palm.

Anyhow, I asked them to all pose in front of the tree once it was done. Jordan is so tall now that he masked the tree and Molly wouldn't stop pointing at everything as she has been prone to do for a few months now. So this is the best I could do.

White with a dash of grey and whole page of masking..........

Last month I scrapped Molly's first letter as my entry into the White With 1 challenge. It looked hilarious in the gallery and I promised myself I would scrap something a little nicer for the next challenge.

Well, this month the WW1 challenge is to use white + grey + masking.

Molly turned one on Tuesday and in the afternoon I took her down the park and let her loose so I could take some snaps. It was pretty windy and her hair was always in her face so I wasn't really too impressed with the pics I took - except this one. She had just stood up and moved out of the frame as I snapped. The background sun and clouds are so dreamy that I just love the shot.

Perfect shot for this challenge as I want the pic to be the focus. The neutral colour scheme enables that to happen.

So here it is..... hope its better than last month!

Colour! Or is it Color? Blues

This was the layout I completed using blue for my Big Picture Class. I am way behind, still have purple and neutrals to do but Rome wasn't built in a day now was it?