"Well thank you very much, Jerry!"

I made this card for a wedding I'm going to tomorrow, using kit scraps from the ATDML retreat (ta for the extra butterfly, Jackie :)).

The reception is in a bedouin tent. I have no idea what that is, but it sounds a bit suspect. I trust that there will be no beardy-weirdy tree-hugging type nonsense expected of me.

The tent is pitched in a farm field up in the hills. Apparently the only toiletry facilities will be portacabin loos (shudder - I feel an attack of the Margot Ledbetters* coming on).

Made this card using some scraps from WRMK Nonsense pad - £12 bargain from QVC until they went and put the price up.

*no, that is not a euphemism for "the shits", thank you. Although actually, come to think of it...

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I made the covers for my album for Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas project last night. It involved a lot of foul and unseasonal language, I don't mind telling you! Something to do with an acrylic album, Stazon and an unexpected chemical reaction. But anyway, it's done now.

I'm going for a mismatched look, so I'm not picking papers from any one particular Christmas range. Most of the things I've set aside to use aren't even Christmas papers anyway, although obviously these are (Cosmo Cricket and Papermania).

I'm a guest DT member for Make the Moment Last this month. I got to use some papers from the Crate Paper Lemongrass collection, plus some other bits and bobs and a gorgeous glittery Fancy Pants mini transparency. I've never come across them before and was a bit unsure how to use it, but it really lifted the LO.

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(It's great having a ginger boy. I'm never phased by orange papers!)

I used Fancy Pants Fresh Mod stamps on this one.

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The stalks are Daisy D floral rub ons.

A couple of Christmas cards with my favourite stamp this year, Silly Reindeer by Rubber Soul. I got him from Sir Stampalot .

I bought this and a couple of Hero Arts stamps for this year's cards, but have struggled with the Hero Arts ones because really they need colouring in and I have reluctantly reached the view that I just can't colour in stamped images right. They look rubbish whatever I do, and I get really frustrated, so I think I am best avoiding them from now on.

This is a quick one using my cricut (Christmas Cheer).

My first card since before Christmas. I've been scrapping too much lately, it felt good to be able to muck about with choppy odds and ends and not worry about the end result. The frogs are off-cuts from one of the Basic Grey Color Me Silly papers - I used them in a LO that's on the ticker below.

I'm making plans for Ally Pally at the weekend!!! My friends and I are going down early Saturday and coming back late Sunday, so I will have to carry everything I take with me for two whole days. I therefore need a bag that is both commodious and comfortable. I have a lot of large bags, they sort of stack up when you have kids. The linings are stained with milk and fluffy sweets and nappy juice, but I suppose one will do.

I have seen this one though, by the Old Bag Company (love that name!).

They're selling it in my local Lakeland. It's nearly £30. That seems awfully extravagant, just for a bag. Especially when I'll be on a spending bender this weekend. I mean it is gorgeous - I've been into Lakeland a couple of times and looked at it and felt it and it's really well made and sensible, but kind of frivolous too. And it would make a great beach bag, and we really need a beach bag because we haven't got one. And it would be a great crop bag too. But still, £30...

[Listen up brain. You and I both know I'm going to buy that bag. Here's the deal. You find me an entry line for getting it into the house, EXCLUDING "What, this?? I bought it last year, don't you remember?", because frankly you've offered that one up a lot recently and I don't think he's buying it any more, and I will see about purchasing you some of those fish oils that you've been hankering after. Mmmm, lovely fish oils, yes? Oh, and "This? It was a birthday present" will no longer work either.]