Quinn

At last, I finally got a layout done! In fact I got 4 done over the weekend, when I was having Internet issues. Only gonna post one now, so I have something for the rest of the week. LOL ;)

The pic is one I took of Quinn a few months back at a home photo shoot.

The background is by me, the decorative font is called Silhouette, the script font is Porcelain. The gorgeous frame brush is from Scrap Artist – Flourish Frames (below) by Michelle Coleman.

~ DECK NEWS ~

Well Quinn has followed one of my Digiscrapping tutorials and now has the bug. These 3 layouts were done using pictures Quinn took herself.
The tutuorial she followed was the koala one, the other two she acheived all on her lonesome! Clever IMHO!

The two sunset ones Quinn did from beginning to end, right down to the quotes she used (which she made up herself LOL).

I am very proud and think she has done a wonderful job.

Bronte has done a few too, but I’ll need to get them off the other computer, they make me so proud, it’s not easy to master photoshop, especially when you are 9 and 7 yo!

~ DAYLESFORD ~

I and 10 other girls are off to Daylesfor this weekend. This is the 3rd year we have done it and it is such a relaxing and fun weekend. There is no pressure to do anything but whatever you want, stay at the house, go for a beauty treatment, sit in a restaurant all day, explore the shops, play cards, scrabble, on the laptop.

Can’t wait, but of course there is always a downside, I miss my family when I am gone, especially Sunday morning when it’s time to come home, I just can’t wait until I get here. Sad, I know!

The girls have Monday off school and I have taken the day off so I will have a day to recover before I go back to work, and then we are thinking of heading off camping for the following weekend, but we’ll see. Have soooo much coming up soon, but I am not the only one, it’s that time of year and Karen and Judy put me to shame! LOL ;)

Anyway, have a great night :)

~Homework~

Last night after school I was laying on my bed with my laptop on my knee talking on the phone to my cousin (who is a sister and best friend, all rolled into one). My kids call her their second auntie, because they think that’s right, since she is the Mum of their second cousins (a strange kind of sense in there). We were just chatting about a million different things and while we were talking Quinn came in and sat next to me on the bed to do her homework.

This morning she came in and asked me to sign it. She had to write a list of set words and then use some in sentences. (The underlined words are the words she had to use in sentences).

Her first sentence was “Our house was filled with happiness on Christmas day.” Nice, right?
This was the second sentence “Right now, at 4.50pm on Wednesday, Mum is on the phone with my second auntie, and from my opinion the situation sounds a bit boring”.
LOL, I didn’t think it was THAT boring, what a classic :)

Upon investigation, I found these other gem sentences, some of which I am not sure I want her teacher seeing!

“I heard Mum do a pop-off” (Not true)
“My Dad’s hopeless at doing hair” (True)
“At Seaspray, sometimes the wind is so strong, it’s blown me away almost” (Glad she clarified that with ‘almost’.
“Everybody should swallow their food” (good advice)
“I think it’s necessary to kiss Mum and Dad goodbye at school” (And hopefully enjoyable too)
“It’s easy to seperate a Bratz dolls body from a Bratz dolls head” (Bit serial killerish)
“I think there is an episode on The Simpson Halloween where Ned Flanders is the daredevil because Homer wanted to eat a donut” (What the? and do you think she means devil?”
“I like to cook marshmellows but I don’t like to eat them, so I give them to my cousin and they’re usually burnt!!!”
“My sister and I argue a lot, sometimes we get soap in our mouths!” (True and True)
“Some people are very thoughtful and write a story 5 pages long while other people take a while to write a story two pages long” (I have no idea what this means?)
“I am going to a sleepover at my cousins tonight and my Mum will tell us to behave” (Always)
“At Seaspray there are rainbows EVEN when it doesn’t rain!!!” (Freaky ;) )
“I don’t like it when people pause movies”
“I think you are the greatest teacher in the whole universe (I’m not just saying this for a sentence, I mean it YOU ARE!!!)” (Bit of a brown nose LOL, but I must agree)
“Years ago the Italians thought the Earth was square” (Should that read ‘flat’? LOL)
“When we go for walks in the mornings I like to hold cotton balls (so I can keep my hands warm)” (I was wondering myself….)
“Bronte Grace is a disgrace. (She wanted me to write it – didn’t you Bronte? Yes (Bronte)” (they don’t always argue…)

Well, I don’t know why, but they tickled my fancy!

Hope this made you smile and also {{{ hugs }}} to Kate, I’m thinking of you.