Still more pages from Yvette's!!

Yep, here are 2 more pages I finished during my visit with Yvette 2 weeks ago and still hadn't gotten to post!! Wow, you can call me slack.. I can handle it {quietly sobbing into dressing gown}. LOL! This first page is a patchwork of scraps from my stash. The OLD on this page are the lettering stickers I used for the title and some of the scraps of papers which I have had for a few years now (cough!) The chipboard flowers I've had for 2.5yrs now so that makes them about teenagers in the age of my stash :) Heheh.. the cute journal spot is a brand spankin new one though, so cute!
Then the other page is a silly one of Will and I from our Road Trip/Beach Holiday last year. I was just snapping some silly pics of Will when I realised I was in them too! If you look closely I am reflected in Will's sunnies!! Hehe, I laughed a lot when I realised I was there! I love this cloud paper so much, it matched a big snuggly dressing gown I have, which is like wearing a massive cuddly blanket around the house, sooooo good in winter! Yvette helped me choose the colour combo for this one so... Thanks!! {hugs!} The OLD on this page is the journal spot and the "squeeze me" sticker which I have had for a couple of years now! See the "everyday" word on the right? It's actually the name of the paper series which is printed on the cut-off strip at the bottom of the paper! I just cut it off and used a corner rounder to spruce it up.... Genious!! I think this page is my favourite, probably cos Willy has that silly little grin on too {heart!}
Did you know this time next week we'll be in Tokyo? Awesome!!
:) C

Easter Sunday :)

HE IS RISEN!! (Here is where you respond with: "He is Risen Indeed!" Go on, join the fun!)


I'm up early so I can get off to early church (with all the oldies at that time slot!) and get down to Mum and Dads before lunch. Luckily we didn't end up having a late night in the city last night so getting up at 7am wasn't too painful! The Brazillian BBQ was delicious! Although it was all meat, with a bit of cheese and salsa so my poor insides were screaming out for some greens! We didn't end up going to a club afterwards with my friend cos we were so stuffed! It was very tasty though :)

You may have noticed I've done a few scrap pages lately, it's been wonderful to be able to squeeze in some time to sit at my desk and create! This page marks my 29th for the year which is awesome cos I usually try to do an average of 1 page per week, so 52 for the year. I missed the target in 2007, I think I only did about 36 pages, last year I smashed it with 68 and this year I'm well on my way to reaching target, it being only week 15 of the year! I'm quickly running out of page protectors though, and I can't find a stockist of my favourite ones in Australia (the shop I used to buy them off closed down and then I bought 100 when I was in the states in 2006 but they're almost all used up!) I use "Memory Book" brand by C-Line so if you see anyone with them let me know!

This page is from our Road Trip/Beach Holiday last Oct. Will was so cute, heading off down the far end of the beach to search through the rocks for some sea life! The shells, fish and crabs were so tiny in the Rockpools!! My camera wouldn't even focus on the baby crab cos he was so small! Its nice to have this paper out of my stash cos I've had it for about 4 or so years. Do Crate Paper still exist? I only ever saw them once, when I bought 2 papers! It's got a beautiful texture this paper, but the colours are more muted than what I am using at the moment. But I love the spots! Brace yourself for a wanky statement: "The title is not uniform, as I wanted it to convey a sense of the water washing around the pools, examplified by the spots on the paper." How's that for a wanky design statement!
Happy Easter! I hope you get lots of delicious eggs!
:) C

Project 365 Collage #11

Wow, can you believe we are now past 100 days into the year? That's unbelievable! This year has already flown past.. quick grab on before it passes you by! So, another 9 days have passes (actually this collage was due last Tues, so forgive me!) and there are some of the more every-day type things happening this time: I am lucky enough to have a boy who likes to cook! He is especially fantastic at Fried Rice, it is so so delicious! Here he is demonstrating the tradition Chinese method of eating rice called "Shovelling"; chairs all lined up at the Market Research night I did for 3 mobile. They called me 4 times to make sure I was coming and insisted I not be late- I arrived on time and was only one of 2 people, everyone else (including the moderator) was late!; Yvette's birthday card {owls=love!}; two of my favourite things for winter- tights and my new Boots from Target- an absolute bargain on sale for $32, gotta love them!; no overtime means time to paint my toenails, Yay!; Samira's birthday party in the city (there's my cool new dress!); yeah it's time for "The Great Bedroom Clean Up" which I'm proud to say happened and now I have a whole floor to walk around and lay on etc, not just a path through the middle, hooray!; delivering Easter Pamphlets to local letterboxes for church; me in my new favourite Little Red Riding Hood T-shirt I got last weekend. Isn't it the sweetest?!! Actually, it's probably a little too small to see here, but trust me, it's way cute :)

