Happy New Year!

I hope that 2012 brings you all that you wish for.  Pull up and chair and make yourself a cup of tea as I am going to take a brief step back and re-cap on Christmas which was wonderful.  We spent Christmas Day with my in-laws starting with nibbles in the sitting room at 11ish

followed by a walk through the woods

including lots of mud

then Christmas lunch including crackers (lots of silly cheeky faces were pulled by all)

and finally presents. 

Needless to say Alex was very happy and excited by everything,

especially as on Boxing Day we had a little Christmas celebration with just the three of us and he got another present!

Our walk to the park in the afternoon was accompanied by very dodgy monster truck driving and a lot of laughter.

Then on 27th it was down to my parents in Somerset for another family celebration with more presents,

including the extremely successful Dagedar set

extremely yummy food

treasure hunts in the garden

rides on Grandad's tractor and visits from old family friends; Perfect!  We arrived back home yesterday, tired but having had a wonderful time. Tim and I celebrated New Years Eve very quietly with a nice home cooked meal and a movie followed by watching the fireworks on the television at midnight. London did us proud!

As you can imagine with being away so much comparatively little has been achieved in terms of crafting but I did make my DT entry for Quirky Crafts this week.  We were given images from Bugaboo to use on a theme of Food Glorious food, so I decided to make a series of three ATCs. I coloured the images in using promarkers, cut round them with scissors, and mounted them on the Dovecraft card background to which I added a distressed ink edging (blue and pink).  The sentiments are also from Bugaboo and I added gems where appropriate.  I am also entering this into Pollycraft 'punch it' (circle punches), CCCB 'cutting', Pile it on 'Bling it up' and Stampavie 'hearts'.

I am miles behind with my scrapbooking so one of my New Year resolutions is to catch up and to scrap a little more regularly. So I am starting as I mean to go on!  This layout is based on this weeks Sketchy Thursday sketch and uses mostly Tim Holtz papers and images. The butterfly stamps are from 7gypsies. This layout also fits with Stampin' for the weekend 'Anything goes', Delicious Doodles 'anything goes', Simon says stamp 'anything goes' and SCSC 'Anything goes'.

Finally I made a quick thank you card, which I am entering into Less is More 'one word' challenge, using 7Gypsies papers, distress inks and a Penny Black stamp. That is all from me for now.  Wishing you all a very Happy and prosperous 2012, filled with love, laughter, health and happiness.
Love,
Caro
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