My happy place....

We have a very casual group of crafters who meet up to crop on the second Saturday of the month.  I don't always get there, due to family commitments, my photography, camera club, but when I do it is so lovely to be spending the day with the girls, chatting and scrapping.

Now packing for the crop is a problem for me - I stand in the office, and I start putting things into the bags and keep adding and adding till the bags are full, and I am not sure whats in there, but in my sad mind I need everything and have probably left the thing I needed the most at home.  So last Saturday, I got to spend the day with the "girls" and I arrived with my 2 huge bags and still ended up asking "anyone got gray cardstock, or a mini mister" - so have to get better at packing for crops.  I also arrived with no photos to scrap, and when I had a good rummage around in the bag I found this photo of my Mother In Law on her wedding day.  At the same time I saw one of the girls had brought her Tim Holtz dies and the idea for the Lo just came together.

I used 2 TH dies, the sewing one and the Tattered Florals that I just got for a bargain from a crafter who was selling theirs.  Some of the girls were finishing their 3rd and 4th LO and there I was still faffing around with this one.  Takes me ages, I have to go slowly, agonise about everything and try and make it perfect.  Again when I came home as there was a sewing theme on the LO I wanted to sew on the edges and the Bl00** sewing machine threw a wobble and just kept skipping stitches, getting stuck and snapping the thread.

 My little one was 3 last Sunday, we took her out for dinner (a bit of a laugh as she does not eat and has a stomach feeding system that we feed her thru tubes at night) to TGI Fridays, she loved standing on the chair and they sang Happy Birthday to her.  On Tuesday I invited some of the mums around with her friends for a little tea party.  The night before I made Brownies, and two different lots of cookies, and then after I cleaned up I went to the office and had an idea about making a string of bunting (a bit obsessed with it at moment!) and I remembered I had a few sets of Crate Paper, Paper Dolls left over, and I cut the sheets up, arranged them, and then sewed them in place using Seam binding.  After I added some of the stickers on the plain flags, it made a lovely addition to the kitchen and I love it!



After cutting the bunting out I was left with small pieces, not enough to do anything with so I punched flowers with 2 types of punches and sewed them in a string and lay this out on the party table - not the best photo but you get the idea! (It was only a small tea party, so not much on the table!)

Here is a snap of the little madam at her party - she was so excited and had great fun!  I will dress her up and get some better photos of her but the day was very busy for me, and photography took a back seat to being the party mom!