Weekend in Sydney

Rodney's work does a summer bash in Feburary each year. So we were flown to Sydney and our motel was the Novatel at Darling Harbour. It was really lovely room. Our view from our Motel room (as shown in the picture below) was spectacular. It was so nice just to hang out. With my hubby Rodney. We haven't had time away for about 9 months. So we were really hanging out for some away time.

Laing O'Rouke have a seminar on the Saturday and have speakers. They had a women who was a team leader in Antartica, she was really interesting to hear her story. They also had the explosive expert that got the miners out from the Tasmania mines. Wow his story was very moving and very touching. He had alot of pressure on him and stress.

Then came the Summer bash dinner. It is nice to be able to get all dressed up. I think this year they did a great job. Jessica Mauboy came and sang a few songs. She was really great. Justice Crew was there, they did some dancing. It was really great

So my weekend was a really lovely weekend. My favourite part though was just being able to spend time with my hubby and chat. I love my boys with all my heart but it is nice to have a conversation with him without being inturrupted every 5 seconds.

Yeah a girl layout

It isn't often I get to use such pretty girl papers with a house hold of boys, but found this photo and had these papers. Love this paper from Imaginisce, how pretty is it!!!!! I have also done another layout with it, exccept I don't have a photo, I want the right sort of photo on it so I will add it later. I love using circles, I am trying to get out of my comfort zone and layer my paper a bit differently when I do use a circle. The art of scrapbooking is a work in progress, and I don't think we ever get there, it is always changing and inspiring us.

A2Z blog hop

A2Z Scraplets will be having a blog hop on the 11th Feb 2011, join us on the blog hop, it's going to be a great night, filled with inspiration.

Angel layout

Here is a layout that I did for A2Z scraplets for there Design Team, I really love this layout and it is very special as it is another layout of my son who only lived for 28 hours. Loved using more girly colours and papers. It is so nice rather then doing boy layouts all the time.

Twelve birthday layout

Here is one of my favourtie layouts, this is of Donovan on his 12th birthday party. I loved using the A2Z Cog. Just love how this layout came together, it was one of those layouts that fall into place, I wish I had more of them that did that. I made Donovan a WII birthday cake. He is so obsessed with gaming, so I thought that was appropriate. Loved these papers as well. Love the colouring in them. Donovan's sport uniform is usually hard to scrap because of the colours, the yellow but these papers were great.

A2Zscraplets December sketch layout

Here is my layout for A2Z Scraplets sketch challenge. This sketch was a bit different, so it was a bit hard to figure how to use the papers right. But I am happy with the end result. Loved that there was a little bit of journalling on the layout.

Cherish

Here is one of my layouts that I did on the weekend while scrapping with Sam. I seem to do my best work when I scrap with her. Better scrap more often together I reakon. Mind you I had been playing with this paper for awhile and then took the bullet to do it. Love how it turned out. This is using all Kaiser products except for the bling on the left (that is prima) It is there new pearl and bling flourishes, they are so yummy. I have a few more pages to put up. so keep a look out.