I thought I would have a few moments on the computer to catch up on my blog. Craig is watching "Pimp my ride",
I must say it's a funny show, but I would rather be here doing this at the moment.
We have had a busy weekend, two birthdays yesterday. My good friend Bronnie, had her birthday bbq last night which was heaps of fun. It's nice to get out and meet new people and catch up with people you haven't seen in awhile. Her and I started the celebrations of her birthday early, with a day trip to Akaroa on Thursday. We packed up a picnic lunch and headed off, the weather started out grey and cloudy, but turned out to be nice. We spent the day having a wee look all around Akaroa's shops, had a lovely picnic lunch, followed by smoothies. These were some of the photo's we took. I must say I like the one of Bronnie practising being a painter shows her personality to a tee! hehe

We also had my grandfather's birthday yesterday, we couldn't make his birthday dinner last night, so I baked a birthday cake for him. Also one for Bronnie. I love to bake as gifts for people, it's always fun to try out divinely rich cakes recipes! These ones were chocolate cake with layers of a raspberry creme fraiche filling, then covered in a mocha ganache. Must say it certainly wasn't a Weight Watchers cake!!! but I did have a wee piece :) hehe

So
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to Bronnie and my grandfather Ed,
hope you both had a great day!

Beginnings of our honeymoon album.

Just the beginnings of our honeymoon album, I am keeping it nice and simple as there are so many photos. Click on the photos to load much bigger images. Coffee time is over, I better get back to the creating :) hehe

P.S Thanks to Mrs Frizz (Michelle) from Scrapbook Essentials, for sending me the great flowers used in some of these layouts.

What a MESS!!

For all those ladies that said my office was so lovely and tidy, what do you think now? hehe This is it now! I am in the middle of scrapbooking our honeymoon photos. I decided it was about time to do something with them, and another reason to put off tackling our wedding album. As you can see, when the creative juices are flowing I love to make mess! As long as there's a small square inch for me to work in I'm happy as larry.

Also check out my other blog today for my honeymoon layouts, so far. :)

S.E Fortnightly Challenge Layouts

Here are my two entrys into this fortnights challenge for Scrapbook Essentials. The challenge was to use white cardstock as a background, I haven't found this challenge to hard as I have been experimenting with white backgrounds, I find it goes really well with bright colours.
Anyhow must get on with some other projects, I bought a cheap clock the other day that I really want to alter.



Sisters - Now & Then

My loves @ 24

Yes, I am one of the people who thinks Valentines day isn't a bad thing, as long as you do something from the heart and not the shop! So I just wanted to say

"Happy Valentines Day"

to all of those in love and those looking. Hope your day is full of lovley things!

Also thanks Craig, for the digital scrapbooking card and dinner tonight. Love ya!

*Sneak Peaks*

Everyone has been doing cool sneak peaks of there projects, and I wanted to give it a go.
So here are some pics of two projects I am working on at the moment.

My Weight Loss Challenge

I thought I would start to write about my weight loss at Weight Watchers. It all began last year when my good friend Bronnie, got sick of hearing me moan about how I wanted to lose some weight (especially for our wedding). She suggested we both sign up for 8 weeks before the wedding and see how we went. It was the best thing she could have done, I am so happy I joined. I started last year with a goal to lose 7 kilos in the 8weeks before the wedding, and against all odds I managed exactly 7kg. I decided however to forget about weight loss over the wedding/honeymoon period, I just wanted to enjoy myself. Then there was Christmas, which I took the decision to also enjoy myself over and didn't watch anything that I ate. Soon as Craig went back to work I decided that it was time to sign up again, so I did for 12 weeks. I had gained 2.7kg over this period, but didn't mind. Today was my fourth meeting of the 12 weeks and I gained my 5kg bookmark. My total weight loss to date is 9.3kg, so I am stoked! I hope that by adding this to my blog, I might inspire someone to make the change too. I have a fair way to go yet but every little loss counts. So I am going to update my progress each week after my W.W meeting. :)

Latest Layouts :)

As I said in my last post the new February S.E challenges have been posted and they are all great. They have got me inspired again so here are the latest two layouts I have been working on.

The first was inspired by the painting of my monitor last weekend, what better way to capture it than in a layout. At the moment I am loving everything bright, so my room is full of bright bits and pieces. It was a real struggle to get this layout together, I just couldn't make it work. After a lot of pondering I am extremely happy with the finished page. Enjoy!

This layout is for the S.E's February monthly challenge, you had to use the title "This is love" on the layout. I choose to use this beautiful photo from our wedding of Craig. It's also my first time using free hand doodling, it was hard to get into as I like things to be neat and tidy, but I do like the effect now. It will no doubt pop up on my future layouts now. :)

Just a quick catch up

It was a wonderful Waitangi weekend, even though I worked Sunday it seemed to be a nice long break. Just what Craig needed after all the work he has had on recently. On Saturday we were so lazy, got up late then did some shopping, we caught up on watching a few dvd's, "Derailed" and "The Family Stone". We really just lazed about and enjoyed the day. Summer seems to have finally arrived! Then as I said I worked on Sunday. On Monday seeing it was such nice weather, and Craig was off work we drove out to Rangiora, stopping at a few shops along the way and had a picnic lunch there. Monday evening we headed along to Classical Sparks with our good friends Bronnie and Dave for a fun night. This year the event had a New Zealand theme. There was the NZ Army band, Crusaders on horseback with the Crusaders team members arriving in classic cars. Dave Dobbyn sung for the second half and the symphony played some well known classical pieces or the first half.
Then yesterday morning we headed to our favorite coffee shop, Lyttelton Coffee Culture (they make the BEST vanilla chai lattes!) we pottered about home and Craig worked on editing our wedding dvd in the afternoon. Like I said nice a cruisy and relaxing! :) Long weekends - Short weeks are definitely the way to go!!

I am most excited to see that the new challenges for the month have been released on S.E, so I have begun planning my layouts for them. The book of me pages are a great idea, and I will certainly be taking up the challenge!

Better buzz as we are heading to Craig's parents place for a roast dinner (Craig's Mum makes GREAT roasts!)

I just had to blog these pics I took of my new monitor! hehe Craig has set up one of his old computers for me to use while scrapbooking, and in my colourful office it looked so boring! I felt the need to decorate it, I was just going to stick on some rub-ons etc.
Craig suggested I paint it, but I don't think he thought I would go so far as to stick on some flowers, ribbon and jewels as well. hehe
Now it's done it certainly doesn't look dull anymore! I would paint the keyboard too, but that is a huge messy job that I can't be bothered with.

During its transformation! hehe


What a pretty moniter!