What Have We Been Doing???

It seems some people out there need to get a life, LOL. I am getting nagged to update my blog cause they are bored. Didn't realise people found my life so interesting ROFL.

Haven't really been doing anything but scrapbooking. Been too cold to go out so I've just been hibernating in my scraproom mostly. So over this bloody winter. Bring back the sunshine!!!!

I completed all my Masters entries and they went off to Sydney ages ago. Just waiting now, hoping to get the call. But apparently they are only shortlisting to the top 50 now instead of top 100 that they used to call. Once that was finished I got stuck into some class samples for some new classes I am running at Artypants. See instore for the timetable. Timetables are available for August through to October.

These are just a few of the embellishments I've been working on for class samples. I've had lots of fun playing with different mediums and techniques. Book into a class and I'll show how to do it too. There are so much more than this that I've been working on.

We are now running a few challenges over at the Artypants forum. This is the layout I created as a sample for the August challenge, which is creating your own background. Pop on over and take a look. There's a prize up for grabs each month.

With all the class samples out of the way, I got stuck into a project Alison from Alison Ellis Designs (AED) asked me to do. It's for the Scotch/3M website. They are now having a craft sections and wanted some step by step projects to display on their website. They were just after something simple and effective that people would want to have a go at and easily be able to do with some simple instructions. This was using mostly AED products.

Back in March we had Mum and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary and Mum was saying that she hadn't seen any of the photos. So I decided to put them together for her in a mini book. They visited on Sunday, so I only had a week to do it in. It was put together pretty quickly so it's not really my best work. I usually like to hand make my embellishments and fill up the pages more with them but didn't have time to do all that. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with it and Mum and Dad loved it, so that's the main thing.

I've had another layout accepted by Scrapbook Creations for publishing. It's one of Bailey waterskiing. It's actually the first layout published with a photo of Bailey on it. It will be out in issue 62 in the gallery for 'four or more' photos.

I've been playing around a little bit with my new camera. I took some action shots of Micayla having a kick of the footy at the local football. She's not a very good kick as you can see by where the ball is but check out how high she kicked her leg.

The kids had Olympic day at Kings Swim Centre last night. Here are some photos of the kids swimming and then at the end when they were being presented with their gold medals, after a lap of honour around the pool. Then a cuddle with Kingsley, the Kings mascot.

Bailey in Level K3

Micayla in Level K8 - a smidgeon away from K9

It looks like Micayla was losing in this photo, but in the end she won this race. I just like the synchronised shot of the backstroke arms. It would've been better if the other swimmer was in the shot more but my main focus was Micayla.

Micayla had "Wicked Day" at school today (15th August). She went as Glinda the Good Witch. I made her hat for her. She was voted best Glinda the Good Witch in the Junior section of the school and had to stand up the front at assembly this afternoon and say a thank you into the microphone. She said she was very nervous. This was her costume.

I was playing with this photo and set it to 'glow'. I think it reflects the photo of Glinda the Good Witch well with the glow in it.

Until next time. Thanks for lasting till the end. I know it's been a long time between posts.