Sketch 24

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This is my take on sketch 24. I used Sherry Puzzle from Creative Imaginations as the base, and Granola papers from Basic Grey.

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn

Today is my darling Grandaughter's' 3rd birthday, I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by. I remember when she was born as it was Fathers Day, I was having lunch with Esther's' Mum and Dad, honestly us Grandparents were like cats on hot bricks every time the phone rang from other relatives asking if Kaitlyn had been born, desperate to get them off the line so when the news came through we could relax (ha ha) when it did come through Sid and Jane were on one phone with me on the other bombarding Brad with questions. The birth of Kaity was made more poignant to me as she was born 4 months after my Mum had died, which is why she has Beatrice as one of her names, she has truly been a blessing and is growing up into an adorable person (I am biased but I'm allowed to be). Anyway guess who features in both of my layouts today? Yes it's the birthday girl.

I've had the Thomas K&Co papers kicking around for while and have been waiting for the ideal photos to make use of them. The opportunity came when I was looking after Kaity a couple of weeks ago, she loves going on the mechanical rides at the local shopping centre and she made a beeline for Thomas, well I couldn't waste a photographic opportunity could I? The Chipboard trains are from Creative Imaginations.
My second layout was finished at a class I attend at Pickleberry Papercrafts last Friday using Prima papers. I knew the title was going to be Attitude and was a bit worried about my choice of pictures but although they are of Kaity I think that they work quite well. She enjoyed posing and I think it shows a little bit of girly attitude coming from a 3 year old, well that's my take on it. I hope you enjoy looking at them, I look forward to your comments.

Was it only last week...

that Kaity went home to her Mummy and Daddy. She had stayed with me for 4 nights while Brad and Esther had a mini-break (although it was a working one for Brad) in Scotland.

Kaity had been so good and I really enjoyed her company, even though she had gone to nursery for 2 of the days, we still managed to have a lot of fun. On the Friday I decided to take her to the Dickens Festival held in Rochester, she was very excited especially as I managed to dress her up in a long skirt and a frilly t-shirt, I tried to make her an apron without success as I'm no needle-woman, but she was quite happy with her outfit. However one of the exhibitions gave us the chance to try on recreated costumes of the Victorian period, although I couldn't find anything to fit me (people must have been alot skinnier in the 18th Century) I managed to find an apron and hat for Kaity. I changed the photos to sepia as I wanted to make use of some of my Graphic 45 papers also I felt that it was more in keeping with the period, I'm pleased with the finished layout.


In contrast I used this picture of her taken at the begining of last month, at a family day, I'm not sure what she was up to but I just love the expression on her face. For this layout I used this months Sketch from Inspired Blueprints I chose to use papers from the Magenta range.