it's party time...

I hope you've all been busy checking out the party over at shimelle.com and soaking up all the inspirational projects that have been appearing there as if by magic all weekend. I was totally psyched when Shimelle asked me to come and play with all the other *cool kids* at her party. Julie created a lovely project this morning featuring a highly elegant photo of me running away from the sea in my lovely new white leather boots after our day trip to Whitby last week. :D
So, the challenge was set and the bar well an truly raised so here is my little contribution to the party - a little different to a bunch of flowers...



Lately I seem to have a *love and obsession* with takeout boxes, there is just something deliciously appealing about them, maybe it is the tasty party goodness that can be hidden inside!



This little box of wonder was made with a set of printables which are available exclusively as part of a new online class Go to Press which starts on this Monday over on Two Peas in a Bucket .
I simply printed out the sheet of printables (as common sense would dictate) and cut out the ones I wanted to use. The 'simple pleasures' band was edged with a scallop edge punch from Stampin' Up! and the other embellishments were cut into strips to make paper ribbons, folded and then mounted onto a scalloped circle to make my own flower. Finally I finished the whole thing off with a label saying 'I made this' - nothing like a bit of shameless self promotion!
Hope you enjoy, and don't forget to get back to the party at shimelle.com for some other lovely eye candy and maybe even some cake!
yum!
♥

Too many things and not enough time...

Before I decided to start this whole blogging thing I often thought that I wouldn't have enough *stuff* to blog about. Oh how wrong can one person be?! Lots of things have happened in the last few days that are worthy (in my humble opinion) of some blog space so I'm going to post twice today - crazy stuff I know :D.
Check out my new tag below for the UK Stampers Weekly Challenge which you can find here .

This weeks letter was G for Grafitti - one of my all time favoutite subjects, if you are a fan too then I can highly recommend a trip to Barcelona - where the walls are a colourful explosion of excitment!
Check back with me later when I'll be sharing some partyful glee with you all over at Shimelle.com .

Until tonight my friends!

x♥x

things that i'm lovin'...

My brilliant and always creative, partner in crime Julie gave me a lovely jubbly bag of bits to play with when she came over for sticking and cake on Wednesday and inside the bag of joy was this little sticker:

Now I don't think Julie knew about my secret addiction but I recently I have become *obsessed* with shopping. It's like a need - if I go out I have to buy something. Now quite frequently these are purchases which are not necessary to my life - bearing in mind that I am soon to be moving out of the parental home and living on beans on toast, the last thing that I need is a new pair of shoes, two more pairs of jeans, a 2009 pink diary refill and two pairs of knee high socks accompanied by varies 'other' sundries.
These shoes however were special, and I mean *special*.

Patent! Black patent leather! brogue style with a heel and platform... mmm yum yum! Shoes of special magnificence me thinks.

The jeans were just another addition to the ever expanding collection and the knee high socks are for a specific outfit I have in mind. :D The 2009, yes 2009 diary is for when I start my new job in August, after all my Filofax is pink too and the diary was only £1, therefore a necessary purchase surely?

Anyway I decided last night at 1am, after I finally ironed out the final kinks in this new blog of mine that I was going to post some 'things I am lovin' each day'. So here we go for today:

1. Eminem's new track: Beautiful Eminem is one of my guilty pleasures and this was promptly paid for and downloaded today after randomly seeing the video whilst having my morning cup of tea. I think it's going to be on repeat for a while.

2. The new Cat Face is out today. I love these guys, their cartoons passed many an hour whilst working a summer school many years ago.

3. Finally I'm loving parties! I'll be popping over to Shimelle.com this weekend and your invited too. Hope I see you there.

Until later,

Muchos love,

x