London is Wicked!

Wow...what a crazy busy place London is. Holy cow. So insane! Took the train into Paddington Station (like the bear in the kids' book!) and then taxied to Buckingham palace, only we couldn't get there because traffic was stopped due to some parade...which we later saw.

Missed the official Changing of the Guard due to practice for some parade (Trooping of the Colours) for The Queen's birthday next month. Were unable to get very close to Buckingham Palace because of that. Though we did get to see all the guard in their fancy uniforms, some atop horses and playing instruments. We couldn't even get to that memorial dad was talking about. The police had the whole area blocked off. We walked round Buckingham Palace to the theatre outside Victoria Station. Let me just say, The Queen has a damn big house. My legs still hurt today. It's hilly walking that seems to bother them most, my shins just BURN. Ugh.

Then we went to see Wicked. Which was FREAKING AWESOME!!!!! Only a few of the characters did I really notice their accents...for those of you who were wondering. The cast was awesome, our seats were awesome, the sound was awesome, and Fiyero's trousers were lovely. It made me CRY it was so good!!! Also gave my goosebumps at one point. LOVED it!! I hope I can still get tickets for Phoenix next month. I already want to see it again!!! I bought 2 shirts (one says Wicked London on it, the other says Defying Gravity).

We had drinks with Jaz at The Shakespeare Pub after. It was lovely to finally meet her!! She's loads of fun. I look forward to next week, but I will be sad leaving Sal in Newbury. : ( Tomorrow is our last day together, until I come back on Thursday to go to school with her.

Me and the Jazzy one at the pub. See laminated Kimmy in the foreground.

Fancy British parade practice.

Palace guards. We were quite far away... zoomity lens action!!

WICKED SQUEE!!!! The signage was v. cool.. all sparkly.. the lighting inside the theatre was all GREEN too!!!!!

Scrappy Time

Here are some of my more recent projects...

This was actually the cover of a catalog, I loved the summery feel it had so I scrapbooked it !
*Inspired by The Art is Found blog*

Not uberly fond of this page, but it's ok.
Basic Grey "Sugared" paper/chipboard

" Wicked" pages I made for my friend Amy. We did a photo swap. :D These are her pics & things.The green background paper and the black photo mat are both bazzil bling, so they're shiny, there's glitter stripes in the striped paper as well. I decorated the Cosmo Cricket blackboards with more glitter.
Stamped birthday cards. Not my usual style, but fun!

Cosmo Cricket Love

I'm trying out for the Cosmo Cricket design team... so here are some of my favorite things I've made with Cosmo Cricket products... a few of them are older, but most are pretty recent. :)

This is probably my favorite thing ever made with Cosmo Cricket. I LOVE the Hello Sunshine papers & blackboard letters.



More Hello Sunshine paper & blackboard. That's not gray paper in the background it's clear {a Hambly overlay} I put it between the Cosmo Cricket papers.


A minibook made with Little Girl Biography 101 papers, the Ruby Album, & CC blackboard and rub-ons.

You can see the whole thing HERE.

A few Cosmo Cricket Cards... This one features Hello Sunshine paper

This one features Little Girls Biography 101 paper





This one features Wanted paper/ die cuts.




An older LO featuring Love Story paper.


A binder clip altered with leftovers from the mini album, Little Girl Biorgraphy 101 paper.




A LO made with Hey Sugar papers.


This one features the leftovers from my mini album, including one of the blackboard pages.
Little Girls Biography 101 Paper/ journlaing tag, & blackboard letters.

This was the first thing I ever made with Cosmo Cricket paper. It features papers/die cuts from the Wanted paper line & trumpter Chris Botti.




Cosmo Cricket, thank you for considering me for your team. :)

More scrappiness

Some other stuff I made this weekend. Mostly for challenges.

Scrap-a-hottie challenge... he had to be topless.
White challenge.. had to use mostly white...I made this for Rhiannon :D

1 am challenge: hybrid, sewing & stamping
Not a challenge, just a WICKED cool page ;)

Music challenge. My pictures from Anaheim.
4 challenges in one: sand a picture, name tag, fave word, and love on yourself.
Jukebox challenge: Use a song title & it's lyrics as journaling {Rockstar by Nickleback}