This weekend's scrapbook page

This is a very poor photo of what I worked on yesterday and today - another page of the cat scrapbook I'm making for my mother. Her cat went to kitty heaven earlier this year; she asked me to put all his photos in an album, but I thought I'd go one step further and do a scrapbook. Maybe I'll post some of the other pictures sometime. It's a good thing I'm not charging her cost for the book, it would be over £50 by now, but I'm secretly glad to have an excuse to buy more scrapbooking stuff!

The reason it's such a bad photo is that SUMMER IS OFFICIALLY OVER and it is now dark here by about 8pm, so the electric light is on. My iPhone camera hates electric light, apparently.

Today was not a particularly good day. Ed looked at two houses while I was at work, I had such high hopes for one of them but it was not to be. The other didn't have a freezer so I am not keen on that! Without a car it is so hard to keep a regular supply of affordable meat etc. available unless I can freeze it. He is off to another house tomorrow. We've seen one that would be almost perfect, but the agent doesn't answer the phone or their emails so it's something of a challenge to get an appointment. They don't have an office either so camping outside their door is out of the question, unfortunately.

Tonight's soundtrack: Ben Folds - Cologne, The Beatles - Martha My Dear, Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbour

Friday night's work

I've decided to start writing things again - it's less than a year since I last blogged, which is pretty good for me! I'm not what you would call consistent.

This is what I made Friday night, I was having a pretty productive session for once. I could have sworn that paper was blue in the packet, but it's most definitely lilac now. Happily near enough the same lilac as my Bluebell Promarker, which always helps coordination-wise.

I coloured the other flowers and the ribbon with Tea Green. The Promarker had an interesting effect on the ribbon - once it dried it was quite stiff and crispy, which made it very easy to stick down. I was happy with that, normally I find ribbon a nightmare to secure.

This one I think will go to my mother in law. Her birthday is Sept. 11, easy to remember at least.

It's been an interesting weekend so far - picnic, sculptures, treasure hunt, bowling, Nepalese cuisine and today I went to the Paper Mill Shop, which I love. Made a pretty critical error there though, I bought tons of white card for stamping/colouring, but I've just had a go with it now and discovered that it's coated! The ink just hangs about on the surface in blobs. I'm so cross with myself for not noticing... I blame my brother, who was whining like a threeyearold about being bored the whole time I was filling my paper box. Totally his fault.

Soundtrack to today's post: Coheed & Cambria - The Velourium Camper II, Rolling Stones - Under Cover of the Night, Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confused \m/