September 2006

Well I have had a busy few days!

I had a work dinner on Wednesday, which was a scream, as always, then since it was at a restaurant next door to the local cinema, I arranged to meet Suzy there, and off we went to see Wah-Wah. It was a great movie, although not many seem to know about t. It was written and directed by an English actor, Richard E Grant and was based on his life, being brought up in the colonies of South Africa. It was a great insight into that time and a great movie to boot. Although very sad at times. I cry in almost every movie I see, but Suzy never does, until this one. It was very touching.

Of course Friday was cards again, as we had been to the movies we thought a good card game was in order!

Friday night we surprised the girls and took them to see Hoodwinked at the cinema. It was a great kids movie and unlike any others. I loved that it showed the story from 4 different perspectives and I was almost embarrassed by Brian, as he roared with laughter at the singing goat. The girls loved it too.

Saturday Bronte had a bike party, Brian took her to that and Quinn and I stayed home. We had a few games of 500 (she is a very very astute player). I then helped her finish the layout she started last weekend. She has done a great job and I will post it when I get it off Brians laptop. She has started another more difficult tutorial, but is doing great at that too.

I also finally got around to framing some of the pics from the photoshoot I did of the girls last month. I have three square recessed frames, all lined up vertically with three of my favourite pics (although it was a tough choice). I will get a pic and post it soon, I am very happy with how it looks and it’s nice to get something up on the walls, it is looking more and more like our home every day.

I had a lovely email yesterday, which I am rapt about. More news on that soon.

We have had a lovely leisurely morning, with kids jumping in bed with us (a little too early). We have been laying here looking through our lovely french doors across the reserve, where there is a large hawks nest in the tree across the park. It won’t be visible much longer as the leaves start to come, but occassionally we see the hawks flying around gracefully through the day. Of course, as is tradition, we had the standard game of eyespy, which is always fun, although it is more of a morning ritual when we are camping. Sometimes I wonder how our campervan doesn’t topple over when we are all in bed at one end in the mornings LOL!

Today we are going to get a few little things done around the house and then this afternoon we are off to a friends house for an early dinner. The friends we are going to, are our camping buddies, so I guess we will settle exactly what we are doing in the school holidays. Next week will be very busy at work, getting organised for my time off, but it will be worth it. I am looking forward to the school holidays and we have lots planned aside from camping.

I am glad I got a streak of layouts done in the last couple of weeks. I don’t see me getting any done over the next couple of weeks!

At the moment Brian and the girls are making crepes with fruit salad for breakfast. There is lots of movement out there, so I’d better go see if I can help.

Have a great day everyone

::: SERENITY NOW:::
Well I know that the Divine Miss Angela, will love the title of this one!

These pics were taken at our favourite holiday spot. The top two are very bad pics, overexposed and blurry, but I just think there is something etheral about them. No effects or filters used on them.

Background by me

Journaling Reads:
Yes, I know, the pictures at the top are overexposed and blurry, but they just speak to me. LOL. Don’t you wonder what they were all looking at? I am not sure they were looking at anything at all. I think they were just enjoying a walk on the beach on a cold and windy day in the late afternoon. These are the special moments we share when we are together, with our camping friends. Sometimes they are shared collectively with the entire group and some moments are shared privately, between just a few of us. But they are all special, no matter who they are shared with. In these special photos are Tina, Jesamine, Quinn, Bronte, Haley, Mallory and Emily. These are the friends we share special moments with.
Once again, you can click on the pics for a better view.

:::FATED FOR LOVE:::

This next one was done for yet another challenge at MAC digi where one of us submits a pic for scrapping and we all do our own version. I love doing this and seeing all the different layouts that we come up with. This is a good friend of Lis’ and her partner. They make a lovely couple.

Credits: BG by me using various brushes, the rose ones escape my memory, sorry, but the texture ones are once again from the divine Denise Docherty.

I am out to dinner tomorrow night for a workmates farewell, so probably won’t get any layouts done I hope that doesn’t interrupt my current streak LOL.

I am loving getting some layouts done, so that I can fill the next “Scott Family Album 2006″ at the end of the year. It wasn’t looking good but now it’s looking a little more ‘filled’.

