DSP

Have just found out that some kind person has put together a list of all the DSP users who have a blog. WOW. Fantastic. It will take me hours to go through them all but will be brilliant because I know they all share the same love for digital creativity that I do.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31387

Looking at DSP in the run up to Christmas there are loads of challenges and fun games.
This is what was listed on 15 December - it changes daily but gives you an idea.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23988

Tink2Zoe has been giving everyone a daily prompt for their blog. Ihave only just picked up on this so am pretty behind. Maybe when I am off work I will try to make a scrapbook page for each day's blog prompt! Well it is an idea. Just need the time to fulfill it. Today's prompt is to consider "What modern convenience do you feel you could not live without?"
Well, we really are spoilt with all our gadgetry - funny how we still don't have enough time to do anything!!
I could not live without my laptop - I love the huge WWW world that it allows me to dip into. I learn so many new things everyday and get to "meet" loads of people I would never have known existed.
I love tea - so I guess it is the kettle and the teabag. Gotta have a cup of tea in the morning to get me started. Ever since I was a kid my mum always woke us up in the morning with a cup of tea. Now a colleague very kindly gave me her mum's old teasmaid and I use that to have a nice cup of tea in the mornings. Bliss.
With those to things I can achieve anything. Except housework - but that will always be there no matter what gadgetery comes our way - I will still have to wash the floor everyday!

I made a blinkie for the sunday scrappers chat - you can see it here: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=293090&cat=all&limit=last1

ATCs

We had a great day today - took Barney and Millie for a walk around the woods. Let Millie off the lead as she comes when called and given a treat really well. She did very well until......

She had started to get a bit hyper - a sure sign that she was tiring towards the end of our hour long walk when we came upon a dog of her own size. She was scared of the bigger dogs. She wanted to play as did the other dog so we had to catch her as she would not comed when called. But apart from that we were really pleased with how things went - she is only 14 weeks old after all. She loved running around freely. The walk was quickly followed by a very much needed bath and a sleep whilst we popped into town for a few things.

I spent the afternoon making ATCs for the Swap bot website. Here are the ones I made today.

Not well today

Feel pretty rotten today. Have a nasty cold. All the kids are out, so the house is quiet. The dogs have finally settled down and Andy has had a bath and is upstairs watching telly, so definitly very quiet downstairs.

I slept in till 12noon, which was a wonderful treat. It is our 5th wedding anniversary so we went out for lunch at the Boatyard in Old Leigh. I had deep fried camembert, then sea bass and finished up with passion fruit cheesecake. Very nice and we had a window seat, although the sea was pretty rough. Andy had half a lamb shank and was very full afterwards.

We then went off to Lakeside as he had £50 voucher from work for Next. He wanted to get a nice dinner set for Christmas dinner and any dinner parties that we might one day hold! The plum one that we both liked only had 4 of each, we need at least 5 even if Sarah is not always here. So we settled on a black and white set and then got carried away and bought 8 black glass goblets and two long thin black candle stick holders.

Then we wrapped all our presents - so we are officialy "ready" for Christmas. YEAH.

ATC

I have just completed 6 ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and have sent them off to the US. At the end of December I will be sent 6 in return by someone else from somewhere in the world. These have the theme of Winter Solstice. My aim was to show that this is the end of the nights getting longer, soon the days will get longer and I can go to work in the daylight! Yipee

A walk in Hyde Park, London

Millie in Hyde Park

Andy and I took Millie into London on the train and underground. We were picking out our photo from the photo shoot three weeks ago. We decided on a really nice black and white one that is cropped close to our two faces. Afterwards we took Millie to Hyde Park which was really close to the Photo studio. Millie loved the walk and all the new sites and sounds. She behaved really well and we had a really lovely day. It was chilly but sunny. There was SOOOOO many people in London. I couldn't believe it. Loads of people came up and said hello to Millie and oohed and ahhed. On the way back she figured out that if she laid down on the floor on the underground train it wasn't quite so scary. On the overground train home she fell asleep on my coat on the seat. Ahhh bless.

Andy and Millie in Hyde Park

Andy and Millie on the escalator on the

London underground

I loaded up a layout to the digital scrapbooking place website for the Sunday scrappers challenge to create a layout solely intended to go crazy with elements so for this we had to make clusters galour and elements everywhere !!!! This is my version.






I'm off now to write all my Christmas cards and make a Christmas shopping list.

Tired

I am so very tired. Have had a very busy week at work with every day being totally full on. Still only getting 4/5 hours sleep at night as Barney, my 13 year old dog keeps asking to be let outside for a pee. I must go to bed earlier! but there is always something that needs to be done.

Tonight I went to a card making class - black and white theme - will upload the images tomorrow. Really enjoyed it, went with a friend of mine and we both enjoyed just taking time out from our busy lives to have a "play" and a chat.

Then I put the finishing touches to my Edexcel Leadership coursework that is due in tomorrow. Have applied for a longer leadership course http://www.i-l-m.com/with more coursework involved for next year - am I mad?? I think I must be.

On the first day of Christmas...

It is nearly Christmas. Now that it is finally 1st December we can start thinking Advent Calendars, Decorations etc. Maybe I am in the holiday mood already because we have managed to get all our Christmas presents already! YAY.

Here is a site to get you digital scrappers in the Christmas spirit - http://dschristmasaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/ There are some great freebie kits here thanks to a whole bunch of generous designers.

Talking of getting all Christmassy - here are a few pictures of our Christmas decorations at the office. This is just the start - plenty more to come. There are 40 reindeer cuddly toys and more arriving daily!! Hee hee.

This year the penguins and polar bears have decided to invite themselves too, though obviously word has not got out to all of them yet as we only have 7 polar bears and 9 penguins. I am sure next year there will be more. I love Christmas decorations at work - they are so much fun!

I have recently started going on this website - www.swap-bot.com/ where you can swap almost anything that you can make. I am starting off simple with post cards and Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). Here are two postcards on which I have randomly stuck a load of stickers that are going to make their way to two ladies in America. I am due to receive two postcards the same from two other ladies from America. It is cool to see the different types of stickers that people have in their "stash".