Smile

is this week's prompt over at

Our Beautiful World

and I wanted to share the

two things made me smile yesterday ...

I went for a regular check up and the nurse said

"Wow, how did you manage that?"

She was referring to my weight loss since last time I saw her a year ago and boy

did it make me feel good about how far I'd come.

Not 10 minutes later I was told by a fella that I hadn't seen in a while

"Lesley, you look amazing and you've lost so much weight"

I could have skipped the rest of the way through town.

As I don't have a photo to share of me smiling I thought I would share

this photo of the child 

and if you felt a bit down today, I bet you're smiling now!

Contagious!?

Tick!

One by one things are being ticked off my list of things to do.

Don't you just love that feeling of accomplishment when that happens?

Do you tick or scribble out?

I do both - far more satisfying

Blog commenting was high priority and I'm now down to just three in my Feedly.

There are certain blogs that I will always comment on and I really don't like falling behind

on those so having ticked this off my list I'm feeling a lot happier.

I still have 14 items on my to do list but with the right amount of determination

I will get there.

So, back to scrapping or should I say the recent lack of it?

I have been meaning to join in with the challenges over at 

Whimsical Musings 

for such a long time that even that made it onto my list and √

I have finally achieved it...

...joining in with WM#137 (set by Leslie) with the prompt "flavour"

this photo of me and my dearest is sweet - sickly sweet maybe - but sweet all the same.

I will hopefully be joining in with more prompts from Lisa in the coming weeks...

And while I've (hopefully) got your attention there is a free Kindle book HERE

that you may want to download before they start charging!!!

Still no Layouts...

but, in between sorting the loft, manning stalls at car boot sales and 

generally doing plenty to keep me busy, 

I've made a few more cards and created my first "book"

I have now ticked all the cards of my sister's card list 

(apart from two Christmas themed ones which I refuse to do yet!)

which makes me feel quite happy.

I wonder what

the child will think of my first attempt at book folding...

I'm quite proud of myself to be honest.

Right, back up those wooden steps to find more car boot items ready for Sunday...

Oh So Quiet

Yep, that's been me for a fair few weeks now. 

Just how rubbish have I been at doing anything...

 blogging, creating, joining in with challenges

Yep, I've been rubbish.

I've been totally c**p at "doing" for the lovely Jen at Wearcrafts.

This month also sees me taking a break from my duties at the Counterfeit Kit...

I haven't missed a month since I started joining in never mind since becoming a Master Forger.

I just about got my DT layout done in time for the Challenge Yourself blog only to realise

I hadn't followed the instructions.

I've been even worse at commenting on blogs that I follow and haven't joined in with the ones that I would normally have scheduled a month before.

Oh dear, bad, bad, bad.

So apologies to one and all from me - I'm not going into my reasons but hope to be back on track

playing BIG catch up with everything during the next few days...

While I'm here, I'm going to get two in one bits that I've missed out of the way...

1P&20W meets Sweet

A tasty Friday treat tempting my tastebuds after reaching my new Slimming World target

and achieving my two stone award.

I suppose I have been slightly creative, making a few cards...

What do you do when life gets in the way?

Do you stop creating or do you get on with it?

Well, this time, you know my answer!

Joining in with Abi at Creating Paper Dreams

and

this week's prompt, Sweet, over at Our Beautiful World

Fall into Autumn

with a failure!!!

This is mine...

I wonder if you can work out why before I hold my hands up and tell you.

The above layout is my DT work for this month's prompt "Fall"
over at the Challenge YOURself blog.

I have been desperately behind with many things this month and really wanted to try to catch up at the monthly crop yesterday. I love the crop and did manage to do the two layouts I had at the top of my list however, like I say that OMG moment came at 0437 this morning.

So, have you worked out why this does not fit?
OK so it fits with the theme BUT the Challenge YOURself blog is a blog all about scrapping yourself and unfortunately that cutie in the picture is not me but it is
my Mini Me - if I don't tell anyone, do you think I'll get away with it!??

So, when you join in with the challenge, unlike me, please remember to include a photo of YOU
and link up by the end of the month.

Have you ever woken up during the night in a panic?
What was it about?
Have you entered a challenge only to realise that you didn't get it right?
Did you own up, did anyone even notice?

My papers, The Avenues by Bo Bunny are from a selection Jen sent for me to play with
and she has the collection pad HERE.

It's a very versatile range with "time" as the main theme.
You can see another of my layouts using this collection HERE

Wearcrafts #3

So here are my last two layouts using the fabulous kit from

Wearcrafts

These kits that Jen puts together are such good value for money and very versatile

so why not try to get your hands on next month's kit before they sell out AGAIN!

I've used lots of layers for this layout so keep the focus on that gorgeous selfie of the Child

(yeah OK I'm slightly biased but hey I'm allowed to be, right?)

Here I have punched through the photo itself (yikes!) to create the starry look

to go with my self cut title.

Will you be brave enough to punch through your photos?

Don't forget to take a look at Virgina's inspiration HERE and Jen's inspiration HERE

Wearcrafts #2

Today I'm sharing one of my nautical photos which match perfectly with this kit

from Wearcrafts.

As I said a couple of days ago, this kit fits with non-nautical photos too

and I will be back in a couple of days to share my last two layouts to prove just that!

Why not take a look at Virgina's inspiration HERE and Jen's inspiration HERE