Just another 10 days and we will be here....

It is so hard to believe that it was the end of 2004 when these photos were taken. Sonia especially looks so young.

Visit to see Co-Co (and Grandma and Grandad)

It was only a long weekend but a wonderful long weekend. So much fun for everyone. Co-Co may not have liked being chased with the Girls new camera but the walks more than made up for it. Here Mum and Dad are some photos straight out of the camera. When I get a chance, I'll edit the flash/eye colour.

Happy Birthday to Grandma, Grandad, Sonia and everyone else.

And here is Co-Co trying to avoid the camera rather unsuccessfully.

 

 

One very happy girl.

And a little maintenance of that beautiful coat.

Thanks Mum and Dad (and Co-Co) for such a great weekend!

Some recent travel layouts

Well not necessarily recent, as in today, but they were completed in the last couple of months. This is what brought me to scrapbooking and will always be central. The photo to me is the most important and then the adornment with papers and elements but only for the creation of atmosphere. I am definitely not a "kit" scrapper.

This layout shows the ancient city of Old Marib in Yemen. We arrived just as the sun was setting. What a sight.

I love this photo of the 2 girls in the doorway of their home in a town in Yemen.

 

And here is one of the back lakes of the imperial palace in Beijing. I have spent many hours here.

 

Hunza has been romantisiced as ShangriLa and you can understand why. Scenery that cannot be matched anywhere in the world.

 

And just across the border in Tashkurgan, now China but ethnically moslem and diverse.

 

Bagan, Myanmar. Just 2 more months and we will return.

 

And here is the layout

Well I just could not resist playing around with this photo.

For credits please click on layout.

A Day at the Beach

We spent a few hours at the beach yesterday. It was warm but the full force of Summer has not yet hit us. We never go to the beach in Summer as the thought of frying in the glare and hot sand just does not appeal. It is school holidays but we managed to get away from the crowds and find some rocks to clamber on.

It is still fun to write your name in the sand.

Relaxing in the rock pools.

Fun to stand on rocks as the waves come in.

And you wanted to go out to this furthest rock. Next time we should bring swimmers.

 

 

It was a wonderful day out to end the holidays.

Favourite Photos

Work has been so busy that I have not had time to work on scanning in my colleciton of slides but looking through those that I have scanned is always a wonderful way to bring back memories. One of my favourite photos was one I took of a monk in Tibet over 20 years ago. He invited us in and allowed photos. The room (which was his bedroom and kitchen) was dark with sunlight streaming in the windows. The sun is so strong in Tibet in the rarefied air and always gives so much contrast in photos. I took 3 photos and they were all reasonable even though I remember leaning against a wall as I was probably shooting at less than 1/30.

Here is a double page layout of these photos.

Don't you just love the kitchen and Butter tea churner in the corner all in brass and wood.

What have I been doing today?

Counting pixels!

The blog has not had a makeover for quite a while so I thought I would quickly update the elements. The trouble was I had forgotten all about padding and margins and whether padding is on the inside or out etc etc. Anyway it is now complete and I am happy with the result.

Here is an altered art layout created from the October kit at the Artisan Guild. Amber loves it as yellow is her favourite colour.



Can you believe that today is the first of October!