The Challenges begin

This is the new Colour Challenge for February, over at Nuts4Digi - the challenge is to use the colours of Debbie's kit "I Thee Wed"






















The next Challenge is The Scraplift, and this is my entry

It also uses the same kit "I Thee Wed". It is such a pretty kit, and only $2, too.

I'll add more, as they are posted in the Forum.
Till next time, be happy !

Deb.

It's a Special Day

On this day, back in 1984, four little puppies were born, to Gypsy and their dad, above, in the header :) Two of them were very special, and here is one of the Challenge layouts from Nuts4Digi - Anne-Marie's Variety Challenge, where we downloaded this heart template and made a layout with it.

They are very special, because they nearly didn't have a life at all, when at 6 days old, their mother, Gypsy got run over by a car, because someone let her off her lead.
My sister Shirl, who brought Gypsy all the way back from Victoria, under the front seat of her car  (because she didn't want to come out  and Candy had the same fear!!) fed these puppies every few hours, all through the night as well, so they would survive. They had curtains and a clock to listen to, so it was a little bit like being with their Mum, listening to her heart. One died the day after she was born. She looked like Candy. When the other three were about a month old, I took them to work and fed them, and then looked after them with Vitamin drops for young children, and a milk and mince meal, and they steadily grew, and developed with the biggest hearts you could wish for.

We had some fantastic times, and I just wish digital cameras were around in those days, and I could zoom in and get the lovely photos we can achieve now.
I am just so pleased that Dad bought one in mid 1999, and we got 6 months photos of Peggy, before she had to be put to sleep, and a few more months of Candy.

So, one Challenge down, and I've also done mine, so I will show them in the next post  :)

See ya then !

Deb.

It's been a smashing month !!

January hasn't been a good month for the cars in our families. Steve's parents were involved in an accident that saw their car get bashed in the back end by a speeding driver, which spun their car around 180 degrees and land on a railway crossing, causing the trains from both directions to be quickly alerted and stopped, until the crossing was cleared.

Yesterday Kay rang to say she, Kathy, Emily and Michaela had been involved in an accident in Brisbane. They were sandwiched between two cars, after all three hit a patch of oil on the downhill slope of a hill, coming up to a set of traffic lights. The first one stopped, Kay was stopped and slightly to the left of the road, but then got shunted by a car from behind and hit the car in front, locking onto the tow ball, which was reluctant to let go !

 

After a bit of persuasion, this was the result.

The back of her car didn't get too damaged ...

 

... but the same can't be said for the car that was following ...

All in all, no one was seriously hurt, but an expensive way to do your washing at the laundromat, because the washing machine, still under warranty, won't start !!!

The repair man came TODAY and fixed the washing machine !!! 

I'll be back later, with the challenges from Nuts4Digi, and some news from Di @ Legacy4Life, too, to share with you.

Till later,

Deb.

One month gone ...

... and a whole new one beginning tomorrow !
Yesterday we went out along the highway that heads south, through Stanthorpe to Wallangarra and NSW. There was a fairly extensive fire 20 kms south, at an area called "The Glen". It is now owned by the Scots-PGC College school in Warwick, and they use it for their horse and agricultural classes. This is the 2nd fire the school has had in 12 months, with the other in the boys dorm in winter, the cause I think was some misbehaving by some students.

This is the results of the fires, that started Wednesday evening, and were put out by the local Fire Service, only to re-ignite on Thursday morning, requiring 5 Fire trucks each, from both Warwick and Stanthorpe. There were sirens going all day. The fire actually started on the left side of the photo and jumped the highway, which is fairly wide, as you can see.

This is some of the edge of it, still burning, Saturday morning

This is how close the medical rescue helicopters come to land at the hospital. The roof, is my car garage. It was a beautiful sunset - Friday night at 7.15 pm (AEST) I took a few more photos of just the sky, as you would be thinking, no doubt  :-)

Tomorrow will be lots to talk about, so stay tuned ...

Deb.

Time gets away

It doesn't seem like days since I visited here. Having a public holiday for Australia Day threw me out of routine, as does any holiday, not on a weekend.

It has been up to 38 degrees here this week, and on Australia Day Steve and I had an hour or so in the spa, cooling off. There is no pin-up boy in this photo LOL

This little duck came with the spa and is affectionately called "Quacker"
Steve reckons he looks in better nick than him LOL

Yesterday we had a pretty nasty looking storm, but no damage, just wind and 11 mm of rain. You can see by the date palm near the centre of the photo, what the wind was like. So while this was threatening to cause electrical problems, I turned off the computer and watched The Thorn Birds on TV, instead. The electrical storm was around for hours, and the movie was over 8 hours long, so it worked out well, in the end, and a little bit of rain, too, to green up the grass and weeds again.

I was lucky enough to get this set of DVDs off my girlfriend, Marilyn. She is always on the look out for DVDs for herself, and knew I wanted to see this story again, so she bought them for me. Now I have seen these, I guess it will be back to sorting and throwing stuff out, again, tomorrow. It was a bit cooler today, so hopefully it will be even cooler tomorrow, and will be good for sorting stuff. Hopefully there will be something more to add here, tomorrow, as my P365 layout just needs one more photo for the month, and I'll show it here, too.

Next week is the start of all the new Challenges over at Nuts4Digi, and a little birdy told me they have a birthday coming up very soon, too ;)  The same day Candy and Peggy 's birth day was, actually. :)

Till next time, keep scrappin'

Deb. :)

After the Speed Scrap

While updating PSE today, I had a better look for a more suitable photo than the one I chose in a hurry last night, because, although we had a week's notice, I didn't actually pick the things I needed until the afternoon before they were needed. The week just flew by ! I already used the photo of Steve with Mr Potatohead on another layout for Di, so I decided to change the photo and added a cluster of roses, instead of the single flower. So, here is Take 2 of my layout for the Speed Scrap.

This is Michaela trying out her Christmas Beauty Kit on Steve. He has had his hair blow-dried, now it is time for lippy ... pucker up, Steve ... like this .... LOL

This Kit is From the Heart (Kit # 16) from Nuts4Digi and costs $5.50

That's about all for now,

Deb.

Speed Scrap at Nuts4Digi

Last night Anne-Marie hosted a Speed Scrap over at Nuts4Digi. We had to come to the Chat room, prepared with a Quick Page and enough photos to use on the page. Anne-Marie was to give us further instructions at the Chat.
I chose one of our Challenge Prizes for my Quick Page - "From the Heart", created by all of the N4D Designers.
Our further instructions were to add two elements and a title or journaling. Here is how mine finished up.

These Speed Scraps and Chats are lots of fun, and take you out of your comfort zone, as you don't know what the following instructions are going to be when you pick what you are going to use. Next month we are going to have a game of Bingo :)

I should have a new kit from Di @ Legacy4Life, to show you soon ;)

Keep checking, too, because there will be some exciting news, soon, too ... I was asked on New Years Day, and have had to keep my mouth shut all this time ! LOL Do you know how hard that is ! LOL

See you soon,

Deb.