Hello London

This is what our back yard looked like (when sitting down in it) before I finished brushcutting it. Even though I know it needs to be controlled, I love the beauty of a wild meadow, so it always makes me a bit sad to cut it down - changing it from green and breezy to yellow and bare. It will grow back, of course, but I find it hard to understand why other people don't see the beauty in it. What I think of as inspiring and alive and natural is to some people just imperfect and unkempt. Like most things, it's not that simple. Anyhow, it's cut now. Because I prefer the green I usually only do it two or three times a year.

This is Jack, the little boy of some friends of ours, Donna and Brett. Below are a couple of pics of all three of their kids, Imogen (the eldest), Mercedes and Jack. We had dinner there the other day and I did a quick mini-shoot in the backyard :)


This is exciting for me - I have my layout on the cover of the latest Scrapbook Creations. It was a last-minute commission, but still wasn't guaranteed to make the cover so I was really pleased to see it had. My first mag cover, after a couple of years of publications, and it was one of my scrapping goals for this year, so I've just made it in the last month of the year - thanks to Kim (the editor) for the opportunity! I love this pic as well, the phone boxes are SO London and Sienna was so little, at 16 months old trotting around the place as though she owned it. V. cute.

I have 7 things in this issue (including the colour team layout of my friends - the Lloyd family - also on the cover as a thumbnail). I don't have any pics that I can find at the moment though, LOL, so I'll have to photograph them when I get them back from the mag. But there is the cover layout, the colour team layout, one layout in Jolene's Blind Scrapping feature, a journal cover in the top ten feature and three travel layouts in the journaling feature. Fun stuff :)

Pics and rambles

A few pics from our weekend in Adelaide...

So today is for scrapping, or at least this afternoon will be. I have a load of dishes to do and some washing to put on before that - and, as usual, a lot more I *could* do but after lunch it is definitely scrap time. I FINALLY got some more ink and photo paper! Yay! Time to print some piccies for deadlines :)

Hmm what else? I need to pick up some packing boxes, as we plan on rearranging the rooms in the house a bit and the first thing required is my packing up my scrap space... a GOOD thing as it is so chaotic at the moment that I can't even use it, which is a bit pointless. I am looking forward to moving my art area to somewhere a little more hidden - at the moment it is the first thing you see when you walk in the house, as it is in our foyer. But since it is (almost) always insanely overloaded and messy, this doesn't thrill me. So the computers and printers will go there instead, which should be much easier to keep tidy.

And the kids will be moving into their own rooms as a result, as I need the big master bedroom back so that my art area can fit in our bedroom. We are currently in one of the smaller bedrooms which only just has room for the QS bed and a little wardrobe... so I plan on reclaiming some space. It's a bit sad for the kids in a way, I do love their massive room which is mostly play area, but it is - of course - always crazy messy and can be difficult at times when Sienna wants to be left alone or whatever. So it is a good time, with Sienna starting school next year, for them to have their own spaces. It is also a bit fun to think about the new decorating opportunities now that the rooms will be redefined :)

Mini photog

Off to Adelaide...

be back Monday.

New sneak peek up at Q Tea

When in Perth...