Given that our next Get Scrapped Getaway is coming up, I thought I would finally post the results of our last scrap-filled weekend.
Given that our next Get Scrapped Getaway is coming up, I thought I would finally post the results of our last scrap-filled weekend.
On Saturday night, Jason and I attended the wedding of my uncle Ian, and his long-time partner Karen. It was a small but beautiful affair of about 20 guests. The ceremony and reception were held at the Church on Palmer. Kristen (Ian's daughter) played the violin during the ceremony, and Karen's grandchildren, Lakita & Drazic escorted the couple down the 'aisle' and handed over the rings at the appropriate point in time.
While Ian and Karen were signing the register, Kristen payed a bit more violin, but had inadvertantly left her case open (like a busker). I jokingly dared Jason to throw some money in. And what does he do. Yes, you guessed it. Everyone thought it was so funny, including Karen's family, whom we were yet to meet.
The food was beautiful. Jason and I both had the chicken and mushroom parcel for entree, and rib eye fillet for mains, with a chocolate mousse stack for dessert. All very yummy, and by the end I was pretty stuffed (the combination of red wine could have helped with that too).
Kristen and her brother Theo finished the night with a duet. Kristen sang and Theo played the guitar. I can't remember what the song was, but they did a great job.We ended up leaving early due to Jason's lingering flu, but it was a great night.
Thought I'd post a couple of cards I've finished lately. The top one is the card I made for Ian and Karen's wedding (using the Cuttlebug to emboss the chocolate metallic card, before adding a white rubon and some highlights).The one below is a 'thinking of you' card I made for a lady at WW who is in some desperate need of kindness at the moment. Marilyn did up a care basket, and I made the card. I hand cut 3 little butterflies out of the patterned paper and attached to the card with Pritt. The 'stitching' around the patterned paper is one of my newly purchased acrylic border stamps. I really like this colour combination, and the papers are gorgeous.
My plan was to create one of these 'Friends' chipboard albums for each of my friends turning 30 this year. So far, so good. I finished one for Kirsty, and then sent it off without taking any photos of it. I also half made one for Mel, but am waiting for some photos from her before finishing it off. Each album is a different colour scheme. Here are some photos of the one I made for Bryde, and a matching card. These albums take a lot of creativity to finish, but I love the new stamps I had on hand for this album. Will post the brand and details when I remember them.
I can't believe how fast this year is flying; we're half way through July already.
I finally got around to scanning in the layouts I have completed over the last couple of months. Well, actually I think I did all of these in March...
firstly, two layouts for my 'The Kearneys' album, starting with probably my favourite layout from the whole post (and it just so happens to be her birthday today):
A layout about the activities from my last post:
Finally got around to creating a layout for this great photo:
some February love-themed ones for my 'Us' album:
some cuties for my 'Animals We Love' album:
Thanks for looking. Hopefully I'll have more layouts posted next week, when I scan in the results of our 2008 Get Scrapped Getaway.....
I finally got around to scanning in the layouts I have completed over the last couple of months. Well, actually I think I did all of these in March...
firstly, two layouts for my 'The Kearneys' album, starting with probably my favourite layout from the whole post (and it just so happens to be her birthday today):
A layout about the activities from my last post:
Finally got around to creating a layout for this great photo:
some February love-themed ones for my 'Us' album:
some cuties for my 'Animals We Love' album:
Thanks for looking. Hopefully I'll have more layouts posted next week, when I scan in the results of our 2008 Get Scrapped Getaway.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here are another two layouts I have completed. One is for Grandad's National Defence Medal presentation, and the other is when we met Ben's puppy Rogue back in September last year.
It's been a while, but I've finally got back into doing some scrapbooking. I scraplifted the dots idea on the Jessie layout from one I saw in a magazine. Each 'dot' was punched into the foreground cardstock, with the contrasting colour cardstock adhered behind. Needless to say, with all that hole punching, Jason had had quite enough by the end (it's done with hammer and punch). This one is a layout we did at our Get Scrapped Getaway this year, but I finally got around to adhering the photo. I love this range of Basic Grey papers. This layout was also the first time I used stamping with transparencies; a technique I will definitely use in the future.
This one is the layout I provided for Caitie and my first mini-GSG. Again using Basic Grey papers, but one of the new ranges.
Mel came home for a visit last weekend. Because of all the family she had to catch up with, we only got to catch up on the Sunday afternoon, and did so, by visiting the Gordons. Originally Mel was going to bring Sam up to meet everyone, but a last minute brother's engagement party, meant he was unable to come. It was great to catch up with Mel though, and she even bought Emma and I some fudge from Margaret River. Of course, Mel fell in love with little Charlie, and I think it has made her even more clucky.
Went for a site visit today up to Calen, and in particular the Toons Rd Bridge. This bridge is by far the scariest thing I have ever driven over, hence the reason it is being replaced. Half way across (when the timber was creaking), I started thinking that the 'Cars Only' sign didn't apply to the Toyota dual cab ute that I was driving. The surrounding area is quiet, and beautifully green at the moment.
I received the following email from one of my clients today:
Fiona,
Your presentation drawings of Gordon/Carlyle roundabout are first class. Comments are usually only given to the designer when there is a problem rather then giving a compliment on their work. Well done.
Regards Colin
It feels great to get a bit of acknowledgement for the hard work that goes into these projects. Myles was cc'd in on the email, and it was ultimately forwarded on to the Qld Operations Manager, who also congratulated me. Definitely an ego boost.
Fiona,
Your presentation drawings of Gordon/Carlyle roundabout are first class. Comments are usually only given to the designer when there is a problem rather then giving a compliment on their work. Well done.
Regards Colin
It feels great to get a bit of acknowledgement for the hard work that goes into these projects. Myles was cc'd in on the email, and it was ultimately forwarded on to the Qld Operations Manager, who also congratulated me. Definitely an ego boost.
Linda & Imelda asked me to meet them at town to provide a second opinion on the dress Linda has picked out for her wedding in March. I have been sworn to secrecy, regarding its details. Aunty Kaz came too, but spent the majority of the time trying to wake Reed up, without any success.
Afterwards we went to Subway for lunch (Kaz had to leave), and finally Reed woke up. He is in such a happy phase at the moment, so it was easy to catch some really good shots of him. This one was my favourite.
I went to visit the Gordons' today. Little Charlie has been quite grisly during the day, and the photo above is from a rare moment in time where she was sleeping. Her uncle Craig was down for a visit for the weekend too.
