I Am Alive!

Just to reassure you all there. I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. I am still here, I have just been very, very busy.

I won't bore you with the details, suffice it to say between gearing up for the end of the school year with 3 children and all that entails and work coming out of my ears, I don't feel like I've had a spare minute in the day.

I will bore you, in another post, about my running progress and my Race for Life thoughts and results but I'm going to keep this post short.

I have managed to do some cooking, for which I've promised to post the recipe for a particular Oreo cookie cupcake (watch this space), and have fitted in some digital scrapbooking so I'll leave you with a couple of layouts:

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Supplies:
Merry and Bright - Kate Hadfield & Kaye Winiecki

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Supplies:
Patterned Papers - Bombay Flower - Amy Hutchinson
Krafty Papers - Naturally Krafty - Kate Pertiet
Painted White Paper - Fly Me To The Moon - Gina Miller & Jacque Larson
Flowers - Various Kits - Studio Flergs
Glitter Alpha - 1 Night - Gina Maria
Swirl Brush - SS Foliage Swirls
Digital Glitter - Mine

I intend to do a page to go with the last layout to show the actual photo that I used on our Christmas cards that year so hopefully will get this done soon. I know, they're Christmas layouts. Christmas in August? But I've never been one to scrap seasonally. So there.

And in terms of scrapbooking I do have a plan. Let's hope it all comes together. And the plan? It's a loose one I admit but I'm going to try and hit a year at a time, hence the 2 layouts above of 2002, starting with the photos I've taken since we moved to a digital camera. Those photos will be scrapped digitally. I'm then intending to get them uploaded and printed in a nice bound book via Photobox or something. I'll think about the pre-digital photos some other time!