Blog365 - Day 29

How funny is this?

Broken Escalator - Amazing videos are here

ScatterdaZe - 2 Feb 2008

Here we are again, another week gone by. I didn't really feel like going out much thiz week, the weather and my feet conspired against me! So I had to see what I could find around the house starting with Z, I was really zurprized at what popped up. Something a little bit different are my herbal Zinger teabagz - then came the Zoom lenz on my camera - and lastly I grated the rind of a lemon & an orange to get the Zest and then shaped it into a Z, made an awful mezz but the zmell was divine! I put it onto a sheet of white paper, took the photo then imported it into PhotoShop and brushed away the background to leave just the Z!
Then I added a couple of alpha Z letterz, a clip art Zebra zitting down, some Zigzag ztitching, a Zero, word art of my Zodiac zign and another clip art of the word Zoo.
And there I waz thinking Z waz going to be hard!

Credits - All American Alpha by Amber Gray
Alpha Mosaic N-Z QC by Lauren Bavin, http://tinyurl.com/38hdtx
Antique Autumn by Valeria Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/2b9u85
Chocolate Chip Cookies Alpha by Kim Liddiard, http://tinyurl.com/2hz47m
Golden Allure by Valeri Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/3xl7tz
Natural Harmony by Valeri Brumfield, http://tinyurl.com/37hlo3
What's Your Sign? Word Art by Tina Chambers, http://tinyurl.com/23rp7b
Clip Art by Wendy Sefcik, Seebee & pcCrafter

Blog365 - Day 28

No photos or layouts today, it's been just too hot to do much lately & my feet swell up if I sit at the computer for too long :(.
I found this new comment box (you might need to scroll down a bit) on another blog so thought I'd try it out - at the moment it's free with just basic features but if it works well I might upgrade to the Premium version.

Blog365 - Day 27

Mmmm seems I've missed two days not just the one I thought I had - I think I must have slept through one of those days! Today's layout is the next month in my 2007 Year in Review album.

Blog365 - Day 26

Today is grand-daughter sitting day so there might be a few photos later on. In the meantime here's a layout of my father, another one for the heritage album.

Blog365 - Day 25

Another day another dollar - gone to my dentist! My front tooth fell out on Friday and as it was a long weekend here my dentist had the day off and so couldn't see me until today - hence me not getting to go somewhere I haven't been before over the weekend like I was promising myself - it was rather hard trying to talk while keeping my mouth shut when out in public! Besides it's too hot to do anything strenuous. Today's layout is another heritage one of my mother as a baby in 1913.

Blog365 - Day 24

I've been delving into my family tree for about 20 years now so I've decided I should try to do more of my heritage album pages - this year is going to be dedicated to getting all my old photos done. This one is my maternal grandparents on their wedding day - they both migrated from different parts of England to meet, marry and live in NZ the rest of their lives.

This one is of the two sisters of the father of my above grandmother. They were both widowed in this photo taken with my grandmother's brother and his wife. Click on the photos to get a larger view if you can't read the journalling.

Blog365 - Day 23

Okay I forgot again! It's a long weekend here so we've been out and about being very busy doing not much really. Sunday morning we had a stroll through the local monthly artists' market day & bought some lovely scenic cards I thought I might frame. Then off to lunch at our old neighbours' new house for a Sri Lankan meal, very nice very hot!

No photos this weekend as I don't have much room left on my hard-drives (two computers!), I need to have a good clean out before I load them up again. Here's my June 2007 Year in Review layout.

Scatterday N - 26 Jan 2008

This week the letter N wasn't quite so hard - I had the perfect photo for the South American part that I had taken a few weeks ago at a fair - The Amazonas singing South American songs & using interesting looking instruments - none of them starting with N I might add! I had a hard job coming up with something starting with N in this photo but I persevered & in the end won through - Noise and Noses - and they could be from Niteroi in Brazil couldn't they? Highly unlikely I suspect.
The orange Nasturtiums are from my garden, we were in the middle of taking up the plastic weedmat and replacing the bark when winter hit us so this is what it looked like before xmas when we restarted it! Totally overgrown and running amuck but it did look so pretty.
Finally, I've never actually tasted NZ Spinach but I know I won't like it!

