Lookie Here

Thanks Trace for the totally neat wee "Funky Blog.
Now I have to admit I could never figure out how people seem to know that my blog had been updated - almost before I knew??!! I have the subscription doohickey but that has a few hours delay.
Anyhoo I was reading on the SE forum about Bloglines and you could have quite literally seen the lightbulb go on over my head. Now I have loaded all the blogs I read on regular basis onto it and you would think I invented it - man it rocks!! :o)
I can see this being a major time saver. So big thanks to Hannah for her random post that got me there

Here goes...

First things first - we popped all the names in a bowl and Brooke pulled out a piece of paper with the name Vicki on it - so Vicki I owe you!! ;o) but here are some flowers in the meantime, lol. Don't forget to PIF and make someone else's day.Its been an awful week here with a gastro bug laying the 2 males down low. Poor Josef was so upset he couldn't participate in his school sports day. With all the news about the low water levels and the negative effect the dairy farmers are having on our environment we have banned drinking tap water here until we get a filter/purifier installed. Ive been buying water and its not a cheap option but since we have been drinking bottled water both Jess and I have noticed we don't have queasy tummies anymore. Call me paranoid but we are just so sick of being sick! So if anyone else has a filter/purifier I'd love to know what you think of it and the ongoing costs if any.
On the scrapping front - its been pretty quiet - Ive been just to tired to scrap, to many sleepless nights make Julie a grumpy toad. So I was pretty pleased last night to find the energy and inspiration to whip up this layout of a Friday night challenge that was based on Ali Edwards use of patterned papers. Hands up those who like me have a teeny tiny issue with patterns? LOL its fun to be challenged and then really enjoy the process AND overcome that teeny tiny issue and discover patterns aren't so darn scary after all.

Pay it forward.

Now Neen PIFed me this gorgeous notebook - how cool is that. So I will pick a name from my comment box of todays post and PIF someone - gotta love this piffing - lol!!
Neen also had the task of scrapping a layout for me in response to a draw at Jack Me Up in December. I emailed her a photo and she sent this back - it is stunning Neen!! Thank you so much.And to round out this post - I have a sneak peek - I have completed 2 layouts for an ezine and just love them - had to share - lolThank you all for the wonderful comments about my layouts - it is amazing to read them and it gives me those warm fuzzies that so many of you like what I do.

Jack

My take on the Jack being run over at Kiwi Jack Me Up - awesome challenge this. I really love the way this one turned out.
And a few more layouts to share. I have folder after folder of summers at Nokomai so I have trying to scrap at least one layout a week of what we get up to when we are at the crib. Because of the amount of photos I have, I've found Becky Higgins Sketch book a treasure trove of fabulous inspiration.
And these two layouts are the Friday Night Challenge and the Fortnightly Sketch Challenge from over at SE. I'm a mildly addicted challenge junkie don't you think?

A bit of housecleaning

I've had a bit of fun playing with the template - all a learning curve - but fun! My blinkies don't work anymore - but I will find them and reinsert them to their rightful places.

So A Quick Catch Up!!


This is my first layout that will ultimately make up my Book of Me.
I have always wanted to do one.

Layouts to share...

The month of January flew past for us, we had plenty to keep us well and truly busy.
Lots of BBQs, day trips and visiting friends and family and weekends in Nokomai helped make the summer holidays just zoom past.
A day trip to Dunedin to visit the amazing butterfly collection at the museum, and of course The Cadbury Factory. A picnic lunch in the Botanical Gardens - which are truly beautiful!
We took in a Rodeo - which Leo and I just loved but Josef totally surprised us by being upset at the calf roping - he didn't like seeing the calves tossed to the ground. This from a boy who got stroppy in the video store because I wouldn't let him hire a playstation game called "Kill All Humans" Jess enjoyed it for about an hour, and then read her book. Ash took the kids home with her so Leo and I could enjoy the rest of the show in peace.And then January turned into February and my son started Junior High. So far he loves it. He has a fabulous teacher who has had a deaf student before and is pretty clued up in dealing with that, which is a huge load of our minds because High School is a whole different ballgame to Primary.I hope you don't mind the super fast catch up - lol - I have some layouts just itching to be put on paper but I hadn't had a chance to get back to blogger all week.
So till next time...

I'm back

well sort off :o)
I just checked my email to find an email from the lovely techies at Firefox to say my browser should be working as it should be - we think a Vista/Firefox glitch?? Me thinks a major Microsoft conspiracy!!!
Anyway I have busy afternoon ahead so I will pop back later and update the last month - A WHOLE MONTH!!!! Okay you will get highlights - lol, as its been a busy, busy month.

But OMG - I am posting again - yippee...