Off to Sydney!

Well I just had text message from Rhonda of the Sydney Harbour Bridge! Guess where she is? Darryl and I are off tomorrow also to join them... cant wait. We have a jam packed itinerary - on Sun we are doing the Hunter Valley; Mon Sydney Sightseeing; Tues and Wed is the Scrapbooking Industry Association trade show (so very excited!); Thurs is Blue Mountains, Fri is Harold Park (trotting track - of course Darryl's request) and the weekend at Canberra! Cant wait to see the war memorial and parliament house!

I put a few layouts together this week before I head off. Here they are:

Sketch 77 from Stuck Sketches - (see the link on my blog - Submissions).

Paper - Making Memories, K & Co & American Crafts; Embellishments - Basic Grey, Kaiser Craft, Green Tara; & Lettering - Carolees Creations, Making Memories and Collections. Other - Tim Holtz Distressed Ink - Black Soot.

Singing In the Rain: Paper - Basic Grey, Blue Eye Dezines, other; Embellishments - American Crafts, Kaiser Craft, K & CO,; & Lettering - Making Memories, Carolees Creations, Crate Paper. Other - White pen, water soluble crayons, cricut.

Xmas Morning 07: Paper - Basic Grey, Coredinations; Embellishments - Green Tara, Kaiser Craft, Jenni Bowlin, Basic Grey, German Scrap; & Lettering - Basic Grey, American Crafts.

Naughty Blogger

My goodness I am a naughty blogger. Cant believe how long it has been since my last entry. Sorry Raquel and Jan - I now have my act together.

What a crazy few months it has been. About a month ago we went to Perth for a few weeks to get some things done. Unfortunately it was not a fantastic trip - actually it never is to Perth when you live in the remote country. it is always full of running around doing all the jobs you cant do up here so by the time you return you are absolutely exhausted and saying "There's no place like home".

On the 21st Feb, my best friend Mel had her father pass away at 2am in the morning. Even though we were expecting it after his battle with cancer it does not make it any easier. Mel is an absolute trooper and always sees the positive side in life. She obviously was devastated, now being the remaining Ogg of her family, but knew that her father was now at peace with her mother. Mel you are a truly inspirational woman in the way you conduct yourself. On top of this she had her matron of honour pull out on her the day her father passed. This was totally undeserved by Mel who is the sweetest soul you could ever meet. Lets just say the young lady was certainly not welcome to any future events.

Once receiving the news we made our plans to go straight down to Perth as soon as we could to be with Mel. She had a busy week ahead of her with the funeral on the Thursday and getting married to her Brian on the Sunday. We wanted to be there to give her all the support we could. IT was certainly a busy week. But all went as well as it could and by the Sunday the rain had cleared up and it was a beautiful day. The now Mr & Mrs Feucs (as Mel's Dad would have said - rhymes with Pukes!) were married at the beautiful Black Swan Winery on the Sunday. It was such a beautiful wedding. So that Mel's parents were with her on the day, the three bridesmaids arranged a locket with photos of her Mum and Dad. She was very touched.

We had so much fun on the Sunday getting ready at the Chapple house. Marnie's Mum Sharon was Mel's Mum (Jill) closest friend so it seemed really appropriate. The makeup lady and hair stylist did such a fantastic job and I swear Mel was looking like the gorgeous Lara Bingle in her gown. I kept saying to her - "How the Bloody Hell Are ya!".

Here are a few pics of the day.

The beautiful MelBridal aprt and forever friends - Marnie, Mel, Robin and myself

The week and a bit after the wedding we then had Seekara's operation on her right ear in a second attempt to fix a hole that remains in her ear after a grommet had fallen out. They conducted a skin graft by taking cartridge from behind the ear lobe and placing it in the whole in the ear drum. Hopefully this will take this time round and Seekara's hearing may return to normal. Seekara was so good fasting all day. The operation was originally planned for 1pm but she didn't get into the operating theatre until 4pm. Trust me - its a miracle that she didn't eat all that day. Our girl has hollow legs. So far all seems well and we just have our fingers crossed that it works.

Whilst waiting in Perth I completed a few pages . Here is some of the latest.

Using the Marakeech Range.

Below was an off the page workshop we recently completed using the Kaiser paper range and Cricut Vinyl. We made the bookshelf look antique.

Cards completed as part of a class recently. There was a few fun techniques involved in this one including using alcohol inks, scratching and scouring!

Rhonda and I are off to Sydney next week with our partners. So exciting. We are going to the Scrapbooking Industry Association trade fair. Will keep you posted....

Keep smiling

Tenaha ;)