tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39025897724945034792024-03-14T17:53:15.148+08:00Welcome to my little bit of the world.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.comBlogger369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-43429731763175173792013-07-19T21:25:00.002+08:002013-07-19T21:25:19.852+08:00Caitlin's 21st<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi there<br />
you can tell i must be on holidays as this is my second post within a week, shocked, yes i know.<br />
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Let me talk to you about sketches.,<br />
well I am no good at them, I see the sketch and that is exactly how i must do the page and if the designer has used a star or a flower motif as their example to put embellishments well then I have to use the star or the flower even though that was not the designers intention.<br />
Now if it comes to cooking I am very good at thinking outside the box and rarely get flummoxed maybe its a confidence thing.<br />
Anyway, my favourite scrapbooker in the whole wide world yes <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelle </a>has a sketch on her blog every month with a video of how she interprets her own sketch. So I thought I would give one a go<br />
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ta da here it is<br />
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the sketch asked for a BIG embellishment in the middle and the example had a huge star, so I tried very hard not to use a star, I used a polaroid frame. The position of my photos are the same although in Shimelle's own page she used 2 small photos up the top and a business card down the bottom. See what I mean, Shimelle thought outside that square I on the other hand used the exact same sizes of photos as what was on the sketch.<br />
Alas after all that I love my page so whether i take the sketch literally or on a rare occasion think outside the square it doesn't matter I have a completed page and I had fun playing.<br />
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The photo is from Caitlin's 21st party and shows the donut ball tower cake that Joe made, believe it or not that tower contains 248 donut balls, I know as I ordered 250 and I ate one on the way home...hello... I had to make sure they tasted ok didn't I, so we had one ball left. I tell you it was panic stations there for a while.<br />
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here is a close up at home before we took it to the club.<br />
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Joe spoilt Caitlin and got her an iPad. very very spoilt.<br />
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we had a photo booth on the night where everyone dressed up with props<br />
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there was a lolly buffet of which we are still eating the left overs<br />
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and I made this really cute guest book which I hopefully will show you in the next post.<br />
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Enjoy your weekend.<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-35606893375720242302013-07-16T15:23:00.001+08:002013-07-16T15:23:05.245+08:00Mellow YellowYes,I had a few spare moments so I thought I would actually do a blog post and my post is all about week 28 of my Project Life.<br />For something different I decided to pick a colour and use that as my theme, the lucky colour was yellow.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/07/16/66.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/07/16/s_66.jpg' border='0' width='278' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I had so much fun doing this page finding all of my yellow bits and pieces<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/07/16/67.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/07/16/s_67.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='184' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I tried something new and used a 3x4 space for my title card. I had been saving that <a target="_blank" href="http://findingnana.com">badge</a> for just the right place and I think this is it.<br />I also cleaned out my purse and found a lot of receipts which I included in a glassine bag.<br />I love the little frame stamp from the <a target="_blank" href="http://studiocalico.com">Studio Calico</a> Inked class that I used to highlight my mum.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/07/16/68.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/07/16/s_68.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='103' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />And the bottom two photos are food related again. Occasionally I love to make my own pasta actually I would rather have fresh pasta any day it is just so good. I made two different sauces as Andrew does not like good old bolognaise/red meat sauce.<br />If you follow me on IG you are no doubt aware that we go out to lunch most Saturdays and this week we went to Tony Romas which is an American rib restaurant.. I am not into ribs but they are Andrews favourite, what we both liked was the hot skillet cookie, a must have if you ever go there.<br /><br />So that was my week 28, a good one.<br /><br />Thanks for visiting, I know it has been a while.<br />Linda<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bennett%20Springs%20Drive,Beechboro,Australia%40-31.857912%2C115.949603&z=10'>Bennett Springs Drive,Beechboro,Australia</a></p>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-12290223158306789492013-05-05T17:49:00.001+08:002013-05-05T17:49:56.768+08:00Meeting AmyWell hello<br />Happy Sunday to you all and happy NSD or interNSD if you are a scrapbooker.<br /><br />If you follow my Instagram you will know that <a target="_blank" href="http://alusciousjourney.blogspot.com.au/">Tracey</a>and I had the pleasure of meeting Amy Tan on Tuesday and I may or may not have got a little bit excited. Okay, no, little bit, very excited. <a target="_blank" href="http://amytangerine.com">Amy</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://shimelle.com">Shimelle </a> are my scrapping inspiration. (Who are yours?) so there was no way I was going to miss this event. I was like a fourteen year old meeting Justin Beiber without the screaming.<br />So here is my LO <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/05/05/396.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/05/05/s_396.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Amy was wonderful and so down to earth, having her photo taken a gazillion times was no trouble. There was also a make and take but as their was only three of us in the second group (yahoo for us)we got to sit up close and personal with Amy where we could chat so I didn't do much making and taking. Geez I sound like a stalker.<br /><br />I was embarrassed/angry/appalled that Spotlight had a famous (hugely famous in America) artist visiting their store and there we sat IN THE AISLE in the aisle, I kid you not. What happened to a nice little room or even a corner decorated with Amy Tangerine merchandise and don't get me started on the merchandise I was ready to buy the whole entire line of Yes Please which has been out for months and na nothing, zip, nilch, zero not here yet.<br />No worries I will wait until it comes here.<br /><br />So there we have it, Amy made my routine week into a very happy excited over the top week and in case you haven't guessed it I am still EXCITED.<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-66276709838398326142013-04-16T06:00:00.000+08:002013-04-16T06:00:06.830+08:00Project Life Week 14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Gosh can you believe it is week 14 already?<br />
