Master Yoda's new apprentice

More tinkering...

Here's a photo I started with and the finished product after I 'played' with it in photoshop...

Something a bit different...

My wonderful hubby bought me a graphics tablet for my birthday.... so I've been tinkering...

Another one for today

That's 2 in one day.... it truly is a holiday :)

Some layouts

I've just been cleaning out my email and I found a layout of Mum's I haven't posted.  This is another kit where we both did a layout to compare... I have reposted mine too.

Mum is currently working on a little Christmas project but when she's done I'll get her back into our little game ;)

Wooooohoooooooo!

School holidays are here at last!  It has been an incredibly busy couple of weeks but now it's all over!  Hooray!

Although, I'm a bit unsure how we are going to cope.... in the first two hours this morning the kids asked me if we could paint their faces, play the DS, play the computer, go to the playground, watch a movie, do some craft, make a paper plate animal, do some colouring.... These are all things we've talked about doing over the break.... but they wanted to do them ALL in one day!

Haven't had much chance to scrap lately but I squeezed in a page this morning:

My friend Paola has been working her butt off over the past few years completing her PhD and then giving no less then 6 presentations on her research.  She attended her graduation the other day and sent a photo of herself and her beautiful family...

Finally, here's a layout using one of Vicki's kits.... the one underneath is Mum's

Bombie Pool...

A fun weekend...

We've just had another chock-full weekend.  Yesterday we took the kids into the city to watch the Christmas pageant and then we went to a leisure centre/swimming pool for another work Christmas party.  Let me just say Santa delivered presents AND there was a bombie pool!  The kids AND Dave were in heaven!  I will absolutely be scrapping the photos of the boys doing bombies so keep an eye out.

Here are some photos I took of the family while we were at the pool....

Here's another layout I've done with a photo taken when Oma & Opa were here...

And I have some good news about Mum.... my friend Vicki saw Mum's layouts I had posted last week, and has asked her to join her Creative Team!  Mum was stoked!  She's since done this layout which is absolutley fantsatic... did I tell you... i taught her everything she knows! ;)

How clever am I?

I am feeling quite pleased with myself that I thought of this title!

Most of you know that my mum retired a few months back... so I took the opportunity to get her into scrapbooking.  She started out as a complete beginner, but trust me, she has come a long way since she started!

Anyhow, we have been playing a bit of a game where we both have to scrap with the same kit so we can compare layouts.  So, under my layout I will show you hers too...

Mum's layout

My layout

Mum's layout

It's bushfire season...

We had our first ever brush with a bushfire on Tuesday.  You may have heard on the news about the fires in the Golden Bay / Karnup area... well, that's just across the road from us.  It was close enough that I evacuated the kids over to mum's place then spent the entire afternoon perched on a hill watching how the fire was progressing to see if it was going to jump the road into the bush next to our house.  Thankfully, it didn't and we are safe.  It did, however, take the firefighters over 2 days to get the fire under control.

I took this photo standing in the bush next to our house.  See the houses on the left... follow that fence line back behind where I am standing and at the bottom of the hill, we are the second house in.  You can see why I was panicking about the fire getting onto our side of the road.  About a couple of hundres meteres down the road is a petrol station which the fire fighters defending furiously... and directly behind this wall of flames is a Wildlife Park which they also managed to save.... these people truly deserve a medal.

By the way... this little section of fire is just a very small part of the entire length of it 

For 2 days it felt like we were in the middle of a war zone.  There were helicopters and water bomber planes everywhere flying super fast and really quite low.  Aiden was actually getting a bit freaked out about the amount of air traffic above our house.

Some layouts...

A couple of weekends ago we went with some friends out to Serpentine. We introduced them to geocaching or 'Treasure Hunting' as we call it and we spent some time exploring the area and the dam.  Here's a pic of Megan playing on one of the playgrounds in a picnic area.

Megan...

Another one of Megan...

This photo of Hank & Vicki was taken when they were here visiting us about a month ago

We recently bought some clippers to cut Dave & Aiden's hair at home.  This was the first time we had done Aiden's so we left a mohawk which he spiked for the whole weekend....and yes, we cut it off before school on Monday!

On Sunday we went to the zoo for Dave's work Christmas party... the kids had a blast.  They got all sorts of treats and had their face painted.  I'm yet to scrap the cool dragon had on his face.