Hold on to your hats.... I'm back within a month!

So, I'm determined to try to keep my blog up to date until the end of the year.   Not sure I'll succeed but I'm going to give it a go.

I've still got lots of WIPs on the go, a knitted heirloom shawl from a 70 year old knitting pattern, my AJ pages as always, a basket of baby vests and socks meant to resemble roses but I've had too many scathing comments from Mr Tinks and Master Tinks to continue with that at the moment :(  Meanwhile I've scrapped!  Yay!!

I was inspired by Stuck?! Sketches with this sketch

 and used it to enter their June Challenge.  Meanwhile over at UKS the Monthly or House Challenge as it is formally known merely asked us to use this colour combo:

Papers were selected:

and I got to work.  I used a very old photograph of me and my bestie Julie taken when we were about 13/14 in a photobooth in Woolworths.  We look so young and innocent and its incredible that we are still the best of friends all these years later.  This is also a poignant LO because I won't have Julie in my life much longer.  She is incredibly poorly suffering with an untreatable Grade 4 Brain Tumour and I'm looking for the positive in every day.  

Taa Daa!  here it is :)  TYFL