I've been tagged!

I've been tagged for the first time, thanks Neen :) Great tag, I must say I have found it hard to come up with these 5 quirks, not sure why? Maybe everyone around me is so quirky so mine just don't stand out, or that I'm not that quirky! I'll let you be the judge on that! :) hehe

So here goes.....

5 quirky things about Rochelle

1. When I open my eyes wide to apply Mascara my mouth always opens.

2. I'm a really bad channel surfer, I flick through the channels so fast! Much to Craig's annoyance!!

3. To go to sleep I have to lie on my tummy, I try to lie on my back and side but I always end up back on my tummy.

4. I am defiantly a night person, no matter how hard I try to get up early, it never works. Staying up late is just so easy and that's when my brain switches on. Another quirk much to Craig's annoyance as he is very much a morning person!

5. I have a huge fear of dogs and a slightly lesser fear of cats, this is defiantly a quirk, one I could happily live without but hey it's me.

Well what do ya know, I got to the end of them.... now who to tag! hehe

I will tag Hannah ( she is always so quick to read my blogs, so thanks) and Julie (another lovely comment giver!)

Coffee with the girls

Almost every Tuesday night Karen, Jessica and myself catch up for a hot drink at Coffee Culture in Lyttleton. We know each other from working together a few years ago, we have been friends for about six years. This regular coffee break is a great way to keep up with the gossip in each others lives :) I'm really happy how this layout turned out, again it was a bit of a struggle to get the photos to work but it came together in the end.

Happy Birthday Jess!!!

My good friend Jess celebrated her 25th birthday on Friday. Unfortunately we weren't able to catch up on then, so last night another of our friends had us over for a lovely roast dinner to celebrate. Here are a few pictures of the explosion album I made for her.

Catching up

Over the past week I have been trying to get caught up on my craft projects. I am trying hard not to come up with any more ideas till I have made a big dent in the must do pile! :) hehe

So sadly I may not get a chance to work on this months and fortnightly challenges at S.E.

I have however finished my Christmas star book, and must say I'm very happy with how it has turned out. I have embellished it through out and added the "T'was the night before Christmas" story. It fits perfectly in the Christmas letterbox tin I altered earlier in the year!

I hope it will be treasured in our family for years to come each Christmas.

While I had the Christmas bits out I finally got the picture of Craig and I on Christmas eve scrapped with the fabulous BG Dasher and Fruitcake papers, don't you just love them!!!!!

I have had a range of cards to make, and have got most of them done except the 5 friendship cards for the S.E card swap which shall be complete by Friday.

In the mailbox last week was my package of scraps from the S.E scrap swap challenge, I have now finished the layout for that. Thanks to the person who sent such bright scraps! :)

Well better finish this off, it's Tuesday evening and that means vanilla chai latte's with some girlfriends, better buzz and get ready! Will upload more LO's when they are finished :)

Our weekend trip to Dunedin

One of our New year's Resolution this year is to have more weekends away, so over the past weekend we headed for a wee road trip down to Dunedin, stopping along the way at the townships and of course, there had to be trips to scrapbook shops! he he
We set out on Saturday morning, stopping along the way and arrived in Dunedin about 5pm. I was really amazed how big Dunedin is, and the buildings are beautiful, I didn't get to take many photos as we were on the move all the time. I will certainly think about it more on another trip there. We stayed at the Leith Valley Touring Park in a cabin, I was impressed at how neat the place was and how friendly they were, we would defiantly recommend it. On Sunday we went for a drive around, out on the peninsular, then to St Clair's beach. The weather was fantastic and the beach looked so inviting! We had a look around the shops and found some more scrapbook places, but I must say we were both very tired from the trip down, next time I think we will go for a few more days. I would love to travel down further south on our next excursion.
These photos were taken at Moeraki Boulders, on Monday morning when we drove home the weather was stunning. We detoured to Geraldine and checked out the Barkers Jam store and other shops.

We really did have a fabulous weekend with the best weather, it couldn't have gone better!
Now on to planning our next weekend trip away.