I have been taking the Painting with Light photography course with Cheryl Johnson. This is the second course I taken with CJ and i am looking forward to the weekend photography bootcamp in May. I am really enjoying the course althouh I must admit that the weekly assignment deadlines are a little too tight for me to achieve with my work and design team commitments. Here are a few photos I have taken this week with my assignments in mind. They include the iconic Transporter Bridge, one of the two remaining in the world and a local visit ot a graveyard at sunset. Watch out this week for news of a brand new bright and cheery kit from DESIGNS BY ANGEL.

WOW I cant believe that my layout below was chosen as layout for the week over at K-Joi forum. It made my day! Anyway I published my part of the Kindred Creations digital collaboration kit last week (see below) but the full kit of all the parts is now available from here Grab yourself a mega freebie. But dont forget to go on the designers blogs and leave a bit of love for their effort.

How was your Mothering Sunday? Mine was lovely with cards from my children and granddaughters through the post and daughter Michelle and Ben visiting for the weekend. We even had time to spend with my parents and mother in law. I have been playing with the Spring Awakenings kit from Designs by Angel from over PrettyScrappy. I love the little ripped frames and the daisies from the April showers kit.

There are loads of designers working on a collaboration free kit over at Kindred Creations forum. I have added this mini kit to the colab but there are loads of others available in the same colours. So why not drop by Kindred creations forum to pick up all the parts of the March kit. Whay not down load this free either from my site shop HERE or from 4shared.com

Well not me but my Blog. I have been having fun creating backrounds and headers looking for a new design which I like. I have settled on this one for now, but as I have figured it out, I may have to change it more regularly. What do you think? Let me know and if you like it I will create a few more styles as freebies for the store.

I have been working on the new Spring Awakenings Kit created by Designs by Angel as part of her creative team. To promote the new kit, a blog train starts today with free Brag book pages on different members of the creative teams blogs. Hunt them out and get a complete brag book free. All pages are co-ordinating designed with this massive kit. It is perfect for pregnancy, new babies and Easter. The top images areof the mega kit and Angel is offering the Quick page and Brag book pages FREE with purchase from either Pretty Scrappy or K-Joi Studios . The blog train, visit the Creative teams blogs listed at the end to pick up your additional FREE brag book page and check out their work. Dont for get to leave a little love and comment as a thank you for the freebies. You can get your free Brag Book pages from Scrapdragon HERE Blog Addresses Angel Breanne Cindy Helen Kay Kim Lisa Melissa

We have just got back from visiting our new Granddaughter Daisy Grace. I cant beleive how much she has changed sine we first saw her. Daisy is now five weeks old and startign to smile and chuckle when we amuse her. the next time we see her will be Easter weekend when they all come to visit so that the great grandparents can see Daisy. Now I have sorted those photos, I have to prepare for a Blog train which is happening on here Tuesday with free Brag book pages from the new Spring Awakenings kit from Designs by Angel which is about to be launched. Check back here on Tuesday for more details.

There has been a lot going on this week since we got back from wedding dress shopping in Burton. Friends and family have all been buying little gifts for our granddaughter Daisy. We have a load to take down to Lyndsdey and Gary when we visit Manchester on Saturday. I made some little Thank You cards with Daisy's photo on as a digital page using the NewLife Dreams Oh Baby kit (its georgeous; I love the little feathers and sparkles! ) After printing the layout, I have made lots of hybrid cards with paper and ribbons so that Lyndsey and Gary can write out the cards and post them out to all who have bought for Daisy. I also decided to sign up for the Race for Life. There are a few people at work doing it and I have never attempted it before. But as my mum is currently undergoing treatment for Breast cancer, the least I can do is try and run a bit and raise some money to support the Cancer Research. I am overjoyed at the reponse to sponsor me so far as I only set it up on 9th M...

This weekend has been great fun. My daughter Michelle is getting married on 10 October this year and we went going wedding dress shopping on Saturday. On Friday night we left work and drove down to Burton on Trent where Michelle and Ben bought a house. On Saturday we walked into Burton Town to Moss Bros and looked at the men's outfits and made some decisions about those. We had an appointment at the little wedding dress shop at 2.00pm on the afternoon and Ben's mum came along to join in the fun as well. Michelle tried on about eight or nine different styles, some where very Victorian and full of flounces, others were more fitted. She even managed to try a large full net meringue style dress on. Although it was quite difficult to sort out the manoeuvring into them. After a while Michelle narrowed it down to two dresses. Then the difficulty was to make a decision, but she finally chose one and a matching headdress for the event. On the evening we were booked into...

It was a shock to they system to go back to work after two weeks in the sun. Especially when I haven't even finished wading through the mountain of laundry. As a distraction to avoid looking at the laundry, I have been reviewing the photos which I took in Egypt while I was playing with my new Canon 450D camera and the 50mm lens which Allan bought me for Christmas. These very clever carvings were on display in the hotel restaurant. They had lovely displays of fruit and vegetables everyday. I just had to capture the colourful display. I set off tonight for my Tuesday weight watchers class in anticipation of the two weeks all inclusive menu of the Hauza Beach Resort in Sharm would have increased my weight dramatically. I was overjoyed to find I had stayed the same as before my holiday and not managed to put on an ounce! I don't believe it, we must have drank at least a bottle of red wine each day. I will have to be really ggood for this week otherwise it will show on m...

A quickpage freebie based on the Twit Who kit is available if anyone can use it. get it safely HERE

Some people have had concerns using the free files 4 sharing site due to virus downloads. So if you still want the sampler from the Kindred creations forum free kit and quickpage, you can download them safely from my store. other free kits are also on there. visit the links http://www.scrapdragon.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=69&products_id=966