It's April nearly May<br />
One week of school before holidays, yay it has been a very long term<br />
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My week 14 came together very quickly, however I have only one pic to show you<br />
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Due to that picture on the bottom left. That is my foot covered in water in our MAIN living area. The hose to the washing machine came of and flooded the whole house and I mean the Whole house except for our bedroom and Caitlin's. The craft room and Joe's bedroom were the only carpeted area that got soaked.<br />
The rest of the house has lino apart from the main bathroom and loo (they are tiled) and it was all underwater. So my craft room had to get packed up and this also meant the computer and printer, but we are an apple family and there are plenty of iPads around here so that wasn't a big problem. I did make a scrap stash of the bare essentials which is now housed on the dining room table, and thank goodness for <a href="http://www.studiocalico.com/" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> kits I just grabbed my latest two kits. Alas sob sob I am still waiting on my March and April Project Life kits from them (so is <a href="http://alusciousjourney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tracey</a> except she is waiting on Jan as well).<br />
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Nothing too exciting for week 14 except I did get quite a few Instagram comments from my scrapping idol <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelle</a> which absolutely made my day as I was very sick in week 14. I also got three IG comments from Amy Tan which also made another day, see it doesnt take much too make me happy.<br />
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Caitlin is starting to gather and oprepare her resources for her big teaching prac so that is keeping her busy and at home, no night clubbing for the time being (thank god says mama)<br />
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Andrew and I made up a new word "DLunch". Dont you just love it?<br />
Our Saturdays are quite busy,after a little sleep in we clean the house from top to bottom, yes he helps and to be honest probably does more than I, then we go and do a bit of weekend shopping so when all thats finished it is normally around two pm so we like to treat ourselves to lunch out. This particular Saturday we were running a bit late it was near too three and we could not find a restaurant that was open, they had all closed to prepare for dinner so down to Hillarys we went and one of our old favourites was open all day. As this is our only meal for the whole day the man had to repeat our order back to us, honestly it wasnt that much just an entree each and a main but the entree did have a lot of bread, so that finished the day nicely. The kids know now that they have to get their own dinner on Saturdays as I sure am not cooking and Andrew and I never eat dinner on a Saturday.<br />
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I must point out that wonderful currents stamp that is available from Studio Calico it is "awesome" so awesome in fact that <strike>i</strike> I may have got super excited and ordered another one by mistake ho hum thats me all over.<br />
I also must share<a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/projects/videos/project-life-with-two-peas-video-series/" target="_blank"> THIS</a> link with you. If you ever need Project Life inspiration check out these free videos from Two Peas there is a PL one every week and whilst you are there check out<span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/projects/videos/the-adventures-of-glitter-girl-video-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Glitter Gir</span>l</a></span> her last weeks video was AMAZING episode 65 be sure to go and check it out so so good.<br />
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Wow long post hope you enjoyed it and yes Caitlin I am trying very hard to not be lazy and make sure all of my I's are capitals..<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-1478930248227968022013-04-14T16:00:00.002+08:002013-04-14T16:00:59.158+08:00New Zealand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello there it's been awhile.<br />
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Just popping in to share some layouts that I have made for Joe's New Zealand album.<br />
You have probably already seen these on Instagram but you can get a better look here. Before I start I must tell you that all photos are taken with my iPhone as my DSLR is packed away somewhere due to the big house flood.<br />
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This will be the first page. I am doing a 12x12 album with some Project Life inserts as Joe is a good scrappers son and took over 400 photos plus with this wonderful technology today all of the other chefs have uploaded their photos so I have literally thousands to choose from.<br />
There isn't a great deal of journaling on the pages because<br />
a) I wasn't the one there to tell the story and Joe is not the most talkative person around<br />
b) I will have heaps of pages that will follow on from each other so the story should be easy to follow.<br />
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Having said that I am not scrapping this in any order, when I put them in the binder will be when they go in date order.<br />
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OK so on to the first LO above. It is a lift from an <a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/classes_and_events/classes/110-mix-it-up-mini-workshop-with-amy-tan/" target="_blank">Amy Tan</a> class that I am doing (ha along with about three other classes) Normally I would have found using that background paper extremely hard but it was perfect for the aeroplane photo and I just remembered that I took a great photo of Joe walking with his suitcase at the airport so that will have to be the first page not this one. hmm see what I mean lets just call it a work in progress. The bottom photo is not a bad one its just the light coming in from the aeroplane window. I got to use lots of stamps on this one and it was fun.<br />
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and the reason I am not doing this in date order is because of this photo. I love it. So meet Beth a chef from the winning New Zealand team. I couldn't wait to scrap this photo, I think I have done it justice. Again I used inspiration from my Amy Tan class but my LO came out completely different than Amy's. Although all of my scrap supplies are packed I did keep my Studio Calico kits out and my ever growing stash of washi that I don't use nearly enough.<br />
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Yep still love love this photo.<br />
So Beth this post is for you so you can see what I have created and so that you can get a better look other than Joe holding the page up when your on Skype. Hope you like them.<br />
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Hopefully not promising anything but there might be a short PL post tomorrow. Pff and can you believe it Caitlin has just popped her head over my shoulder and told me off for not making my iiiii's capitals, ha, is the teacher coming out in her or what, so <span style="font-size: x-large;">I </span>will now go and amend all of my iiiii's</div>
