That time of the year again, only this time it was a different time of the year! Held the last weekend in March.
Katrina and I travelled up from Christchurch together. Our flight was delayed by 15 minutes due to the late incoming plane. Pleasant flight up. Sent Jenny a text to say we had landed and there she was to meet us at the luggage area. Well we waited, and waited, and waited until Jenny went to see the baggage man who made an announcement to all passengers that there was a delay in the luggage being taken off the plane. A second announcement to let us all know that they were short staffed due to a Union Meeting! 50 minutes later, we saw our baggage. Took longer to retrieve our baggage than it did to fly up to Wellington!
The next surprise, well it wasn't really a surprise, because I had guessed that we were going to Sharlene's for lunch! Lots of cuddles with the NZScrappers newest member Jessica and she was such a good girl taking us all in.
Same venue, Forest Lakes at Otaki - needs a bit of a clean up now though.
An amazing denim bag full of goodies.
First game was to tear off how many pieces of toilet paper you thought you might need - the catch - however many pieces you took you had to introduce yourself and tell something about yourself for each piece. They didn't find out much about me because I only took one piece!LOL
Lots of scrapping took place despite the heat (yes it was really very, very hot) and the flies. Some time later I discovered I had forgotten to pack my deoderant - what a dilemma, wondering if spray perfume would do the job!
Some of us had lots of fun trying our hand at doodling - the latest craze to hit the scrapping world. Scraobooking Bingo game - I managed to win that!
Jo took a class on covering and decorating our large wooden letters - some had chosen a word and some had chosen letter.
The food was self catered this year and was very scrumptious and I must give credit to Jenny and Marie for making this happen.
Can you believe that one person stayed up until 5.30a.m. scrapping? Maybe the fact that she is a Kiwi turned Aussie might explain the insanity. Not only that, but she survived on only 3 hours sleep both nights (or rather mornings)!
Sunday was show and tell and judging for the best layout, best photograph, best journalling, best covered notebook and best decorated word. There was some seriously wonderful works of art and judging was indeed very difficult.
Time to depart and hit the road after cleaning up. Good run of traffic which meant we were at the airport early so had time to people and plane watch.
Can you believe that I had to drive part of the way home in rain again? At least there was no fog this year and I did get my baggage on the same flight as me.
By the way, I managed to do 14 pages over the weekend which must be a record for me! I still have to do some finishing off as you don't really take EVERYTHING with you when you are travelling by plane
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
ScrapCamp is looming up
Got quite a shock this weekend when I realised that I was due to fly to Wellington next Friday to attend ScrapCamp. Eek I don't have any photographs sorted, so what am I going to do? Well, fortunately, I have sorted my photos and have now got the card stock to match the photos so all I have to do during the week is purchase some pp to cover my wooden letters - phew!
Friday, March 23, 2007
Blog revival
Well I used to have a blog but it kind of got left behind towards the end of last year!
A friend gave me a link to a site where they have blog prompts and I thought that was a good way of getting started again :-)
Did you, or did you not, eat your vegetables as a youngster? What sorts of veggies will and won't you eat nowadays? Home garden grown, organic only, or anything goes?
Hmm well I have to be very honest and say that I was a terrible vegetable eater. My poor Mum must have pulled her hair out trying to make me eat them. I can remember that she used to mash cauliflower into the potatoes to disguise it! On the other hand, when I went to school in the UK we had what was called 'School Dinner'. These were paid for by the week and they would arrive at the in a van all cooked and ready to be served up. God knows where they were cooked but they certainly put me off eating a lot of food stuff. The vegetables would be soggy as and sometimes the dinners weren't very hot. Anyway, they really turned me off big time off boiled cabbage - I can't abide the smell of it now!
Today, I will eat or try almost any vegetable. I remember when I first went flatting and it was a case of eat it or starve! I just love stir fries where you can toss in heaps of vegies.
I'm not fussy how the vegetables are grown as long as they are fresh, so fresh from our own garden is a bonus
A friend gave me a link to a site where they have blog prompts and I thought that was a good way of getting started again :-)
Did you, or did you not, eat your vegetables as a youngster? What sorts of veggies will and won't you eat nowadays? Home garden grown, organic only, or anything goes?
Hmm well I have to be very honest and say that I was a terrible vegetable eater. My poor Mum must have pulled her hair out trying to make me eat them. I can remember that she used to mash cauliflower into the potatoes to disguise it! On the other hand, when I went to school in the UK we had what was called 'School Dinner'. These were paid for by the week and they would arrive at the in a van all cooked and ready to be served up. God knows where they were cooked but they certainly put me off eating a lot of food stuff. The vegetables would be soggy as and sometimes the dinners weren't very hot. Anyway, they really turned me off big time off boiled cabbage - I can't abide the smell of it now!
Today, I will eat or try almost any vegetable. I remember when I first went flatting and it was a case of eat it or starve! I just love stir fries where you can toss in heaps of vegies.
I'm not fussy how the vegetables are grown as long as they are fresh, so fresh from our own garden is a bonus
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