Hot pants

We will get onto them later, just a teaser. First some scrapping. My lovely, if slight mad charming, friend Tina is on the DT for Lasting Memories and their challenge this week ties in beautifully with some photos we took last weekend. Their challenge is to incorporate footprints into your Lo. And footprints on the beach are esp photogenic!

 

This was probably our last visit to Geoff's Mother's house before it is sold in a couple of weeks time. A sad time but also busy as we did more sorting. We managed a couple of trips to the beach, only with Henry as Meaghan was studying and Matt decided not to come. Gorgeous weather (bit better than Canberra on the weekend) and Henry loves the beach.

 All of the digi supplies are form the Lilypad. as are the supplies for this Lo - one of my favs so far -

This is Meaghan and her friend Sam on the way to camp and the photo (unedited by me - stolen off Meaghan's facebook) was taken by another friend. Meaghan even approves of this LO - a rarity!!  She had a ball at camp, came back glowing with happiness as is keen to do more - love that!!

Finally - happy smiley photos that make me glad the 70's existed. I loved hot pants when I was much younger, although I never had any as funky as these and I only wore mine under skirts  AND we called them witches britches - but they were stripey and knitted so close enough!!

 

The next two are for Jo as she is not well at the moment (hugs to you>) and I know she has a thing for yellow. 

 

 May have to knit some up for you just to make you feel better... (hmm hot pants or knickerbockers?? I can see you in either...)

Ok, onto housework. xx.

2006

I have been delving into our reasonable near past and have picked out a few photos from 2006 to scrap. Back then, Matt had short hair, Meaghan was happy to pose for photos and Henry had big blonde curls.

And there has been plenty of inspirational sketches to choose from this week - loving that I am back into scrapping again!!  How could I resist The Paper Variety's Guest Designer, Diana Fisher. I have missed Sketchy Thursday so very much and glad to see another one of her sketches popping up - yay!

 

 and here is my interpretation - Henry enjoying a swim in a spa that was at a hotel we stayed in. The goggles were fairly useless in that they filled up with water as soon as they were submerged but Henry thought they were cool.

And next sketch is over at my friend Irini's challenge site - Get Creative.. another gorgeous sketch this one by Melania.

 

 My Lo is fairly loosely based on the sketch - didn't quite manage the perfect circle, well ok it's more of a ripped shape but if you squint it's sort of circular (squint REALLY hard!!)

 

But don't you love this paper? It's for CD Muckosky over at  my very fav digi store The Lilypad. It's from a range called Dreams Take Flight, different from my usual style but really like it. 

And just to keep me  happy another knitting pattern cover - ahhh, love male models esp in happy yellow....

My Nana's for AFSC

Well -  two posts in two days!! Huh, who knew I was capable of such prolific output???

Anyway onto the serious stuff - My Nana's. I had two very different Nans - Dad's mum was strongly Catholic with 11 living children (pregnant 16 times according to family tales), a farmer's wife and Mum's mother was married to a bank Manager Mason (how did Mum get away with marrying a catholic?). I'm guessing the few times they met would have been a very polite meeting but not much more.

Anyway, they were both my Nan's so I loved them both. They both lived very long lives, the last 20 or so years without their husbands. Glad I have very clear memories of both.
 
This months challenge at Another Freaking scrappy challenge is -

Use this sketch along with this challenge - Mother’s Day is celebrated in May in some countries – scrap a memory of your mother or grandmother, or another lady who has influenced your life greatly.

 And here are my Nan's, Alice and Dulcie -

Come and play, would love to read about some important women in your life.

I have also been playing along at The Lilypad again - this is for a template challenge -

 

And this one is for their random challenge - use a photo more then three years old - wasn't Henry a cutie back then??

 

The big thing that is making me happy at the moment is that the Interior designer has sent back some initial plans for the house and there are cupboards everywhere!!! Yay!!! I thought she just did colours but she hasn't even started on those yet - she has plotted every drawer, every little nook in the house - huge job - and the walk in pantry will be close to the size of our current kitchen - may just move in there..

and Irini, sorry to say they just laughed at me when I suggested a mini bar in the guest room...sigh.

have a good one and don't forget come and play with us!!

Black and white with one

A couple of weeks ago, an email arrived pretty much saying - hey you might want to check this out. It was a call for entries to be shown At the Brisbane Papercraft show. They had a normal paper entry but they also had a digi section. The criteria was black and white with one with a 5x7 photo.

I threw together three Lo's - it didn't specify whether a black and white photo was required.  These are my two fav's -

 

and of course my least fav one got in! Not complaining - very excited to be a top 20 entry and have my work shown on a big screen - wish I could go see. Can't show it as the exhibition is on in a couple of weeks, but if you happen to be attending  keep an eye out for one that may look like it has Henry in it - just a hint.

