Scrapbooking LO's and life

Who is the slackest blogger in the land.....

2010-10-12T20:43:00.003+11:00

why that would be me for sure....

and guess what, I am not really

here now....lol.

Just dodging doing the dishes,

I have my back turned towards them,

maybe if I stay here long enough

some nice fairy will come

do them for me......

and maybe at the same time

all my dreams and wishes will

come true.

Not going to happen right!

so I had better go do them myself

be good and I will do a proper

post another time.

Tricky Flis.......

2010-08-24T21:00:00.002+10:00

Ah Flis is being a little bit tricky this month.

The photography challenge is a bit different.

It will be one photo only.

You need to show a picture of

your dream birthday cake.

It can be a google pic,

something you have made yourself,

something you wish someone

would make for you,

or maybe something you

had as a kid.

You have until midnight

Tuesday next week to

find the cake of your dreams.

It is that time of the month again!!!!!

2010-08-23T22:04:00.002+10:00

Hehehe...........

bet I had you going with that one.

Ok, really it is that time

of the month though!

CC scrapping time over

@ BONS

It is hard to imagine that

another month has passed

already, just where has

the time gone, it feels

like the year only just started

and we are already passed

the halfway month.

But anyway, come on over

and check us out.

It all starts at 7.30 pm

tomorrow night (Tues 23rd).

7.30 Sees bons colour challenge

7.45 will be the reveal of the

sketch challenge

8.05 Bingo in the chat room,

dont forget to select

your words early

8.15 is time for the Scraplift challenge

(who will be lifted this month?)

8.30 Set the criteria for the DT

challenge (always fun)

and of course there will be

the photography challenge, where

there is a new prompt put up daily.

I have been thinking about the

photography challenge, why not take the

opportunity to experiment with the

settings on your cameras.

Change the white ballance, experiment

with DOF, shutter speed or something

you dont usually use, just play and

see where it leads you, you never know

you might just learn something to

share with the rest of us.

Enough already, I am rambling again.

So come on over to BONS

have a chat and a super week

of challenges and fun.

Check it out, I have scrapped and I am blogging

2010-08-16T16:21:00.003+10:00

Woohoo, I have had these files in drafts

waiting to be posted or hours.

So anyway this is what I have

accomplished this month. Super slack

start to the month. Mojo has

been MIA, happy with what I have done

but not busting my gut doing it.

The cork board is not part of this Lo,

I couldn't crop right in without losing my bird.

This is for the 1,2,3 challenge over here
1. colour - yellow

2. word - sunshine

3 misting, coloured the flowers and

done the flourish.

This one is for KIU

must use kraft and yellow green and black.

August Write Now at Bons

Criteria; minimal pp, I only used white cs

a head shot of yourself, yep that is me

and pick a word and use it to journal about

yourself, my word is SHE

I hand cut some shapes and used glimmermist

to create my background, a bit of

doodling and wah-lah {sp?}, a

few odd embellies and there it is.

Since my printer wont print I have had to

use any photo I can lay my hands on,

this one was taken a few days before Zayne

turned one, it is very tongue in cheek,

I couldn't resist.

This is the sketch challenge over at Bons

Very country feel to it, not intentional

but worked out pretty good anyway.

And this is our very new, very special, very loved

new addition to our growing family.

Bryelle Maree Scobie,

Craig and Teeg's have blessed us with

this gorgeous little girl, she is just the cutest

little thing ever {I might just be a little biased}

but you know what I mean.

So anyway, not much to show for half a month,

but I am quite happy with it all anyway.

Thanks for stopping by.

I am home.....

2010-08-01T21:15:00.001+10:00

I scrapped...

2010-07-21T12:39:00.001+10:00

I have finally got something to show
for the month. I have had a couple
of half done Lo's hanging around
for weeks, just staring at me, daring me
to finish them. Trouble was they
were wrong, couldn't work out why
until a day or two ago.
So yesterday at work I fixed them,
I took to both of them with my scissors
and remounted them and felt
much better about them.
The first one here of Jed was on Kraft,
way too much white space, so I cut it
back and remounted it on the green, added
the touch of red? and there you have it...
done. Cept I would like to add
some journalling, but my printer is
on the fritz, so that will have to wait.

This one of Sophie, was just wrong, wrong
wrong, had no idea why, then it hit me,
too much pink, so I trimmed it down,
stuck it on the white c/s added that little
touch of colour on the side and that was
all it needed.

I {heart} this one.
so simple, so quick but so lovely.
I have used a bit of paper from last
months girl kit at Bons,
just that paper, using the bracket from the
cut off piece at the bottom, a doiley,
some Kaiser rub-ons, bit of string,
a flower and some hat pins.
How bloomin simple hey.
Bet I cant do another just like it.

GONE.......woohoo

{always wanted to add that somewhere}

So now I had better do the challenges for
the July CC. They are pretty damn good
this month too. Cept for the one using red,
but I can do that now, so all is good.
The photo prompt is a bit hard today, something
pink, be it food, flowers circles or what-ever,
I just done know what to do,
and my camera battery is flat, so
better charge that up asap.
Thanks for stopping, if you have stuck with me
til the end of this ramble thanks!!!

July CC.....already

2010-07-18T17:51:00.002+10:00

Tuesday 20th.

The timetable is as follows;

7.30 Start

7.30 Bons Colour Challenge

7.35 Free online class with Nic P

7.45 Sketch Challenge

8.05 Bingo

8.15 Scraplift Challenge

8.30 Challenge the DT

and of course there is the daily

photography challenge.

A new prompt is added everyday,

get out of your comfort zone,

challenge yourself to come up with something

interesting each day.

Where has the past month gone?

I cant believe it is time for the July

CC over at Bons.

Why not come on over and join

in the fun.

If you want to join in, please

go and register before-hand, meet

a very nice bunch of ladies,

chat a little and be inspired.

Not such a good idea after all....

2010-07-17T20:23:00.002+10:00

I was reading on google

last night about using the shadow button,

it was supposed to make the pics more

natural looking. Everything is red,

not so good after all. Looked

lovely on the camera. Not so

good on the puter.

I took out all the colour on this one

just to see if it looked any better.

Not sure I like it in B/W.

This is a self portrait. Using the Nikon,

brilliant shot.

She didn't like the way I put

on her eye shadow, but I think it looks

ok in the pics.

And this crinkly old bat allowed

Tiff to take a pic or two, most have

been deleted, a bit hard to focus on

eyes when you are not sure what you are doing.

I must say I really like this one though.

I have used it for my AV over at

Bons and also on FB.

Before lunch.....

2010-07-14T22:16:00.000+10:00

I decided to take a whole lot of
random shots of my day.
The wind was still blowing and
I didn't think we would be doing
much at all.
I used the vacuum, the washing machine,
chatted on both phones,
made some soup {yum} and
noticed the star cookie cutter sitting
on the bench from the night before.
Of course we had to sample
the soup for lunch, so Mmmmm.

Then Tiff thought it might be
a good idea to draw on the front sliding
window with some texta's.
I found these U-beaut wipe off
texta's at Woolies one day,
so good, keeps her occupied for
ages and she can clean it off with
a swipe of the duster on the end.
Pretty cool to be able to take
a pic of her drawing from inside too,
she was pretty happy that she could write
backwards so neatly,
pity about the spelling though,
but just how do you spell
Cheshire?

so that was our morning,
afternoon follows this post.

After lunch...

2010-07-14T22:06:00.000+10:00

we went for a walk here...

and played with the sand and shells

and did a lot of this.

I am so glad the wind stopped mid-afternoon.
Again we pretty much wasted the day,
but sure had a lot of fun doing it.
Dont you wish you had of been here
to enjoy it with us.

Today....

2010-07-12T22:30:00.000+10:00

we went for a little walk under the trees
in the neighbours yard.
Tiff messed around a lot,
took some photos,
and let me take some of her.

Some of the things we found while
we wandered. I nearly trod on one
of the fungus things before I even noticed it,
then Chris {owner of property}
pointed us in the right direction to
find some more.
Tiff spotted the wallaby hiding
behind some long grass, he let us get
very close before he decided to move,
the protea was up near the mechanic's,
he was doing the rego check on my car,
and the big pot looking thing
is in Chris' driveway,

I really should have been scrapping, but it
was such a beautiful day,
really too nice to stay indoors.
After our walk we came back and
cooked apple pie, Tiff made jam tarts,
and I cooked mince chow mein.
All in all, it was a pretty good day.

6 Sleeps.........

2010-07-11T23:43:00.002+10:00

until PEANUT makes his/her grand debute

So EXCITED

I cant believe that it is 9 months

already, seems like only

a month or two since Craig and Tegan

told us the great news.

I am a wee bit jealous at the moment,

Sheri is already in Tumut,

we managed to find a ride for her

with a friend today, so she

will be johnny on the spot if things

move fast up there.

Tiff and I will be waiting for the phone

to ring with the message to get

in the car and drive, it is going

to be the longest trip I have ever made,

I am sure it is going to feel as if we will

never get there. Craig was yanking my

chain today and saying that he would

let us know in the morning if Peanut

decides to come in the middle of the night.

At least I hope he was only joking.

There is snow predicted for Tues and Wed,

that is a bit of news I was hoping not to hear.

So little Peanut, anytime you are ready,

you know we all cant wait to meet you.

2010-07-04T19:22:00.000+10:00

This is just a practice to see if it works,
I will be back later to add more.

June CC Layouts..

2010-06-29T22:45:00.001+10:00

Yay, I scrapped!!!
And I am happy with all of them.
First is Bons colour challenge -
use black and white, light blue,
green and cream, 2 or more
knots, different spots and this saying -
This story means the world to me.

Flis' sketch challenge.
I was not sure about the background,
but now it is finished I dont mind it
at all, not sure about the stamping
using glimmermist, but everything
else is good.

Skye's scraplift, this month she
chose a Lo of mine to lift.
I didn't know how hard it would
be to copy something of my own.
I love how this has turned out,
the pic does not do it justice.
Love the piccy of Tani too,
she is one gorgeous kid.
{even with the blue lips}

and this is my photo for today,
the prompt was comfort food.
I went to the supermarket on my
way home from work and snapped this,
I was so embarrassed that I nearly
ran out of the shop, and no
I didn't buy anything while I was there.

The optical illusion is doing my head in,
I promise the pic is straight and in proportion.
Thanks for stopping by and
checking out my stuff.

June CC photos...

2010-06-26T18:34:00.000+10:00

A couple of pics from the past few days...
I have only a couple to show you,
not having a great time with the camera
at the moment, I forgot to centre
the focus, and all my pics are crap.
So anyway, this is Tiff eating a
Caramello Koala so that I
could take a photo on Thurs, for the
crop, the prompt was guilty indulgence.

Frid was a quote, something to do with
winter and bare trees, and woolen
jumpers, so I sort of went with bare
trees, and these amazing red flowers
trying to do their best to make the tree
look warm. Lol.

Just a random pic of a dismembered tree
at the bottom of Tilba hill, the council
or someone was trying to do something with
it, other than savage it I am not sure
what it was supposed to achieve.

I was just playing with picasa to see if I could
load these pics, I could not even sign into
blogger yesterday, I will do a proper
post some other time.
Thanks for visiting.
Oh, and I hope it is warmer at your
place than it is here, very very cold today.

Photos.

2010-06-21T12:14:00.002+10:00

WooHoo, I loaded these in super quick time,

then blogger chucked a spaz

and kicked me out....twice.

Anyhow, these are just a couple of

the pics I took on Saturday arv

at Wallaga Lake.

Love the sky and all the different

colours in the hills of the next two.

They were taken about 20 mins apart,

such a difference in colours.

The next two were taken facing the other

way, through the lens it was

hard to tell where the water ended

and the sky began.

