My Little Sister Is Married!

Congratulations to Deborah and Jimi!

Deborah and her beautiful Bridesmaids.

Deborah looked absolutely beautiful. Every time I look at her wedding photos I well up! It was a really special day, and the sun was shining, every thing about it was perfect. We had a little bit of trouble trying to keep Dylan amused during the ceremony, he's got a very loud voice!!!

Here he is, trying to escape whilst the photos were being taken.

My little munchkin has just woken from his nap! I'll be back later today with a scrapbooking post.

Rachel XxX

Weekend Rewind

The weekend started off perfectly with some happy mail, I won the prize on the Lilibee Studio Blog. Full of Hambly goodness, two Sassafras Clear Stamp Sets and a lovely handmade card. Thank you Leila! There's another giveaway being held on Leila's blog at the moment, don't miss it!

Mothers Day was very nice indeed! Tony made a gorgeous breakfast, homemade croissants, apricot jam, ham, cheese and a nice cup of tea. Mmmm! Then we made picnic and made our way to Bolton Abbey where we spent the day it was really lovely.

Dylan tucking in to his cheese feast!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend! :)

Mothers Day Came Early

Yippee! Dylan and Tony bought me a lovely gift for Mothers Day and it arrived this morning. I've been wanting to get my hands on this ever since I first saw it on the Sassafras blog. I've been checking the online scrapbooking shops nearly every day to see if they had it in and finally one of them did! I love it so much! And thank you Tony XxX (I know you'll read this later).

I've also been for a scan today. I did go for a 20wk scan last week, but our baby was being awkward and wouldn't get into the right position to have it's spine checked. So we had to go back today for another look. Everything looks good! So I'm on top of the world today. I've been suffering really badly with anxiety during this pregnancy, but I'm feeling much better now I've seen the scan today.

I tried to take a photo of Dylan this morning whilst photographing my new stash, but he hid under my bump. I had no idea it was this big already! :)

I've also finished my project from Lilibee Studio. Instead of making a recipe card book, I made it into a book about the words Dylan has learnt recently. I thought it would help us to remember all the funny things he says.

Lilibee 2nd One Week One Project

I'm a little bit behind with the second One Week One Project, so I haven't got any photo's of that to share! But here's a link to the tutorial and giveaway on Leila's blog.

I just thought I'd pop in and show you a mini album I made last week. The project is available here on Lilibee's blog. The project was meant to be put together using the Sassafras Bungle Jungle collection, but I didn't have any so I used Sassafras Me Likey instead. I also improvised with the stamping as well. Instead of using a stamp to create the patterned paper in the mini album I used a piece of punchinella as a mask and then dabbed over the top with an ink pad.

If you're interested, more of this album can be seen over on Flickr or at Lilibee Studio.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! XxX

Proof Reading!

I really must learn the art of proof reading. I read through yesterday's post twice before I published it, and it still has a mistake in it! Tony shouted down the stairs to me this morning about it.

Tony- "Rache you need to read through your blog."

Me- "Why, what's wrong with it?"

Tony- "You've missed a word out or something."

Me- "oh poo (or something similar), I read through that twice last night!"

So from now on, I think I will ask my extra pair of eyes to double check what I've written, before it's published. ;)

And now for some family news! My sister sprung it upon us last weekend, that she is getting married on the 19th March THIS YEAR!!! I'm so excited for her! They've been talking about getting married for quite some time and they thought they might as well just get on and book it. It's just going to be a small wedding party. She asked if I would make the invitations for her, I said of course I would. Deborah will be wearing an ivory wedding dress with a creamy gold sash and Jimi will be wearing a brown suit. So I came up with this for the invites.

The wording has been stamped and embossed. I used a Versamark Ink pad and Comic Shimmer Embossing Powder. I haven't done that much embossing before and I was really pleased with the result.

Thank You!

Thanks to everybody who left comments on my last post. I read all my comments as they arrive and I really appreciate them all. All is well in the baby department. I'm not sleeping very well though, but you can't have everything I suppose.

I thought I'd share a few layouts with today. I've finally managed to take photo's of them today, in the 30 minutes of sunshine we had. Woo hoo! Roll on spring! I get fed up at this time of year when it's grey every day.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fizzpopbang/

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