Triumph!

This post is really for my dad - hi dad! Stephen bought this car (a Triumph TR250) 16 years ago (I think - could be 17?) and we shipped it out in a container from England when we came here in 1993. My dad didn't believe it would ever be on the road and I think we all had our doubts but finally here it is!
Stephen is entering it at the Concours D'Elegance at the annual Triumph car show on Sunday 25th Feb at Monash Uni at Clayton. It is open to the public from 9.30am, if you are interested and Stephen would be delighted to show the car off to you:-)

I had a lovely afternoon yesterday with Vicky and Fleur at Vicky's house. It was great to catch up and see what both of them had been up to.

Ducked into Southland today to buy Melissa some runners for school. She likes them so much she has been wearing them all day! Tomorrow, we will bring out the school bags and get uniforms ready etc and probably find that we are missing something! I think we are OK though.

Take care X

Cybercrop madness

It was a weekend of cyber crops last weekend. It started with 1-2-3 on friday night with 3 challenges, then AED on the saturday night and finished with Bons Scraps on the Sunday night.

I actually managed to do all 3 challenges for 1-2-3 (see top) plus one (left) for AED, plus the January challenge for 1-2-3 as well.(This is me layout below). Didn't manage to complete any for Bon's Scraps though as this week has been busy and I think I am a bit scrapped out now.

We went to the aquarium on Monday as Stephen has the week off. I wanted to make sure we actually went out this week and didn't

spend the time just around the house. Haven't been to the aquarium for ages and it was lots of fun but crowded. After that we went for a walk along Brighton Beach then had a drink at the cafe there.

Melissa had a bowling birthday party to go to tuesday morning so we booked another lane and played while she was at the party. I won both games woohoo! I have to say that usually my bowling sucks and on my second bowl the ball ended up wedged between our lane and the next. This was even with the gutter guards up! Still I won yay! Not sure what that says about Stephen and Emma's bowling lol!

Wednesday was work for me and today Emma has had the orthodontist. He says she is going really well with her night brace and her teeth are moving nicely. We also picked up Emma's school books. Only a week until they are back to school - these hols have gone so fast.

Well that's me up to date.

Hope you're all having fun out there.

Take care X

Torquay 13th/14th January

We had a great weekend at Torquay thanks to Vicky who let us stay in her caravan. It felt so good to get away, even just for 1 night. The change in routine does us good I think. Note the copy of Scrapbook Creations I am reading kindly left for me by Vicky!

Both mornings were overcast but the sun came out in the afternoon and Stephen and Emma managed a good 2 to 3 hours boogie boarding each day. Even Melissa managed to catch a couple of shallow waves! As for me, I was quite happy sitting on the beach looking after our stuff and helping Melissa build a sandcastle.

I logged on to Crafting in Style for their cybercrop on friday but I didn't really expect to be able to upload anything since we weren't going to be home. One of their challenges was to use a black background but with lots of colour on the page and something cut out of pp. I started off ok with the black Bazzil but got sidetracked with my glittery letters and decided I didn't want lots of colours on the page.

I painted the chipboard swirls then stamped on them with my new flourish stamps (see below) using Stazon ink. Flourish stamps also used around the edge of the page using silver ink.

Emma got inspired though and completed this layout in record time. She came up with the really cool idea of making a house and having us peeping out of the windows. Clever girl.

We went to the beach on tuesday along with some friends. It was lovely there and the water was perfect. We all spent more time in the water than out of it coz the sand was so hot it burnt our feet. I think it reached about 40 degrees that day.

Look what I made for dinner today! It was soooo delicious that there's nothing left! I also made banana cake. Thank heavens bananas are reasonably priced again I really missed them! It's not often I feel like baking but today was one of those days.

Hope you're all scrapping up a storm!

Artist Trading Cards

I am in an ATC swap for Alison Ellis Design and have just finished mine. I am so happy with them - they are the first ones I have done.

The background pp is Alison Ellis Impressions - winter. The Victorian ladies come from a book of vignettes that I have, the letters for 'beauty' are Carolee's Creations and I have stamped a flourish on the bottom of each ATC using my new purchase today.

