Wednesday, February 23, 2011

A tragic day for Christchurch...


It was a truly black day for Cantabrians yet again... and in particular Christchurch...
we were extremely lucky with the timing of the earthquake September 4... which meant no lives were lost...

This time luck was unfortunately not with us...
the timing of this quake has meant that lives have been lost this time...
Confirmed and Next of Kin notified total to this point is 38... this figure will unfortunately rise...

Please take a moment to think of those who are no longer with us... their families
and remember now all those who have lost their homes... jobs... businesses...
Please just think of us...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

If you are a digiscrapper and love templates


then you really need to go check out my good friend Suzanne's (aka Roadside Designs) blog today...

Suzanne has the most amazing style lots of gorgeous layers but not all cluttered like... and her templates cater to the square scrappers amongst us as well as the rectangle scrappers too!

Don't forget to leave Suzanne some love...

Friday, February 04, 2011

Two Little Pixels Blog Train

UPDATED

Its time to celebrate with us...
Two Little Pixels is turning 3!
and the best bit is you get the presents...

All the designers got together and created the most am
azing kit...
and then the Creative Team got hold of it and created some of the most amazing pages with it!
and they are sharing their quickpages with you too!

How cool is that?
In my book ... pretty cool indeed...

So you have made it here from Brandy's blog... to pick up my contribution to the kit...
Here's my preview...

click on my preview to grab my part of the collab...

here's what the whole kit looks like... isn't it purty?

and from here you will be off to Deca's blog...

Happy Birthday Two Little Pixels...

Thursday, February 03, 2011

It was the day that was...



NOT going to go as planned... no matter how much I wanted it to...

Mother Nature throwing another hissy fit... this time in the form of a gale force NorWester!!!!
Now anyone who knows Canterbury and its NorWesters know that they are hot, dry and normally fairly gusty... the only difference with yesterdays was that it was gale force!

A tree hitting a 33kv power pole took out power to the village and the surrounding villages and farms for most of the day... a trampoline decided that it was a good day to learn to fly... only to stop suddenly and land rather scarily ON a car being driven at the time! Thankfully that wasn't me driving ... I'm sure the person driving also wishes it wasn't them
...

And today well the winds have died down some... thankfully... but I do have to wonder what on earth is happening with the weather... and very very grateful that my dear friend and almost sister Geyla didn't move with her family to Cairns as planned... lordy a cat 5 Tropical Cyclone ... NOT something I wanna experience EVER!

So nothing much got done yesterday... even with all the best laid plans in the world... it Mama Nature wants to throw a paddy then throw a paddy she will...

I am stoked though that in the last few days I have been able to get some scrapping done... wanna see a sneaky peek at my gorgeous, super talented and very much loved girlies...

Miss A... isn't she gorgeous?



Miss D - my baby girl getting her Super Penguin badge and her Penguin of the year trophy ...
Proud Mama moment there!