Old Photos to Scrapbook

I've got so many photos I need to scrapbook, and lots of old papers to use up, especially before the craft show in London.

once again thank you to Shimelle and her Starting point.

For this one I've used lots of Basic Grey's Euphoria collection from a few years ago

This one has a bit of Studio Calico B side and some of American Crafts Dear Lizzy's new range which I absolutely love. Its Shimelle's from last week.

Shimelle's Starting Point

Crazy Hair Day

Maddie had a crazy hair day at school last week to raise money for charity.
she insisted on yellow hair, even though hers is blonde anyway but I managed to convince her to have pink ends.

Las Vegas Wedding

I came across these two photos on Sunday of my baby brother and sister-in-law, I've been meaning to scrap them for ages.  I've been thinking about them a lot lately and can't wait to see them at the end of the year.

I came up this layout thanks to Shimelle and her sketch of the week.

sketch of the week with Shimelle

Warm March

A few photos from the past week, we've been making the most of the unseasonably warm weather and spending lots of time outside.  We even had a BBQ tonight, 21 degrees unheard of for March.

Maddie holding the little bantam egg next to the huge goose egg, from our neighbours, the kids watched them lay and then brought them home for an omelette for lunch

a walk along the pier in Southport after a fish and chip lunch

poor little Caleb, his first day of potty training has taken it out of him

12 photos on the 12th of March

I'm not a very good photographer, but I do have aspirations be be a better photographer, one day  when I have more time.  So when I saw this challenge on my Elizabeth Kartchner's website my favourite scrapbooking blog, I decided to give it a go.  Just 12 photographs, I tried to take the photos from different angles, just photos of my everyday stuff, mainly in our garden with Caleb.

The Daily Dozen: 12 on the 12th of March

Start them young

He's going to make someone a good husband, I've got him in training early, his future wife will be thanking me

A Treat Out

We had a little shopping to do in Liverpool and then we went onto Pizza Express for a treat. 

Feeling sorry for himself after we put him back in the highchair because he wouldn't sit still

perking up when his ice cream and frothie arrives

Best Friends

As much as these two can fight, they really do love each other, Caleb started climbing out of his cot and the other night I discovered him in bed with Maddie, he now has his own bed though.

Valentines Day

Valentines Day baking did get a bit messy, but we all it keep them amused for a while.

Maddie gave out her Valentines to all her school friends and she got one back from a boy!

 dipped in white chocolate and covered in sprinkles

           

 sweet treats for everyone, well not Kev, hes detoxing

Kids Valentines Craft Idea

Maddie likes making things just as much as me, so I decided we would make a Valentines gift for all her classmates together.  I got some inspiration from http://elizabethkartchner.com/category/kids-craft-idea/

 First we cut out 28 hearts to create 14 hearts, then Maddie wrote a message and decorated 14 of them - the fronts.

then I stitched the two hearts almost together, popping in the heart sweets as I went.



Love hearts that have a sweet surprise inside.

Naughty Boy

When Maddie yelled out "Mum quick come downstairs and see whats Caleb has done" I was imagining all sorts of disasters. Not three tubes of sugar balls, stars, and chocolate balls all over the kitchen floor. It seems he just wanted a little sugary snack, and cake sprinkles were handy and the only way to eat them was to tip them all over the kitchen floor.

Emma comes to stay

Maddie's adventures with Ted

It was Maddie's turn to have the class teddy bear Ted in the weekend, we had to take photos of all the things he did with her to stick in Ted's book

at Gymbobs

a little walk through the village with Emma

at ballet

in the pine woods

Birthday Girl

The starting point for the cake, thanks to youtube and a five minute video, I felt brave enough to give it a go

 having fun at the softplay fun house

we didn't actually cut the cake, I made cupcakes for all the children to put in their party bags

 another little celebration at home on her actual birthday

My little girl is now five, its very scary to think how fast the past five years have gone.