Project fail

It's that time of year again, where I think how much I would love to do project life, then realise I have no money to buy anything.

Christmas

I had to do it. I had to share my Christmas with you. I worked the nights of Christmas eve and Day, so my festivities were a little fragmented. But the important thing was that little lady got a Thomas from santa.
Lots of food was eaten,  tummies were full and laughs were had.

i slipped up..

so i totally slipped up and bought a Finsbury personal. it was a total bargain at £20, its a beautiful tan leather, no marks. I set straight to setting her up for next year. I bought paperchase week on two inserts, some month to view, some finance pages and ordered custom dividers. I have two 4 colour pens which DONT FIT IN THE PEN LOOP!! argh!!

so im currently carrying around two planners in my weeny bag. my plan was to take a mini out for notes and basic planning but we'll see what happens!

Wiltshire Roller Derby Christmas party!!

Last night was my team's Christmas party! We hired a pub basement, there was food,  secret santa, Live  music and party games!! We even found a guy who looked a bit like a ZZ Top santa!

Too much looking, not enough scrapping.

Does anyone else find that? I spend so long looking and longing at other artists projects and products  that I find I don't have time for my own! And they never live up to my expectations! I keep meaning to try project life but never get around to it. I keep meaning to try and make a December Daily album but never get around to it...can you see a pattern?

Don't procrastinate, do!

Meeting santa

Yesterday we went to a big localish farm centre and we visited Santa. We made reindeer food, saw reindeer,  had mince pies and finally met a real Santa. We even came away with a really lovely gift.
The centre also had a restored carousel,  which we went on. Not a good idea when you get travel sick...

Missing Darwin

I wanted to  scrap something for Darwin,  and found the perfect layout on the October Afternoon blog by Shanna Noel  http://octoberafternoon.typepad.com/october_afternoon/2014/11/tuesday-inspiration-head-in-the-clouds.html. I loved the simplicity of the layout but also wanted to include journalling,  so I added the journalling to the back.

Please excuse the poor lighting.

Wedding

My sister's wedding was Friday. Yes, Friday October 31! Poor E had had a temperature the day before so wasn't feeling her best, and didn't really want to play bridesmaid (as it happens,  she was icky the next day too). Poor mite even ended up falling asleep at the dinner table.

paper time

Reshuffling the filo family

After thinking (reasonably) long and hard, I decided to take the mini plunge. I didn't want to pay full price in case we didn't get along and I didn't want black or pink. So back to ebay. I decided how much i was willing to pay and scoured the listings. It seems like most minis are pink or black, but finally i found one, a mini Rio. This is also the time of year that Tkmaxx has their stock of filofaxes too, and at the same time the listing was due to end, I was in said shop eyeing up a lavender Metropol. But *bing* i won the Rio. 

I was so excited to see this as I had been after a Rio for a long time. 

But this little lady has been through a lot...theres a lot damage, some of it worse than i was expecting. The front cover appears to have cat scratches..

..The back looks like someone has used it to lean on and write on it...

And the strap looks cracked and worn.

But im giving her a chance. Ive ordered some notepaper as this will be a note filo. We'll see how it goes.