What a great weekend

Beautiful warm day today, lovely walk along the beach and Murphy even had a swim.
This follows a great win by my fav team that was in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League, not my team, but it was my dad's and I've always had a soft spot for them, an awesome team.
Dinner with friends last night at a lovely little seafood restaurant, only thing I haven't managed to do all weekend is scrap....maybe a late night tonight to fit some in. Think I'm a bit thrown by all the tidying up of my scrap supplies I'm trying hard to cut back on before the move into my scrap room, which will hopefully be this week...think, I'm starting to get a little excited about it.

New Scraproom

Well, I've never had one so I guess I should say...I now have a Scrap Room in progress.
Totally tailor made to fit my papers/cricut cartridges/stamps/ punches/albums/magazines and load of cupboard space for all those things you need to tuck out of the way.

Can't wait for it to be finished but because of all the measuring involved due to the above detailing...it is taking longer than initially expected. Then...clean up the mess, we've had some really awful weather here, way to cold/windy/rainy to do all the cutting outside so my garage has temporarily taken on the look of a joinery workshop with tons of sawdust and general dust.

Once it is nearly finished and the bench tops are on...peacock blue benches.... I'm going to give a RAK for the 'name my scrap room' idea. So stay tuned.

Have another thing to share that gives me much joy...but, sorry, got to wait another week before revealing that one.

How cool is the pic!!

Bob and Henry in Walmart a few weeks ago

Monday 23rd August

Well I took my sister and her husband to the airport this morning, very sad time, I really miss her when she goes home, we've had a lovely time together celebrating mine and Bob's 60th birthday's....it's hard when your daughter and your sister live so far away but at least I get to visit them.
On a brighter note we had a glorious day here today until mid afternoon when that dreaded chill comes down, can't complain though as this has been one of the best winters I can remember.

Even brighter note.....the builder came today to measure up for my scrap room, building begins next week...think Bob will be glad to get all my mess downstairs.

This is one cute little grandson

Taken on our last day with Erin and her family in July 2010 ..... going to really miss this little guy and can't wait until we can see them all again in December.

My poor old blog has been neglected, now having a bit of trouble with it and hoping I don't have to redo it.

In June I was fortunate enough to go to America for my grandson Henry's 1st birthday, also met up with a lot of my online friends in Las Vegas.

Latest favourite picture

Just had to post this picture of Henry. It was taken when he went for a hike with his mum and dad at the weekend, he's certainly going to grow up an outdoor's boy.

Favourite Xmas Layout of Henry

This was a template of my good friend Pam Callaghan, perfect to tell the story of Henry tearing the paper, discovering the gift and enjoying it, thanks Pam for allowing us to use these.

The top page 'Henry with the bugs' was such a cute picture of him with his biscuit all over his face and such a cheeky grin...this was my 2nd digi layout, the 1st one is somehow lost amongst my many files aarghh!! one day I'll find it but it did have errors on it, this one doesn't..I don't think, also made it with a freebie kit, but now that I feel more comfortable with it I intend to go buy a few kits.

These were the last pics taken before we left last November

End of Summer aarghh!!

Well the time we all dread has arrived today, end of summer, cooler mornings and nights already, darker sooner. But, shouldn't complain as we have had a wonderful summer and the warmest I can remember for some years.

Blog has been neglected a bit of late for many reasons, but hopefully now it will get some priority so I can get it back on track.

Our dear Grandson Henry has grown and changed so much since we last saw him last November, he is sitting up now, saying mum (his first word), and has 6 teeth with 3 coming through in the last week, amazing, and of course this has meant little sleep for his mum and dad.

Personally I've been playing around with digi scrapping, took a while to grasp the 'layers' thing but feel comfortable with that now so am stretching out into other areas. Don't think I would ever fully become a 'digi scrapper' because I love playing with the paper too much, but, definitely think I will use it to make smaller books for gifts etc as it is so quick. However, as a result of this and keeping up to date with my online friends and their galleries, I have had little time to actually scrap, done a few since the last ones posted on here so will put a couple up 'of Henry of course'. Will never be able to keep up with scrapping all the fabulous pics his mum and dad keep me updated with, without these I think I'd go crazy because it is so hard living so far from him. Less than 2 weeks and they will be home in Australia for our youngest daughters wedding...so a lovely wedding to look forward to and the arrival of Henry, Erin and Jarrod.

Mt Rainier

These layouts are of the absolutely beautiful snow at Mt Rainier in Washington State.

Back Again

Well after being away from my blog for some time I am now back and will hopefully have the time to keep it up to date.

When I last posted we were heading back to the USA to visit our daughter and her family in Washington State. Well, our first visit there was absolutely wonderful, it was so nice to see how our gorgeous grandson had grown since we were last over there. Our daughter and son in-law took us to some of the most beautiful and scenic places and have to say this State is truly beautiful, can't wait to go back and explore it some more.

Yesterday was a wonderful day with our youngest daughter and her fiance at their home for Christmas Lunch. What a wonderful day it was, they have been renovating their home and doing a really great job, we are so proud of them. A lovely breakfast with them after a very early start from home, and then dinner and chat with Jeremy's family, made for a lovely day before heading back to Orford.

Back to the U.S.A

Great news, Bob and I are heading back to the United States to Washington State this time where our daughter and her family have recently moved to, Bob surprised me with the suggestion to go back, he misses them as much as I do, we leave in a few weeks, yea!!

Good Morning Vietnam

Just to change the scenery a bit. This pic was taken at 11a.m. our first morning in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, it was already around 39 deg at that time, so very hot. Picture was taken in a beautiful restaurant we visited for lunch prior to travelling south to Vung Tau where my husband was stationed for some of his time in Vietnam.

Grandchildren are things dreams are made of

A couple of multi pic pages highlighting my dear grandsons cute faces as he grows.

Proud Moments

I was so glad to finally be in America and to be holding our first grandchild, he arrived early and we were still touring Ireland on our way to Virginia for his birth.

The Journaling on the bottom of this layout says; My greatest joy in life was having children. My second greatest was to see them happily married and happy in life. A grandchild is the icing on the cake and the dream.

This layout was done using a sketch by 'Julie Bonner' for the October Sketch Challenge on 'that Scrappy Girl' site.

Henry with his beautiful mum

This picdture taken on Erin's 31st birthday, Henry was just 3 wks old, I love this picture Erin looks so beautiful and full of love for her son.

Our Beautiful Murpy

This picture taken in October 2009 and it was so cold but Murphy likes to think he can catch the seagulls so went for a swim, his efforts were in vain as they hover above him tormenting.

Henry and his Dad

Well my blog is going to feature a lot of Henry, he is going to grow up on this blog I think.
This one I love the picture I took of him with his dad when we were visiting them, Jarrod was dressed in his 'Dress Uniform' for a formal event.