I popped into Scraptacular and bought the Autumn Leaves flourishes v2 set of clear stamps. They are gorgeous. I used Stazon ink as the AED pp and the vignettes are slightly glossy. I find that Stazon gives a nice sharp finish too.

To finish off the ATC's I used Prima flowers cut into quarters and used a different flourish stamp on the petals. Oh, and the edges of the cards are lightly inked with Charcoal versacube ink.

Let me know what you think!

Tagged by Vicky

I've been tagged by Vicky so here are my answers to her questions:

1. NAME: Simone Young
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Not that I know of
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? every time something sad happens in a movie
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Yes
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Smoked Salmon (can I put that as meat?)
6. KIDS? Yep.
7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes
8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? no.
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? More than I should. somehow it just slips out.
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes!
11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Absolutely not
12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Muslie with yoghurt.
13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Yes.
14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY? Yes to both
15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?honeycomb
16. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? do they smile?.
17. RED OR PINK? Red
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My nose.
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My family back in England
20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? No thankyou
21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING? pink shorts and blue thongs
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? periwinkle blue
23. FAVOURITE SMELL? freshly mown grass
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? someone trying to sell me a holiday
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? oh gosh let me think about that (sorry vicky!) yes most definitely.
26. FAVOURITE DRINK? southern comfort and lemonade.
27. FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH? none, hate watching sport on telly.
28. HAIR COLOUR? Brown.
29. EYE COLOR? Blue.
30. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No, not any more
31. FAVOURITE FOOD? sushi, smoked salmon
32. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy ending
33. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Santa Clause 3
34. WHAT COLOUR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? White
35. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer
36. HUGS OR KISSES? Hugs
37. FAVOURITE DESSERT? Apple Crumble
38. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Don't understand the question?
39. MOST LIKELY NOT TO RESPOND? See above
40. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? Motorworld
41. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Biff the rhino
42. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST ON TV LAST NIGHT? Life Begins
4 3. FAVOURITE SOUNDS? beach sounds
44. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Both
45. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Here
46. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I can wiggle my little toes without moving the rest. Gee I'm talented!
47. WHEN WERE YOU BORN? 1967
48. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Maldon, UK
49. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THE REST OF YOUR LIFE be happy and healthy

Happy Birthday Emma!

Emma is eleven today WOOHOO!

She has a friend coming over later and we are going to the movies to see flushed away. Fish and Chips for dinner by request and a dvd for the girls later.

Happy birthday Emma!

Happy New Year and where did the last month go?

Ok, it's a bit embarassing to get an email from your dad asking how he's supposed to know what's happening when I don't keep my blog up to date so here's a bit of what's happened in the last month:

Christmas of course and all that entails such as carols at the school, carols at the local park followed by fireworks which were fantastic as always.

Busy busy busy with preparations for christmas day. We borrowed my BIL's marquee to put out the back with the plan that we would set up a table under that but with the Melbourne weather the coldest and wettest it has been for a long time we actually ended up inside. I was a bit worried about fitting us all in but we managed with a couple of trestle tables, bench seats and assorted other seats.

Lunch was delicious with smoked salmon for entree followed by hot roast turkey, hot roast beef, hot roast potatoes, various salads and lots of wine. Desert was christmas pudding (and I only needed one in the end so am thinking about christmas in July for the other one), white chocolate and raspberry tarts and mixed berries, icecream, brandy custard and cream. No wonder we couldn't move afterwards.

Boxing day was a very very quiet day. In fact most of the rest of the week was pretty quiet.
Since then, I've taken the girls shopping to Southland to spend their christmas money, we've been to the pool for the day and generally just pottered around.

We had dinner at a friend who lives just up the road for New Year but got back home at about 11.30 and just watched the countdown on tv.

Have done absolutely no scrapping but am about ready to start again.

Hope you are all having a wonderful New Year so far with lots of completed projects to inspire me with!

Will try to get some photos posted later.