Thanks Yvette, but I wasn't fishing for complements in the last post when I said I didn't like my pages at the moment! I am planning on getting a bunch of pics printed this week so that I can have some more inspiring pics to scrap, and therefore make pages that i like! I did this page this week and I do acutally like it. I think the green and purple combo will be a fresh addition to my album and it suits the pics from Jacaranda last year! The purple paper is so bold IRL and goes nicely with the more muted green. I had fun doing the journalling straight on the PP with hand-drawn white pen lines underneath. The artisan frame I got as a thank you when I bought some stamps off ebay. Awesome! I have used up all but one piece of about 9 that the lovely lady gave me. Hurrah for freebies!

I've had a pretty constructive day today, getting up early and heading off to Ofis, the Harvey Norman Officeworks-type store that is closing down. I got some cool bargains, like a 4GB fast speed Memory Card for my camera for only $20. Bargain! Plus more scissors for my Stampin Up kit cos I never have enough and some pretty paper and envelopes. Then it was off to Parra Westfield to exchange money for Japan (only a month away!! EXCITEMENT!!) and get Linh a present. And I found my new favourite store there.. Cupcakes on Pitt. DELICIOUS! I know I make my own cupcakes but these looked so cute and were only $2 each and came in a cute carry box so I had to try 2 out! I got a Lemon Merangue and a Black Forrest Cupcake. I have to say the Lemon Merangue one was totally delicous! Oh so fluffy merangue and delicious lemony taste!! Heaven! The Black Forrest one was also nice, but honestly, it's not hard to make a delicious chocolate cupcake. I recommend Cupcakes on Pitt! If you're looking for them at Parra they are on the very bottom level in the walkway that leads from the bottom level food court over toward the station. Try them! You'll love them too!

I'm off to the city again tonight, this time for my friend Linh's birthday. We're having Brazillian BBQ this time which will be interesting, I haven't had that before!

:) C

Hooray for Saturday (and a confession about my New Year's Resolution)

My gosh, I was so excited to finish work at 10pm yesterday and realise I had NO PLANS for today or tomorrow except dinner and a movie with Willy tonight. Woo hoo!! This means so much time to just do whatever!! {Happy dancing, head down, arms flailing, legs kicking... WOOT!!}

So.... I slept in til 9am, made eggs on toast in the tiny pink frypan I got off Mum and Dad for my birthday... watched RAGE and sat down at my desk and created.... YAY!!

I actually started this first page when I got home from work last night. It's using more of the Cosmo Cricket Mr Campy range I bought specifically for this holiday.. I love the little car towing the caravan so much!! My family used to tow our caravan around the countryside for holidays.. I have many many fond memories of our caravan holidays! Maybe when we have kids we'll have a caravan too. I think Will wouldn't care, as long as wherever we go he can go fishing! I did have to drive this section between Grafton and Yamba though cos we went the back way through Lawrence and Will hasn't driven on such narrow country roads before! Lol, it was so funny watching him try to put 2 wheels off the edge of the road and miss the guide posts when a car came in the opposite direction! I didn't realise how much subliminal training I must have gotten being a passenger for all those years growing up and driving on those roads!

And then the next page about Willy. This was one of those moments when my heart dropped all the way down to my feet and I felt so genuinely sorry, grateful, apologetic, loved and cared for, all at the same time! Not sure if you can read the journalling so I'll give you a quick summary. Australia Day, out all day, Will dropped me home at 11pm then dropped a friend off at Ashfield and went home. He tried calling me 10 times but I couldn't hear my phone ringing cos it was in my handbag in my bedroom and next thing I know there's a knock at my door and it's Will. He thought something had happened to me, he thought I had been abducted between his car and my front door or that I was in a Diabetic Coma so he had rushed back to my house to make sure I was ok. I felt sooo bad and was so sorry I hadn't heard my phone ring! He wasn't even angry or upset, and he didn't want to come in to the house, he just said "Ok, goodnight. Make your ring tone louder next time". Oh!! I thought "What kind of person would do that for me and drive all the way back to my house to check on me?"! It's not a short trip either. Poor Willy, my hero!

So.. my New Year's Resolution....

