Spring is Sprung

You know spring is here and we should be enjoying the warmth but this weekend was freezing here in Jo'burg. A definate movies and hot chocolate day.

Here is a new LO to remind us of how great spring sunshine and warmth can be.

This is using the spring fling kit by Kylie Moore. Great kit with really nice colours etc.

Scrapbooking

Hey we scrappers are really sad but if you check out the blog at snap and scrap you will find a song for scrappers. I think it is really great and can be found under this weeks sketchy tuesday post. Hope you are having a great day.

Thursday

Well it is Thursday and time is still flying. I wonder if it is eating special vitamins or something which is making it move so fast. If it is I want to get some of the same.

We will need all our energy this weekend to pack yet again as we move house on Monday. We are so looking forward to it and I hope that this will be our last move for a long time. We are looking forward to more space and room to breath. Also want to open a studio for people to come scrap or make cards or do artistic work for themselves. I hope it will be a creative space.

I doodled around the other day in Photoshop CS2 and had a ball just playing. I loved this picture which came from the web as a copyright free image and not sure who it is of or who by - philistine I know - but love the strength of this woman. The quote and boat are from a design by Bronwen Van Esch and her 'All Aboard Kit' available at www.snapandscrap.net. The rest is doodles I did myself. Oh I also cloned the picture and 'drew' it in the corner.

What I enjoy about this is that it may not rock any one elses boat but I had fun, and I enjoyed it. So go out there and let your creativity go wild and enjoy.

All Girl

Well I can't believe it is Sunday again. The weeks are flying past and it will be Christmas before we know it. If you are looking for presents why not visit the shoppe at http://www.snapandscrap.net/







There is a kit there where you can produce your own calenders for family and friends. A friend of mine did that a couple of years ago using black and white photos and it was such a stunning personal thing. She had it bound at a printers for a very small cost and honest it was fabulous.







These pages were made using the 'Jazzed' kit from snap and scrap. If you are clever you can get parts of it for free by going to the blog there. It is a really great kit with loads of denim and is good for boy or girl.


It is strange to think that the girl in the bath (top picture) is the mother of the girl Hayley in 'All Girl'


Time really does have wings

Alice in WOnderland please grant me a wish

Oh if only wishes could be granted by caterpillars

Would it not be nice if we could all be Alice in Wonderland and get down to the size we want to be.

Here is another one of those older photos. Take in 1976 it really takes you back to the fashions the times. Sitting on a shingle beach. We were made of much hardier stuff it seems in those days.

I remember this summer very well as it was the year we had no rain for months. I remember drinking wine at around midnight sitting outside with friends.

Paper is my own design but the scroll element at the bottom is from the ALL ABOARD kit available at www.snapandscrap.net

En Vacance

I love France and wish I could live there. I love the French way of life and the way everything revolves around family. My husbands father's family live there and in fact my husbands grandmother was a French woman who married an Englishman during the 1st world war.

My father in law escaped from France and through Spain during the Nazi occupation of France. He ended up in a prison in Spain from which he eventually got away. The funny thing is that once him and my mother-in-law went to Spain on holiday and his wallet was stolen. Guess where he had to report the loss? That's right the prison is now a police station.

Anyway he met an English woman and reversed the whole process as he went to live in England. There goes a brief history of a fascinating story.

Anyway these were taken the year we went for two weeks to a Gite near St Omer. Unfortunately my Mom died while we were away - we were expecting it and I had said Goodbye on the day we left. She was in a comma from which she never awoke.

I learnt the point is be there while they are alive and need you not when they have died. A funeral is just for the living not the one who has died. In many cases the people that go never visited the person for years, but they were good they showed up at the funeral.