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Back From The Gold Coast!

 

The holiday was great! Even though the sun hardly made an appearance in Surfers Paradise. The great shopping and reading made up for it though. I bought sooo much back for the living and entrance decorating project. The kids spent most of the time swimming at their Grandparents place and Justin was out exploring. We planned on going to Sea World but it was way too busy! We were in a traffic jam for about half an hour just to get to the place! Dream World and the Water Parks were off the list too... we would have to wait in line for at least 1 hour for a 1 minute ride once we got in! Nooo thankyou!

 
The kids loved sitting and rolling on this gorgeous foot stool my mum in-law bought from Greenhouse (Ferry Road Market) I love it! 

Random shots -

Guess what line from Scareface, Justin yelled out while I took this!

It's good to be back! I can't wait to get back into production mode. But first I must organise my house and go through my in-box!

A Journey Back To My Childhood Memories

Last weekend I spent a lot of time scanning and taking pictures of my old hometown. Many of you know I have been wanting to create an album this year, all about my childhood memories. I am so pleased to say I have begun!

The First Step I took: COLLATING ALL MY IMAGES

This involved created a list of shots I needed to take in order to help me with my story telling. It looked something like this -

  Some of the shots I ended up with -

 

 

 
I am now in the next phase of the project which is basically fusing everything together into an album through photo-shop.

There are lots of writing. There have even been tears. And Yes, I am finding it very overwhelming at times, but I want to achieve this and I'm not going to give up.This is so important to me, I need to do this for myself, so I never forget. For my kids, so they know where their mama grew up and what made her. And for the generations after them.

Keep watching this blog for pictures of the finished album! I have a clear vision of what this will look like and I can't wait to share it with you guys.

hugs

Vin

Back With a Tan! and First Scrap Challenge for 2010

Well not really, Im just a few shades browner & 2kg's heavier (yikes!). My poor husband however got a tan... the painful way! Yes he got sun burnt... and he got it bad. He was in pain for about 3 days after surfing for almost 2 hours without any sun block on. He thought because it was an overcast day he would escape any form of burning. Well he's learnt his lesson.

Do you wanna see some pics? First I want to mention this awesome stationary store I bumpt into while in the Gold Coast. Have you heard of kikki.K? Oh my oh my! I am in love with their products! I have never seen a store stock such gorgeous stationary. I spent quite a bit over there and was pleased to find out, they sell online

aaaaand New Zealand has 5 of them!...1 just a 25 minute drive away! Check out what I bought -

This is such a gorgeous little friendship book that I am going to use as a visitors book for friends and family to fill out. I'll show you all how I use it once I have a few pages filled out.
 


We are forever loosing pens in our houses, so I thought having a white pen means that no one going to want to use a white coloured pen, so its going to stay put near the phone always... thats the theory anyway.

A weekly planner, looks easy to use and stylish. I got other little nicks nacks too. If you would like to know how to win one of these goodies, keep reading.

Here are my favourite holiday pics -

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was such a wonderful holiday! So many wonderful memories were created... and thats the most important part of a vacation, spending MORE time with the people you love. It might cost a lot and involve careful planning. But in 20 or 50 years time you are not going to remember the price tag... you will remember things like the kids blowing bubbles near the sea, the way they expored the motel you were staying at, and your husband looking as bright as a crayfish! It doesn't have to be in a far away country too. It could be 3 hours away from where you live! Start making those plans to relax!

First 2010 Scrap Challenge at Pixel Canvas

'Today I...'

Fill in the rest with a list or sentence. Create a page using the text.

here's mine -

CLICK HERE FOR CREDITS

The Creative Team will vote for the best designed page. And the winner will win this friendship book -

All submissions must have 70%-100% Pixel Canvas Items used. Pages need to be submitted in the Art Journal Challenges gallery, click here to view. Challenge/Contest closes Tuesday 19th Jan

All the best!

Wanna see some pics?

I am so pleased with the photos I took while on holiday. They will certainly be cherished! I am currently working on the album which I am hoping to finish next week. I will give you guys the link to view when I am done. Here are some of my favorite pics taken.

First shot is of Raglan Beach (no surf that day, unfortunately for Justin) Second shot is in Mt Taranaki, we stayed in a Bach shown on the left of the photo.



We also celebrated our Daughters 2nd birthday while away. She looks so grownen up in these photos.

Her beauty blows me away!



SO today is the last day of 08. I always used to feel a little sad and unprepared for the new year. But this time I am actually pleased with what I accomplished this year and so eager for the new year to roll in. Here are my goals that were written down at the beginning of this year.
 
My goals for 2009

Loose weight before we are ready for baby no.3
Put house work a little bit higher on the priorities list... a little higher.
Grow a veggie patch.
Landscape the front yard .
Spend less time on the computer.
Meet one of my many on-line friends.
Grow my digital scrapbooking business.
Travel overseas with the family.

Yes I think thats achievable. Not sure about the housework bit... but I'll give it my best!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are inspired to do something OUT THERE! for yourself  in 2009.

I'll sign off for the year with a page I created using Jofia's Imagination Kit.
Patterned paper by Jesse Edwards (Milk Shake Pk), Stitches by Syrin.

HUGS and thank you to everyones support and all the wonderful and encouraging comments! I am so excited about 2009! And I am thankful I can share it with you guys.