 I really like the tomb raider Lo the best - good memories of Cambodia - Henry had a ball running through

the temples and posing near where Angelina hung out (although he had no idea why it was a popular place).

More house hunting today, a couple nearby, have to get it out of my head that we aren't buying these places, it's just temporary so doesn't have to be perfect. 

Making me happy today (or this week) is this lounge which we are about to order -

Girl not included I hope, don't need an extra louger in this house...

And also catching up on West Wing reruns -  I wouldn't mind Rob lounging around the house - please....

 hmmm, Geoff may not approve, will have to live with that I guess.

Have a good one, time for washing. sigh.

Happy Spring...

Ok, we have just had our first morning of below zero temps so this post is purely wishful thinking...

It is spring in the Northern Hemisphere (lucky people!) so the challenge at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is Garden based.

1 May is springtime, and time to be out in the gardens.  Scrap something about your garden – how you love to be out in it, or what it means to you, or alternatively how you hate to be outside gardening at all.  If you are not a gardener -  you could also alternatively scrap about an outdoor sanctuary that you appreciate – perhaps your mother’s garden or a park????

 

We finally had our garden producing lots of yummy tomatoes this year, but by this time next year this is where our family room will be.    I have packed most of my supplies away so expect a few more digi Lo's in the next month - assuming that I produce something - you may have noticed my complete lack of blogging in the past few weeks - hopefully when we get the hassle of packing and moving out of the way I can get back into it.

 We are madly packing and hoping that a rental property that suits us will magically appear in the next couple of weeks - in the meantime the house continues to fight back - this is Henry's curtain where it had previously been attached to the wall - I just had to laugh (perhaps a wee bit manically when I pulled that little baby out...).

So finally my happy post for the week -

A new cooking book that makes me happy just to flick through it - (not the best photos sorry)

Yum!

And a second happy post today - My friend Alicia has just had her first Baby - Nicholas Luke - 

 

Isn't he a cutie??

Alicia's blog is here - why not drop by and see some more photos? Love new babies!!

So back to the purpose of this post - pop over to Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge - would love to see your garden!! xx

Floods and storms

Canberra has had one of it's wettest spring/summer and now into autumn that we have had for years. Most of the time we head into March with everything brown and dead, no matter how much (restricted) water we pour on. This year we didn't even need the sprinklers at all. Too odd.


So this months Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge -

Using sketch 9 – April showers bring May flowers – scrap about a rainfall, or storm. Perhaps the weather ruined your plans, or perhaps you were experiencing a drought or dry well and were relieved to see the heavens open. Or you can scrap about anything in the springtime, how it makes you feel after the long winter, new life, whatever speaks of this time to you!! You might not want to scrap about your garden though, as you may be doing that soon here – hint, hint!!


here is the sketch -

and here is my Lo - I'm not too rapt in the result, Anne very kindly called it rustic and she did like the banner so that's ok. I guess my paper scrapping is still a bit rusty at the moment. Be patient with me please....

I do like the colour of the water flowing out of the lake over the dam wall - very reminiscent of Willy Wonker's chocolate river -

Anyway come and play, I'm sure with all the wild weather around in the past year that you have some photos/memories of storms that happened near you. Would love to see them.

And of course I have a little digi Lo as well to show you - Henry again won an Easter bunny in the school raffle. He has come to assume it is his right now after a couple of wins.
And this is making me very happy at the moment -
This is a scene from Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - one of my favourite series of books, set in Melbourne in the 1920's. the TV show is just wonderful, they have cast really well, and although Jack is different from the book, I like the difference. Only two left in the series to go - desperately hope they keep making them.

Paper scrapping

Managed to drag some of my long neglected kits out and put together a couple of LO's. The first one I did will have to wait until tomorrow as it is for AFSC and the reveal is on the 15th. The second is for Punky Scraps - using this picture as inspiration.



Love the bright colours on top of white. And the little bit of quilling as well.

here's mine - ink splatters (of course) and a couple of tiny quilled (ok rolled roughly..) bits as well. Loving the whole hexagon trend at the moment, this stamp is from Cocoa daisy - which also came with a patterned hexagon - love it! I have a freebie template from The Lilypad as well that features Hexagons, so will show you that soon.

This is Henry with one of his big cousins.

And I have decided (again) to add things that make me happy at the moment as I have had a bad March, the rest of the year shall be positive.

So today the thing that makes me happy is opening my inbox every day to find something like this -

Ahhh Design Seeds - the colours and photography- yum. And everyday they email out four colour schemes to admire. Love it!

See you tomorrow. xx