tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163833942012-02-20T13:07:42.595Zdomestic goddesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04043903525782216711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1194125IFeelLikeScrappingTonighthttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16383394.post-67082494585951284122012-02-16T14:31:00.000Z2012-02-16T14:31:15.731Z2012-02-16T14:31:15.731Z

I am having a HUGE clear out of my craft room and have bagged up 50 + papers to sell. Manufacturers include, Basic Grey, MME, Nikki Sivils, Prima and Sasfrass to name just a few. I am asking for £12.95 incl postage. (thats about 20p per sheet!)   Email me if you are interested albowkis@hotmail.com Thanks Anna x

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Its half term here, and I have one poorly girl in the house, so most of our plans have been cancelled this week. Instead we are choosing the warmth of home and the sofa and lots of cuddles! photography challenge I did yesterday to capture love and heartache This blog is getting seriously neglected as of late. I am going to try my best and sort some kind of routine out for it. Start sharing

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As some of you may now be aware I have closed the doors on Pencil Lines.  What started as a few friends challenging each other with a sketch to produce a layout each week, turned into 15,000 visitors a week, an amazing and talented group of scrapbookers that formed my design team over the last 6 years. Pencil Lines has had 267 amazing guest designers, 267 unique sketches and a published book.

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Yikes where has 2012 gone already! Sorry for the lack of posting. Like most working mums the past few months are hectic with school activities, the kids, getting orders out for Christmas and Christmas itself! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We had a full house and between sickness bouts, a lovely Christmas was had by all. We all got spoilt rotten and I must have been extra

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As you can see my blog is being neglected, but its that time of year when I am busy in the kitchen and wrapping pressies, which I am sure you all are too! We have a full house this Christmas which will be lovely. I love hosting and love being busy in the kitchen. It was my birthday last week and Sue bought me the new Lorraine Pascale book and I have already bookmarked a few recipes, including a

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I am at last beginning to feel some Christmas cheer. I am no scrooge but I am so busy at the moment I havnt had time to even think about Christmas. This week though Peter and I did some Christmas shopping on Monday and today I had a good sort out of what I had got the girls, and as usual I have spent more than planned and had gifts hiding I had forgotten I had bought! Anyone else like that? The

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My poor baby girl really hasn't been herself these last few weeks. It always breaks my heart, as I am sure it does all mums, when our children are sick. I don't believe there is anything serious wrong with her, but she is so not herself! Lilly has been in and out of school these past 3 weeks and today woke up to a bloody face and sheets from one hell of a nose bleed! So another day she was kept

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Scrapbooking has been my life for the best part of 7 years. I started scrapbooking when Lilly was a baby using handmade papers I sold on Ebay, fibres, and paper flowers. cool stuff eh?! I plodded along doing my thing and I got picked up by a new magazine called Creative Scrapbooking. I became a features writer and even had a cover with a winter layout of Izzy. I bought so many copies , LOL, and

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Today in the UK is Children in Need. Kids all over the UK will have dressed up, done something silly, had a mad hair day, or gone spotty to help raise money for children less fortunate than ours. This year the girls decided to turn fashion designers and decorate a white Tshirt and for Lilly a pair of white leggings! Thank goodness for my promarkers! Model : Isabella Bowkis Designer :

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I really am not doing a very good job of updating my blog at the moment. Life is hectic, photos need editing and orders need to be placed. last week I had visitors form up North and a poorly Lilly on and off and the week just went by in a puff of smoke. And already we are heading to the middle of another week! Well last Thursday I joined the girls school on their KS2 visit to Buckden Towers for

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Its FRIDAY!! The weekend is upon us, and I feel like doing a Five Fav Friday today! I am a huge lover of Pinterest and can spend hours lost on that site. i use it for photography shoot inspiration, baking inspiration, crafts and just to make me smile! Here is some felt love: these make me smile love  flower headbands at the best of times love this so much, must make some how cute are

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A couple of weekends ago I had a day of shooting for a client, both her girls birthday parties. The first was Georgia's Mad Hatter Tea Party which the girls were invited too. Of course Lilly went as The Mad Hatter again and thanks to an online friend, Izzy had the loan of a fab Red Queen outfit (made by said friend!!). I was shooting general party photos and a party booth was set up, complete

