Cyber Crop

I've been doing a cyber crop on the Scrapbooking Memories chat forum. It is still running atm, but I don't have time to do anymore now that Adrian is home from Israel. I completed 3 layouts, which I made sure I finished on Friday night, knowing I wouldn't be able to get to them for the rest of the weekend. I went to bed at 2.30am. Here are photos of the layouts I completed. They were done fairly quickly and are quite basic. My favourite one is "Jump when I say Jump".


This is the first challenge. It was a sketch challenge, which means we do the layout according to the sketch that's been drawn up for us.


This was challenge no. 2. It was a product challenge, which means we had to make sure our layout included ric rac, flowers and photo corners.



This was challenge number 3. For this layout we were only allowed to use the colours blue and green, with only a tiny hint of black, white or brown if we wanted but it had to be a girly layout.

Restored Faith in Berwick Mazda

My car wouldn't start today. I thought OMG! Why can't I just enjoy this new car hassle free. Lucky I didn't have to go anywhere. I was just driving the car out of the garage onto the driveway for the new tint to get some sun to help dry up the film. This must look really weird to the neighbours, I got a new car and I drive it out the garage and back in again and don't actually drive anywhere.

I rang the GM at Berwick Mazda to ask for help. It turned out to be a flat battery. On Tuesday night when I picked up the car from having the tint done, Micayla had played with the switches on the interior light and left it on. Berwick Mazda were sending someone out to get me started and then I was to take the car in there to have the battery tested. When the guy got here, he told me he was actually replacing the old battery with a brand new one to save me the hassle of going back in there again, to have the battery tested. How nice of them, they really didn't have to do that. I really appreciate them helping me get started but to actually replace the battery, I was stoked.

Tint - Finally!!!!

3rd time lucky. I have finally got all new tint, all over my car. They even stripped the new tint off that they'd put on the back window and put new tint all around. The tint they were putting on the door windows was a different colour to the back so they changed the lot. To apologise for all the inconvenience they cleaned my car for me inside and out (so glad I didn't do it before I sent it in - I was going to) and they filled it with another tank of fuel. So far I haven't had to fill it with any fuel yet.

This has nothing to do with tinting but.....

I have just finished a layout for the 3rd week of the Beyond the Blue competition. It will be uploaded to their website tomorrow. Woops; just looked at the time (12.08am), well later today, probably somewhere around 10am. My layout is called "My Slice of Heaven". Don't forget to vote for me. Voting will be open over the weekend.

Off to bed now, I think it's late enough.

9 Years Ago Today

On this day, 9 years ago, we were doing this:



But the weather was quite different. Back then it reached 36 degrees. Today we've had rain fairly constantly all day and I've actually been feeling cold.

We can't be together today, on this our 9th Wedding Anniversary, but if you get to read this while you're in Israel, I just want to wish you a happy anniversary and to tell you that I love you. I will celebrate with a glass of wine over dinner with the kids, so know that I am thinking of you. You have a drink in Israel on behalf of us. Love You Darling.

A message from Micayla:

Happy Anniversary
I hope you are having fun in Israel
I Love You Daddy!

A message from Bailey:
Love you Daddy!
Fix my bike!!!

Yvonne and Damien's Wedding 17th March 2007

It was a perfect day for a wedding. The sun was shining, the breeze blowing lightly, the temperature warm enough not to be too cold but cool enough not to melt. The bridesmaids looked beautiful, the groomsmen brushed up nicely, the groom looked handsome, swarve and sophisticated and carrying a cane and the bride could not be outshone, looking stunning and wearing a glowing smile.

Unfortunately Adrian couldn't be at the wedding of his cousin Yvonne, because he had a plane to catch to Israel. He was very disappointed. Yvonne and Damien had asked Adrian if they could use his car as a wedding car and Adrian was looking forward to driving it for them. He rang from the airport while they were having photos taken to offer them his congratulations and to see how it was all going.

Nevertheless, his car was still used as a wedding car, only I drove it. Greg's (Yvonne's brother) car was also used so they had matching red SS's. Greg's SS (the one with the side on view in the twin shot) actually used to belong to Adrian until about 2 weeks ago when he sold it to Greg and bought the VE SSV. I had so much fun driving for them. Thank you to Yvonne and Damien in giving us the honour to be your chauffeur.

I just couldn't resist taking a photo or two of the car with the wedding ribbon attached. And of course with the Bride and Groom and the Bride and Bridesmaids.

While they were having family photos taken outside the church, Kaytie was roaming around everywhere with her walker, but she only wanted to go one way, the way she wasn't meant to go. Look at her, isn't she a picture in her beautiful yellow dress, tights and little white shoes and jacket. What a little cutie.


Starting from the left, this is a picture of Uncle Gerry, Aunty Margaret, Aunty Mary, Uncle Steve and Mum and Dad Klaster taken outside the church.


From there Greg and I took them to the Main Street of Berwick to have some photos taken. Here I met some lovely people from Damien's side that came along to feed everyone nibblies, beer and champagne. They chose some awesome places. The photos are going to look so good. Yvonne and Damien looked so happy and it shows in the photos. Here are some of the photos I snapped away on.

This is how the boys travelled.

They even went into the Berwick Pub and had photos taken in the bar.


These are just a couple of shots of the happy couple, having some fun with the positions they were put in for some of the photo shots.


From there it was back to their place in Beaconsfield to party on. I was told that you could hear when the wedding cars had brought the bridal party back to the house because they could hear the roar of the V8's rumbling through the room downstairs as the cars drove down the driveway. What an awesome sound that would be.

Damien and Yvonne had worked tirelessly leading up to their wedding to have their downstairs area built into a room to use for the party. Adrian had helped with this by pouring their slab. The whole lot came up fantastic. It looked great. Damien really entertained us with a speech that had the whole room in laughter. Damien and Yve, if you're reading this, I have passed on your thanks to Adrian that you gave him in your speech when he called from Israel tonight.

What a great wedding and party. No stuffiness and formalities of a traditional wedding reception. It was a party to be enjoyed and it reflected the personality of the couple. I left around 8.30pm to go to my children, but I know the party was going on to the wee hours of the morning.

Congratulations Yvonne and Damien and thank you for giving us the opportunity to share your special day. I speak on behalf of Adrian as well, even though he couldn't be there. I know he wanted to be.

Another New Car!!!!

Yes that's right. We've done it again. Bought another new car. This time it's for me. We've finally got rid of the station wagon and now I have my new little gem. This fabulous Blue Mazda 3. I just love it and I just want to drive everywhere. I was lucky to be able to pick one up in exactly the colour I wanted. It just needs alloys, but they will come soon.



We are having a bit of trouble getting the window tint that we want though. When I picked it up last Friday, 28th Feb, it was supposed to have the old tint stripped and a new darker one put on. The back window had no tint so this also needed doing. Well I picked it up and it wasn't done. So we kicked up a bit of a fuss, but there was no problem in arranging to take the car back to have it done. I did this yesterday (Wednesday). Left if there all day. They put in a new windscreen and tint on the back window. The sales guy delivered it to my house in the dark last night. When we looked at it in the daylight this morning, we'd discovered all the door windows had not been done. There were still the old chip and scratch marks that were in the old tint. What is worse, they tried to tell us it's been done by sticking a sticker over the window buttons telling us not to wind down the windows for 48 hours. This infuriated us; not only have they not replaced the tint, but they have lied about it. (when I say they I mean the car tinting company the car dealer uses). Now I have to be inconvenienced again - don't know when yet - to take the car back for take 3. NOT HAPPY JAN!!!!