LBC Fundraiser a Fantastic Day

Hi again,

What a wonderful day I had yesterday teaching 26 lovely people to make 8 projects. Quite a few of the people attending were new to stamping but all managed to create beautiful cards. After 3 weeks of preparation and the full day yesterday I fell into bed at 7pm last night and even the planned reading of my book only lasted for half an hour before I gave in and went to sleep. It was all SO worth it. We managed to raise $1810. I need to say a big thank you to my good friend Sandra for all her help and also Eileen and Tina who looked after the catering for the day. We sure had some nice food for the day. 

Today I have been resting after going to church as I have got a chesty cough and a headache and since I  now have a few days with nothing on my calendar I can leave all that unpacking from yesterday until tomorrow.

 This photo is of everyone busy making their cards. 

 This little box I made using a box I received for a swap at Convention. I used the Vintage Vogue stamp set and wheel and Kraft and Soft Suede card.

I just got the oval die for my Big Shot last week so designed this card using the 2 largest ovals. Also the stamp set A Rose is a Rose as I hadn't used it in awhile. It is one of the stamps that will be on special from Stampin' Up! in July. The colours I used are Always Artichoke and Rich Razzleberry. 

This card is a remake of one that I did before. I love the 2 step bird punch. Also using the polka dot folder with the Big Shot. The stamp set Wonderful Favourites was another set I hadn't used in awhile.

 Well that is all for today. I will show you the other cards another day. I hope you all have had a nice weekend whatever you  may be doing.

LBC Fundraiser

Just a quick note to tell you why I haven't posted for so long. I have been preparing for my fundraiser for my church. Lesmurdie Baptist Church. I am teaching 7 cards and a box and have been busy making gifts and cutting up 30 kits. I have prepared for 30 people and have 27 booked so I still have a couple left for walk ins. 

I will just show you a photo of the projects on a board and then hopefully will get time to show you each card later. Some cards are cased and some original.
As I said this is just a quick hi and bye.... BYE

Bonny Blog Award

During the week I was honoured to receive the Swap Sisters Bonny Blog Award from Kez. Many thanks for the award Kez! You can check out her wonderful blog here. 

The conditions of the award are:

1: Put the Swap Sisters Bonny Blog Award on your blog and/or within your post.
2: Share 5 things about yourself.
3: Pass the award onto 5 other Bonny Blogs.
4: Put links in your post of your 5 chosen Bonny Blog Winners.
5: Let them know they have been chosen to win the Swap Sisters Bonny Blog Award by leaving a comment on their blog.
6: PAY IT FORWARD and link the person from whom you received the Swap Sisters Bonny Blog Award.

It wasn't that long ago that I shared things about me so this time I will hopefully tell you some different things.

So, here are 5 things about me:

1. I grew up on a farm (told you that before) and love the bush.

 2. I have been crafting since I was a little girl taught by my Nana and mum.

 3. I lived in Sydney for 4 years in the 80's.

 4. I love to sing and while living in Sydney sang in "The Messiah" at the Opera House.( Part of a huge choir.)

5. I have been overweight all my life... since I was about 2.

ok now on with nominating 5 Bonny Bloggers. I will pick different ones from last time.

 1.The creative Tracey Miller at  Fred She Said Digital Designs.

2. the talented funny Jan Tink

3.I love to make flowers and found Joanne at Mainly Flowers.
 

4. The blog I learned to do a watermark from Stampinkub

5. Ellen Kempers Blog Blinkin' Thinkin' & Inkin'

Well I had better be off now as I am supposed to be cooking dinner. This is the first chance I have had to update my blog since I got home. I still want to show you a little more of our holiday when I get time. 

have a wonderful weekend.

June Issue of Paper Crafters Sampler

Its that time again, when Paper Crafters Sampler is due to be released.

Our June "Just Visiting" sampler offers several gift ensemble ideas. Projects range from beautifully packaged note card sets, embellished treat containers, note pad holders, bath and beauty and a beautiful hand-crafted quilt!


I can also show you a little sneak peek of my project for this month.

Stampin' Up! Deal of the week.

