Hot !

The other night we had the fire going, and now it's turned hot again. I'm sitting here with the fan on, Molly is sprawled out in front of it, so she's feeling it too. We had number one step-son here for dinner and now we're up to choosing a movie to sit down and watch.

I forgot to mention about last Friday night. We went with some friends to a Rock & Roll night. Oh my goodness, what fun! Although I must admit, there was a time I'd bounce back the next day after a rollicking night like that. Not so any more, my knees were shot to pieces!

We danced like there was no tomorrow. There was a rockabilly band and they were terrific. A rock & roll dancing group were in attendance too, all in their big swirly skirts, it was a pleasure to watch. Mike and I did try to copy but ended up with arms twisting wildly and nearly knocking each others heads off as we were trying to twirl. Ahhh, at least we were entertaining.

Here's a recent scrap page I have done, loved the colours of these papers which just lended themselves to B&W photographs. And I'm loving finally being able to scrap a lot of these 2010 photographs that my friend Sam's husband was able to retrieve from my dead hard drive.

My brother and I ... at times when we're together it's like we're kids again, poking each other, teasing each other, silly silly stuff. Usually never a serious photograph, so it's a fluke we got this one, not before a lot of other whacky faces. Oh Lord, the bags under my eyes, you could pack for a holiday in them! ha.

Credits Designer Digitals.


As a final note tonight, my thoughts are with those in Japan at the moment, those with friends and family in Japan, and just the horror that they've experienced. So incredibly tragic.

I'm here!

No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I'm here, I really am. I've had a horrid few weeks at work, really really busy, frantic, panic making weeks. Not fun! Plus I've had a trip to Melbourne during that time for some training, left home at 5.30am and stepped back in the door at 10pm. Darn that there's only 3 trains a day back here. Well there was some shopping done while I had some free time up there so there was a small bonus.

Last weekend I was asked to photograph a wedding. Eeeek. I did everything I could to get out of it, I don't *DO* this. She kept insisting that she only wanted candid shots, nothing posed. Yeah right, famous last words huh? Until the photos come in and you don't see the photos you were really hoping for. It is an older lady in town, she said she's been there done that, and that's why she only just wanted a representation of the day. She showed me some photos from her daughter's wedding from last year and I thought heck, I could do that, they truly were happy snaps.

So with much trepidation I said yes. Mike was already going to be playing pipes at the wedding. It was a really plush but low key affair, does that make sense? She had it at home, and by home I mean the most amazing gardens you've ever seen. A big marquee out the back with chandeliers no less. No dancing, no cake, just a string quartet and a dinner party afterwards. And after flitting around during the event I think she got what she wanted, it was truly divine.

Except it rained, only during the ceremony. But you roll with the punches right? Here's the happy bride and groom, I think the brolly is a great touch. All the guests were standing on the verandah of the homestead. I'm going to call it a homestead because it really was that much more than a house. And yes, this is her backyard.

She really was radiant throughout. Never wiped that smile off :-)

The reception set up in the marquee.

The menu

I was on the verandah of the house here looking over to the marquee, she had these beautiful tea lights all along the verandah in clusters, it looked all so glowy and inviting.

Okay so I will do better with my blogging, I must I must. I'm about to start on a new scrapping project for a friend and she's given permission for me to post pages here, so I'm quite excited to get this project started. More later.