An Uninterrupted View... and other design

I really loved this recent job I had of creating a new, arty blog design for the fantastic, fascinating and arty Louise Nelson... Well, the other day I implemented the design, check it out here.

Green Dandelion was another recent project that I had a great time working on, and a bit of a learning curve working with BigCartel css and html customisation! Check that one out at www.greendandelion.com.au

Along with blog and website design, I created widgets for each site that you can add to your own blog sidebars to link to these guys, and hopefully add a bit of funkiness to your blog lists at the same time :)

Here are the images, if you'd like to use one simply go to the relevant website and grab the code from the sidebar...

Another blog to add to your reader, especially if fashion and style appeal, is that of my lovely cousin Rebecca. She'll be blogging outfits, shoes and other tidbits of style-oriented thought processes, I'm loving these first outfit posts (isn't she cute?), quite inspiring! Have a look at Raspberry in Heels.

The sniffles and a winner

Ben and I both have colds at the moment, and I think Cedar does a bit too... the older two are fine :) Enjoying the holidays by playing all morning, and - so far - watching The Goonies every afternoon! Of course we knew Ash would love the whole treasure hunt, pirate ship thing, but actually Sienna is really loving the movie too. She kind of only half-believes Ben and I that we both were kids when we first saw it, LOL.

I let the kids each pick a name out of a bowl (writing the name once for each comment and once extra for a "similar" scrapbooker) for the magnet giveaway as promised last week. The winners are Louise and Natalie Elphinstone - Can you ladies please email me at danielle@curiouser.com.au with your postal address, and also Natalie May, who won the big giveaway a few weeks ago, I need your address too! Thank you everyone for helping me out and playing along...

Lovinia's sneak peeks

Sneak peeks from a session today at the Alfred Nicholas Gardens - I love Autumn :) This family is so gorgeous!

Dinosaurs and Snow

Yesterday I had the kids home, starting school holidays a day early (as the school was all about Easter on their last day, with a parade etc, and we don't celebrate Easter). Cedar had a paediatrician appointment, which is just the other side of the city (50 minutes). Then we headed into Melbourne and stopped at Bourke Street to meet Ben for lunch...



I had promised the kids that we'd visit the Museum, so that was our next destination. The favourite this visit was 'Wild' with all the animals of the world on display...

Here are Sienna and Ash collecting Autumn leaves as we walked through Carlton Gardens on the way back to the car....

When we got home, a package from Wendy was waiting on the doorstop, and with Cedar and Ash both asleep from the big day we'd had so far, Sienna and I decided to make a photo backdrop in the garden for an impromptu session, all Winter Wonderland-ish! This is Sienna's new Little Tree Kids 'Heidi' jacket, worn over one of the Little Tree Kids dresses she already had been wearing all day. Cedar's eskimo jacket was also in the package, will have to try it on him when the weather cools down tomorrow :)

It's still love (and a giveaway)

Ha, with a title like that I should be telling you about Ben and my 12th wedding anniversary which was on Sunday (and it was great), but that's not what this is about :)

Scrapbooking, I still love it... I think I'm the only one in my immediate circle who still does it! I have Scrapbook Creations mag to thank for that, needing to create at least one page a month kept me going through about a year where I wouldn't have otherwise found time for scrapping. Then Scrapboxx reignited my sense of fun and playfulness with their competition back at the end of 2009 - which I didn't win but shortly after was invited to join their DT and have been happily designing kits and creating challenges over there for a year now...

Anyway, I realised I forget to share what I've been up to scrapbooking-wise here on my blog, so here is an update of recent pages. Three of them I made on the recent retreat where I was official photographer - man, was that a fun weekend. So good. The other is from the current Scrapbook Creations mag but was actually created back in August last year, using the Yellow, Black and White colour scheme to focus on Cedar's sunny personality... which, quite frankly, comes and goes now that he's a toddler, LOL.

Here's a question and a giveaway for you - how would you describe my scrapbooking style? Does it remind you of anyone? Comment here with two or three words describing my style, with an extra entry if you include another scrapbooker who my style reminds you of, and in 1 week I will do a random draw and send out a Curiouser magnet to the winner :) (note: this seems really self-oriented, but I have a reason for asking which I will share soon enough!)