Back to reality...

The last year has pretty much been a haze of busy and the last three months I have been in wedding overload, not to get into too much details but everything went off perfectly and the day was beautiful.  We are now however in the very last stages of post wedding wind down, all the guests have gone, the thank you cards will begin, we have a mountain of paper work to sort, leftover wedding goods to either sell or store, mountains and mountains of washing that needs to be taken care of and just the getting back into the routine and reality of what is "normal" life.

 An actual Holga wedding photo not a fake iphone number, one of my favourites, can't wait to see the others that were taken from this camera.

I am looking forward to embracing the nap where I can, they are a luxurious and self indulgent treat that I discovered after the wedding, having the time to clean and sort my house out again, having more time to socialise and finally having the time and inclination to craft and bake again.  Ohh how I have missed the simple pleasures of having a few hours all to myself with no wedding planning and organising.

How I love old stash....

You know what I love?

Actually do you know what two things I love?

Saving money/buying bargains and using my old stash.  I actually find rather a lot of pleasure in being able to re-use or re purpose something, breathing new life into something that was on its way to the bin or taking something that is old and making it look new or fit in with new products.

This is reflected a lot in my crafty endeavours, take this layout below, some of that paper is about 8 years old, some of it was rescued from going to the bin at my old work, the button came from a jar of vintage goodies found at the op shop and the pretty pink die cut paper came from a cheap multi pack of die cuts at Big W for about $5.  I did not have to buy a single a thing for this layout, it was all product that I had at home, some new and some old, some at the higher end price wise and some right at the bottom, I love it when a layout comes together like that especially when I can use paper that is from my earlier days of scrapping.   

Amazing

(Paper: K&Co, Paper Salon, GCD Studios, Lexel, Bazzill, Grant Archival)

(Other: Kaiser Pearls, Ribbon, Lace Trim, Button, Sam & Lucy Tiny Types, K&Co Stickers, Kindy Glitz, Butterfly Punch-Heidi Grace)

Blog version 2.0

So sometime last year I decided to delete the old blog and start again.  I just had the realisation that I wanted a bit of a change plus I felt that I had outgrown the old blog which I had been merrily contributing to for the past four years, bit of a big decision for me but one that feels right. 

I have taken a few months off from blogging after I deleted the old one as the reality is that I really have not had the time to dedicate to a blog.  The last few months have been a whirlwind of planning a wedding (which is pretty much almost here, eeep), working and running a household with two small children and just general life responsibilities.

So what have I been up to in the last few months?  Here are some projects that I have been working on:

So there is, a few months of creating right there.  I actually wish that there was more to show but another thing that suffered during the past few months was my creativity which is silly really as I was working in a shop environment that sold pretty papers & embellishments.

TFL, Erin