Thursday, 24 June 2010

Mousey Sketch 3

I've gone with Lisa this week and chosen to decorate a notebook for my entry to the third Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge. I've a few reliable cake and biscuit recipes that I use over and over but they are all in different cook books and I can never remember which one. So I thought I would start a project and collect them in this little notebook. I'm going to decorate the pages with stamps and hand write the recipes - I could even print out photos of my efforts to illustrate the recipes - that's the theory anyway. I've used my Pic-nic Patterns and Afternoon Tea stamp sets. The notebook was already covered in lovely green handmade paper and took the Distress Ink I used easily.

I've had a bit of a trauma the past couple of days - my external hard drive has failed and I've lost two years worth of photos, digital scrapping files, videos, scrapbook pages, etc - I've been told nothing is recoverable! And yesterday my Google account was hacked and temporarily disabled - I found out late last night that some horrible people had tried to send pornography to all my contacts! I think Google had intercepted and deleted the link straight away but if anyone did find something horrible in their inbox I am mortified and do apologise! I don't think anything did get through however and it was a bit of a fiddle getting my email and blog back, but all seems back to normal now thank goodness!

13 comments:

  1. Oh no Ann!!! how awful for your and btw, I'm not sure the un-recoverable thing is strictly true, get a second opinion!!! and your teatime book is just gorgeous!, I'd love to see how it goes on with pics etc inside!!! thank you for playing along with us at WMS!!

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  2. Beautiful book Ann, and what a horrible thing to happen to your picture memories. I agree with Claire, a second opinion and a computer whizz kid may help! x

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  3. Love it, I'm a sucker for tea/coffee cups and that's great!

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  4. I am so sorry to hear about your computer problems. That sounds like no fun at all!
    I love your idea of making a charming book to put your favorite recipes in! It looks wonderful.

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  5. What a great idea for your notebook! It is just adorable!

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  6. So sorry to hear about the computer mishaps and the loss of your photos. :( Maybe try for a second opinion - it certainly can't hurt! On a happy note, this journal is absolutely lovely! How inspirational! Theresa

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  7. Such a cute projects! Love all those little tea cups...they make me happy:)

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  8. OMG, I am so sorry to hear about the computer - the problem is - a computer is replacable, but these photos, dear to you... - but may be you do like Claire says and get a second opinion....
    Your cooking book is gorgeous - I love it! I have a similar project in my mind, got the file, but never got to the decoration part - you really encouraged me - but I guess, I wait for the new release - that looks sooo promising LOL

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  9. Love your cook book Ann! those tumbling teacups are so cute! and the random bg stamping of the cup and spoon look great!

    Thanks for playing with WMS this week!!

    Computers - love 'em/hate 'em !!!!

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  10. I love this notebook Ann, anything with teacups does it for me at first glance and this is no exception!
    So sorry to hear about your hard drive and your loss - oh how sad. I am just about to open a google account - not sure now as I have never been hacked into on my current one.
    Linbyx

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  11. Ann, I'm sorry to hear about your computer. That is awful. I can't even imagine. {{{{hugs}}}

    Your notebook is amazing! I love all those paper-pierced teacups....so darling. You are making me wanting that WMS set more and more!

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  12. I'm sorry about your computer Ann! This notebook is lovely! Such a great idea too since I chase recipes that I love from different books also.

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