New Year and (finally) an update to my Blog

Okay so I apologize. I know I’ve been rather lax with the updates again, but to be honest I’ve been busy enjoying myself and not really had any time for writing of any description. Mrs H3 and I have been partaking of pantomimes, a film and a concert and I really wanted to do the review of them justice rather than a quick mention so I had to wait to find time to do so.

So, busy with the fun and then with Christmas, with work and play and a nice Christmas dinner at Mrs H3’s mum and dad’s house followed by presents (see the photos below) – yes that is the stunning limited edition version of JK Rowling’s Tales of Beedle the Bard that Mrs H3 bought me - and yes that is an I Love Cheryl t shirt that she's wearing!



This was followed, of course, by New Year’s Eve – not my favourite night of the year, especially as I was working at the pub (a rather slow and somewhat boring evening I felt, due to the lack of customers). It was probably not my sister Jo’s favourite night of the year either this year as she spent most of it in labour (although with an epidural and gas and air, maybe it was a good one for her after all).

Yep, Freddie James, my nephew, arrived into the world at 1.23am on New Year’s Day weighing 7lbs. I’ve just got back from a visit with mum and dad to see him so there will be plenty of pictures just as soon as I’ve uploaded them into my photo album.

Already there are a few things for us to look forward to this month: the 22nd sees a return visit to see the amazing Bill Bailey and then there is one final pantomime in the form of Mother Goose performed by my friend Jen’s acting troupe, RATS on the 23rd. Of course then it’s my birthday, so I’m sure we’ll find something to do to celebrate that…or we’ll end up down the Sherwood Oak as usual. *LOL*

While I think of it I’d just like to say a quick Happy Birthday to all my friends with birthday’s this month who I probably won’t get round to sending cards to, as I’m as unorganised as ever. Lorraine, Claire, Dolly, Pauline, Jen and KJ – hope you all have (or have had in some cases) good days!

I’ve just registered for the latest UKS Cybercrop – The Whodunnit and am on Dana Scully’s FBI team with my old friend Sharona. It takes place on 6-8 February. No idea how much I can take part but I’m looking for new Kiefer pictures to scrap as I write…

UKS Oscars Cybercrop Day 2

Okay so it’s the end of day 2 of the UKS Oscars cybercrop.

Have to admit to having not been very productive yesterday evening mainly due to having to install Office 2007 and then get to know how to use it before I could do anything – it’s weird compared to all previous versions of the programme, but I’m loving it so far. Also the first few classes weren’t really my sort of thing as a digiscrapper – the first was to decorate a manikin and then do a mini book for it to hold, then there was a challenge to make embellishments etc. However, this evening I’ve got into my stride and managed to accumulate 130 points for the Drama Queens.

Now I know they say the point of the cybercrop isn’t to get points it’s to have fun and do decent layout’s (and to that end they’ve hidden the score and they won’t be announced until the crop is finished – please let us see the running total Scrappybunny *beg beg*), but as we all know - for me points are the thing. They are the thing that actually get me scrapping. Let’s face it I didn’t even get round to looking at the classes for the last one which had no points attached to it and neither did several of my sinner mates.

Of course I’ve made it difficult for myself (why not eh?) because with the exception of one layout I am expecting the rest will be of Jo and Paul’s wedding and so I’m having to adapt the classes to fit the colour scheme that I’ve been using for them.

So far I have managed 2 classes and 1 challenge, although I’m anticipating completing a few more before I go to bed (after all I haven’t done my traditional cybercrop Kiefer layout yet).

So here’s what I’ve done as of 11pm tonight:

Class: The Colour Purple by Beckie – this class used lush velvet papers etc.

Class: The Stuntman by Sarah – how not to be afraid of white space it said on the blurb!

Challenge: Media Mogul – a layout based on a movie poster. I used the one for Pride & Prejudice (shown below)

So I’m off to read back through the challenges and see what else I can do easily otherwise I might be making a start on my Kiefer layout.

Day Two: Cybercrop Points = 130