New York, New York!

What a fabulous place to visit! We had so much fun even though we walked our feet off! The sights, sounds and smells of the city will stay with me for a long time. I have put some of my pics into a slide show for you to see. These were taken with our little Nikon coolpix. Our Cannon was used a lot more for taking pics in RAW for Rob to mess around with. We took a 1gb memory card with us and by the middle of our second day Rob had used it up and had to buy a 4gb one!!

How Lazy?!

I can't believe it's nearly a month since I've posted on here!!

Rob and I have been experimenting a bit more with the camera and have followed some tutorials on the computer which have been very helpful. He has invested in a wide angle lens for our upcoming trip to New York in hope to have one of the photos blown up onto canvas to go on our front room wall.

Went to a crop yesterday with Molly and managed to finish off some altered notebooks for Luke's teachers and made a page of Luke from our last camping trip.




Will have so much to tell you when we get back, might need a couple of pages!!!

Another notebook!

I am so loving altering notebooks at the moment that I did one for the student teacher we had in our class as a leaving pressie!
I used an A4 book this time and lots of quotes about teachers!! The papers are Autumn Leaves French Twist and lots of bazzill card!!





I also made this mini maze book for the Alphabet Funk blog. Visit the blog for full instructions on how to make it!

Feeling arty!!

I've been altering a wall in the spare room!! The wall was rough and had a hole in it so I decided to decorate it in my own style! I borrowed an overhead projector from work and magnified stenciled images onto the wall then drew around them. I painted these using acrylics. I made the hanging pockets with a length of vinyl and some plastic pockets. Again, I stenciled shapes onto the material and painted them with acrylics.(not too confident hand drawing!!) The pockets were sewn on, then I added eyelets at the top to hang it. The nice thing about the pockets are I can change the photos/ pages in them when I want!
I made a page to go in the large one and mounted some photos of the family in the small ones, as shown.

Notebook swap

As usual, there is always another swap going on over at the Bubbly Funk forum!! This one is for an A6 sized notebook to be altered in the theme of "black and white". I enjoyed this project and am now making an A4 sized altered notebook as a colleague's leaving pressie!! Here are a few piccies of the black and white one.





I have even got the kids at school involved in altering notebooks for the school fete, it's such fun!!

Catch up time!

Life seems to be wizzing past at light speed these days and I sometimes wonder how we fit everything in! What's new since my last post?
- Luke competed in a gymnastic competion and won 3 gold medals
- Molly progressed up to the intermediate class in gym
- bought a new camera and am trying my best to learn how to take more creative photos
- Got a new tent and spent last week camping in Goodrington!!

Time to take a deep breath and show you some of the phots that Rob has taken with the new camera. I think they're brill and are great examples of what can be acheived when you come away from auto focus and play around with the settings!

Modern technology!!

It's not all it's hyped up to be!! We've been having so many problems with our computer restarting it's self at inappropriate times and then generally not working the way it should that we've now got a new one which is all singing, all dancing! I'm liking the windows vista and so far everything is working ok with it. Totally unrelated to the new computer, our modem, which was 5 years old packed up at the weekend so we had to wait 4 days for someone to replace it. Took them 5 minutes!!

So now I have no excuse not to keep up with my blog and other projects!!