Cinematic Orchestra

I'm listening to this album on constant rotation at the moment. Beautiful stuff.

Confessions of a Non-Blogger

7 Random facts about me, by Leanne Ryan

1. In 1988 I was school captain of the primary school the boys go to now. Circle of life, huh?
2. I decided to become a writer in grade two. My first published works had received rave reviews from the critics (my parents and teacher) so it seemed the natural course of action. My mum, however, didn’t share my enthusiasm for a career as an author, suggesting I become a journalist instead, because journalists actually made money. So I did. Well, the becoming a journalist bit, not so much the making money bit. Still harbour the dream of being a novelist though. Money’s overrated.
3. I once worked as a manager at the local McDonalds. Before the boys were born. They can’t believe I was ever that cool.
4. I’m totally into cricket. So excited that Aust have made the World Cup final. And that it’s on free-to-air. Not so excited about the time conversion. Ugh.
5. I’m a perfectionist. So much so that I have trouble even picking books at the library just in case they don’t live up to expectation. Sad, huh?
6. I’m early. To everything. All the time. Can’t help it.
7. I don’t have a favourite colour. To me, the appeal of each colour depends totally on the context, eg if it’s something I’m going to wear, scrap, put on my wall etc. My favourite colour is the one that best does the job I want it to do in that particular context at that particular time.

Blogger's note (by dq): I tagged Leanne even though she doesn't blog, and loved reading her little quirks and details so decided to share them ;) For those who don't know her, Leanne is the witty scrapbooker/writer who pens 'The Last Word' column that finishes each issue of Scrapbook Creations. Sorry Leanne, but that's what happens when you give me a good title, LOL. I just had to use it. :D

Stories of Sienna, at 3 1/2 (in pictures)

More Pics...

A few more shots from the weekend, and the layouts / projects I made in my classes. I also had to add this one Sienna did, she saw the canvas from Em's Wall Art class (with her own little in the middle of it) and wanted to make one. So I got out scrap pieces, and the other round photo I had, and this was what she made... (first photo) super cute :)

A Fantastic Weekend

Wow, what a trip. Short but super sweet :) And not too long to be away from the kids - they didn't seemed at all worried by it at least.

KiwiScraps was just awesome, so much fun and so inspiring. The classes were fantastic, but even more inspiring was meeting all these lovely, amazing and talented women! So cool. My favourite class was probably Emily's Wall Art class, followed by Rhonna Farrer's Pocket Full of Surprises. I heard that Tia's class 'Sew This One Thing' was brilliant, especially because she taught her class needle felting, which I SO wanted to learn. Ngaire was so sweet, she showed me and Kell how the felting worked, since we didn't get to do that class ourselves. I am TOTALLY going to play with felting now, among many other techniques from the classes!

All these pictures - and there are some from Sunday that I haven't loaded, and also I haven't photographed any of the projects yet. I've kind of loaded them in random order, as I sit here in my pj's in the kitchen...

First shot is Lusi, how CUTE is she? She had just the biggest beautiful smile, it was lovely to meet her, this was Saturday afternoon. Here is a shot of Kell and Emily just after we did Em's 'Shiny Happy People' class (tie-dying napkins - was so fun). Yes, and one photo of me, Viv took this one on our walk with Nic.

I love this fun shot of Viv and Lee, this was on Friday night in the hotel bar. There is also a really nice one of Lee (SO great to meet you in person!), a cute black and white of Nic, and a couple of funny ones - Nic and Jaimie doing the paparazzi thing, and Janine and Jaimie just being funny. It was hilarious.

I like this cute one of Kell on Saturday morning, cos you can see how she talks with her hands (just like mum) :)

On Sunday midday I had a great walk with Viv and Nic, and we did a little photo shoot kind of thing, here are my faves of each of them. Nic was so adorable, she is all little and sweet, and embarassed to be in front of the camera! Really lovely too. I think Viv and I spent most of the walk saying how cute she was ;)

And last but definitely not least (to employ a very un-original cliche), our roomie Viv. She was just awesome, we had lots of great conversation and she is just a beautiful person. Gorgeous.

More photos later!