Hi there, Just a quick check in here as I need to tell you about Stampin' Up!s Deal of the week.
During the month of June there will be specials every week that only last for that week.
Email or ring me today with your order. I am home from holiday so can put your orders in.

More on our travels

We have just spent 2 days in the Blue Mountains with Graham's cousins. What a lovely place. Both days it was drizzling rain and very cloudy so we couldn't see much further than a few metres away. The first day we thought we would go to see the Jenolan caves since it was wet and cloudy outside. We went to the Orient cave.

 Red my little teddy came down in the caves with us. Can you see him sitting on the rail?

 This was a magnificent group of stalactite's in the cave. below is looking from the car to the door into the tunnel as a short cut to the cave.

Here is the lookout to Wentworth falls on the first day. Not much to see apart from clouds.

 then today this is the view. much better, and we could even see the falls.

 Wentworth Falls

Above is the Leura Cascades. A very pretty place. 

 We met up with another cousin Lynne yesterday and she came site seeing with us which was lovely. we decided to go on the railway down to the bottom of the valley even though it was wet and misty. It is so amazing down in the rainforest. We then got the cable car back up after walking around the board walk in the rain. I had my umbrella but the others didn't. It was worth it though.

above is the steepest railway that we went down the valley in and then me feeding the parrots.

 we then walked the boardwalk in the rain. this is Graham with Lynne.

the rain forest is fantastic.

Today we travelled to Canberra to spend the weekend with Graham's brother Russell and Cherith. We took all day to drive down stopping in a few places on the way. One of the places was Berrima which is a lovely little town with lots of crafty places. Below Red is resting outside one of the shops.

that's all for now. I have hundreds of photos but that is the beauty of digital photo's isn't it?

Holiday News

I finally have some time to sit down and tell you a little about our holiday here in NSW. The first 2 days while I was at convention Graham wandered around the city looking at a few things and on the Saturday he went to the Swans/ Dockers AFL game at the SCG. He had a really good seat and the Dockers won so that was good.
On Sunday we visited my good friend Bev, who I haven't seen in quite some time so that was wonderful. We plan to see her again next week before we leave. After that Shane and Rebecca and the kids met us at the train station and we caught the train into the city and went down to circular Quay for the Jet Boat Ride that I had given Graham for his birthday and to Shane as a thank you for having us stay. It was drizzling rain all day. Rebecca and I took Photos from across the water at the ferry terminal. This photo is as they were about to leave. Shane and Graham are in the back row.

They came back soaked even though they had the purple rain coats. Shane had bought along a change of clothes but Graham hadn't so had to stay in his wet clothes on the way home. As Ronan wanted to have a boat ride we decided to take the ferry out to Meadowbank and then catch the train back to Turramurra where our car was. The 1 hour trip ended up taking us 2 1//2 hours due to missing one train and then have to change trains twice to get back. Luckily I had my book with me and read during the long waits at the stations and then while travelling. We enjoyed the ferry ride up the river.

This is the Harbour Bridge as we left Circular Quay.

 The Opera House was a little gloomy in the rain.

 When we had to change trains at Epping we came across this very steep and long escalator. I have never seen one so long. Graham took a photo of me half way down.
It was so far down under ground that it smelt like fumes down there. We sure have learnt a lot about travelling by train in the past few days.
 After we got home we then went to Elanora Heights to visit with Graham's Auntie and Uncle and met his cousins Peter and Maryanne. We had a lovely meal there and enjoyed it very much. We have organised to go and spend the day with Peter and Maryanne next Wednesday.

Yesterday we had a rest day and apart from going into Hornsby to dry some clothes and buy a couple of things spent the day at the house.

Shane and Rebecca have 3 chooks and lots of trees around. The leaves are all such lovely colours with the autumn leaves. The parrots come each day looking for a feed. They are almost tame.

 Today we went to Shane's work and I taught a few people a card in their lunch break.
If you are wondering how Ted is going here is a couple of pictures of him. One at Shane's work answering the phone and also one waiting for the train.

My little great niece Aylish is really gorgeous. She enjoyed the ferry ride as you can see in this photo with Rebecca. She is 8 months old and Ronan is 3 1/2. Ronan enjoyed stamping today and proudly showed me his page.