I'm back from my holiday visiting family in Redcliffe Qld (scrapbook layout from the week coming soon!). It has taken me a week to settle back into routine! I missed a week of the team up thursday diptych - but will be back later this week with the new theme - doors. Before I left for Qld I ordered a photo collage from Snapfish (they were 1/2 price, I ordered one for Laura with 21st photo's on it in a 20x16inch, looked great!) using all my Team Up Thursday Diptychs so far, this one is a 11x13inch, so that I can trim it down and add it to my scrapbooks. I really like how it came out (although my photo of it is a bit distorted).

I also ordered an enlargement of a digital photo collage I did for an exhibition coming up at our local library, with the theme of 'Elders'. This collage is of Cor Melis, who has been a member of the Portland Camera Club forever (and a member of VAPS for over 55 years!), he is 90 and still conducts workshops and mentors members. He is a great inspiration to all club members.

I missed 'National Camera Day' (an American day of course!), and as I wanted to put a photo of my camera up on this day - as per Stacey Julians blog sprinkle "Take a picture of your camera. Today and the rest of this week is a perfect time to contemplate what your camera allows you to do. How has photography changed your life, how has it changed you? Photograph your camera and then consider creating some kind of tribute to the lens through which you view and capture life.". Then I was called into work - and didn't get anything else done. I still want to do this - and as I am heading off to Adelaide early tomorrow morning, will think about it and scrapbook a page about my camera next week. (Hopefully with a better pic of my camera!)

P.S. - My youngest, Belinda, got her Braces off today - can't wait to scrapbook that next week too!

Just for fun I tried a 12 on the 12th theme. 12 photos of what is around me/going on on the 12th of this month!

1. New mug from the 'biggest morning tea' fundraiser.

2. iPod playing songs from Glee.3. Flowers given to Laura for her 21st.

4. Laura's overnight (dance) bag. 5. New book, 'The short second life of Bree Tanner', part of the Twilight series.

6. All the girls home for the long weekend. 7. Home made vegetable rissotto cakes.

8. My angel perfume - laura had it refilled for me.
9. Laura destroying her P plates, as of today she is on her full license.
10. Afternoon tea at Kokopellis.

11.Create art day at The Arts Company with friends.

12. The Arts Company Building.

Happy Mothers Day. Chrysanthemum's for Mum!

Just for Fun! Stacy Julian
(founder of Big Picture Scrapbooking) posted a blog challenge "What's in your purse". So here is my stuff, and you should take a look at this, for some other great purse peeks!

Scrapbooking

I now scrapbook using the Stacy Julian 'Library of Memories' system, this means I sort my photos chronologically, but when I make my scrapbook layouts I sort them by theme. So when I scrapbook, I go through my photos and just pick whatever I feel like scrapbooking, whether it be current or from when my girls were little. This helps me avoid the "always feeling behind"while scrapbooking feeling. (for more info on this go the blogs i read - Big Picture Scrapbooking.). Currently as well as my theme scrapbooks (At the moment I have 4 - All about Us, Things we do, Places we go & Celebrations), I am making each of my girls an A - Z scrapbook, covering their lives up until they finish secondary school. I have finished Laura's album, and am working on Cindy's, - hope to finish it over the next few months, and then start Belinda's!



This is Cindy's 'J' page - Just love dress ups.
This layout was completed using a sketch from Cathy Zeilski's Design Your Life class at Big Picture Scrapbooking.

And just for fun today I am including my favorite photo of the moment - 'Autumn footwear' - me and my 3 girls!