Pencil Line Sketch #107

Last weeks Pencil Lines sketch was from the very talented Anna Bowkis from the UK. Anna's work is always inspiring,if you'd like to check out her blog click here.

I finally got around to using my KI pop culture papers, they're bright and funky and suited the theme. Wendy pls note FP felt shapes used
The photos are from our day at the Royal Melbourne Show, during the September school holidays.

Fun at the Show:

This weekend was really quite, the only time we went out, was to lunch in Tooradin at a restaurant called Wings and Fins near the airport, with our friends Judith and Alf. Neil and I shared the most magnificent seafood platter for two. Very yummy although we didn't have any lobster, as it is currently $120 a kilo. I like it but not that much. It was fun watching all the light planes take off and land and the constant steam of parachutists landing. Very entertaining.


After that we went to visit our good friends the Browns (Pearcedale variety) who live nearby, and had a lovely afternoon chatting and catching up with them. Sue had picked Madeleine up for us, and taken her back to their place, so she was there when we arrived. Thanks again Sue, I really appreciated it.

Be amazed be very amazed but that's it for today.


Cheers

Leeanne xxx

Colour Combo challenge #93

I've been meaning to have a go at this for a while now, just never got around to it. It's not a sketch site but instead gives you different colour combinations to work with. A new combo is posted every Monday. It can certainly test you, when the colours are something you would never use. But Hey!!! that's what a challenge is all about. Come on give it a go Here.

This weeks colour combo was:

















Orange - Funky Gold- Floral White-Deep orchid

I completed 2 layouts and here's why. The first layout I used more of a goldy yellow colour, because the name on the sample says Funky Gold, but then when I went back to have a look it, it had more of a greeny hue to it. So I did another with that colour, still not sure that's its exactly right but here they are.

2 Old 4 Wiggle World:

PP: Basic Grey, Scenic route; Bazzill cardstock, Alpha: Thickers & Basic Grey, Journalling spots: Scenic Route & Elles Studio, Accent: Bazzill Chip topper, Kaiser Bling and assorted buttons.



















Be Yourself: (no one can tell you you're doing it wrong)

Bazzill Cardstock,PP: Scenic Route; Alpha: Thickers, Carollees creations, Journalling: Elle's Studio, Kaiser Bling, Accent: American Crafts (frame)Daisy D cardstock stickers, K&Co Paper ribbon. Lace and assorted buttons.

So are you up for the challenge????

Have a great weekend everyone.

cheers

Leeanne xxx

Weekend happenings and old perms

Friday afternoon, after work Madeleine and I headed over to my girlfriends place for a beautiful afternoon tea, for her daughter Georgia's 11th birthday. After much snacking,cake eating and one glass of champagne (I was very good) we left there so I could get Madeleine to youth group for a 7pm start. I was very pleased when I got home and Neil said he would go and pick her up at 9pm instead of me having to got out again.
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Saturday Madeleine had netball of course and they had another win but neither Neil or I could make it. The property directly behind us was up for auction at 1pm and we went hoping we could afford to buy it. Unfortunately it went way over the asking price and they got $509,000 for it. Way to expensive for us but on the other hand its good news for the value of our house and land . So it's back to plan A for us, which is maybe to build on the back of our land. That's not going to happen anytime soon though.


Saturday night was actually a quiet night for us as Neil had to prepare for the round a bay in a day bike ride. 10's of thousands of riders participate in the event every year, it's an endurance ride of around 210kilometers.

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Sunday Neil headed off at around 6.30am to ride down to Sorrento to catch the ferry across to Queenscliff and then back into the city, across the west gate bridge and back home again. Remarkably he looked pretty good when he arrived home just before 5pm. Tired of course, knees a bit stiff of course but none the less pretty good. His determination and will power once he decides to do something is one of things I've always admired him for, it's a pretty massive achievement and Madeleine and I are both proud of him.

Here's a couple of photos.

1. Self Portrait or rider Number 4933; He took this himself at 6am. Looks just a teeny bit bizzare with all that zinc cream on and not really that happy either. He takes being sun smart seriously.




















