Dying to Craft...........

Ok the garage is taking longer then planned and im getting itchy fingers, i cant wait to get in there an start scrapping again!! I took my friend to my favorite local craft shop yesterday as we are going to do our own christmas cards, this is something i used to do before i started scrapping, it was funny i would spend hours making these cards then was gutted to sell them or give them away and a friend said why not start scrapping at least then you can keep what you make, so since then (4yrs ago) i have done nothing but scrap.

But since having Oliver i have not managed to scrap any of the hundreds of photos of him, not only as i have no space to craft but to be honest i have not had much time, but the other day a friend picked up on my photography passion and skill (her words not mine) and i told her that i was taking a photo of Oliver and doing my own christmas cards, and i offered to take a photo of her little girl and help her make her own cards. So i took her over to my favorite craft shop and there were so many lovely things in there, and i was talking to the lady that works there and she realised why i had not been in for a while and she was showing me all these lovely new ranges and there were these cute stamp they had little mice on them and they were to die for they really were.

But............i was restrained i didnt buy anything on this occasion but i will be back there soon. How those girls still have a bank balance working in there i will never know.

Anyway, whilst im online and blogging here are some upto date photos of my little man.

Someone was meant to be winding!!

My little smiler

A little hint of his christmas cards!!

Oliver with his Uncle Lee, and Cousins Sam and Charlie, this was the first time they had seen him as they live in Spain.

Anyway best dash just clocked the time, hope your all well, hopefully i can start posting some scrappy pages soon

Love n Hugs

Claire and Oliver xx

My First Few Digi Pages

Well considering I currently do not have any type of scrap area in my house as my wonderful little son has taken up residence in what was my scrap room but im happy enough to have given up my room for him, I did always know that my scrap room was a temporary fix as we were always trying for a baby. And until we have finished converting the garage I am still without a scrap area, I then came across Digital Scrapbooking, for a present a family member brought me a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements V6 and I have been on the main PC every night for the last few days fiddling around and practising, now dont get me wrong I will never give up paper scrapping as I love it, but this digital lark is fabby, here are my first ever layouts digitally:-




This is a layout of my son Oliver

And this is a layout of my friends little girl Isla

I am so pleased with the outcome I really am, and I cant wait to do some more and its not like I do not have enough photos lol.

Anyway, I shall bore you some more now as I have some more photos of Oliver:-




Oliver taking a little nap on mummy

Looks like his is warming up for the number one contender :-))







He loves his colourful giraffe





Chat soon, xxxx

Ok I am pants - But I have a good reason........

I have had my little boy, Oliver Jake Varney was born on 31st May weighing a neat 6lb 9oz, I had to be induced and the whole process took 4 days but I only had an 9 hour active labour and after having an epidural it was incredibly easy. He was born at 11.30pm

This is me with Oliver after just 10mins of him coming into the world.

My time since having my lovely bundle of joy my days have just been flying past, I cant believe he is now 15wks old (16ks on Sat).

He has now had his second set of jabs, it was truly awful not sure who it effected more me of Oliver, dont get me wrong he screamed like there was no tomorrow on both jabs. But I think it got to me more seeing him being hurt like that. But this time he did not settle as quickly as his first set of jabs and was off colour for longer!

Anyway here is my little man now:-

Loving his changing time, on his changing unit he does have a giggle bless him

Loves giving mummy smiles

I love him in his bath robe looks like he is a number one contender lol

Anyway just thought i would pull my finger out and update my blog i have been so pants, but i have also finished the PWL photography course which was fab, will try to upload some more photos of the PWL course soon.

Take care

Claire & Oliver xxx

Time time time..................

Well as I thought me trying to keep this upto date was pointless, but whilst I have some time and I remember I thought I would give a little up date. A little update on bubs I only have 10 weeks to go, as I have been diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes so they wont let me go over 40 weeks, so either way in the next 10 weeks I will be a mum, which in itself scares the hell out of me LOL.

As for the Gestational Diabetes it really has bummed me out to be honest, I was really enjoying my pregnancy and now I have to test my blood sugar levels 4 times a day and it really does add stress onto your day, its a real visual aid. But anyhow at least at the moment its controllable by diet so I just have to watch myself even more.

The nursery is nearly done, we have ordered all the big stuff as its been out of stock since October in Babies R Us, but now its in we are waiting on delivery of the Dresser, Cot Bed and Wardrobe. I am ordering the travel system in the next few days so getting very excited now, and once its all turned up its sorting ourselves outs, and getting some more of the smaller bits.

I have just also signed up for the PWL Photography course held by Cheryl Johnson from UKS im really looking forward to it and building up the confidence to move the button on my camera from auto to another function! And I will soon have a fabby subject to photograph. Cheryl has 2 other courses I want to do but she has advised this course first, should you want to look into this her website is www.feelgoodphotography.com you will love it, her work is amazing.

Right I had better get cracking with the manual that came with my camera last year LOL - I am hoping to do some scrapping over the cybercrop but as I dont have my room anymore its a little more tricky roll on the time I can convert my garage.

Right im off take care and chat soon
Love n Hugs
Claire & Bump xx

My goodness where has time gone to

I cant believe that time has gone so fast since i last posted, whats that all about! i am now 27 weeks pregnant and all is going so well, i have had no sickness and to be honest i cant say that i have had any kind of cravings its bizarre, the only thing i do like at the moment is a little ice cream but that isnt a must to have.

I have not really put any weight on either, i think through the first 3 months i was so off my food that i lost alot of weight so i am only just getting back to my pre-pregnancy weight, i am also so keen on making sure that i dont do the 'oh im eating for two' lark otherwise i will just balloon.

All my scrapbooking stuff has had to be packed away to make way for bubs arrival, it was so hard to pack everything away, i had to pack away the bits that i have not used for a long time and the stuff i used regularly, so i have a box of stuff in the loft and the rest under the stairs - this is only until we get around to converting half the garage.

I see that there will be another cybercrop on UKS soon and i am hoping that i will be able to get involved somehow which will be lovely.

I am also starting a photography course PWL with Cheryl on UKS in the next few weeks which i am looking foward to i am hoping to become a little better at taking photos not just the point and shoot which is all i seem to be capable of at the moment.

Anyway I had better get going as i need to get the roast dinner on, poor Roger is working this weekend so I thought i would do a lovely roast beef for today, i know its saturday but we are hoping to have a takeaway tomorrow which again is a little crazy i hear you say.

Hope to get back into blogging soon, my apologise for my absense
Claire & Bump xx