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I saw this http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.ie/2012/06/mixed-media-fun-with-bo-bunny-template.html on pinterest and fell in love with it. Although I don't think mine is half as pretty I've coming around to the usage of little women and my own writing on pages so I learned something, can't be all a bad thing so!

I like the beauty along the side because I found a box of chipboard letters that I've never used but used them as a stencil and sprayed over them. Highlighted in black and it just popped, really happy because I was going to dump them! 

My printer hates me and would only print the lady up in a 4x6 so I think I will use her again but on a larger scale and get more creative, that was the extent of how much I was willing to do after a long day yesterday!

Introducing my new scrap corner woop woop!

Finally got it installed yesterday and still trying to get all my bits straight but ohhh look at it in all it's glory!

I decided to go the Besta range from Ikea, with 3 overhead presses and one tall press. The desk is the 120cm from the Besta range. 

My Helmer which I LOVE it fits all my accessories like all my dies in one drawer, inks in the other etc but it's so dinky. Shame Eli has learned how to open it and so far I've found his bottle and a cow in one of the drawers.

Th presses are very spacious and the flexibility allows me to move the shelves around to suit my needs.

How cute are the spice jars filled with buttons? I did it by colour, I don't even have that many buttons so I have a jar of thumb tacks just to fill it up!

I heard from a reliable source that the desk marks easily so with some oil cloth I had left over from our kitchen table I slapped some on top! (Look at the matching red bin...seriously I'm in love)

With under press lights and a lovely big desk light even at night time I will have enough light so I won't have to squint or temper drag the table under the only light in the room.

So that's it, the place where my heart can settle and create to it's little desire. So so happy :)

3 x2 photos

When you have a fussy underweight child whose weight is not even on the charts for his height you are happy when he eats anything....even if it is a coffee mocha cupcake :)

I finally found somewhere in town that prints 3x2 photos, since my kodak printer died I had no way of printing unusual sizes. 

Well needless to say he ate the bun...paper and all

Paper is some old basic grey and echo park and jillybean letters.

Oh woe is Winston

A few years ago we had some problems with using our inside voices in class and decided to introduce Winston, the bear with sensitive ears. He cries if you shout because his sore ear will hurt. And to some extent it does work but of late poor Winston has been crying alot....as have the teachers

The journalling reads Poor Winston! He is the classroom teddy with a broken ear. If you shout his ears will hurt and he will cry. He loves to hear stories and if you talk quietly into his good ear to tell him your story he will give you extra cuddles. If you don't want to talk you can just give him a bear hug. ALbert Le Blanc is his favourite story (and Louises too), it's about a bear who looks sad. He likes to sit in the middle of circle time to hear it.

The ribbon and little bear attachment are from Jean who sent me a great stash and I just don't know how to use it! Thanks Jean :)