What a few weeks....

Well, it has been a busy and stressful few weeks. August/September is traditionally busy for us with birthday's every which way you turn, and fathers day and the school fete. This year we had to add a sad moment with the death of my grandma. She was just 83 and so full of life that it took us all by surprise when she had a heart attack. My grandma collected giraffes and there were 15 giraffes in her collection, one went to each of her 15 grandchildren. I was lucky enough to take home a big concrete one, the one we gave her as a family for a birthday (or maybe mothers day), so there is extra sentiment in that. To show what an amazing woman she was, she had also organised the crotcheted face washers that she gives to each great-grandchild each Christmas already for this years Christmas bag.

My little boy, Liam is now a big three year old. Although he is heavily in denial, and often answers - "um maybe one" when asked how old he is! Very cute.

I managed to get my For Keeps awards for excellence entry off in time. Now, along with the Scrapbooking Memories competition I will be waiting for news on this one!

We have some busy times coming up at the shop too as we start thinking about Christmas classes and projects. I also started my series of Photo Know How classes. So far so good there.

Now, I need to include some pictures, especially for my sister in law Sue!

Here is the Story Bridge, complete with climbers taken from a CityCat during the June/July holidays.

Here is one of the images from the Lunar eclipse. Turned out alright, despite the light cloud that seemed to be around.

Here is the moon coming out from the eclipse.

And here we have the reluctant birthday boy! Look at that face!!

News

Well, I thought I had better share my news!! I got "the" phone call from Scrapbooking Memories magazine to say I had made it to the next round of their masters competition! I was so excited I could barely contain myself. Now I have to send off all my projects and wait....wait....wait...and hope I get another call later down the track. Anyway I am very pleased to have made it this far and anything else is simply a bonus. I will be sure to keep you posted.

Well what happened to July??

July is gone already. Wow. Time is sure flying past and we are fast approaching the downward run to Christmas and New Year celebrations. Anyway, lets not get too far ahead of ourselves!

As promised I have finally sorted out some photos from Currumbin, and there are a few good ones, even if I do say so myself! This first one is one of my favourites, mainly because it was a hard one to shoot! That is my arm holding the feeding tray and armful of birds! Trying to get a heavy camera in a position to take a photo at the same time was tricky I can tell you!


Lat weekend was the Scrapbook City retreat weekend. It was a very successful even by all accounts! I was lucky enough to teach a class on the Sunday to a very laid back group of lovely ladies (quite a few of whom I know through the message board). I also gave a quickie photography class. It was great to hear the Ohhh moments happening as some of the tips I gave them fell into place! Here is the group photo that I took just before everyone left on Sunday.



As far as the photography goes I have been busily working on assignment photos this week. Some of them with interesting results. One of the requirements was for a close up shot of a vegetable. Have a look at the result! Whoever would have thought a piece of broccoli could be so interesting??!!


Also I needed to do a landscape. So I took myself off to the pedestrian bridge crossing the river next to the William Jolly and got a reasonable picture of the river.


Andrew wants me to mention my funny story from while I was out on location shooting assignment photos. I had myself sort of hidden in a bus shelter taking photos of cars to demonstrate shutter speed and motion effects. Well, the cars that saw me there with my camera appeared to be worried I was a speed camera person and started slowing down! Maybe I need to get out there more often!!!

Anyway, there is July up to date. I will try and get on a bit more often during August!

Tagged Again!

