Scrap Camp Rocks

It has been so long since I wrote! I have had a busy couple of weeks. Very busy at work, and then scrap camp!!! So love going to scrap camps, just having lost of me time with all my pals! What more could a girl want.

So no further a do here are the layouts I did, i know not many considering how many hours i was sitting at the table, but don't forget you have to add in the talking and eating factor!!

This first layout is of Mel and Jase's cat "Max", the poor thing they give him a shower, and amazingly he just stands there waiting for it to be done!!
And this next one is a picture of me, my brother, my cousin Geoff and my Mum, I am sort of guessing that it might have been in about 1974, or some where around that era anyway. This is the layout I entered in the competition.

Jade's soccer game, I took some pictures as the newspaper was wanting some (not that they picked mine for printing) but I laughed when I loaded these up, if you look closely you can see Jade, and some poor kid on the other team has been knocked over!!!

Beginning of this year we went out to the beach for the day, Ralf wanted to go fishing (that will be another layout) and so Jade was doing some fishing too, but that got to boring, so she spent the rest of the time collecting all the tumbleweeds and throwing them back into the ocean. Check out the title, loving it, might have brought some new stamps to do this!!!! Better use some more titles like this I think!

Ralf just loves this next layout, he was so pleased that I made fun of him again, seriously he loves it - NOT, never mind lucky he is understanding as there was no way i was not going to scrap those eyebrows!

This last one is just a simple layout from our trip to Rarotonga last year. Ralf and Jade (I had to take pictures) got taught how to do the traditional dances, and also how to play their drums. Jade thought it was fantastic, Ralf on the other hand wanted his beer!

So there you go that is that. This weekend we have a bye for soccer, which is just as well as Jade and I need to go shopping for fathers day. Then on Sunday there is the soccer tournament, 3rd time lucky, hopefully this time it will not be cancelled with the bad weather.

Well I had better start off the blog with the next layout for the competition. The instructions were to do a page about something you do every day. This was quite hard to start off with as I don't do anything that I could be bothered doing a whole page about. I mean there were the obvious things like on my computer, all the standard family things and then of course going to work. Well I have one thing that I don't do every day but often enough. I play music over the intercom system at work, so that all the guys in the factory can hear it. They know it is me, and it drives some of the crazy, but I think it is my duty. Depending on my mind set for the day will depend on what it is, but normally I try to upset them!! So for the last couple of weeks it has been ABBA, Friday I gave them a reprive and they were treated to "THE BANGLES", I am sure no matter what they say that they really enjoyed this one the most. Come Xmas it is "Snoopy's Xmas" every morning, followed by other Xmas Carols all through the day - just to get them in the mood!
Friday, Ralf had a luncheon to go to, which is when one of the guys from base has finished doing his 20 years in the air force, everyone goes along to farewell him, but really it is just a big piss up. Starts at 11.30am, and well I picked Ralf up at 7.30pm and he was very smelly (Bourbon started at 2pm) and had a bad case of the hicups!!! Without saying much more he got dispatched to the spare room to sleep for the night!!!

Saturday morning the soccer was cancelled, which was just as well has Jade suddenly had a bad case of the exploding bottom, and throwing up - both at the same time - it was a joy to deal with!!! This is a picture of her sleeping it off in the afternoon in her bean bag.
Ralf came home from Golf with Gundi and was a little tired - maybe it was the bourbon!
Saturday night we went to Gundi's place for tea where he cooked us a fantastic roast lamb, very good cook!!! Jade took along all of her littlest pet shop toys and had them strewn across the lounge floor.

Sunday after we had finally gotten up and Ralf had cooked us our breakfast of french toast - best french toast cooker in the world, we decided to pack up and go for a family bike ride. Only thing is we only have 2 bikes at the moment. So i dropped Jade and Ralf off at one end of the bike track that goes along the Manawatu River, and I drove half way along to meet them. They took a long time, Ralf's bike which had not been ridden for a LONG time broke, the pedal/crank thing fell off, I was trying not to laugh when he rung me to tell me they would be a while. Jade had a blast, when they turned up she had mud up her back, and had gone through all the puddles!

