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Guess what????

It's Monday, the weekend is past and I did my usual thing over the weekend... yip scrapping!  I scrapped the last three of my planned pages that I had sorted out months ago... so now I have to go through the photos on hand, sort out some papers and start the next marathon.  Here's what I did yesterday...

Other activities that we did this weekend.....

On Saturday I took Aaron to the Barnyard at Cresta and we saw

It was a cute story about the elves making toys but needing the music box to give them the music by which to work... then the naughty elf decides to steal it... and all the consequences.  Our only downside of the show was that in places we had an awful feedback from the one mic.... not pleasant.  And near the end of the second half the piano sound died too for one song.... felt almost like this was a dress rehearsal!  But thankfully the cost of the tickets wasn't too much!

On Sunday after church I took Aaron to Nu Metro at Clearwater and we saw this movie FOR FREE

Well technically I spent money on slush puppies and popcorn so it wasn't totally free... but Aaron really enjoyed the three stories and the good Christian principles that came out of them.

And that, my bloggy friends, in a nutshell is what I was up to this weekend... oh plus doing a bit of reading, washing, tv watching, etc, etc...

Google still at it...

It seems as if this sesame street celebration is going on for a bit... here's yesterday's and today's ones...

So reckon will have to just keep checking for the rest of this week to see what happens.... and if you go on to Google and notice something interesting ... please let me know.... I don't always get there!

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Another google surprise

My dear friend Judi sent me a "look at the cute google" reminder today... thanks!  And so here is another one for my ever grown collection (or is it becoming an obsession?)

How sweet is that.... and being South African it of course reminds me of Takalani Sesame too... shame my child doesn't even know about Sesame Street!

Edited: 5/11/09
It seems that this is day 2 (?) of the celebration... today's banner...

If you like me really love these google logos, then click on the "about google" link at the bottom of your search page and then click on logos... and you will find heaps more! Just something to do to waste an hour or two! hehe

And here is another one for today... 6 November

Nuts About Sketches - Week 81

This week's sketch and layouts are up on the Nuts About Sketches blog.... here's mine for your perusal.

Happy scrapping.

A prodcutive weekend

I love weekends when I have LOTS to show for it.... and this weekend was one of those.... okay so maybe I can't show you everything just yet... but here is most of it...

On Thursday, our brand new (okay new to us!) piano was delivered while we were at Ally's funeral.... so at least it put a smile on our face after all the sadness.... and within 5 minutes of walking in the door, Aaron was tinkling....

On Friday, Aaron had civvies day at school because he got 40 merits.... well done! He had decided a week ago already what he was going to wear... cool dude!

And then I spent most of the weekend doing what I love best.... SCRAPPING!!!!  On Friday night I tackled my November Nuts About Sketches layouts... got them all done... sorry you will have to wait to see them!

On Saturday afternoon I went to my friend Theresa and we scrapped... I did these two pages:

And then of course I went home and spent the evening scrapping too as there was nothing worth watching on tv...

And that was that for the weekend... really a very productive one if I say so myself.  Hope you all get inspired to go and do a bit of scrapping yourself.

In my inbox today

Every week day I get an email from "Alive to God"... a wonderful inspiration.  This is today's one...

Verse:             Isaiah 30:19

He (God) will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

-  God is a good God.
-  He wants to be gracious and kind towards you.
-  Call on Him - He hears.
-  He will answer you.

PRAYER:  Lord, You know what is in my heart and You hear when I call to You. You are my hope and I trust You. Amen.


Thank you Lord for talking to me and reminding me today, when I still feel so sad about Ally, that you know what is in my heart and what I need.

Goodbye to a sweet little girl

Today is so not a nice day.  Today we are saying our last farewells to this little girl... Ally.  She was a classmate of Aaron's last year and still a good friend in Grade 2 this year.  The sad and very shocking news is that she died on Sunday morning and today is her funeral.  Please pray for her family... this is such a rough time for them loosing their little girl.  Ally you will be missed.

lot of double layouts

These first two layouts were "pre-made" layouts.... ie I made them at the Mega-Crop day in May that I went to... eventually I found photos to match so now they are done.

This layout is one that I made at the Polka Dot Party and it is using my photos and all the little goodies that we got.... was just a great dotty day all round.

And here is another catch-up sort off... this is one of my layouts from the Scrapbook Convention ... the one for which my photos actually worked!

I did also do another double layout over the weekend but that one will have to wait till next week to show you as it is for the sketch team.

So now you know what I did over the weekend.  There is of course more news too, but for that you will have to wait till tomorrow or Friday.