Stitch and Craft Show 2009

So, this last weekend was my big moment, my chance to see my name in lights... well, on laminated card anyway. It was the Stitch and Craft Show 2009 at Olympia 2 in London, and the Best of British Scrapbooking 2008 winning layouts were to be exhibited. That'll be mine then! Well, along with five other far more fabulously talented people, Michelle Jackson-Mogford, Julie Kirk, Jo-Anne Cavanagh, Jane Knight and the overall winner, Kim Tomlinson.

Needless to say, I was very excited! I managed to arrange to meet up with a couple of the other winners who were also going, and we got together for a photo or two. I also got to meet the very lovely (and dinky) Rosie Waddicor, the editor of Scrapbook Inspirations - the magazine that ran the competition.

I went with all intentions of splurging on loads of stash, but managed to only buy knitting-related products. Not quite sure how that happened, but hey ho. All is good!

Right now though, I'm really wanting this wallpaper - it's fabulously decadent!

I also got to meet up with one of my "Pay It Forward" giftees, Tinkersdamn, and handed her a little cute something that I hope will be useful. The 6 spots are now filled, though I will be having a 1000 (!!!) visitor giveaway at some point very soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Suffice to say, I've had lots of fun fiddling with felt, and think I might have to make all sorts with the stuff.

So, tell me, is scrapbooking your only craft, or like me do you have crafty fingers in too many pies?

I've got a memory like a string vest

No, not dirty and full of Rab C. Nesbitt. Just a bit patchy.


I was kindly presented with this lovely Christmas Spirit award last year (ooh, that'll be all of two weeks ago then) by Trees. The idea was (oops sorry Trees) that you must be a true Christmas lover to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas. You must link back to the person who gave you the award. You must list 5 things that you love about Christmas. If you can't limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space! Pass the award along to as many people as you like.That can be 1 or 45; it's up to you. But, you must pass it on to at least one person in order to keep the Christmas cheer going! Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment.

So my 5 things:

1 The feeling of general goodwill that I get throughout the whole of December.
2 That I get to SPEND MONEY on nice things for other people without getting told off.
3 I can sing carols as I walk round the supermarket and not be thought too strange, though this only applies if it's not too loudly, and only if carol music is playing at the same time.
4 The food. I need say nothing else.
5 The prettiness that is a well-decorated tree.

And I nominate Shimelle as a person who is filled to the brim with Christmas Spirit. She's made my Christmas more fun (which I didn't think was possible) by running her Journal your Christmas scrapbook class. And the extra special bit is I get to do it again next year for free! And the year after... ad infinitum.

So, thanks to Trees, thanks to Shimelle, and I'm now off to display my virtual award in my virtual display cabinet :)

Ooh my first "award"

What a lovely way to start the day... Colleen has (virtually) handed me an award for my blog (I promise I didn't bribe her...). I'm very flattered to recieve it, and would like to thank a number of people who made this possible :) hehe.

This means that I get to pick my fave 7 blogs and pass it on to them. So here goes (in alphabetical order):


Alison, Anso, Casii, Natty, Smarty, Tinkersdamn, Trees,

I thank you :)

Finally I can blow my own trumpet!

For those of you who get Scrapbook Inspirations, have a look on page 21... I'm so proud :)

And the centrepiece is my favourite layout - the black and white layout called daisydaisy.