Coolest Weekend Ever

Wow I have just had the best weekend in the world!!! Martinborough, well amend that Featherston was just fantastic.

Jo and I left Palmerston North 9am straight after dropping the kids at school. We drove down to Greytown where we stopped and shopped and had morning tea at a wonderful little cafe. Fantastic, so many cool little shops, I should change the wording in shopping, it was more window shopping, brought a couple of wee things at this art shop we found, but other than that I must admit we were so restrained! Our husbands would be pleased and relieved and proud all at the same time!!!

Then we drove down to Featherston where we had a rented out this cute little cottage for the weekend. Jo and I were greeted by this french chef who worked there, he gave us a few funny looks, Jo and I decided he must have thought we were away for a dirty weekend - ha ha, that gave us many laughs over the weekend!!

Kris and Lou arrived from Wellington to join us about an hour later. We scrapped, talked and laughed so much! Dinner was back in Greytown at a fantastic cafe where we had the hugest pizza ever!! Of course many more hours of scrapping happened that night.

We were woken the next day at 6.30am by a suicide bird, who had flown down the chimney and was scratching its nails on the inside of the chimney trying to get out!! The lack of sleep did nothing for me!!! We wentt to Martinborough for another shop and of course lunch at another wonderful cafe. For tea Kris had made a fantastic Lasagne, wonderful, went well with my Pina Colda!!

We all drove home on Sunday, very tired, but what a great weekend with such fantastic company, we are definately going to do this one again next year. Our challenge is to have done a layout about our weekend before we meet again at the end of April - This is Kris's layout!!! Yes she did it last night and sent it through, what a guilt trip!!! Very cool layout!

Now onto what we did, I do not want to hear any comments back of "is that all", just remember works of art take time (and talking). This first one, I should have scanned with a black colour behind it!! It is on white cardstock, with scalloped edges.

We had a challenge to do for the weekend, Jo brought a sketch, which we all had to do our version of it, and this is mine. I love it! Water slide fun from this school holidays, at my Mum's house in Dunedin, Jade with her cousins Bob and Quinn.

The next one is the first ever year that Jade has sat on Santa's knee for the photo, not sure why she did, but it happened, man she looks tall in this photo.

I took Jade and Nyah to Splash Planet over in Hastings for a day, I think it might have even been the last weekend of the school holidays. I cannot believe we have not been there before, it is only 2 hours away, so a bit slack on our part, will have to try and do it again next year, fantastic day in the sun.

I had also did another 3 layouts, one is of Ralf, but it is a work related one, which is not allowed to go on the net, so will just have to be in his album, the other 2 I had to finish the journalling which I have done tonight, will scan tomorrow and put up tomorrow.