Welcome to my blog
I created this space to fill with my creative pursuits and interests.
If you’re equally interested in scrapbooking, drawing, painting, shopping, all things beauty, books, podcasts, polka dots, pizza and maine coon cats… well, this is the place for you.
May I say, what a smashing blouse you have on
After having about a week and a half of feeling like I was finally clickity-clacking my way slowly out of the thunk, this last two weeks have seen me reach the top and do that dangley-over-the-edge thing before starting the free-fall - I’m just looking for something in the middle people…
Sooooo, in the interests of giving everything ‘paper-crafty’ a whirl, I’ve delved into the wacky world of Project Life.
I don’t really know all that much about Project Life as a lot of the scrapbookers that I follow don’t seem to get involved - they mainly do 12x12s, travellers notebooks or their own embellishments, so this is a bit of a rogue move for me…
Its been a busy few weeks for me and if you’ve happened upon any of my posts on Instagram you’ll have seen that things are finally starting to look up over at Casa Nelly. Its really been a testing time over the last month or so, but I’m hopeful that its ‘up the ziggurat, lickety-split’ from here guys (little Arnold Rimmer quote for you there)…
Thank goodness that things are starting to warm up around the place. Also, since we’ve lost an hour today that means that we’ll have even more daylight to enjoy and I won’t have to keep walking home from work in the dark - hoo-flippin-ray…
This is probably the most successful scrap I’ve done in terms of the likes I’ve received via the ‘gram. While that is wonderful and I do confess to being filled with joy each time my phone pings with a new comment or little red love heart, I also struggle with it as there are so many things about the scrap that I would change…
I was having a little ponder the other day about embellishments. I’m a big fan and have quite a few collections in my craft cupboard, however I find that there are always a few bits and bobs that I just don’t use out of each set. Do you suffer from that - some of those die cuts are lovely but just aren’t your style or colour choice, so they just sit there taking up space…
I’ve had a bit of a scrap happy weekend and have been testing out a few different ideas and generally tooling around in my little craft room of joy. I’ve popped a few pictures below of my antics for your delectation - enjoy…
I’ve been cracking on with the house tidy alongside my ‘dressing room into craft room’ makeover extravaganza. It’s been going well and I’ve already moved the few pieces of furniture I have into every conceivable configuration before putting them all back pretty much where they were originally…
One thing that I’ve been promising and hinting about for a little while has been my craft room makeover. It’s been plodding along slowly and if you follow my Instagram you’ll have noticed a few weeks ago I purchased some hairpin legs to create a desk for my room…
I’m not here to talk about the weather (even though in England that’s all we bang on about), I’m here to talk about L-O-V-E, specifically Valentine’s Day which is slamming down hard on Thursday 14th February…
I starting compiling this 12x12 waaaaaay back in early December and it’s taken me frankly ages to blog about it… my bad. I took the photos on a gorgeously sunny morning in October…
My husband tried for years to get me into podcasts to no avail (I feel pretty bad about my resistance now) and it took a friend at work to recommend My Dad Wrote a Porno, to open me up to the frankly massive world of podcasts…
With all of my 2019 plans bubbling around in my brain I decided to present these happy thoughts using the medium of scrap and embellishments…
To plan all of my plans and get myself in an organisational zone of achievement (OZA) and quit faffing about I’m going to need a planner…
Being on Instagram and Pinterest I’ve seen a lot of people posting about their travelers journals and travelers notebooks or TNs…
Well, even though its Saturday 17th November, I am exceptionally late to the Christmas party - apparently its Christmas Eve and no-one told me. What I mean by this little sarcastic comment is this…
If you follow my Instagram feed @nellyandclem you may have noticed the bare-bones of this 12x12 which appeared on the 22nd October…
