Hold Dear Family Memories ~ White With One January Challenge

Hello! I am thrilled to share that I am GD over at White with One this month and the colour to use is Butter Cream , a gorgeous colour to create with.
This is my layout

Hold Dear Family Memories

To create this I have used really old photo frame backing paper from a old family photo, a old vinyl (I guesss you would call it ) doily that was my Mum's and the Netting/cobwebbing sort of stuff (not sure what it is ) but it was in my Mum's stash.

The little butter cream beads are from my Mum's little jar of beads & gems. I really enjoyed creating with this colour scheme

I hope you will join in with White With One this month and share your take with using Butter Cream on your creations.

Love , Peace and Kindness
Mary x

Your Eyes Stole all my words away ~ Artastic Challenge

Hello ! Boy is it hot in Australia, sorry I know I have said it before, but slowly melting here . It got to over 40 degrees here today !
So the best thing to do, sit in my little craft room with the pedestal fan going and scrapbook.
The Challenge at ARTastic this month is a colour challenge and I didn't know if I was going to be able to incorporate the colours in my layout , but I just went with it and managed to use the colours on my layout which is not normally the colours I would have chosen for this picture, but I think it turned out ok

Your eyes stole all my words away 

My  friend Jo gave me a kit from D- Lish , so that is what I have used to embellish my layout, along with the gold Love word that was a gift from the lovely Bec . And I had the butterflies & a couple more embellishments in my stash.

Thank You for calling by and I really do appreciate if you take the time to leave a comment.

Love, Peace and Kindness
Mary x

BEE HAPPY, BE CALM ~ CHALLENGE YOURSELF

Hello and Happy New Year ! Gosh hope this year doesn't fly past as fast as last year (is it because I'm Old ? ) 
Anyway I hope this year is a fabulous one for all and a healthy one most importantly.
I wanted to share my layout for the challenge at Challenge yourself which is....

My one little word for 2019 is Calm. I find I tend to over react to things or get wound up unecessarily. Because of this my body had always been in a state of tenseness. So now I am doing my darness to be calm and relax my tense muscles

Bee Happy, Be Calm

I  am very blessed to have a group of lovely friends , the two in the photo ,plus Bec and Jo , they have helped me a lot , especially a couple of years ago when I was quite ill with anxiety, they were there to chat and they help to keep my Calm.

The words from the Leonard Cohens song resonates with me and says it all really. Just live in the now and not worry about what has been or what is yet to be and that everyday is a new day.

Thanks so much for calling by and here's me going &  getting all deep on you. I mostly keep things to myself and not put out there in the internet world, but I wish for you all, good friends as I am fortunate to have .

And Lizzy I may just still add the Bee Wax Seal :)

PS a couple of days later, I really wanted to add the Bee Wax seal, so I made another in a different colour and I am happy with how it looks on the layout now.

Love, Peace and Kindness 

Mary x

Patrick Fahy's Steam Engine Hotel ~ Soul Scrappers

Hello ! 
While I should probably be making a food list and cleaning the house, all the prep for Christmas, I scrap. Yep thats what I do when I procastinate , anything but what I should probably be doing.
But I would like to share a layout that I have done for Soul Scrappers

Through the power of Social Media I have came across a few photo's of my heritage. It always inspires me to scrap them straight away and get the story told.  I guess vintage is also one of my favourite styles to scrap.
Outside this Hotel  my Great Great Grandfather got kicked in the head by a horse and died from the injury.
Not a nice story, but still part of my heritage. I hope by my documenting this , that one day years down the track my Great Grandchildren might come across this and so the story continues.

Thank you for calling by and I appreciate any comments.
Love, Peace and Kindness
Mary x

Our Little Elf ~ Archiscraps Dec Challenge

Hello ! The count down is on and Christmas is nearly upon us . 
Today I would like to share my take on the challenge at Archiscraps which is anything Christmas.
We had our traditional Birthday dinner for our daughter and putting up of the tree and our beautiful Boo (well my eldest sons dog, but we all love her) loved being amongst all the excitement and chaos.

Boo just loves being with people & wants to be friends with everyone. She is a beautiful girl 

thanks for calling by and I wish for you all a peaceful, joyous Christmas and all good things for the New Year

Love, Peace and Kindness
Mary x

MORE THAN WORDS ~ BELIEVE

Hello !
Today I wish to share a layout for the challenge over at More than words.
The criteria ~ to use the word Believe and stamping 
And this is my take

BELIEVE

Our Daughter with the first nativity scene we owned. A little plastic number we have had since the Children were little, and now we have a nice ceramic one, but I still like to put this little one out.

My stamping is very subtle but never the less is there . I stamped some tiny little stars to my layout. The stamp was gifted to my by my lovely Irish penfriend.
Thank You for calling by, I appreciate if you take the time to comment.
I hope the lead up to Christmas is not to crazy and hectic for you. I tend to try and avoid going down the street as much as I can .
Love, Peace and Kindness
Mary x

Challenge Yourself ~ Dec Challenge ~ A Christmas Miracle

Hello ! Gosh hard to believe how fast this year has flown by !
The last challenge for the year at Challenge yourself is....

THE CRAZY CHRISTMAS GROUP PHOTO

It is our tradition to have a family dinner and put the Christmas tree up on our Daughters birthday. As the children have grown up and have lives of their own the last few years it has been hard to have everyone home , but this years the stars aligned and a Christmas miracle occurred and we had everyone home ! One happy Mumma.

So it is a lot of craziness and noise, but I love having them all home together.

The cute little deer die was gifted to me by Lizzy Hill (she knows I have a thing for deers )

Thank You for calling by , I really appreciate any comments you kindly leave. 

I would like to wish you all a very Happy, restful, peacefilled Christmas and all good things for the coming year.

Love, Peace and Kindness

Mary x