It's been one of those days...

Back from Melbourne

I'm back from Melbourne.  What a city.  It's lovely, or the very little I saw of it was.  It was such a rush visit, with five classes taught over two days, that I didn't get to see much.  I did, however, get to see over a hundred lovely ladies keen for a whole lot of scrapbooking fun, dozens of different versions of the altered book buffet, hundreds of different pages created from classes I taught over there and a few very good bottles of Malborough Sav Blanc.  Sounds like fun, right?

It was.  And I know there are photos to prove it - if you are one of the lovely ladies that has pics of some of the antics in the class (wendy, email me!), I'd love to post some of them on my blog.

Oh - and those girl that know the lovely lady that makes the bags that I loved (was her name Hayley?) - someone email me her address?  I know you'll know what I mean!

On another note, how did I not know about the new Tim Holtz sizzix dies?  Take a look at them here being used with the Cuttlebug.  I'm trying to get some stock in to sell at Autumn Escape, how cool are they?

I got myself a copy of Tim's new book as a pressie for myself as well.

Short and sweet post today... I'm still shattered after the weekend.  Still head down trying to get Dimensional Details stuff done.  I'm buried in an amazing amount of goodies for the Autumn Escape.  Chocolate.  Flowers.  Paper.  All the good stuff.

Oh - a quick request - I need white or clear 2L icecream containers - anyone got some I could have?

Leaving you with images of one of the classes from the weekend, this was a class called Trinkets.  We created a basic layout that looked like this, but then from there the ladies were encouraged to add more from the Flower Buffet.. yep... more... and add more they did... you should have seen some of the layouts that came out of this class.  Link me up if you see some versions online!

laters

St Pat's day

Ahh yes - St Pat's day and I don't celebrate any of this kind of stuff however I had a nagging need for muffins so I did make green muffins before the kids got up this morning.  I also put green food colouring in the cistern of the toilet, frightening the heck out of the kids when they flushed it.  Funny thing was I was in a hurry as I thought I was going to get busted by one of the kids and in my haste half a bottle went in, I think we'll be flushig green for days. yay st pats day.

So anyway.  If it wasn't for the fact that I refuse to admit I'm getting old, then I'd think I was getting old.  Firstly it was the 'ooooh cooool Mum!  Are those chucks you are wearing?!!"

The what? Where?

"Chucks!" Jacob lifted the cuff of my jeans to expose what I can only imagine shocked his pre-teen mind and he coiled back in a "oh.  no.  not chucks" as he walked away.

What's wrong with my shoes? Was the look I gave him as he walked away.

Then there was the Brit tany Sp ears song.  The one where the offical song lyrics say "All the boys and all the girls want to if you seek Aimee". 

What's this song called?

"If you seek aimee" is the reply I get from the same pre-teen boy who is clearly just waiting for some bomb to explode in my head as realisation as to what he REALLY just said hits.

How do they get away with producing songs that encourage young kids to dance around singing this stuff?  Abby thinks it's a fabulous song.  She's SIX for goodness sake.  What happened to "Funky Town" and "Rock me amadeus?!"

I think I just got old.

Anyway.  I'll let their Dad deal with it as I'm in Melbourne at the end of this week at Scraptacular.  Poor Julie was hit with that hailstorm that caused millions of dollars of damage.  I'm a weather freak but even I would have been terrified by that one! I'm planning on having an awesome full on fun weekend after a few awful ones Julie has had dealing with all the insurance etc, so I hope some of you ladies can join me!

After that it's more of the Autumn Escape..more organising, little did we know when we took this on a few years ago how big it would get and how much work it would be.  Our reputation must be out there though, I've had people email me this week asking to sponsor us.  Sneaks due up on the Autumn Escape blog at the end of next week.

THEN it's settle into 13 weeks of fun with my Dimensional Details class - starting April 1st.. I've just completed yet another video for this one.  I never thought I'd be doing videos.  It's really good fun.  Love it.  Who'd have thought?

At this point I normally post a layout.  I have no idea what I've posted, what I haven't, what is Ok to post, what isn't... 

here's a layout though - Abby was a fabulous help while we were renovating a few years ago, here's a favourite pic.  A fairly simple layout for me... loved layering the lace.

laters

In a perfect world...

In a perfect world, I'd blog every few days.  But then in a perfect world I'd not be having my Monarch caterpillar population decimated by wasps and I'd not trip over sticks left on the footpath by kids playing cute imaginery games when I'm running in the morning.  A perfect world it is not.  So we'll blame the lack of blog posts on that.

That and Timaru.  Stunning place full of fabulous people.  Most memorable for my 9 year old son who must have felt a little vulnerable as he heard the adults discussing what to do about the Tsunami.  We are still getting nightmares of tidal waves. 

Loved Timaru though.  Loved saving a little blue Penguin off the rocks on Caroline Bay, where a stray cat was sitting guard waiting for bluepenguin for dinner.  We loved the amazing light as we walked the beach in the late evening, the fitness playgrounds, the hamster wheel, the fact that the train goes right through the middle of town all the time, the amazing fountains, the lack of traffic and the people.  The people are the best.  Thanks for having me, ladies.

We travelled afterwards to Hanmer where we spent a lot of time in the water and discussing how hard it is to say Hanmer, when really one feels themselves wanting to pronounce it Hamner.  This was until Braden pointed out that Hanmer does feel right, its like Granmer, only younger. 

Have I mentioned I'd like to move to the South Island?  To a place where one is greeted by sights like this... do you see the frog? 

For those of you that heard me chatting about geocaching, there is a cache here, it was the GS coordinates that made us stop.  And look.  Jacob is rushing to be first up the track, Abby is fighting with him, and Paul is telling them to stop acting the fool next to a 100km/hr road and there is Brady casually watching on.  As he does.  See.  Just like home.

 

For those of you going to the Autumn Escape, I'm going to be updating the blog every 3-4 days from now on, be sure to keep watching.
For those of you in Melbourne - consider coming to see me at Scraptacular.
For those of you not going anywhere, I can come to you... BPS Dimensional Details starts in just over 3 weeks.  I'm spending huge amounts of time on this workshop, it's going to be well worth it. 

For those of you that aren't concerned with any of the above, here's a layout, LG's daughter again, love the pics that LG takes, and it's all Prima.  Fancy that.

laters