sweetly handmade

One little word, Ali Edwards

So my one little word for the year is nourish. This word chose me, it may sound daft but it did! I want to nourish my family with god food, family time and educate them to the best of my ablilities, I want to nourish myself with good food, family time and education and I want to nourish our family with all the things it needs to grow.

I love education, (im a sucker for a certificate! ) and this year after completing my BA and gaining a first in January I have decided to undertake my PCGE and qualify to teach eeeekkk, this is part of my nourishisng goal, I am also learning spanish or trying and reading alot more. More than novels and true stories, but books about time gone by how things came to be and why the world is the way it is.

I work a month behind on Ali Edwards class, as I find that i spend the month putting it in to practice then I document it, rather than documenting the hows and whys before I have even had chance to explore it.

So here is Januarys prompt and template completed and I am on with lots of pictures to fill in Februarys propt at the end of this very short month!

I hand stamped all the little papers myself using mostly papertey ink stamp sets and jenni bowlin ink pads.

I am excited to do Februarys!

What word will help you throughout 2012?

Hugs and stuff

Kel

baby shoot

I had the pleasure of photographing the lovely poppy this week who was three weeks old. Boy was she a wriggler, and she didn't want to sleep that is for sure. After doing a few techniques such as wrapping and white noise to settle her and a snuggle from mum she went off and was good as gold as I moved her around, although it was difficult to pose her as she woke easily! So we settled for the use of props and changing of blankets and hand position to vary the styles...

 

I have a 5 days old on Wednesday which will be my youngest baby and i'm hoping to get a shot of baby in a sling! fingers crossed

 

hugs and stuff

 

kel

Photoshoot fun with the youngest

Tuesdays are mummy and vaeh vaeh days...the other two are at school and she has the day off nursery.

 I wanted to test some fabrics I picked up off the £1 shelf (yes really) to see how they reflected light etc when taking pictures. So whats a better way to do it than get my beautiful 3 year to strut her stuff, and boy did she enjoy it!

f1.8 50mm canon lens used

I love how they turned out and am looking forward to Saturday when I can involve the other two bambinos in a family shoot!

Friday I have a itty bitty newborn shoot :-)

hugs and stuff

kel

for the love of newborns

Boy oh boy...etsy is a terrible place to stay if you want an early night!

Searching props for newborn shoots and look at this little beauty

How SUPER cute ;-)

photo taken from etsy

I am rather in love with it! the putit and the baby and somehow it found its way into my basket..oooppppsss

excited much

hugs and stuff

kel

This girl makes my heart sing...

She is 3..

She is hilarious...

She is stubborn...

She is fiesty...

She is always right...

She says maffise instead of massive..

Yep she is her mothers double *covers eyes*

And boy does she melt my heart. She makes me smile and cry with laughter. She makes me want to squueze her so hard its unbearable. She makes me want to be an amazing mother.

She makes my heart sing...

This picture was taken a year ago now when she was just 2, I adore this picture and have it printed many times for different things! I love how pretty her eyes look.

Lots of ink, lots of stamps and a little bit of embellishments to pull it together! Simple but sweet I think...

 

What are you scrapping this weekend?

hugs and stuff

kel

A little bit of graitutde...

Show the art of grate-fullness....this is what I try to do and to bring my children up to do...be grateful for everything. Good, bad and ugly, because as so many of us find out this is what shapes us!

We are all guilty of focusing on the negatives at some points, I mean we wouldn't be human if we didn't. But sometimes we become to hung up on all the negatives and not the positives, the positives are what make us pull through the negatives!

So, to help my children realise how grateful they should be for life and what life gives them, I created a little mini book that they can fill in and I can add it to their memory box. I'm hoping that looking back on this when they do really have hard times, they will realise that everyone has things to be grateful for.

I used some papers that came free with issue 62 of Scrapbook magazine this month. I loved the soft, feminine, spring like colours and was instantly inclined to use Jenni Bowlin's inks along side them! They complimented the colours beautifully. I used papertrey ink's Gratitude journal stamp set and a little bit of the postmarks stamp set. I cut the card from papertrey ink's button card die and off I went.

I wanted to keep it simple and focus on the words, the little word stamps in these sets worked perfectly for the project I wanted to create.

I punched some mini butterflies from a really old wood ware punch (but I still adore it) and added a few little extra touches, such as pearls, twine and my beloved distress ink!

 

Ive made another one to put up in my Etsy shop :-)

So this weekend, I will be teaching my children the art of gratefulness whilst we have a family scrapping saturday !

What are you grateful for?

 

hugs and stuff

kel

Silent sunday

December daily

Ok so I havent kept up with the postings so thought id catch up over the next few days! So here is day 2,3,4 and 5 for you . Including cover page, photo and journaling page :-)

 

day 3

 

Day 4

Day 5

As i said in my previous post about December daily, I am keeping it really simple as I know If I don't I will not keep up with it! So its all about telling a story. Ive used repeat products throughout, which are mainly Papertrey ink and have repeated the same format for each day !

So far I am on track! for a change! HA HA

Hugs and stuff

kel

New book desigh

So a lady contacted me on Etsy to create a baby album for her adopted daughter. Her husband didn't want it to be too girlie but the wife wanted lots of shabby chicness...hmmm how to find a balance.

So I kept the colours quiet neutral with a splash of purple, used a bit of shadow stamping as well as normal stamping, added lots of phrases and a few pearls  and viola! I used embellishments in groups of 3 to symbolize their family and included saying on the corner of each page..

The album was then bound and tied together with seam binding ribbon in a gorgeous pale brown.

 

I hope they love it !

hugs and stuff

kel

wedding fun

so my lack of updates is due to being at a family wedding. lots of pictures and December daily stuff to share tomorrow

hugs n stuff
kel