Thank the Lord it's saturday!!!!

Yes it's definately been not the best of weeks. But it's at a close and next week will be great! That's my positive thinking! Thursday was our chance to say goodbye to Anne at her funeral. I have never ever been to a funeral that was such a moving celebration of someones life and it was very emotional.... Anne was a true inspiration to all who met her and she clearly had a massive impact on all around judging by the huge attendance of the service. We, the SSC design team, are running (haha!!!) ahem well maybe walking the race for life in her honour. All the proceeds will be donated to Cancer Research and the shop will have some very special kits for sale (with an amazing guest designer ;))in June with proceeds going to the charity. The shop will also be hloding other fundraising events nearer the time. I want to raise £500 so if you have a wee bit to spare please, please, please do pop over to my fundraising page!!!!

Ok the blog challenge is live and this week Vanessa challenges us to Button It!!! I have a huge button fetish going on at the mo so this challenge was right up my street! My mojo even made a fleeting appearance for this layout!

I used elements from the Chalk Garden kit (only 2 left!!!) and a whole stack of buttons to create a wave effect. I also combined this with the weekly challenge on UKS to clock up some extra points for my team!

This is the final layout from Stitches and shows me at 2 years old blowing out my birthday candles! I just adore the look of pure concentration on my face!!!!! I used Daisy Bucket papers, Hero Arts stamps and lots of chipboard which was either covered in patterned paper or painted!

Have a couple of projects to play with this morning so will pop back tomorrow with some pics of those! Am having a well deserved night out tonight so will let my hair down and have a bit of fun!

Til tomorrow

Maria x

Still alive.....

Just having a really busy and rather trying week! Mojo has gone walkies which is not good when I have a stack of projects to complete! Sooo.... if you see/find my mojo... please send him home as I am missing him!!!!

Oooh and before I forget (brain is sooo not working right at the mo!!!!) Thank you sooo much to Looby and Vanessa for their awards.... they made me smile!

Will leave you with a layout from stitches as I don't really have anything new to share :-(

Ok this was a really difficult layout to do... haven't really scrapped any of our wedding pics. Couldn't quite bring myself to journal on it yet! It's coming up to the 2nd anniversary of Danny's death and if anyone had told me 20 months ago where I would be now I simply just would not have believed them! Time IS a greater healer but as the layout says, we always have our memories. Life moves on.....

Hopefully I'll find time to blog soon and will definately post more pics from stitches! I have some lovely photos of the stand that just need a wee bit of tweeking!

Til the next time!

Maria x