They are pretty crooked but I lost

too much of the pic trying to edit them.

I hate double spacing..........

Now what have I been up to lately.

Not an aweful lot I am afraid.

I did go and do a course with Adult Ed

for 3 days last week.

What did I learn, um, that I

already knew what they were teaching me,

that I really would like to have windows 7,

and that I really would love to have

a laptop so I could play with it at work.

Is the course going to magically help

me find a paying job, not likely.

We done Word, Excel and Outlook.

Unless there was an office job somewhere

it is not something that I will be

using often.

Did I already mention that I

HATE double spacing.

So slow......

2010-06-20T21:24:00.003+10:00

I was thinking it was time

I got my act together and loaded

something here....

That was until bigpond decided

I have over used my monthly

quota and put the breaks on.

We have never gone over

the alotted monthly allowance,

so I am not sure what is going on.

I can tell you it is bloody

annoying though.

So I will just have to tell you all

that there is another awesome

CC on over at Bons..

It will be starting on Tues 22nd,

around 7.30 pm

and runs for a full week, so

if you are a slacker like me and cannot

finish a LO in an hour or two

this is the CC for you.

There will be the usual challenges

for you to do, the photography

challenge {I hope},

Bingo and lots and lots

of chatter. If you would like

to join in for a fun week

get on over there and register.

See you there if you decide to join us.

I will make an attempt to load

some photos in the next day or

two, I think I would get

very annoyed if I tried to do it

tonight. So have a wonderful

night, glad you stopped by for

a visit, be good.

Happy 12th Birthday....

2010-05-18T22:11:00.001+10:00

to my darling Tiffany.
It hardly seems like 12 years ago that
I was in hospital holding you in my arms.
I can almost remember it like it was
only yesterday. I had to have a
Caeser cause you were a stubborn little
thing and refused to turn so you
could be born. The Dr said
you were sitting on my right hip
with your legs bent and your feet sitting
on my left hip, you had your head tucked
under my left ribcage, you must
have been comfortable like that
because you hadn't moved from that
position for weeks. He said you must have
wanted to stay there cause there
was no part of you that was in a
position to be born.
Guess what was the best present
you got today. I suppose now you
will nag me until I take you shopping.

Your cake, mmmm. Look at all those candles
nearly enough to light up the room. LOL.

Here is take 2 on the Lo that I

didn't like. I am not so sure

I am happy with it now, but it is better

than the other one.

And a scrappy LO. I used scraps or

older product for most of this.

Quite proud of myself for that.
I have joined bits of paper to make

it stretch and everything.

It is a pic of Tiff clowning for the camera,

she wanted me to call it -

hey Ma......kiss this

Ok that is enough from me.

Thanks for stopping by, and

if you have left love, thank you

much, I really appreciate it.

And if I have been too slack to

leave love on your blog I apologise,

I promise I have been looking,

but too lazy to sign in and leave a

nice word here and there.

A page or two.....

2010-05-15T21:00:00.002+10:00

I am super slack, this is all I have

scrapped for ages.

I think I started this one for something

in last months challenges at Bons.

It was so long ago I cant remember.

I like all the girly colours in this.

It says 'these gorgeous girls

are more than mates'.

This one of Miss Tiff is for the May

sketch challenge at Bons. It is a

really nice sketch, my brain was not

switched on, so I have just pretty much

just copied the sketch. Not sure that I

am liking it, but at least it is done.

And this is the one that didn't make it.

I am not happy with the glimmermist

so I have now dismantled this and started again.

I love wasting Kraft...NOT. It was one of

my last pieces. I have nearly finished remaking this

I will have to post it in a day or two.

Oh, and I am not sure about the title either.

It will be something about my gift to me.

All I wanted for mothers day was a pic

of the girls together, so this was it,

taken the day before but close enough.

Any hints would be good.

Ok, I might load a couple of pics later too,

but then again maybe I wont.

thanks for stopping by.

2010-05-14T22:20:00.002+10:00

HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY

TO THE MOST AMAZING

GRANDSON A NAN COULD

EVER HAVE. HOPE YOU

HAVE HAD THE MOST

AWESOME DAY TODAY,

LOVE YOUR LITTLE BIRTHDAY

CAKE, LOOKS PRETTY GOOD.

LOVE YOU HEAPS JEDDLES.

MWA....HAPPY BIRTHDAY

It's on again......

2010-05-13T10:23:00.002+10:00

Bon's May CC

is starting on Tuesday 18th,

and as usual there will be lots

to do. Scrapping to be done,

bingo to be played,

photos to be taken,

and of course lots of chatting

with the girls.

The timetable is as follows;

Start 7.30

7.30 Bons Colour challenge

7.35 Free online class with Sandie -

{this is looking absolutely delish so far}

7.45 Sketch challenge

8.05 bingo

8.15 Scrap lift challenge

8.30 DT challenge

And of course the photography challenge

that runs daily.

So come on join in and have a ball

with the rest of us.

Mothers day photo shoot...

2010-05-09T19:00:00.002+10:00

All I wanted for Mothers Day was some

nice photos of these two.

Tiff was being a real butt-head

as you can see. She stuffed around

and would not let me take a decent pic.

I dont mind the one top right

but the rest are yuk.

Sheri on the other hand was a good

model, all but one or two photos

were perfect.

I got a couple of shots of them together,

but the light was gone, so the pics look

pretty grainy. I will try for

another one of them later.

To all the Mum's out there, I hope

you had a lovely day and didn't do

anything too strenuous.

Catch you all again later.

2010-05-03T22:09:00.001+10:00

Just a couple of pics of Tiff while I am
playing. She let me take these
before she went to her first high-school
dance. I used the 50mm lens.
Think when I learn to drive it I will
be using it heaps. I like the softness
of the photos.

My baby girl is growning up.

I think I might have to lock her up
and throw away the key, so not ready
for my last baby to be all grown up.

Ok, I have finished playing now.
I am not sure I like loading using picassa,
it is different, that is for sure.
I will leave judgement until another day.
Thanks for stopping by.

Not sure if I should keep this one.

2010-05-03T21:54:00.000+10:00

Sheri's pet spider.....NOT
The girls have to duck under this spider
when they walk home from the bus-stop.
Dont know what it is, other than a 'manging'
(Sheri's word) big one, and it is rather scary.

I told them to knock it down and dont be
whimps, that was before I seen it.
Not sure I would go knocking it down either.
I sure would not like to forget it is there
and end up with it on my face. Ewww.

2010-05-03T21:35:00.000+10:00

Some scrapping.....at last.
So not feeling it at all lately.
Sandies sketch challenge for April at Bons.
Circles, paint {glimmermist}, buttons -
little yellow flowers, and stars - around the 11.

Flis' April Class.
Thanks Flis, took me a while but
I love how this came together in the end.

Sheri Lou on her birthday,
I hardly took any photos at all,
so I had to go with this pensive shot.
I like the background paper, pity
I only got one piece.

One post down, so many more to do, Lol.

Tell me what day it is, I am so lost....

2010-04-26T21:38:00.005+10:00

having a long weekend,

is screwing with my head.

So is this double spacing on blogger.

Anyway, prompt was B/W,

numbers or sequence, I went

with B/W, and being Anzac Day

decided this little eternal light

thing from the epitath (sp?)

would be good.

Todays prompt was way different,

it was surrealism, had an apple,

some bugs and cutlery and some

other bits and bobs.

So I have gone with fruit and something

close to a bug. This is a little shrimp

in my friends fish tank this arvo.

These couple of photos are from

yesterday too, check out the brilliant sky.

Love this one, you can see the moon,

a bit of a rainbow, clouds, rain,

blue sky, seems to have it all.

This one was looking out the other way,

at last after a week of no sunset, I got this.

2010-04-25T10:02:00.003+10:00

Here is an update for Tegan {slave driver}.

Not much to report, been really slack

and not doing much at all.

Weather has been crap for days,

hardly any blue sky at all.

I have been taking photos for

the daily comp, the prompts

really are great this time around.

Fridays prompt was a Black and White

pic with red highlights.

I thought about adding this random

bike that was near the park,

but then spotted this little doll in the

Village Store, so I played with photoshop

and edited like mad. Pretty cool hey.

Yesterdays prompt you could use

wood, striped socks, feet, shoes

or something else?

I went with the wood.

I used this pic that I took early in the day,

Really wish I had of used this one

that I took when I picked Sheri up

from work, heaps better pic.

I have done some scrapping but
didn't have the right photo

to put on it, so just finished printing

one now to take to work

with me. I am not

doing much for Anzac Day, being

Sunday it is my work day :(

I put the orange flower and some

others onto thumb drive to show

the lady at the Motel and she

was so impressed she wants me to

come and {try} take some pics

of the rooms to use in her web thingy

and on brochures advertising

the place. Not sure I am up to

that sort of thing, but I am willing to

give it my best shot, I have seen

what the other fella done, so

the bar is not set to high to start with.

That sounded nasty, just the pics

he took were washed out and didn't

look inviting.

Look at the time, 10.30 already

I better think about getting

ready for work, I have to hang

around and wait until Sheri

gets a call about work at lunch,

I should already be in there.

LOL, means more time to waste for me, Yay.

So have a great day, hope your

weather is good, and I will

catch you later.

No Scrapping.....

2010-04-22T21:25:00.003+10:00

actually I have scrapped, just have not taken a pic.

At least I dont think I have, hmmm

not sure now.

And I have not taken a lot of photos

either, my littlest model is being

very unco-operative, too busy

being hard to get on with to have

a photo taken.

So I will bore you with the photos I

have taken for the photography comp

at Bons. First prompt was bright colours.

Last minute job this one, threw some

icing on arrowroot biccies and

added 100's & 1000's.

Second prompt was a pic of an awesome

sunset, take something from that, the colour,

the sunset itself, a silhouette, or group of people

(they were in the photo).

We are not getting great sunsets at the

moment, so I borrowed a flower

from the motel, Graham gave me permission,

and scooted over to Bruce Steer Pool

to take this pic, pretty rapt with

the way it turned out.

This was my second choice,

feeble looking sunset in the background.

A practice shot with the 50mm lens.

Gotta love the effect. This is a tiny

little weed from out the side, it was about

as big as a little fingernail, but you get

the gist of what the lens can do.

Same lens, and a picture of my

reluctant model. She yawned, sneezed,

shivered, turned away, you name it

anything so I could not take a pic.

This was the best i could come up with.

Thanks for stopping by,

please come back another day,

and see if I have got my lazy self

on her and done another post.

Catch ya on the flip side.

New Camera....Nikon D90

2010-04-16T21:00:00.002+10:00

Ok, in all my excitement the other night

I forgot to actually tell you what I got.

Silly me.

I got a Nikon D90 with 18-105mm lens.

I looked at the twin lens kit, but

decided to get something a little better,

figured if I was spending that sort of money

I should get quality to start with, I am sure

it will save me money in the long run.

Somewhere down the track I will look

at getting a longer zoom but that can wait

for the time being.

So I have charged the battery and

am ready to go, and wouldn't you know

it the girls have both gone awol for

a few nights, who can I practice on now.

I did snap a few flower pics when

I went to feed a friends chooks.

I love this little bee, he looks so busy.

I am no gardener so I will say

this is a red flower,

and this is an orange one, hehehe,

I know I am hopeless.

So today I thought the sun is out,

should be a nice sunset, bah, stupid

clouds rolled in at 5 o'clock, so

I just got a couple of the beach and walkway.

Hope the girls realise I am going to drive

them crazy when they get home tomorrow.

I cant wait to have a real play.

*******

While I am here chewing your ear, how

about popping over to Bons Scraps

on Tuesday April 20th @ 7.30

for this months CyberCrop.

