A new day, a new dawn and a free-bie by the sea ...

Lisa @ Gypsy Couture has an amazingly beautiful new seaside kit out this week called Free by the sea there is also an extras add on because the kit was so huge! When I downloaded it I wasn't sure how I could use it because shockingly Ava has never been to the seaside! (Especially weird considering I grew up with the beach a foot from my front door) So anyhow I searched through my photos and found this beauty of Ava at the park it was perfect!

I extracted, clustered, blended and made some shadows it was a really fun page to make and can you believe it made it onto the GSO blog, such a buzz I'm so thankful to the ladies for boosting my newbie confidence like that! Here's my layout...

I have no idea how many visitors my blog gets but I decided that it's a little drab and in need of some visitor incentives.... so what to do.... hmmm give away freebies of course ;) So I made this quickpage of my "Somewhere beyond the Sea" LO click here or on the preview to download!

Ava had a fun day today while daddy was at work she played with her moon sand all morning, man that stuff is amazing seriously it's such a mummy lifesaver... but did I do housework ... no no I didn't I played Freecell on my blackberry. That makes me such a sad individual doesn't it. But I have just finished my book and I don't know which to start next. I'm on a mission you see to finish every single book I've started but given up on by the end of this year, this is surprisingly difficult! But I'm finding out that a lot of the books I disregarded and threw aside are actually really amazing reads. I recently read the whole Inkheart trilogy, I'd read the first book years ago and I'd enjoyed it but hadn't felt the need to read on, after forcing myself to keep reading I realised they are some of the most beautiful books ever written I'm totally in love with them. And same thing again I restarted Jpod by Douglas Coupland, I'm a massive Coupland fan but hadn't felt inspired to keep reading first time around, it's a freaking awesome book what was wrong with me a few months ago? Maybe it's my sheer laziness and inability to stick at anything and nothing to do with the books themselves... I think that's pretty likely.

So does anyone want to join me in my finishing unfinished books mission, your prize is a sense of pride in yourself. (That sounds like a cracking cliche huh but it's more the fact that there's a recession and I'm poor I can't afford a prize so I'm killing you with my amazing use of tacky sentimental sentences)