Challenging weekend.

This weekend I had two challenges to complete for the Scrapability Sketches - Scrap the Scraps competition. Talk about working under tight time restraints!!! After a very hectic week at school I only realised on Friday that the 2 layouts had to be up by midnight Saturday, it was all systems go!!! Here is the first one I completed, based on Bec's sketch #3. I'll upload the other one later, after I add the finishing touches to it, just a few more stitches....

Not a person in sight.......

Well scrapping photos of bushfires, while swelting in this heat seems quiet fitting. We reached nearly 40 degrees in Ipswich today, thank goodness the schools up here have air-conditioning!! I believe we are in for more of this weather for the rest of the week too, imagine what summer is going to be like!!

Here are my layouts for the November Sketches at Scrapability Sketches. Bec loves to really stretch our talents with her funky, hand drawn sketches and she came up with two great challenges for November. I didn't conciously create 'non-people' layouts this month. But dust storms, bushfires and exceptional architecture made some great focal points to base my layouts on.

I hope you like them,

Aussie Pub Calls - November Sketch

My Guys

Here is my take on the Aussie Pub Calls/Roadmaps sketch for November. Sine has done a great job with this sketch, I love the simplicity of it which has allowed me to add my own personal touches - dont you just love the squiggly arrows by Buzz and Bloom :)

My Weekends Effort

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues.

This started out life as a layout for the Arty Pants Challenge, but I didn't finish it in time to upload. The task was to creat a layout using 'something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue". To me the word 'blue' stuck in my mind, and the old Elton John song that means so much to me. The rest of the page is made up of quotes and emphemera that are significant to me on a personal level.

Here is a layout I created using some photos from our Fort Lytton trip earlier in the year. I loved playing with PhotoShop on these pics. The weathered walls were a great background for the boys to pose against.

The grungy look was enhanced by dropping the saturation of the images to create black and white prints.

More Males!!!

This layout shows two more of the males that I live with - Kipper and Tux. They are just starting to loose their silly puppy ways and become as sensible as two border collie x blue heelers can be!

Back from the holidays...

Wooli beach, just beautiful

Well sadly the school holidays are over, and it's back to work.

Our time down at Wooli was wonderfully relaxing, refreshing and re-energising.

It was great having all the boys together, even tho it was only for one night. The three older boys conquered the giant sand dunes - checkout the layout below. There was plenty of fishing, swimming, body surfing and relaxing ... just how a holiday should be.

Unfortuanetly, being hemmed in by a bushfire did mean that my whale watching intentions didn't materialize as often as I would've liked. Between smoke and dust storms vision was practically zero for a couple of days, but I did managed to get some lovely 'me' time on the hill with my telescope, and some great bushfire photos!