There will be the usual fun and games

and lots of chatter in chatzy.

Come and play Bingo,

have a go at the

Sketch, Colour and Scraplift challenges.

Flis will be running this months

free online class on the night.

Her sneak is looking pretty good too.

So come on, why not join in the fun.

*******

Thanks for stopping by,

be good and I will catch you again

another time (hopefully tomorrow)

with some scrapping (if my mojo shows up)

and photos.

Scary Much.....

2010-04-12T20:46:00.002+10:00

I paid for my new camera this morning.

I think it would have to be one

of the scariest things I have ever done.

Have I done the right thing....

I can tell you I had to take

a very deep breath before I confirmed

my purchase.

But....YIPEE

I am going to own a super duper

fantastic camera, and I am

stoked, cant wait for it to

arrive. It might be here tomorrow

but more likely it will be Wed

Thurs at the latest.

Patience, patience, but yay,

how totally exciting.

Oh dear......

2010-03-29T21:23:00.003+11:00

You are not going to believe what happened this morning.

I was taking pics across the road from the shop

using Tara's camera, came back to the

shop and said to Mark, I really

wish I had of got the camera the other day,

he asked how much etc, and said I could

use some of the money from the sale

of the boat, until I got the money I am

expecting. The bloody sale ended yesterday.

Typical, now I have to wait until they

come on sale again, I told him I wont

get it until I am sure the money is

there, so I was not too dissappointed.

But gee I wish he had of said it

a couple of days ago, I would

have been there in a shot.

Sat and Sun photos....

2010-03-28T21:19:00.003+11:00

Looking for a 'Retro' pic. I remembered my

coat from 1978. The girls reaction

'please tell us you didnt actually go outside

wearing that'. Cheeky brats.

Took a couple of weeks to convince Tiff

to be my model, as you can see she was

far from impressed. Honestly the coat

is not that bad.

So then I took a pic of Sheri wearing her

cool blue 'shades'. Pretty 'retro', I could

imagine someone wearing these in the 60's.

I played with the settings in photoshop to

take away all but the blue colour.

Yesterdays prompt was - feeling the cold!

What makes you feel warm.

My interpretation, my lovely, smelly, comfy

uggies and a good book.

Todays prompt - A rainbow of colour!

Sadly my colour pallette was sadly lacking colour.

It was overcast/smoky all day, I am not sure

the sun even came out. I took this

photo at nearly 7pm while I was waiting for

my order of chips. Even the usual colours

of the setting sun were letting me down.

Tomorrows prompt is - the weather today!

I bet it is blowing and miserable, the wind

is supposed to swing nor-east, so it wont

be good.

Thanks for stopping by, and if you have

left some love, thanks, much appreciated.

No photos today...

2010-03-26T23:08:00.002+11:00

I went shopping instead.

Sheri is turning 15 on Easter Friday

so it was off to the shops today

to try and find a gift for her.

All I got from my shopping trip is:

I dont like the fashions they have for

this winter, I thought leggins went

out years ago.

And those funny knitted tops/dresses

or what ever they are dont have

much going for them.

She thought she would like a book,

huh right, they dont have that

in the Bay anywhere.

So I came home with very little

towards a gift.

While I was there I checked out

the camera's at Harvey Norman.....

Man I am so spewing that the

Taxation Dept has decided

they dont owe me anything.

The Nikon D90 is on special

for $1770, with a cashback voucher

for $200. You dont know how hard

it was to walk out of that shop

without one of those little babies

tucked securely under my arm.

All the way home I tried to come up

with some way to raise that sort of

money, but I cant see it happening

by the end of the weekend.

I will try to take a pic tomorrow,

I promise. I conned Tiff into

posing in my 'retro' coat

for a pic, but sadly the light

was all wrong and none of the

photoes worked. Not sure I can get

her to put it on again.

Thanks for stopping by,

thanks even more if you have left some love.

2010-03-25T21:34:00.002+11:00

Day 2 of the March CC

Think fallen leaves???

I took a couple of pics today, Tiff

picked this one.

This one is sort of like autumn colours,

but just a bit blah.

I like this one, but too much like

yesterdays prompt.

Just took this one cause I liked it.

This is the other one I was going to use.

I like the curly leaves.

Just a quick post today, I worked

so not much to chat about.

So thank you for visiting,

catch you again, maybe tomorrow,

maybe not.

Todays pics and some old fav's

2010-03-24T21:21:00.003+11:00

I absolutely love this photo. I took it just

after 8 this morning. Just before I

pulled up to take this pic the sun was

behind the cloud and everything

was a bit orange, by the time I took this

the sun had risen more, I love the

softness of this pic.

So I waited until this arvo, and wandered

over to the neighbours place.

This is the pic I have submitted,

dont know what it is but it is

pretty cool.

I cruised back into my pics to look at

other orange pics from the past year,

we used this one as the cover of our

Tide Guides this year. I was in the right

place at the right time, it was like something

out of the movies with special effects,

everything was orange/red, even the

people walking around.

This one was a random naked tree next to

Wallaga Lake, love the twistie looking branches.

This is my most fav of all, this was a fungus

growing in a tree stump on the side of the road,

it was massive and looked just like a big mouth.

The colours are exactly the same as the real

thing too, I was pretty impressed that I even

seen this.

It has taken me forever to load these tonight,

me and the puter were not getting on real well.

So I think that is enough rubbish from me,

I will try to load tomorrows pic tomorrow

night, I am not sure what the prompt is,

but I will endeavour to do something good.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gee I am slack.....

2010-03-24T12:09:00.003+11:00

so long between posts! no excuse other

than being too lazy to do it.

You know it is so long since I uploaded a

Lo that I sort of cant remember which

ones I have done, and really cant be

bothered going back to have a look.

This is the Lo I have done for March

'Write now' over at Bons

Basically you had to ask a Q;

and then answer it somewhere on the page.

This one is a just because one.

I played with this pic of Tiff in photoshop,

so that I could use it for the sketch challenge,

it didnt work on that so I put this together instead.

She was such a little cutie at that age.
The photo of the Lo is not the best, the colour

have not come up very well.

*************

There is another photo challenge happening

during the CC this month, todays prompt

is 'Orange', I am really going to have

to get my thinking cap on for this one.

It is sort of to do with Autumn, but

being on the coast means that

we dont really get all the falling leaves

and wonderful colours like we used to

when I lived inland.

I have all day to think about it, so I

am sure something will jump out

at me sometime during the day.

**************

Now I am on here seems I have found plenty

to prattle on about, so I will step away

from the keypad and go hang the washing.

You all enjoy your day now,

and I will catch you another time.

Thanks for stopping by.

2010-03-19T18:09:00.002+11:00

It's CC time at Bon's.

The fun is on again,

Tuesday - March 23rd.

...

8:45- Sketch Challenge

9:05- bingo

9:15- Scrap Lift challenge

9:30- DT Challenge

...

3 hours earlier for Perth

1 hour earlier for QLD

30 mins earlier for SA

...

Come on, give it a go.

You will have fun, promise.

Fireworks...

2010-03-14T20:24:00.004+11:00

Sheri helped me to do a collage.

These are some of the fireworks from

last night. Sheri missed out on seeing them

live, she was working (again).

It was an absolutely brilliant night for them,

it was so still, and reasonably warm still.

Ok, that is it from me for now,

I probably have lots more to add, but

I cant seem to think of anything right now.

Thanks for stopping by, and if you have

left a little love, I really appreciate it.

Catch you again next time, be good.

All the fun of the fair....

2010-03-14T19:49:00.002+11:00

at night.

This is the shock wave, Tiff and her friend

Sarah were on this when I was taking the photo.

It stops with the chair things straight up in

the air, I could hear the man saying you are now

suspended 64 feet above the ground, upside down,

OK, time to let my girls off already, it was

scaring me and I was on the ground.

I could hear one female voice saying

make it stop now, I have had enough.

This one is the chair o plane

with the shockwave behind it, Tiff

and Sarah were the only two on it,

so the lady let it go for ages. Tiff said

they were starting to feel dizzy

cause they were on there so long.

Nobody was on this, but it looked pretty good

at night.

And what would a fair be without the clowns.

I think they might have been the cheapest thing there.

Mark decided he would like a dagwood dog for lunch,

so I fought my way through the crowds and

put my order in for 3, 2 for Mark 1 for me,

that will be $15, I can tell you I nearly fell over.

I could have got a pack of dogs and made my own

for a lot less than that.

I got a couple of pieces of ric-rac from one stall

and that was the extent of my spending at

the fair. All the kids that came into the shop

said they were not going on anything,

it was all too expensive. $6 for the chair-o-plane,

$8 for the shockwave, you would think

they could work it out for themselves,

by charging prices like that they are doing

themselves out of money. The kids said

if they have to choose which ride to go

on cause they only have enough for one,

then they wont go on any, if they could go on

both for the same money they would,

and probably come back later for another go.

Sculptures on the edge...

2010-03-14T19:07:00.004+11:00

Just a few pics of the Sculptures on the edge.

They have been set up on the headland for the

past week. They were all done by local people.

This one was made by my neighbour. The girls

walked past this every arvo and wondered

what is was for.

Love this pendulum thingy. The flowers

on it are amazing, they are like little

crystals or something.

Sheri thinks these next two look like something

her teacher would do.

Mambo man? anyones guess.

There were three of these men. I think they

would have been my favourite of the lot.

The detail in them was really good.

Ah, an update at last.

Not so much of anything, but still ok.

Later I will add the fireworks and the

shockwave that Tiff went on.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO THEO

2010-02-17T20:36:00.002+11:00

for the loan of his awesome camera!

I truly appreciate the opportunity to

use and explore the Nikon D90.

I must say I am totally in love with it.

I took so many photos and found

that the majority of them were

brilliant. I played with the different

settings and got a feel for the camera.

I found it extremely easy to use,

and discovered a few things (via google)

that I would not have known otherwise.

I am looking forward to having some

photos printed so that I can see

what print quality is like, unfortunately

I will have to wait until I leave town the get

them printed, they are way too expensive to get

them done here in town.

So again, a huge thank you to Theo,

I really appreciate your generosity.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Comparisons....

2010-02-15T21:42:00.004+11:00

I took these photos yesterday, between

showers....not sure of the settings on

them, cause I was just testing the zoom,

the focus and the flash.

I have tried to keep the photos similar.

The Nikon seems to take darker

photos, I will have to check the exposure

settings, if I can find them. Lol.

Pretty hard without a manual to check.

Thank heavens for google.

1. Nikon P nuetral, using flash

and natural light from the window.

Canon same settings as above.

2. Nikon P mono with flash and

natural light.

Canon same settings as above.

Pinched Tegans idea of getting rain

on the flowers, only cause they were close to

the house in case it started raining again,

which it did.

3. Nikon P mono. No flash, zoomed in

on flower and manual focus.

Canon
settings as above.

4. Nikon

Canon

5. Nikon P standard,

zoomed no flash.

Canon settings as above.

Even though the photos are pretty

much the same size file etc. when

adding the border they are different.

When using LV on the canon the auto

focus does not work. The nikon does.

When using the manual focus

the Nikon on smooth and easy to use,

the canon was jerky and harder to work out.

I wonder if I remembered to take the

Polarizing lens off the nikon????

not sure.

I think I had better take a note book

with me the next time I am playing

and take notes of settings etc.

Just need for the rain to stop.

So much rain....

2010-02-15T20:24:00.002+11:00

and nowhere left for it to go.

This lovely fountain is coming from our dodgey

downpipe, it rusted through ages ago and

nobody here can be bothered to fix it. Lol.

I parked my car half out of the shed last night

thinking that I would not have to swim

this morning to take the girls to school.

