More Layouts

I have signed up to do the Big Picture Scrapbooking Layout a Day for January class.

Here are my first 2 layouts. One is paper & the other is a digi one using Marcee Duggar's Jessee page kit.

Yay! A new layout for me!

This is the first layout that I have completed in a long time that is really for me & not to be put on a calendar & given away.

This was a free quick page created by angelfaye of http://www.digitalscrapbooking.de/joomla/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Calendar layouts

These are some of the layouts I made for the calendars that were presents this year.

Christmas & New Year

Well Christmas is over & done with & now I am welcoming in the New Year with a nice cool drink after having gone for a jog. What a healthy way to start the year I hope I can keep it up.

I got very rushed in the lead up to Christmas what with handmaking 6 calendars, christmas cards, christmas shopping & getting the house straight for all our guests.

It was a wonderful christmas & I had both my parents in law & sister in law & her family to stay. We all got some lovely presents, especially the boys who got a trampoline. The trampoline has provided a lot of fun & of course the odd squobble as to who's turn it is & who's had the longest go.

So here is a photo of us in front of our real christmas tree.

We had christmas breakfast at home & opened up the santa presents & Criglington family presents.

We then all went for a walk or jog in the park to burn off energy & breakfast before going up to mum's for christmas lunch. We then had a light dinner of ham & new potatoes (from our garden) at home.

We have been at home all the rest of the time as Scott is working right through. The boys & I have been just enjoying playing with the new toys, going for the ocassional jog (or bike ride for them) & just pottering about not doing much of anything.

I just want to take the time to wish you all a Happy New Year.

Tv Programming

On the fifth day of December I watched Dr Phil then wished that it wasn't yet another repeat.

I like to watch Dr Phil while I eat my lunch. I get a bit annoyed though when it is repeats. It's not going to be on much longer anyway because when the schools go on holiday they fill the time slot with kids movies. They could at least show new shows until they take it off the air. By the way it was a boring show about Sugar Daddies & Urban Cougars. I hope today's show will be a new one.

Food Confession

On the fourth day of December it occurred to me that I shouldn't have eaten potato crisps yesterday because I had been so good exercise wise why blow it like that?

I suppose I could blame it on my jog yesterday, I went faster than ever before so I thought I deserved it, but really why did I deserve to put such salty food into my body? I had a picnic lunch with the boys at school & that included chicken drumsticks, potato salad, hard boiled eggs, bananas & tomoatoes so why did I then eat potato crisps after dinner? I should have treated myself to something healthy but I admit it I am a potato crisp fiend. I love them & if I am sitting watching TV for 3 hours, icing my knee (yes all that exercise came back to hurt my knee) what else is there to do to treat myself but eat potato crisps. I think most of the programmes I watch on a Tuesday night finish in a couple of weeks so maybe in a couple of weeks I won't be sitting watching TV for 3 hours straight eating potato crisps. HA maybe I should just enjoy it while it lasts.

Love my iPod!

Can I just shout to the world that I love my iPod Shuffle!

Scott bought me this tiny peice of equipment last week for Christmas. It is just amazing to be able to jog with music in my ears. As a lot of you know I have a dodgy knee & jogging is usually quite uncomfortable. Today I tried out my iPod for the first time & I just love it! I was jogging with a smile on my face! I don't know if I have ever jogged with a smile on my face, let's face it my body isn't the right build for jogging, there are too many bouncy bits. Not only was I enjoying jogging but I jogged faster than normal, maybe because I was running in time to all my favourite 80s music. Another benefit is that I didn't think at all during the jog, I finally just turned my brain off for a good 26 minutes & just enjoyed moving to music.

Here's to music in my ears & a smile on my face when I am jogging!