HAPPY NEW YEAR!

To all my lovely friends!
Lets hope that 2010 is a good one with regard to health and prosperity!

Merry Christmas everyone!

and all our best wishes for 2010!
Alyson and Sophie
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Brilliant website

We came across this brilliant website and Sophie loves Santa's personal message to her! Take a look:
www.portablenorthpole.tv

Walking In A Winter Wonderland

Sorry it's taken me so long since my last post but you know how busy this time of year is and with the addition of snow causing disruption, I don't know where the time has gone!
Well last night we went to the winter wonderland which is in the gardens of an outlet shopping centre near where we live. It was opened last year for the first time and was so christmassy that we decided to go again this year. Well dispite the bitter cold it was made even more magical by the real snow. Thought you might like to see some pictures.
We ended with a visit to santa in his grotto and a present for Sophie!

November TWS Mini Swap for Carroll

My November TWS swap partner is Carroll and she is another lover of vintage so I have made this mini album for her using the K & Co Brookfield papers.
Hope she likes it!

Vintage Mini Swap Album for Louise

I have taken part in a mini album swap hosted by Felicia in Ireland, whose blog is http:/scrapzville.blogspot.com. The theme of the swap was Floral. My swap partner Louise is like me and loves Vintage so we decided to make each other vintage floral albums and this is what I came up with! I have loved making this album and hope that Louise is pleased with it!

Challenge # 6 Animal Crackers

Just managed to complete another challenge for the TWS virtual crop. This is a simple Lay out of our dog Chester who as you can see from the photo's is a big Softie!

Challenge # 5

The other challenge we completed this afternoon was as follows:
1 x Paper clip (by the title)
2 x Flowers
3 x Shades of Ink ( inked over black foam alphas for title, Edged photo's in different inks)
4 x Patterned Papers
5 x Photo's
6 x Brads ( top and bottom lefthand side of lay out)
Think we completed all we needed to do!

Yet again photo's don't do this justice!
Thanks for looking!

TWS Virtual Crop Challenges

Although due to time differences we could not take part in the virtual crop on Trade Wind Scrappers, Sophie and I have spent a lovely afternoon together making a couple of Lay outs for the challenges:
Here is our page for Challenge 1, using a template.
Afraid the pictures are not great I haven't worked out a way to take pictures of 12" x 12" pages yet!

Silent Auction Now in progress!

Visit Laura's blog for more details and to see all the wonderful mini albums on offer!
http://followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com