Welcome to my scrappy space

Last week Vicki challenged me to show my scrap room – so here you go!
When we first shifted down to Christchurch and I was around at Vicki’s I was totally taken with the cute cubes she had as storage in her scrap space. So I pinched that idea lol. On the way home from her place I stopped and purchased a few and then got Lyall to make them up for me – couldn’t have him getting bored you see ; -) Now they happily sat on top of my table up against a wall, with everything in handy reach until September last year. You all know what happened September last year. And from then on every time we had an aftershock I had visions of these cubes coming down on top of me. For my birthday this year Lyall changed my scrapping space, and I feel much safer in there now – the stuff can fall off the shelves but the shelves themselves would need a lot of force to come down – and by the time that happened I’d either be under the table or out of the room altogether lol. It also means I have a spot for my sewing machine, cuttlebug etc to be permanently out – that’s in the hope that I’ll use them more 

Our other challenge to ourselves is to make cards. I’m so not a card maker. I so admire you out there who are. And these cards have to be flash. I tell you, I’m struggling with this one lol. Challenge, challenge, challenge alright!

This is the sketch challenge over at Scrappin Patch.

Today has seen me busy making tomato sauce. I’ve not ever done this before, but I’ve been given so much fresh, organic produce from the parents at work, that there is no way I’m letting it go to waste. So lots of pears have been stewed and frozen and the tomato sauce has been simmering away. One of the Mum’s at works said “don’t worry about boiling your bottles etc – put them through the dishwasher without soap, and that sterilises them for you!” Now that’s modern technology at its best I say!

And on that note, I’d better carry on with it – have a great week everyone.