2. West gate bridge (I think)














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Also on Sunday Lynne and I headed over to Debling Design for the breast cancer fundraising crop Deb had organized. We were only there a couple of hours (I needed to get home to ensure Neil had a nice home cooked meal after the ride) but we had a lovely time chatting with the girls, doing a bit of shopping. Deb did an amazing job with all the raffles, gift bags etc.. Not to mention the most beautiful lunch. Melt in your mouth roast beef, salads, rolls and baked potatoes, followed by fruit platter. It was also fantastic to catch up with Connie, who is currently on her own journey dealing with breast cancer. Good news for Connie is that after her last mammogram they couldn't even find a lump. She still has more treatment in front of her but it all looks pretty positive. Head on over to Connie's Blog if you would like to find out more of her story.

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Back to Lynne for a moment, when I had lunch with her last Wednesday I gave her Twilight to read, which she did within a couple of days. I'm proud to say I have another person hooked on Bella and Edwards story and she's now onto book 2 New Moon.

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Yesterday I also finished sketch 106 from the Pencil Line blog. This week you also had the challenge of incorporating OLW (one little word) the word they chose was KEEP. The photo in the layout is of Madeleine and Laura after we'd been to the Royal Show and they brought the wigs, wings, horns and weapons to wear to Alex's 13 birthday party in November. They were having alot of fun hamming it up for the camera.


Layout: Keep it Fun
PP: reminince,ki lace, scalloped paper (I don't remember) Alpha: American Craft, Heidi Swapp Carollees Creations, MM. Emblishments: American Craft, Kaiser Bling, Jenny Bowlin bingo card and assorted buttons, versa mark ink.
























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I've just been over to Kim Archers blog and it made me quite nostalgic for the 80's. Kim has a class over at the Home website called "Do you remember. Alot of the girls have chosen to remember their perms. Come on admit it, YOU had a perm didn't you.

I had many many perms in my day, some not so bad as others but there were some shockers. I remember coming home from the hairdresser after they'd talked me into a spiral perm, and Neil telling me I looked like someone out of roots. Well as you can imagine I wasn't feeling to good about the DO after that.


When I was at the hairdressers and they were talking me into it, of course I'd never seen a spiral perm before and they were trying to explain it, they couldn't think of anything but I was young and naive and wanted to be cool so I said yes. Then at the basin as they were washing the perm solution out, the apprentice finally had an epiphany, and told me the it would look like Dee Schneider from Twisted Sister. Hello!!! talk about FREAK me out, but it was much to late by then.

I can't find a photo of that perm, but I do have one handy from our wedding in 1989. Not only do I have the perm and the high hair happening, it's also strawberry blonde. I loved my hair. You can't see it but iI was also a big big fan of BLUE mascara at the time. You've just gotta luv the 80's.

Kim runs the most fantastic online classes so do yourself a favour and head on over to her website here and join up.

Thanks Kim for sending me down memory lane on this one. Now I'll just have to hunt out some other golden oldies.


28th February 1989........ Awwwwww
















We haven't changed a bit.
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Well I think that's about all for me today, till next time

happy scrapping

cheers

Leeanne xxx

Where do I start.....................

Well first let me start with this.............................

I was very excited as was Madeleine to find this on You Tube today. The final trailer before the Movie's release, still not sure if the release date in Australia, for the movie is the same as the U.S. put rest assured we will be there day one. I've now read each of the four books 3 times. I know I know get a life.... Although I know there's a few of you out there who love the books as well.

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Ok enough of one of my current obsessions and onto the next, a bit of scrapbooking.

Last week I finished my Christmas project for Debling in Design. A Christmas Canvas called Trimming the Tree. Deb is having a Christmas extravaganza over 2 Saturdays the first is on 22nd November starting at 10am and going through until 4pm. Then the following Saturday 10am - 4pm. The very talented Jody White, Rachel Edwards and of course Deb Ross will teaching the other classes. Not all the samples are displayed on the site as yet, but from what I seen and heard about already all the projects look fantastic.

Here's a little sneak peak of the canvas. One of the elements I used on the canvas was inspired from a Kim Archer Christmas class from a couple of years ago. Such cute little baubles.
















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Last Saturday night we went out to dinner with our friends Andi and Steve to a restaurant we used to frequent but haven't been to for at least 10 years I'd say. We had a very nice night but I must say the meal was pretty average. I realized after dinner why we hadn't been for 10 years (lol). We headed back to our place for a coffee and homemade rocky road.

If you like Rocky Road here's the recipe so so simple and very delicious.


