Story Telling Sunday - With this ring...

Welcome to my little corner of the world on this Story Telling Sunday. Today all over blogland people will be we sharing something that is precious to them following the inspiration of it's creator Sian.

For this month I wanted to share with you my most precious possessions... my rings. I have a special reason for waiting till now to show them to you as in 3 days time we will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary! I can't believe where the time has gone, well, till I look in the mirror !!

Here is my plain gold wedding band, my solitaire diamond engagement ring & my diamond & Ceylon sapphire eternity ring which was added after the birth of my second Son 15 years ago.

I wear these rings every single day, 24 hours a day, as I've learnt from experience to keep close the things I cherish but recently I had to remove 2 of them when prepped for surgery & boy did my finger feel funny & the first thing Hubby did on my return to the ward was slide them back on, where they belonged :) 

I thought I'd also share a photo from 20 years ago when our wedding bands were all shiny & new.

Many thanks for stopping by & pop on over to Sian's to read lots more lovely stories x

Recording the details...

I'm planning a little city break with the Husband :)Whilst I'm there I like to do some sort of travel journal to jot down what we do & see... but I don't want it to take over our whole trip. So this is what I've come up with.

I'm taking...

A5 kraft D ring folder - to be decorated on our return - from Paperchase.

Day Dividers - using kraft paper & silhouette die cut.

A5 writing paper  - some stamped embellishment added. 

Card Template of D ring spacing to make adding brochures/ leaflets easier on the trip.

Tools of the Trade.

Hole Punch, Stapler, 

DS Tape, Washi tape,

Mini envelopes, Journalling pen,

Scissors, paper Clips.

Can you think of anything else I should take with me ? Do leave me a comment & let me know x

I'll share this journal again on our return.

Hand sewing at Scrapology

Our challenge this month over at Scrapology is to use hand sewing on your page & we have provided an ideal sketch to use with it too.

You & Me.

I used silver thread to back stitch the frames around my photo to link in with the glittery title cut from a MME card.I drew the frames on the back of the cardstock before making the holes to sew in with a bradawl.

I also added a favourite embellishment of mine at the moment - Sequins. I think they are going to feature on a lot of my makes now.

Pop on over to the blog to see loads more  fabulous pages & see the sketch that inspired them all.