I AM TRYING!!!

Really I am... but I am only just holding on!! I accidentally bought 6 more papers (LOL! How do you accidentally buy papers?!) last weekend which means instead of being in the positives with trying to use up my stash I am 1 paper behind. That's right, now I have 1 more paper than when I started this challenge January 1. BUT... that's not too bad really. As long as I don't buy any more for a while, I think it is quite self controlled! I always love papers and forced myself to only buy 6 and only ones that I could think of specific projects for.

As for my scraps... somehow my scrap stash has gone from 2.35kg of scraps to 2.53kg. Hmmm... I think there may be some paper love going on and they are multiplying without my knowledge! I swear I keep using them, and the stash keeps getting bigger! I think the Scrapbooking Fairy is sneaking in at night and planting more scraps in my box!

So... forgive me for not having any positive news about my New Year's Resolution, but it's not all together that negative either! I will try harder!!

:) C

Relaxation Day... Oh Yeah!!

Boy was I so happy to finally have some time at home today for a "Relaxation Day!!" Church was on early today so we could watch a satellite link of the Archbishop speaking (who would have though Church would get so technologically advanced?!) then I was free the WHOLE day til 6pm when I had a friend's dinner. Seeing as it was gonna be another stinker of a day I changed into tiny shorts and a singlet top and prepared for a fun fun day!!

I put on my "Band of Brothers" DVDs, which I just LOVE, that Willy gave me for my birthday. Am I the only chick who scrapbooks to war movies? Probably. The last time I scrapped "The Guns of Navverone" was on, which I quite enjoyed also! I finished 2 pages that I was so pleased with and just chilled out the whole day. Happy happy happy me.

This first page I'm posting was the one I did yesterday (see, I promised I would post it!) I don't do Christmas pages very often. Don't get me wrong-I LOVE Christmas- I have HEAPS of Christmas papers and decorations and yet I don't remember the last time I did a Christmas page! I think everything gets over Christmassed for me. You know, there are so many busy decorations in the pics or the colours are all wrong for my papers, or I hate my Christmas papers (the usual excuses!) Well this year I broke the mold by making this page yesterday!! I love these papers and they went so well with Christmas! Finally, it looks as though there was a Christmas once in my life!! Lol.. I promise I will try to make more Christmas LO's this year. Ok, well I'll try to make another one at least. Heheh, good enough promise.

The second page is from our Road Trip/Beach Holiday in Oct. I found it rather weird to eat Pippi's at a Chinese Restaurant- I mean, these were things we used to dig up on holidays! I didn't know they were worth so much ($60/kg FYI!) I told the story of always digging them up at Darlington Park and the next week when we were on hols there Willy was so happy to find one! He had held it for ages and I was like "It's probably still alive you know" so we put it in the shallows and after about a minute the slimy "tongue" appeared, it upended and dug straight down into the sand really fast!! Will was totally amazed! We dug it straight back up again (nothing like torturing a Pippi!) and I video-ed it digging back down again on my camera. So cute!! I asked if he wanted to eat it but he wasn't interested after seeing it in it's natural habitat. I think he understood why they tasted so gritty when it sucked in the sea water and squirted it out it's top end!! No Pippi was harmed in the making of this page (we left it alone after digging it up twice!)

The other page from today I'll leave for another post (it's another big week at work and I want to be able to post something during the week!)

:) C

Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!

I just got back from a run and man is it hotting up outside! Finally Summer has come to Sydney.. Woo Hoo! Now I get to enjoy it from the inside of an Air Conditioned Lab, at least we have windows in our new lab and are no longer raving mad scientists stuck in a windowless cavern. Lol!

Here's a page I finished the other day... you may have seen a sneaky little pic of it on the Project 365 Mosaic of my first 9 days.

It's another one of the Big Banana from Will and My Road Trip/Beach Holiday back in October. I love the pic on the right where the Banana Split looks GINORMOUS!! YUM! Do you like my journalling spot/ speech bubble? Will says the sweetest things... and I'm sure I remember him saying this, but it doesn't really matter anyway cos I know he was thinking it, and it made for good journalling anyway {wink!} Look Felicity, I used one of the big paper flowers you gave me for Christmas {cheering a blowing on a hooter}!!

Ah Monday, I hope you're all not suffering Monday-itis! Mine used to be alleviated by the fact I knew Monday was my day shift amongst a sea of nights.. happy times.

:) C

Keep it Rollin....