What a laugh that was, the water was

was forming a pool around the car,

and part way up the yard.

This is the little river that was running down the

side of the house. It is getting a bit mushy

trying to drive out of the yard now.

These next 3 pics are of the golf course.

Totally covered in water as far as you can see.

By this arvo the water was across the

road, too deep to drive through, so I had to

detour.

I got a call from the girls school in Narooma

this morning, the school was flooded and

they were sending kids home. My

girls opted to go to a friends place until

I could get there, so they needed my permission.

The school is on the side of a hill and it

is hard to imagine the amount of water

that must have been around for them

to send the kids home.

The girls said it was not in the classrooms,

but was past their ankles (over Tiff's brand

new shoes) on all the paths and was gushing

down the steps etc, so that they

couldn't move between classrooms.

It is still raining now, so don't know

what will happen tomorrow.

School photo day so hope the school

is open. We will have to find out

before 8, as the bus leaves then.

That is it for now, I will be back

in a while with some comparison shot

from the 2 cameras. I have only taken a couple.

2010-02-13T10:06:00.002+11:00

FEBRUARY CC at BONS

Bon is having another cybercrop,

starting Tues night 16th Feb.

Why not pop on over and see

what is going on.

It is not hard (I promise).

The timetable is

8:45- Sketch Challenge

9:05- bingo

9:30- Scrap Lift challenge

If you like photography there

is a daily photo challenge,

so many wonderful photos

to be seen.

Looking forward to seeing some new faces.

Fabric mini album,

2010-02-12T20:08:00.005+11:00

I will load the pics of my fabric mini album here

because I dont have Photobucket to load

them to the gallery at Bons.

I had a great time doing all the challenges

over the past 2 weeks, I had no hope

of doing the lot but I did get a few of them

completed.

I used heaps of old products while doing all the challenges,

maybe I will need to do some shopping now. Lol.

I threw this Lo together before I headed off to

do the grocery shopping yesterday, not

sure I am happy with it, but not too bad I spose.

and this one I started at a bit after 10 last night,

was so much like a ready steady scrap, so much

pressure to get it done, but I am glad I did,

I love it.

Criterias were, busy background paper,

3 photos, 3 word title, something

handmade and transparency, oh and part

of another challenge was to use yellow ribbon

or fabric on a lo. I also used a paper doiley

and some versa ink to make a mask,

absolutely love the way it turned out.

Ok, that will do me for now, thanks

for visiting, call again soon, Lol.

2010-02-10T21:03:00.002+11:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM

Been trying to ring my mum

to wish her a very happy birthday,

seems she is eating out,

Super Chef Craig is cooking

for her. Very spoilt I think.

So Ma if Teegs has the puter on and

you can see this, Happy Birthday,

And I will try to ring you later.

Hope you have had a good one.

2010-02-10T00:08:00.002+11:00

Hi Bloggers, just a quick update before I head

off to bed. Here are the photos I have

used for the photo challenge over at

Bons

Tiff creating on Sat arvo,

something she loves to do on a regular

basis, I am forever picking up

bits of paper with bits of art on them.

Sunday, my usual stop off at the bakery

produced this pic, makes me hungry

just looking at it.

Monday, I look at the clock a gazillion

times everyday, so I took a heap of pics and

put them together to make this. Pity

the clock is never actually on the right time.

Todays pic, I wanted to take a pic of my

scrapping mess when I am in the shop,

but someone forgot to put the

memory card in the camera,

so I took this photo while I was trying

to sneak up on the blue wrens that

were everywhere, they are too quick

for me.

And finally the two Lo's I done

on Sunday while I was at work.

The first one is a scrap lift from

Boss lady Bons Lo.

It was gorgeous and easy to lift from.

Not at all sure I like this, but it is done,

so I should be happy with it.

and this one is the Feb sketch challenge

set by Skye, a lovely sketch and

I love this LO, my dodgey pic

doesn't do the Lo justice, I love it.

Nearly forgot, I am working on a mini

album for the challenge too, I have

almost finished it, and am quite pleased

with it, have not done one of them for ages.

Will hopefully get a pic or two of it tomorrow.

I had better get off to bed now, past midnight

again, now wonder I dont want to get up

in the morning.

Thanks for coming over for a visit,

much appreciated.

Catch you again sometime.

Be good.

2010-02-06T22:13:00.007+11:00

Some of the things I

{heart} today....

1. Of course I

{heart} my girls,

Sheri and Tiff mean the world to me.

and of course I love Tara, Craig and Mark (Scobie)

as well, pity I cant find a pic to add here.

2. Today I {heart} seeing this, we had so much

rain yesterday that Cuttagee lake opened.

It has been closed for about 2 1/2 years.

It is totally awesome to see the water

flowing under the bridge.

instead of looking like this, I took this

only a week or two ago. It looks great but there is

not water.

And here is the water heading out to sea.

This is the road that the girls travel

everyday to get to school.

It is the Wallaga Lake Rd, they had

to close the road this morning while they

opened the entrance.

3. I {heart} painting masking tape to use on

a Lo, something I have only just discovered.

Thanks Tara for pointing me in the

right direction with this. Love it.

4. {heart} the cards I have done for the

card challenge, something I dont usually do.

Took ages to complete them but I am

glad that I did.

5. I {heart} all the fun and games we

are playing during
game-on-2
at Bons. The DT's are doing

a brilliant job of keeping us all in

suspense with some of the challenges

and I am sure there is no way I

am ever going to get even

a part of them done, but it sure has

been fun trying.
Thanks team for all your hard work.

I have now edited this twice, to include a

photo and to get rid of the double

lot of double spacing.

Thanks for putting up with my

rambling.

2010-02-05T22:50:00.002+11:00

Today's photo for Bons.

My handbag swinging off the back

of the nearest chair.

And of course my sunnies,

never go outside without them.

We have finally got some rain.

Yeah right, it was a torential downpour.

Cuttagee lake was closed to the ocean yesterday

with no water within cooee of the bridge,

this is it today. Not only water near the

bridge but it is now running out to sea.

The girls and I were standing under the bridge

taking photos a week ago.

And my feeble attempt at scrapping.

Not the best photos of the LO's,

I had to wait until dark to take them

so the colours are not showing up very

well.

This one is Skyes blue challenge,

had to be at least 80% blue,

use hand stitching and a male

relative, but not a son.

So I finally scrapped a photo of my dad.

And the paper of the month, with a twist.

Use Kraft paper, and use any of the following;

Yellow, Red, Masking using paint or spray,

buttons handsewn on, and polka dots.

I still have Theo's camera, and love the way

the photos work. Even taking photos of photos

and they look good. Think I had better

give it back soon though.

Best get back to scrapping or something,

should try and finish off these cards tonight.

Thanks for stopping by.

2010-02-02T20:38:00.002+11:00

Well, we are still doing the photography

challenge over at bons

These are my entries for

Sunday, feeling thankful that we

live here in Bermagui and I can take

a photo like this everyday.

Monday.

Stalked the garbage truck, I tried to get

the garbage falling out of the bin, but

discovered you cant actually see that.

Today,

I worked and nearly forgot about a pic.

So today I took a photo of the vegies cooking

on the stove. Not my best effort that is for sure.

I have only managed to finish two of the

challenges, I seem to have no trouble

getting out papers and making a mess

but when it comes to putting a page together

I am really struggling.

This one of Sheri is Sandies Jan class,

one of her favourite movies lately is

the one called 'ps, I love you' so

I thought I would go with that for the title.

This one of Tiff is for the Write Now challenge.

It was definitely a challenge, I hate

putting my thoughts on paper, what I want to

write and what goes on the page is never the same.

I am trying to make an effort to do some more

scrapping but I am not getting very far.

I think maybe it might be time to go

shopping and find some inspiration.

So without further ado, I will say

thanks for stopping by and leaving me

some love. Catch you all again soon.

2010-02-02T08:29:00.002+11:00

4 days into the new school year

and I have already lost my cool.

Tiff now has to go on the bus to Narooma

with Sheri, it leaves at a specific

time in the morning, it hasn't happened yet

but I know we are going to miss

it on more than one occasion.

Tiff will need to learn that when

I say it is time to leave she needs to be

ready, not grabbing things as we are

heading out the door. This morning

it was shoes and socks.

The socks getting dropped on the step on

the way, meaning I had to turn

around to come back and find them.

I lost my cool big time and yelled

at her and then refused a goodbye

kiss cause I was so mad with her.

We mad it to the bus with seconds to spare.

Now I have vented I can get on with my day.

Thanks for listening.

Photo Challenge and Portrait shots...

2010-01-30T22:52:00.004+11:00

Guess what????

I won the photo challenge in Jan's CC over at

Bons

how awesome is that, I won by just one

point over Tara. Well done Tara.

So now in the Game on 2 comp

I am entering the photography challenge

again, not so easy this time,

we have to do everyday moments.

So anyway here is what I have done so-far.

Day one 28.1.10

Tiff playing the Wii after school.

thought about using this one,

setting sun over the harbour.

Or this one, taken whilst talking cameras

with Sheri's boss, down by the wharf.

Day 2, 29.1.10

Again with Tiff, hand-feeding the sheep.

These things love her so much they

actually climb the fence for a cuddle.

Tempted to use this one instead,

taken just after watering the vegies.

Day 3, 30.1.10

A birds eye view of my washing.

Didn't think anyone would want to see

what was hanging up.

Could have used any of the following ones.

These are just a few of my favourites from

the 179 photos I took today, they were mostly

of Tiff, she is my best model, hates having her

photo taken but will still smile for me everytime.

I love the Black and White portraits.

Just love this one of Tiff, probably the worst

looking one, but it is just real ( iykwim).

I could rave on all day about these wonderful

photos of my beautiful daughters but I think

you sort of get the point, I am biased,

I think they are the best looking kids around.

Thanks for popping in for a visit.

Seeya soon.

2010-01-30T14:34:00.001+11:00

I am off to play with the camera.

Hopefully when I return I will have some

nice portrait shots to show you.

I am still waiting for the canon

to play with, but I should get it soon.

Have a nice day.

See you soon.

2010-01-29T08:16:00.003+11:00

My baby girl started Year 7 yesterday.

She is growing way too fast.

I am sure it was only yesterday she

started in Kindy.

I hope she handles the transition well,

having to get on the bus 45 mins

earlier might be the biggest

challenge for a while. It

takes a bit to get her moving sometimes.

Random photos using the Nikon 90D.

Fishermans wharf

The great aussie lifeguards

Not to be messed with.

spiny critter

The blue pool taken for the comp

over at Bon's.

Another comp photo,

something fashionable.

Sheri's pic of Tiff clowning around

on the bridge struts.

Sheri. I am still trying to work

out how to take a decent portrait

shot with this camera.

Love this. Gulls coming in to land.

or taking off trying to catch a chip.

The most awesome sunset ever.

Blowing bubbles by the sea.

And my very yummy Pav.

Very australian with green and yellow

as the theme. Pity it was the day

before Australia Day.

Ok, enough from me. I am supposed to

be at work already.

Hopefully today I will get the Canon

to have a play with.

I am getting excited, I think I have

Mark resigned to the fact that I

am getting a camera, he

has stopped trying to talk me out of it.

Ok, catch you later.

Be good, and thanks for stopping by.

Game on 2, Over at Bons......

2010-01-27T22:49:00.002+11:00

It took me a week but I finally finished

two of the Lo's for the CC over at Bons.

The first one is actually Sandies class

which was held in conjunction with the CC.

Very well set out instructions , easy to

follow and pleasing result. Now it

might have been a bit better if I could

actually follow instructions. I only

changed it a little bit, so it is nearly the same.

This one is for the Sketch challenge, there were

a few basic's to follow but again, I cant follow

instructions to the letter.

