GREAT GIVEAWAY

I have just been over to Sam's Eye Candy Magic blog and she has a great giveaway happening. Check it out here. and have a go at winning these colourful embellishments.

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Julie

Just a quick post to share the latest addition to my Switzerland  album

In the top layout the landscape photo opens out to show another 2 photos inside the folder. I stamped and embossed the "beautiful" on transparency, stamped and embossed the ticket, suitcase and Explore verse on assorted card. The compass and Travel are chipboard that I have painted with acrylic paint. The title Landquart was cut out on my Cricut using the Plantin cartridge, normal in the patterned paper and shadow in black card.

We are going out this evening with friends to catch up on all the happenings at Cooly Rocks On this year as Ray and I decided not to go. The weather was pretty bad for them but they seem to have had a great time anyway. I am looking forward to hearing all about it.

Only 4 more days before I leave for London...very exciting.

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Julie

Ok, here I go again. I have resized a photo using an app I downloaded. I have then uploaded the photo to Photobucket, copied the location code and then typed it in here. Drawn out proceedure but I can't see any other way of doing it.

 Hooray it worked.
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Cheers Julie

Well look at this another page for my Switzerland album finished....

I used the Crafters Workshop Time Travel Mask and sprayed the white cardstock background with Tattered Angels English Ivy. I applied Tim Holtz  Victorian Velvet Distress Ink around the edges. The paper is Basic Grey Blitzen range "Snowballs" and the plain blue cardstock is Coredinations Core Color Tidal Wave.

The Benedictine Abby that houses the Black Madonna is really something to see. Awe inspiring really. The madonna has about 50 different robes and they are changed in accordance with the ecclesiastical year. Photography is not permitted in the Abby so I have used post cards for the bottom layout. The top layout shows the actual town. Very quaint.

Well off to start another layout while the urge is there. We are going out later on this afternoon so don't know that I will get much more done.

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Julie

I have to tell I am really over all this technology stuff...

I have still not found a way to post reasonable sized photos on this blog. I have found "you tube video" on how to do it in another blogging program but not with Blogspot. I will just have to keep working at it and try even harder to find a way of doing it otherwise all my well laid plans will be flying out the window.

Anyway on to other stuff..

I had my last class with the ladies at Camelot this afternoon until I get back. The time just flew as usual. I hope they get together while I am away and keep on with their layouts.

I have finished a layout for my Switzerland album. I have painted the background card with watered down acrylic paint and this has caused it to buckle. I think I will have to attach it to a sheet of card to try and flatten it out although now that it is in the album it seems to have flattened out OK. The diary entry for the day is attached to the back of the tag.

Last night I packed my case to make sure all of my clothes etc would fit in and see if I was over weight but to my surprise everything fitted just fine and I was about 17kg of a 20kg allowance so I am pretty happy with that.

It is freezing cold here today. I am looking forward to going to the summer weather. It seemed strange packing short-sleeved light weight clothes in my case while I was rugged up with trousers, jumper and ugg boots last night. Couldn't help myself, had to throw in a few "warm things"

I think I have just about got everything under control now, only a couple of small jobs to do next week and then I am set.

I am going to start work on a new layout tonight. We have decided to stay at home because we cannot be bothered going out in the cold. Must be getting old hey...

Anyway thanks for dropping by
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Julie

Here I go again. Photo trial number 2


Well that didn't go very well. Still having trouble getting the photo reduced to a reasonable size.
Will have to keep at it.

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Julie

That was not very successful. The photo was way too big and covered the side bar of the blog and made the blog very slow to open. I have gone back and adjusted it using my computer but I am definitely back to the drawing board on  this one.

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Julie

Hi. I am just having a practice post using my iPad. I have downloaded some photos from my camera and I am now going to add a photo to this post, hopefully. I am posting a photo of Charli's curls taken at Pianorama on tuesday. What a procedure to get this photo on here. I have had to open an account at Photobucket and then paste the code into notes and then type it in here. A bit of a long winded process. There is no option to paste on the iPad in blogger that I can find. Am going to try a search on google today to see if I can find a better way. It looks like the photo will be at the end of the post, not sure how to move it, another thing to work out Anyway, hope this works, I am sure you will see me back here soon as I keep at this.