Rocky Road


1 1/2 375gm blocks of chocolate (melted) I used cadbury dairy milk
1 1/2 cups of rice bubbles
200gms marshmallows (pink and white) chopped in half
1 packet raspberry lollies

Method:

Melt the chocolate
Put the rest of the ingredients into the melted chocolate and mix well.
Pour the mixture into a lined slice tin and refrigerate until set. (or place in the freezer for half and hour)
Cut into small squares and enjoy.

How simple is that and so so yummy.

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Then on Sunday night a friend of mine told me that Rove was being filmed in Chelsea Heights that night, so we went off to watch the taping of the show. Katy Perry sang a couple of songs and if you're really quick you can see Madeleine in the crowd on the Rove Daily Website. Believe it or not I forgot to take a camera. DOH!!!!!

If you go over to the Rove Daily website and play Katy Pery singing Hot and Cold you can see Madeleine at the 1min 48second mark, but be quick or you'll miss it (hehe) She's in front of a girl in a hot pink top. She's actually in it a few times but you have to know what your looking for of course. So anyway that was a fun night for the kids and it was a beautiful balmy 24 degrees evening the perfect weather really.

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Last night I finally got around to completing sketch 104 over at Pencil Lines. These photos are a few more from our trip up to see Shaun, Amanda and Charlie back in July. The Sunday we were there Shaun took us up to Penny Ridge which is a golf course in Tweed Heads West with the most magnificent views. It set up in the Hinterland and looks over the Tweed Valley across to the ocean. Absolutely stunning views and a very nice restaurant, which just happens to be run by one Shaun and Amanda's neighbours.

Family Ties: PP October afternoon;Scenic Route, Hambly overlay,Alpha: Thickers,Heidi Swapp, MM journalling circle, Heidi Swapp floral, Kaiser Bling, blue ric rac (ribbons galore), assorted buttons, staples.





















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Today I had a great day with Lynne, we headed down to Mornington to Paper2, then back to Carrum for Lunch at the Blue Chair. Always great food there, we both had a Thai Pumpkin Curry and a very nice glass of Seppelt pinot noir (fleur de lys) probably not spelt right.
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Well as Peter Cundall would say thats your Bloomin Lot.... for this post. Thanks for making the distance if you've got this far.

Have a great week

Cheers

Leeanne xxx

Back to School and a busy weekend

Well that's it for another lot of school holidays, Madeleine is back at school tomorrow, should be fun getting her out of bed tomorrow as over the holidays she is lucky to surface before 10:30am.That's teenagers for you.


The last week of the holidays was pretty quite, Madeleine had a couple of friends over on various days, we went shopping and the movies. Last Sunday night the three of went to see Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was pretty good. It's always good when we can get Neil to come to the movies, he's not much of a movie goer.


This weekend just gone was busy busy busy.


Friday Night: We went out to and Indian restaurant in Parkdale (sithara) for dinner with friends. It was a lovely night and the food just seem to keep on coming. I walked out of there feeling like I'd certainly overindulged.

Saturday: Neil's cousin Susan and her husband Sean had a get together for their daughters 1st birthday. They live over in Ferntree Gully so the new East Link Freeway certainly cut a bit of time off that trip. Neil's cousins are all really lovely people so it always a pleasure to catch up with them. Here's the card I made for Ashley:-

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Saturday Night: Neil's friend Norm came over for drinks with his new friend Linda, who we hadn't meet before. It was nice to finally meet her and get to know her a bit. Because of daylight savings starting here they didn't actually leave until around 1.30am, so I was pretty well zonked (and not by alcohol) by then.

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Sunday: Madeleine and I and a girlfriend of mine and her two daughters went to see a local production of Oliver at the Frankston Arts Centre. It was an excellent show and the talent was phenomenal.

Last night I finally got around to starting and completing this weeks Pencil Line challenge 104. Nothing like leaving things to the last minute. I tried to use some of my older stash in this one so used BG two scoops PP and brads, along with some of the MM noteworthy glitter elements and flowers. The photos are of my niece Charlie when we visited in July. She is such a cutie and she was supposed to be going to sleep, but was more into showing off and having a giggle.

Bedtime? or Playtime?





















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Ok that's it for me today, have a wonderful week everyone and Take Care.


Cheers

Leeanne xxx