Big day

Today was stepson number one's 21st birthday. Quiet lad that he is he didn't overly want a big celebration so a family BBQ it was. We are one of those extended families that work. I have no qualms of being around Mike's ex-wife and her family, her dad and mum treat me wonderfully, the kids will hug me in front of their mum, which I thought to start with must be hard for her to see, but everyone is okay with our family as it is. It works. So we've spent a very pleasant day at an extended family BBQ.

We gave Wes a beautiful gold St. Christopher medallion on a gold chain, to keep him safe. Mike had also had it blessed by the local priest. Plus I got one of my layouts printed on canvas from Snapfish. Turned out fabulous. All thanks to a friend Doris.

Situation was that this layout was on my computer hard drive that had crashed and I lost it. No way no how could I go through that whole Andy Worhol thing again, but I had previously uploaded the page when I did it to Shutterfly. Doris suggested a way to get the layout back from Shutterfly, albeit at a slightly lesser quality, I nabbed the photo part, rebuilt the page to figure in the wrap around section of the canvas, uploaded to Snapfish, hit order, and it was with me within 5 days. Fabulous service. And it printed on canvas wonderfully.

I did say I was not quite finished with the Christmas pages, I still have more photographs to scrap, and still a few more pages to show.

Niece and nephew here. We had an early Christmas that week before with Mike's father, sister and family and I snuck the two kids outside to get a nice photo. This page will end up in a calendar for Mike's sister at the end of the year. The calendar was such a hit last Christmas that I think it's going to be an annual gift now.

Credits Designer Digitals.


Still have just under 2 weeks holidays from work left. Have I said before I loooooove not going to work.