DD on our holiday last year

Photos: private

Photos: private

This is a layout created purely for fun - and to try a new technique. I have just recently discovered my Affinity Designer can place objects on an isometric grid and it's been fun experimenting with this feature. I had no particular plan for his layout and was just throwing some elements onto...

One of the most expensive places to live in New Zealand (a small wooden house will set you back as much or more as a French chateau!). We've been spending a lot of time at this fish and chip shop there as a close friend became a Covid refugee from Europe and was lent a small apartment here, and...

One of my favourite photos from a winter in Sweden.

Audrey Hepburn is one of my very favorites ever, so I had to use her quote. It's also one of my favorites, too. I don't often scrap pictures of my son, who passed away in 1991 but this silly picture of him was SO perfect for this quote. It's still too painful for me to scrap his pictures. He...

I don't think there is a single photo of me as a kid where I am smiling!

She towers over me but she's still the baby :-) and was a huge support to me in challenging times

DD#1 and DD#2 heading out on a walk in Sweden.

DD and I when we lived in Singapore. We arrived in the middle of the SARs epidemic so it was a strange time.

DD and DH in Spain back when we travelled (were living over winter on the French/Spanish border). A lot happened after this, not just Covid, so definitely all the feels when I look at this.

My great-grandad with his gardening trophies. The green thumbs gene clearly skipped me, but my Dad and my daughter have it!

One of my scrapping goals for 2022 is embracing white space. Literally - I've been loving all these white backgrounds recently... and figuratively - less is more kind of thing. White space is hard for me, so I tend to use a template as a starter and... clutter it with stuff. Lol... This layout...

I love these photos of DD after she got into the dress up box and burst out the Bollywood moves they had been learning at school :-)

Another fav pic of DD

Love this sweet pic of DD

Me refusing to have my photo taken while at the seaside holiday home that my Dad's boss would lend us.

Yep, I am a doofus. Dancing in the apartment to keep fit ;-)