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Ha I I I I I cant believe how many time i use the word I, it is nearly in every sentence and I am not correcting the one in this sentence...</div>
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-36306884602332836772013-03-28T17:33:00.001+08:002013-03-28T17:33:35.453+08:00Project Life week 12Hi there<br />When one is lying flat on their back in bed with an excruciating sore back one/namely me,is so grateful to Apple for inventing the iPad. I can read and scroll through my photos and do blog posts and lets not forget online shopping.<br />Anyway here is my week 12 page<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/03/28/176.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/03/28/s_176.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='400' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/03/28/180.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/03/28/s_180.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Ok this bit tells you about another meal Andrew cooked, coke a cola chicken wings and potato salad. He even made his own mayo, the chicken was a bit sweet but not complaining as I didn't have to cook it. <br />And Joe coming home <br />And Joe, Simon and Deney (their TAFE lecturer) with their gold medal dessert and the blurb that was written about their dish from the event website.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/03/28/181.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/03/28/s_181.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />Since I was about 12 I started collecting cookbooks and one recipe that I have always wanted to make was a spinach and feta pie, so last week at work we had heaps of spinach left over and I made my pie. I didn't stop there, I also made these spinach and feta filo rolls/swirls/snails. And they were divine I tell you. For savoury dishes I generally don't follow a recipe and for these I didn't either which can result in problems if people want the recipe as they did for this snack.<br />You can also see the great photo of Team Aus plating up their dessert for 100 people.<br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/03/28/182.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/03/28/s_182.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This top right photo is a copy of an email to Caitlin. <br />Here is the background,..Caitlin is doing a double degree in teaching at uni (kindy to year 7) the course will take 3 and 3/4 years. Caitlin has only the 3/4 year left and in that/this year they have to do two big teaching pracs for eight weeks each.<br />Caitlin applied to do her second big prac which is in August in a remote country town and this was an email to say that her application had been approved and her prac will be in Port Hedland. (For you non west Aussies, Port Hedland is in the Pilbara two full days drive north of Perth. It is a mining town and most people say that you have to live there to like it) as we have lived in PH when the kids were little I can say we loved it and this is the reason Caitlin wants to go back there. It will be really interesting to see what she thinks this time round as a 21yo because she remembers it as a 9/10 yo.<br />However it was the wonderful teachers she had in PH that inspired Caitlin to become a teacher.<br /><br />Phew did you get all that? Suffice to say that my baby will be away from home for eight weeks in August and September.<br /><br />All the papers I used this week were from Studio Calico/Sundrifter collection, and I used my new Dear Lizzie stamp.<br /><br />Andrew just went to the shops and I asked him to pick up a couple of packets of little Easter eggs in particular the top deck ones, he came back empty handed no eggs left at all, then I text Caitlin please get me some from work, she text back " no all sold out" can you believe it? It's only Thursday. Oh well I would only eat them any way.<br /><br />So I bid you a very happy Easter may you eat as many eggs and hot cross buns you can fit in your tummy and spend a little time remembering what Easter is all about. <br />Xx<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by and yay if you made t o the end.<br />Xx<br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-68355023036307836242013-03-12T17:53:00.000+08:002013-03-12T17:53:34.178+08:00Week 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello hello hello<br />
how lucky am i, Andrew (DH) is on holidays and i have not had to cook anything for three nights as he has discovered a hidden passion for cooking. Imagine my delight when he text me today asking if braised bbq ribs, a salad and crusty bread was ok for dinner...are you kidding...i would eat anything if i didn't have to plan and cook it. Sadly (although its quite funny) he said "its takeaway tomorrow night, i have had enough" ha, i said, "now you know how i feel but i have to do all of that after work".<br />
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ok here is week 9 of my Project Life<br />
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thats the whole page for you to see, i used a lot of <a href="http://studiocalico.com/" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> printables that anyone can download and buy, some washi and my favourite doily from <a href="http://papertreyink.com/" target="_blank">PTI</a>.<br />
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obviously this is my title card which i found inspiration from <a href="http://findingnana.com/" target="_blank">Leena</a> (you should check out her PL if you haven't already, AMAZING.<br />
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on Sunday i spent a good hour peeling mangos and scooping out their flesh to put into bags to freeze. We usually give about 75% of them away but i thought this would be a great idea especially for smoothies. So this year we are probably giving about half away.<br />
and at the ripe old age of 18 Joe decided that it was time he learnt too iron, as he leaves for New Zealand on Friday the lessons had to start pretty quick.<br />
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sorry actually had too much light for this photo. This little cute envelope was in my Studio Calico project life kit and although i love love love oh their so cute love love love them, i do find them hard to use, but not this week, It was our state election and it is compulsory to vote here in Aus so i actually put some of the leaflets from the party that i voted for in the envelope. As this made it rather bulky and this photo is in the top pocket i put one of those mini clip thingys over the top so it wouldn't fall out.<br />
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and when Joe gets back from New Zealand and finishes his holidays he starts at a new restaurant at The Crown called <a href="http://bistroguillaumeperth.com.au/" target="_blank">Bistro Guillame</a> and laundry have already prepared his new chefs uniforms so he took a photo for me. This will be Joe's last rotation at the <a href="http://www.crownperth.com.au/" target="_blank">Crown</a> after this he will be a qualified Chef can you believe it, three years, time goes so quickly. He hopes to go back to <a href="http://www.noburestaurants.com/perth/experience-2/introduction-2/" target="_blank">Nobu</a> and work his way up to Junior Sous Chef then travel the world with Nobu.<br />
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and last of all Andrew and I had another leisurely Late lunch/early dinner on Saturday at one of our favourite places The Merrywell and surprise surprise this happens to be at the Crown as well.<br />
