Dave at 6 or 7 months
and Dave at 13 months
I don't have any photos of me before 3 and very few of me at all as a kid, hope to get some of Mum but I know there aren't many. Anyway now that I have these scanned and printed I am off to scrap them :)
Hope your weekend was a wonderful one, the girls have a student free day tomorrow. Moving schools we found out that our old school DID have too many student free days. We only have 2 this year instead of the half dozen plus that we had previously!!
The amazingly talented Lisa has awarded me an Arte Y Pico award
So I have to pass it on to 5 bloggers who creatively inspire me, so my list
1. Danielle Quarmby I love the amazing kits she puts together at Q-tea and her wonderful creations
2. Bek Vavic she inspires the teacher in me, to want to share what I do with others, one day I hope to do this.
3. Janine Kaye, just visiting her blog makes me want to scrap! I am thankful for the friend I have found through scrapping.
4. Kim Archer makes me want to be more creative. One day I hope to take one of her amazing online classes!!
5. Lusi Austin another friend who I am thankful to have met through scrapbooking. Her work amazes and inspired me.
I love it when blogging and, more so, scrapbooking becomes more than just paper and glue. When it becomes about people forging friendships and I love that each of these 5 woman have inspired me in so many ways and that there are so many like minded people who also inspire me to be better at what I do and to keep on creating and leaving a little of myself as I go. So my list of 5 is just a small representation of those that inspire me.
The album is actually 6 pages and all of them with writing, hence only one photo and not all of them!! I won't rewrite the journaling as it is long, Dave read it and said "I didn't realise that I was going to read an essay". But the basics of it is that there are songs that have had the weird timing of being on the radio or in shops etc when life impacting things have happened. I talk about how I love all types of music.
We heard today that Dave's step-dads father passed away this morning. He had been sick for a long while and we are thinking of his family this week as they prepare for the funeral and as they work through this loss.
They are 7x8cm and I've wanted some for a while. So over the day I painted layers on each and created these
They haven't turned out as I wanted but I have a couple more packs to play with :) I don't think they are too bad, being it my 2nd time to create a canvas. Wondering if I should do the Etsy thing as I have a few other things in my head.. time will tell ;)
We went early to school, as they had a school assembly. Was nice to see all the kids together in one spot. Jessica's class showed their work about garden creatures. Megan was meant to play recorder but that didn't happen.
After we got home and the washing was in I felt the urge to do a layout so grabbed some scraps and this came together in minutes :)
Megan has soccer tomorrow. Dave was meant to have a game to but it is in Launcetson (2.5hr drive North of here) but isn't going because of his coaching commitments to Megan's team. Jessica and I will be Orange girls at half time :)
Hope your weekend is super :)
I thought it was a rather clever game invention ;) it was a lot harder than it sounded!
We had fun outside in the sunshine today :)
Will leave you with some linkity links that I have found inspiring or worth a little look :)
Christina has just started this blog which is super cool
Brigitte has a challenge happening on her blog
Scrapstars is a new site worth checking out
Scrap Book Shelf is a new site too, have bookmarked it as it has some cool scrap book bargains!
Tammy has a competition on her blog that is worth checking out :)
Picnik photo editing thats free! I am yet to find time to play with, but have heard and seen wonderful results. Go play with your photos and see what you can do!
She had a grin on her face when she showed me, but grins and cameras are something Megan think don't go together lol
Today, amongst the usual run around and visits to the fruitshop, petrol station and library, I scrapped these two pages.
The lovely Sandra awarded me this
Thanks Sandra :)
Here are the rules:
1. You have to nominate 5 blogs.
2. Each of the blogs must have a purpose!
3. The nominated blogs must make a link back to this page!
4. The logo from the award must be put on their blog and it must link back to this blog.
So I would like to pass this on to Karen Lusi Mel M
They both had sleeps for me today (OH MY!) and while they slept I finished off the housework and then scrapped this for the Scrapping the Music challenge, the song 'Love like this'.
Sometimes we just need to see the good things in life to realise that things aren't always as bad as we think they are. Sometimes I need to see that, even with a busy day, that the small things, that I might miss in my busy day, are worth holding on to and those small things will get me through to tomorrow. Those small things are gifts.