Designer credits:-
Christmas Remembered QC by Tina Chambers, http://tinyurl.com/2gwhuz
DSP Sunny font by Suzanne Walker http://tinyurl.com/36wvcf
Lanee by Marcee Duggar, http://tinyurl.com/2uvuf7
Must be Magic Alpha by Lauren Bavin, http://tinyurl.com/2sbops
Scribbly Doo Alpha by Irene Alexeeva, http://tinyurl.com/25a6dh
The Doodle Garden by Rene Bross, no link

Blog365 - Day 21

The weather has been just too hot to go walking for awhile now and by the time it gets cooler all my energy has been zapped it was up to 31oC/92oF today - if you're feeling a blast of cold air that's my fan going! We have a long weekend coming up so I fully intend to go somewhere I haven't been before. This is the month of May for the 2007 album.

Blog365 - Day 20

And finally I'm caught up to today - April's page for the album.

Blog365 - Day 19

March - Year in Review 2007 album.

Blog365 - Day 18

Oops my brain shut down for a couple of days! It just woke up and prodded me again, just in time to nearly miss today's post too! This is the next month in my Year in Review 2007 album.

Blog365 - Day 17

The dry sunny weather has broken and it's been raining all day today, still hot & humid though! I didn't take any photos yesterday, we went out for dinner to my cousin's place and I took the camera intending to get a photo of us three cousins but we talked so much I forgot until the other cousin had left! However, I did get a loan of a few wonderful old photographs of my mother's family to copy so I'm over the moon.

I'm currently doing a Year in Review album for 2007 so thought I'd start posting one of those a day when I haven't got anything else. Surprise surprise this is January 2007!

Blog365 - Day 16

Gee it's hot, don't know where to put myself so I think it'll be in my bed soon! It's midnight and it's still 21oC! We went off to explore another Farmers' Market yesterday morning, this time the one in Oratia next door to Just Plane Interesting at 99 Parrs Cross Rd. A fairly small one but beautifully fresh and well presented food, luckily for me the Maori potatoes (photo below) were there again so I bought two bags today, making the most of them before they disappear. I walked through a plum orchard to get there (to get away from the dust the cars were covering me in) and saw these huge yummy looking plums so couldn't resist a photo or two, but didn't hang around in case the owner thought I was eating them as well!

Scatterday U - 19 Jan 2008

My word, this week wasn't so easy but I think I've come through Undefeated!
Where on earth do you find a cartoon character in downtown New Lynn starting with ANY letter - I ask you! So I cheated with this one and found one on the Internet and took a photo of it on my monitor.
And I hope a road instead of a street is okay, this is the ONLY one in Auckland that was anywhere close to me.
The Maori potatoes are cultivars that have just about been lost in the mists of time but are now being recultivated and having a popular come back - they are so delicious that you won't ever want to go back to the normal potatoes that have had the taste bred out of them - unfortunately they are also expensive at $8 a kilo hence 'things people would pay a lot of money for' me included!
I was having trouble coming up with something for this one until I went to the Alexander Park Farmers' Market last Sunday (see previous post on blog). I stopped to look at the Maori potatoes that someone was selling and instantly fell in love with the many varied cultivars, all different colours and shapes & sizes. I just about fell over when I went to pay for a bag of them though, $8 and it didn't even weigh a kilo! But after trying them I have to say I don't ever want to eat any other sort of commercial potato ever again. I also noticed from a photograph that there were two cultivars that started with U - Uwhi & Urenika - but the man told me they wouldn't be available for another couple of weeks so I just had to go with a photo of the photo and another one I found on the Internet.
Please could we have something a teensy weensy little bit easier this week?
Designs by Meryl Bartho of digitalscrapbookplace.com and alpha by April Staker of DigiApe Designs. (Click on photo to get a closer look)

Blog365 - Day 14

Another day another hot hot day! Too hot to do anything strenuous so I didn't! Here's a couple of layouts I came up with. This one is DH trying to catch dinner - it turned out to be fish & chips from the local take-away LOL.

These photos were taken 16 mths ago when one of my grandsons was visiting from Australia, the only time I've had a chance to get them both together and what happened - one of them had a little tantrum! That's kids for you, so unpredictable and so darn huggable.

Blog365 - Day 13

Cheating a little here. I waited until after midnight to do tomorrow's entry, which is really today! I didn't want to forget again, I think the heat has fried my brain, it's not working very well.

This is a layout with the photos I took on xmas day of the grand children playing the boardgame I made them - click on it to read the journalling. They did have fun but it wasn't moving fast enough for them!

Blog365 - Day 12

But I didn't forget today! I haven't taken any photos for a few days, trying to get caught up answering my genealogy email from my online family databases!

This is a layout I did of grandson Harry at our place on Sunday.

This one is of our day at the beach with the grand-daughters last Friday.

Blog365 - Day 11

Darn it I forgot yesterday - really annoyed with myself!