I'm Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, it feels likes years since i last blogged!! lol!
I had a fantastic break and it's good to be back!
I have a lot of photo's to share with you.

Well December was a VERY busy month. We had visitors stay with us almost the whole month.
Friends of ours from England and then my sister in law and her daughter from NZ came to stay for 3 weeks and 1 week of that we went camping together to along the Garden Route.
We went to a place called Birds of Eden and Monkeyland.
Birds of Eden is a unique two hectare dome (the world's largest) and spans over a gorge indigenous forest. It has a canopy walk. All the birds fly free.

NOTE: all images taken by me, (forgot to put my siggie on some of them) and are copyrighted material.


South Africa's National bird is the Blue Crane
This bird is only found in South Africa and is called The Knysna Lourie. Knysna is a place along the South African Garden Route. There are different types of this particular bird.

I did a watercolor painting of this one above


Blue and yellow macaw
starling



a canopy walk

parrot

Hornbill
Toucan

Monkeyland

Black and white ruffed Lemur
Ringtailed Lemur (like from the kids movie Madagascar)
A common South African monkey.
I haven't done a scrap page in what feels like forever and I haven't done any designing since "Days gone by" kit.

But check back sometime for more photo's and a fun little giveaway I will be hosting. I am also going to upload some of my older kits and Host a sale soon too. So keep this blog book marked!

I would love to hear what you have been up to, so be sure to drop a comment and let me know! Missed you guys!

Vacation

This blog is on vacation until mid January 2010.
Please email me if you have any comments or questions.
As usual I will try to still get any links to you if you do purchase something and will
let you know when I will be unavailable to do so.


See you in the new year!!
Ps The above pic is of me and my new hair color! I love it!

New freebie

I would like to give you a gift today, .

DOWNLOAD HERE
Please be kind and leave a comment! Thank you!

Oops,forgot to mention the winner!!

Congratulations to Amber Mclean! (thescrappywife)!!
I will email you with your prize!

Thank you to everyone who participated and I appreciate your feedback!

I have a new kit coming out soon....watch this space!

little freebie

I have been so out of doing anything digital for a while. I am starting to miss designing and doing digi scrap pages. I always seem to concentrate on one or the other (paper or digital)
but I hear photoshop calling me...

I did make a little freebie for you today...

and these I did a while ago which you are welcome to have as well...a free collage download perfect for ATC's or personal projects

Have a good weekend!

A room full of gifts {loads of lovely pics}

This was the show I went to on Saturday. It is called "Kamersvol Gesenke" which is Afrikaans for "A room full of gifts".

Set at the beautiful DeMorgenzon Wine Estate in the Stellenbosch winelands.
DeMorgenzon means "the morning sun". It has been around since 1699.

It is a beautiful wine estate and the wine is divine! They actaully play Baroque music 24/7 through out the vineyard as they believe it enhances the growth of the vines! It is really interesting their reasoning behind this and you can read about it here.
I bought a bottle of DZM shiraz 2008. If you can grab a bottle-it is heavenly. Here is a site
in which you can see the distributors for America.


















Such amazing beautiful hand crafted things!! A feast for the eyes and soul and so inspiring!

I also wanted to share good news for fellow South Africans. I have set up my Setcom page now in Rands, so if you want to buy anything from me, it is all in local currency! (yay!)
See here. Be sure to check out the "arts and crafts"section for paper goods.

Paper posies

I have been busy making paper posies for my Etsy shop and have a few there now...

They are made with flowers, scrap paper, vintage paper, vintage sheet music, buttons, paper roses, glitter brads or jewel brads and lots of time and attention! Perfect for scrap booking, tags, cards or to use on a gift you wrap!







I am also excited as this weekend I am going to the Kamersvol expo.
It is an event that features on gifts, decor, clothing, food, handmade goods.
Take a look at these gorgeous photos here.

Mysteries of Me album completed! {picures}

I just took Liz Kartchner's
class "Mysteries of me" Fabulous class, I so enjoyed it! She took us step by step through this great project, altering a vintage book into a secret compartment to house a mini album all about yourself! Little secrets to journal about! I so loved making this and did not feel at all rushed, just did a bit each day or when I had time.

Here are my photos of my finished project!
This is the front of the little mini album that slots into the book.

A close up of all the pages together, I love my color scheme and all the ribbons showing.
Close up of the front, love the velvet floral ribbon and vintage lace.
One of the back pages that I added some bird detail, I drew the bird and leaves onto card stock and stuck in on and then went around it with pen.
I choose a picture of buttons for How do I nurture my soul, as one my reasons listed on my tag, because to me it symbolizes creating. And creating is one way I nurture my soul.
We also added felt pages in, love this idea as it really adds that extra touch of texture and warmth! Added some vintage lace and a little vintage birdie picture I found to the next tag. With some vintage sheet music I have.
I have so many quirks, its ridiculous! All my journaling was done on the back of the tags.
I also left some extra tickets and tags in for a later stage if I feel like adding more journaling.
This is the back cover, I added a piece of card stock to the back sheet music because it has a felt pattern on it, which just feel divine!
Anyway I just really wanted to share that today, will be back tomorrow with some nice pictures of my weekend, as we went away. TTFN (ta ta for now as Tigger from Pooh-bear says) {you tell I have kids?!!}

For purchases here on the blog

Just a quick note to let you know if you make any purchases between the 23-25th October, I will only get to the download links on the 26th October, will be unavailable this weekend.

Thanks!