The Red Wren

Documenting December with The Stamp Spot kit

This is my third year of participating in December Daily®. December Daily® is a mini scrapbook project created by Ali Edward’s to capture December. You can learn more at her website. I have a few Christmas albums I’m aiming to complete this year; A 6×8 December Daily®, which will be the third I’ve completed. An 8×8 photobook of Christmas from 2004-2012 which encompasses the years I wasn’t scrapping and have no physical photos printed for. I’m completing it ...

Christmas Printables, Freebies, Memory Keeping

December pocket calendars 2015

This free printable has been retired. If you would still like it, please contact me. Hello! I’m running a bit behind schedule with my December pocket scrapbooking freebies this year, so expect to see some more over the coming week or two. This is the third year I’ve offered these ...

Freebies, Memory Keeping

Free Halloween Pocket Cards

Do you celebrate Halloween? Eleven years ago I was in America in the lead up to Halloween and I remember being in awe of all the decorated houses in New England, seeing pumpkins for sale on the sidewalks of New York. The stores had Halloween cards, Halloween themed Snickers bars… it went ...

Memory Keeping

Jot Mood board challenge

I’ve been stuck in a scrappy rut of late. Whenever I pull my Project Life album out to work on I find myself staring at the blank or unfinished pages, then just walking away. I needed to do something similar but different enough to challenge me. Enter the Jot Magazine Mood Board ...

Freebies

Free digital watercolour brushes for Photoshop and Elements

Today I’m revisiting an older set of free digital cards I made in March 2014. My watercolour splatter cards are one of the most popular posts on this website, and one of my most pinned photos. I was quite pleased when I designed these as I created the watercolour splatters myself, then ...

Freebies

Project Lists – Free printable

Hello! Today’s freebie is a plain and simple project list to help get your projects organised. I have a lot of projects on the go right now, ranging from scrapbooking, to decluttering, to external house painting and needed a simple way to keep track of the tasks I need to do. The list is ...

Memory Keeping

Catching up on Project Life – Update

It’s been over a month since I posted my plan to catch up on Project Life, so it’s time for an update. Did I succeed in completing all my layouts in two weeks? Truthfully, no. Life happens and I was delayed. However I did complete 80% of it and am feeling much better about where my ...

Memory Keeping

Catching up on Project Life

I’m rather behind with Project Life and being laid up with morning sickness for two months hasn’t helped me catch up. We already know this so I won’t ramble on about it, instead I’ll tell you my plan to do something about it. Enter the Collect App A lot of people praise ...

Food & Recipes

Ricotta and Silverbeet Rolls

In an effort to both cook and blog more, I will be periodically be sharing some of our favourite recipes on the blog. I intend to go back and add all my recipes to the plug in I’m using for this one which will then create an easy to find index. Ricotta and Silverbeet Rolls Print Recipe ...