Mummy's little tiger!!!!!!

Eventually I have got round to doing a layout for the challenge over on My Creative Scrapbooking.

This is my layout from the sketch. The photo is of my dear little Niece Ruby with her Mummy my lovely Sister-in-law.

Finally!!!!!!

Yes!!! Finally my craft room is all nicely painted and back to being tidy again. I have had a real good sort out, so now I can get back scrapping again now everything is organised and in its place.

Here are a few photos of my room finished, hope you enjoy looking at them.

Hola Mis Amigos!!!!!

Hola, Yes I am still alive and well, have not blogged or done any scrapping for the past couple of weeks. I decided to start tidying my craft room up and then decided to give it a good paint to freshen it up, so it has taken me a little longer than expected but I think it was worth it, will take photos in the next couple of days when my room will be finally finished.

Here are a few photos of my room before.......

And here is a photo of my gorgeous pooch Albie, he is totally wacked out after all that painting and cleaning up.

LOS TRES REYES - THE THREE KINGS!!!!!!

On 6 January 2012 Spain celebrates the end of Christmas with a great party where everybody gives and receives presents. It is to celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise Men - Melchior Caspar and Balthazar - to the city where Jesus was born.

Here are a couple of photos from the procession of the Three Wise Men in my local town Huercal-Overa, the children go along riding the floats, throwing sweets as they pass you by.

In the same way that the Three Wise Men gave gifts to baby Christ, here they share out presents amongst children around Spain - in fact; they are more popular than Santa Claus.

On that day, children wake up and see how many presents they have received. If they have been good, they will find a lot of good presents but if they have been naughty they will find coal. These days, the coal is actually made of sugar, but some years ago it was real coal.

During this day, all families enjoy a piece of roscon (a sugar-frosted fruit-filled bread) for breakfast tradition says that the person who finds a novelty such as a coin, in his or her portion will have good luck for the next year.



Both young and old enjoy opening their presents on this day, but sadly it also marks the end of Christmas.

Hope you enjoy reading one of the many traditions in Spain.

The Big One - My Creative Scrapbooking!!!!!!

For a final chance on the big prize over at the MY CREATIVE SKETCHES BLOG you only have to place all three sketches in one post,one very lucky winner will win an awesome prize, so I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed, hoping it will be me, me, me.

So here they come.
Here are my takes on the sketches from My Creative Scrapbooking, loved working from the sketches and had lots of fun along the way and loved all the inspiration from the DT Team.

Happy New Year!!!!!

*****HAPPY NEW YEAR***** everyone!
May the year ahead be a good one,I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012 and thanks for all my blog comments, they are all very much appreciated.

See you in 2012!!!! *****HAPPY SCRAPPY 2012 *****

Happy Christmas !!!! Feliz Navidad!!!!

I have managed to do a little crafting in the past few days, here are a few photos. I made these very quick gift bags for the girls at my Spanish school, they have yummy lindt lindor chocolates in them.

I treated myself to some crafting goodies the other week and they arrived all nicely wrapped in very nice christmassy tissue paper with cute reindeers on.

And here is a layout I made from some of my new crafting goodies, the layout is of my Hubbie and our King Charles Cavaliers, who are both not with us anymore,miss you boys. The photo was taken in the UK our last Christmas there before we moved to Spain.

Wishing all my crafting friends a very Happy Christmas!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all have a fabulous day with your Family and Friends and thanks once again for all your wonderful comments on my blog, they are very much appreciated. I will leave you with a photo of my pooch Albie, aka The Grinch, he was not too happy having to wear this Santa hat for this photo.