We were supposed to stamp circles or

something using 3 different paints, and

lids off jars or something, I throw junk

like that so had nothing to work with,

so I ran paint covered marbles over the

CS instead, and then hand drew the flowers/fireworks

or what-ever they are instead.
And I cant stick letters on straight at all.

Hate it when I notice things like that when it

is too late to change them.

There is going to be another week of fun over at

Bon's

it is called

GAME ON 2.

So far the clues and hints are

sounding rather scary, but

it is supposed to be a challenge, right?

So come on over, and join in the fun.

It all starts tomorrow,

THURSDAY 28th, JANUARY.

See you there.

Tara, Tani's hair is just adorable.

Cute as a button, and makes her look

so different.

Photo challenge

2010-01-21T22:07:00.003+11:00

over at Bons.

Yesterdays pic was summer shoes.

Since I usually live in my thongs

I thought I had better make my pic about them.

They are dirty and smell something attrocious.

I did think about using this photo but changed

my mind at the last minute.

Todays prompt was something YELLOW.

Sheri and I went to the Bay to do some

school shopping (total waste of time, they

must not wear normal school uniforms there).

Sheri thought it would be a good idea to

see the carnival she went to the other night,

and look at all that yellow.

I used this photo below,

thought about using either one of these ones,

which Sheri thought were heaps better,

but it is done now.

This is the marina we passed on the way.

Lots and lots of yachts here.

And just look at this,

Farmville at our place, first it was chooks,

now we have these bloomin things,

they have been hand reared so expect all

sorts of lovin....not gonna get it from me.

So not a farm girl and never will be.

Mark says the ewe's are preggers,

so I guess there will be a photo op

there in a while (that is if they dont stink

or start making noise, they will get the

boot if that happens).

I still have the Nikon Camera, I spose

I should think about giving it back soon.

So in LOVE with it though, it is gonna

be hard to give it up.
That is enough from me, I really should

be scrapping. Oh yeah Tara I checked

out the scrapping place in the Bay,

she has not got anything new in there, so

I didn't spend any money there.

2010-01-20T16:25:00.002+11:00

I am thinking a quick trip to the beach is in order,

I NEED to take a photo, lol.

The challenge over at Bons Scraps

calls for a pic with summer shoes,

there should be at least one set on the

beach somewhere.

I am sure I will have something

to show you later.

2010-01-19T00:12:00.001+11:00

Snitched this of Tara's blog,

at this time of night I cant think

straight to save myself.

(thanks Tara)

Starting on this tuesday night (19th)

is the January CC at
BONS SCRAPS
there will be lots going on,
and lots of fun to have,
so go on over and check it out :D
hope to see you there!!

I think I am in love.....

2010-01-18T23:12:00.004+11:00

with this camera...

I have been having fun playing with

the settings, and seeing what it does.

I took these two of Sheridan using

something called Neutral +1,

supposed to make her skin creamy

and soft looking. A bit pixely maybe?

Then I played with the settings for these.

First I think Standard setting.

Next the Landscape setting.

Then this one using the Vivid +3 setting.

Again playing with the different settings.

Standard.

Vivid. What a difference.

I love the colours and

composition in this one.

Sunset using the Vivid +3 setting, awesome.

I took some using the standard setting

and they look pretty ordinary.

I will have a lend of the Canon tomorrow,

I am looking forward to seeing the difference.

Pssst, I think I have nearly got Mark used

to the idea that I might just get a new camera.

Don't say it too loud, he might just hear, and

veto the idea.

Check you later peoples.

Thanks for stopping by.

2010-01-18T12:18:00.002+11:00

I am back from returning the Nikon to

it's rightful owner, and guess what

I have it for another couple of days.

So I will still get to have a play.

I checked a few things on google

about colour etc. and played

with the settings and have got

a couple of beach shots in between the

crap weather. I have shown Theo

some of the settings I have changed

and he didn't know you could do

that, so he is learning things

along with me.

I will load some pics tonight, after I

have a had a bit more playtime. Lol.

2010-01-17T23:07:00.002+11:00

Grrr.....

What happens when you get a

U-beaut camera to play with?

It bloody rains all day,

and you have customers that

want to talk so that you

dont get out of the shop til

after six.

Then when you think you might

get a decent night-time pic

and you drive all the way to

town, it starts raining again.

I tell you it had better be

a better day tomorrow.

Grrrr.

We need the rain desperately but

couldn't it of held off until tomorrow arv.

Today, I played with the camera a little...

2010-01-16T23:23:00.003+11:00

Today I had a bit of a play with Tara's

camera. I spotted one lonely little

dragonfly outside, I used the macro setting

and got up close and personal with

him. Pretty pleased with the result.

This one is way over exposed but I like the

way he is sitting on the stem.

The fence-line leading to our little

patch of heaven.

One sad and sorry excuse for a dandelion.

Looks pretty good though.

The shrub out near the gate, no

idea what it is, but the flowers are

cute, they are about as big as

a thumbnail. I love

this pic, it has a Japanese feel to it.

We had some strange little finches come

to visit today, by the time I grabbed

the camera fleabag (the cat) had scared

them away, I sat patiently and

waited for them to come back only

to have the stupid cat scare them again.

This fella was not so easily scared,

he seemed to be daring me to take

his pic. He was almost posing for me.

I took most of the pics today while the storm was

building all around me. I was doing just

fine until it started spitting rain and

I had to come inside. Wish I

could have played some more.

Tomorrow I am going to get a different

camera to play with, a Nikon D90.

Maybe even a Canon 450D.

I was talking camera's with a friend and

he is going to lend me his one to play

with for the day, so that I might have

a better idea of what to buy when I

get a few dollars together.

By using both cameras I will have a

better comparison. Hope the weather

tomorrow is as good as they are predicting

otherwise it might be a waste of time.

We went for a drive to Cuttagee

after Sheri finished work today, people have

been telling us all week that it is empty,

we didn't believe them until today.

This was Cuttagee in April, not a lot

of water but it still looked ok.

This was Cuttagee today, the puddles no

longer meet. It is supposed to be ocean

fed, but the water has not passed

under the bridge for a year or two.

Things are looking pretty bleak.

So that is me for another day,

be good. Hopefully I will

have a photo or two to show.

I am kinda excited, getting to

play with the real camera's.

What a treat. Hope I don't

stuff up. Lol.

A Brand New Year...

2010-01-13T22:30:00.005+11:00

A selection of photos taken

this year.

The fireworks over Bermi....

didn't look like this! LOL.

They were pretty dismal this year,

if it wasn't for the tourists bringing

their own we would not have had any.

I have photoshopped this one, a selection

of single bursts dragged onto the one picture,

makes it look more interesting.

The new Co-op building (eyesore) at night.

This is where Sheri is working now,

on the lower deck on the right hand side.

I sat the camera on a rock to take this photo

of the bridge, I like how it turned out.

A blue ass Dragonfly, how awesome is this..

someone spotted a few of them out near

the water heater, they were so tiny it was

hard to get a pic of them. Tara has some real

nice ones, heaps better than mine.

And a few of the kidlets, love this little profile.

Whickers out of the bonbon. How funny

is this boy. He sure had fun twitching them.

Sheri loves this little man and misses

him so much.

And that will do me for now.

Again I cant work out why I am

getting the double spacing,

if it is trying to annoy me

it is working...

I hope you are all having a

wonderful January, we are

so far, we have had family to

stay, been all over the place,

work is good, plenty of people

around, weather is warm to hot.

Got a bit of rain today, need heaps

more though.

Tiff is enjoying an extra long

holiday without us, she is

in Qld with her friend Sarah.

Sounds like she is having a wonderful

time without us.

Ok, enough of the gibberish,

catch you again sometime.

This is a test post....

2010-01-12T23:33:00.005+11:00

Hi My name is Sharon and I am trying to work out what is wrong with Sue's blog....But so far it is playing up as soon as start talking to Sue on FB...I am going to try and load a photo and see how it goes

2009-12-25T20:20:00.003+11:00

Merry Christmas,

I hope you have had a good one!

We have had a very quiet day here,

just the 4 of us, our visitors will

arrive tomorrow (I can hardly wait).

I really didn't feel like having

Christmas at all yesterday,

but now the day is almost over

I am not ready for it to end just yet.

I tried taking Christmas photos, but like

last year they are not the best, a lot

of the tops of heads, while they

were looking at pressies, or just

plain stupid looks on their faces.

I am sure one of these days

I will get a decent pic.

Now that I am feeling the Chrissy

spirit I will add my favourite

Christmas song.

The War is Over by John Lennon.

So this is Christmas,

And what have you done?

Another year over,

A new one just begun.

And so this is Christmas,

I hope you have fun.

The near and the dear ones,

The old and the young.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Let's hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

And so this is Christmas,

The world is so wrong.

The rich and the poor ones,

Who held on so long.

And so happy Christmas,

For black and for white.

For yellow and red ones,

Let's stop all the fights.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Lets hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

So this is Christmas,

And what have we done?

Another year over,

A new one just begun.

And so happy Christmas,

We hope you have fun.

The near and the dear ones,

The old and the young.

(Chorus)A very Merry Christmas,

And a Happy New Year.

Let's hope it's a good one,

Without any fear.

War is over,

If you want it.

War is over,

I would add a photo or two but I really

cant be bothered. Maybe I will

do another post later, but please

don't hold your breath while you wait

for me to do it, just in case, LOL.

Stupid blogger, when I don't want double

spacing that is all I can have,

now when I need it, I can't have it.

Even after editing. Grrrrrrrr

2009-12-19T19:57:00.002+11:00

Here I am again, 2 days running. Lol.

Just thought I would come on and tell you

Tiff has chooks, her and Mark have been

building a chook house for ages

(neither of them have any idea),

I would have taken a photo of them but the

man that delivered them seen a snake between

here and the chook house, and it was not

the 8 foot of scary from the other week,

this one was black, ewwww.

Here is the Chrissy photo I have

uploaded to Bonsscraps photo challenge.

Isn't he just the cutest little rock monster???

That is it for me for now, I had better go and make

a start on the scrapping I am supposed

to be doing. Where am I going to find

some summery type photos,

seems like the sun never shines

around here lately.

Ok, I am outta here, be good.

2009-12-18T22:55:00.003+11:00

Some scrapping to share...

I have been trying to do some 8.5 x 11 in

pages, Tara thinks they are easy, I

struggle with each and every one.

It still takes me the same amount of

time to do as a big LO.

I think maybe I stress too much about the

whole thing.
This first one is Zayne and James @

Zaynes birthday, way back in Oct.

Next we have Jed and Zayne at the beach

when they came down in Nov. I think

I need to add 'brothers' somewhere

but cant decide just where to put it.

Really like this one.

This is an older pic of Tani.

Sheri, relaxing on the beach, all rugged

up for winter, would you believe the next

day they all went swimming, hard

to pic the weather each day lately.

Tiff with her gorgeous freckles, funny

but you can hardly see them irl.

Really buggered up with the yellow on this one,

I cut it to size and then scolloped the edge, making

it too small, so I had to mount it onto something

and being at work of course I didn't have anything

suitable. Grrrr, I take heaps of stuff with me too.

The only good thing about LO's this size is

how easy they are to scan, but they are a bit

hazy in spots.

I am competing in a CC over at bonsscraps,

come on over and check it out.
I hope to be back on here sometime

over the weekend, so I will chat to you again then.

Oh CRAP...I am so slack

2009-12-18T20:00:00.003+11:00

Gee where has the time gone, I have

been so totally slack lately,

I did try to log on once or twice

but ran into a few little problems.

What have I been up to in the last month

or so. Unfortunately not a real lot.

We had 8 foot of scary in the shed a few days ago.

