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Evening all :D

This is my latest page in my mini book :D The lovel Cal is kindly sending me a propeller to add to thepage :D

This is my dads older brother Tony, who died when I was about 7.
I remember him being really lovely, smoking a pipe, and going fishing with my dad :D he had a golden retriever and painted watercolours (I must remember to ask dad if I could have his paint set as my dad no longer uses them).

I haven't many pics of my dads side as his mum and dad died when he was young and they were evacuated from Poland to South Africa.
But my mum definitely has some of him and my Auntie Connie which I plant to put with the postcard on this page ( it slides in behind the photo :D)

Been very busy catching up on HW today :o so pretty pooped now!!

Hugs'n' less dusty snogs :D
Julie xx

Grandma..

These are pics of my grandma for my album :D

Pieces of me continued...

Another two pages done already!!!
I'm on a bit of a roll with this one :D

Two more pieces of me :D

These are the two latest pages from my pieces of me Album


Really pleased with how it's looking so far and loving my distress stickles - even they don't seem to be very popular!!

Guess what???? we have just discovered that our Doggy is a calendar boy :D he is Wuffter Feb :D
Will be buying that one :D

Oh and I think something broke off my tooth when I was eating tea :(

Hugs'n'sore mouth so no snogs

J xx

Blog Candy alert...

Wow, check out this blog for some gorgeous blog candy :D

J xx

Starlight walk....

Last night i completed a 6 mile midnight walk for Hospice at home with friends from work :D
We made the front page of the local paper here which we couldn't believe especially as there was 1400 people doing the walk LOL
It was amazing!! Thankfully dry, after a rainy old day, and star lit :D
Robbie D was really funny, and the build up was fun and at times quite emotional. The fancy dress costumes were great, pink smurfs, Aunt Sally and Wurzel and lots of other fab costumes :D
We had a slow start and ended up right at the back buti have to say it was pretty amazing see 14oo people winding their way up a very long road all wearing flashing bunny ears :D
We got loads of support along the way, and felt amazing when we had finished :D

Made it to bed at 3am, and was flat out in minutes!!!
Roll on next year :D

Tired hugs 'n' snogs,
Julie xx

OMG I'm in awe.....

..at the speed some people can research genealogy!!
I have managed to trace my great grandma today through the marriage certificate I ordered and from there have traced her parents (my GG Grandparents who are both from Ireland).

I posted the info I have on www.dafgenealogy. com and somebody has confirmed my suspicions that my GG grandad wasn't from Scotland as my mum said ( would you believe Barrow!!) and has found who is prime suspect to be his wife. Which confirms my suspicions and may have also led me back to Ireland again with my GGG grandma LOL- Confused??? Yes LOL and all in under an hour :o

Feeling very proud of myself at the mo :D
Hugs'n'snogs

J xx

Pieces of me...

I have started a mini album using an embossed Prima chipboard album.
I have decided to call it Pieces of me - I plan to decorate the cover with jigsaw pieces and use a piece on every page.
I have loads of fab vintage pics of my ancestors and thought it would be nice to make an album with just them, as they are all the little pieces that make up me :D

This is the first page I have made with a pic of my mum ....


Extremely warm hugs'n'snogs

Julie xx

Marley and me....

Well it was a beautiful day today so we took Rolo for a trip to Ennerdale, one of my fave places as it's so unspoiled :D just a tiny village, a campsite and a beautiful lake and scenery :D
The carpark was quite full today and by full there was aroun 50 cars - it's a hidden gem away from the tourist track so shhhhh don't tell :D
Rolo had a fab time swimming and met a few new friends, the main one being Marley, a one year old retriever - they got on like a house on fire and were so cute runninga round and playing together. Marley isn't a swimmer yet so Rolo swam out for the sticks followed by Marley as far as he could wade then Marley would bring the stick in LOL - kinda like a relay race haha :D


It really made us think wouldn't it be nice to have a friend for Rolo.....hmmm????
There wasn't a single bark or snarl between all four dogs :D

Sunny hugs 'n'snogs :D

Julie xx

Busy, busy, busy...

