A Month of Love - Day 4 - My new sewing machine

Day 4 of my A Month of Love minibook...

I bought a sewing machine yesterday. I've wanted one for a while and had been thinking I'd ask for one for Mothers Day. I'd even found one for $99 at the Warehouse! But it came up this week on special with $30 off so I decided not to wait! I'm looking forward to playing and need to find some old fabric that I don't mind making a mess of to practice with. I envisage lots of disasters as I have NEVER been good at sewing!

To make the page I sewed a heart shape onto some blue fabric and went round a couple of times with different stitches. Then I added a journalling box, a glittery heart and my date, stuck it all down and hand-drew stitches around everything to go with the sewing machine theme!

A Month of Love - Day 3 - Hubby home for lunch

Day 3 of my A Month of Love mini-book. 

I think most days I will end up posting pages the next day as by the time I get around to making them the lights no good for taking photos. It's still the 3rd of February on some parts of the world though!

Quite a simple page talking about G bringing home Subway for lunch. Lovely to see him in the middle of the day and also great to have a cookie :-)

I covered half the page with some mulberry paper, wrote my journalling on a tag and then stuck it down with some ric-rac either side and the date tag in the bottom corner.

Love you Mum

It's my mum's birthday today so I thought she deserved her own special post.

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y  M U M  :-)

Thanks for being awesome. 

Love you lots and hope to see you soon

x x x x x x x x

Photo taken September 2010

A Month of Love - Day 2 - Baby's First Swim

Here's entry 2 into my A Month of Love mini-book

Yesterday was our first swimming lesson. I didn't manage to get any photos at the pool as I was too busy keeping hold of bubby! But I did get this shot before we left the house which shows how excited we were!

The main reason I made my mini-book 4 by 6 sized was so I could print photos like this one and turn the photos into the page. 

I wrote the journalling straight onto the photo using a Slick Writer pen, added my date and a little heart sticker and then stuck it all down onto the back of page 1. Easy as :-)

Do what you love and do it often

I love that saying. So true to make me a happy girl.
So when I found this free printable I couldn't resist and saved the white background with aqua font for printing at a later date.

Yesterday I finally got around to printing it. I had a cheap silver frame that I'd bought on a whim and decided to use that. I fancied it up a little with some washi tape (there's a surprise! expect to see a few projects using that - it gives me an excuse to buy more then!). Here it is sitting on my mantel piece...

and I've zoomed out a little in this one so you can see my little washi covered baby food jars in all their tea-light lantern glory...

As the nights start drawing in it will be lovely to have them casting a warm glow on my mantel.

A Month of Love - Day 1 - Washi Tape

Here's the 1st entry to my A Month of Love mini-book

I recently bought some Washi Tape from Etsy (here) and it arrived in the mail today - all the way from Japan. So that's what today's love is! I decided to use the washi tape to decorate the page and then added a journalling spot (that I'd stamped the other day in preparation) and the date. I've left room in the top right corner for a photo of the tape but I might just leave it as it is.

I started playing with the tape straight away and decorated some baby food jars. I'm thinking about putting tea-lights in them (with the lids off obviously!) - the tape is transparent and I think the little candles will glow beautifully inside the tape covered jars.

Summer Blooms

I took these a couple of weeks ago at the Esplanade. To me, the zing of colour in these flowers is what makes summer summer.

Enjoy some floral eye candy...

You can see more seasonal inspiration and goodness here.