A little bit of this and that!

Mid month Creating Garden....

Well the mid month Garden is up at 2peas. Some of my favourites include:

• Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - Jennifer  - the colours really made this page jump out from the gallery at me.
• Spunky - Sande  - I am a big fan of white backgrounds with bright colours. This one I especially love. Love the arrows!! Very very cool.
• Memorial Day 2005 - Erica  - really love the circles on this one.
• Be Mine - Lisa  - that close up photo is a crack up. Love the collage elements on this one too.
• Sleepover - Kim  - beautiful simplicity
• Adorable You - Anne - the colours were what attracted me to this layout.

Camp Quality 2007....

WOW what a week! What can I say.... but it was AWESOME!!!!!! 76 kids, 76 companions and then some staff and nearly 200 people had the time of their lives out at Forbes. I must admit that the weather was HOT HOT and HOT.
Sunday -Everyone arrived around 1.00pm or so and it was straight to lunch. So many new faces this year. I had missed training weekend so didn't know of the new companions... well let me tell you there were heaps of them. That afternoon we had activities on the oval with lots going on and of course there is always POOL time!!! The pool facility at Redbend is great. That night we headed off to McDonalds for dinner followed by Orienteering for the older kids.

Monday - This day was to hang out and have activities at the college. Activities this year included Golf, Lawn Bowls, Leatherwork, Woodwork, Craft, Darts and Chocolate Making. The Night owls (9-14 year olds) got to have another swim later on that night.

Tuesday - More activities in the morning. We headed to the movies to watch Happy Feet for the juniors and Flushed Away for the night owls. Unfortunately 20 minutes into the movie the air-conditioning packed it in and we had to go home. I think it felt like about 50 degrees inside!! A bit disappointing but there wasn't much we could do.... except of course get in some more swim time!!! LOL.
That night was fancy dress night. The theme this year ----- A Night At The Movies. The costumes were vast and varied. We had all sorts of weird and wonderful additions this year.

Wednesday - We headed off to Dubbo Zoo. The weather was slightly cooler but not once we jumped on those push bikes and rode around the zoo. We were a sea of smiley faces. Our girls only lasted until lunch on the bikes and then we got on one of the jeeps to do the rest. That night on the way home we had dinner and a swim at the Parkes pool. A pretty full on day but heaps of fun!

Thursday - This was a pretty easy going day with more activities in the morning and then after lunch the girls got to create their act for the concert night. Amazing how these acts come together out of nothing. There were 12 of us and we did a song/dance to I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker. Too cute!

Friday - Here we were at the end of the week. Most of the morning was spent packing up and getting ready to head home. I couldn't believe how quickly the week had gone. It is always sad when you come to the end of camp! But it won't be long and we will be back there again.

I'm back....

Ok so I did really well and did and update for the first 3 days but the rest were a blur!!! LOL. Lots and lots happened. I will fill you in on everything in the next couple of days. But right now I am hot, exhausted and just glad to be home. Did you miss me??

Day 3....

Wow day 3 already. The weather has really warmed up. Today included leatherwork,craft,movies and of course the highlight of the day, the fancy dress night. Hope you are all having a great week. xoxo

Lime Tart - Zest News....

Well it is that time and the January Gallery is up at Lime Tart. Check out the gorgeous work that is there for this month. I love seeing everyone's interpretation of the kits, sketches etc. We all have such different styles so we get a great mix of work. Make sure you also check out the Newsletter  which also shows a little sneak peek at next months kits. The tag shown here is the one that I made for my Nan for her birthday. The picture of the little girl I found online.
I am heading off to Camp in an hour or so. Hope that everyone has a great week. If I can I will try and check in from Camp...after all I can post from my phone! (Gotta love technology) If not I will see you all on Friday.

Create....

Just sharing the calender that I created for Kelly who won my little RAK competition that was on my blog before Christmas. It arrived in the mail for her yesterday so now that she has seen it I can show you all.
PP is MOD, HS chipboard heart, lettering,photo corners and flower, MM button, scraps of fabric and embroidery thread.

It's almost that time again....

