What a short post...

I don't like card making. I envy all you clever ladies that can make cards. I've managed two this week. I feel like I've spent hours on them, it looks like I've spent minutes on them. Two down, two, to go. Then this challenge is over. Over and out. LOL.

I also managed to get a couple of layouts done to go up in my local scrapbooking shop. I should have got photos, but oh well, they'll be back home in a few weeks.

That's about it this week, not that I haven't been busy, just nothing worth writing about really...

Welcome to my scrappy space

Last week Vicki challenged me to show my scrap room – so here you go!
When we first shifted down to Christchurch and I was around at Vicki’s I was totally taken with the cute cubes she had as storage in her scrap space. So I pinched that idea lol. On the way home from her place I stopped and purchased a few and then got Lyall to make them up for me – couldn’t have him getting bored you see ; -) Now they happily sat on top of my table up against a wall, with everything in handy reach until September last year. You all know what happened September last year. And from then on every time we had an aftershock I had visions of these cubes coming down on top of me. For my birthday this year Lyall changed my scrapping space, and I feel much safer in there now – the stuff can fall off the shelves but the shelves themselves would need a lot of force to come down – and by the time that happened I’d either be under the table or out of the room altogether lol. It also means I have a spot for my sewing machine, cuttlebug etc to be permanently out – that’s in the hope that I’ll use them more 

Our other challenge to ourselves is to make cards. I’m so not a card maker. I so admire you out there who are. And these cards have to be flash. I tell you, I’m struggling with this one lol. Challenge, challenge, challenge alright!

This is the sketch challenge over at Scrappin Patch.

Today has seen me busy making tomato sauce. I’ve not ever done this before, but I’ve been given so much fresh, organic produce from the parents at work, that there is no way I’m letting it go to waste. So lots of pears have been stewed and frozen and the tomato sauce has been simmering away. One of the Mum’s at works said “don’t worry about boiling your bottles etc – put them through the dishwasher without soap, and that sterilises them for you!” Now that’s modern technology at its best I say!

And on that note, I’d better carry on with it – have a great week everyone.

Sunday goings on...

For those of you who read this lovely lady's, then you'll know what was up for the latest twinnie challenge. If not, we decided we had to use all those ornaments that looked great when we brought them and still look great now, because they just sit in our scrap rooms looking pretty lol. So this layout has seen the sewing machine (which I must say, I'm getting much better at using now it's permanently set up), the cuttlebug, dimensional magic...I also popped it into one of the March challengs over at Scrappin Patch.

In other news...well actually there's no other news. Been busy working, dog walking, grocery shopping and doing all the normal stuff that it takes to run a household. Though today Lyall and I did have a nice lunch at a local pub, just to have a complete break from all the earthquake news happening around the world. An hour or two of eating, drinking and watching horses on tv lol.

Have a great week everyone.

And I don't have a title for this...

I ache. All those muscles that you don't use often, now ache...a couple of hours driving around our paddock on a tractor yesterday did that. Along with a couple more hours on the ride on mower doing the lawns. Nothing votaren and a good sleep won't fix lol. And because he could, Lyall left a happy face in the paddock, about eighty square meters of happy face. Of course the only vantage point by which you can see the happy face is about three thousand feet...hope when the planes fly over (depends what the weather is doing as to whether planes fly out our way or not), anyway, hope the people in those planes have a wee giggle when they see it.

It was great yesterday morning to catch up with Vicki and Brody for some much needed hooning around at the dog park. Boy the river there is just the best, the dogs absolutely love it. Love how the retrievers and the labs just own it lol. Also was good to get some more cat bikkies and dog bikkies at Animates for half price. Any bag, any brand, any size, all half price for the residents of Christchurch. Thanks Animates.

See those groceries? This lovely person asked if she could pop some money into my bank account and I'd go shopping and get much needed supplies to send into Christchurch via the Rangiora Express. So this I duly did. At the front entrance to our two supermarkets was a list of what was currently needed, so I followed that and filled up with Nicki's $200.00 donation. Way to go Nicki!

This morning Donna and I headed up to Sefton. That's about a twenty minute drive North for us. A tiny little rural hamlet. They were having a local fair, with running races and pony rides and highland dancing. Bacon butties by the local school and home made baking by the local church ladies. We had a wander round and brought the requisite fundraising raffle tickets, along with a pumpkin so I could come home and make pumpkin soup. Which I did. There's a dusting of snow on the mountains - snow and pumpkin soup just go well together lol. Don't think the snow will last long, weather is meant to be warm again lol.

See a couple of the Prima team are coming to NZ and Scrappin Patch are hosting them...gotta go to that me thinks!

Oh and off to Hanmer in a couple of weeks. Lyall's work has rented a holiday home up there. All Christchurch staff with their family, get four days, three nights up there. We get the company car and fuel card, food vouchers, entry to the hot pools...as a thank you for all their hard work over the last couple of weeks. Great way to show appreciation.

Have a great week everyone.