Sunday in the park

We enjoyed a impromptu Sunday lunch and walk in the rose garden in Newtown Park. My page size is 8.5x11. I think I am starting to want to add more to the pages but at the same time, keep it simple....

December Daily catch up

I finally decided to include my DD in my second PL album, rather than a separate album because I have plenty of space to do this. Another reason was to save on doubling up doing December pages for both Project Life and a December Daily. I am happy with the decision and I am enjoying making the pages.

So far I have kept the design of each page the same to speed up the process and it is working well. I may vary it as I go along......time will tell!

I made a title page for the beginning of December.

my pages follow....I have missed two days but am fine with that. No stressing!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Project Life and some photos

Week 41 is all photos from my trip to Ireland....so hard to choose only a few photos for this week when I took over 2000. I still need to do an insert with journalling and perhaps a couple more pics. Never mind, I will have a chance to use them in my album!

Anyone one who was on the trip will know why I giggle to myself doing all these week 'forty' something pages...

Week 43 we spent a fabulous day at Queen Mary Falls and I filled both pages with photos from that one day. Once again I need an insert for journalling.

 

Week 44 has photos from several days although the second page is mostly about Debbie coming home for a few days. This time she went back a day early as she was going to a Melbourne Cup party on Tuesday and had a hair appointment on Monday.

 

 

and lastly some photos of a pair of wrens who sat on the side mirror of the car as soon as we parked at Queen Mary Falls. They were very obliging and stayed while I took some photos through the tinted window. I didn't dare try putting the window down!

 

A new blog

Today I have started a new blog Soonymary's Irish Jaunt where I am planning to post photos.... hopefully every day.... when I am on my trip to Ireland.

Only 17 sleeps until I leave.....woohooo!

Smiling!!!!!!!..........

For the past month I think I have had a permanent smile on my face.....so excited I can barely keep still......let alone sleep LOL.

The reason for the excitement is that I am going on a trip to Ireland in October. Now that in itself is exciting for someone of my age who has never been overseas before....but wait....there is more lol! I am doing a scrapbooking and photography tour with Ali Edwards and Karen Russell.

This is really a dream trip for me.....can you tell I am excited? It has the best of both worlds for me.....sightseeing during the day and some lessons at night.

Details of the trip can be found here if you would like to see what we will be doing.

I am so looking forward to this. Can't wait to meet everyone and start taking photos in Ireland. And imagine the scrapping I will be able to do when I come home again......heaven!!! lol!!!!

another page!!

Two posts in two days.....amazing for me lately!! Today I have used the July sketch from Scrapbook Supplies Online

The pink border is wider than it appears here but the scanner doesn't seem to like borders.

ScrapFriends sketch

I love this sketch from ScrapFriends and just had to give it a try this month!
Here is my attempt

It is much more grungy than I usually do.....but it came together quickly and was so much fun to do. I used a mix of old and new supplies. The background is an old piece of BG Recess, the other pp's are from a Crate paper Random 6x6 pad.....I am loving the small pads lately. I also used Crafter's Workshop stencils, Adirondack Colourwashes and a very dark brown inkpad. The camera stamp is a hand carved one of mine and stamped on cord cardstock which creates the striped look.

Not sure if you can see the white chevron markings on the background....they were done using a home made chevron stencil and Atellier Modelling Compound. I will most definitely be using that again....I can see so many uses for it!