Here is another layout of Milly.

Oh Christmas Tree

Oh Christmas Tree

I forgot to mention......................................

In England we have always had an artificial tree. I found out that we could go and cut our own trees here so I did a bit of hunting and found a place about 15 minutes from home where you can cut your own. So off we went to cut our tree........

It took us absolutely ages to decide which tree to cut, we would find one thta we thought was the right one and then would just go and have a look at some more and then we would find another, we would then go back and try to compare it witht the other one and completely forget where it was, they all looked similiar! Anyway about 30/45 minutes later we decided on one.

We all had a go with the saw and it was surprisingly easy to cut!! I had this image in my mind of it taking us hours!!! I must have been thinking of a tree big enough to build a house!!!!! The boys carried it back to the car and we put it on top. It was a really fun thing to do and maybe it will be the start of a new tradition for our family that started here int he US.

Now, we normally don't put our tree up until after the 10 Dec as its DS1 birthday, I know not even december and here we are putting up a tree, well I am so glad we went out and cut it as the taller ones were in limited supply.

Cold

Its starting to get cold now it was about -9C this morning which is quite cold for an English girl!!!!!! and its gonna get colder!!!!

Last night we went to Kohls to get me a decent coat as my Tog24 coat I bought in the UK is about as much use as a chocolate fire guard. The cold just goes right through it. So I got a nice coat that has down in it and I am as snug as a bug in a rug!

Murphy and Milly

I was trying to get a picture of the two of them together and I am afraid this is the best I could do at the time, they just would not sit still long enough. Will try again another time.

Puppy Love

I did this layout yesterday. I cut the pink letters with my sizzix and painted them with acrylic paint. The red letters are left over chipboard alphas (waste not want not) that i punched holes in and again painted with red acyrlic. Lots of Primas, angel blossoms, heart brads.

I really love the photo I used in this layout and have enlarged it for dh to put on his desk at work.

I did this very quick layout for the challenge on the True Friends blog which can be found here. This is the first time I have ever done a layout in this size and I quite like it.This is also not my usual style so I am not sure if I like this layout or not and think it needs osmething else but wanted to post it on here anyway that way you get to see the good and the bad!!!!!!

It was Thanksgiving yesterday a first for us. We had Turkey for the first time in about 8 years! for some reason we just went off turkey and started having beef for our christmas dinners instead. So we thought we would try it again and we liked it. Apart from DS2 who had been ill since Wednesday night, some sort of stomach bug so he has been sick a few times!

I managed to do a little bit of shopping in the Black Friday sales (these are a bit like the sales on boxing day in the UK) it was the busiest I have ever seen it here, the car parks were nearly full for a change! and I had to stand in a very long queue for the till (translated: I had to stand in line to get to the check out!!!!!!).

Hi to the people that read this blog but don't comment you know who you are !!!!!!

Here is a sneak peak of a layout I have nearly finished, just need to put some finishing touches on it then I am done.

THIS AND THAT

Since putting on the counter I have had over a hundred people visit my blog in less than a couple of days. There was me thinking that only about 10 people had ever visited it since I started blogging just over a few months ago!!! I was very wrong, I am surpised at the amount of people dropping by, so if you are reading this please take a little time to post a comment as it would be nice to see where you come from and what you think and then maybe I could even tag you.

I am hoping that the sale of our house in the UK sells soon as then there won't be the worry of paying two mortgages at the same time and I can look forward to not worrying about how we are going to pay for christmas.

Anyway I must get going as I still have bread to bake, washing, ironing and a whole loads of other things to do. If any of you have any good chocolate chip cookie dough recipes like the toll house cookie dough you can buy in the store I would love for you to send me it as its nice to bake from scratch occasionally.

SPEED

10 Things I love about You

Pink and Green

This layout opens up like a garden to reveal journalling and some extra pictures on the inside. I love the colour combination of pink and green.

Some more layouts

Not much going on here, but I did do some scrapping today, one was a double layout for the Disney Album that I gave myself this year to finish and another one of Milly.

We are going out for dinner tonight at a new friends house so that should be fun. I should be getting ready so will have to go hope you all have a good weekend.

How cute is this?

I took some photos last weekend and just got them printed, I played around with a couple and made them black and white this has to be my favourite though.

Counter Added

I have finally just added a counter to my blog, so now I can see how many people are checking me out!!! I have found that not everyone leaves a comment when they have a look so wanted to know how many people have peaked at it!!!!!!

Random Pics

A little mini book