Cant' believe its Saturday already

Where do the days go? Even though I'm not working the week just seems to fly by and I don't feel that I have achieved much, although the bungalow is sparkling with the nice clean windows, its a pity that they still seem a bit smeary when the sun shines.

My computer has had a clean out this week Brad reformatted and repartitioned the drives, it does seem to working a lot better now, although I have had to set up all my favourites and sort out passwords etc. The strange thing is I remember before I had a computer and managed very well with out, now if it crashes or has a problem it's like having  my right arm cut off, I'm devistated. Oh well I supose it's called progress.

Off to Whistable today to do a scrapbooking class then onto http://pickleberrypapercrafts.blogspot.com/ to spend the £10 voucher I won a few months ago. Tomorrow I might go to Ally Pally just for a day out, can't afford to spend much and do I really need more craft stash? I don't think so.

Here is my latest contribution to Sketch 30 from http://inspiredblueprints.ning.com/ check their site out some really great stuff there. I decided to make my layout interactive. The sketch called for 6 photos 4x4 as I didn't want to crop my pics or re-size them I decided to make them lift up. I think it's worked, Anyway I'm pleased with the result. Hope you like it too.

Not sure where the time has gone

I can't believe that its been nearly a month since I last updated. It has been a very strange time as I'm back looking for work, as the job I had, withdrew their offer of employment at the last minute apparently due to a lack of funding. The short notice was due to people being on holiday and the lack of communication, although this does not help me at all. Never mind I expect something will turn up soon here's hoping!

This week for some reason my computer decided to lose all my photos which I had stored although I had managed to retrieve some of them as 'thumbs' (which means I can't resize them for scrapbooking) it has also lost some files. The ones it did find, came through in such a mess and with strange reference numbers that I spent over 4 hours trying to sort them out. Fortunately I have a programme called Photo Recovery installed which retrieves pictures from camera cards etc (even if the pictures have been deleted) This managed to recover over 200 and this time at the correct resolution for resizing. Perhaps I need to investigate a way of backing them up any sugestions will be helpful.

Now with extra time on my hands I have managed to produce some layouts even though my heart hasn't really been in scraping mode, I have tried to force myself to keep occupied. Here are my latest layouts.

The first layout is my take on sketch 29 for Inspired Blueprints

The second layout uses some of the Jilly Bean papers from Oyster Stamps

The final layout uses papers that I bought ages ago as I wanted to work away from feminine colours with out making the layout to boyish. I think it worked.
I hope you like them.