....Oh my goodness!!!
Busy at work!! I have been working at Carlisle as they have had a major visit today from the directors!! worked lots of hours and very tired!!

and my poor pooch :( paul came to meet me at the train station on Monday and played with the dog on the wasteground next to the station - poor wee fellow took the skin off his pads running around :( He has been a very good boy and laid patiently while we bathed his feet with saline and didn't rip off the socks we taped to his feet thankfully!!
We went to see the nice vet, much to Rolos disgust, and she said they were starting to heal :D YIPEE :D so he has pain killers so he can put some weight on his tootsies :D

Ok, here's my scrapping efforts for thsi week - this is a pic of my mum as a young girl which she had a negative made, I scanned and then printed in a much bigger format - the original is teeny :o
The scowl is so like so many pics of me as a child LOL

Swine flu free hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx

all aboard!!!

the Skylark LOL ( if you can remember Noah and Nelly LOL)
caught this little cutie when we were walking the dog yesterday :D

had trouble identifying it because it looks more grey but is actually brown.



This was me playing with my new camera :D

Julie xx

Happy INSD!!!

... a bit late I suppose but happ INSD :D
for any hybrid or digi scrappers there are some amazing freebies floating around the web :) I'm busy downlaoding now :D fave ones are at myscrapbookart.com and digishoptalk.com

happy downloading everyone :D

Got my first alcohol inks this week - now I need to work out how to use them LOL

hugs'n'stuff

J xx

I have been doing a little bit of altering today

from this










To this :D
















This is my Grandma as a girl

It's been a tough couple of weeks at work...

Been busy trying to get the shop look amazing for the regional store managers meeting - the biggest visit we have me thinks!!!

It meant a lot of hard graft getting the windows dressed in extreme circumstances, and dressing the store!!!

Living display...

Swimwear...

why did I have to be clever and cover all the plinths in fabric!!!

Oooooo and look what was waiting for me when I got home :D

A beautiful jigsaw piece fom the lovely Rebekah :D

How cute s this :D

Huge Thank you hun :D

Snogs'n'stuff

Julie xx

Happy Easter :D

Happy Easter :D

This is a LO of me and Paul at my nieces wedding - these are normally the out take pics as Paul is known for pulling faces, but i decided this was a normal pic haha :D

Plus the other one was horrible of me LOL

I used recycled printed acetate from a chrimbo prezzie - Boots No7 :D and all the bits of ribbon were samples I was sent when I ordered some lace.

Ooooo I'm all excited too- I have just ordered a new camera :D

It's a Fuji S1500 10MP Bridge Camera from QVC which i am sure will take lots of getting used too haha :D

Proud Parents

I'm just loving vintage grungey looks at the mo :D
This is another pic of my nieces wedding of her and my sis and bro-in-law.
And look.... not only did I cut the gorgeous paper, I crumpled it and inked it too :o
Gotta love Prima :D

First of my scrapblog photo LO's :D

Well this is tonights work, I couldn't sleep last night and this was one of the thinks on my mind LOL

I used Prima Angelique papers, which I lurve and have been trying to use for a while!!
It's just so hard to cut in to something so pretty LOL

Swings are fun!!!

It looks as though Jess needs a little convincing about this LOL

Todays efforts

This is my niece on her wedding morning :) love this pic
- BUT... I also love the dressing table which was an M&S gift card that they gave me frr of charge :D I went and asked what was the min you could put on a card, they were goingto try and put 10p on for me but when I went back they told me to just take it!!!
It's gorgeous!!















Cute eh :D

Action shots!!!

Just gotta love this pooch :D look at the size of that flippin tongue!!!
DH took him for a good run about and this is the result hahaha :D

I had forgotten DH had taken the shots below last summer on his phone - he has a multi burst shot function on his phone :D How funny :D

Have to scrap some of these :D