School holidays are all but over. We've had the best time. We walked the skytower. The kids went 10 pin bowling and I watched twilight with the boys. The kids swam every day to get them ready for swim club in the next term and they did art work beside me in the office as well as the occasional day on the playstation. A real treat to be allowed to do that around here.
The boys were awake at 5.30am to attend the ANZAC dawn parade locally. My grandfather still marches at dawn each ANZAC day so we feel good to get the boys out there to support them all. It took a lot of explaining the night before to let Abby know it wasn't a fun parade and she was best to stay home.
Some gems of the holidays that I know I need to get on a layout somewhere:
Jacob: (upon hearing his brother boast that he can make himself burp and go on to burp the entire ABC…) "Man! If I could figure out how to make myself burp like that, I'd burp like every second of every day!". You actually had to be there to watch the facial contortions and noises as he attempted…
Abby: " Mum – I think the good bugs have inny tummy buttons and the bad bugs have outeys" No idea where the theory came from but it followed explanation of how medicene gives good bugs energy to fight the bad.
Alrighty. Time to start the day.
I'll leave you with a scrap-lift I did for the Aussie Scrap Source blog.
Firstly, here is the layout I lifted….this layout is by the lovely Heidi Swapp.
It was the placement of the pics and the embellishing down the side I was going to focus on…
And here is my version of Heidi's layout… I was inspired to use a masking technique that Heidi showed us at Create 08. It was using a Tim Holtz ink and mask. I used the 'negative' or leftover from some Heidi Swapp Clear Extras as a mask for this dotty paper effect. There was a place in the glossy extras where I had popped out 4 circles.. that is the part I used as a mask. There is also a green butterfly there but you can hardly see it.
I absolutely LOVED doing this layout. It pushed me to use 'snapshot' type pics that I had stashed for ages wanting to use, it was fun to have permission to scraplift someone else, and it just seemed to fall together fairly easily.
Enjoy your sunday… 5 sleeps til Autumn Escape!
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