Apple Shortcake, Prima and Basic Grey

Today we ate apple shortcake in memory of Nana and Grandad. Nana’s apple shortcake was the best … mine isn’t quite as good … but I use her recipe, so it’s as close as I can get. Maybe it’s that I convert ounces to grams … or maybe it’s that I use a mixer instead [...]

Catch up Share

Thanks for all your comments on my Melbourne post … good to know I’m not the only one who appreciates a beautiful city with good shopping!
You know, around May … just last year … I thought a trip to Aussie was only a far off distant dream … that it would never happen. And then [...]

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Where I’ve been and what I’ve seen?
Melbourne … such a beautiful city.

Such amazingly big trees and gorgeous parks right next to huge city buildings. Our hotel apartment was in the city centre but we still walked A LOT … we also mastered the Melbourne trams which saved my protesting legs a bit. Fortunate timing meant [...]

Busy Weekend

I spent most of the weekend teaching people how to make a tag similar to this:

At Wellington Paper Arts … so I spent many hours talking about chipboard covering techniques while longingly looking at all the other lovely shops displaying yummy products that I needed to see closer and touch and maybe take home with [...]

Time Passes By …

… sometimes just waaay too fast.
Do you ever have that problem? I’m thinking particularly the time between 9 and 3 … and then there’s the time somewhere round midnight and 7(ish) am …
Or we could think about those big chunks of time like Christmas is only 13 weeks away (or so I was told) and [...]

Notice anything different …

… about me?

I guess it’s as plain as the nose on my face! lol
In scrappy news … I decided to play along with the SBO GOK fashion inspired competition.  Some fun challenges that will hopefully get me scrapping a bit more.

For this one we had to make our own felt embellishments … there’s that crochet [...]

I’ve been scrapping …

So … if I can crochet a fancy edge on a straight piece of paper … I should be able to crochet round a circle right?

Well … that’s what I thought anyway.

I put this layout together on Friday night at our monthly crop … was a little bit distracted chatting with/helping friends with their projects [...]

Party Photos

This has got to be the easiest party ever … laser strike = no stress = no planning = no mess = easy! (Okay so there was mess … but we left it there and some other nice person came and cleaned it up … not me!)
Generally speaking … I enjoy planning parties, I enjoy [...]

8 years ago

This little guy was born. I’d show you baby photos but don’t have access to them without getting off my seat … yep I’m being lazy.

Happy Birthday Alexander.

When Scrapbooking Met Crochet

It was only a matter of time …

When I first set out to master the art of crochet my motivation was to make my own little crochet flowers for my layouts and cards … with that achieved I had to move on to bigger crochet goals. I wanted a fancy lacy look for this layout, [...]