I'm off to a great start this year, I've done 4 pages already! Awesome!! That means also that I'm almost 1/10th down on my New Years Resolution to reduce my papers by 20%! Woo hoo! If I keep on this course I'll be finished my resolution in no time! :) {clapping hands}

The first page is of the MASSIVE Hail stones that pelted down on us at Darlington Park when we were on hols in October. DP is notorious for Hail (we were there in a massive hail storm in 1985 that went through the roofs of the caravans and littered the ground with dead birds!) and of course there was no shelter for the car so we threw every blanket in the cabin over it! Other cars had cracked windscreens and dints but Willy's was fine. Look at my totally unimpressed face! I was amazed by just how many Cricket Ball Size stones there were- it wasn't just 1 or 2, there were dozens!

The second page is from the Oct Long Weekend (yeah, I'm so totally up to date with my scrappin! Whatever!) when Will and I did a late afternoon run to Dee Why for a fish and chip dinner by the sea. Totally delicious. The Calamari Rings at this chip shop are gigantic!! We really should share one box cos there's so much food, but we gorged ourselves and had one each {fatties}. I loved how awesomely blue the sky was this day and I was so happy when it came out that way in the pics too. I love will's Black hair against the blue sky, Black hair is so dramatic! So glad he did something about those creeping sideburns though.. I think he was planning for them to reach his chin! Lol.

:) C

Scraplifting..

Here are the 2 pages I did when I discovered my Mojo yesterday. The first is of the Bakerella Cupcake Pops I made at Yvette's place back in Sep. If you think this page looks familiar it is because I had already done this page on pink and white spotty paper about the same event! LoL! It wasn't planned but it's no biggie either, seeing as they go together in the album so they kinda match. I had all these pics of us making the Cupcake Pops so I thought they deserved a page just as much as eating the Cupcake Pops did! Man were these delicious.

Then I did this page, which is a Scraplift of a page by Jennifer Pebbles, one of my fave scrapbookers. If only she would post more often!! Her page is here. I bought the Mr Campy range by Cosmo Cricket specifically for the pics of our Road Trip/Beach Holiday, and I just love the way JP uses them. So cute! I don't generally Scraplift so closely, but I loved her page :) I hope mine still seems different enough! Will was so funny when he caught this fish.. he kept pointing at it's face and saying "I'm so gonna eat you!". He did! I tried a bit, but maintain my view that fish tastes like shoe.

So.. Happy Days.. I have done 2 pages already for the year! Did you know in 2006 I had a plan to do 52 LO's for the year and i did 36. Wow, so underwhelming. Last year I did 68! What an effort! I was quite pleased with myself. This year I hope to equal or better that number. Especially seeing as I have to use up my stash, as per my New Year's Resolution (to use 20% of my 269 PPs). Well.. so far so good... these 2 LO's used 3 sheets of paper! Woot {blowing a paper hooter} only 51 to go!

:) C

Check it out.. I'm Back again!

So.. did you miss me? Lol, I certainly missed having a working computer! I drove around for 3 hours this morning (thankfully, my car has air con cos it's 30 degrees here) and saught out a new computer screen and Yay, I got one! I don't like to miss out on a bargain (the reason why I drove around for 3 hours and went to 7 places!!) and am happy to say I got a fantastic one.. if only I can get this damn widescreen to look right now.. why is everything so fat? Lol {sigh}.

So here's the page I wanted to post the other day when my computer decided to have a spazz...
Yes, it's Will modelling this year's latest fashion... Fish and Chips. He really was having a great time on holidays! I am happy to say this is another paper that has spent a very long time in my stash and I'm totally happy to have it out!
It's my work Christmas party at Star City tomorrow night! I am so excited, it's always good fun and work pays for all the food and drink so it makes for a super night! This year a whole bunch of my friends and I got a room so the girls are going in early to enjoy the City View with some nibbles as we get ready! Yay.. I'm so excited!
Sorry it's such a short post after a week of no posts, but I'm sooooo busy today!
:) C

Last Holiday Page... and it's Sweet!

We couldn't miss out on a visit to the Big Banana this trip and it makes a fun Scrappin subject! I had fun looking through my stash for lots of bright elements to use on this page (which I did while still on hols {love that!}) I used more of my favourite Colorbok Life is Sweet range (so happy I bought so many co-ordinating pieces!)- the epoxy shapes, stickers, "Sweet" word and frame are all from this series. I had to use the 100% Organic sticker, just for a laugh!! hahah.

