Guest Designer - 12 Month in View

I was asked by the lovely Bernice to be a Guest Designer over on this blog here

Why not hop over and see how I put this layout together.

I would like to thanks Bernice and the team  for asking me to take part with this blog, I really enjoyed the challenge.

A Trip down South - Part 2- Harry Potter Studio Tour

So to follow on from my previous post, our main reason for going to London was to do the Harry Potter Studio Tour, and boy was it great.

I am not a big fan of the film but have watched a couple of them but James hadn't seen any, he know the general story and a few of the characters so I hope he would enjoy it and take in the whole experience, and to say he loved it, is an understatement - it really helped him having the audio pack, as we all did, and he went round each area listening and looking around, it was a complete joy to see him taking it all in, on several occasional he even told me to move over and listen to what he was listening to - lol x

So here are a few photos of our day.

Arrived at the Studio

 

The great hall

The Griffin Stairwell

Chamber of Secret Door

Hadrig motorbike

Professor Umbridge's Outfits

Diagon Alley

Dobby

 Not sure what this was called, but looked very scary.

The Gringotts Goblin Masks

4 Privot Drive

James on the bridge

James gave the Harry Potter Studio Tour a big thumbs up (as you can see) and he want to go again, which is a bonus.  We are planning to return to London soon and hopefully back to the tour not before too long.

A final photo of our tried feet, as we headed home.

I would definitely recommend a visit to this tour even if you are not a fan, there is loads to see and find out about and its a great day out.

A Trip down South - Part 1

So after being back home for 2 days me and James where off again for a 2 day visit down south.  I had booked the trip with Julie and her girls, spending a few hours in London then an overnight stay, and the following day visit the Harry Potter Tour.

So we started off at Kings Cross, and had photos taken at Platform 9 3/4

Then we went on to Carnaby Street,

and found Choccowoocdodah, a very small shop 

but they had some amazing cakes on display.

Then a super quick visit to Big Ben just enough time to take a few photos, 

Then onto Covent Gardens

Whilst we were watching a street artist I noticed we were standing on James Street.

Then we headed back to our hotel to get a few hours sleep before our day at Harry Potter Studio Tour 

I would have loved to have done more sightseeing, but we were limited in time so me and James are planning to return to do more.

A cold but relaxing week in Norfolk

I've had a busy few weeks, the first started off with a family week in Norfolk.  Even though it was very cold and on a few days blowing a gale we had a lovely time.  It didn't rain so we were able to get out for walks every day and I managed to spend time with the family without rushing around.


Here are a few photos taken over the week.

So we arrived to blue skies and a cold wind, but we had a lovely walk along the prom.

I attended Church on Easter Sunday.

We walked up one hill to see the cross 

Then J&J went on a walk towards Cromer.

Of course, I just had to see the steam train again

Had a trip to Cromer.

The one of the day I walk to the top of the hill and was in time to see the steam train on its journey.

On the Saturday before we drove back home, we decided to stay a little longer in the day an walk to Cromer, this was the best day of the week and it would have been ashamed to just pack up and go.


Just has we were setting off, we watched some hand-gliders over head.

Cromer pier in the distance.

We all had a great time and I just love this part of the country, looking forward to returning later in the year.

More Holiday Minibooks

I have definitely been on a roll producing mini books for others who are going on holiday.  I have just finish putting these together for my friends children, who are going to Florida for a few weeks.

Apologies for the quality of the photos has I took them on my phone.

I started the albums using Simply Stories - Urban Traveller, so the base pages have this collection, but fortunately I only used small strips and then I came across a new collection called ' All Aboard' by Papermania - great value as well as great quality.   I got mine from my local stationery shop and the 12 x 12 paper collection was only £7.95 - which is a bargain.  I mainly used the tags, die cuts, journalling cards, and it all co-ordinated nicely.

This is the collection I got.

They even had matching washi tape (like I need more - lol x)

And here are the finished books which I did at 8 inches by 6 inches..  I'd designed the Florida title myself and cut with my cameo.

I got an A3 plastic sheet that I cut down to use as the cover for the albums.  The sheet cost £3.00 - so using this size of album I can cover 3, with a strip left over.  I adhered the title and map to the back of the plastic cover, mainly to stop it be coming upstruck.

So these are a few of the pages.

I added several envelopes that I stamped so that they could include any memorabilia that they might pick up along the way.

Then using the tags and journalling spots from the collection I added several to the album.

Then to give it some added interest I made this card, that houses a tag ...

but also pulls out to either add a photograph or some journalling.

and another one that is more for journalling or smaller photos.

 I also did a little plastic envelope with additional journalling cards, fancy paperclips and a multi-coloured pen.

I did 2 albums, one for a boy and one for a girl who are both teenagers.  They both loved them, and their mum said that they will be ideal because they don't have to be writing loads down, just jot notes - yah !! she 'get's it'.  It was good to know that they will use them and both went away saying what they can business cards etc to the envelopes when they go on their holidays.

I'm looking forward to seeing them completely or partially completed when they get back home.