Holiday memorabilia

Hi there
My title should read "what do you do with holiday memorabilia?".
This is what I do



We kept all of our favourite cards, receipts and tags and yes plastic coffee spoons. So I just stuck them all down on a 12x12 piece of card-stock. I also took,stole,borrowed,lent a couple of envelopes from the hotel, in this one I have put more receipts and anything I thought we may want to look back on. I have added a bit of washi tape here and there and that's it 'easy peasy'.

I also had to document one of the scariest hours of our lives



Again I stuck everything down on a 12x12 piece of cardstock and used the envelope as my journaling card. Inside the envy is more journaling and more newspaper articles. I have also attached a photo of a text I sent to one of my friends.

These two pages will be put in my Project Life album as inserts to week 15 which is finished so really I am finally up to date with PL. I do want to do two more 12x12 lay outs of Penang for week 15 but I am not stressed to get them done and of course there is always last week to start.

Joe spent half of Tuesday in the kitchen here is what he made.




OMG it was amazing
Here he is, so proud, he actually whooped for joy and did a little dance when he took it out of the mould, he then experimented making toffee string.



And yes it tasted as good as it looks.

Of to see what you have all been up to.
Xxx
Linda


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Photo or Postcard?

Good evening

When going thru our holiday snaps I came across this one that Joe took.



Doesn't it look like a postcard to you? I think it's a fabulous photo and I just had to do a lay out with it.
The photo says Penang to me, the street and the heritage buildings, the trishaws that you see amongst the busy traffic, you'll see a very old tumble down building and right next to it will be a super modern new building. This is in Georgetown which is the capital of Penang.

Now on to something different
If you are ever in Perth and you visit the Burswood hotel complex you must stop at their coffee shop and buy one ( ha if you can stop at one) of these



In my opinion THE BEST shortbread in the world. Far better than anything I can make, I have asked/pleaded/begged Joe to get me the recipe. So whenever we go the to the Burswood I have to make a little detour to get me a couple of these.

I hope your week is wonderful, mine will be a mixed bag, joe's Thermomix is arriving with a personal demo, joe is having a small procedure on his toe, more packing at nanas, back to work for me, drinks with friends, Anzac day, oh it's going to be a busy week.

Have fun
Xx

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PL-week 13

Hi there
Happy Friday to you all
Just popping in to share week 13 with you
Here's the LHS



All about our preparation for Penang. Lots of stamping and the pattern paper is by Stampin Up.

For some reason I always think about photographing my pages at night time, although I did turn the flash of this time I still got some shine from the plastic pocket. My camera course can't come quick enough ( it starts on Tuesday, poor Sharon is going to have her work cut out for her).

Here is the RHS



Yay we made it to Penang. The top right photo is of the Premium class seats by Air Asia. We flew a budget airline but paid extra for budget business class, oh it was so worth it. The seats laid down to a flat bed and so so much leg room for us tall people. I would recommend them to anyone.

And that photo of Caitlin...what's that saying about a child in a sweet shop? Well we were all like that, wall to wall chocolate and lollies.

Here's an insert that I have done for week 14




Here I must say a big thanks to Leena who helped me with this collage. This LO was also inspired by Leena who did a similar thing when she visited Taipei, and speaking of Leena I have used some of the oh so pretty washi tape and doilies that I won on her blog giveaway.

Ok that's me done, of to work on weeks 14 & 15
Thanks for visiting
Enjoy your weekend.
Xxxx
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I'm so very lucky,lucky,lucky,lucky.....

Oh happy mail today and lots of it.

I was so very lucky to win a blog giveaway from Leena and it arrived today.
Oh my goodness so much yummy stuff.



Thank you Leena, I can't wait to start playing with it.

And more yummy stuff arrived earlier in the week



Stamping Up goodies at the back and a whole lot of Papertray Ink at the front.

Random stuff
- getting up to date with Project Life, week 13 nearly complete
- Joe passed his second phase of driving which now means he has to do his
25 hours ( this means he has to drive supervised for 25 hours, this has to be
undertaken in six months, you can't complete it any earlier) after that he will
have his licence.
-the nursing home is having nana reassessed as they now feel she is high
care ie) incontinent, can't feed herself etc..so sad. This doesn't change her
care at all
- finally unpacked all of our suitcases
- on holidays for another week
- and have I already told you how much I love my iPad.

Ok that's about it
And thanks gain Leena
Xxxxxxx
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Home

Here we are home safe and sound.

I'm a bit of a neat freak,not at bad as Andrew, however when it comes to packing suitcases I just CHUCK it all in.




I actually did have to get Joe to help me to close it. We all bought heaps and heaps.
So that's what I'm going to do right now, unpack that mess.

Enjoy your week everyone.
Xxx
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Phew

All safe and sound, thanks for your concern.
The tsunami ended up being .3 of a meter so just a little wave thank god.

At one stage I had got our passports and all the water bottles I could find in a bag ready to flee. Haven't bought my new joggers yet so I would have had to do a runner in my flip flops.

Catch up on some sleep today I think plus a wee bit of shopping, we leave very late tomorrow night.
Xx

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Uh oh

Hi there
Just thought I would post this before hopefully nothing happens.
About half an hour ago we were sitting out on the balcony and I felt my chair begin to wobble, then the whole balcony, I looked at Andrew and said is this an earthquake, didn't know what to do so I came into our room and sat on the bed, that was worse the whole bed was moving, to say I was/am sh***t scared is an understatement.

Penang did suffer in the 2004 tsunami and now we have just found out that there was a big earthquake in Indonesia again the same place as 2004 and roughly the same size. I think we will be on tsunami alert, and trust me if the water disappears I am out of here. No sleep for me tonight I will be keeping a vigil on the balcony looking at the ocean.

Xxx

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