Addicted to Books & Digiscrapping

Wow what a great holiday! I feel relaxed and refreshed and ready to go! There is nothing like a week at the beach to clear the cobwebs from your mind. So after a lovely week we all came back ready to get on with 2009! The kids went back to school and I started my new job this week and it's all just great! I have to catch up with my 365 photos in this post so I will leave the yacking for now and just get into posting up to last Sunday to get me up to date :) Here goes........ Day 15 This is a photo of Tasha's school book contact the rotten horrible @!#!$@ stuff! Arggg I haven't had this much trouble with covering books in years! Talk about bubbles and creases! Anyway this photo was taken before I threw the lot on the floor and nearly jumped on them - I fiddled in lightroom to give it an acid washy kinda look because it suited my frame of mind at the time. Day 16 My cat Chelsea is starting to get used to having her photo taken now and barely glances at me when I grab the came...

Hi everyone I'm just posting these here a bit earlier than Sunday this week as I will be out of town from Saturday and I am still working my way through my to-do pile. So here are the next three days of my project to share with before I go and do my exercise and then start covering the kids school books arggggh - it's a job I love to hate! I get a bit obsessive about bubbles under the contact but I have found that using an oven mitt makes the process of smoothing out the wrinkles and bubbles so much easier. Now if only I could get them to cover themselves *sigh* Although I can't really complain this year because the weather is quiet mild at the moment, normally I am sweltering in 40 degree heat and have sweat dripping off my nose! Oh right - posting photos now LOL Day 12 Bella reminded me that I took a photo of Tasha's new school shoes when I started last year's Project 365 so it was her turn to have HER new school shoes photographed (that girl has an amazing memeor...

YAY I have finished this weeks challenge nice and early this time, mainly because I am off work and also because I will be away down the Coast for a few days from Saturday so I was trying to clear my to-do list before I start packing. Luckily for me my wonderful hubby has arranged for me to have limited internet access while we are away so I won't miss any of my challenges so as long as we keep getting checked off we will be eligible to go in the draw for the grand prize. Deb and I had decided that the prize didn't matter it was the race that matters most but we both (I think) breathed a sigh of relief when hubby said he could fix it for me to keep racing ROFL! So here are this week's ADSR pages... Challenge 3 was from Gotta Pixel and it involved finding the first LO you have uploaded into a gallery and re-do it, using the same photo and the same text. I re-did the first LO in my DST gallery Baby Mine and here is my new page - Baby Mine Credits here Challenge 4 was a fair...

I am really enjoying Project 365 right now! Deb's great challenge over at Pickleberrypop is really helping to keep the motivation going and I am finding it easier to remember to actually take the photos this time around .... so without further ado here are my photos for this week! My new regime of naturopathic remedies taste revolting so they MUST be good for me! It was a blurry photo but I ran Kelsey Smith's Love and Loss lightroom preset over it and I liked how it turned out! First thing in the morning the sun streams in through the dining room curtains - I love the light and shadow! My poor Ficus struggling along completely neglected and under-pruned! Chelsea was trying really hard not to look at me - she doesn't like me pointing the camera at her LOL The wonderful farewell gifts from my friends at QBC came in this beautifully wrapped box! I loved this photo of Bella who seems to be adopting these moody poses these days (must be adolescence arriving!eeek) - I ran a vint...

Well I am feel pretty darn proud of myself at the moment! First I have managed to take a photo a day all week, I have completed the first two ADSR Challenges with by best bud Deb, done my part for the next PBP newsletter AND I have exercised four days out of five! Yay ME! Deb and I are Team 99 and we have used the cool blinkie that Mel made for us in 2007 and we are once again .... the Digital Duo, saving memories for all!! So here are my first two pages for this years ADSR! Challenge 1 was to tear a photo into three or more pieces and focus on journalling - so that's what I did - my page is about the struggle I face making changes in my life: Changes Credits are here Challenge 2 - Was a challenge! Deb and I had to do a joint page with 4 papers, 8 unique elements, 3 photos and 2 fonts PLUS it had to be something about Cabin fever!! Crikey! It was reallyhard but fun to do and Deb and I spent most of yesterday on msn trying to work out how it would all go. We had a nasty moment after...

Well I have made a start on my first resolution and I have been taking my photo-a-day. I am probably only going to post on Sundays though because it is a bit of a pain uploading the photos daily blah blah blah so I thought that once a week is plenty. It's pretty quiet here on Sundays so I am hoping that this will be a good time to post the weeks photos. I am going to use the gorgeous photo frames from Deb's fabulous 365 Challenge over at Pickleberrypop - if you like them you can get them too by going here or clicking on the image :) So here are my first four days for my Project 365 - I hope I can make the distance this time. As to the other parts of my new Years resolutions I have to say i am off to a pretty good start there too. I spent some time on the phone to one of my girlfriends which resulted in me going out to see the Twilight movie with her for a nice girls time (with our eldest girls but that is ok). I LOVED the movie and I really can't wait for the rest of them ...