Snip, Snap, Crop

It's school holidays here in the West so life has been pretty chilled with the boys not wanting to venture out too far. We did get out to the Army Museum last week and also a maritime museum although not the museum I had planned for. Nonetheless it was still a good day out. The boys have changed footy teams now after being poached by another local team who were lacking players so they now have a full team plus reserves after adding our three to the mix. It also means they will be playing with peers from school which will be much nicer socially for them. On the creative front, I got to another crop Saturday night at the Craft Stand in Malaga. It's a good 30 minute drive away but it is with the girls that I went on retreat with so it makes it worthwhile catching up with friends. Sharing a card I made for a DT application but the DT plan went west due to lack of interest so here is my card anyway. We were given a sketch to work with and I have played with my Fiskars lace border pu...

You have to get excited when you receive a comment like this: Congratulations Melissa, you've won one of the three $100 Blog Hop goodies from the Lily Pad Cards' First Birthday blog hop!! In case you weren't aware of that, please check the detail here: http://www.lilypad.inlinkz.com/2012/04/12/and-the-winners-of-the-blog-hop-goodies-are/ Thanks for playing along. The amount of times I have done a blog hop and finally I get some happy news from one. I really have to owe it to Darlene over at http://darlenedesign.com/wordpress/ as she brought it to my attention as one of the members of the blog hop. So, a big thank you Darlene, I got some wonderful inspiration from all the lovely blogs I visited and now have won a prize too. I've been a bit slow with the mojo over the last couple of weeks with Easter and school holidays recently taking up time. Had a house inspection too with the joys of renting so spent a lot of time washing windows.... (I know, me washing windows is a...