This last weekend was a huge one for me. Mainly because I haven't drunk as much all year, as I did between Friday and Saturday nights. Friday night we had a couple over to watch the cricket (at least that was the excuse), and it turned into lots of scotch and shots. Then on Saturday night I had Linda's hens night. We went to McGuires first, where we were shouted a tray of shots after being inconvenienced by a drunken yobo. This was then followed by a few more drinks. Needless to say I spent the majority of Sunday on the couch recuperating. Linda seemed to have a great time, and given she didn't get home until 4am, was looking very sharp Sunday afternoon.
After an absence of a couple of months, my scrapbooking bug has returned. Maybe it was something to do with being stuck inside all last weekend, but I was on fire, finishing 5 single layouts, and 1 double layout (including getting started on my 2008 in Review album).
I was inspired to start this 2008 in Review album by the latest copy of Simple Scrapbooks. I liked the idea of doing a layout for each month, with some bullet-point journalling. It allows me to scrap photos that I might not otherwise scrap.
I don't really like how this layout turned out, and it was one that I had sitting ready to go for ages. I did some experimenting with texture paste (to adhere the 'australian' ghost letters, and to stamp the question mark), but I didn't really like the messy way they turned out. I chalk it up to practice.
This is probably my favourite layout from the weekend.
I have never scrapped a layout about myself. So I thought as I'm almost turning 30, it might be an opportune time. Jason took this candid photo while we were waiting for Renee to get her camera for the photos on the following layout.
Renee and I had a great time when she came to stay for the Australia Day weekend. I loved catching up with her and having a lot of laughs (and food)! The layout used one of the TLC Hot Fudge kits, which I'm not a huge fan of, but it really suited these photos.
This layout also used a TLC kit, but one of the older QuikPage kits. Again, I had this photo and kit set aside for ages, and finally finished it.
It is really hard to believe the amount of water we had this last weekend. Records show we had over 625mm in as little as 6 hours, which not only breaks all Mackay historical records, but Australian records as well. For those who understand some civil engineering geek speak, it equates to almost a Q500 event (1 in 500 year occurance interval). This can't be proved though, because of a lack of historical data.The damage to parts of Mackay was substantial. A couple we know had the flood waters rise through their house, up to the light switches. The flood itself happened so fast that from the time it overtopped the kerb & channel, to the time it hit the light switches was a little under 20 minutes. Given the short amount of time, there was little most could do, but watch.
Our house, and subdivision in general, went unscathed. These photos were taken from the garage, and show the water up to our front boundary.
These photos are of our back yard (apologies for the poor photography, but the light was poor, and I was having to take it through glass to protect the camera from spray).
Poor Sam couldn't get out to go to the toilet (luckily the little trooper just held on until the waters receded). He kept stepping down into the water and jumping back up on to the deck.
Fortunately the sun is now shining.
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On her blog, Ali Edwards sets some "weekend creative" challenges. One that was particularly inspiring to me was the 'Punch Collage' (February #2). I really saw this as a great way of making a small piece of original home decor. Rather than using a butterfly punch, I used a dragonfly, and selected an assortment of cyan/brown papers to suit the colorings of our bathroom. I am really pleased with how it turned out. I will take a better photo once I have found a way to hang it.