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No pictures of Caitlin this week she was busy with one of her bfs 21sts and has only just given me the photos but i may just cheat and include them in next weeks PL, does anyone else do this?<br />
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Thanks for visiting<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-58067046682495895002013-03-09T22:09:00.000+08:002013-03-09T22:09:46.976+08:00Music Festivals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Good evening-i will stick with that as it is evening here<br />
Popping in to share a layout of Joe at some music festivals he attended on the weekend.<br />
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Sorry the colour is a bit dull as i couldn't wait until tomorrow and beautiful sunshine to photograph it.<br />
He went to two festivals and had a huge weekend, being the good child of a scrapbooker he kept me the tickets and the wrist band they were given for the over 18 festival, looks a bit like wash tape so of course i had to use it.<br />
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The skull i cut from the programme and the two guys in bubbles are friends of Joe. Joe is in the top photo on the left. As it's so hot here they always have sprays mists and water showers for people attending to cool down, i am not sure were the bubbles come in.<br />
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The middle photo is of the stage for one of Joe's favourite bands, Blink 182. He was right at the front of the stage after half an hour even he had had enough and asked for a security guard to pull him out. I would have loved to have seen that as Joe is 6ft 5 so it would not have been an easy task.<br />
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Well tomorrow is Sunday and you know what that means in my world, ironing day, i am sure i have the biggest pile to date Andrew even suggested we go out to lunch BUT nothing comes between me and my ironing. Ha i wish, it's just that if i don't do it tomorrow my mountain will be huge.<br />
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Good night all.<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-75858439593193126202013-03-06T16:39:00.001+08:002013-03-06T16:39:55.897+08:00Project Life week 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello there, happy hump day<br />
My week 9 found me in a quandary as i actually had a few too many photos but wanted to include them all and i couldn't put it on a two page spread as week 9 was on the right hand side of my binder...does this make any sense to you?<br />
Anyway this is what i did<br />
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I added a pocket page from Snap to be my first page for week 9<br />
it looks like this<br />
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which was quite fun as i got to mix up my title card a bit. The bottom photo is from my Instagram account giving me the details of when i posted my very first photo.<br />
here is the reverse of this page<br />
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all about Joe's cookbooks and this funny photo of my niece that i copied from her Instagram account.<br />
now on to the main page<br />
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Andrew went to the football and i went out to dinner-only fair- and even though it's still hot here, for ease and simplicity my crockpot does get the odd workout.<br />
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Caitlin went to two 18th birthday parties and felt old!!! It is nearly time for all of the 21sts to start happening, i had a night of cameo cutting and our mangos/mangoes? are ripe to eat.<br />
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I had to document my washi haul and used them to decorate my page<br />
and last but not least was our Saturday luncheon<br />
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Apart from my washi everything i have used came from my Studio Calico Project Life kit or was a Studio download and cut with the cameo.<br />
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Joe is now on holidays preparing for his trip and competition to New Zealand next week, on Monday Andrew starts some holidays, Caitlin is back into the uni swing and extremely busy this being her last nine months of uni and ho hum i still have work.<br />
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Enjoy the rest of the week and thanks to all of you who left a comment on my last post, i got two new followers and have reached 40 yippee party party.<br />
Linda</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-67747055951787564912013-03-02T16:18:00.000+08:002013-03-02T16:18:02.240+08:00Circles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy Saturday everyone<br />
We have just been out to lunch and i am FULL to bursting, so there is nothing better to do than take a few photos and sit here at my Mac and let all of this food digest.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago on Instagram i posted a picture of a lacy circle background that i had cut out with my <a href="http://silhouetteamerica.com/" target="_blank">Silhouette</a> and with inspiration from <a href="http://lovescraplife.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Lory</a> (when i saw her Layout i just had to give it a go)<br />
this is what i came up with.<br />
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unlike anything else i have ever made, it uses scraps from the scrap bin. I tried to keep visual triangles of some things i.e.) the people and the cabochon flowers and the red paper, then it got all too hard so it was anything goes.<br />
I didn't know what to put in some of the empty circles so i filled them with journaling.<br />
On another note, i am starting a quest to organise my albums. At the moment they are different sizes,colours and makes. Although the colour doesn't worry me i thought it would be nice to have them all in uniform albums. So hello <a href="http://studiocalico.com/" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> for the next eight months or so i will be ordering a binder, my first binder arrived yesterday so i grabbed a random old album and started switching the papers, holy moly i haven't looked at my very first pages for a couple of years. WHERE WHERE WHERE is the journaling and soooo many flowers, lol the fashion and my style has certainly changed over the years.<br />
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Joe recently ordered over $1000 in cook books,<br />
1-can you actually imagine how many that is<br />
2-where are they all going to go<br />
3-half of them are not cookbooks you and i would use, trust me and i consider myself a good cook. When i opened one of the books and picked a random page i couldn't understand the first instruction and it was only for lemon cordial..Something about some machine that does something and something, luckily Joe knew exactly what is was about.<br />
4-these are resource books for Joe, there was one huge book just in sauces and jus and a great book from David Chang about Momofuko, oh i so want to go and eat there.<br />
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This is only half that have arrived<br />
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See those books no 1 to 5 they came with the most amazing photography and some actual large photos just floating in the box, so i had to take a photo of the this photo as i think its AWESOME<br />
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how amazing is that mayo dripping of the bun? May have to <strike>nick </strike>borrow this from Joe for my work.<br />
