Beautiful Wedding

Just prior to Easter my hubby and I were invited to attend the wedding of the son of a good friend of ours. It was held at Maleny Manor - an absolutely beautiful venue with the most glorious views. They were so fortunate as up until the day before we had inches and inches of rain however the rain held off for the Wednesday but came in again the following day.
The cake was beautiful - sort of a light lemon flavour with cake that just melted in your mouth.
And the bouquet.......
Rather then driving home that night hubby and I decided to stay at a Bed & Breakfast at Maleny Hideaway. It certainly was hidden away from the road but this is the view from the dining room where breakfast was served.
The welcome committee at the B & B ...................
This darling dog met us at our car when we first arrived and took us to reception. As soon as we were settled into our room he came around for a visit and a bit of a pat - lol.

Splish Splash

Yesterday I decided to have all the dogs hydrobathed. They hadn't been washed for a few weeks and with all the wet weather were getting rather dirty and starting to 'smell' like dogs - lol. I do usually wash them myself but with my arms being the way the are at the moment thought I would splurge and have them washed instead.

They are all so different with their baths. Heinzie - after being very reluctant to start with - realised what was happening an then started to almost nod-off in the tub. Who wouldn't with lovely warm water flowing over you.

Then came Shadow who wants to bite the water coming from the nozzle all the time. As long as she has her treasured ball to play with she will leave the water alone but then chased the ball around the tub instead. Unfortunately Shadow like to continuously shake so that the bather ends up as wet at the bathee....lol.

Lastly Coco - I don't think he'd ever had a hydrobath before. After plopping himself down in front of the doorway was finally coaxed up into the tub. At first he was very hesitant but after a bit totally relaxed and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Here is Coco having his bath.

Inchies and Tags

In the past two weeks I have received some wonderful things in the mail. I was part of a couple of swaps at Craft and Scrap where we made Inchies and Tags to share with other members of the forum.

These are the tags:-
And the inchies. (Inchies are little decorations which are only 1 x 1 inch square.)

I've Received Another Award.!!!

Many thanks to Sam of Sam's Scraps and Sigtags (aka 3littlehelpersdesigns) for giving me this award. I was completely overwhelmed as I don't ever expect to receive anything - I just blog because I like to.

The rules are very simple. Choose 5 friends to pass this award onto.
So now I pass this award onto:-
June - Censloft
Stella - Stellarificcreations (also creativebystella)
Suruha - Suruha-freespirit
Mitsybelle - Mitsybelle
Franny - Picklebeans (also here at her other blog)

Still RAINING

More rain today although just showers now. Checked the rain gauge this morning and there was 158mm there (over 6 inches). It is very welcome good soaking rain although some places have unfortunately had flooding. At least all the gardens have had a good soaking going into winter so now all I have to do is make sure everything is well mulched. Tomorrow morning is supposed to be fine with more rain coming through and lasting the week. Am sure to be quite batty by next weekend then - lol.

What a WET WET WET Day

Wow - it is soooo wet today. It poured all last night and unfortunately I wasn't able to go for my morning walk as it was still bucketing down. Hardly stopped all day. Usually I start to climb the walls and hang from the ceiling fans on wet days - hate being cooped up inside but today I had physio so Judy, my friend, took me to that and then we stopped at a couple of craft places on the way home for some retail therapy. Well what else are you supposed to do on a wet day. It has eased off somewhat tonight with just showers and not constant rain.

MY NEW LAPTOP HAS ARRIVED !!!!

YAY - my laptop arrived this morning. Can't wait to start loading all my bits and pieces onto it. It took me a while to make a decision.....think my son was getting sick of me showing him this one and that one and asking his opinion. However I finally chose one which I think will be fast enough for my needs with a reasonable sized HDD without going over budget so it really does pay to shop around and compare.

My Digital Layouts for March

I managed to complete a few of the challenges from Cottage Scrapbooks this month.

This one was for Scrapping Counts where only 2 papers and 4 elements were used:-
Scrap my favourite was the theme for this one and we had to scrap our favourite flower. I have quite a few flowers which I love but Daylillies would be one of my favourites. I love the variety of colours and shapes of the flowers.
The Impromptu Challenge this month was to use green in the layout including green alpha. This is one of my cycads which is seeding for the first time ever.
For the Hybrid Challenge we were to use a supplied kit and do a cover for a journal. I always love hybrid challenges as mixing both traditional and digital interests me.
We were given a family tree template for the Heritage Challenge this month so I based my entry on our son's.
With the Give & Take Challenge the layout is to be done using papers and elements from the month's Blog Party at Cottage Scrapbooks.
For the Flavour On The Month challenge I chose to scrap a photo of my niece taken whilst on holidays in Melbourne. We are given specific colours and a kit to use from for this challenge. We didn't have to use this kit or if we preferred could make up our own kit using the colours given however I chose to use the kit which was supplied.
I loved the Fantastic Font Challenge for March. These photos of my niece on her Zoingo Boingo seemed to fit in perfectly with the theme of the font.
This layout was for the Cottage Well Challenge. A mini kit is supplied and you have to use all of that kit plus more can be added if you want. However I found that the mini kit was enough for my layout.
Then the final layout I did was for Chronicle of Days. It is part of an on-going challenge to document this current year. It doesn't matter how many layouts you do in the month although unfortunately I only managed the one this time.
If you want to get into digital scrapping I can recomment this group. The members are so lovely and supportive and more than happy to answer any questions.

Well I managed One Traditional Layout

It's terrible - I'm just not motivated to do any traditional scrapping at the moment. Think it's because I am just so tired and totally unmotivated. Plus I can't sit for any length of time to craft and when I have ideas I need to keep working while the ideas are flowing. I am also a very messy scrapper and at present can't seem to deal with a lot of clutter around me. However I did manage this layout. It was for a challenge at Craft & Scrap - actually one for Valentine's Day 0nly we weren't allowed to use Pink or Red but it had to be about something that is lovely.

I used mainly doodling and some lace and paper flowers as elements - although the doodling isn't very visible on the photo.

My Laptop Has Died

Well the prognosis from Phil (DS) regarding my laptop isn't good. It has definitely given up the ghost. When we thought about it though - the poor old thing is over 5 years old and has done a lot of work. DS bought it when he started uni and for 3 years it constantly travelled back & forth to Brisbane with him on the train and bus and was used all day at uni. It was his only computer for the time he lived in Brisbane as his good PC was left here at home and now I have used it for 12 months.

ARGHH - now to look for a new one. Think I will have to leave that to DS as I don't know that much about them. I know when he bought the old one it was one of the best you could get at that time but I don't need anything that up-market - just something to take outside when I sit out there with my breakfast in the morning to read my emails and to take away on holidays with us so I can edit photos and do scrapbooking etc....