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The Quick Step Last Thursday Peter was dancing at a charity Strictly Come Dancing event for Ricard House Childrens Hospice. After having his chest waxed and having a spray tan he had already raised a mighty sum of about £600.00, amazing how badly people enjoy seeing others in pain, LOL! I was already in London for another event, so met the girls and Peters family at the hotel in Russell

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Not sure how much I can say just yet, only because it has not been publicly announced yet, but tomorrow I am headed down to London as a consumer reporter to a party food launch for a major retail chain. i will be followed by a film crew, (darn why didnt I keep up the dieting!) and will be interviewing celebs and guests at the event. My main job is to interview a very gorgeous and sexy celebrity

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Its with great sadness and after months of decision making, that I have stepped down from the Nikki Sivils design team. I have had an amazing year with Nikki and the girls and feel really honored to have worked with Nikki. My photography business is keeping me really busy at the moment and I just havn't been dedicating the time that Nikki and the DT deserve. I was the only UK girl on the team

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Yikes, been to long I know, hope to improve on this shortly but life and business has been manic! Do want to share the Glee poster I did for all Izzy's friends who came to the party. Each poster was framed ready to hang on the wall! Everyone loved their gift and Izzy's sits proudly in a birthday girl pink frame to go in her room. Are you planning a birthday party soon? Do click on the tag "

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It is with great sadness that the world loses a great visionary in Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar. There is so much I could post here, words of wisdom, encouraging and uplifting videos, but I am sure with a google of "Steve Jobs" you will find something that will change the way you look at your life by his words. This is one of my favorite quotes: Your time is limited,

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Izzy had her party on Friday, and she chose a Glee Themed party, and I had so much fun putting it all together. It wasnt without its stress and tantrums on my behalf, LOL, but I got there in the end. It all started with the invite, and this Glee wallpaper I found. I just opened in photoshop and cut out the centre square and popped in a photo of Izzy which I had taken in the studio and

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Just stopping by quickly, been a really busy week. Wednesday was Izzy's birthday and she turned 11, where has my baby girl gone.... Well today it's her party and I have been busy this past week gathering bits and pieces for tonights Glee party. Leaving you with the a picture of the invite, whilst I go and turn a round cake into a Glee hand!! Be back over the weekend with lots of photos and

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Autumn has truly arrived when it's time to start collecting conkers. It doesn't matter how old you are, the joy of finding beautiful shiny mahogany coloured jewels excites as all; well it does in our house, LOL This weekend I had a photo shoot beside a huge old conker tree near our house. Whilst I was setting the scene for my photo shoot, Peter and Lilly went conker collecting. Just love the

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Playing with some Nikki Sivils last week for Nikki's blog, and I decided to mix things up and use 2 lines to design my layout. I used "school is cool" and "Get well soon" It just shows that the name of a collection is not the only use you can have for it. I love the colours in the "Get Well Soon" collection, but I had already done a layout of a poorly Lilly and didnt want to do another "get well

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my wedding day  They say time heals, and it does, its true that the pain is not so harsh as the years go by. My dad passed away 5 years ago today after a 15 year battle with MS. I am so thankful that I had 9 months with my dad living only a few miles up the road, and was able to visit him as often as I wanted. He had Christmas Day at ours, a huge moment for me, a summer party at ours and many

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I was photographing some skirts for a Folksy designer and went to the Big Top at the Circus in Bedford as a backdrop (more to come on my photo blog). So I decided that we should all go and visit the circus as the girls had never been. I was a little disapointed, just wasn't as I remembered *sulk*. The girls enjoyed it, thats the main thing. The colour in the tent was so orange so excuse the

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I cannot believe I now have a year 4 and a year 6!! When did that happen? The summer holidays have flown passed, and all the promises I made were mostly broken, oops! I did manage for the first time to have school uniforms and shoes purchased in good time and I actually got all their clothes labelled before the new year started! Both the girls have learnt how to do knot own ties! The girls

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For those that read my photography blog, I am sure you cannot forget the photos I posted  from the Jane Austen Shoot I attended earlier in the month, organized by Melissa Love. I havnt stopped talking about it, LOL. I so enjoyed the day more than you can imagine. The styling, the models, the photographers all made the day memorable and inspirational! Anyways, Melissa held a competition for all us

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