I have been very slack lately! Life getting in the way again I guess! And what did you think I found when I came back...the lovely Sara had "tagged" me!!! See what happens if you don't pay enough attention! So here are the rules: 1-post these rules 2-each person tagged must post 8 random (... hopefully interesting) facts about themselves 3-tags should write a blogpost of these facts 4- at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named 5-go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged So here goes: 1. I travelled all the way to Sydney to see Guns'N'Roses perform back in about 1993 (I think!) 2. I used to be a reasonable athlete in High School. I played hockey and vigoro and also was in the school athletic team in grade 10. 3. I have had a thing for Orlando Bloom ever since I saw him in the LOTR movies! 4.I have a pretty good memory for (usually) unimportant facts/details! 5.I love technology, especially when it comes to digital imaging! 6.I have been glued to the TV watching Heroes! A great series! 7. I love to read murder mystery novels especially psychological thrillers! (now I need time..) 8. I have subscriptions to 9 magazines! (7 scrapbooking ones and 2 photography ones...) Phew....I hope they are interesting enough tid bits about me!! Chances are the people I know with blogs have already been tagged so I will fully own up to breaking the cycle! Now, as for other news...I am officially studying photography now! Yay! So hopefully in about 12 months time I will have my diploma! I have recently had two acceptances for publication from For Keeps magazine. They are due out in about 3 months (issue 59). I have decided to enter the Scrapbooking Memories Masters competition! This is due in be July 13th....hopefully not a bad omen!! I am just about finished all my projects and I am quite pleased with them too! The For Keeps Elite Team comp is also running and due in end of August...so I just have to get scrapping for this one too! No wonder I never have any time!! Scrapbook City has its retreat in July (27 - 29) so this should be great fun! I am tag-teaming with Michelle to teach an OTP item which will be pretty cool. Well, that about does it! Catch you later! Oh...I will be back soon to put up some photos from our day trip to Currumbin Bird Sanctuary!

This Busy Life

Life is so busy at the moment. Something going on most of the time...no wonder I am exhausted! Anyway here is a summary of the last couple of weeks....

The Labour day long weekend coincided with the Stitches and Craft show at the convention centre. A bit of a disappointing show as far as scrapbooking went, but fun to work at! Which I did with the lovely Tam on the Sunday. It was plenty busy too. The time flew past, a bit of a baptism of fire for Tam I think! But she handled it all beautifully!

We received our "packs" as guest design team members for The Crafters Workshop. I have to say they were challenging papers. Not the sort of thing I would have normally chosen to use, but I am happy with the results. You can see them here.

This weekend just passed had us celebrating Mothers Day. The girls went out for a High Tea and it was great! I have already created a page from the day.




Other than major plumbing issues...everything has being pottering along as usual.

Thanks for stopping by!

I've been tagged!

Yes, I have been tagged by the lovely Michelle! So about the "tagging" process, I now need to list 7 interesting facts/habbits about myself and then name 7 people to "tag". That will be the hardest part I think! Oh well, here goes nothing...... 1. I was going to be an astronaut when I left school. I even got myself a Physics degree and halfway to a Space and Mechanical engineering degree....but then I fell in love and the rest is history! 2. Apparently I am a very bad sick...that is I am a bit of a whinger when I am sick! I don't like being sick and I certainly let everyone know about it! 3. It took me a while to build up enough confidence to learn to drive. I was in a few car accidents in my time and this put me off for quite a while.... 4. I am going to start a photography course this year, very soon with any luck. Because this is my other great passion. 5. After finishing all my science study, and after I got married, I went and studied maths, and even used it as a data analyst with Suncorp. I know what you are thinking..this girl is a nerd! 6. I always knew that I wanted to have children, and now I have three! Sometimes I wonder if I had known then what I know now if I would have done things differently! 7. I have had two photos selected and displayed in the Museum of Brisbane for the last two Lord Mayors Photography competitions. Now to pick some others Alicia and Nikala. I would delve some more but the tagging is well and truly taking over!!!

Well, see what happens when the Scrapbook City site is back up and running again??!! I have not posted on here for almost a month! Wow, a month flies by really quickly.

The kids are getting ready to go back to school (tomorrow) after Easter holidays. Andrew has started his new job (last week), and soon it will be me and Liam by ourselves for most of the week. What an adjustment that will be! I certainly got used to Andrew being home most of the time!

I have had plenty of DT things going on for Scrapbook City, and I have enjoyed being back in the swing of scrapping again. Seemed that I was too busy with other things for the shop for a while there to do anything else! Here are some of my LO's:



This one is from Alicia's April sketch challenge. I just love the photos of Liam! The paper is just gorgeous too. It is from the We R Memory Keepers new precious metal range. I think this will be in store this week.