Happy Leap Year

I love leap year! To get an extra day is such a great thing. I know that a lot of people (especially those in my office today) are moaning that they have to come to work and work for free today but i am glad for the extra day. Its a day extra that we can live that doesn't make us any older, its a day extra that i have for studying and revision before my exams, its a day extra that i have to create or spend with my family.

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I say wohoo for Leap Years!

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Every night before turning off my light i always try to give myself some time to read. Normally i like to have about half hour or so but lately it has sometimes been only 10 minutes. I am OK with that for now. Here are some of the books on my nightstand. "Will the real me please stand up" is a book that i have read before but it is well worth a second read, and possibly even a third and a fourth.

Last weekend i spent some time putting together an inspiration area. I was reading about them while blog surfing last week and love the idea. It is such a nice way to add colour and inspiration to your home. Mine is not yet complete but i don't want to add just anything to it so this is how it looks for now.
These are items that i picked up from Paperchase, cut out of magazines and even a flyer that came through the mail. Inspiration truly is all around us.
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This weekend is Mothers Day here in the UK. I have my mom and dad coming round on Sunday for a nice roast dinner and cant wait to give my mom her mothers day gift. I try to let her know as often as possible just how much i love her and how much she means to me but i love having a day that is set aside especially for this. So, provided that i manage to cook the meal in my gas oven without burning it, it should be a good day for all.
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Hope everyone has a great weekend.

An insiders look into my art journal

What have i been doing lately? Studying and working, and studying and studying and .. you guessed it - studying. lol.

Only six more days and then the first one will be over.

Today i thought i would share some peeks into my art journal. These are pages that i have done over the past 6 weeks or so. They are all very personal which is why i am just showing part of them. Some of these pages i spent days doing (the envelope one) and others i threw together in a matter of 20 minutes.

An art journal is something that i have only really been doing for about five or six months now but you know...now that i have started one, i think it will be something that i keep up with for a long time to come. I love the freedom of it, the personal space. Something that is for you alone and that has no standards to meet.

I know my entries have been a little sporadic and "not my normal style" but i am hoping that soon i will get back into the swing of things. So thank you for every ones kind comments and emails over the last few weeks - lets hope things get back to normal soon.

February Love

As February is the month of Love i thought today might be a good day to focus on things that i am loving this month.

* My new hair do. I am loving it. I can blow dry it straight or if i want a bit of body to it i just have to dry it using my fingers and walla - curly waves!
* So far i have lost 10.5 pounds. I have been super good this past week or so and haven't yet been on the scales lately so i am pretty confident that it is a little more than that.
* Having the sun go down just that little bit later and later every day is a great mood lifter.
* Playing around with Photo Shop and my camera
* Mom's home cooked meals on a Saturday evening.
* The ceramics class that i went to last night - so much fun.
* I am loving bakingbits.com
* The new friends that i am making
* Getting to know myself a little better and finding me again.
* I am loving the fact that we have an earthquake across the country and I manage to sleep right through it and yet a car can drive by the flat and that will wake me....lol

Ants in my pants.....

This is something we always used to say as children in our house. It was always a big joke and whenever someone used to say it we used to jiggle about and squirm as if we really did have ants in our pants......

Today i feel as if i have got Ants in my pants. Unfortunately, not in the fun childlike sense but in the sense that i just want everything now. I don't want to have to wait anymore! Things that i know are going to take time to come to pass, things that need to be worked on, nurtured and loved ..... I WANT THEM NOW! I don't want to have to wait around for them to happen. I want to wake up tomorrow morning and if i cant have all the things that i seem to so desperately want at the moment, at least i should be able to have, lets say, two of them. I think that is a perfectly fair deal. I wont be greedy and want them all - i can be happy with just two.

I know, i know - I am sounding very childish and immature and i am really trying to "live for the now" and "make each moment count" so that i can be happy at the place where i am this very minute but today i am finding it hard. Today i want the easy fixes. I don't want to have to work hard for things or make sacrifices. I just want things to be easy.