Are you ready for this?

Hello! A big thank you to all the lovely girls who have visited recently. it's so cool getting comments from fellow scrappers who have stumbled across my blog while travelling in cyberspace :)

When I going running I often write blog posts in my head. I rarely translate them into the real deal, I guess I get distracted by whatever is happening at home when I return from my run. But here's what I was thinking on Friday - nothing earth shattering - just some random happy thoughts:

Nature has been turning on her charm here of late. Each day arrives like a present, wrapped in fog, and slowly the layers are peeled back to reveal a perfectly clear sky and warm, soft sunshine - magic! It's the sort of weather that makes you want to run outside and leave all that mundane boring stuff like work and housework behind :) It's the sort of weather that makes me realise I am very lucky to live the life I do! So, I hope whatever you're doing, that you take the time to look around and appreciate the little things - trees with leaves of red, wagging doggy tails and laughing toddlers throwing bread to the ducks - the building blocks of happiness...

And now, some scrappy shares:

This one is my take on the Wicked Princesses May sketch - Angus and his friend Calvin at Canberra Stadium - they were lucky enough to be invited to the Brumbies Captain's Run - they got to chat with all their favourite players and watch them train - but still Calvin wouldn't smile for a photo!


This next one was for the Quote challenge over at Challenge Heaven - Rob's birthday. I've been desperate to use those puffy alphas - you can't see it in the photo but they have polka dots on them - very cool :)


This one was for a photo swap over at Scapability. We each had to provide two 4x6 photos. I really struggled with this one - not sure why - maybe the pressure of creating for someone else? I sat looking at the photos for days and finally using some Wendy Smith style for inspiration - I love her double clusters and frames - this is what I came up with. Think the photos' owner like it?


And now a just because LO. I think this one started out being for the Scrap the Girls colour challenge but it morphed into another palette completely. I struggled with this one too - so I'm thinking now that using two 4x6 photos, one landscape, one portrait is not my thing!

This is such a funny photo of Zoë - her arm looks enormous! Cheeky girl pretended it was broken for April Fool's Day.


This weekend I've taken part in Kim Archer's Friday Night Live and I done four LOs but I'll share those another day (when I photograph them).

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you're getting to enjoy some beautiful weather where ever you are - the sunshine is beckoning to me again :)