Friday Night Scrapping

This is my first artist attempt at scrapping.
I went to Danielle's place with Pam and Bradley on Friday night (16 March 2007) to watch and learn how Pam and Danielle scrapbook. Brad was quite entertained with the big screen TV watching Pirates of the Caribbean 2, whilst we chatted in the front room, drank wine, ate M&Ms and scrapped.
I learnt a lot about scrapping, the most important being how expensive it is, followed by there are a loads of gadgets and gizmoes that you can use and all have special names.
Danielle suggested that Pam and I make mini clipboards and my attempt is pictured. It should have a mini silver bulldog clip on it, but it wouldn't scan well with it. I am quite impressed with my effort and look forward to more nights of scrapping, especially the wine, M&Ms and chatting.

A Week in Dunsborough Part 2

I am not sure this is going to turn out as I want but thought I was better trying to finish the Dunsborough trip, so apologies for the photo arrangements.
Pam and Bradley arrived on the Thursday night and rather late. I am amazed that they found us, but it helped that Angie drove to the town centre to meet them. The joys of mobile phones! Unfortunately the days are muddled in my head so I will just mention what we got up to.
We played Supa Golf one morning. The complex is new and located new the Chocolate Factory. As you can see I tried to play the part clothing wise, but failed substantially when it came to actually playing golf. Brad whooped us (he had had golf lessons previously), Pam came second and Angie and I came equal last. It was actually quite enjoyable, and I think we made a wise decision to just play 9 holes.
Second stop on this day was the Chocolate Factory and as usual I took handfuls (and more handfuls) of the free choc buds and taught Brad to do the same. Even grabbed my usual top up on the way out!! We had lunch at the Providore (new organic place), followed by visits to the deer farm (yummy - sorry Bambi), some wineries and the cheese factory. We also did wineries the following day, so I am not totally sure which day we went where. We also visited the Candy Cow and Brad got to go to the beach to go boogy boarding.
The beach was fantastic at Yallingup for Brad, apart from the first day boarding and his boardies fell down and he was rolling around the surf desperately trying to pull them up and not flash, whilst hid board floated away. I decided not to post that photo for Brad's sake and posted one of him clothed correctly.
The photo of Pam and Angela was taken at Laurence. It was the most fantastic winery I have been too. It seems fairly new and we only went there to take Karlene's advice to check out the toilets. Let me just say that the size of each cubicle was the size of a bathroom - amazing! The wine wasn't bad too.
Brad got over the wineries pretty quickly, but enjoyed the fact that most had dogs that you could pat and play with. I purchased only 9 bottles due to the fact I was stone cold broke, but Pam made up for all of us with 24 bottles!!!
Pam and Brad left on Sunday arvo and Angie I left on Monday morning. It was a fab holiday and I look forward to heading down there again as it is so relaxing.

A week in Dunsborough

5th to 12th February 2007

Angela and I had a week booked in sunny Dunsborough and I can't begin to tell you how delightful and relaxing it was.

Work had been driving me crazy and I hadn't had been on annual leave for a year, so as this holiday approached I did my best to contain my excitement.

Angie was the designated driver for the holiday, as I had driven last year on our annual pilgrimage down south. Pam and Bradley would be joining us later in the week. We arrived at Geographe Cove Resort at about half three on Monday afternoon and boy what a surprise the place was. We stayed in a 3x2 house that was perfect with all the mod cons.

Angie and I settled in and had a few days before Pam and Bradley joined us on Thursday night. The weather was fantastic (30+) for a seaside holiday. Our house was just a walk through the complex to the beach - perfect! Angie and I were lucky enough to experience a few hours out on a boat checking out the coast with Barry (my work colleague) and his wife Carole. It was flat as and I didn't get sea sick at all, which is a small miracle in itself. We moored the boat and had a swim off the shore of a beautiful beach. The water was unfortunately cold in most parts, with a few warms spots, that Barry swears he was not responsible for. It was a lovely afternoon and made me wish that I owned a boat.

We were very well behaved and avoided the wineries until Pam's arrival. Angie and I had our usual trip to 'The Goose' restaurant in Busselton. Again a perfect meal overlooking the 2km jetty, however we bailed on dessert in favour of buying wine and a sweet sticky liqueur to drink back at our new home.

I think I will divide this holiday onto a couple of posts, so that I can add more photos and so that it is quick and easy to read for all. So in my next instalment - Pam and Bradley arrive!

Out with MySpace and in with Blogger

I had attempted to do a MySpace, but I don't like the set up and what it looks like in terms of viewing it and photos. So taking good note of Danielle's and Belinda's blogs I have moved to Blogger. I get the feeling that I may have to visit Danielle for some serious tips on how you create an interesting blog with good photos, and now that she has her computer back I am sure she will be keen - please?

I will give a brief update from MySpace - I signed up for ADSL2 on 29 Jan 2007. Being my usual savvie computer self I couldn't even set the damn thing up without making my first call to my new providers helpline. I decided to try and do a myspace, which was pathetic :(
I was sort of impressed that I was able to add a 2nd posting about a friends new baby including photos, but that was the end of myspace.

I will make my start here brief as I will now have to try and work out how to add a photo to my profile. It is probably really easy, but it doesn't look as simple as browsing for a photo on my computer. Wish me luck.