Aussie Dare No 29 - Fantasy

I had fun doing this layout. Just give me some cardstock and a pen or two and I'm happy. I loved to read fairy stories when I was little so this photo came to mind straight away for Aussie Dare No 29. It is such a cute picture of my sister and I playing with daisies on the front steps of our little house in England.

The journalling reads:Deborah and I used to pick the daisies that grew freely in the lawn at 4 Box View, Colerne, Wiltshire. I always kept my eyes peeled for a ring of daisies - evidence that those creatures of my imagination existed.

Having a Ball

In the last school holidays our friends held a 'ball'. The girls all dressed up, they danced, they drank cups of tea politely, and gave the mothers a piano recital. We had a lovely time and I came away with one or two photos.

I was fiddling around with my newly acquired camera trying to work out how to get the lighting right and capture the moments. I love this photo of Grace giving a twirl in the 'ballroom'.

We're All Stars

Someone said, " We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle." I say, "We're all stars."

You guessed it - the theme for the Scrapapple Weekend Workout is 'stars'. I made my own twinkle type and now I have to vacuum my scrapbooking room - I'll probably never get rid of all that sparkly stuff. At least it is pretty.

Love This Man

At last I have jacked Jill! It took me ages until I ditched my original photo and subject and changed to this one.

Douglas and I have been wonderfully married for 17 years. We've known each other for 23 years. By God's grace (and sometimes mercy!), we're gonna love each other forever.

I had fun using some of my newly acquired Bella products.

Unmasked

Here are Susannah, Reuben, Caitlin and Malachi with their self-portraits. Not bad seeing as they only had a rather large paintbrush each.

Masked

The other day while we driving home Reuben had an idea - "Let's make Bionicle masks! Do we have any boxes Mum?"

Well it just so happens that I hate to throw away a box. I have rather a large collection of boxes but I was getting really close to putting my tower of pizza boxes (that's what my scrapbooking prizes come in) into the recycling. I'm so glad I didn't because Susannah did a great job of crafting six masks.


She made Reuben's first and made hers last. Reuben was a bit put out that Susannah was doing special cutting effects on her mask - she had all the benefit of her previous mask-making experience.

Is It Tomorrow Today?

No doubt you've heard the saying "Tomorrow never comes". Well at our house tomorrow came!!!

Declan has been asking obsessively for the last three days if he could paint and the answer seemed to always be, "Tomorrow". (Mwah ha ha ha)

Yesterday Declan asked "Is it tomorrow today? and I said "Yes!" How could I resist? The child wanted to be creative.

Declan will never believe that tomorrow never comes.



One of my favourite sayings is "Today is the tomorrow that yesterday you spent money like there was no." Love it! Love the English language - it is SO much fun.

Abundant Life

When I read that Aussie Dare 28 was to scrapbook my spirituality I was excited and overwhelmed at the same time. I like to be able to scrapbook about my faith in God and my life as a Christian but at the same time how on earth could I scrapbook about such a huge topic and do it justice? I can't! So, I have taken one miniscule part of my life - the abundant part - and scrapbooked that.

I love what the team at Who Dares Wins have done for this challenge.

I can't live without...

Well, actually, I am sure that I could live without my mobile phone - I don't want to, but I could.

Other things that I could live without but don't want to, are: progesterone cream; filtered water; my computer; the Internet, and in particular, Google. Not to mention, my dh, family and friends; electricity; water; and a clean loo. Oh, and there is light and colour and music - wouldn't want to live without them.

There's only one thing I don't think I can live without - sleep! I haven't tried it but I have pushed the boundaries a little and it wasn't pleasant.

So anyway. Scrapapple's Weekend Workout this week is to scrap ONE thing that you can't live without. Here's mine.


The background is made up of the most common numbers I use on my mobile (don't try calling them because they are not exactly the same) interspersed with the names of the people I have in my address book.

Inspiration in Wedding Cakes

The other day I was just browsing the local Newsagent when I came across this magazine. I had a quick flick through it and it leapt out at me and grabbed me. I managed to resist for about a week but today I weakened. It has some absolutely amazing cakes in it and I am inspired - not to make cakes. I am inspired by the colours, the shapes, the creativity of the cake 'artists' and I want to translate some of that inspiration to papercraft. Keep a lookout.