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Sisters

When I was back in Christchurch in 2013 this photo was taken of my sister Angela Vallance and I at her house, we were having a good old laugh over something, my BIL took the photo and I loved it, it captured the moment at the right time. I decided it was such a fun photo that I would do a scrapbook page - and I did. When I realised we were going back to Christchurch for Christmas 2014 I had an idea. For years now we as a family no longer give gifts to each other at Christmas only for birthday's, we only give to the children of which now Rory is the only one, my nephews are 20 and 23 now so they get birthday's only. Anyway back on topic, I wanted to have this page transformed into a 12x12 canvas - man the prices differ so much. While at the house sit here at Morayfield - Harvey Norman had a special on real canvas 12x12 not the faux ones for $20, I was in there quick smart. See below the finished canvas, Angela does not know she is getting this, hope she likes it as it captures the moment 100%.

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Finally under way

Rory's Album

Well it's almost Christmas and I have had been really busy since my last post. I have managed to get all my digital pages printed - thank you Office Works Morayfield, and all for the cost of $2ppage, happy hell yes. I have been trying to get this album for grandson Rory under way however as the original album is buried somewhere in our storage shed I thought ok start again from the beginning and purchase a new album - just what I did. I started from 2006 with Yasmine's baby scans - and have finished with 2014. Yep there are gaps in between however I am working on that and they are under way. It is a start and a huge start. I had a total of 38 pages printed so that's a great start. Honestly I was so amazed at how good they look, so professional and my handi work. I have used a number of quick pages as I thought that would be the only way I was going to get this done, I have to say though that they are NOT ALL quick pages, some of them are my own handi work, as I did a few challanges at Jelly Beans and those pages are included here. (Thank you Noriel Sirca for gettting me started on digi - yes I am now addicted) and also to Kym and Toni for making me actually create with your challanges.

And here are a few of the finished one's so far.

Storm Season

And last Friday it came in so fast caused so much damage in Brisbane it was peak hour the hail was the size of cricket balls and the damage it did was dreadful. Thankfully we never go the hail here we did get 1 very strong wind gust around 4.30pm and then the rain. It was so wonderful to get this we got 30ml here on the Friday evening and another 10ml on the Saturday it is amazing how the lawns have greened up that fast.

Lunch with our long time friends

Sunday 31st November

Today we had a fabulous day with our very good friends Helen and David Waldron and Bronwen and Sonny Johns (who used to live in Nelson) they came down for lunch which was a shared lunch always good makes it so much easier. We had salad, cold roast chicken,cold silver side, hot chicken kebabs and potatoes, along with Turkish bread which we had warmed. The lads had beer and the girls had some wine along with Grapetise all very nice. For dessert we had birds nests with whipped cream and strawberries. Later in the day washed down by a cuppa before the travelers returned home. A great day of fun and laughs. All of us are heading back to NZ for Christmas and New Year. And a lovely Sunset to close off a great day.

 

 

A little bit of country

A week ago we headed for a drive out into the country through Wamuran and onto Dayboro where we had packed a picnic lunch all be it very limited a we had not been shopping. The drive was just beautiful up over the Mt Mee Range, down into Dayboro. We had lunch at a nice spot next to the local swimming pool and beside the craft cottage - NO I did not enter through the doors - talk about self restraint. It was a lovely drive coming back through Petrie and Narangba.