After looking in this set of books i think the photography is by Ryan Matthew Smith and Nathan Myhrvold, my apologies if it is not.<br />
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Phew so there we have it my some what long and random post, enjoy your weekend everyone, we have a public holiday here on Monday so i will be having a great weekend.<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-67333457045900288222013-02-26T16:43:00.001+08:002013-02-26T16:43:44.090+08:00Project Life Week 8<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi there<br />
i am still managing to keep up to date with my weekly Project Life and here is our week 8<br />
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Apart from the title piece of paper everything else uses the <a href="http://studiocalico.com/" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> Project Life kit, which if you follow my Instagram you will know that i absolutely love it, love it i tell ya even down to the cute box that it came in.<br />
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Yes Joe got another burn, not his worst by far but it was pretty good and seeing i didn't get any flowers for Valentines day (: i think Caitlin took pity on me and bought some Sunflowers. The pretty turquoise glitter tape did not come in the kit either, boy i love that stuff may have to invest in every colour.<br />
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Andrew spent all Sunday afternoon preparing dinner, it was really nice and as a added bonus there was heaps left over for Monday night so that was two nights i did not have to cook. OK i found something else not in the kit, it's that gorgeous striped colourful washi, it had just arrived so i had to use it.<br />
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Am not too sure on this pocket its done now and away but would be my least favourite from a scrapbooking point of view. I love the photos of Caitlin and Bec at the beach having some fun before their very last semester of Uni begins.<br />
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I had to document the arrival of said kit and Andrew had his works yearly day at the races and he's a good boy and brings me back a heap of paraphernalia.<br />
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and lastly, my God Daughter was invited to her very first school ball so i had to document that.<br />
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I have found the perfect place with the best light to photograph my PL, if you haven't guessed it's in the kids bathroom, as one of the walls is made of glass brick the light is just perfect.<br />
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Now i am off to check the B.O.M site (Bureau of meteorology) as there is a huge cyclone about to hit my old town of Port Hedland and if you have read one of my last posts you will know that cyclones fascinate me and I'm a bit of a guru on cyclones and hurricanes. I just hope everyone is OK as this looks like a pretty damaging one.<br />
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Night all. </div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-10454829480337235552013-02-17T23:52:00.001+08:002013-02-17T23:52:39.730+08:00A Day at Susan's <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Created with PhotoShake iPad</p><br/><img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2a14HT6K2vc/USD8xZC9TAI/AAAAAAAAB7c/mAsYg0eVwjI/PhotoShake.jpg'/></div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-26844790086438484702013-02-12T17:12:00.000+08:002013-02-12T17:12:01.467+08:00Week 6<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello all, thanks for stopping by and reading my post.<br />
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It has been a real hot day here today 40degrees C and when we are at work and moaning in air con comfort we turn too each other and go "poor Joe" as none of the kitchens at the Crown resort have air conditioning. I could not stand it.<br />
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I just may stick to my new routine of doing my project life on a Monday afternoon, it stops me from having a Nanna nap and also keeps me from the kitchen and eating, ha, maybe i should do this every week day.<br />
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Here is week 6<br />
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All cream based this week so i didn't use many of my Studio Calico die cuts as they are mainly white based. I used an old 6x6 paper pad from Sassafrass called Count On Me.<br />
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I did use quite a few of the Studio Calico wood veneers, i love them and some arrows that i coloured with my Copics. Not going to mention too much about the yummy thing there in the middle as the competition isn't until March and although not many people read my blog i don't want to give away their creations just in case someone does stumble on it. IYKWIM<br />
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Have to go and cook two meals tonight as Caitlin and i are having Spaghetti Carbonara (yes i know its not diet) and Andrew doesn't like it (who in their right mind does not like carbonara-bacon,eggs, pasta, cream) so i will make him something else.....honestly the things i do for the ones i love.<br />
Might just go and have a swim first though.<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-12342669332805963712013-02-07T21:36:00.001+08:002013-02-07T21:36:45.747+08:00Clean Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My mum is not a sentimental person, and definitely not a crafty one. After dad passed away/OK to be honest before he passed away she was down in his shed <strike>clearing it out</strike> tidying it up and i remember dad saying "for gods sake Loo (that's what he called me Lindy loo) I'm not dead yet." But that's mum she had to do something at the time. Well, about two months later when dad passed away mum cleaned out all of the photos and albums and of course i couldn't let her throw them out so i just had to take them.<br />
Amongst the treasures was this photo from our wedding day, i know you are not meant to use real photos but that's OK this photo is in our professional wedding album and we must have got another copy for mum and dad. On a side note, have you looked at your wedding album/photos lately? We will be 25 years in December so i guess now is as good a time as any to have a peek down memory lane.<br />
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Digressing AGAIN<br />
Here's the LO<br />
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Again i used my inner <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelle</a> and thought about my colour scheme. I started looking for green papers , then i wanted a paper that had some red and pink in it for the roses and mums dress. The rest just came together after that. I have used 5 different background papers from 4 different companies, they are all old and from my stash. Yahoo.<br />
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Then i went through all my embellishments looking for red, green and pink and i found that chip board flower from Crate paper which i thought matched quite well, then i got a bit stuck as i couldn't find any other flowers that kind of matched so i decided on butterflies. To make the title match in i used the asterisks from the letters as embellishments and placed them here and there about the page.<br />
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No washi on this one but there is some stamping. All in all i am very happy with the way it turned out.<br />
