Breakfast at the 12 Apostles

We headed off nice and early this morning, no time for a Sunday sleep in this morning, to the 12 Apostles down the Great Ocean Road. Each year the Red Cross and Anti-Cancer Council hold a Breakfast down there to raise money for their various charities and it's quite wonderful. All that fresh sea air and being able to tuck into bacon and egg toasted sandwiches and pancakes and strawberries and cream, with lovely hot coffee or tea to wash it down with.

And of course the magnificent vista. (Check the formation at the front, that was the one that fell down).

But must admit, it was not a good day for men with comb-overs or women who'd like to have a decent picture taken!! ha

Took 3 shots and this was the best of the bunch. I wasn't the only one having the problem, but it was funny, looking around at other women getting their pics taken at different intervals. It was like we were all sharing the same common bond! What to do with wayward hair and that wind. Ahhhhh women of the world unite!!!

Four day weekend, yay me!

I have an RDO today and the public holiday on Monday so it's a four day weekend for me. Yay me! So far I have done ironing, cleaned the bathroom, and now contemplating vaccuuming. Huh? What's with that.

Finally I have downloaded the camera with pics of the finished Aliza's quilt. It's not as vibrant in the pics no matter how many and at different angles I took the pic. I looked at the quilt and thought fairy floss and green apples. It was alive. But the pics don't quite portray that. But look at that luxurious minky at the back, I couldn't stop feeling it, I swear I've just about worn it out. That's all I did, backed it with minky and as far as a baby blanket goes that's all the thickness it needed. I just caught the front and bottom with knotted cotton at various intervals where the squares met (pinched the idea out of a sample in a quilting store!!) and I love the effect.

So hopefully 'blankie' will be dragged from pillar to post. I want this to be used and played with and snuggled with and slept with and cried on and laughed on and be a treasured item for dear little Aliza for many many years.

Another gratuitous cat layout!

Well I did my first web challenge. For the unitiated some of the digi sites have challenges and you download a kit or font or embellishment and use it in a layout and post the results. I love looking at these, the fact that people use the same things but all the layouts are totally individual and totally beautiful and always used in different ways.

So I did my first one this week at Designer Digitals. There was a cute cute frame to use and a cream background sheet, which I used as a strip as I've been hankering to use this awesome brown background and was just waiting for the perfect project to use it. But just check out the link and see how brilliant these pages all are.

Now back to Bo, the subject of this layout. She looooooves to snooze. Oh my how she loves it. Too funny because she makes these little snoring chirping sounds when she does sleep. And although she has a lovely little basket and another big pillow inside, she also has some favourite outside spots during the day. Under a certain bush at the side of the house, on hubby's tall padded stool in the shed (that's why she's called his 'apprentice') and ... in the wood basket. Which because it's summer it happens to be empty at the moment, but it usually wouldn't worry her, she'd climb in logs of wood and all.

I have a bit of an obsession at the moment with extracting body parts, it's a bit of a worry!!!

Credits : Web Challenge by Mindy Terasawa at www.designerdigitals.com. Background paper - Fresh & Distressed by Lyndsay Riches. Heading letters - Fresh & Distressed by Lyndsay Riches. Stitching by Katie Pertiet. Font – Rockwell.

Now something I need to ask you

I see by the world map that there's people stopping by here from all over the place. I wish you could scroll over the blips in the atlas and find out the countries because let me tell you geography is NOT my strong point. So unless people are just stumbling by in the quest to find a more entertaining blog during moments of blog surfing - and if you do stop and read - please please please stop for a moment and say hi and tell me where you're from. It would make it so much better for me writing this if I knew other people (apart from Bells, S and Jess and the occasional other commenters) were reading this.

Pretty please with a cherry on top. And on that note I'm off to crawl into my wood basket ... err ... bed! Nighty night all.

What a lazy Sunday!

I have pottered all day today and enjoyed it immensely. Lovely sleep in, hubby left early to go detecting. I've intermittently sewed and scrapped and baked and talked on the phone. Just wonderful! I'm such a homebody.

The cheeky monkeys deserved another page to be scrapped I think and I had been hankering for the perfect papers for this pic. ksharonk was unbelievably generous and sent me this kit after something silly I said on her blog, so I just knew this would be the perfect photo for it. Thank you once again for your generosity.

So I tried something a bit different with this photo. Have no idea whether it really works or not, but I'm somewhat pleased with how it turned out. It looks clever or at least different anyway. As for the subjects, I swear it doesn't matter what is in their presents at Christmas time, as long as that ever-present lollypop is tied to it.

