@ Culbin Forest

Found this old picture of me (2006), I think me and my girls were doing the Easter Egg Hunt with my Mum.  It's a beautiful forest with paths leading the the beach along the Moray Firth coastline.  A great place to walk any time of the year.  The sketch challenge set by Sue on her blog HERE seemed perfect for this outdoor photo, not sure why I have a twig in my hair!! 

TFL  

Lou x

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge: Letter Z

The next letter in this challenge is Z. Quite a challenging letter I think.  You can check out the challenge and other fabulous entries HERE.  Calling on my interest in Buddhism once again, I've opted for

ZENDO: a Buddhist mediation hall, more specifically for sitting meditation.

Feeling in need of a Zen-like day, I've opted for a Zen like page. I lightly gesso'd over the background, then stamped the meditating buddha images onto tissue paper, before glueing to the page.  Strips of black paper frame the 'hall'.  Red crystals where applied for a halo of stillness.  

I'd like to thank everyone who takes the time to leave me a comment, I really appreciate it.  I'm delighted to hear  I'm not the only one with a reluctance to embrace OIKOLOGY!!

TFL Lou x

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge, Letter O

The letter of the moment is O.  There are some amazing entries for this letter check out the challenge and the other entries HERE.  I'm not doing  a great job of playing catch up there are still a few past letters I'm missing, but sunny weather keeps calling me to the great outdoors.  Hopefully as the darker nights descend I'll  get a few more done.  So what does the letter O hold for me?  Something I would NEVER study, I come out in a rash just thinking about it!!

OIKOLOGY: the study or science of housekeeping.

I'm finding it harder and harder to get a good crisp stamped image on my page as the previous layers create a thick bulky book, but for this page 'distressed' stamping works ok. 

Stamps are an old set, I think they are from TANDO Stamps.

TFL  Lou x

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge, Letter D

I'm loving this alpha dictionary challenge over at the Craft Barn.  It's proving very good for my vocabulary!! The challenge and other entries can be found here. So week 16 and the challenge is letter D.  I checked out a few words and was delighted to find a word relating to Trees, especially as missed last weeks letter due to holidays.

 Dendrology - the study of Trees

The base page has been painted with gold and silver paints.  The head stencil is my own and the tree stencil is by Crafters Workshop.  

TFL  Lou x

BFF - Best Friends FOREVER

I stumbled across this fabby sketch challenge over at the Me and Mine blog. I'm not a very confident multi photo scrapper but thought I'd give it a go.  Here's my take on the sketch:

TFL  Lou

Letter Y @ The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge (week 14)

Thank You to everyone who has taken the time to leave me a comment on my previous entries, I really appreciate you taking the time and love reading all your comments.  I'm always amazed at the variety of pages we all do for each letter, so thank you for sharing.

This fortnight its all about the letter Y over at the craft barn, you can check out the challenge and other entries here.  Y is quite a challenging letter and the extra challenge this time is to use the colour yellow; so following on from Buddhism last week I've decided to go with:

Yin-Yang: two complimentary principles of Chinese philosophy

and still playing catchup here is C: Chanticleer

 and P: Palaeoanthropology

I'm loving this challenge, thanks to The Craft Barn for running it.

TFL

Lou x

Leading Lady & Merly Impressions June layout challenge

The Dream, Believe & Dance LO fits with the current Merly Impressions challenge perfectly, check out the challenge and other fab entries here.

My Mum has just recently started ballet lessons.  She has always wanted to do Ballet and last year she finally had the opportunity to learn.  These 2 layouts are dedicated to her starring in the end of term show.  Mum, you are a great role model for me and my girls and we are very proud of you.

Dream, Believe & Dance

You Are Never Too Old To Learn

TFL  Lou x