Skye

back again.... but not with a card this time. I took Skye for grooming yesterday. She was looking very shaggy as I had held off taking her as I didn't have the money. Anyway shes looking all wonderful again and I thought I would share this photo I took of her. She was having a stretch.

I took a photo of my cat Meeka as well. She is 14 now but is just as cuddly as ever. Skye is scared of her but they still fight over who is going to sit on my lap.

Anyway thats all for today.

Faux Wood Panels

hi again,

I finally found the card I made last week. I had decided to try doing some wood panelling. I used the motor bike stamp as the image. I'm not sure I like this card but thought I'd show you to see what you think. 

I'll be back with more soon.

Sail Away

Hi there, I hope you have all had a great long weekend if you are here in WA. I had a very quiet one but I did get to make a card. I love this single stamp Sail Away. I saw this larger circle sponged behind the boat and liked it, so did my version of it.

Colours are Early Esspresso and Bashful Blue.

Have a good week and I hope to be back to show you more later in the week.

Sew Suite

hello again, 

When I returned home from Convention I had a really lovely card waiting for me sent by my fellow demo friend Susan Joyce. Thank you Sue, I really love it and decided I would love to case it as well. So here is her beautiful card and then my version. I don't have any of the pom pom trim so I used retired ribbon in the Tangerine Tango. I had to try out the ruffled ribbon technique that Teneale showed us at Convention. 

Boy have I outdone myself this week with so many posts. Its a pity I cant keep this up every week. You know its mainly my memory that stops me from posting more often. Maybe you should remind me that I have a blog to post on... have a great weekend.

Last post on holidays....

hi again, today can finish my holiday posts and get back to showing you some cards.

Our last trip out of Melbourne was down to Philip Island. We bought a 3 parks pass and went first to see Churchill Island Heritage farm. It was interesting to see inside the house still set up as it was back when it was settled. I enjoyed seeing the animals on the farm as it reminded me of my childhood growing up on a farm with lots of animals.

The next park to go to was the Koala conservation park. you could walk up a boardwalk amongst the trees where the koalas were but they were very high up and sleeping so not as good as I thought it would be. I think seeing those koalas on the side of the road was the best memory for me.

 the sunset on the way to our last place for the day was beautiful. Then we were off the see the penguin parade. It was great to see the little penguins come in after sunset. we weren't allowed to take any photos so I don't have any to show you.

the day after was Friday, our last day in Melbourne. We packed up our things, said goodbye to Richard and Tracy and took the car back to the airport for our flight home. We did have some time to kill so stopped at a DFO to have a look what everyone was raving about. Well I sure am not a shopper as it didn't find anything that I would want to buy. Maybe that was because I had no money to spend. 

I like to take photos out the window of the plane of the clouds. This was coming into Perth.

It was a fantastic holiday and we really enjoyed it but it sure is good to be home. thanks for checking out my holiday.

More of week 2 holidays

Not too much more to show. 

Our day spent in Ballarat was all at Sovereign Hill and the Gold museum. It took nearly 1 1/2 hours just to look through the museum and the rest of the day to see the amazing re-enactments at Sovereign Hill. I love stepping back in time. 

We just had to have a photo of Graham in the Buckland Gallery

It sure was a fun day and after we drove back to Melbourne to stay with our friends again. On Thursday we planned to drive down to Philip Island for our last day of sight seeing. I will tell you about that in the next post.

Holidays week 2

After Convention was over we had one more week in Melbourne. Tracy and Richard spent the day with us on the Sunday. After a leisurely morning get up we had some wonderful pancakes for breakfast made by Richard. They were yummm.... After lunch we went for a drive up to the Dandenongs. I just loved the autumn colours and beautiful sites. We stopped near an overpass bridge and watched the puffing Billy train go past.

 

  

 I love trees and these were magnificent.

  We drove up to Monbulk. I was interested to learn that this was where Monbulk Jam was first made.

 we went for a short walk through the Forest.

It sure was a nice day out. Thanks to Richard and Tracy for taking us out.

On Monday we hired a car for the rest of the week to go out into the country a bit. I showed you photos of our visit to the Werribee Open Plain Zoo while still over there. We really enjoyed the drive along the Great Ocean Road. One sign that was on the sides of the road all the way along was for the tourist from other countries. With such a narrow winding road you sure wouldn't want to forget which side you should be driving on.

Just a couple more days to post about so will be back soon with more.