Kevin's 50th birthday

For Kevin's birthday we went up to Melbourne and looked around an old ship ( for that read, three bored females on the top deck looking at the goings on in the docks while Kevin toured every part of the ship in great detail). Mind you, seeing the tall ship dock, take on board passengers and leave again ( yes, he was that long) was quite entertaining. Then after that, we went for lunch, now the day was starting to improve. Then joy of joys it was the railway museum in the afternoon. However, we females bore this all with fortitude and a ready smile because it was after all his day. Love you sweetheart!!

The big top is down and it is on it's way

This is my final Circle Circus offering before I return the stamp set this week. A rather bold and bright little number, I am sure you will agree. I took the colours and the daisy theme from the clothes my daughter is wearing. At her old junior school, they had a summer fete every year and the kids all dressed up and performed songs, a play and sometimes dancing for the parents. This year was a hippy theme. I stamped the images onto green cards stock in a dark pink ink, punched them out and then topped them with a circle frame (cut with cuttlebug dies). The background on the pink paper was stamped with a large flourish stamp using a multicolour ink pad.

Ingredients
Paper: Bo Bunny
Dies: Daisy - Sizzix, Mini Letters - Sizzix, Circle frames - Cuttlebug
Chipboard Letters: Heidi Swapp
Letter Stickers: My little shoebox (available from http://www.scrapinthebox.com.au/)
Stamps: Butterfly - Basic Grey ( also from Scrap in the box) Flourish - Stampin Up Baroque Motifs set

Sunday's offerings

Saw this from my driveway on Sunday morning. Wow, I bet they were cold up there!! We often see one or two but I have never seen four together.

The layout "We are family" were old photos from about 16/17 years ago, when we lived in England and the children were small, the little baby boy is our darling son Joshua, who died when he was 5 from cancer. Not a day goes by that we don't think of him and how our lives would be if he were still with us.

Ingredients
Paper, journalling etc: Bo Bunny
Chipboard Family: $2 shop
Letter stickers: Large -Basic grey, Small-unknown
Border punch: Christine Re

The other layout is of our oldest daughter Lauren, when she was around four, with her cousin Matthew, who recently came to visit us from England (he is now 29) so just a bit bigger than in the photo. Isn't the paper gorgeous? Note the "lovely" gold curtains in the background, they were my Mum's, I know, what on earth possessed her!!
Ingredients
Paper: Hot of the press
Flowers: Prima
Pearls: Kaisercraft
Punches: Leone Em

Well that is all I did this Sunday, oh apart from buying and planting some new fruit trees. Nectarine, orange, lime, avocado and peach.