birthday bonus

Today was a good day, I got to spend most of it with my daughter at home for a change.That is how I like to spend my birthdays :-)

Ayla didn't like the sun in her eyes much in this photo, but it was the best one that i got (I kept having to put the camera on timer and run back to pick her up again..)

The last 6.5 weeks have been quite stressful, but it is all good because now i get to be at home with my girl.

I can't thank everyone enough for their support over the last couple of months.

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It's the 4th anniversary of this lovely blog hop. Pop over to Julia's to see where we all meet.

This is what my desk (aka coffee table) looks like today.

The green things that you can see....well, I made my first granny square today, ignore the fact that it is a little lopsided....i obviously have issues with my tension, but for my first try I'm quite pleased.

All my acrylic paints; mists and alcohol inks are in the tubs that you can see piled up on top of my box of 12x12 scraps. The distress inks are in an old washing tab container. everything else is hidden in a room upstairs, lol.

So that is my desk, how about you show your desk too

A call out for prayer warriors

Ayla is in ICU at Sick Kids in Edinburgh. She has been fully ventilated for over a week now. She has metapneumo virus. I am reminded how totally fragile she is, on the same hand how much of a fighter she is.
Generous to a fault, Toots passed her bug on to me. Let me tell you, it FLOORED me. Thank God for Pediatric ICU.

This photo was taken the day that she was transferred, that's what she thinks of metapneumo virus.

I can tell you I love her fighting spirit.

and as for her charm, well this is the smile she flashed to the doctor who was about to take her to PICU, as if nothing in the world was the matter and what was all the fuss about??

So if you could just add her to your prayers, she is stable for the moment and thankfully her Baba is there with her when mummy and gran are too ill to go near her. it is breaking my heart not seeing her for a week is a week too long.

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well we are past the double century over on Julia's. I hope you can join in the fun peeking at everyone's desk.

On my workdesk this week i have the remnants of some scrapbook papers and alphas. I have discovered I'm obsessed with alpha stickers/thickers/die cuts. I think it's all part of my determination to journal - as a note or a title, but to get the story told in one way or another.

talking of titles, this page has had the title change around numerous times, I'm not actually sure it is going to have one at all, what do you think? Maybe something like 'catching rays'??? The problem is that there is a corresponding R page with us in the water so don't know whether to title individually or across the two?

hope you have a great week

Moving on

The last post was a bit serious so I thought that this post should be a bit lighter. This LO was done for the weekly challenge on UKS. It started off as hexagons, then i ended up using the bit of the page that i had cut from the patterned paper as a template to mist over.

I remembered my gloves this time, last week i ended up with 7 of my fingers neon blue.

The journalling reads how she hears everything, how i love her cute button nose, how her little fingers were clenched so tightly that we could hardly squeeze my pinky in between them and how even the guys comment on how long her eyelashes are. But most of all how I love her to bits.

I had taken these photos to remind myself of all the little things that I loved at that stage in her life. It seems like such a long time ago, it is nice to look back and remember that we loved the little things as well as rejoicing in the big things.

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Wednesday again so to Julia's we all sneak...or spring, depending on what else you are meant to be doing and how guilty you feel about indulging in peeking through other peoples desks.

Last week I did a couple of layouts that were difficult for me. They tell a difficult story, the pictures didn't necessarily match the paper choice but I wanted those papers so I tried to make them work.

Wish for life

wish for one day at a time
journalling reads: Only 1 week after the Sipap incident where you had a seizure we were back in Childrens ward.
We thought it was apnoea but after 24hr EEG they confirmed seizure activity.
Terrifying, horrifying seeing you deal with that many and not be able to touch or comfort you.
But at least now we could medicate.

I like the result. I like the fact that I finished the layouts. I like that part of her story has been told and I can move on to more cheery cheeky parts of her story....like this morning when I was changing her nappy. I lifted her legs only for her to blow....unceremoniously....and then laugh at me as if she intended the vile event all along whilst waiting for me to comply.

Most weeks in our house there are tears of sadness at some point, but they are far far outweighed by the belly laughs that she inspires on a daily basis. Those are the pages that I can't wait to get started on...

Another post and it isn't even Wednesday

Lately I have only managed to post once a week, if that. This week I read two blog posts that basically made me pull my finger out and get some photos scrapped.

Shimelle had a fantastic post on using frames the result was a grid pattern. Also, on UKScrappers Nikki's March post speaks about finishing those unfinished projects and about using multi photos on a layout.

The resulting layout

so the photos are from this christmas, but the project is a Christmas Album that I got for a wedding present in 2008. This will be my first page to go into this project. Nikki's page on multiphotos helped me decide on matting up each photo slightly differently to each other.