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There is quite a few professional photos in the box i got from mums just waiting to be scrapped, luckily i have plenty of paper and embellishments.<br />
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Now i may just go and pull out my wedding album, the wedding video can wait for another time.<br />
Good night all.<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-57823791516231453962013-02-05T16:11:00.001+08:002013-02-05T16:11:56.754+08:00Week 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello there<br />
alas school holidays had to end sometime, it was back to work for me on Monday and i knew that i would be so so tired when i got home, so instead of sitting/lying done and reading which inevitably ends up with me having a nana nap i thought i would get stuck into my Project Life.<br />
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I am really glad i changed to a one page spread as week 5 i would have found it impossible to fill a two page spread and there are only so many filler cards you can use.<br />
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This week i used cut shapes from <a href="http://www.studiocalico.com/" target="_blank">Studio Calico</a> and some papers from Simple Stories (Snap range). I did use wash again, not with my eyes closed this time and made an effort to use my stamps. There are no 3d touchy feely things this week.<br />
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The top right is all about Joe's latest eBay purchase, i haven't done much journaling on it as i will use this photo on a 12x12 LO as well.<br />
The bottom photos are all about another visit to<a href="http://www.noburestaurants.com/" target="_blank"> Nobu</a> for lunch and this time instead of Joe being in the kitchen he was eating with us. I was actually surprised that he wanted to come as, who generally wants to go to their work place on their day off?<br />
Where ever you are in the world i strongly, supremely, earnestly, hugely, recommend you to go and find a Nobu restaurant and give it a try. Yes its Japanese-well kind off and yes there is some raw fish/sashimi but there is oh so much more. Try the Bento box that way you will get a little taste of everything....have i convinced you yet?<br />
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It really was a quiet but nice week and now its documented. How is your week 5 coming along?<br />
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Thanks for visiting<br />
xx<br />
Linda<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-19694984006321945782013-01-31T11:30:00.000+08:002013-01-31T11:30:00.611+08:00Get Your Boogie On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK not words i utter much these days but definitely words Joe does mutter. Unusually for a male he loves to dance or should i say boogie and not to any type of music that i would ah boogie too either.<br />
So i couldn't resist doing this LO of him that the photographer took at The Causeway. Incidentally Joe is friends with the photographer so he was hamming it up for the photo (I hope)<br />
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This was a sketch from <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelles</a> blog way back in 2011 i think. I used arrows and cameras to depict the movement in the photo but yes i know cameras don't exactly move but they are fitting to the story.<br />
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I wanted to do some ink dropping :) but had no blue studio calico mists but i did have some Stampin Up re-inkers in blue oh you should have seen me- how was i going to get this on my page..well i got a tiny piece of scrap and put a blob of ink on it then turned it over and started flicking it on the page, love the end result i got big blobs and small ones.<br />
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Everything i used came from my Studio Calico kit except for the cameras and the label.<br />
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I'm of to Nobu for lunch tomorrow, yes again <a href="http://alusciousjourney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tracey </a>i loved it that much, with Joe this time so we will get the full Nobu experience (Joe is a chef in the Nobu kitchen). Its my last hoorah before going back to work full time on Monday :( the holidays must finish some time right.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-91221681430797177002013-01-29T19:03:00.001+08:002013-01-29T19:03:53.115+08:00Interactive Project Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes I surprise myself.<br />
This week i actually had a few too many photos for a one page spread but not enough for a double so i wanted to make a teeny tiny mini album to include in my Project Life. OK making it was easy but how to include it as i wanted everyone to be able to see the photos.<br />
Hmmm...<br />
After not much thought i came up with this<br />
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I cut a slit in one of the pockets and put the last page of the mini behind it and that left the rest outside of the page protector for people to flick through. Love it. So simple.<br />
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So here is week 4.<br />
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Terrible photo of me but who cares its me. I found this cute Journal reading card in my stash i had been waiting to use and as i am a book worm it didn't have way enough room to record the books i had read since Christmas. It normally takes me about two or three days to read a book, so about 2-3 per week is a pretty good average.<br />
Again i used some washi tape and a little bit of stamping.<br />
During the week i received a clothes package in the mail that was wrapped in this beautiful orange tissue and instead of throwing it away i made it into flowers. So still going with my interactive theme i stuck this on top of the page protector.<br />
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As it's only tissue it will flatten over time so it wont create too much bulk, but it does add some texture.<br />
Love all this touch feely stuff.<br />
I started back to work today, only a couple of hours a day this week, ease myself in gently, oh it's a hard life.<br />
Have a great week everyone.<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-54913443743073863092013-01-26T18:20:00.000+08:002013-01-26T18:20:55.733+08:00Cyclones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have a fascination with cyclones or hurricanes, ever since the late 90's when we lived in Port Hedland (far far north of Perth, its about a two day drive) and lived through a couple. All the cyclones we lived through were still not as terrifying as that earthquake we experienced in Penang last year, boy i really thought my time was up waiting for that tsunami. Anyway again i digress, back to cyclones.<br />
There you are its hot hot hot usually about 43degrees Celsius then the clouds start turning grey but its still hot, then the rain comes and rain like you've never seen before (that incidentally is why no houses have gutters in Port Hedland) and its still hot.<br />
before all this you watch the flags that are on every flag pole in town, <span style="color: blue;">blue </span>first which means get prepared.<br />
Full tank of petrol<br />
Lots of water<br />
fill the baths with water<br />
go food shopping (and that's a story for another day just ask me about sausages)<br />
bring inside anything that is outside that could be blown as a projectile which includes bbq's, tables, chairs etc.<br />