[As an aside, I'm watching Labyrinth while I type this and it's up to the bit with those freaky red puppets whose heads pop off and on... they always freaked me out and I still hate them now! I remember having to leave the room when they came on when I was little, cos I was so scared of them! Love David Bowie's hair though, its awesome!]

One last holiday pic:

How pretty is Lighthouse Beach in Port Macquarie? We went for a drive out to the lighthouse right at sunset and it was gorgeous. I'm not sure if you can see in this pic but the ocean was Full of surfers- there must have been about 30-40 just sitting waiting for the perfect wave!

Hope you're having a good weekend! I've done one page already and am just generally slothing otherwise! It's awesome!

:) C

A holiday Poser

I found out how especially cool it is to scrap pictures from your holiday, while you're still on holidays! Lol! Here is a page I scrapped while we were still at Port Macquarie, of Willy being a weirdo on the Beach at Darlington Park. As soon as I picked up my camera he did this pose! Lol, such a funny guy.

If you're looking at this PP thinking "I think I used to have that paper, a few years ago though" then you'd be right. Man I have had it for EVER!! But I liked it's bold colours so it stayed in my stash and it finally suited this beach page quite well! The foam thickers "waves" under the title I thought I would never use and look, here they are! Woo Hoo!

And our holiday pics today are from Grafton (my hometown) where it happened to be Jacaranda Festival time when we were there. You might have seen from Yvette's pages that we traditionally had a family portrait (by Dad) in See Park under the Jacaranda's every year. Will and I kinda kept up the tradition with some fun snaps under the magnificent Jacaranda trees of See Park. Aren't they beautiful!!

And then lastly, some ducks. Well, there were waddling ever so cutely around in the fallen Jacaranda flowers so they were worthy of a pic too! Shake your tail feather little guy!

:) C

Fresh Hair

Is there anything that feels quite as good as a fresh hair cut? I always wonder why I wait so long to have one, cos the minute I get one I LOVE the feel of my hair and spend a few hours swishing it around! Of course, I can never do it exactly as well as they do at the salon, but that's what makes getting your hair cut really special, and not just routine.

Yvette gave me this sheet of Sass Lass paper cos I {heart} owls so much and she had 2 sheets of it. I didn't have a clue what kind of photos I could use that would go with it, and so just decide to do a page on something "everyday" that I like having done. A little daily snapshot, rather than a special event or holiday. The page had to include some thickers (Hat Box, by American Crafts), Lil' Davis outline letters and my favourite green and white spotty paper. It's almost all used up but I really like seeing it on pages in my album instead of hiding it away in my stash!

And then for the holiday pics:

Will and I went fishing at Lake Wooloweyah one afternoon during our stay at Yamba. I had only ever seen the Lake from the lookout at Maclean (which is about 20km away!!) so I was keen to head out and have a look close up. It turned out to be a really beautiful, peaceful, picturesque spot where I relaxed, reading my book and taking pics of Willy and he set up 3 fishing rods hoping for a catch. He wasn't disappointed, cos he caught a Bream!! He was sooo excited as he was easing it into shore and cheered when he realised it was big enough to keep and eat! Keep an eye out for a page of it (it's still in my head, but hopefully I'll get around to making it sometime!!) I had fun basking in the late afternoon sunshine and felt totally on holidays as I watched the sun set over the lake. What a perfect day it was!

:) C

What a Cutie!!

Page number 3 from holidays is about a cute little guy and the cute little outfit I bought him in Hawaii! Man Cooper has grown so fast, but I'm pleased to say I saw him get plenty of wear out of these cute little trackies and comfy top from Carters. I love the little penguins and was sold by the fact it says "I'm Cool!" How awesome is that! I especially love the tiny My First Volley's that I bought before he was even born, I love baby shoes so much and have a little collection of my own!! The gorgeous Nike hat is courtesy of Aunty Alicia and completes this cool boy's look! I had to stock up on some new boy papers cos my stash has always been pretty minimal and since doing pages of Cooper it's pretty non-existant! Now if only people would invite me to a wedding every weekend for the next year I might finish my stash of "sweet, romantic" papers too!

Now for some holiday snaps:
This is Will and I at the lookout at Maclean (in the Northern Rivers of NSW if you're an out-a-towner!) I love this lookout, it has the most beautiful views across the Clarence Valley and out to the Pacific Ocean. I think we are blocking the view of Yamba though, which is where we were heading. Look at that gorgeous weather, now can you imagine swimming, fishing, shopping, lazing by the pool etc in that weather for 2 weeks?