Also, a few of the girls that were in my digiscrapping class are coming over next week for a bit of a get together. I am so looking forward to that and also on Friday I have a girl from work coming over so I can take some pics of her kids. She loved the ones I did of Quinn and Bronte, so I hope they turn out ok. I am a bit nervous when it matters! LOL.

Also (and this is particularly for you Shez), had a customer come into work today who happens to own the local printers, and Ruth (bless her) asked him if he could print photo’s. So he is ding a test on one of mine and hopefully he will give us a good price. Can’t wait to see it. He also wants to see my bound book as he thinks he may be able to get those done too.

Time for bed, I am so enthralled in my book at the moment, I read it obsessively, last night it was 1.30am before I could myself to turn the light off and go to sleep, I’ll give the details in the next day or two… if I remember…..

EDITED TO ADD
I got a lovely bunch of flowers today from our school. We had our school trivia night on Friday night it was a huge success and we had lots (too much) of fun. We raised in the vicinity of $2600-$2700, but final figures aren’t in yet. Anyway it was just nice that we were acknowledged. And the flowers were beautiful!

sleep well and peacefully

:::LAYOUTS:::

I got two done yesterday and two today! Wonders will never cease!
**You can click on the pics for a larger view**

*TOO COLD*
Back to clean and simple style for this one…..

Journaling Reads:
“I really want to get in, but it’s too cold. Should I just jump right in, or should I go slowly, inch by inch?”

All backgrounds by me. Made the striped one to mirror Quinns bathers…

*EXTREME SPORT*
I love this pic and have been wanting to scrap this for ages. It was taken at Seaspray on one of our many camping trips. This particular day, Bronte’s best friend Bridie came for a visit with her family. There was an impromptu soccer match. I got lots of pics from that day, but this is one of my favourites. Probably the two fittest Mums I know! It was great to see them having so much fun with all the kids frolicking about. Oh I can’t wait for Summer, so we can do it all again!

:::ALL FIXED:::
Some might remember my little problem of a few weeks back. I had wanted to see the person involved but we couldn’t get together. Anyway, we caught up last week and all is fixed now. I was assured it was all a misunderstanding and everything is great again. This person was very upset that I was upset, but it’s all fixed and my life can resume as normal! LOL Thanks again to all those special friends that I received emails and texts from, made me feel better and did help me lots, I am very lucky!

*R*
Oh and to my friend with the problem that requires special treatment, I’m thinking of you

Life is good and have a great night!

:::Wonder ~ Quinn:::
I did this layout today and I am currently working on another, C & S style. Wonders indeed!

I made the BG for this one and also used several brushes, mostly by Denise Docherty and a couple from me.

I love this photo of Quinn, the word whimsical comes to mind when I look at it. *Click on the pic to get a larger view*

Journaling Reads:
I often wonder what our relationship will be like when you are older. We seem to have a few ups and downs, with good patches and bad. At the moment, things are so so good and I like to imagine, that we will have more and more of these times as you get older. At the moment, nothing is too much trouble, you are helpful and happy to be doing things for everyone. Right now you are sitting beside me doing a tutorial that I wrote for the digital scrapbooking course I teach. Two weeks ago you would have been frustrated and angry but you are patiently nutting things out and staying very calm. It’s these moments I realise that you are growing up fast and I wonder less and less about the person you will become, because I can see that this is the person you are becoming now.

This layout is the one referred to in the journaling, this is my version and I will post Quinns as soon as she is finished with it. She is almost done, but it’s bed time. Quinns version is excellent and I am very proud of her. Bronte also started but got a bit sidetracked, she didn’t end up following my tutorial, but she has done a layout too. So I will post that when I get it off the desktop.


:::TRIVIA NIGHT:::

Well we had a great night and I had the headache to prove it on Saturday! Not sure how much money we raised for the school yet, but I am sure it will be at least $2000. I hope everyone had as much fun as our table did!
Because of the Trivia night yesterday was a bit of a write off, but today Denise came down for lunch and we had a quiet leisurley afternoon. You know you’re getting old when it takes two days get over a big night!

Hope you all had a great weekend