and Goodbye to 2008

Can't say I'm sorry to see the back of 2008. Here's hoping 2009 is a good year for everyone.
Happy New Year.

Christmas 2008 Merry Christmas everyone.

This Christmas was very different for us. The first year without my sister and her husband. Both having passed this year.

We decided to do something totally different as it would have just been too weird to have two empty places at the dinner table.

We (me and the boys), went to our local De Vere Hotel for Christmas lunch.

It actually turned out quite nice. We had a pleasant morning. Had a lovely lunch and then home to open pressies and just chill and watch telly.

Lunch was salmon and prawns, tomato soup, full traditional turkey dinner, christmas pud, cheese and biscuits, coffee and mince pies, strawberries, marshmallows etc., dipped in chocolate fountain. We only managed to get through the first three courses though and were totally stuffed.

An up to date piccie of Broxi and Scott in one of their favourite positions. lol.

Another Retreat Layout

This is a layout I did for a challenge at the Scrapajack Retreat. I won it, which was really nice and got some lovely chipboard as a prize.

The brief was to use chipboard in an unusual way. This picture was taken at Heather's hen night, so I decorated a couple of chipboard masks, added lots of glitter, feathers and ribbon, and bobs ya uncle.