Cinema with the kids

I was feeling a little guilty because we haven't filled the holidays back to back with stuff for the kids to do, so we went to the cinema today. Trying to get a film to please a little girly 6 year old, a bit older girly 7 year old and a very trying to be cool pre teen 12 year old boy is a pretty tall order.

So we went to see Mr Bean's Holiday.

Predictible.

Silly.

But lots of laughs.

Then again I love kids films. We are all excited by the trailers up and running for films to come too the must sees for my kids (and me!) are Shrek 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3. Can't wait for either of them.

So what film is on your must see list in the foreseeable future? Post your answer in the comments section of this post to be in with a chance to win a RAK from the very inspirational and most generous Wilna. You need to answer this question, then, to be eligible for the RAK, you need to visit some other blogs and leave comments there too. Here is her blog: Wilna, so you can see what else you need to do!

Also check out the fabby competition Kirsty has got running for all lovers of BOM's. Scrap your hands. There are stacks of cool prizes lined up already. Digi, paper or hybrid pages are all welcome as I am sure are international entries (best check that out on Kirsty's blog mind). You ought to bookmark Kirsty's site, she does some great digi freebies and very gorgeous photos too.

My entry is actually a page I did around this time last year, it was a challenge run on another board to create your own stamps. As you can see, I took the easy way out!

Happy Birthday to my Baby!

Mia is 6 today!

How come?

Where did 6 years go?

She was such a good girl and waited until I got up to open her pressies and loves everything. Especially her new party dress. Which is pink and girly and twirly. Exactly as it should be!

Here is a little piccie of her earlier today. I always forget my camera is useless inside, the light was pretty good and they still came out grainy. Anyhow a little bit of cropping and a filter applied and her beauty simply shines!

Happy Birthday my angel xxxxxx's

*Shriek* YES!!!!

Len is out, the kids are in bed, but I just got the email to say I am through to the final three and last round of the MM Idol contest.

WOW! Incredible. I can't think of what else to say. This is huge for me, really, really, enormously huge!

And to know that I got through despite a truly anonymous round is even more thrilling. I have really appreciated the support from my fellow UK buddies, but to still get through when people didn't know which was mine is very important to me.

Oops come back to add that mine was project number 5 - True beauty comes from the heart.

MM Idol voting time is here again!

Oh and extra twist this week, to make it even more anonymous, we were all given the same set of photographs to scrap. My I found that hard! I had to keep imagining Chiara's face in place of this other girl (well they are both blonde so it did help a little!).

I think mine screams me, but then I would, wouldn't I?

If you want to look at the projects this week, check out the MM Idol blog. BTW the theme this week was chipboard :) Every vote counts, so please take a minute to check it out.

Thanks :)

Finished!

Yes, that is the time! But I was determined to get the next MMI challenge project out of the way. Need to get up bright and early (eek) in the morning to get photographs done and uploaded.

We have a very packed Easter weekend planned so needed to get it done before the activity started.

Off to bed now
nite nite all xxx's

The door

So this is my bargain door from IKEA, £2 from that clearance section at the end of the store. 5' long it is. Thought it was a good idea in the shop, got it home and then thought .... well I don't really want to swear in public but you probably get the idea :D Actually, a project of this size was something I had been contemplating for the end wall of the new playroom, but I really hadn't got much further than thinking that 'something' (not knowing what) would be nice!

I bought sample tins of paint from the DIY store and masked off an area to paint this beautiful green border. Green is my favourite colour, plus I wanted a colour scheme that wasn't too girly girly. Given that green is also Josh's favourite colour it seemed a good choice. Plus it matched the colours in these gorgeous Scenic Route Lauren papers.

The brackets were a bit of a faff. I printed one off the computer then resized it in several sections, pieced those together, cut them out and traced and cut out from some big sheets of mountboard from Hobbycraft. They were painted and then the edges doodled with marker pen for definition.

The Play and Work words are Making Memories which I covered with the patterned papers. Then decided that they weren't bold enough. So started the very time consuming task of adhering them to black cardstock and handcutting a margin around.

I used PSE2 and made a sketch of the project before I started to get an idea of photo placement so I knew what size photos to print out. I really don't usually work to plan, but on a project of this size and in the time scale I had to work to, I think it really helped.

The next round of MMI is especially challenging for many reasons, not least of which that I haven't started yet (though haven't stopped thinking about it) and we are away for the weekend which means I have to upload by tomorrow night. Time to clear the desk and get started I think!

Totally, utterly, stunned!

I am crying.

Top ten was a dream.

Top five is unbelievable.

I am stunned and overwhelmed with the good wishes and support.

Can't think of what else to say but THANK YOU and YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

Will upload piccies of challenge 5 project tomorrow, but it was the door on the wall, Play is the Work of children. I think lots guessed right :)