*a little of Explore*

So, I'm a bit late sharing with you guys, but here is week one from Shimelle's online class *Explore* which I am really loving btw!

Week 1- Adventure! Prompt one was to take a self portrait and then write a little 'note to self' which I loved doing, I have kept mine a little private by writing it on a tag (inside the Kraft envelope)
These are some pics from the map/postcard prompts, although having said that, the picture of the postcard is missing! Oopps!

A list of my Perfect things! I wrote down things from 1-10 but wrote down number 9 twice so I just added a 10.5 to the end!
At the end of the week, we were challenged to make a 12x12 LO using all the thoughts/techniques that we had learnt throughout the week. I based mine on life's little adventures and made nine circle embellishments which was a project from the week.
I wasn't sure of the colours, but I love them now x
This page is my 'write on a photo' page which I think looks cute with the star and puffy sticker!
I'll post some more pages from this project soon x Jenna x

JYC 2010 The end!

Day 31 - New Years Eve. Well I kept my page quite minimal as I thought that might reflect the way I spent my NYE! Kept it low key by having a little family shindig at my parents with yummy Chilli and Champers! Lush. I'm not too keen on NYE so it suited me perfectly!
Day 32(1st Jan) - New Years Day/Resolutions. Now my theory with resolutions is that the less you make, the less you break, Right? so my list starts with 'laugh more', which surely can't be that difficult for me.

I took Taye to a local riverside park, with my parents so that he could ride his new bike. At the end of the walk, we realised that the mini steam train was running so we hopped aboard and were completely smothered with the smoke! How the driver could see what he was doing is beyond me!

I know that the class continues until the 6th Jan, but I really can't fit any more inside so thought I would stop on the 1st.

Now I know that I said that this year I would finish my cover first but however I wanted to wait till I had completley finished inside. So here it is, full of glittery Thickers and puffy Making Memories letters. I bought the ribbon from the ribbon girl which I think looks so cute, and serves a purpose of actually stopping the book from exploding.

Didn't realise that I had used the same reindeer paper as my journal last year until afterwards!

Thanks for looking. You can see my complete album as a slideshow on the side of my blog or view it here

I will be starting a new class by Big Picture Classes soon, so come back to see how I am getting on.

Happy New 2011! JYC catch up, part 2

Well a very happy new year to you all! Have you made any resolutions yet? I have only a few this year, as that way there will be less to break!

Day 27- Sleeping in! I think I stayed in bed till about 10.30! and then have bacon sandwiches thanks to Mum. We had a family party to go to in the afternoon, where we played some games and had lovely food! On the way home we drove past a row of houses that, every year make a big effort with their Xmas lights. One house had 2 snow machines outside.
Day 28- Indulgences! These came to me so quickly, involving anything chocolate based! I also have a real weakness for Christmas pudding! For some unknown reason, Mum only bought a small one this year so I was unfortunately on Christmas pudding rations! Not very fair! We always have ours with brandy butter, custard or cream! Yum!!
Day 29- Catch up day. I decided to use these pages to journal about my fav gift I received this Christmas. A BRIGHT PINK sewing machine!, from John Lewis! Love it so much. Santa originally bought me a bright green one but decided to swap it for this one. Much more my colour you see!

Day 30 - Year in review. I had a lot of memories with this prompt, but also did some serious editing because I didn't want to use loads of photos, so just selected a few.

JYC 2010 Days 22-26

Here is Part 1 of a big catch up in my JYC, I haven't had too much time to journal with all the various activities that have been happening!

Day 22 - Last minute lists. I still had quite a bit to do including, baking cookies/brownies, wrapping them and handing them out to friends.
Day 23 - Stockings. I didn't really have a very good picture of our stockings as we only lay them out on Christmas eve, so I found this picture in a magazine, and added some die-cut stockings on top.
Day 24- Christmas eve! Only 1 more sleep. Christmas eve is always a busy day at my parents house because its also my Mum's birthday. This year we went for lunch at Frankie & Benny's which was great fun spending time together and eating yummy food! In the early evening my grandparents, Uncle and Auntie came over for birthday cake and to give their gifts. Me and my sis bought Mum a child's caterpillar cake. It was so cute!

Day 25- CHRISTMAS DAY, IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Wow, it's amazing how quickly the day goes isn't it? We got up at about 8.30, to the sound of Christmas music playing downstairs. First we opened the stockings and then Taye just dived into unwrapping his most wanted toys! The whole cast of Toy Story 3 actually.

I inserted a paper Starbucks bag between the 2 Christmas day pages so that I could include tags and more photos inside the bag at a later date. No doubt this will be quite full soon enough!
Taye was very lucky to receive a bike, Buzz, Jessie AND Woody from Father Christmas! Thank you Santa! He also received lots more TS3 toys from family and friends, lucky thing!
We had an amazing dinner that Mum had cooked at about 2.30 but waited till about 5 to have my favourite Christmas pudding. I love it so much, but this year for some unknown reason, Mum only bought a small one so I was on rations!
Day 26- Boxing day. This is also my cousins birthday and he celebrated his 9th birthday this year at my Grandparents. We played on the Wii and had lots of fun, lots of food and lots of wine. In the evening we ended up playing our fav family games such as Tip-it, and Chase the Ace, which I won again! yay!

JYC 2010 Day 20 & 21

Day 20 - Unexpected surprises! I found this prompt a little tricky at first as I couldn't think of anything that had been unexpected. Then I looked outside and realized that the 2nd lot of snow had been quite unexpected so thought I would journal about that.

I kept the page quite simple with just a few rub-ons and stickers!
I bought Taye a sledge but he didn't really like it when it tipped him out and so Dad decided that he would have some fun with it instead. He is such a big kid!
Day 21 - Right Now! I could have taken so many pictures about my home, or what I see from my window etc.. but I decided just to take a simple pic of Taye, and my little compact camera has a cool setting that tells you the age of a child (when you enter their birthday) when that picture was taken. So here is Taye at 3years, 9months and 9days!

Happy Christmas eve-eve! xx

JYC 2010 Day 14 & 15

Day 14 - Gifts! I have developed a long list of people I need to buy gifts for this year so decided that I would try and make some. I make my sister earrings every christmas, but I have tried to branch out my handmaking ideas and create different things. I will post more about these in my 10 Daily Makes mini series!
Not entirely happy with this page but here it is anyway. Can you tell what my favorite pen is yet?
Day 15- Visitors. Taye and I had the pleasure of our friends coming round to exchange gifts last week! (they are going to Australia for 3 weeks, lucky things) Taye and Yasmin (one of his girlfriends) were chatting away about all the presents that could potentially fit under the tree! While little Annabelle just wanted to pull the tree over!

JYC 2010 Day 12 & 13

Day 12 - Tales of Christmas Past. Journaling this page made me really think about the changes that have happened to our Christmases over the years! The main one is being able to see the joy and excitement of Christmas through a childs eye again, which is so great!
Day 13- Music (but it was also my half birthday, incase you wondered!) Anyway I wrote down my top 10 Christmas songs! I love love Christmas, and nothing gets you festive than a classic like 'White Christmas'
Fa la la la la la la la la!