Little Birdies

Just finished some atc's for a swap in the atc forum. Took me ages to do them. I think I do need a change so I have joined a dark and gothic swap. It will be interesting to do. I have already found some skeleton ephemera for them :)

Here are my 'For the birds' cards.

A few days a go I decided to do a layout just for me. I did some digital and paper scrapping on the one layout. Had so much fun. I haven't put many layouts in for published so I thought I would give it a shot. I got accepted for the first time in Scrapbooking Memories.
So quite happy.

Health wise I am still sore. I was getting a bit better until I had to carry my daughter for a bit. I went to the Chiro today so I hope to improve soon.

This time last year.

I was 19 weeks pregnant. I was due to have my main scan the next day. As usual I was always worrying. I hadn't felt the baby move. I decided I would go to my small clinic they have a very small old ultrasound machine. Deb my midwife could not find the heart beat. The old machine should have been able to. The doppler machine hadn't picked it up either but it didn't in the past either. I knew there was something wrong. I have had a previous misscarriage and the same machine showed no heartbeat at 9 weeks. Deb who is so nice drove me to the hospital and yes my beautiful baby had passed away.
My son named our little boy Michael.

Today the memory is so strong and clear of what happened. To make this worse I am meant to be pregnant now but I had lost that one too at 13 weeks even though the scan showed a perfectly healthy baby a week earlier. I knew this time almost the day the baby past.

Sorry that this hasn't been scrap related at all but I don't think I would have been as paaionate about it without the grief in my heart.

Watercolors, the mountains and a challenge.

I received watercolor trays with my Tarisota kit
There was also a little brush I could fill up with water. I gave it ago but could not manage any more than a kindergarten painting. I did better when I was 5. I will post as soon as I have finished. I wish I was a bit more artistic.

Last week I went to a crop organised by Kiti Q and Bon's Scraps.
I really enjoyed myself but didn't finished my layout. I'll post this one soon too. But while I was their Mark Ethan and Ella went to the mountains and came back with some great photos.









I have entered a challenge at Scrap World called Back to Reality based on reality tv shows.

Here are my first 2 layouts.

week 1 - Project Runway

A layout with fabric.




week 2 - Survivor

A layout with the bare essentials, patterned paper, ribbon, chipboard. Allowed to use lace too :)





I didn't realise until I had half finished the second layout that the photos were almost the same.

Thanks for looking :)