Credits : ksharonk designs Delish Kit, plus the flower is from ksharonk designs Treasured Freebie. Stitching from Katie Pertiet.

Now off to do the last touches on Aliza's quilt ... yes I know, I'm *STILL* doing it! But I swear I'm in the home stretch.

Wow I did it

I searched and searched the net tonight to work out how to put my own title on and with the help of Sweaty Socks (I think that's his name) and his excellent instructions, I did it! Wooo hooo to me.

So this is a simple heading and it fits my mood tonight. I am using the most beautiful paper background by Rhonna Farrer (Vintage Label) the best darn purchase I've made, they are all gorgeous. And the fabulous stitches by Katie Pertiet.

So now after all that hard darn work I think I need to go to bed, but before I go here's another layout with another of the gorgeous Vintage Label papers. See ... told you they were GORGEOUS! This is our cute little house in our little town in the country. :-)

Credits : Background paper by Rhonna Farrer - Vintage Label paper pack. Stitches by Tabby Lewis Wild Stitches. Photo frames by Katie Pertiet Ad Challenge. Staples from Shabby Fall kit by Shabby Princess Kristie. Journal Card from Lauren Bavin Antiquing Pack. Pin and tag from Katie Pertiet Vintage Safety Tags. Font Jefferson and Antique Type. Ink splotch Rhesus font.

Poor hubby

Oh dear he's in the wars this week. He came home from the bush on Saturday (sans gold mind you) and his hand was twice the size it usually is. He didn't even have any knuckles, and it looked so painful. He'd like people to think he went a couple of rounds with some biker dudes, but truth of the matter is that he got bitten on the hand by a March Fly. Because of no open doctors in town we ended up ringing Nurse on Call. What an awesome service. We were most impressed. She got us through the night and by the next morning it had started to recede but he still couldn't make a fist, but gradually over the day it got better. All is well now, but who would have thought a little fly could inflict such a wound.

Then tonight I get home from work and I see a black eye starting to emerge. Again with the biker story!!! Feh, tried that one before. This time it was the cat's fault. Bo had managed to catch herself a bird and hubby got the bird from her and as he put the cat back inside so as to give the bird a chance to escape, the cat sprung loose and the bird flew to a nearby branch. Hubby went chasing the bird (yes, it's starting to sound like a AAMI advert isn't it?) and ran slap bang into a branch. Lucky he didn't take his eye out. He swears there's no damage and it's now half opened but getting nicely dark above the eye. Oh the stories I'm going to be faced with in this little town, ha! I know I'll get the blame here somewhere.

And no way no how was he allowing me to get a camera anywhere near him. Hmmmmph.

Woe is me :-(

I decided that I was going to strip the beds today and wash all the sheets and doona covers. Good plan. Until the washing machine stopped and I went to get them out and found bits of tissue EVERYWHERE! Even though I was at home alone I was about to fume, started ranting and raving, smoke coming out my ears ... until I sheepishly remembered taking a tissue to bed with me the other night because of a sniffly nose. It must have gotten caught up with the sheets or pillow case.

Well, the secret stays with me and the cat right, oh and anyone else who reads this. No one needs to know that I was about to blame everyone except myself. Right? We can share a secret can't we all? Deal?

Speaking about the cat, I know, I have an obsession with my dog and cat so bear with me. Here's a layout I scrapped today. I knew in my head how I wanted it to look, kind of opposites but the same. It didn't quite turn out how my head had it, but I like it just the same. I think it all works. Would welcome opinions, because these layouts are just flipping out of my head and I am not sure of the "rules" of layouts, where pictures are best suited, etc etc.


Credits : Beautiful background papers – from Mono-Pack Essentials by Gina Cabrera of Digital Design Essentials. Spotted paper and notepaper from Bohemian Poetry kit by Tracy Collins, Retrodiva. Doodle (the cream one was recoloured) and stitching from Bluish Dream kit by Lively. Staples form Shabby Fall kit by Shabby Princess Kristie. Font- Antique Type.


Now, back to household chores. I bought a new ironing board cover yesterday and I'm quite excited about it. Which really depressed me. Since when did I turn a corner and get to the point of being excited about an ironing board cover?!? That just sounds so wrong doesn't it. But anyway it's made out of a cross between t-shirt/windcheater material and fits the board beautifully. I've never seen an ironing board cover made out of that kind of material before, hence my excitement!

Sad really, isn't it? Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Cheers.