Huge congrats .........

A huge congratulations to the top 10 in the scrapbook outlet scrapervivor competition. They are
Sharee Mortenson
Trina McClune
Vicky Gibson
Natasha Kirk
Lis Cassey
Ilka Adam
Kelly Rotherham
Janine Worthington
Tammy Milburn
Monique Darge

Pop over and check it out by clicking here.
There is also the layouts, the BTP (Beyond the page) projects that have taken these 10 ladies to this point here Also all the fantastic work done by the ladies that missed out (I'm just glad I wasn't judging the top 10, such a hard job.) Go and have a look and I'm sure you will be blown away.

Now the more mundane stuff LOL, or maybe not. For those of you that are after a bag to cart all your papers to crops and retreats, I have just become the proud owner of the Crop-in-style P3. I've seen them advertised in american mags for $129 but I visited the Warehouse Wednesday and they had them. They didn't have a price tag so I took it up to the counter thinking it would be at least $100. They said they were discounted to $29.93. I couldn't believe it, so I got one for a friend of mine who is just starting (converting from CM LOL) and thought if she didn't want it it would be mine. She loved it so I rang and they had another one out the back. I got it today and it is divine. Looking forward to using it at the next retreat. How long to wait????
Tomorrow is our last day of shearing for a few months YAYYYYYY. Can you tell I am excited? So looking forward to it. We are taking the wee BBQ I brought at the warehouse up and Jake is cooking lunch LOL. He said he will so long as there is onions, gotta love him.
Hopefully the weather is fine Sunday and we are able to go down to the river for a fish as a reward, and of course I can get some photos LOL.
I'm off to tidy up my scrapwork station now, long over due :)

Hot hot hot

Well it certainly is hot today. 29 out side and 28 in with all my doors open and not a breathe of wind outside. I am actually loving it. Been busy this week with shearing and Wednesday we had playgroup and a farewell for a wee girl there who starts school on Tuesday. Then today we had mainly music in Lawrence which was fantastic, about 30 odd kids there so a good turn out. I am meant to be baking at the moment as there is local dog trials on tomorrow but I have to go and get the kids off the bus in about 10 minutes so will start when I get back. I should of done it yesterday but put it off because I wanted a whole afternoon doing it (I prefer to bake in the morning though) and yesterday I wouldn't of been able to start till 3.00, so planned on today, but that turned to custard after getting back from Lawrence and DH came in and said that our cattle had crossed the river and we had to go down to get them in. Thirty minute job turned into over an hour grrrr. So here I am waiting to the last minute. Our tins will have to wait till sometime next week.

Monday we have a holiday as it is our Anniversary day so there is no school, which I am looking forward to. Mum is coming over Saturday night as dad is away on a hunt in Fiordland, so hopefully we can go and do something. Might even tell her to bring her scrapping supplies so we can have a go at scrapping.

Better run.

Till next time.

Some layouts from scrapcamp to share

Here is some layouts that I managed to accomplilsh at scrap camp. You'll have to excuse the quality as my scanner isn't working and I had to photograph them and as you can see I haven't mastered that yet LOL.

Yesssss

What a fantastic weekend we had. For those that don't know it was the Bannockburn scrap retreat. It was the best weekend since..... I don't know when LOL. Most of us arrived Friday afternoon/evening, I know we all had a ball. Before the retreat I had only met Lara so it was quite scarey meeting 14 ladies that I hadn't met before, but I had absolutely nothing to worry about as they were all fab. And of course we all had scrapping in common. I managed to get about 9 layouts done (I think it was) for the weekend, unfortunately my scanner isn't working so I am unable to upload any, will try and get photos maybe. There was about 94 layouts done in total.

On the Saturday night we went to the cafe about (200 meters away) and had tea. It really was more than a cafe though, we ate our gourmet pizzas and nibbles in the vineyard. Absolutely spectacular, luckily the weather was nice.

Already I am looking forward to the next one :) How many sleeps LOL.

Here is the mess that we all got into LOL. There was lots of lovely layout accomplished and minni books, and lets not forget the make and takes :)

A big thanks to Lara and Nik for organising this, and Debs for the house and also a huge thanks to Andrea (scrapbook outlet) and Meg (scrapbook essentials) for sponsoring this wonderful retreat.