A few layouts

I'm thinking that Dubai is looking good about now.  You know, being in the dessert and all that...which means no hayfever!  Yes, I am extremely grateful that there are drugs that help, but why every Spring and Summer, can't I just get a year off from it??? Please....:-)

I headed out with my camera and some instructions thanks to You Tube, and had a play with the tripod and remote timer to capture the blood moon.  I did stay awake and peer at the blood moon but I'd given up taking photos by then. However I really like this shot and some of the moon as it went through each phase.   On the plus side, when you live in a dry part of the country, you can stand outside and not be eaten alive by mossies.  I rather like that.

A few months ago I brought one of Trina's kits and it visited Kaikoura with me and then came home again in the same box (with one layout nearly finished!)  So I've finally got around to getting that done and now I plan to hit the Prima kit that I brought a few months ago.  They are such a good buy, but I'd never get through one a month...maybe two or three a year lol.

Once I've posted this, I'm heading to the kitchen table where I have all my Project Life inserts and an album ready to put together, for next year. Organised...having done it for a few years now I know what works for me, and if I get too behind I'm liable to put it in the too hard basket and give up on it.
Looking forward to a couple of long weekends, with Labour Weekend not far away and then mid November, Canterbury Anniversary.  Got some serious scrap room sorting out to do!  It's always tidy because I don't do mess, but I'm sure that if I haven't used 'those' stickers in six  years, I probably wont...and some of my stuff will be hitting the antique stores if I leave it much longer lol.

Have a great week everyone.

Layouts...playing nicely now

This last one, was the first try at journalling on a layout using my Cameo.  Yep, there's a couple of things I'd change - it's not quite in the right place and the font is too big.  However, I must say, I do love it!  Thanks Brenda for teaching us how to do this, and thanks Vicki for the pen!

This is what I've been up to.

So it's about time I updated my poor old neglected blog!
A few weeks ago a wonderful weekend was had in Kaikoura with a bunch of wonderful people.  Here are some photos of that weekend.  As good little scrapbookers we are, there are a few hundred more photos around...you know, five of us each with a camera, well there wasn't much that didn't end up not being recorded for future prosperity.

We had a bit of fun with Lotto that weekend.  We all put in and brought a joint ticket, which we won the princely sum of thirty seven dollars.  We then reinvested this and got another ticket and a scratchy each.  Two of those then one three dollars each.  When I checked the ticket we'd brought I found we'd won a bonus line.  So while we aren't quite in the money, its been a bit of fun.  We can't quite build our own scrap retreat just yet though ;-)

At the end of term Dad and I headed off to Wellington for what was meant to be the week, but ended up being just a few days.  I'm sure Georgie cat who we were looking after, was pleased for the company and just as pleased to have us out of the house and off home.  No more having to share her couch!

While in Welligton we visited Weta Workshop, Te Papa, and Mt Victoria.

  I love the Interislander and crossing over the Cook Strait.  Both trips we got to see dolphins.  Common dolphins on the way over and Dusky dolphins on the way home.  Both trips were like sailing on a mill pond.  Calm as.

Then it was onto the train and home.  Can't beat the train for a relaxing way to travel.


With this unexpected early return home, I had some time on my hands, so the wardrobes have had the big clean out, along with a few other good to get out of the way jobs.  I've also finished a bit of scrapbooking.  I had two layouts from a Nic Howard kit to do.  As I did them I remembered how much I love fussy cutting and layering...I also had a half done layout sitting on my desk so I finished that.  It's clean and simple, and I love that too.  You'd think after all these years I'd have found my own style...but I like both of these lol.  Oh well I know there are some styles that aren't me!

Hmm it won't let me upload these layout photos.  So I'm going to hit publish and then do another post just with them on...