Proud Mummy Moment

Ok so this is definately one of those proud Mummy moments. Caitlin made her first scrapbook layout on Sunday! She chose the photos from the ones I had taken. She decided on pink for the background paper and them choose the patterned paper from a range of pinks I pulled out for her. When I asked what she wanted on the page, she decided on 'Easter egg hunt'. Unsurprisingly she liked the pink glittery letters, the white letters are cut from pearlised card.
Caitlin had very definate ideas of what QK shapes she wanted se;ecting eggs, chicks and flowers from my QK folders.

She needed some help with sticking the paper and photos down. But the easter letters she stuck down and all the QK shapes. The only bits she asked me to do were the white letters and to write the date on the eggs. Didn't she do fab?! Even better she immediately asked if she could do another page on a different day.

I think another scrapper is born, I'm not sure if Tim is delighted he'll get more free time while Caitlin and I scrap together or fears for the balance of our bank account with a second scrapper in residence, LOL.

The year so far

Ok, so I've been hopeless at posting this academic year, but I am still here!

I've finished my independent study and my dissertation, thank goodness. I'm on placement on a non-traditional placement at a residential college for adult education, I've done a month, then I have another 8 weeks left and 2 weeks at university before I finish my degree (well if I don't fail anything, so fingers crossed).

Tim is recovering from his second foot operation in January and seems to be doing ok at the moment. I'm nt sure if it has been easier this time as we knew what to expect, or tougher as we knew how long the recover was and could be more realistic. Tim is now the bionic man though as they used these low profile metal plates in his foot this time.

Caitlin is loving school and is loving reading, she has just taken to it like a duck to water. Her writing is a bit further behind, but she's doing well and keeps us on our toes.

We've just had the Easter weekend and there was snow on the ground on Easter day, so I rushed out before breakfast to layout and easer egg hunt round the garden so she could do it in the snow as she wanted. By the time she got out it was already melting and too slushy to make snow balls, but she did like running around the snow in her wellies collecting eggs.

I've not had much time or energy for crafting apart for jewellery. I've been making jewellery, especially as my independent study was on the use of jewellery as a creative therapy, I attended a jewellery making class, making pieces from scratch. Which developed my skills further, I loved hammering metal to create a textured finish on the copper. the necklace in the picture is one I made, the leaf shapes I cut, hammered and finished from copper, then assembled with the copper jump rings, round links and toggle clasp.

The lariat style necklace is one I made and absolutely adore. I originally made it as I didn't know what I could do with the silvery beads which have flecks of brown and aqua in them. The combination seems to work beautifully and I've had more compliments about this necklace than any other I've made.

Recently I've started to pick up my digital scrapbooking more, partly because Tim kindly upgraded my memory in my laptop, so it can cope better with digi scrapping and partly because I have been developing some stuff for placement using digi scrapping as an activity.