So off we went to pedal pushers to check out new bikes, car bike racks and of course to fix Ralf's bike. Since then I have been scanning trade me for a new bike, which I think we might have found so we can all go out together - Although mine will have to have a super soft seat as although I have a fantastic layer of padding on my behind, it does not seem to be enough!!

So here is a picture of Jade on her new bike, she loves it
So the week ahead is full of work. The store is doing it's annual stocktake, so we are helping out, so I will be very tired before it is even Wednesday!! But to make the week fantastic, I am off to a scrapbooking camp in Otaki this weekend!!! Cannot wait! Friday hoping to escape work early by about 2pm, then Jo and I are off!!! Yahoo!!!!

Anyway better go, Ralf being the good man is doing all the iorning, I had better go and offer to do one shirt!

What a week

Wow what a week it has been. This challenge for Scrapbook essentials is really pushing me. Not only to do something new, but to be given the challenge on Tuesday, to have the idea, photo taken, printed and layout completed all by the following Tuesday night. On top of that fit in all the TV watching of shortland street, and deal with work etc!!! A tough call! 5 more weeks to go!

Anyway below is the 1st weeks challenge. We had no subject criteria, just had to make at least 2 hand made embellishments, which was not hard, as I like doing all those sort of things. So had fun doing this page and loved it. Ralf and Gundi on the other hand were not to thrilled that I did it, let alone entered it into a competition and even worse I am now putting it on the blog! Haha they were very drunk this night, I think this photo might have been around 3 in the morning, I can't quiet remember either!!

Jade wanted her haircut this week, she wanted it to be the same as Nyah's hair! So off we all went to town on Friday night to have her haircut! What a difference now I don't have to brush it so that is a definate bonus! She loves it. We also then had to take her money and go and buy a Tamagochi!!! She is holding it in the photos, she brought it herself, as the cheap one I brought her last year was not the right one!!!

We also had soccer in the weekend, was meant to be a tournament on Sunday as well, but it was so wet they cancelled it, which for me was great I had to get the next layout done, so have just finished this now!Saturday night we all went to the mess, they had a family's night, where they set up all the couches and chairs in a grandstand and put on a movie for the kids on the big projector screen. All the kids loved it, tea was supplied and all the fizzy they could eat - just enough to send them home all hypo!!! Jade took along Nyah and Bradley as well, so they had a good time.

Jade has been outside riding her bike all afternoon, up and down the driveway and around the lawn, so she is going really well on that. Ralf has just about finished getting the basketball hoop ready, he is out there now concreting in the post, so maybe next weekend we can give it ago.

Anyway better off and do some tea.

I have a cold!!!

Everyone around me has had a cold, and now I have caught it too, I am so annoyed! No doubt my one will drag on for a long time just to annoy me!!!

Jade had soccer yesterday, and although our team won 9-2, it was a horrible game. The other team who shall remain nameless were just very poor sports. They tripped up our players, pushed them over and called our players "arseholes" whenever we got the ball off them, pretty bad considering they are all 8 year olds!!! Their coach seemed to encorage it, so did not leave there with a nice taste in our mouths.

Meant to be a soccer tournament in town all day today, yahoo it has been postponed! It is so wet I was dreading that they might still say it was going to be one, and we would be there in the rain for the full day!

Now I can't remember and cannot be bothered looking back to check to see whether I have told you that I have entered myself into a competition at Scrapbook Essentials, well anyway it is a 7 week long competition, but I can only put my layouts on here after they have gone up on the website, so I will be a week behind. This layout below is for the warm up challenge and we had to scrap our space.
Well my space even though I have a whole room, is more about my obsession with containers, which is very true. Love containers, and love having everything in its right place, where did I get that obsession from ?

I scrapped on Friday night and finished the next challenge as well, but will not be able to put it up here until next week, but it looks really good, was quiet pleased with the outcome.

Jade has been nagging me to sew on her Brownie badges for ages, she had heaps and I just had not gotten around to it, looks so much better with them all sewn on! I did not realise that she had so many! So thought I had better take a picture so Gran could see as she did help her complete one of them!! Anyway time to away and make a cup of tea and see if I can find any drugs in the cabinet.