This little beauty was sitting on top of the work

bench, I didnt see him when I pulled into the

shed. Sheri was having a stress attack and

I had no idea why, thought she might have

seen a spider, boy I could not have been further

from the truth.

We watched him for a while and then went inside,

didn't think to see where he actually went.

They tell me it is a diamond Python and

not at all dangerous, unless he desides to

give you a cuddle, but I was not going to

get that close.

We also had a visit from the Young Endeavour again,

I will add a photo of that later.

Tiff has finished primary school, my baby

is going to High School next year,

I am so not ready for that, she is

not big enough I am sure, maybe

she should stay in year 6 for a bit longer, lol.

I will have to pop over here again later, I

have done some scrapping but have

been too slack to take a photo of anything.

I am still trying to get the girls in the same

place at the same time to take a santa

photo, now they are growing up

they have more important things to do

every weekend.

Be good, and if you cant be good,

you better be careful.

2009-11-04T22:19:00.001+11:00

How did you all get on backing those four

legged things yesterday? I think I should

have held onto my TAB tickets to hand

in next year, I think my selections should

be crossing the line by then.

Favourites indeed!!!!!

I did get a third place prize,

I slipped out of the shop at

lunch time and raced over to the club

to put on an extra bet, after finally getting

around to actually looking which

horses were in the race,

lucky I did or I would not have won a cent.

Pauly I could have used your special skills

on Sunday, I had this lovely old gentleman

come in and ask me to make him a cup

of coffee, sorry I said I cant do that for

you, so he says well then how about

a cup of tea, still the answer is sorry

I don't drink tea or coffee so there

is none in the shop and he

certainly would not be able to

drink it if I did make him a cup. So then

he decided I should get him a beer,

we are a fishing tackle shop not a cafe or pub.

Then he tells me it was his 80th birthday

the day before, I wonder was he still

celebrating and didn't know what he

was doing or was he just joking with me.

Guess I will never really know for sure.

He sure brightened my day for me.

2009-11-02T21:54:00.000+11:00

Hey Ho.....

I am still around, a little bit confused about this here blog

of mine...I was starting to think that nobody

was updating their blogs, this silly one is not showing any

updates, even after I have been and looked at them.

So I have been slack and not even worrying about

mine. Now I see that life has been going on without

me....Never mind....I will bore you with a couple of

photos and some LO's.

This photo was taken looking back towards

the blue pool on a bright sunny day,

the water was so clear you could see all the

rocks and stuff on the bottom.

Nearly same photo taken this arvo, just at

the end of the storm that blew through.
Looks like a totally different spot.

This is just a random photo of the harbour, Mark

and I went to scab in the fish waste trailer

but there was someone else already there,

so I took this photo so that we didn't have a wasted

trip into town, and so we didn't feel too stupid.

We thought we were seeing a rare bird the other

day, he was sitting in the trees just down the

road, this is a crap photo, but the best I

could do, after a bit of research on google

we think it is a white goshawk, (whatever

one of those is) not so rare after all.

Not sure that too many people see

them though.

I down loaded a free digi set from Kaiser

the other day and had a play, not sure

that I would bother taking that up though,

took me all arvo to do this. The digi set is

called 'Tag This'. I had a play with the

pic of Zayne in the corner, I shifted him

from a pic, took out the background, changed

opacity and flipped it to suit the pic.

Been a bit slack on the scrapping lately.

I think these are the latest ones.

Not sure about this one, a bit thrown together

and all over the place.

Too much time to waste at work, sat and doodled

a border, pretty happy with the way it turned out.

I could not get a decent pic of the LO, the photo

is not really that washed out.

Look what I found on the step the day after Tiff

was all dolled up for Halloween (which I do not

believe in). I was very brave and put

the camera on Macro and got in real

close to take this pic.

I have played with this pic and only left

Tiffs eyes coloured. She so does not have blue eyes.

They are usually gray so I am loving this pic.

Not so in love with the mouth though.

Sheri wants me to submit this LO.

As I said I don't believe in Halloween, so I have

called it 'Fright Night' instead.

I got a bit conned so that she could go

trick or treating (something else I so do not

believe in.....Encouraging kids to go

knock on strangers doors, really).
Tiff and her friend organised the night

with a friend but 'forgot' to tell me about

it until it was too late to call a stop to it.

Lucky I know the family she went with and

was ok with them taking her.

Sheri loves my spiders. I had to make

them, the only thing I had that looked

spooky was the paper, which I have had for

ages and never knew what was on it.

If you have made it this far down the page, thanks

for sticking around this long, thanks for visiting

and if you happen to leave a comment I thank you

again....That is it for me....Seeya

2009-10-23T22:49:00.000+11:00

Hi, I am still here. I have been so slack lately,

too much effort to log onto this. Especially

when it is chucking a wobbly and wont let me

I have been whale watching most days

since we got home. The poor things are camera

shy, as soon as my camera is turned on

they dive and forget to come back up

again, so needless to say it has taken

me a few days to get some decent pics.

I have taken some other random shots while

I have been waiting though.

I thought there might be some in front of the

Blue Pool the other day, so I raced

down the steps to take a pic, not until

I turned around to go back up did I

remember how steep it is and how many steps

there are. I think there is ninety something,

lucky I stopped part-way.

I spotted this cute little lizard up the top

near the viewing platform, he was very obliging

and let me take his pic.

A couple of nights ago I thought there might

be a whale jumping off Michael Lerner Lookout.

I am s*#t scared of heights, so it was

quite brave of me to go there.

I took my life in my hands and went out on

the track, sounds good, but....

the track is about 2 foot wide at it's best,

rather steep, with about a 15 foot drop

on either side with not much decent

foliage to break a fall, being sandy

it is a little shifty under the feet too.
I took a deep breath and told myself that

some idiots will do anything to get a

pic of something, it didn't make me feel

any better about what I was doing but I did

see a whale (a long way off).
Here are a couple of the pics I took whilst there.

Looking back towards Bermi.

Looking back up the track.

Looking down the track towards the ocean.

I stopped when I got to this point, way to

scary to even think about tackling.

I held onto a tree for dear life while I took this pic.

A different day, looking back towards town, the water

was so clear and such beautiful colours.

I took my Polaroids off and took a pic through them,

they make the colours so much better.

Today I got to take pics of the whales up close,

but first I had to show you this, it was stunning.

Oh, and this, the camera was sort of pointed in the

wrong direction, the whales were higher up. Lol,

too busy yapping to see what I was doing.

Obviously I have taken these while standing on

the bank. This mother and her baby kindly

came in very close. I wish I could have gotten some

better shots, it was getting dark so these are as

good as it gets for today.

This one was coming right out of the water

until I pointed the camera at her.

The tell-tale splash that shows you where they are.

The sound of them hitting the water is quite loud

when they are this close, and they tell me if you

are snorkeling when they are calling to each other

that it is almost deafening.

This one and his mate were lying on their backs

tale slapping, pity I missed getting them in sync.

I have heaps of photos I would have liked to put here,

but I thought you most definitely must be getting bored

by now, so here are just a couple of faves for now.

Phewww....Marathon post there.

Must not be so slack, yeah right, I keep telling

that, but then I don't listen.

I have other pics from Zaynes birthday,

and the holidays, but I think I have

tortured you enough for now.

Oh, yeah, I finally got a new washing machine.

I convinced the Man of the house that the

other one was past saving. I think the

neighbours were getting sick of the bone

jarring grinding noise that was coming

out of it, I could hear it 60 mtrs away.

Now I have to work on getting a new toaster,

ours is temperamental to say the least,

I decides on a daily basis how it is going

to cook the toast, warm bread or charcoal.

The handle wont stay down unless

I call it a Poofter...any other name

and it pops right back up again.

I tried talking nice to it, but that didn't work at all.

Cripes, look at the length of this post, sorry

peoples, I do get carried away don't I?

Thanks for stopping by,

I have Lo's but will load them another time.

Seeya, be good.

It's Raining, Its Pouring

2009-10-07T14:22:00.000+11:00

We Tani and Zayne for the first week of holidays,

and I think it has been raining everyday.

All Tani wants to do is play in the sand,

it is way too wet to even think about taking her.

We have managed a few trips to the park, but

it is so cold and miserable that we didn't stay long.

It is not good for the shop either, nobody

is going fishing so we are not doing much, still have

to have the doors open though, just in case.

I am taking the kids back tomorrow and I think

there will definitely be snow up the top,

I might have to take the long way home, it will make

it interesting. I was hoping to go over the top

and see some brumbies like Sheri did last week.

Maybe on the way back, weather permitting.

I might come back later and add a pic or two.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are

drier than we are at the moment.

Missing Mojo...

2009-09-30T20:40:00.000+10:00

Don't you hate it when you are all set to scrap and nothing is working,

wrong photos, wrong papers and absolutely no idea what to do with

the stuff you have got. That was me yesterday, no matter how hard

I tried I could not put anything together.I trashed a few pieces

of paper after I chucked a tantrum and ripped the crap out of them,

last week the double sided tape would not stick to anything,

yesterday when I tried to dismantle the train wreck I had started

it stuck, ripped holes in the papers and generally got under my skin.

I packed everything away without putting anything together,

I thought this is it, mojo has flown the coup and will never come back.

Today, I kept calm and used this beautiful pic of Tara and Zayne,

I have been wanting to scrap this for ages but it just never seemed to be

right. I started with the pic and this BG paper and the rest just happened,

I was finished the whole thing before lunch, I must say I was

pretty happy about that, I didn't loose my temper once.

I have loaded two pics, this first one shows nearly the proper

colours in the papers and flowers,

then this one shows the finished LO. Or maybe the nearly

finished Lo, I am thinking I might machine stitch around the

edges of the striped paper, my machine is too heave to lug

to work with me so that will be a wait and see if I can be

bothered sort of thing.

Pity the camera made it look so pink.

I also started another page, but got side tracked by customers.

Hopefully I will have a chance to finish it tomorrow

before the troupes get home.

That is enough gibberish from me,

thanks for stopping by, and any comments

you might happen to leave me,

be good, and I will be back again soon.

Phenomenon!

2009-09-28T21:33:00.000+10:00

Phenomenon

I have been thinking about this pic all day.

It cant be from the setting sun.

The rays radiant outwards from the sun

when it is behind the clouds,

since the sun was behind me, there is no way they

could have appeared like this.

Thinking...thinking...thinking...

I don't think it was the moon either,

I have never seen it make any rays like this,

I think i will have to keep thinking about it and

see if I can work what was going on.

Mark thinks I am mad, of course it was the sun.

Me I am not so sure, what do you think?????
Okay, that is my little bit of silliness for the day,

but really what do you think?

2009-09-27T21:29:00.000+10:00

A couple of recent photos...

I have not taken many sunset shots lately,

the sun is in the wrong place all the time.

I did venture down to Cuttagee the other

arvo, this is about the only one of the pics

that has anything going for it.

We had a bit of dust from the storm on Tuesday,

it started out just looking like fog, but as the day

went on it got thicker, we didn't get the red glow like

Sydney did. I took these photos after work,

this is probably as bad as it got.

Looking back up the river you could not see

the mountains across the back,

and looking out across the bay,

Mt Dromedary disappeared. It was

pretty yuk tasting the dust all day,

I think that was the worst thing we

experienced, that and the dirt on everything.

I stopped at the boat ramp to take this pic this

afternoon, the sun was looking pretty good when

I left the shop but by the time I got over there it

was behind the clouds again.

I took the scenic route home and stopped at

Um Ah Point to see if there were any

whales close by, and instead I seen

these amazing sun-beams.

It looks as if the sun was rising instead of

setting. The sun was actually behind me.

And look some Lo's.

