I am on Holidays....Yahoooooo...............................

I don't think I have ever looked forward to holidays like I have this term. It's been a hard term, so it is nice to have the next couple of weeks off to unwind. I would love for time to stand still a little so that these holidays don't rush by too quickly.

I've been scrapbooking again. I don't think I have ever managed to do as many layouts as I have done this past month. I think I am up to 21 which is an all time record for me. I must admit though, life is heaps better when you take some time out to remember and reminisce about some of the good things, and the things I am grateful for in this life. I can't say these layouts are totally original. I have been doing a bit of blog surfing, and gallery surfing this past couple of weeks, and have certainly been motivated and inspired. Not sure who to credit this first layout too, but I loved the patchwork feel to it and wanted to do one like this myself. Also made me want to get out my sewing maching and have a play too.
This next layout was inspired by the work from this great scrapbooker. I am always inspired by looking at her gorgeous work. Photo of Chloe's special birthday breakfast.I have a heap of double layouts that I need to do, and was off gallery searching for some inspiration as I have felt that my double layouts lately were all becoming too alike as I try to scrap as many photos as I can on the pages. I came accross this lady's work - I just love it, very me. Even better, she is an Aussie scrapper who lives in Qld. Pretty much scraplifted this layout but love how it has turned out. I am just getting around to scrapbooking the photos from our Scrap of Faith retreat - only 8 months later. Have a few more pages I want to do too. So many memories of this weekend. Other exciting news from our place this week. (well exciting for Steve) He got a new work laptop this week and has had fun playing with it. It is so much faster than his old one (Probably because he hasn't had time to fill the hard drive yet)Steve has two very high powered computers in his graphics room at school. They have been nicknames "The Beast" and "Seniour Beast", so it was a bit of a joke when Steve picked up his new laptop and found that they had names it for her - Yep you got it "Beast Jnr"
Here he is playing with "Beast Jnr" finishing off the Work booklet for the CQU course he is teachng this week.
Just putting the finishing touches to his cover page. His new computer has Photoshop loaded, so he has been having a bit of fun with it.

Friday night the girls from church had a Girls night in at our Place. The idea was we would watch a movie on the big screen in front of the fire - only problem being it was way too hot to even light the fire. We had a great turn out, over 20 of us. We watched the movie "Bride Wars', and then had Coffee (well some of us had Hot Chocolate) and supper together. I made these special little cupcakes for the night.
Finally a couple of random shots taken here late at night.
Have lots of plans for this week - a bit of house work each day, back to the gym, a road trip with the girls I used to work with at Allies, a scrapbooking day - probably card making, more kitchen quotes, try out some new recipes, but most importantly I will get to have a bit of a sleep in.

Things I am thankful for today.

1. Having holidays.
2. Have my washing all up to date and folded.
3, Girlfriends and enjoying spending time with them
4. Supportive DH who enjoys seeing all my layouts and is so complimentry.
5. Having fun with my DH as we worked together this afternoon to get his work done for his course tomorrow.
6. Macca's ice-creams
7. Praise and Worship music
8. Sleep ins
9. Peace and quiet
10. Online friends who encourage and support me.