make sure you have torches and a radio operated battery oops battery operated radio.<br />
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Then we go to <span style="color: #f1c232;">yellow </span><br />
pick up kids from school Yay for them<br />
Andrew home from work<br />
everything closes<br />
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all the while its getting really really windy and you think the car is going to be blown of the road, its raining like unbelievable, lakes form where there were fields on one particular cyclone some crazy person went and got out his surfboard with a sail on it and was sailing past the roads in this big field of water that had appeared in a couple of hours.<br />
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then we go to <span style="color: red;">red</span><br />
police and SES and fire brigade drive around sounding alarms and making sure we're all inside, by this time i am excited and scared at the same time. We listen to the radio for updates that come every half an hour, if its night time Andrew and kids usually went to bed. Ahh not me, to scared the whole house is rattling you think its going to take off, you can feel the pressure in the house so you go and open the window a little so the house doesn't explode, i pray the windows wont shatter as surely the wind is going to blow right through them. (but no they a specially designed cyclone friendly glass)<br />
..and then all of a sudden it stops just like that and its eerily quiet. If it was daytime we usually went out the front and talked to all the neighbours and checked out the damage. But its not over that's the eye of the storm so back inside we go and wait for the other side of the cyclone to pass us. Once we were on red for two days.<br />
Then the sirens start and its all clear, back to work/normal/routine/school.<br />
Did you know that after a cyclone you can find the most amazing shells on the beach<br />
and i must add that we were never hurt or had property damaged in any of the cyclones we went through. Very lucky as we did go through a category five.<br />
anyway i suppose you would like a couple of photos<br />
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this is from the year 1999 and one of our first cyclones<br />
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Just thought i would share a bit of our time up north with you.<br />
If you are an Aussie Happy Australia day and to everyone else happy Saturday.<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-77108165248816907582013-01-23T16:32:00.000+08:002013-01-23T16:32:27.079+08:00Project life week 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
True to form on the Christmas holidays i have no trouble keeping up with Project Life and other crafty pursuits, here is week 3<br />
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Again i have used mainly downloads cut using the Silhouette, i never thought i would use those framey ones with the @ and ampersand symbol but i found them surprisingly simple to use.<br />
Sticking to last weeks theme( of sticking things on top of the pages) and as i want this to be kind of an interactive album and really if I'm honest the cute envy was too big to fit in the pocket and i wanted to use it so i stuck it on the outside.(envelope is from Amy Tan)<br />
My thinking is that its far easier just to open that little flap than delve behind the photo and find the journaling.<br />
When i stopped and looked at this weeks page i realised there is only one photo that includes people OK 2 if you count my feet, again there is plenty of photos of food but hey that is a part of our lives (oops I'm wrong, there is a photo of Simon in the collage with the envelope so that's three)<br />
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Again i went to my tin of washi tapes and closed my eyes and picked one-this is my very scientific way of choosing colours-am going to try this on every week, just hope i don't pick the Christmas washi, and i had all of my Studio calico stamps next to me to use, another thing i aim to use every week. I also noticed that my go to colour over last year and this short one is red, if it looks a bit dull or is missing something then i always go back to red.<br />
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Can you see that circle cut out? The one that says 11.49. Mama Mia..... Andrew and i both slept in until this time last Saturday cant say we have ever done that before. Luckily we had a relaxing day planned which involved going to our local mall/shopping center and having an all day breakfast it was delish.<br />
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So I'm still quilting my table runner, for goodness sake it's only a table runner but it's taking me ages and Joe is waiting <strike>patiently</strike> eagerly for more pockets and another Block of the Month has arrived and i really want to get involved with <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelles </a>sketches and do some 12x12 layouts gee if i was a LIST making person i could write all of this in a list.<br />
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Goodnight all and thanks for stopping by.<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-80212514779053092322013-01-20T14:10:00.000+08:002013-01-20T14:10:56.952+08:00A man card<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello and welcome, happy Sunday to you.<br />
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Oops it was my brothers birthday on the 13th and although i remembered it and spoke to him i am yet still to give him his card and gift.<br />
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Male cards are always a challenge to me, so this is what i came up with yesterday.<br />
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Apart from the chipboard bubble which is from my latest Studio Calico kit the rest is made from scraps and as it was pretty basic looking i added two different types of stitching and my beloved wood veneer stars, have i said how much i love these things.<br />
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here's the inside<br />
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yep he'll get a big head when he reads this. The stamp set is from Simon Says Stamp and its called Shoot For The Stars.<br />
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Now Andrew is cooking tonight, another new recipe from his new cookbook , i don't have to do the ironing as i can do it tomorrow oh i love holidays, so my only dilemma is should i start quilting my table runner or should i print my Project Life photos for week three or should i play on the Silhouette Cameo or all of the above. Oh decisions decisions.<br />
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xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-58998161885595249152013-01-18T14:55:00.000+08:002013-01-18T14:55:54.434+08:00Project Life week 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Good morning, afternoon or evening depending on where you are in the world<br />
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I had fun this week doing something a bit different for me with Project Life. This time i didn't use a paper collection i used a whole pile of journal cards, stickers, badges, elements etc that i had downloaded and cut out with my Cameo that have been sitting on my desk for ages waiting to be used. It was fun going through my big pile pulling out this and that.<br />
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For something different and for ease of the cards fitting in their pockets, i am going to put all badges on the outside of the pockets.<br />