This one of Sheri, I love this pic, Sheri

is changing so much lately. She looks so

different in this pic, look at all the curly hair.

I didn't have the right letters in black to make

the word I wanted, so I inked some pink foam

ones with versa ink. First I used pinecone on the whole

letter and then black along the bottom to

represent the change of the title.

I am pretty happy with how it worked.

I was on a roll with the journaling until

Tiff came and talked to me, instantly I could not remember

a word I was going to write, so have ended up

with gibberish.

I love this pic of all the girls, they are all looking in the same

direction and all have their eyes open and a smile

on their faces. Usually someone has a silly face

of some sort. Don't think I cant say I actually like this,

I don't do bright, so it took me a few days to finish,

I simply could not work out what to do.

I have had to use numbers in the title,

again I didn't have the right letters.

I am pretty stoked with the paint job on the letters too.

I don't have a title for this one yet.

I took this photo two weeks ago, Sheri has

been spending lots of time with Darrie cause

she will be moving soon, I think we will all miss her.

Both girls are very girly girls so I have done

my best to make a pretty girly page,

but I really don't know what to write,

everything I came up with sounded too cheesy.

If anyone has any ideas for a title for

me please feel free to tell me.

That is it from me for now.

Mark and the girls are going to Gundagai

for a few days through the week,

it will be Marks Mums Birthday on

Thursday. Pity one of us has to be

in the shop or we could all go.

Never mind I will get up there the next week

for Zaynes Birthday/Naming Day.

That's it, I have no more chatter,

so be good, thanks for stopping by,

and I will catch you again sometime.

2009-09-21T21:24:00.000+10:00

Another bird or two, and some random shots of stuff.

This one is a very poor pic of an overstuffed

Eastern Rosella, he was so fat that he was just hopping

along, could hardly lift himself off the ground.

He would not stand still long enough for a

decent pic.

Gallahs are more camera shy than me, you can

nearly walk up to them and pat them and

they don't even blink, put a camera in your

hand and they fly away, so I was pretty

stoked to get this pair on the feeder the other day.

Check this one out, I managed to snap him mid scratch.

Just a quick pic of the girls after the movies the other day,

such a social life these girls have.

A very wild pic of Sheri taken at the beach the other arv.

Look at those curls, her hair was straight until

a couple of months ago, now we can see it getting more

like mine everyday. It looks to be getting darker too.

A very random pic of miss Tiff, I was standing above

her, I like this pic, just a little bit random.

I let Sheri have the camera to take a pic or two of

me, even though I have a severe case of camera phobia,

I must say that she has done a pretty good job,

I mean the subject was not the best but

you know what I mean. Changing the settings to

black and white has eliminated most of the grey from

my wild hair. Cant do much about the wrinkles,

but the way I look at it I earned every single one

of them so they are my badges of honour.

Bloody ringlets, just look at them,

a lady my age should not have ringlets.

The closest I have come to taking a pic of a sunset.

Tiff running along the edge of the sand with the sun

behind her.

Tiff and her friend Sarah have learnt how to do

handstands in sync. part of their gym training at school.

Check this out, remember the sunset pic that was totally red,

when we had to design our new tide guides I gave the pic

and a few others to the fella, he was totally awed by

my pics, so used this one for the guide, with an

old pic of Sheri with a monster Bream that she caught.

Ok, enough of the crap. I am totally not liking the double spacing,

makes my post look enormous.

Thanks for stopping by, thanks for any comments

you may choose to leave.

So until next time be good, if you cant

be good be very careful. Seeya.

Birds....Long post

2009-09-16T20:27:00.000+10:00

A few pics of the bird life that came to visit today.

I bet I looked a right clown taking these, I was

laying on the floor inside, while half hanging out the

door snapping away at these colourful birds,

they kept getting startled when I stood up

and would fly away, ha ha, I tricked them.

First a King parrot, I thought he was on top of the

pecking order, boy was I wrong,

then I thought maybe it was Maggie here, but

it sort of sat back and waited it's turn,

these beautiful little Rainbow Lorikeets ruled

the feed box, they would not let anything

else near it.

Love this one, pity about the chain covering his face.

These parrots come by the dozen, granny brain

here, I cant remember what they are.

The ones with all the green are babies,

the bright red ones are adults.

I played with the settings while they were bossing

each other around, I turned onto shutter mode

and got this one in flight.

I had the camera resting on the step and managed

not to shake.

Yesterday while I was at work Mark

noticed a bird we had not seen before, so

I kept an eye out for it this morning,

we thought it must be a pigeon of some sort,

but after a google search we think it is

a Brown Cuckoo Dove.

He has a nice name don't you think?

This is the only decent pic I managed to get

of the white headed pigeon, he is behind

the Brown Dove, they usually

manage to come and chase everything

else away, the other birds are learning to be bossy

and stand their ground now.

And finally 2 Layouts.

I am going to sub them and get rejected for sure,

so I will put them here now,

this one of the Crazy girls fell

together so easily, it was fun to do.

I am really happy with how it looks.

And miss T riding the waves. Not real

sure about this one, its not right but I

am not sure why.

I really need to do some scrap supply shopping,

I am fast running out of stuff to use.

Though I am finding papers I had forgotten about.

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I have a sick Sheri at the moment,

she has the sniffles, hope it doesn't

turn into anything serious.

She said one of the boys at school had

swine flu, and his mum is a teacher and

she still came to school, probably spread it

around to everyone.

Did you pop over to Tara's blog and check

out our little man. He is so much like

Craig at the that age it is scary.

Ok, I have written a newsletter that tells

you nothing, so I had better kick myself off here.

If I have not commented on your blog, it

is because I am lazy, not because I have not

been looking. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunsets and Layouts

2009-09-11T20:01:00.000+10:00

Just two pics today, I am getting so lazy.

Taken up the river at sunset.

Not a cloud in sight so not a great pic.

This one is better, there were a few

clouds around, it is a pity there was not a drop

of rain in them, we really need a downpour.

One of the LO's I have done recently,

it was supposed to be all white, but it

was too bright (go figure), so I toned it down

with the cream flowers and stuff.

It is a pic of Scott, Jade and Ellora, I set up

a mock studio to do a photo shoot for them.

This one is my Niece Nat's little girl,

she is now 6 months old and looks

like a real girly girl.

I love how this has turned out, so pink

and frilly. I scrap-lifted a LO of mine

that I done not long ago called

'Sweet wonderful you'

I liked the way it all fit together so I

copied it and am equally happy with this one.

This one I finished at work today, it

took me most of the day to do it,

I am so not used the scrapping boy pics.

I tried not to put flowers on it, but it got the

better of me, I really need to go to a

scrap shop, I am using a lot of old stuff

because it is all I have left, which is

great I suppose if I look at the fact that I am

actually using it instead of hording it.

Wonder should I bother to submit any of these.

I have not subbed for ages.

Might just do it, like I keep telling myself

rejection is good for the soul.

Ok enough of the rubbish from me.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

planned, my only plan is to sleep in tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by.

2009-09-09T22:27:00.000+10:00

Not much happening in my neck of the woods.

We have finally had some rain, the first

decent lot in something like 3 months.

I have been taking pics but too slack to

do anything with them.

I have a few Lo's to show but need to

get permission to show them first,

they are of family, but I had best ask first.

I think that is about all from me. I cant

think of anything important enough to

share with you all, so goodnight from

me, be good, and I will catch you

all another day.

A couple of photos

2009-09-03T23:10:00.000+10:00

Just a few of the photos I have taken over

the past couple of weeks.

I thought I re-sized more than this,

but it is late and I am not sure what I am doing.

This is one of the King Parrots that

we feed everyday.

Early morning sun over Beares Beach.

Do you have any idea how cold the sand is

when the sun is rising, my toes felt like

they were about to drop off, maybe

I should have worn something on my

feet, but I was in a bit of a hurry.

I had been up since 5.30 cooking bacon and egg

rolls for the crew on the fishing boat,

Mark and I went to all the trouble to make

them and keep them hot and the clowns

didn't eat them til 1 1/2 hours later.

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Smoke from Drom, it looked like Bermi was

burning, the smoke was so close.

This one was taken from on the headland,

believe it or not there is a mountain in that smoke

it looked as if it had burned to the ground.

The sun this arvo, I hung out of the car up the main

street this arvo to get this pic, it would have

been truly spectacular if I could have

spared the time to wait for some more colours

to come.

This one was taken closer to home.

Usually I don't see the sun where it was today,

I love the way it is sitting behind the tree.

I have heaps of other photos but am being lazy

and cant be bothered resizing them.

I have run out of stuff to say, my brain is on

strike, must be past my bedtime.

So thanks for stopping, and leaving

me your love.

Some Layouts

2009-08-28T21:38:00.000+10:00

Hi all, guess what I actually remembered what my

password is, so long since I have graced my blog

it is not funny. I have been taking some photos

but not everyday, I am really slack, lol.

I was getting sick of only seeing sunsets

with the occasional sunrise chucked in.

I think I will start again when there is more

sunlight in the day.

Update on my stupid washing machine, after

a bit over 3 weeks it is sort of working,

Mark is not the best Mr fixit, seems like something

always gets broken while he is fixing the first

problem. Thanks to everyone that let me use

their laundries while mine was out of action.

Enough of that for a minute.

Here are a few of the Lo's I have done

over the past couple of weeks,

first Baby Ellora, Scotts little one.

Her hand is all blurred in the pic,

she was stretching.

Think I have used this pic before,

I was at work the other day and had nothing to use

so scrapped this again. My plan was to use only pink

and green, think I may have got a bit mixed up

seems to be a lot of brown there as well.

This started out as a sketch challenge over at

http://u2schallenge.blogspot.com/
I had trouble with the sketch so it has been

turned and twisted and changed a lot.

I so don't like using 2 photos.

I don't think I will put it onto the site,

I have messed it up so much.

and here is our Tiffy again,

I decided it would be a good idea to

try and use some of my little bits and pieces

of paper that I seem to lug around all

the time. That upside down heart is not

part of the LO, I didn't notice it until I

re-sized the pic.

That is it for the Lo's.

We have a bushfire burning on Drom at

the moment, it is a bit scary for the

people living close to it. Some have

packed their stuff and moved out until

it is under control, which could be weeks

away. We think they should just water

bomb it, its not like there is no water

around, I am sure the ocean wont miss any.
I am going to try to take a pic of a whale

playing tomorrow, I spotted some

tonight but the light was wrong

and my pics did not work.

Ok enough of my rot, I have been

checking out all of your blogs, just been too slack

to log on to make any comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

2009-08-08T22:33:00.000+10:00

Here I am again, woohoo, 2 nights running.

I had to take Sheri over to Narooma tonight to

her friends place, so I stopped and took

these photos of Narooma at night.

I used 2 different settings so the pics

are the same but different.

They were taken from the car-park at

the boardwalk looking back across the river

towards town. It is lit up like a Christmas tree.

The following LO's were the ones I promised before.

I cant get a decent pic of them, the colours are

not quite right, but you get the general idea.

The photo corner is pretty spastic in the family

one because, lol, that was where is landed when I

dropped it, oops, and because it had glue all

over the back I had to leave it like that, I

am still deciding what to do to disguise it a bit.

Maybe a flower, but not sure.

And this one of our little man.

I have had that song about 'Sweet wonderful you'

hanging around in my head for ages, so

I thought I might as well chuck it on a LO.

Thanks Tegan for the pic, I used one of the ones you

sent us. Shows his sweet cheeky little face beautifully.

And look Tara not a flower in sight, he he he.

I have another LO too, but I am trying to load

it onto the blind scrapping site that Vicky

mentioned in her blog, I just have to wait

for an email first. I will load it here tomorrow or

sometime.

