My Fall Over Hurts

is what Lucy has been saying
Today we spent our lunchtime at the Gardens with some friends
nice
As promised my other Polka Dot Whimsy layouts
First one, fittingly, is of our New Years Eve Day picnic

featuring my favourite colour combo, yellow+grey+blue

Added a little punch action

some cut out action

and journaling

and my last page was using a couple of photos from Christmas Day

Got happy with some glue, in a good way

and most people know I love to cut up doilies

and I like to doodle

and I just love how the lettering came up on the ginger-y cardstock from the City Life kit

and there ends my post for Thursday   

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The Joys Of Parenting

or should this post be called  “when good things go bad”?
or should this post be called  “the one with lots and lots of photos”?
or should this post be called  “there is some scrapbooking at the end of this post”???

We are just back from a road trip

was just overnight but it was a nice time away
When I say nice I mean ummm it was mostly nice
And by mostly nice I mean everything started out nice
Like a picnic lunch at a playground
it was nice

till someone decided to run through a maze, fall over on the gravel and grazed both knees, an elbow and her lips…
Going to an indoor playcentre that has rooms for dressing up and imaginative play is all fun

till 2 people decide to play chasings and one runs into the play equipment and gets a bleeding nose…
Going for a walk across a suspension bridge is fantastic

till someone realises that she doesn’t like being high up on things that move

walking around the Launceston Gorge is beautiful

until someone realises that the sunshine is too warm for the thick jumper that they chose to wear,
rather than leave in the car,
and then gets grumpy because they have to carry it
and finally seeing gorgeous wildlife is all great

until you see a dinosaur

and have to run real fast so you don’t get eaten!!!

Ha!!
So there you are
The joy we had while on our little roadtrip

I wanted to start sharing, with you, what I made with my January Polka Dot Whimsy kit
The kit is called City Life and it is full of the usual Polka Dot Whimsy goodness
Straight away I made 4 pages and in this post I will share with you 2 (the other 2 will be in my next post)

in the kit there were various sequins, which were ideal Christmas decorations on the page

and this fabric and it’s the cool little bits that sets PDW apart

perfect on this fabric, agreed??

and the journaling

my second page

and some details

gorgeous trim

lots for me to cut up and layer

and the journaling

and in the kit is a gorgeous ruffle flower that Michelle made, especially for this kit
I simply added a hair slide to the back and now someone loves wearing it

phew, long post!
Will leave you with a photo of my first EVER sunflower

Sunflowers make me smile
and knowing you visited makes me smile too, so thank you

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Give Me Sunshine

because our apricots aren’t ripening they are rotting, sad sad sad
We picked off a heap today and they went straight in the compost bin
Hope the worms enjoy them!
I blame all the bragging we did to Grandma
Telling her how fabulous our apricots were going to be, sad sad sad!
Don’t tell the kids but the greengages are starting to ripen, that makes me happy!
Today was my turn to post over on the Polka Dot Whimsy blog
You can read my post here but here is the page I made to share

and, of course, close ups

wish I could get the colour of the Kraft cardstock to be the same in each photo, but alas I haven’t had success, YET

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Darkroom Door

Last year I was honoured to be a part of a group selected to be Guest Artists for Darkroom Door
I met the talented Rachel not long after I started scrapping, at a craft fair,
and am over the moon to have had the opportunity to play with her amazing products
I created 5 layouts, you can read about each page and the products I used in Rachel’s blog post HERE
Here are my pages and some close ups

 

 

 

 

Did you survive the photo overload?? lol
I had loads of fun creating with all the amazing Darkroom Door products
and am grateful to Rachel for the opportunity to create and share

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