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Here's a little close up, the one mind blowing thing on this page is that we learnt that Caitlin has got to the ripe old age of 20 and never used a rolling pin, well she has now. Although i seem to remember the play dough kit having a rolling pin. Anyway chef she is not, that is Joe's department as you can see by the photo where he is giving Andrew and i a lesson on deboning a chicken, yeah right why would i bother when I've got him to do it for me. Seriously it took him about two minutes. Quite amazing and not an ounce of chicken meat left on the carcass (that doesn't look right how do you spell it, spell check is not helping me i don't think its up on cooking terms)<br />
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and a sweet friend gave me a tea caddy full of tea for Christmas as she knew i wanted one, i just don't know if she knew exactly what i was going to do with it (i don't drink tea)<br />
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i just wanted to store all of my Pl goodness in it.<br />
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have a good weekend<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-12601171524419079262013-01-15T08:00:00.000+08:002013-01-15T08:00:08.362+08:00The last of JYC 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello there<br />
I spent most of Saturday finishing of my Christmas album, so here are the last pages.<br />
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These are just two pretty simple pages, i like having different sized pages in my albums i think it makes it fun to look thru<br />
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sorry about the glare of the plastic and here is the other side<br />
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more glare but you can get the general feel, i loaded my mini Instax camera with new film on christmas day and put it out on the table for anyone to takes photos, its a bit of a novelty so everyone one was having a go.<br />
Now here's the last page i shouldn't put it here but i'm saving my very favourite until last to show you<br />
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very simple this one and i thought i would go up to New Years Day and call it finished. I have journaled until the sixth in my ah journal (as you would) but i am going to finish my album here and i had to finish with lots of those would veneer stars, i love them.<br />
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Now on to the next page. I channelled all my inner <a href="http://shimelle.com/" target="_blank">Shimelle</a> for this page, everything i've learnt in her classes i tried to put in this page, so here is my favourite page of the whole album and i even used circles the hardest shape i find to use.<br />
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I even used all of my christmas papers (mainly b sides) to complete this LO the only things that weren't in my christmas stash were the flash pin and my new sequins which i think give it that sparkle. (i couldn't quite get my christmas washi to work on this page)<br />
here's another angle<br />
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So that's it for JYC 2012 i have loved writing in my journal and completing a scrapbook album, it really did help me enjoy christmas more and if you are not signed up for this class i really really encourage you to do so next year. You don't have to do a scrapbook some of the photos on Instagram just had a lined journal with a bit of washi tape and lots of writing and they looked awesome.<br />
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So thanks for reading and following along with my JYC 2012.<br />
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Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-64945962684873625542013-01-14T08:00:00.000+08:002013-01-14T08:00:02.068+08:00Block of the month update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I love school holidays i can catch up on things that are a little behind like my monthly block of the month quilt<br />
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here is block 6 its called Town Square and was designed by Kate Spain, i pieced this at <a href="http://stitchscrapsew.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Susan's</a> last week when the Three Of Us caught up for chat,morning tea, chat,lunch, chat and a wee bit of craft, oh and i forgot to say the numerous amount of list making that Susan and Tracey both love to do.<br />
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the next one seemed to take me ages to sew its called Moonlight Serenade and it's designed by Sandy Gervais<br />
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so that was block seven five more to go and guess what? I have already signed up for this years kit club. How could i refuse when the fabric we will be using is made by<a href="http://figtreequilts.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"> Fig Tree</a> my all time favourite fabric designer.<br />
and i really like<a href="http://thimbleblossoms.bigcartel.com/product/juggle-pattern-157-pdf-pattern" target="_blank"> this </a>pattern, just may have to buy it and then wait for some pre cut honeycomb packs to reach Australia.<br />
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Enjoy your week<br />
I'm going out to High Tea tomorrow<br />
xx</div>
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-87365077752103805022013-01-12T23:26:00.001+08:002013-01-12T23:26:15.362+08:00Where has the time gone?Hi ya<br />I just wanted to share this photo of my kids. It was taken last weekend when they went out together.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=13/01/12/687.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/13/01/12/s_687.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='186' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Here are Joe & Caitlin (the blond ones) and Caitlin's friend Cassandra.<br />I had to do a double take when I saw Joe. Wow he seems to have grown up over night.<br />Love these guys.<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br />Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06878413995311309215noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902589772494503479.post-74015748188898148212013-01-12T08:00:00.000+08:002013-01-12T08:00:05.943+08:00Project Life Week 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Good morning<br />
today i thought i would share my first week of Project Life and being the start of a new year i thought it called for a bit of sparkle and glitter so my title looks like this.<br />
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2013 cut using the Cameo<br />
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here is the actual page<br />
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i have used the 6x6 paper pad and embellishments from Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic<br />
i have made a mental note to myself to use washi tape every week as one has a wee collection one should better start using it<br />
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and here is a close up of Joe at his New Years Day work do<br />
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I love including tags and ephemera in my pages, and no Joe did not go out in his PJ's they were his kris kringle so he had to model them.<br />
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hope you are all having a lovely day.<br />
xx</div>
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