I was going to scrap all day, but only got the one LO

done after spending a couple of hours at

the next neighbours place doing some

washing, I think she will get sick of us very soon.

Ah well, I think that is about it from me for

the night, catch you all again maybe tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by.

2009-08-07T22:19:00.000+10:00

Hi, just a few random pics from the last couple of

days. I am not even going to try to work

out which day I am up to.

These flowers are from my next neighbours yard.

I snapped these while waiting for the washing

to finish. My machine is still not going,

so I have been borrowing her machine.

Thanks heaps for that Mrs P.

Last night the moon was almost full.

Do you know how hard it is to take a pic of the moon?

It was so bright while I was looking through the

viewfinder, so I mistakenly thought it would

fill the whole pic, wrong, wrong, wrong.

So I had a play around with some of the settings,

these following pics are the best I could get.
I tried the Auto setting, then the sunset

setting and finally the Shutter button settings.

The ones with the longer shutter setting just

did not work at all, too much light getting in.

This is the one using the shutter button,

I think it was on about a 3 sec timer,

it was about the best I could do.

And just because you are probably having withdrawals

from not seeing a sunset for awhile,

I took the next two tonight.
Honestly, you would think there was nothing else

to take a photo of around Bermi.

I have a couple of LO's to load too, but I think

I will take a better pic tomorrow, the night

time photography is not the best.

Sheri and I have decided that we should

spend tomorrow scrapping, so we are

going to do the blind scrap that Vicky

mentioned in her blog.

Here is the link: http://u2schallenge.blogspot.com/

Why not pop over and have a look.

That is it from me for the evening, hope you

are all having a wonderful Friday night and

are not doing anything too strenuous.

Thanks for stopping by, catch you again

tomorrow when I load some LO's.

2009-08-04T21:24:00.000+10:00

I have lost the plot!

I have no idea what day I am up to.

I went back through my photos and they are mostly

sunset shots, and a lot of the kids at the beach.

Quite a few of birds in flight, so I

have decided you just get a few of

the better ones.

This one was the setting sun behind a smoke screen.

I love this bird, I was actually lining up for a

sunset shot when I noticed him/her.

I snapped this pic,

and clicked for the next shot and just captured it

in flight. I have been trying to get close enough

to one of these birds to take a pic for ages.

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What have I been up to lately, not a lot.

Work and trying to do this stupid course

that I was encouraged (forced) to do.

I had the Mr-fix-it-man look at my

washing machine today, the good news is

it can be fixed, the bad news is the gearbox

is on its way out, so looks like we start saving for

a new machine.

We had a ram raid in town a week or so ago,

what is the world coming to.

They done so much damage, it is scary, all

for a couple of slabs of UDL's.

They stole a car in Narooma, then another

one here to use as a get away vehicle,

rammed the booze shop, then took off

in the second car, drove back to Narooma

and done burn outs on the golf course,

tens of thousands of $$$$$ worth of damage.

Mark had to pass the damage to get to work,

he held his breath all the way to the shop

wondering what he would find, luckily

they left us alone this time.

Time I was in bed, I tell you I don't know

where the time gets to,

I spend the day at work thinking it will never

end and then the evening flies by.

Did you pop over to Sheri's blog to check out the

photos she took when she went fishing

with her dad.

Night all, be good, and

thanks for stopping by.

2009-08-01T14:45:00.000+10:00

A couple of Layouts from the past few weeks.

This was nearly done before I left for

Batlow, but I had not decided what to do

for the flower centres, so

I carted it up there with me and chucked

the buttons and things on while I

was at the Tuesday Crop.

Then I started this one at the crop,

I didn't finish it because it was just wrong,

and besides I was laughing and having so much

fun the last thing I felt like doing was scrapping.

I changed one piece of paper and it was heaps better.

I had to hand doodle the flourishes on this one,

it is a pain being at work and not having the

things you need to finish a Lo.

Our little man, using the Duchess papers from Kaiser,

and some sass lass paper.

Tara says I have too many flowers for a boy

Lo, I say pfffft.

I think this would have to be the only time

I have pictured something in my head,

and actually made something that looked

the same, and I am totally happy with it.

That is it from me for now, I have another LO

but it is not quite finished, I will take a pic and load

it later. I will also try to do the other photos too.

My camera is chucking a bit of a wobbly at the

moment, I think I have tired it out and it needs a rest.

It is not focusing properly, I might have to

reset the factory settings.

My washing machine finally gave up this morning,

it has been acting up for a few weeks now,

I left my Mr Fix It to have a look the other day,

um, not the best idea, he is not real handy (lol).

My laundry looked like someone had been

massacred in there, I cant believe how much

blood there was, even after I made him

clean it up. Goodness only knows what he

did to himself, I thought it best not to ask.

I rang the real Mr-Fix-It this morn,

he will come have a look on Tues.

Probably cost me and arm and a leg

and he will tell me it is not worth fixing,

it is only 9 years old, not time to get a

new one just yet.

Oops I am raving again, sorry,

I will catch you again later,

thanks for stopping by.

2009-07-29T10:50:00.000+10:00

Hi, school is back so now maybe I will get a chance to

load some pics. If the whacked out computer

will let me, between in and the stupid

washing machine I am beginning

to think that everything electrical

has it out to get me.

These are just a few random pics of the
crew that I took whilst in Batlow.

The 5 kids all together.

The 3 Scobies

Oh, boy, nearly the lot of us,

Tegan and Mark are missing,

they were manning the cameras.

We have, Mum and Dad, Me,

Tara, Craig, Mark, Sheri, Tiff,

Jaiden, Tanika and Zayne.

What out, this boy is pretty accurate throwing

this rocket thing, he could hit you from a fair distance.

Tani looks like she is playing

a mean game of footie.

Chook face, he has started saying 'book book'

which sounds like a chook noise.

I love this photo, dribbly chin and all.

The 3 grandkids.

Nanny's model.

Jed being co-operative, he is not

loving having his photo taken.

Mark and Zayne.

Our official photographer, Tegan,

with her U-Beaut camera.

Super cool Jed wearing his glasses.

He wasn't too happy about me taking his pic,

I think he looks pretty cute though.

His glasses are nearly the same as mine,

which worked out pretty handy, I used

them a couple of times.

Ok, that is it for now, I don't think I will

ever catch up with the photos, might

have to skip a few.

Thanks for stopping by,

catch you all later.

Phewww, marathon post.....again.

2009-07-21T22:05:00.000+10:00

Nearly a week's worth of Photos.

I am home alone tonight, so I will endeavour to

load heaps of photos. Tiff is at a friends place, and

Mark has taken Sheri and her friends camping

for the night. I personally think they are

going to freeze, but it is something they

have wanted to do for ages.

I can't remember what number I am up to,

or the order these photos should be loaded, so

I am just doing a bulk post, I will

work out the rest later.

The snow on the way up on the Monday,

we were supposed to have chains but

after consulting a policeman and a

service station owner we decided

to make a run for it and hope for the best.

It was a little worse than I expected but

not overly bad.

A steam engine at Yarrongabilly.

The sun on Blowering Dam, way more water in

there than the last time I was up that way.

We were down the street in Tumut on Tuesday

when we noticed this amazing rainbow, at the same

time I got a message on my phone 'Quick Rainbow'.

It was so bright, and full I could not fit it all

into one photo, so I have joined two pics together.

I have not really done it justice, I could not get

a photo that shows how bright it was.

If you look closely you can see all the colours

and then some extra ones underneath.

Family day in the park, with some macro

photography, these daffodil/jonquils are

a bit confused I don't think they should

be out in flower at this time of the year.

I will load family pics later.

I have called this a watsit, simply because

I really don't know what it is.

I think a seed pod off a pine tree looking thing.

The setting sun from outside Mum's place one afternoon.

The setting sun taken from the road below

Mrs Barons place, not sure of the name of the road.

Batlow taken from the forestry rd near

Skeins place. I could not quite tell where

Mum's house is, I took the photo from

miles away.

Looking back at Snubba with the setting

sun reflecting on it.

Same day, nearly the same spot up

on the hill. These are for you Vicky.

The sun is pretty awesome in Batlow

you just need to go looking for it.

A tractor in a paddock coming down the hill

from the cemetery. Bet you never knew it was there

Batlow peoples, did you.

Leaves on the train tracks at Tumut.

A very random tree in a paddock between

Batlow and Tumut. It was a bit hard to take

a pic of this, I was parked on a corner with log

trucks zooming past every couple of mins.

Trees in the snow on the way home again.

I skipped the chains again, and prayed all the

way that I would not get pulled up, probably a little

bit more snow than on the way up, but still not

too bad.

I have wanted to stop to take a photo of this

birds nest every time I have driven past it.

Pity it was so far off the road and in someones paddock.

I nearly froze my buns off getting the pic.

The wind must have been gale force and

blowing straight off the snow.

Same nest taken without the zoom.

Then would you believe I found another nest,

this one was not far out of Cooma, the other

one was at Seven Gates.

Ok, if you are still with me thanks for sticking around.

I will now try to work out where I am up to.

I will be back with another weeks photos and a

couple of Lo's later.

2009-07-20T23:34:00.000+10:00

Cripes, look at the time, I have been

resizing photos for ages and

have not even started to load

any yet, sorry you are gonna have to

wait a little while longer.

It is way past my bed-time, I wont want

to get out to go to work in the morning.

It is blowing its ring off outside, hope

it settles by morning.

Thanks for stopping by.

Oh, yeah, I have been following all

of your blogs but have been way too

slack to post a comment.

I will try to do better, I will, I will.

Ok, goodnight, sleep tight.

I'm home...

2009-07-20T11:04:00.000+10:00

I am home again, did you all miss me?

I had a couple of extra days away.

Mark must have been having a good time

without me, he encouraged me to stay longer.

I had a wonderful time with all the kids.

I have photos but have not had a chance

to resize them yet. I worked yesterday,

how boring, I think I only had 3 or 4

customers for the arvo. It's a wonder

I didn't end up like the man in

the store at Nimmitabel.

We stopped for a drink and he was sleeping

so soundly that the doorbell didn't

even wake him (at least we hope he was only

asleep). We sent Tiff in and she was a bit

scared to try to wake him. Sheri

and I stayed in the car laughing ourselves silly,

we could see him through the window, he didn't even stir.

So we didn't get a drink until Bega,

made for a long thirsty trip.

Hope nobody ripped him off whilst he was snoozing.

Anyway, I had better go hang some washing out,

and maybe go buy some food, Old

Mother Hubbards cupboard has nothing

on mine at the moment. I had better go check the

mail too, Mark didn't check it once while

I was away, I hate to imagine what is there.

I will be back later to load photos, have

a great day, catch you all later.

2009-07-12T23:33:00.000+10:00

Day 172/365

Double spacing again, wonderful

I have also had to attempt to load these

pics at least 3 times, something fishy going on

around here.

So anyway, aren't you glad that the days are

getting longer, it is no longer dark when I leave the

shop. Tonight I had enough time to go for a

wee drive up on the headland to take

these pics and also across to the bridge for some of them.

We had a bit of wind today which stirred up

the ocean a fair bit, it made the air very

misty which worked in my favour.

I took some photos looking out to sea,

some looking back towards the bridge

and some looking back from the bridge.

Sea view one.

Sea two.

Towards the bridge.

Towards the bridge, different angle.

Near the bridge.

Looking under the bridge.

That is it for me for probably a few days.

I am heading off to Batlow tomorrow.

I GET TO SEE ALL MY KIDS.....YAY

I am taking my sick kids and sharing what

ever it is that ails them, bad mother here.

I am also taking my scrap booking

bags in the hope of attending the Tues

crop with Vicky and the girls.

So you all be good, and don't miss

me too much, I will return sometime.