Five Favourites From November

Better late than never I say! Here are my five favourite photos from November:

Maddie and V...or is it me?!?!?

This one makes me laugh so much :)

My baby boy snuggled under my mood blanket :)

Me getting a huge surprise!

And a foggy walk in the park.

I'm looking forward to scrapping these over the Christmas period when I have a few days off work.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Refocus

I have been so busy recently that I haven't had a chance to document my Slimming World journey, that doesn't mean that I've stopped travelling though!

We have had a lot of talks in the past few weeks about Christmas and how to cope with it and, quite frankly, I wasn't coping with the talk of Christmas and the pressure I felt, the pressure I had put on myself to continue losing over Christmas.

I had gain after gain and was so unhappy so I refocused.  I stopped thinking about the fast approaching run away train called Christmas and started focusing on something else instead.

I thought back to the summer of 2014, not a great time for me personally but a great time for my weight loss.  During that summer I wore a lovely pair of cropped jeans and I felt great in them.  In the summer of 2015 the gap between the button and buttonhole on those jeans was a vast canyon and that upset me :(

So my focus changed from Christmas to summer 2016 when I really want to walk along the beach with those jeans on, and it worked!

This was the result the first week after I'd changed my thought process and I was so happy!

The week after that I maintained, it wasn't a loss but it wasn't a gain either and I'd had a heavy week so I was still happy :)

And then last week this happened:

And I was over the moon :)

I'm weighing in tonight and I'm hoping for another good loss, a loss that will allow me to enjoy myself at Christmas but, more importantly, a loss that will get me in those jeans come the summer.

Remember - everyone is different therefore everyone's goals, thoughts, deadlines and focus should be different too.  Find something that works for you.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Five Favourites Finished!

At last I've finally got my five favourite photos from October scrapped and ready to share!

Now that Maddie is older I don't get many chances to use my Halloween stash so I was pleased when she grabbed this spider hat to try on :)  I'm also very please with the web I drew using glitter glue!

Although I chose one photo from this set of photos I'd taken I decided to scrap them all in the end, we always have a laugh when we're taking selfies and I wanted to show that in the layout :)

This is another one where I added an extra photo, I found it hard to pick just one so decided to do them both.  My niece Alice certainly is a crazy lady :)

I have a ton of photos of these two but I love the look on Alfie's face in this one :)

This layout I'm just not sure about, I thought the background paper was perfect to document a nice walk in the park but now I don't think it works.  I'm not going to change it though and hopefully it will grow on me once it's in the album.

So that's another nine photos scrapped meaning another five layouts in my albums. It also means that I'm almost bang up to date with scrapping 2015! Woohoo :)

I'll be back soon with my five favourite photos from November.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx 

Week Fifty

Week fifty was just what I needed, it was very quiet and gave me some much needed down time to put my feet up and recharge my batteries:

This week Maddie decided to be a donkey, her favourite animal :)

I had an appointment with the dentist, I thought it was going to be for an extraction but it was just a filling :)

I met up with my old friends, Davide:

And Steph :)

And enjoyed this amazing dirty pudding, salted caramel profiteroles with a vanilla cream dip!

And on Friday I enjoyed a relaxing evening with a glass of wine :)

On Saturday Maddie decided to treat herself to a new laptop before her old one completely dies!

I had a fun night out with the girls, no winnings though :(

On Sunday I collected the new laptop :)

And spent the rest of the day catching up on Project Life with a glass (and it was just the one) of wine.

Now I feel very refreshed and I'm ready to start my last week at work before I finish on Friday and have a nice break until the New Year :)

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

#thebusiestdayofmyyear

Saturday 5th December really was the busiest day of my year, the first thing went in my diary back in January and then the events and invitations just kept arriving!

Obviously I couldn't fit everything in but I gave it a good go!  Here are the highlights:

I woke up to a purple sky which I took as a good sign, it was my friend Clare's wedding day and purple is her favourite colour! Great start :)

This was my first outfit of the day, I'd been so looking forward to wearing this :)

First stop was the hairdressers so Sara could tidy my barnet up :)

And then I stopped off to give my nephew, Oliver, his birthday present.  Technically then, my first event of the day went in the diary nine years ago when he was born :)

After seeing Oliver open his present I went to the Christmas crop :)

After I'd managed one layout and had a lovely morning with everyone I got in to my second outfit of the day.  I love this dress and feel amazing in it :)

Then I head down to Smallfield Place for the highlight of the day:

I met up with the lovely Allison and her beautiful daughter Victoria:

And we watched one of our oldest friends, Clare, tie the knot with Heather :) They both looked so beautiful:

A nod to Christmas, these cute and unusual crackers were on the table:

The food was lovely and dessert arrived in a box!

And it was amazing!

And there was music......and I danced!

It was a beautiful wedding in a lovely house with amazing people and I was so fortunate to be invited.

The invitations I had to decline were Paul's Christmas party and Christmas bingo.  The girls sent me some pictures to let me know I was missed :)

And they did look festive :)

And they were well fed :)

But they didn't have the run of a manor house, in the country, with amazing food, dancing and two beautiful brides :)

There is nothing in the diary now for weeks!

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Week Forty Nine

Another great week is over and we're a week closer to Christmas!!! Here are the highlights:

I treated myself to a few bits and they arrived on Monday :)

Maddie loved lounging on the new sofas!

We put the Christmas tree up :)

Maddie stuck to our tradition by putting the star on, she's done it every year since she was a baby :)

And then she posed with "Baby Sam" so we could send Sarah her annual photo :)

Maddie had her advent calender:

Alfie had his:

And I had my amazing advent box from the lovely Sandra :)

I had a lovely win at bingo :)

Dirty pudding :)

I got my first Christmas card, all the way from the USA!

I've skipped Saturday as it's going to have a whole post dedicated to it!

On Sunday I wrapped all of my Christmas presents then spent the rest of the day relaxing :)

It really was a great week and now I'm looking forward to the week ahead knowing I've got an old friend visiting.

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by
Jo xx