My Month in Numbers - May

Well May has flown by in a blink of an eye so I'll share with you my Month in Numbers, originally created by Julie Kirk, it's a great way to see your life from a different perspective.

21 locks on the Stairway to Heaven, Hatton, a lovely place for a family stroll.

 18 blog posts written- the most so far this year.

81117 capacity at Twickenham when Paul & Matt went to watch the Harlequins v Leicester Tigers with   the score 30-23.

 29 exams sat by my 3 children for end of year / AS level.

6940 days married or put another way 19 years celebrated with drinking 1 lovely bottle of Selfridges champagne :)

 5 books read, The 50 shades trilogy plus 2 by Stieg Larsson.

2 recipes tried. Chocolate soufflé and cheese straws :)

7.  Dan played Rugby sevens for his new team The Wheatleyans.

 81, 68 & 34 Three family birthdays this month celebrated with cakes & candles.

I hope you have enjoyed this version of May x

Queen for the day...Moxley style!

I'm lucky enough to attend a lovely monthly crop called the Moxley Massive. It's a bit of a drive away but it's worth it as I get to meet up regularly with some fabulous Ladies many of whom are close friends.

The organisers Lisa & Deb pulled out all the stops for our Jubilee Crop by decorating the hall & providing a slap up buffet lunch too.

As well as providing challenges on the day, Lisa had suggested we could each be a "Queen for the day" & make crowns etc to wear.
Well a group of us were joking about this a few weeks ago & an idea which started with a broken hoover quickly spiralled totally out of control until we ended up with this !!!!
Being QUEEN for the day!!

 Jayne, Jilly, myself & Annie performed I Want To Break Free by Queen on the Crop room stage to a standing ovation, clapping & cheers :D

 I think we looked every inch the part, don't you x

 "Freddie" also handed out the bouquets to the organisers for a fabulous memorable day :)

 I have to say I wouldn't have done this for everybody but I love these ladies to bits & knew from the outset that this was gonna go down a storm & would be as much fun organising as it was performing.
I think there is even a video on FB somewhere if you really want to see us in motion.

This will certainly be one of my top memories this Jubilee :)

Flower Power!

For my second layout from ScrapaGoGo's May kit "From the Desk of..." I decided to focus on a couple of the patterned papers. Firstly Studio Calico's cubicle paper & also October Afternoon's operator paper. To go with these I found a couple of photos of our daughter sporting a real flower in her hair whilst on holiday in Florida.

I loved all the different patterns on the cubicle paper so created a grid style design to show off 4 of the patterns. To complete the grid I cropped my photos to the same size.

I hand cut flowers from the operator paper plus punching some small ones to embellish around the title & initial, knotted ribbon centers were added to the larger ones.

The subtitle & lady were cut from the October Afternoon girl friday paper & embellished with a decorated paperclip.