Fussing and Faffing

Spent about five hours today fussing and faffing about with paper, ribbon and card to give Jamie some ideas for his wedding invites. I wasn't sure what sort of blue they had chosen - so had some at home and bought some nice metallic and other embossed ones.

Boy - the whole invite thing has come along way from when we got married- what is it...17 - 18 years ago now? So simple to be able to use the printer - on any sort of paper. The array of scissors and edging, the ribbon, the clips - it was bewildering!

Anyway - I had some fun putting them together - I hope it gives some ideas and I'm sure they will know someone with a bit more card making skills than I to assist further.

Family Reunion

Just got home from the family Reunion Weekend. It was fantastic and it really made me wish it weren't so long in between them.

We had a chance to catch up with cousins - some of whom we lived in each others pockets throughout our childhood ( or so it seemed) and swapping tall stories with uncles and aunts; laughing so hard, your shrieks become gasps for air and pity for the story to stop. Lots of people brought photos from days gone past and there was much giggling over stories surrounding them.

Singing round the bar and retrieving toddlers from mud. This is family....

Happy 90th birthday Gran! - wow what a milestone.

It was a pity not everyone could make it - but with folk spread all round the world - its a little hard to orchestrate it all... especially on just a normal weekend. I know those who couldn't make it are looking forward to the tales and the photos.

Enjoy the clip I put together.

The Ekka - some photos

I'll be writing about this on the weekend - but thought I'd share some photos first.

This is an action shot of Morgan and Lilly fishing in the frog pond. They had long poles with a large lump of iron tied to the end of the string which needed to be dangled into the mouths of frogs as they opened and closed their jaws.

Lilly is pictured here pulling one out ( a rare thing!)

And for their efforts they won a crappy plastic thing.. yay! though in saying that - the nice man there gave Lilly a princess crown - which totally made her day.

And how can you go to the Ekka without having a strawberry Sundae? You know - it was the first that either Age or I had ever had - they were so GOOD! I think we have been too broke in the past to be able to just say stuff it - get it - you can only get them at the Ekka... I am usually so fussy with icecream - and I ate the lot.

What a fantastic afternoon and evening....