I'm back

Well, I admit I lost touch with my blog - wasn't in the mood for posting and had to rethink what to do with it. My life doesn't seem to be that exciting although I'm always busy... Here's an update:
1. The shop was a flop - full stop. (Haha, at least it rhymes...) A few friends bought a few bits and that was that - I can't seem to find a way to link into google properly for OTHER people to find it, and Sean is too busy to look into these things. Maybe one day... Meanwhile, please remember my little shop when you need some crafts stuff, and maybe spread the news amongst your crafting friends. The prices are certainly good! (Link is in the sidebar!)
2. The dancing season has started again and I've already been to the Opening Dance, a Dance Scottish Open Day afternoon and several of the Addlestone and Guildford club nights. Great fun, I just love it...
3. Everything else is going it's usual way so nothing to tell really.

Now for this blog, since I don't seem to be doing too good on any of the scrapping projects I started (like the Year-a-Day Challenge and the ALS) I shall try instead to show some older LOs I made over the years, just in a random format - once a day or every other day. This should add interest for my non-scrapping friends who would like to learn more about me, as well as for the scrappers who can see what different kinds of artwork I've produced over the years, and will hopefully help me to not leave such huge posting gaps between things of interest... So here's the first LO:

A LO I made many years ago, quite at the beginning of my scrapbooking career when my stash consisted of plain papers and basic letter stickers and a few cardmaking goodies such a Mulberry paper. I had a phase of doing these kind of shape LOs - this one is photos interspersed with sweet packages. The meaning of this and the shape becomes clear from the journal:

"There’s one German tradition that has survived the purge in the aftermath of WW2 – and that is the “First Day of School Cone”. In Germany, simply known as “Schultüte” (School Carrier).

Generally, at age 6, German kids start their 4-year primary school careers, the first stage of compulsory education in the country. And on that day, every child – boys and girls alike – is given a fanciful paper cone filled with sweets and goodies as a present. It’s good-bye to the playful days of childhood and welcome to the “real world”, because although we all coveted the goodies inside, those cones are incredibly heavy and have to be carried around for a good many hours.

Here, my Mum and Nan were exceptionally kind to me: the better part of the sweets stayed at home and my cone was stuffed with crumpled newspaper more than halfway up and only topped with goodies, just in case that I was asked to share some with friends… Thanks Mum and Nan!"