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First of all I will start with a shameless plea for votes! ;)

This weekend brings the Scrapbook and Papercraft Convention here is Brisbane and I am going again this year!

I have two projects of mine selected in the top 20 in the Convention's layout competitions! I have a digital layout, and also a paper layout, selected which is very exciting. You can vote for my layouts if you visit the show...there are cash prizes up for grabs which would be lovely! The voting is anonymous as the layouts will be numbered instead of named...so you will have to guess which ones are mine!
Miss Shan and I plan on catching up with friends, shopping, having dinners and taking classes at the Expo this year which is always a great time :)
Please come and say hello if you see me at the show!

I've been missing in action, I know. I am snowed under a pile of patterned paper, lace and hat pins as I plough my way through one of the biggest scrapbooking projects I have undertaken.
I have been commissioned to scrapbook an album for Queensland University of Technology.
The album showcases over 100 years of photographs, cards and memorabilia related to female graduates. The photographs, cards and postcards I am scrapbooking are absolutely fascinating. To read the words handwritten a century ago is incredible. To see these women, captured in sepia print, dressed in cap and gown with diplomas in hand, has been a wonderful journey through time.
To think of how life was for many women a century ago, and to then consider the likelihood of a woman graduating University, is awe inspiring. What is commonplace and normal for women these days was a very big deal 100 years ago! Being able to compile these images and showcase them in a beautiful scrapbook is an honour...and a great task!
I am getting through and will have it finished by the end of the month. most of my own scrapbooking has taken a back seat in the meantime but I plan to get a few other projects done this week.

This week my first born turned 15...Oh my. 15 is so big. 15 is halfway through the teens...15 is unbelievable. All he wanted for his birthday was a Nintendo DSi so my family all pitched in and bought it for him.

Master Connor, six, has been wanting a DS For-ev-er and Jarred had promised him his old DS when he got a new one. Finally the big day arrived and Jarred received his DSi...and look how Connor reacted...

He stood there waiting for that present to be opened and for the offcial hand-over of the old console to take place. Like a 21st century right of passage...the big brother passes the old technology to the youngest sibling. Love it!
Happy birthday my sweet, generous boy. That was a mighty fine thing you did for your baby brother.