Yep, it was bliss!

And here is my crazy guy doing his "Cabbage Patch Kid" face. Have I mentioned that Will is extremely hard to take pics of?! His usual face is a clenched teeth scowl, which he calls a smile, or a cheesy grin with one eye shut. At least with these sunnies on you can't tell if he's shut his eyes! But this CPK smile is a Willy special, and at least it makes me laugh. Believe it or not, this happens to be his smile on his licence.. and he's stuck with it for 5 years! HAHAHAHAHA {massive belly laugh!} Life is not boring with Will!

:) C

Page #2 from my Holiday Scrappin

Check it out! It's the second page I did while Will and I were away on our Road Trip/Beach Holiday Adventure and it's of the most delicious American snack ever!! It's me eating a Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll, and look at the pure bliss on my face!!. These rolls are beyond belief, so soft and silky, it's like eating velvet! Only with a delicious Cinnamon flavour :)

I used a Kaisercraft paper for the BG, with some snippets of other fave papers by Sass Lass and American Crafts. And I got to use the knife and fork motifs from my American Crafts thicker shapes pack.. I thought I'd never use them!! {chuckles to self}. The journalling is on a MM Noteworthy journal piece (they have been the best buy, I love them!!) and I embellished with a Doodlebug paper frill (from Yvette... thanks!!) and the Life Is Sweet sticker is from my new favourite Colorbok line by the same name. I love all that line so much! Keep your eyes peeled for more of that line in some up coming pages ;)

Now for some more holiday snaps... We had great weather for all but 2 days on our 2 week trip, but unfortunately Darlington Park served up some of it's best weather for us, which included hail. Yep Hail!! The size of Cricket Balls too (did you see it on the news?) DP is famous for hail, when we were there in about 1985 they had the biggest hail storm I've ever seen which stripped the trees of leaves, killed all the birds, punched holes in the tops of caravans, smashed skylights (including the one in our caravan), smashed car windows and dented everything that couldn't get undercover. Well, this hail storm wasn't quite that bad but we did quickly run out and put every single material item from out cabin over the car- this was 2 blankets, 4 doonas, 1 comforter and 6 towels. Will started to take the sheets out too, but I was like "We need something dry!!" The car didn't end up with any damage but others in the park had smashed windscreens and some minor dings.

I love this pic of Will enjoying the storm, cos he certainly wasn't enjoying it when the massive hail was pelting down on his car!!
:) C

I'M BAAAAACKKKK!!!!!

{Sob Sob Sob, boo hoo!!} Yes, I'm back from hols :) and we had an AWESOME time!! It was sooo relaxing and we had heaps of fun hanging out, fishing, swimming, shopping, watching TV, catching up with old friends and generally enjoying being out of Sydney!! I just thought I'd post a quickie before heading off to Alicia's to check out the fantastic decorations from her Halloween Party that I missed out on last night (bummer, cos it sounded like fun!)

I'll share the pages (as well as some fun stories) from our trip over the next few posts so be sure to check back and see all the cool stuff we got up to!

This was the first page I completed on holidays, it's of my favourite feathered friend "Mr Puffy" who comes to visit me on the verandah here at Brownville (I tell you what, it was nice to get out of Brownville for a while, and into the wide open country with all it's colour!! I miss the wide open spaces, and cows!! Lol!) I used 2 specialty papers by Chatterbox- brown embossed and cream glittered, that Yvette gave me {hugs!} and I scalloped the bottom edge of the cream one with my Threading Water punch. They are beautiful papers and their texture is cool to touch. I love the artisan shape too, which came on a sheet of cowboy die cuts I got in America in 2006 (happy to have that out of the collection and into an album!!) The big swirl is from the same collection. Oooh, a double whammy for that die cut sheet!!

I wanted to share this favourite pic from our holidays, which is of Will and I all dressed up for our friend's wedding in Maitland. We stayed at Maddie's B&B at Bolwarra, which was lovely, and they have the most beautiful gardens out the back with this flagstone covered walkway and amazing gates. One of our friends took this pic (with some creative direction from me, LOL) and it is one of my fave's from that day. So beautiful! The difference in heights of Will's and my bum is hillarious!! {grasping tummy with laughter!} I love the pic anyway :)
Oh, back to work tomorrow {utter sadness that holidays are over}.

:) C