A Christmas Layout

My Christmas LO done and dusted already. Will be a mini book to follow at some point. Thank u Alix for the Merry Christmas which ended up here as my title.

Dare I say.....STASH DIET (aaarrggghhhhh)

OK I have done a very silly thing and signed up for the UKS stash diet. Here are my rules:

• I have a budget for non-essentials of only £5 per month, all other spends I must earn;
• I can buy essentials as and when I need them (not counted in budget) - these are: adhesives, mats for robo and sizzix, blades for trimmer and knife, printer inks, photo paper (am tempted to add 'anything by BG' but i'll be good...). Crops also excluded from budget;
• I will continue my sub to Scrapmagic but when it ends will either not have a sub or will look for one under £10 a month;
• I will only buy one papercrafting mag each month;
• I can earn extra stash money by doing LOs using stash I already have:--£2 per 12x12 LO-£1 for smaller LOs-£3 for a mini book - £2 for a CJ entry;
• I can earn £2 for every pound in weight I lose BUT can't have any of it until I have lost 5 pounds;
• Any money from selling unwanted stash goes back into the stash fund;
• I get a bonus £5 if I earn more than 150 points for my team in a single month;
• I will make lists of LOs I want to complete and only buy stash needed for these, not randomly buy nice stuff with no purpose in mind;
• I can only do one swap at a time. Postage for RAKs and PIFs is excluded from budget;
• I can have extra spends for the NEC of £50 BUT only if I stick to the diet between now and the show in March.

Mmmmmm, want to take bets on how long I manage to stick to this?

Such a very Merry Christmas!

Am back from Norfolk where we had a wonderful, fabulous Christmas holiday. Walks on the beach, and scrummy pub lunches. Christmas Day it took us three hours open our pressies! I got a new Lumix digicam as my main pressie but Gus really spoiled me with lots of other pressies including a beautiful Radley frame with pics of us and Leo in it, a Nightmare Before Xmas calendar, some little lights for the bath, HSM2 CD, and a divine little birdcage for my scraproom. I also got HSM2 and Hairspray DVD from Gus' parents, a Papermania storage case and shimmer chalks from Gramps and DKNY Be Delicious from my bro. Gus was pleased with his telescope and especially with his chilli hamper and Leo got lots of toys and yummy treats.

Also got a fabulous stuffed stocking from my secret santa on UKS, which was filled with wonderful goodies. Thank you santa. And from my wonderful advent santa I got Chip Chatter Gellies which I have been lusting after for ages and ages! Yay all around for Christmas.

Scrapliftin'

Quick post to show you my Nuts team scraplift of my talented teamie Lisa's work (she's been in SI don't you know). Not sure it is worthy of the very lovely original ('Emotions' shown below) but I am pleased with it :). Here is her gallery: http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=9678&thumb=1

Got some lovely crochet ribbon today from my not-very-secret advent Santa, also got a gorgeous Bazziil letter K yesterday which is perfect for my BOM welcome page which I am yet to do.

Xmas shopping tomorrow - am dreading it....bound to be manic....

Crop til u Drop challenge

Decided to do Alix's challenge today, instead of making cards which frankly was probably more important (but less interesting). So after filling up on a rather substantial Sunday lunch I set to work. The challenge was to scrap a wish - I scrapped several so I hope that's allowed... It's for my BOM. I used MM Boho Chic PP and my new Sizzix flowers die which I just love to bits!

Busy, busy day

Phew, didn't stop yesterday. Cropping with the folks at Upton (missed u Alix!) all day, then shopping for food, just time to eat and off to see Beauty & the Beast on ice.

It was the Christmas Crop and we had nibbles and mulled wine (note to the wise, keep Paula away from the mulled wine at all costs!!!), and Secret Santa. My santa got me Color Me Silly and a fun minibook which of course resulted in a big grin as I love BG and don't have any papers from that collection.

Also managed two LOs, partly because I used sketches and scraplifts but hey, if it works! sorry the pics are really poor.....

Advent Santa update: 7th - Souffle Pen; 8th - Liquorice Alsorts (mmmm, my fav sweeties); today the most gorgeous lush Mickey stickers I haven't seen before, fab vintagy ones :). Thanks Alix :D.

(ETA: think I will make a Mickey thru the Yrs minibook with my stickers - starting at 1986 (first visit) and with spaces for future visits :) :) :).

Advent days 5&6

Thank u Alix for more yummy stash :)

Fa lalalala la la la laaaaa

Advent pressies are v cool :). Below are my first and third ones for you to see, and a pic of my bauble just for you Alix. Today I got a Sunrise bubble bar - smells edible, and is one i've not had before. Is, appropriately, rather lush :). Am saving the mini book to take on hols as a little portable project, am in the process of getting some black and white pics ready for it.

Am feeling like poo today but Leo is thwarting all my efforts at getting some sleep. Bloody dog.

December=Christmas

Don't allow myself to get Christmassy until December, but is now December - woo hoo!!!

Got a ickle tree today (soooooo cute) and a Nightmare Before Xmas bauble for it on Saturday :).

Today I made my Doodlebug house, which you can see below. Am rather pleased with it. Also finished a LO today as the PP I needed was delivered.

And can of course now open my advent santa parcel (which Gus had to hide cos I am a prodder...) - so far the cutest little minibook and some doggie paper which am itching to use already.

Not blogged for a very long time, but not sure where the days have gone. Is the crop again Sat - surely not?!!