Orders

I've had orders.  They came in the form of a little girl carrying "The Power of One" book with a piece of toilet paper marking the page she was apparently up to.  Obviously, she is clever, she takes after her Mum, I was a six subject school C student but I don't recall reading Bryce Courtney at 5 years old...

"I need a bookmark, Mum, and I think you could make me one".

Sure - what kind of bookmark do you want?  What do you want on it?

"Oh you know, my favourite things.  Pictures.  Like of my favourite stuff.  You know, computers, playstations, love hearts, flowers, sausages, toys, cool layouts and lights that are square "- she was looking around the room at that point and was grasping for things to say, I think..."

Okaaaaay.  Sure thing... I'll do that this weekend, is that alright, Abby?

Yep - just let me know when it's done and I'll put it in my book.

The kid is ambitious.  I'll give her that.

So this week I found my mojo.  And for those of you that took the guess - pixie caramel is the answer and I try not to find my mojo in them.  I avoid them.  They are the new freddo frog and will be avoided at all costs.  They are the number 1 reason I could never move from New Zealand.  Number 2 reason being that I'm a homebody and couldn't stand being away from my stomping ground.

Unfortunately though, although I found my mojo and wanted to scrap, I have a love-hate relationship with my photos right now.  I love taking pics, I hate the download from camera-edit -figure out which ones I want and get them printed process.  So I just don't do it. And I use the same pics over and over.  And I now have thousands of unedited neglected pics on my harddrive and I've even stopped taking pics because I don't want to add them to the pile.
I think someone would make a fortune as a 'in home editor of photos".  Is there anyone that has been made redundant that has those skills?  I'd love someone to take all my pics and edit, name, sort and present them back to me all beautiful.  Seriously.  Money to be made.  A business to start up.
Anyone else feeling the same way?  A pixie Caramel might fix it.

A layout I created for Tarisota.  I saw this stamp of Princess Diana and just thought "Oh wow, if only she knew what was coming" 

oh and one last thing - for those of you that saw the gorgeous pic of the house made with Porcelain basicgrey at the Autumn Escape?  It's now been made into a class. Scrapbook Studio in Mt Wellington have Nickie Mouncey teaching her fabulous Porcelain house as a 2 part class - Fridays 5th and 12th of June at 10.30am!

laters

Comments

[Tracy]

Don't tease me about Pixie Caramels thats mean. I can get them here on the Gold Coast at our diary for like $3.00 so its a treat to have one. My partner went back to NZ recently and brought me a stash of them but only to discover on the wrapper they were made in Australia .. what the!!!
Oh how true if only Diana knew
thanks for sharing your layout and the story about clever Abby :)
PS Show off, it took me two years to get 2 subjects in School C LOL

[kelly]

You know it's crazy - i remember watching their wedding when I was a little girl, too, and being lost in the beauty of it all....and then when I grew up and was having my own wedding dress altered was the day of her funeral. I'll never forget that either :(

[Diane]

I got married in the same year as Diana and would've had my babies the same time too.
That is a beautiful layout. Thanks for the little reminders to enjoy and appreciate the here and now!

[Vicky]

I remeber watching the funeral on tv with my BF and both of us trying to pretend we werent crying.
Nic I love editing photos, been doing it for years, I thought everyone loved that part lol..it can be time consuming though. let me know if you need a hand.

[Karin G]

Please post the bookmark when done!

[Wendy Treseder]

Great page Nic and I'm right there with you about the photo editing and organization. I don't even back them up, one of those "one day" kinda jobs (I know, I know, I'm livin' on the edge).
God help me, if that pixie caramel ever makes it's way to Oz. hehe

[Lainie]

Fabulous layout. Thanks for the inspiration to scrap the year Diana died. It was an eventful yr for me as my Dad died a month later as well as other things happening.
Can't wait to see Abby's bookmark.