22 days cruise and a further 3 nights away from home is by far the longest holiday I've ever had!

Whilst we've got through four memory cards and are now on our fifth, there will be many that are of 'me and him' and sometimes just of 'him!'

So, whilst I'm sitting in a bar, killing time, waiting for our flight check-in to open, I thought I'd blog some of the photos taken on my iPad over the last three weeks...

Bags packed, car loaded, last day at work, Wednesday 17th April....




First drink at Heathrow, way back on April 18th...




Kisses for my girlies, somewhere in the Carribean....




Another day at sea, somewhere around Mexico....




Starbucks, San Diego... Wifi heaven xxx




Only yesterday and we were in Victoria, capital of Vancouver Island... And finally he gets a pint!





And today, waiting and waiting at Vancouver Airport... Notice our trolleys in the background...

He wouldn't let me include the pint on the table!




So in five hours we will be boarding our plane and in 13 hours we'll be back in sunny England!

How time flies... Not!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Location:Just the two of us...

Lucky me...

Ok so as today is the 1st of the month - Happy April Fool's day everyone, I can officially say I'm going on holiday this month!

I simply can't wait and am so looking forward to the relax time as well as the full on sight-seeing time we look set to have as we sail through the Panama canal.

We are away for my 40th and it's highly likely it will be a formal night on that particular day - one of six no less!

And like every girl I had to have a couple of new dresses!

Now I used to be a black evening dress type of girly, but over the last couple of years I've decided that colour is far more eye-catching.

These are my dresses that I already have...

Had this turquoise one a while but I love it even though it leaves a trail of sequins every time I wear it!

Can't get more colourful that this?

Love this red one - have you noticed we try for a colour co-ordinated look on formal nights?

And these are the dresses that are winging their way to me real soon I hope!...

Discovered them on a fabulous site, all from Conie Fox. All in stock they process your order within 2 hours so they should be here in two to five days all the way from Hong Kong!

And even better, two out of the three were in the sale - just hope they fit!

The 10th GoGoGetaway...

It doesn't seem five minutes since the last GoGoGetaway and here I am, writing a post about the most amazing weekend I've had, with some of the loveliest ladies, in a very nice hotel... a girls perfect weekend?

But it wasn't all relaxing, its always full on but oh so worthwhile...

I taught four classes, the first being on Saturday morning and was called 'French Fancy'

The class focused on lace and different ways to use it on layouts.

The second class was 'Mini Memories' and was based around Honey I shrunk the kids meets scrapbooking!

The idea behind the class was using miniature items on a layout, ranging from the mini book to make, the tiniest of pencil crayons as embellishments to the cutest shrink plastic bee charm. Big thanks to Sheena for having a bee die-cut!

'Natures Trappings' was my last class of Saturday, although the delegates had another on the Saturday night!

We used brads and floss to create a grid structure so that items such as buttons could be woven into the structure... cute huh?

Gotta love those acorn cups xxx

Sunday morning came round all too quickly, especially as I didn't get to bed until 3.30am! But with the dawn chorus and snow came 'Once upon a time'....

For this class, everyone got the "ingredients" to make themselves a couple of book markers, similar to the Websters page markers!

Never one for yellow, I love the lush colour combination of this layout along with the AC Sprinkles foam alpha!

So the end came all too quickly, but number 11 is only a matter of months away!

And finally some me time!

Been playing with 'Clean Slate', January's ScrapaGoGo kit - one word YUM!

Such lovely colours - so me and so perfect to co-ordinate with any B&W photos!

A freehand feather - won't be needing to do this once I've got my new Christmas present set up - a Silhouette Cameo...

Yep, I've got the bug too!

And each ScrapaGoGo kit comes with bespoke card, a printed hybrid sheet and a stamp, all exclusive to ScrapaGoGo - so I think you better get GoGoing over to sign up for a subscription right now!

Back in November...

I had an amazing weekend away at Toad Hall with my scrapbooking buddies back in November... so much has happened since, what with Christmas and 2013 round the corner!

Over the festive period I was looking at my latest album and realised I hadn't blogged any of the layouts I created whilst away - tut, tut!

