Santa Claus is coming to town

I just love listening to Christmas music don't u?? I put it on at the begin of December till the end of the month. Last year I got Michael Buble Christmas album and this year I got Now Christmas with all the old fav songs on.

I am glad to say that I have now done all my Christmas shopping and have even wrapped it. This bit I must admit I hate doing and would gladly get someone else to do it.

This year like every year Em and G are coming with the boys they stay Christmas night and go home after Boxing Day. Christmas is so much better now with the boys. Archie is at that age were he knows more and is very excited about Santa coming. We have now started to bake on Christmas ready for Santa to come and try are yummy food we have made for him but we must not forget Rudolph he gets a carrot.

Anyway I don't know if people really read my blog but if you do I want to wish u and your family a very Happy Christmas have a great day xx

Ok so this is take two as the first post did not save for some reason. Maybe blogger is angry as i have not blogged since october. I am so bad as i really wanted to try and keep up with it this year.

As you can tell i have missed November in my Art Journal Calender. I have got the background colour down but nothing more then that really. I really need to go back and catch up on it. You will be happy to know that December is done and i have all ready started to fill it in. I decided to go with green and red as my colour scheme.

 I used a Holly background stamp from the Dylusions range which are amazing. There is stamps, stencils, inks and now even a journal in the range. All this is made by ranger but it is designed by my amazing friend Dyan Reaveley at Art from the heart If you have not had a look at these products yes you must. You will be addicted to them right away.

Scrapbook Remix

Look what i have signed up for, which started today 



Yes the amazing Shimelle is doing enough online work shop. This one is about remixing you old scrapbook paper with new stuff and i can tell you this i have got loads of old paper. I cant wait to get stuck in and see what comes out of this class. Will hopefully be posting some Lay outs which i do, so keep a look out for that

October Calendar Journal Page

Wow can you believe October is here all ready. It only seems two mins since i last did September, but saying that i was running behind on last months. 

So as it is the month for Halloween i decided to go with Orange black and a bit of purple in my colour which i think all go together great. The banner and paper are from a Digital download from rhonna which i got last year. The scary people are from Stampotique range which i am now addicted to thanxs to Kate Crane who is on there design team. So everytime i see her she has more stamps to show use.

This Saturday i am off to Art From The Heart for there pre-veiw day. In which they show off all the up coming classes and if you book on the day you get 10% off. Also the Great Northern Paper craft show is on at the Show ground so might have to pop in there.

Drawing Faces

Today i had the pleasure of spend it at Art From The Heart With the great Kate Crane. I was meant to take the first drawing class but had to cancel so when it came up again i sign up right away.
We played a game were you draw a bit of the persons body then fold it over and pass it on. This was really fun and some of the drawings looked good at the end. Then we tried drawing with are no denouement hand which mine is my left hand and we had to draw the person next to use. I had the pleasure with drawing Michelle but it did not come out to well.

So here is my attempt at drawing a face/body. I decided to go normal and added hair as some people did not have any and others but rabbit ears on. I need to add a quote or writing to it before it is a fininshed page tho.

As you may guess when you go to Art From The Heart you alway end up buying something, well i do anyway lol So here are some photos of what i came home with.

You are my Sunshine

Today we are going to be remembering my big sister Jenny who died of Leukema 32 years ago. She was only eighteen months old when she got this horrible disease and she battled it so bravely. It took her life on the 27/8/1980 at the age of two . She was a very happy little girl and she always smiled loads. I wanted to do something for my Mum and Dad so I decided to create a Layout using one of the songs Mum used to sing to her (You are my Sunshine)

I now leave you with a few amazing pictures of my sister

JENNIFER ANN COOPER

Art Journal Calender

Just a quick post today to show my August Calendar page. I am a little bad at getting the calendars ready on time for the next month but i have just finished this months page just as we are starting August.

You will be happy to know tho i have all ready started the back ground for next month.