Festival of the blue moon photos

I feel a black and bottle green layout or two coming up!

Erica and her friends have gone to Newtown NSW to the Festival of the Blue Moon. The goths all gather there and socialise, parade around and celebrate halloween. The skirt Erica is wearing is a modified old one of mine. She put a swathe of striped brocade across the top then a leather frill around the hem.She added ribbon bows near the gathering.Add to this her black brocade corset and the tiny top hat with veil that she made and you have a Victorian era lady.

White on white

Here's another "shabby chic" layout I did for butterflies and bows blog. It features Erica in her debut outfit with a reflection in the loungeroom mirror.I have many old laces so put them to good use in this one.There was also a broken pearl necklace hanging around so it went on here too.Seems like only yesterday but it was over 8 years ago.Time flies!

Mini album made at Purplescraps retreat

Here's a few pages of the mini album made at a class at the retreat.The cover has a reflective silver paper with a cute owl on it.

There is also a sign in page,a perspex daisy,an envelope,a girl shape,another envelope style page,a perspex rectangle featuring a camera in the corner and a cute page with a daisy in the corner. This took around 5 hours to construct. I intend to put photos and memorabilia in this soon.

Retreat achievements

I'm back from the purplescraps retreat where we learned some new skills and completed some layouts.In between we visited Cadbury's factory,Tasmania's botanical gardens,Mount Wellington(bloody freezing),Tacos mexican restaurant where we drank goldfish bowl size tequilas(mine was strawberry and very potent!),had a Stamping up party and just generally chatted and socialised.I enjoyed sunday the most because we stayed home ,recovered from Saturday night, and scrapped and talked etc.

I'm uploading some of my layouts and a mini album we completed.

SCRAPROOM IS FINISHED!

The scraproom is finished!

I've resorted all my gear inside the cupboard and when the doors are closed it is neat and tidy. I plan to scrap on my computer desk as everything is handy to it.

I've discovered lots of items that I forgot I owned and others I can throw out,it is a great feeling being ready to go at last.

Girls night in pink night.

At the Purplescraps retreat we are having a fundraising night for breast cancer.I have lodged officially as a "girls night in". There will be a small donation,then several games and a scrap challenge as well.Some of the other girls are planning pink cocktails...sounds like a fun night.

Shabby Chic

I found a new blog for Shabby Chic designed layouts.It has been years since I have even attempted one but got stuck into it and used some of the old lace from Mum's sewing stash.I was quite pleased with how this turned out as it is so far removed from my style.

It enabled me to use up some embellishments I have had for YEARS!