LOAD 11

I really like this layout. It's a paper layout based on a sketch provided by Trina at http://scrapbookoutletnz.co.nz/

LOAD 10

I used up some of my very old stash in this paper layout.

Load 9

It's getting harder to do a layout a day. There is always something else that has to be done. Last night I did a quick page from Templates n More.

LOAD 8

Here's the layout for day 8. I think this might be the title page of the album for our cruise.

All elements are from Linda Rechtin's Crazy for You kit here
http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7343

Favourite Photos of 2007

My favorite photos of the year were:

None of these photos are my favourites because they have any technical merit, nearly all of them are really portraying a personality & that's what I love about these photos.

First off there's this one of Brent. Why do I love it? Brent seems to love being the centre of attention & if there is a camera trained on him he puts on a show & hams it up. I love that he likes to do that but I also like to get non "look at me" type photos of him. This was taken from quite a distance using my zoom lens & I love how I got a photo of him just being natural. There were very few of these type that got taken last year & it seems to be even less now as he is really turning into one of those smart alecked, "look at me" kind of boys.James. How could I not love this photo. I actually took it for a photography class that I took with Vicky Gibson http://www.thesneakypirate.blogspot.com The point of the exercise was to get in close & so I did. James was swinging on the swing & I was standing right in front of him so he was swinging towards me absolutely loving the fact that he could very well hit me. This photo seems to show James as my personality plus child.

I always find it difficult to get a non posed photo of both my in laws & my mother. They always seem to want to be posed or at least know that they are having their photo taken. I really like this photo of my FIL & I am really pleased we have a photo of him in his police jacket since he's coming up to retirement this year.

Weird photo to have as a favourite of Scott. There are photos of him, usually he is in photos with the boys, & there is the odd individual one but this strange one is the one I love. Why? Because when he was younger, before kids, he had this goofy side that I loved. That side seems to have been covered up in responsibilities, life, work. It's a side that rarely comes out to play anymore & I miss it. This day we went to the mountains to play in the snow. He was showing me "running man" on ice.

This one is my all time favourite. It was my birthday & we were on a sunset cruise at Raitea'a. I love how we look so happy together. Of course this photo has already been part of one layout but it is going to appear in many more.

LOAD 7

Woohoo I have managed to do a layout a day for a whole week, that's pretty amazing stuff for me. Other amazing stuff is that I've just noticed that I've hit the 3000 visitor mark, of course that isn't 3000 different people, but still it's kind of neat.

Here's the layout using Scrapbook Outlet NZ's December kit

New Year, New food

Is there a new food you want to try this year? Or a new recipe you want to make?

I think I am pretty adventurous when it comes to food. There is not a lot I won't try at least once. That is how I was brought up & I still seem to follow that pattern now. I think it has stood me in good stead & so I am now bringing up the boys the same way. They have to at least try the new food & if they don't like it that's fine they don't have to have it.

What I might baulk at would be eating those outragoeus things that they eat on programs like Survivor. I would have to be pretty hungry I would imagine to be able to stomach things like balut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut That just looks icky, but then mind over matter or hunger might win out.