Saturday's scraplift challenge at YMBD

Each Saturday morning a member of the terrifically talented Design Team over at YMBD presents a great layout for us to scraplift.

They always have great ideas to inspire me and here is my latest creation featuring Mr B and a bowl of strawberries & cream.

http://ymbd.blogspot.com/

QCI Blog has arrived

I have been occupied these past few days with creating a new blog for the Quimper Club International.
If you are a collector or admirer of French pottery then check out the blog, you will find a link in my Blog List.

YMBD On Line Crop Weekend

Just taking time to have a cup of tea and catch my breath. I have been having such a great time working on all these crop challenges, it really makes me think outside the box.

Finally did a LO for Chakras which I have wanted to do for a while just wasn't inspired before now.

Go to

http://yourmemoriesbydesign.ca/

to check out the fun for yourself and see all the great designs that people are posting.

On Line crop weekend

As some of you already know I recently started scrapbooking and am loving it.
I have hooked up with some other scrapbookin fans at YMBD and this weekend they are holding an onliine crop.
I have completed the 3 pre crop challenges already and am looking forward to attempting SOME of the remaining 18!
There is a link here on this blog to YMBD.

This is my favourite layout of the weekend.

January Sunrise

There's really not much going on in the garden this month, some early daffodils are coming through but that's about all.
What we do have in January though are spectacular sunrises.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Mistletoe

Whilst enjoying our walk through the French countryside this morning we came across a huge oak tree just covered in balls of mistletoe.
When I got home I took these pix of our gnarled old apple tree which hardly bears any fruit in the summer but plays unwilling host to mistletoe in the winter.
For more info on mistletoe check out this link.
http://www.mistletoe.org.uk/

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Renard the Fox

Whilst sat quietly surfing scrappin web sites this afternoon imagine my surprise when my DH (Roger to you) came flying out of the library where he had happily been watching football to yell "There's a fox in the garden"!

After several minutes of squinting through the windows we caught another glimpse of him as he slid gracefully through the shrubbery and into the field next door.

This is a first in 12 years, we have never seen a fox before, I only hope he stays away from the pond as the moorhens are a little vulnerable at present. Everything is frozen over and they are very wary of the ice.

Stay tuned for further sightings of Monsieur Renard.