18th birthday scrapbook

some pages were made by me, others from my 7yr old, and some from family & friends all of different scrapbooking abilities. Truly unique.

18th birthday scrapbook

18th scrapbook

18th scrapbook

For this we used Papermania Portobello Road 12x12 papers and accessories, with a few added touches of our own. I'll post a few pages at a time. I'd love to hear what you think.

Major celebration

A few weeks ago we celebrated two major events on one special day. My son's 18th birthday. On that same day 10 years ago he started chemotherapy for cancer on his 8th birthday. He has been 10 years cancer free. Now I think that's worth celebrating.

In light of this I decided to create a scrapbook for his birthday. It was a complete surprise to him. I sent scrapbook paper, accessories and a note to family and friends asking for their own interpretation using photos, memories, funny stories, advice etc and it was wonderful to see their creations.

I'll post the pictures separately.

My clever dad's painting

Look at this beautiful picture my clever dad painted for us for Christmas. It's his interpretation of a villa we stayed at in Majorca a few years ago. Here's the photo it's painted from.

I'm so proud of him. He had an exhibition with the rest of his art group in October. I'll try to find pics of his other paintings.

Mother's Day 2

Mother's Day card for my mum

Mother's Day 1

Mother's Day card for my mother in law.

How strange

Ok now that's weird. My background has reappeared but my slideshow has gone. Strange things afoot in blogger land.

Where's my background gone?

Logged on today and my lovely background to match my gorjuss banner has disappeared. Any clues as to why and where it could have gone? I'd appreciate your help. Thanks

New Year New Resolution

I've got the bug again. Gonna make a scrapbook for my son's 18th as a memory book for all the family to create a page. Will keep you posted. I will try to keep crafting this year, but sometimes I lack inspiration. Any suggestions??

So excited....

going on holiday again to Majorca at Easter. Can't wait.

Clare's back

I'm back. Have been mojo-less for over a year, but seeing my friend Hannah's new blog inspired me, along with the new magazine I treated myself to, Quick Cards Made Easy, I've got my mojo back. Woo Hoo.

Teapot card

I made this for my best friend in Florida's birthday (which is not until May but I felt inspired today, not something that's happened for over a year!) Made from papers, flowers and ribbon already in my card making kit. Hope you like it. Made from an idea in January's Quick Cards Made Easy from a teapot outline on the internet.

Japanese cards

I made these cards using the free papers and chipboard shapes from January's Quick Cards Made Easy.

New craft blog

http://mycreativepassions.blogspot.com/?spref=fb

My friend Hannah is back blogging her wonderful crafts. I lost my crafting mojo, and my crafty friends, cos I lost touch with her and didn't craft for over a year. Maybe I'll be inspired to get back to it again with her incentives. Her blog is fab. Go have a look.

To all those who know someone who's survived cancer

http://www.simpleplan.com/saveyou/
My 15 year old son Tim who, as you know is a cancer survivor of almost 7 years, found this video of a song called Save You by a band called Simple Plan. All people featured in it are cancer survivors. One of the band members' brothers is a survivor, featured at the end. Watch it, read the text, listen to the words, and tell me you aren't moved by it. I was. I cried. Well done to all those who have survived. You are fighters. And sincere sympathy for those who know someone who didn't survive. We all know someone. It's something that can affect any one of us. But this is a message of hope, meant to be positive. Thanks for looking. 07/02/09.

Snow Day woo hoo

Emily's school playground. School was open from 10am....

The road outside our house

Front garden

Back garden from indoors

Happy New Year

Hi all, sorry I've not posted for so long. I've not done any crafting since October, just lost my mojo what with all the dragon orders etc I had and loads of stuff to do for Christmas. I was still wrapping presents at 8pm on Christmas Eve!! Not normally that disorganised. Didn't even get to write and post Christmas cards so really sorry to everyone for not sending any. Will send a donation to the Royal Marsden instead.

My daughter decided that Christmas Eve was a good day to get Chicken Pox, poor thing. She wasn't too bad with it, was more concerned that we might not get to go to see her cousin on Christmas Day. But we went, and they had fun. She did get a nasty spot in her eye though which caused conjunctivitis but we kept it clean and bathed so it was ok. Now she's just getting over it in time to go back to school tomorrow.

Hope your Christmas was great and that you have a very healthy Happy New Year.

hugs Clare x