Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 30 - Bathtime for Little Dogs

My sister and niece's two little dogs are so cute and they just love bath-time.

The papers are from MME Memorable collection and the butterflies are Cheery Lynn dies.  The title is done with a mixture of AC Thickers and Basic Grey alphabet stickers.

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 29 - Cute Turtles

Whilst at Meadow Barn earlier this year, I borrowed a cute turtle stamp from Jess and made these cards.

Supplies used:

Magazine free papers
Martha Stewart PATP sets
Pink Petticoat sentiments
SU punches

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 28 - Going Quackers

A few more of the lovely knitted toys that my Mum has been busy making for our fundraisers.

Thanks Mum for being so busy through the year and making lots of these lovely toys for us to sell xx

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 27 - The Cutest Witch

The challenge this month on Scrapology is B is for Buttons and to use this sketch.

This is my take on the sketch using a photograph of my sister at my niece's 21st birthday party.

I used a mixture of Doodlebug, Bella Boulevard and Echo Park Halloween papers.  The title is cut with Sizzlet alphabet 'Wingo Zingo' and the buttons are a Die-namics die, which were hand-stitched to the page.

There is still time to take part in this month's challenge as it doesn't close until 5th November.

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 26 - Enjoying the Sun

There is a lovely sketch challenge at Sarah's Cards this month.

This is my take on the sketch using papers from an old kit (April 2012) - Lily Bee 'Buttercup'

The title is cut using Sizzlet alphabet 'Naturally Serif', the butterflies are a Cheery Lynn die.  The photographs are from our Netherlands trip in April 2012.

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 25 - Miscellaneous Cards

A few cards that weren't made for any particular challenges.

A Penny Black t for transparent stamp with a lovely Penny Black sentiment

Using a woodgrain embossing folder and SU embosslit butterflies -

SU stamp coloured with SU markers, the sentiment is Personal Impressions -

Some mini birthday cards -

The lovely box and card made in a class by the lovely Fiona from Staring at the Sea

Blogtoberfest 2013 - Day 24 - My Month in Numbers September

Well they do say better late than never - so here are my numbers for September!!

As always the most important number is how long till we get our next Marillion fix - it is now only 15 sleeps away - I'm so excited!!!!

My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary - we had a family meal in their favourite Chinese restaurant attended by 17 people.

and then a week later we took them to the beautiful island of Guernsey for a little holiday.

This beautiful cottage was our home for 9 days.

A highlight of the holiday was a day on the beautiful island of Herm - it only took 20 minutes to get there by boat and we enjoyed beautiful weather that day - a glorious 20C.  We made our way to Shell Beach which was a 45 minute walk from the harbour.

 

Coming back we had to negotiate the Rosiere steps to pick our boat back up, what a bad number collector I am because I was so busy trying to stay upright on them that I didn't count them and I cannot find anywhere online that actually says how many there are - but there were a lot!!

We also spent 2 nights in Manchester and went on an elephant hunt around the Trafford Centre - there were over 100 elephants and we managed to track down 85 of them.  Here are some of my favourites -

I also held my first fundraiser of the year - I was allowed to have a stall and run a raffle at my parent's sheltered housing's weekly coffee morning.  We raised £214 for a local charity Children with Cancer Fund, we are now busy getting ready for another one in November.

Craftwise I made 9 Christmas cards, 11 other cards, 10 post it note pads, 2 layouts and a 20 page 6x6 album for my parents.

Month in numbers is a regular blog feature on Julie Kirk's blog - Notes on Paper, you can find out how to participate here