We're Home!! (part 1)

We had a fantastic time! I loved it all so much that I didnt want to come home. The tour was great. Our tour guide was fantastic. We made friends with people on the tour, who we will visit again definitely.
I think the highlight of the tour was when Louis our tour guide organised a Gondola ride for Chris and I for our wedding anniversary. Its was so beautiful.
In all we visited: London, Amsterdam, St Goar, Munich (during Oktoberfest!!), Innsbruck (in Austria), Venice and Paris. I know that seems really rushed, but our tour guide was so good that he prepared us for every stop so well that we knew exactly what we were doing and how we were getting there.

Here are just a few of the photos I took:

Night life of Amsterdam. A very interesting city!!

Amsterdam by day. I didnt realise what a beautiful city is was! Canals every where. Every one uses bikes to get around as it is completely flat. There are about 3 bikes to every Amsterdam citizen!

St Goar, Germany. A little village along the Rhine Valley. It was beautiful! A castle on the hill behind us! Chris bought two Beer Steins and we also went for a wine tasting, since the Rhine Valley is well known for their vineyards.
Aaaah, Munich. The city was beautiful and so was Oktoberfest!!! 1Litre Beers. Need I say more!? In the photo is Chris and myself and then another tour couple and then a random german guy, who kept getting in our photos!
The boat ride into Venice. Our tour guide, Louis is behind us. He doesnt look very happy in the photo, but he was definitely a great guy!!
aaah Venice. Loved it sooo much. Even though the San Marco Square flooded past our ankles.
Our Gondola Ride!
Well, this has taken me ages to get done. So This is just part one. I have many more photos to share, so stayed tuned!

so busy

Gosh, Ive been so busy. This is the last week before we go on holidays!! We fly out on Friday! Im way to excited. Its seems unreal that we will be in London this time next week!

So any way, have not had time to scrapbook any thing. though my lovely husband did take me shopping this morning for my birthday and I spent money on new pink pirate paper for the pirates of penzance photos. So hopefully when I come home from our holiday and we settle back into it all, Ill finally have time to scrap.

So the only remotely crafty thing I've done is made my sister her birthday card (we were born 3 years and 3 days apart). Wanted to stay and do more, but just didnt have time.

You have to check this out

This is the funniest thing Ive read in a long time. Have a look at this ebay item and then read the description the women has written about it all.

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Artistic mood

A friend of mine turned 40 yesterday. I have made her a mini book using the photos of her birthday dinner.





































































































This is the card I made for her birthday














Some drawings I have done and used watercolour pencils to colour in with.

Mika Brzenzinski

This poor women to have to work with such patronising jerks. I think she did a good thing. The whole Paris thing is pathetic. She went to jail - thats what happens people who BREAK THE LAW. It really makes me wonder why people idolise paris.
Any way - Mika Brzenzinski is my new hero - watch this video to see her refuse to lead with the Paris story over actually news stories such as Iraq etc...

Hi

Hey, haven't posted for a few weeks. Too busy....or too lazy (either one - I haven't posted).

Went and saw the Beauty and the beast musical. It was done so well! For a 'country' (ish) production they were great - and now they have been invited to the gold coast to do 5 shows. they were also invited overseas to do the show - but they couldn't get the copy write to take it overseas.
Meanwhile, rehearsals for Pirates of Penzance has started. I had to go in for some dancing today and I'm a little unsure of it all. I tripped once and almost died of embarrassment. To make things worse, I will be right up the front for this scene - so no hiding behind people or watching others to keep up.

Im on holidays for two weeks now! YAY! Thank goodness, I really need the rest. This term is going to be full on. With Ekka stuff, and the youth display for EKKA with school and pirates rehearsals. But I guess I can handle it since at the end of the term Ill be tripping around Europe!!!

Just a few layouts I completed this weekend after taking up an online challenge to complete a layout that included journaling. I normally don't
journal any photos so thought I'd give it a go. Ended up doing three pages!






































I have swapped places with Chris in the study. Now that he has a flat screen monitor he wanted to move into the cupboard, where we have built in a table and some shelving for my scrapping. So now I have an *entire* room for my scrapbook space. So in the holidays we are doing a Ikea shopping spree to buy a new big desk for me and some storage/shelving. I cant wait to redecorate the study.