Well everyone it is nearly CHA time again. Being held in Anaheim from 28-31st January. I am soooo jealous of all of you that get to go. You are going to have such an awesome time. I so want to go again. So with the show coming up the sneak peeks are starting to show up online. Some that have caught my eye so far are:

• The Crafters Workshop - loving those templates.
• Polar Bear Press - these colours are just yummy.
• American Crafts -how do they keep coming up with this stuff?
• Scenic Route- with more here.
• Cherry Arte - the biggest congrats to Corinne on her designs! WTG girl.
• Queen and Co  - like umm YUMMY!!
• Luxe Designs - have no clue what might be here but I am a sucker for new companies!
• Piggy Tales - mmmm yummy

I will update this thread when I find anymore.

Freestyle Down Under....

Well the details are finally up about Freestyle Down Under. How fantastic does this event look? Lots of awesome tutors with amazing classes and days of inspiration. I think the hardest part will be choosing what classes to do. You can check out the class schedule here. My accomodation is already booked and sharing once again with my scrapping buddies Kylie and Robyn. Hope to see some of you there. Bring it on!!!

Random thoughts....

WOW I can't believe how many responses I got to my delurking thread!! It has been wonderful to discover who has been reading my blog. I know there are more of you hiding out there.... don't by shy and come and play. Remember that delurking week goes all week. LOL. I have added everyone who has posted that shared their blog addresses with me to my Bloglines so I will be sure to check in to see what you have been up too.

As of 4.45pm today I am officially on holidays until 30th January. Woooo hoooo!!!!! This Sunday I head off to Camp Quality for the week! Always lots of fun. If you have not heard of Camp Quality before take a look at the link. Basically we take children suffering from cancer and their siblings away for a week of just plain FUN! A time for Mum n Dad to take a break and for the kids to just enjoy being kids without the constraints of hospital. I think there are about 80 kids coming, 80 companions and with medical staff and camp support stuff their are probably close to 200 of us. It is soooooooo much fun and I could rave about it for hours if you let me. The camp we are holding at Forbes at Redbend College that has everything we need. We have fancy dress night, movies, disco, concert night and various other activities. This will be my 12th camp!

Tomorrow and Saturday will be full of just getting ready for Camp. Although I am indulging a little tomorrow with getting my eyebrows done and a pedicure. A girl has to have pink toes ready for camp. LOL.

Well with the New Year always comes resolutions, intentions or whatever you want to call them. Well this year my hubby and I have started. We are both on a health kick. We have been walking and changing our eating habits. My hubby has already lost 2 kilos!! Me... well ummm I sorta forgot to weigh myself before I started so don't have a clue. Haven't weighed myself in over 6 months. So once I get back from Camp I will weigh myself and start from there. (That and with the amount of food they feed us on camp I am probably only going to put weight on anyway. LOL)  Talking about the walking I just got back from an hour long walk that nearly killed me. It wasn't so much the walk itself rather the fact that I am sure it was still 30+ degrees out there. I so didn't think I was going to make it home. Just spent the last 20 minutes in the shower sitting under the cold water. LOL. But a girl has to do what a girl has to do.

Hopefully tomorrow I want to try and scrap that photo of my Nan from her birthday. I am picking up the photo in the morning from the Camera store so fingers crossed. I know what I want to do with it and hope it works out. Nothing too complicated... after all I am a simple gal. ;)

I am LOVING my new Ipod especially on my walks. So totally cool. Still have't converted all my CDs yet but I am getting there.

A new lolly shop opened up in town.... bad for my health kick.

CHA is on in a couple of weeks and the sneak peeks are starting to show up. (More on this in a blog post tomorrow)

I got happy mail today. This  stamp from 7 gypsies.

I told you it was all Random thoughts today.... LOL.

Come out come out wherever you are....

Apparently this week is National Delurking week (Ok so in the US but hey we are all part of the big wide world and I am happy to celebrate anything!!LOL) Held in the 2nd week in January. A time for you to come out from behind your monitor and say hello to each and everyone on each and every blog that you read! Now I know that I look at my stats both in Tyepad as well as Bloglines and constantly am amazed at how many people drop in to take a peek at what I have been up to. I know who some of you are but honestly there are a lot that I don't. I am always curious to know who might find what I say interesting. Well that and hey I love making new friends. So this week is the week to say hi. (MMM I am just thinking about the 100's of blogs that I have in Bloglines... my fingers are so going to be cramped after saying hello to all of them. LOL)