Promised shares!

I have finally managed to install some software back onto my laptop and can share some recent layouts. This one is from the last Little Scrapbook Shop Freestyle themed cybercrop where I set a challenge to use a paint strip under the title.

These next few are from a recent crop I went to with the Girls I used to crop with at Scrapbook Princess before it closed. Loads of giggles and even a few layouts in between. It was the night before the media launch for the Australia Day campaign so I was fighting butterflies in my belly all night! I still managed to get these done, besides the queasiness!

I have some class examples to finish tonight and a couple of commissions to find inspiration for! Better get the kids off to bed so I can scrap some more ;)

The Seasoned Scrapper

Looking for a scrapping challenge this year? Look no further!

Little Scrapbook Shop are hosting a year of unique and motivating challenges in our new initiative...The Seasoned Scrapper. It is basically 40 challenges that run during the school terms with breaks in between.
Click on the link to see how it all works and sign up for the challenge.
There are almost 50 people already signed up which means there will be a whole lot of inspiration and fellow Seasoned Scrappers to get to know!

I do have a whole lot of layouts to share but my computer is stripped bare with it's new hard drive. I am slowly reinstalling all of my programs so stay tuned for some shares very soon :)

Shares

Miss Mikaela had her 11th birthday on Monday. We had a low-key day this year as she had a big bash for her 10th last year. The only thing she really wanted for her birthday was to get her ears pierced. She insists she was the very last female member of her entire year at school to have no holes in her lobes. 

Whether that is actually true or not I have no idea but we let her go ahead and have them pierced. She does look terribly cute and she is over the moon happy.

A few recent layouts to share. I have some more but haven't photographed them yet. 

Some adorable October Afternoon and my little niece Piper. So cute!

One of my favourite photos - from the Canon 5 photo competition from this year. Canon sent out 5 items and criteria to shoot and these hundreds-and-thousands were one of the items. 

Some layouts for work - this is one of my January classes at Scrapbooks etc.

One for Lyndal's fantastic 'Sketched' class. A double no less! These photos were taken in a very simple and run-down classroom in Laos. I love these images.

And another class for January using more of the Making Memories Mistletoe collection.

My computer is still playing up and won't be fixed properly until Monday so I'll see how I go getting back in here to upload more layouts. Otherwise I'll see you when I get back from my long weekend in Sydney!! 

I'm back!

Have you missed me? I thought so ;)
My computer had a conniption a week ago and I have been offline and
suffering terrible withdrawl! 
I have it all up and running for now so I hope it holds out a little until I can buy a new one....which is totally possible with my latest news!


You might remember my news a few weeks back about my photo being selected in the top 10 for the Living Australian Photographic Competition people's choice in New Idea magazine. Well, I didn't win :(.......
But I did get an email last week telling me I was selected in the overall top 20 images by the panel-judged major competition! The comp was judged by an expert panel who were looking for the image that best showcased Australian living....
AND I WON!!!
Here is a link to my announcement and my photo if you missed it before. 
The Australia day council organised flights for Rich and I to fly to Sydney yesterday for the media launch of the Australia Day campaign where the day culminated in them announcing my photo as the winner!

If you google my name you will find all of the media images from the day
like this one - http://www.life.com/search/?q0=kerryn+leworthy

There are heaps more around as it was a full press conference! I am on page nine of the Courier Mail here in Brisbane today (half page!) and also in some other National papers etc. 

It will also be in New Idea again next week and I am still interviewing for other mags and papers...crazy!
The whole thing is unbelievable! Rich and I fly back down to Sydney on the weekend for three nights at the Hilton shooting for Getty Images and loads of events etc.

I also have an opportunity to fly back to Sydney for another day during the year to do a one day internship shooting in any of the Getty Images departments...ooooh red carpet anyone! Seriously!

Oh and did I mention the $3000 cash prize...hello Macbook Pro :)

I am still in complete shock and can not believe my little backyard snap has created such a stir...amazing! 

I will pop back in with some of my photos of yesterday's jaunt to Sydney...loads of celebrity encounters and incredibly talented industry people which was overwhelming!

Back soon.....