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Cheers Julie

Ray has just started a 2 week campagne at work for Vallia. He is starting at 5 and 6am and while he has only been doing it for 2 days it is already taking it's toll.

He is DJ'ing at the Adelaide Rock and Roll Club tonight and has to be up and ready to start work at 6pm tomorrow morning.

Because he was up at 4:30 this morning to start work at 5 he did not get any time to spend with Charli today, he needed to try and get a few hours sleep this afternoon before DJ'ing tonight. He is feeling pretty dejected and that he is missing out. He is not very happy at the moment. Can't say that I blame him, apart from the early hours he is doing a lot of manual work lugging things around and he is just not used to it.

Today is the first day for sometime that it has not rained. The washing I did on Sunday is finally dried, ironed and put away.

As you can see I have been messing around with my blog presentation but not going all that well. When I view my blog on my iPad the clocks do not show. I need to try and find out why and correct it but have not had time as yet. Maybe tomorrow. If anyone else has had this problem and knows how to fix it I would love to hear from you.

I have to take Daisy to the vet tomorrow for her annual immunisation so will give her a bath tomorrow morning. I don't like taking her for this injection because she is not well for a couple of days after it.

I have started work on the next page in my Switzerland album and hope to finish it tomorrow so will have something to share later in the week if all goes well.

I took Charli to Pianorama today. She is coming along nicely. I really enjoyed watching her play the piano. She certainly seems to enjoy it and she catches on very quickly. She had got a concert for Fairy Ballet on the 23rd June and a concert for Pianorama on the same day. 23rd June is also our 39th wedding aniversary and I will not be here for any of them. These will be the first of Charli's concerts I have not attended. I will be sorry to miss them.

This is a photo I took this morning while she was playing

That's it for tonight. Ray will be home soon and will want to be going straight to bed I guess ready for another big day tomorrow.

2 weeks to go..........

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Julie

What a night!!! It started off so well, I had the greatest plans of doing a double layout for my Switzerland Album but thought before I do that I will just add some clocks to my blog so that I will know what time it is in Adelaide when I am in London and Zurich. What a fiasco....

Firstly I found some clocks that I liked and put them on my blog, then I thought I would like them to be a bit bigger so I deleted them all and put bigger ones in their place. Oh dear I couldn't tell if it was am or pm so go searching for clocks that show am or pm. Find them and decide to put them in at a bigger size again. Go ahead and do that to find they were too big so deleted them and re-installed slightly smaller ones....and here it is 10:25pm.

I had to go back to the old blogger interface to add the clocks because I could not see where to add them with the new interface. I guess when I get some of that "spare time" I will have to check it out. I was actually thinking I should have an update to my blog before I go anyway so will see if I can fit that in. I have noticed some of the blogs I have visited have created their own blog backgrounds, I would like to try that but don't know that it will be this time round.

I have had a cold all week and actually spent the day in bed on Monday. Still feeling pretty average but am getting on OK.

We have not been doing anything out of the ordinary. We did not go to dancing lessons last night as I did not think I could take it all in. We missed last week and I believe it was a pretty tricky step, the first weeks step we had not mastered and we will not be able to make next week because it has been changed to Tuesday and Ray is DJ'ing at the Adelaide Rock and Roll Club that night so we would miss the week and there is no lesson the following week then I will be away for 2 months so all in all the dancing lessons are a bit of a goner for me for a while.

I am going to be at Camelot tomorrow for my afternoon class, looking forward to it.

I am sharing some more of my old layouts as once again I have not had the opportunity to do any new ones. These layouts were created 3 or 4 years ago. Wow don't styles and trends change over time.

The count down and list checking for my holiday are continuing, 1st June today and I leave on the 18th so just over 2 weeks to go. Getting sooooo close. Can't wait.... although tonight I worked out just how long it will be between leaving here and arriving in London, 24 hours!!! OMG I will be very happy to get there. Even worse on the way home as it takes in 2 nights. Leave London at 10:30pm so no sleep that night, arrive KL and spent 5 hours there then back on the plane and overnight to Adelaide arriving at 7:20am....the things we do!! I will be like a bear with a sore head by the time I land..poor Ray

Till next time
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Julie