This Month I Will.........

1. Kiss and cuddle my little babies at least once every day.
2. Find something to smile about each day.
3. Have a minimum of 30 minutes every day of ME time, no children, no TV, no computer, no telephone, just ME.  As selfish as this may sound, it needs to be done for my own health, both physically & mentally.
4. Make Fridays (my day off) part housework/errand - frees the weekend to spend time with Liam & Freya - and part 'me' time.  Too much of the housework/errand stuff last month!
5. Go for a walk every day, even if it is only for 5 minutes, I will go outside and walk to clear my head and think about life.
6. Complete the 50 LO Challenge - only 11 to go now!
7. Complete 12 Granny Squares or stripes
8. Finish LSNED - need to cover the back & inside covers (but awaiting matching fabric on front cover) & make the remaining 8 pages and order, then attach the handful of photos I am including in this project.
9. Complete 2 pages in each of Liam's and Freya's 'Year In The Life Of' mini albums - they have fallen by the wayside since Easter (oops!)
10. Start organising presents for Christmas - Its going to be a stress free one this year!

Learn Something New Every Day 2nd September

My LSNED album and cardstock arrived promptly yesterday and after lunch with a friend, afternoon chat with another and a quick tidy, mainly because I had to find my scrap space courtesy of Freya I got on and made the cover and cut up the cardstock.  Really happy how it turned out:

Today I learnt that I should follow instructions.  I purchased what can only be described as pompom wool which I am knitting a scarf for Freya with.  Lovely lady in the shop said cast on 12 stitches which is what I did.  Me being me thought that is surely not enough and cast on another 8.  There I sat kitting away for a couple of hours and had a decent length which, as Freya was asleep, I wrapped it around me for length and oh was it too wide!  The pompoms just make it so thick and wide and I was gutted.  I am not a 'natural knitter' and this had taken me a good few hours.  Off the needles it came and all my work was undone.  As this was for a child I only cast on 10 stitches and down I sat to do it all again.  This time it is perfect and I am so in love with it.  Just wished I had listened and followed those simple instructions.

Also a little late, this month I will:

1. Kiss and cuddle my little babies at least once every day.
2. Find something to smile about each day.
3. Have a minimum of 30 minutes every day of ME time, no children, no TV, no computer, no telephone, just ME.  As selfish as this may sound, it needs to be done for my own health, both physically & mentally.
4. Go for a walk every day, even if it is only for 5 minutes, I will go outside and walk to clear my head and think about life.
5. Continue with the 50 LO Challenge - half way there now :0)
6. Complete 10 Granny Squares or stripes
7. Enjoy LSNED

Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday?

Wednesday again!  Doesn't time fly.  Here is my desk today:

Here are another two LO's I did yesterday:

This now means I have completed the 18 LO's I planned for this month and I only need to do another 34 until I can buy more stash!

If you want to join in and see other crafty spaces across blogland visit Julia at Stamping Ground.

This Month I Will.........

1. Kiss and cuddle my little babies at least once every day.
2. Find something to smile about each day.
3. Have a minimum of 30 minutes every day of ME time, no children, no TV, no computer, no telephone, just ME.  As selfish as this may sound, it needs to be done for my own health, both physically & mentally.
4. Go for a walk every day, even if it is only for 5 minutes, I will go outside and walk to clear my head and think about life.
5. Complete 10 LO's, plus the 8 I did not complete in July
6. Complete 10 Granny Squares.
7. Do lots and lots of baking
8. Enjoy our summer break
9. Recharge my batteries
10. Continue to work on my new craft space in order to get it completed by September - being realistic here, it will take a few weeks to do and I don't want to rush to get it completed and end up with things I am not happy with.

Being realistic about what I want to achieve this month, ok I'm not at work but I do have 2 kids under my feet all day!

Scrapping Time At Last

Off to the Bromsgrove Crop tonight so at last I am going to get some scrapping done this month.  Question is now, what to take with me!


Wonder how big a dent I will make in those 15 LO's I want to make this month......mmmmm

This Month I Will.........

1. Kiss and cuddle my little babies at least once every day.
2. Find something to smile about each day.
3. Have a minimum of 30 minutes every day of ME time, no children, no TV, no computer, no telephone, just ME.  As selfish as this may sound, it needs to be done for my own health, both physically & mentally.
4. Go for a walk every day, even if it is only for 5 minutes, I will go outside and walk to clear my head and think about life.
5. Complete 10 LO's, plus the 5 I did not complete in June.  Entering at least 2 into online challenges.
6. Make 3 cards.  Entering at least 1 into online challenges.
7. Complete 15 Granny Squares.
8. Spend an hour each weekend to work on a cross stitch UFO.
9. Do lots and lots of baking
10. Enjoy our long weekend away in Windsor with a 2 day pass to Legoland.
11. Recharge my batteries
12. Buy no new stash???? As with last month not too sure about this one but I have so many things and just need to use some before new collections are released later in the year and I need to go and buy them.  Can't quite see me going the whole month without finding something that I MUST have.  PS  Subscription kits don't count, but no add ons allowed.
13. Continue to work on my new craft space in order to get it completed by September - being realistic here, it will take a few weeks to do and I don't want to rush to get it completed and end up with things I am not happy with.
14. Research and plan lots of fun activities for the summer hols
15. Play and try to use my new toy properly - will tell you more about that later.
16. Leave work where it belongs, at work.  I will not think & stress about work in MY time.

Just Not Going To Happen

Well I did try, but sadly life got in the way....just not going to reach my target of 10 LO's this month. Just on my way home from work now, got a medical appoinment at 4, then need to feed the kids then get them to Beavers for 6. This will give me around an hour of scrapping before I need to pick them up. Off out tomorrow night, so it is very clear I will not do 5 LO's in 1 hour tonight.

Did try, but sadly failed :0(

This Month I Will.........

Kiss and cuddle my little babies at least once every day.

Find something to smile about each day.

Have a minimum of 30 minutes every day of ME time, no children, no TV, no computer, no telephone, just ME.  As selfish as this may sound, it needs to be done for my own health, both physically & mentally.

Go for a walk every day, even if it is only for 5 minutes, I will go outside and walk to clear my head and think about life.

Complete 10 LO's.  Entering at least 2 into online challenges.

Make 5 cards.  Entering at least 2 into online challenges.

Complete 15 Granny Squares.

Spend an hour each weekend to work on a cross stitch UFO.

Rediscover the joys of baking.

Plan my next weekend away, we so enjoyed last weekend in London that we MUST go on another family adventure sometime very soon.

Recharge my batteries

Buy no new stash???? mmmm, not too sure about this one.  Can't quite see me going the whole month without finding something that I MUST have.  PS  Subscription kits don't count, but no add ons allowed.