10 things ...

It's the 10th of the month and today over on Shimelle we list 10 things.

Garfield is no fan of getting up or starting the week with Monday - I can relate so as I'm feeling lighthearted today I thought I might share with you 10 of my personal favourite Garfield Monday/morning wallpapers.

 

LSNE - 9th September

Today my baby turns 13 (and yes I wonder where the years have gone).  We didn't do a cake today as we are having a sleepover party with all his friends tomorrow but we couldn't let the day pass without some candles and the obligatory Happy Birthday song.

LSNE - 8th September

It's the annual Springtime Flora Festival and without fail it rains at some point over the four day event.  Sometimes I might be just overnight, other times it may be full on rain over several days but you can bet your bottom dollar - it will rain at some point.

It's day 2 today and as I look out my window it is coming down in sheets - yep it must be Floral Festival time.

LSNE - 7th September

LSNE - 7th September

I loathe, hate, despise ironing.  Yes I should get over it but I haven't.

Sketch of the Week ...

It's time to upload my rendition of Shimelle's Sketch of the Week.  Quite a pretty little layout this week from Shimelle.

Here's my version.  Really pleased with how this has turned out.  I'm continuing my theme of using pictures we took on our holiday to Coffs Harbour and surrounds in January for Shimelle's sketches.

LSNE - 5th September

He turns 13 on Friday and he squad trains twice a week (and an extra night if his sister isn't working and I don't need to drive her to her job).  They average 4km each training session - that's 80 laps of the 50m pool.  They do this in one and a half hours.  I'm exhausted just watching him.

Stuck in September ...

I'm joining in with Stuck sketches this month via Peta's September competition on Scrapbooking From Scratch.  Their first sketch is quite a nice one and is open to lots of different interpretations.  

I thought I'd use some photographs of my son at a friend's birthday party I was yet to scrap and combine them with a SFS kit of Teresa Collins birthday papers.  

The second sketch was more formal in design using lots of little bits and pieces.

I've used a SFS kit (Sassafrass Lass - Indie Girl) to create my page.

LSNE - 4th September

Today was Father's Day here in Australia - a day for breakfast in bed, a trip to Bunnings (hardware) and the love of children for their Dad.

LSNE - 3rd September

Cats + sunshine - what a happy combination.

LSNE - 2nd September

Woke to brilliant sunshine, birds chirping and not a cloud in the sky.  By 11am it looks like this ....

Learn Something New Everyday - 2011

It is THAT time of year again - the time when all good scrapbookers head over to Shimelle and participate in Learning Something New .... Everyday. 

Shimelle has been doing this class now since 2006.  She focuses on just one sentence and maybe one photo per day for thirty days.

As she says "Learn Something New encourages you to take each day as it comes and find at least one thing in every day that can teach you something. Something big, something small, something funny, something solemn. Some days you might learn a random fact and others might teach you something about patience, determination or reflection. Every day is a new opportunity, and we track it all through things we love: some photographs, a bit of writing and as much pretty paper as we fancy."


It is truly amazing to see how scrappers from all over the world interrupt this class - there are elaborate albums, tiny mini, mini albums, digital versions and simple pages - the sky really is the limit in depth and variety of projects.

Last year I did photographs with a digital overlay and it worked really well for me so I couldn't see a reason to change the format although I have changed the overlay slightly.  At the end of the month I will print these all out and then create some sort of album with them - exactly how is still being mulled over.