Showing posts with label Memorable Moments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorable Moments. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 January 2014

Less Is More #156 x2

 I love the sketch challenge so much from Less is More this week that I have made two cards.

 J'aime le défi sketch tellement de Less is More cette semaine que j'ai fait deux cartes.


Douce Esquisse

This and That Fraîche Nostaglie
Have a good weekend everyone,
Passer un bon week-end tout le monde,

Alison xx

Friday, 26 July 2013

Artful Readers Club July 2013

Back again for my monthly book review for the Artful Readers Club.

This month I read a wonderful book by Keith Cronin called Me Again.

I 'bought' it ages ago when it was free on Kindle and as the whole point of the ARC is to read books that have just been forgotten about, I had picked this one.

What an amazing piece of fiction - but it felt so real that by the end if I had been told that it was an autobiography then, I think, I would have believed it.



It's the story of Jonathan Hooper who wakes up after 6 years in a coma.
At first he doesn't remember anything about what had happened, who he was, where he was. In fact, he thought he was called Jesus as that's what all the medical staff around were saying.

And to be honest, he doesn't really remember much even when he starts to communicate with the doctors and his family. 
He had a drop, dead gorgeous girlfriend before, but he can't remember.
He had a great high flying accountants job, but now he doesn't understand numbers at all.
He has a mum, a dad and a brother, but he doesn't remember them.

Jonathan makes friends with Rebecca, a fellow stroke patient, at the same hospital as him.
And we follow their story towards recovery.

Jonathan has to learn to do everything again, including learning his animals and what sounds they make, which is where I took my inspiration for my page.


This truly is a feel good book.
My biggest suprise about this book was that it was written by a man. Normally men write thrillers, mysteries, science fiction, but Me Again is filled with emotion and charm. Well worth the read.

Alison xx

Friday, 31 May 2013

The Artful Readers Club May 2013


This month for the Artful Readers Club I read a real chick lit book called

Three Girls and a Baby by Rachel Schurig

It was a very easy read but that's exactly what I wanted and needed this month.



It's the story of three friends, Ginny, Annie and Jen, who share a house together after they all finish college.

Ginny has a very on/off relationship with her boyfriend, Josh. They had dated all though college and when they broke up her friends took her side and never wanted Ginny to see Josh again.

Well in true chick lit timing, that's when Ginny finds out she is pregnant.
She decides to keep the baby.
But her employers, she's a nanny to 3 children, decide that having an unmarried mother is not what they want their kids to see, so Ginny ends up unemployed as well.

Annie and Jen are her rocks and help her out. 
Luckily, Annie has a friend who knows about a job going in a local bookstore which Ginny ends up getting.

Ginny finds love again and everything seems to be going well, until she bumps into Josh's mum at the doctors. Josh's mum is your typical evil mother-in-law and doesn't seem thrilled about becoming a grandma very soon.

Ginny has her beautiful baby, I won't tell you what she has, incase you want to read it.
And slowly her life with the baby sorts itself out and everyone ends up in a happy place, as per all chick lit.



I did really enjoy this book and may get the sequel to read over the summer.
Three Girls and a Wedding.

Alison xx

Friday, 15 March 2013

Happy Anniversary


Today is my parents' 44th Wedding Anniversary, so a huge congratulations to them both.

I used a new purchase, Memorable Moments, for the sentiment and also an old favourite, Everything Eleanor.

Today is also my mother-in-law's birthday but as her card is very similar to my mum's card, I will show you both on Monday, which is my mum's birthday.

It's a very busy month for both mums !!

Aujourd'hui est l'anniversaire de mariage de mes parents 44ème donc un grand bravo à tous les deux.

J'ai utilisé un nouvel achat, Moments mémorables, car le sentiment et aussi un vieux favori, Everything Eleanor.

Aujourd'hui, c'est aussi l'anniversaire de ma belle-mère, mais comme sa carte est très similaire à la carte de ma mère, je vais vous montrer les deux lundi, car ce sera l'anniversaire de ma maman.

C'est un mois très occupé pour les deux mamans !!

Alison xx

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Kiddies Card


As I said yesterday, Saturday's card class was lots of fun this month.

This was one of the cards we made as it was a request from the ladies, 
who have admired my LEGO cards in the past.

Isn't it great that Stampin' Up! have such bright fun colours to make a card perfect for a LEGO mad child - I have one, so I know that it was a hit !!

Comme je l'ai dit hier, dans la classe des cartes nous nous sommes beaucoup amusées ce mois-ci.

C'était l'une des cartes nous avons faites comme c'était un requête des dames,
qui ont admiré mes cartes de LEGO dans le passé.

C'est excellente que Stampin 'Up! ont des couleurs vives et amusantes pour faire une carte parfaite pour un enfant fou de LEGO - j'en ai un, alors je sais que c'était un succès !!

Alison xx