This layout documents the trip back in June to see the Jubilee Flotilla - I bought the charm from Next for £10.00 knowing it was for this layout, so this could possibly be my most expensive layout to date! Actually, along with the Prima distresser that Jackie got for myself, Sheena and her, I'm certain it is! On this special occasion it was worthwhile!

This layout developed when Eileen and I were experimenting with wax to create backgrounds - it made me smile as it scared Eileen somewhat - my theory is anything goes!

This layout wasn't actually created on that weekend - 6 layouts was my limit, along with finishing a mini book from a class I had recently done. I love the randomness, especially the acetate TV from Glitz - why would you have a TV floating on your background... because you can!

I still adore the Tim Holtz acrylic charms and this layout was created on the Sunday night, using a mixing of Glitz and Prima.

Playing with embossing powders directly onto card stock - great when its not your house you're making the mess in - this was a scraplift from Kerstie, one of the ScrapaGoGo delegates...

Gotta love the squiggle word still!

Ah, one of my Mum and Dad - definitely the best photo of my Mum EVER!

Thanks for looking - off to scrap for a bit - the first time this holiday!

A long and cold weekend...

Gotta love work... I have to use up all my holiday's by the end of December so last week I took Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off!

Wednesday consisted of a doctors appointment, then to Comet where I bought a Dyson at a right bargain (just sad for all those employees who are going to be without jobs!) The day had gone before you could blink and I had little to show for it.

Thursday was spent at the Trafford Centre, where Harvey and I started and finished our Christmas shopping - a mean feat when you have 50 on your list (and that's excluding the girls!)

So because we couldn't get enough of Manchester, we were back again on Friday to watch MIKA. This was the 4th time I'd seen him, (as I saw him a V Fest a couple of years ago) and the 3rd time Nina would see him...

Each time we've started queuing at some crazy time, in order to get a front row position and Friday was no exception!

We were 10th, 11th and 12th in the queue, and sat in the cold for a good few hours. Coincidentally no's 1 and 2 arrived at 9am, having seen him in London the night before!

So Harvey wasn't gonna queue and went off to find a bar, looking rather glam in his wet weather gear. OMG did it rain and blow a gale!

The concert was AMAZING - in true MIKA style he rocked!

Yesterday was spent at the Frankfurt Christmas market in Birmingham. We caught the train from Telford to New Street... Nina and I wanted to get there went dusk was setting in and the crowds had gathered! Harvey on the other hand wanted to get there at 10am in broad daylight and no crowds...

Guess who won!

Nina fell in love with her hot chocolate mug and has drunk three cups of tea in it today, not to mention one last night as well - and this is a girl who hardly ever has a hot drink!

Harvey was also happy at this point with his large German beer!

Back to work tomorrow, but not before we hit Ironbridge for curry and drinks to celebrate our friend's daughters 21st...

Happy Birthday George xxx

The cure for a hangover...?

Apart from a 'hair of the dog' perhaps the best cure for a hangover is looking over the photos from the crazy twilight themed party from last night!

And so it started with Caitlin opening her pressie - a new white laptop named Trina!

Every girl needs a new dress for their party!

Back from the cinema and the first chance we got to see the cake!

Mum you did us proud... you're best cake to date by far!

Everyone wore black, red and white... Harvey's Dad even colour co-ordinated his socks...

Me and Bethan, Caitlin's best friend... your help has been invaluable - thank-you xxx

Sing song on the mini-bus coach on the way to the restaurant...

I slept on the way home!

One of many photos... Harvey and his angels xxx

Still early in the night!

Sisters... ahh!

Behind bars... the restaurant in Ironbridge is the old police station and we were in the cells!

Twilight themed table dressing...

The only way I could focus... close one eye!

Cousins behind bars...

Friends behind bars...

Apparently this was our romantic behind bars photo - I thought it looked more like Caitlin's checking to see if I still have a pulse!

I went straight to bed, but drinking games ensued till 4.30am!

The rules were told to me this morning and I didn't understand them sober!

Poor Cakey - they kept making it land on her!

And another casualty...

Art, who fell asleep on the floor, got face painted and woke up still in his clothes!

Glad to discover no-one was sick! Yippee!!!

Off to bed, X Factor and I'm a Celebrity then SLEEP xxx