Back soon...

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Busy busy busy...working on my art journal at the moment....hopefully will get a fair bit done .

The Wedding...

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My husband's step sister was married in a beautiful ceremony at Murray's Beach near Newcastle on the weekend.
The weather was fabulous for an 11am wedding, the couple looked beautiful along with their gorgeous 2 year old son and it all went smoothly..I was asked to take photos for them so I thought I would share some of my favourite pics from the day! These are the original photos as I have not had a chance to Photoshop them as yet.

Thanks Jasmine and Craig for such a lovely day!

Mother's Day Canvas...

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In a creating mood I whipped up this canvas using mixed media techniques...inspired by this quote by Brian Andreas

"I didn't listen to her because she was my mother and wouldn't know anything until I was much older"

and the fact is was Mother's Day I couldn't resist a dig at my teenage daughters who are beautiful but typical teens who don't listen to me as much as they should (well...that's my opinion of course!)

What to do...

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Early (about 5.20am) the other morning I was awoken by a noise downstairs...often I wake at night as I am a light sleeper and think that I hear someone downstairs only to find it is the house creaking away...this time was different!!

I just knew there was someone down there...I went to my bedroom door cracked it open and there...creeping up the stairs...was a tall hunched over figure with a bulky jacket on!!

What to do....

I stood there for a moment...not so much scared but more disbelief that there actually was someone creeping up our stairs...

What to do...

So I yelled at the top of my voice....HEY!

Looking back I'm not sure why I did this??? I guess I was hoping to scare the figure into turning around and running out of our house!

Anyway...HEY!! I called out.

My hubby, asleep until then, sat bolt upright in bed and sort of went..."wha??..wha???...what's going on??????"

BUT the figure jumped out of their skin and this little voice said "Mum...it's just me!"

Lauren...my 16yo...couldn't sleep decided to roam the house...in the dark...but God love her...she was creeping slowly because she didn't want the stairs to creak and wake us up!

The next night I almost slept with the light on....

Cruise...

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Time has gotten away from me and I apologise for not keeping up with my blog...

We went on our 10 night cruise to North Queensland at the end of November and had an awesome time...I didn't know what to expect with cruising but we all loved it and would definitely go again. Here we are on the deck for the Sailaway out of Sydney...and on Island Night!!




As I write this Queensland is cleaning up after the terrible flooding that has occured and as we have been watching the news we remark how it was only 6 weeks ago that the cruise ship sailed under the twin bridges and down the Brisbane River to the port in Brisbane.

We climbed aboard a FerryCat and went to see the city sights including the man made beach at South Bank which was shown the other day underwater on the news!!
The Great Barrier Reef is a highlight of the trip and we all snorkeled at the Knuckle Reef Pontoon which was a fabulous experience!

There were so many great experiences and so I have already started my travel album and am probably more than half way through - Go ME!! I have been scrapping every opportunity I get so that I can get if finished for the new monthly travel class that Creatively Inspired are having this year.

Of course, just after we returned from the cruise Christmas snuck up and bit us on the bum...we had Chrissy this year at my parents in the Hunter Valley!

Both my brothers made it and it is the first time in about 20 years that we have all been together..what made it especially special was that the five granddaughters (my parents granddaughters that is) were together for the first time ever!!

I managed to get the five girls in a photo together but completely forgot the family shot...oh well...what can I say...next time??

The thing I enjoyed most about this Christmas...the joy that it brought my parents to have their whole family with them!