Good morning!

I've had a nice relaxing calm weekend, did nothing and enjoyed every minute of it...well i did a fair bit of stash sorting and organising for the impending Alice in Wonderland Cyber Crop on UKS. But other than that i chilled with the kids really.

So excited that the CC is this weekend coming. Are you doing it? I must admit that i loved the last one, even though i was pretty green with what i was doing but i certainly learnt a lot from the last one. It taught me that i spent FAR too long deciding on photos and papers (still do when i do a layout)which means you're always fighting an uphill struggle. By the time i'd picked out what i was going to use the next class was generally up. I know you don't have to do all the classes but i certainly want to do them all even if it means i don't get them all done in the one weekend.

With that in mind i gathered together the kits i'd prepurchased...plus put together kits from my own stash for the others and put them all into individual baggies with a label saying what class they were for, what time and day the class is on and what extras i needed to do the class that i couldn't put in the bags including what photos to print out. Never let it be said that i can be a bit anal when it comes to organisation! I've worked out that i find it easier to pick the pics once i know the papers i'm going to use rather than the other way around. There are a couple of class lists that seemed a bit too specific so i think i'll wait til those classes go up before i decide exactly how i'll adapt them.

I also used a tip i'd picked up from one of the extras info that came to my inbox from the Design Collective. It was a suggestion on organising your stash scraps into coloured baggies. Well it sounds simple and i can see it's going to be another time saving tip which when i scrap, is much needed. So my stash is almost completely organised (even made up pizza boxes with occasion specific things on like christmas, halloween, wedding and valentines day) so i'm going to finish that off today.

Got my sub copy of Scrapbook Magazine the end of last week and just wanted to give a big shout out to the wonderful Sarah who had her layouts featured this month. Her work is fantastic and even better in real life. WE're off to Tracie Hudsons in two weeks for Braunton Croppers and i can't wait to catch up with the both of them and also meet some new scrappers there.

I finally got to grips with my Scrapdragon book that i was having problems with, turns out that when i cut my spine i had it facing the wrong way..doh! Big thanks to guiderbec on UKS for talking me through to see where i'd gone wrong! That's enough for one morning, thought i'd let you look at some daft pics of Emily taken last week when she, for some reason only known to herself, decided to spend the morning in the tumble drier!