From the outside in

The wall demolition gives a nice view of my pink buddleia from the pavement.

Scrapbook Pages

These 2 I did for Lissa lou's birthday in February.
Heather always puts up a 'Happy Birthday' notice on the fridge/wall and the first one was meant to reflect that. However I thought it was messy so next day I decided to do another.
Her party was at the piece of land her grandfather farms but doesn't live on. Its called Pika - due to all the plants and insects which irritate you there.
Her Papa made a heart shaped chocolate cake, but not even he could get the candles to stay alight. It was a very windy day. Alyssa kindly pursed up her lips to blow and posed for the camera.
I love the baguette and the cabbage on the table - and three mangoes from the trees above.

Recent Scrapbook pages.

This is lissa lou's school photo from the school in Guadeloupe! Looks like something out of South Pacific.The green is a paper napkin - top layer only, glued onto the cardstock. I crocheted the white flower and tatted the yellow butterflies. The buttons and lace are from my grandmother's stash which I inherited.









This photo is 18 months old.












The balcony fence was a handy support for Jo Jo when he was learning to stand and walk.

Recent scrapbook pages.

This is a double layout with the London page on the right because thats the way you fly to Guadeloupe across the Atlantic.
I painted the paper first cos I had no blue cardstock that day.
The material is called 'Madras' (as in India). After the abolition of the slave trade they brought people from India to run the sugar plantations.
I found these flowers at the Ally Pally Scrapbook show - the label said they are frangipani. I found some growing in Guadeloupe.
Look at the shape of Guadeloupe - no wonder they call it 'le Papillon' - the butterfly.
The title is hand cut from my writing and various bits of paint and glitter added.











Pika is the name of the family land in Guadeloupe.
Cass cass liked going there with her dad while Lissa was at school.
I am very proud of my anthurium flowers which grow there. I made them by painting pipe cleaners white at one end, green at the other. The petal is a heart shaped piece of paper (2 layers stuck together)
The title is chipboard painted and glittered and the journalling patch made out of 2 different sized circles.
The larger one is cut out the size of a tin of custard lid.

It didn't happen!!

We sat out in the garden for the whole afternoon. eventually it was 'cup of tea' time and getting a little dull, so in we went.
Eventually the wind got up, the sky got darker and down came the rain. Rain? no, it was hail stones! At the end of June! Hitting the kitchen window hard enough to break it! Thunder and lightening too.
Then we put on the TV to watch Murray playing 'the young Serb' at Wimbledon.
To be honest we put it on to see the new roof close - and it didn't happen! Where did the bad weather go between here and Wimbledon?
So we didn't see the roof close, but at least Murray won.
They say you can't have everything!
The other funny thing today was Borders playing 'Santa Claus is coming to town' . You probably guessed - it was Michael Jackson singing.
RIP Michael - thanks for all the music.

In the garden this week...

Thursday 25th June

Today we met old friends Terry and Judy Bedlow. We had a picnic outside City Hall ( You didn't come
down, Boris!)
Later we walked along to Tower Bridge where we crossed over to meet some old mates of Terry's from his days in the London City Mission. They have a preaching slot at Tower Hill each week.

Tery and Judy's boys were at primary school with ours.