Helo my lovely friends. Tail end of the school holidays here in Melbourne and the boys have finally given me a breather to update my blog! They can exhaust me these days I tell you. We have been having lots of fun these holidays (and I had some fun me time too - more later).
We have been to see Mt Poppins Penguins which we all enjoyed. Great family movie without the usual superheros which made a nice change. Then we played real ten pin bowling and I came last each game times (wt? my boys are 6 and 9!!). In my defense they had the bumpers up and I didn't The best fun has been sleeping in, spending half the day in jarmies and then just hanging about the other days. The boys have also been doing some cardmaking. Josh invited his friend from next door to a card making session with Mum's supplies (her eyes nearly dropped out of here head when she saw the extensiveness of said supplies, lol) and I have also been teaching them the value of using the fabulous creations in the Idea Book and Catalogue as a starting point for their projects. Love this picture of Sam. He came up with this card entirely by himself (I didn't even see it until this point) and it's so close to the one in the book. Looks like I need to teach him the fingernail trick for getting the backs off dimensionals though...
I am very proud to say thanks to a fabulous 4 days away with some lovely friends I am well and truly up to date with my scrapbooking goal for this year. I had set myself a goal of at lest 100 layouts this year, which I easily used to do before I started making a bazillion cards. I wanted to tip the balance back a little this year. We had a fabulous 4 days away. These friends I met when I very first started scrapbooking years ago. Lovely place (very cold outside!) and amazing food too. We laughed and talked and vented and sang 80's songs. Soul therapy. I managed to complete 17 layouts, which brings my total for the year to 59 layouts - 47 traditional layouts and 12 digital (and that total doesn't include my One Little Word album). Very impressed with myself.
Here's a couple of my favourite layouts from the weekends. I can't claim credit for this layout design. It is cased from a lovely layout by Brenda Hurd that I saw in Creating Keepsakes. Love this colour combination of Basic Gray, Rose Red, Baja Breeze and Whisper White. Excuse the angle, but it was taken at night and I wanted to prevent the flash glare on the photos.
I have lots more photos from this fabulous day at Lake Mountain, and these will ge going into divided page protectors and into my album along with this layout. Love the 'higgldy piggleness' (my new word, lol) that using different sized and shaped and all sorts of different divided layouts gives in my albums.
This layout is of a favourite photo of Paul and the boys when Sam was 3 months old and Josh just over three. Paul reading nursery rhymes to them in bed. Love the look of concentration on Sam's face!
If you would like to check out some of my digital layouts, I have completed quite a few pages of the Stampin' Up! conventions over the last few years and have uploaded them here. Looking forward to getting up to date with the rest of the pages there and I might start on the Incentive Trips. Love that I am getting more scrapbooking done and recording these memories.
Hope you enjoy this little update on my life :) Back soon as I actually have a couple of other posts today!
Claire xx
