How much would you pay?

I wanted to throw the question out there - How much would you pay for a magazine just for the free gift on the cover?

I find myself buying magazines more for the so called 'freebies' than the magazine itself, this has even spread to magazines I have no interest in like jewelry making for beads & most recently a knitting mag that was giving away wooden knitting pins.

These magazines are £3-£5 a time & I'm starting to wonder if it would be easier to just get online & research the item that has taken my fancy. Maybe I can get it cheaper elsewhere.

What do you think? Are you guilty of this too?

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to be scrapping again soon. My dining room come scrap space is now officially becoming my scrap room at the minute so I have no where to work on things. I'm so excited that I'm finally going to have my own space!!! My first investment is going to be a bolt for the door to keep the kids out, he he. I will keep you posted on the progress.

Have a good weekend folks

Ali x

Digital ~ 1st Attempt

Hi guys & girls. I couldn't sleep tonight so I decided, although I have said in the past, digi doesn't interest me to give it a go. So here is the basic layout I came up with. I really like this kit available from http://Shabbyprincess.com but I found it so frustrating. Finding my way around photoshop was OK I managed but only just. What I need is some advice about how to re size the page so I can share it in my online galleries. It uploads here fine but on other sites I get a picture is too big error message. I know some of you will dabble in the world of digi so any advice, hints or tips would be very much appreciated.

Dear blog, please forgive me!

Dear Blog,

Please forgive me for I have neglected you terribly these past couple of months. Now the holidays are over I can concentrate on getting back to scrapping & paying you a bit more attention. Have you missed me, I'm sorry if you have. I have missed you more than you will ever know. I hope we can have a fantastic time in the upcoming year & will be back to post more soon. In fact I have already created my first layout & card of 2011. But I cannot share then here yet because they are for a very special friend across the pond.

Best wishes for 2011,

Love from

Ali x

P.S. While I was missing in action you had your 1,000 visitor, well done you!