Pencil Line Sketch, CCG #95 and a big catch up

Starting from Wednesday week ago and then the weekend before last which was a long weekend here in Melbourne for Melbourne Cup day. Although not officially a long weekend as cup day is Tuesday, most people and schools seem to take the Monday off as well. So if you could just bare with me while I jot the happenings down for my sake.


Wednesday: Caught up with the lovely miss Wendy T for lunch at the Blu Chair which was very very nice. Prior to that we got together to check out each others recent work we hadn't seen IRL. Wendy's work is just beautiful and always inspires me.

Friday: Big excitement after much tension and panicking I managed to get tickets to Pink for Madeleine and her friend Laura and my two nieces for the Saturday show in June. Isn't it crazy that your buying tickets for a concert that far in advance. They were all very excited to hear I'd finally got tickets. Maddy and Laura celebrated by going to Youth Group and Laura slept over our place.

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Saturday: Madeleine went to her friend from School Bree's house for a sleep over and we had dinner at our place with our friends the Brown's. The Pearcedale Browns and The Bentleigh Browns as we affectionately call them. We had such a nice evening Bill has just got a new job in the funeral industry and is really enjoying it. I can imagine he would be fantastic, he has such great people skills. Sheree and her 76 year old mother have not long got back from walking the Kakoda Trail. What an amazing thing for anyone to do let alone someone that age. Sheree's mother is a real inspiration, last year she did around the bay in a day, she runs 10k's a day absolutely outstanding achievements at her age. The photos of Kakoda were so beautiful it took your breath away.

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Sunday: Neil went off to band practice and I stayed home and scrapped. Completed sketch 108 over at Pencil lines.

Champion Team: PP: SEI, Heidi Swapp, Alpha: Jenny Bowlin, Heidi Swapp, Flower chipboard- KI memories; Rubons- Paper Inkling, machine stitching

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Monday: I was supposed to stay home but things are hotting up at the moment getting ready for the launch of the new website on the 17th November. Speaking of which we are getting a new employee on the 17th the lovely miss Wendy T is coming to work for us. I am so happy that Wendy is joining the team and can't wait for her to start.

Madeleine had her friend from school Hannah come over as well to work on their joint Geography project on the Simpson Desert. They headed down the beach to pretend they were in the desert. They had decided to film it like a mini chat show with questions and answers and then Maddie put together a slide show as well with real footage of the desert to go along with it. They have done a pretty good job of it actually, funny sometimes a little random but on the whole really great. Maddie's other friend Tijana (who doesn't got to their school) came over and volunteered to be the camera man for them, which was really nice of her.

Monday night the coffee morning mums went out for a catch up for dinner at Vincents in Beaumaris. It's was a really good night, lots of us are working now so we don't see each other as often anymore.

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Tuesday: Cup Day we dropped Madeleine off at Laura's and then they were heading over to the Chelsea Yacht club to catch up with some of the kids who they went to primary school with. It's an annual event at the Yacht club. Such a beautiful place to hang out on a lovely day. Friends of ours that we have meet through school are on the entertainment committee and always put on a good day.

This year though we decided to go back to our friend Steve's for his annual BBQ. We haven't been for a few years so it was nice to go back and catch up with everyone we used to work with back in the 80's. We don't see these guys very much anymore, but it's always like we saw them yesterday, we just seem to pick up were we left off.

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Friday: Madeleine had her first spray tan after school. My boss's sister does it and she offered to give Madeleine a tan for the party she was going to on Saturday. It is very subtle and just gives her a healthy glow. It was very kind of Kaye to do it for her and especially seeing she didn't charge me.

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Saturday: Netball of course in the afternoon and girls lost their match. They didn't play badly but the poor goalers just couldn't get that pesky ball to actually go in. Then she was off to Laura's to get ready for their good friend Alex's 13th birthday party. The theme of the night was to come dressed as villians, so Laura and Madeleine went as dark angels and Alex went as a spider. The party went from 5:30pm to 10:30pm and by all accounts it was a great night. Alex's parents have just recently put in a pool, so I believe that featured heavily in the entertainment. Here's a couple of snaps of the girls.

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Neil and I had two functions to go to last night, the first was out to dinner in Burwood East for his friend Mark's 50th. We had a lovely night and meet some of his friends, who we have heard about for years but never actually met. Dinner was at a chinese resteraunt and the food was lovely. After that we had a 40th back in Carrum. The party was in full swing by the time we got there and there was lots of fun and dancing happening. It was also a theme night and you had to wear a wig or at least have crazy hair for the night. I must admit to being a party pooper on that one. My excuse was going out to dinner prior didn't lend itself to crazy hair. I think we got home at 1 o'clock. I'll have photos to share soon.

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Sunday: Madeleine was still at Laura's after sleeping over, so Neil and I went to have a wander around the McClelland Gallery and sculpture gardens. What a beautiful, tranquil place it is. It's like a little oasis in suburbia. Well actually it's not that little it's on 17 acres. If you live in Melbourne and haven't been.... do yourself a favour.

Aside from that I killed two birds with one stone and finished off one layout for two different challenges. I used Pencil Line sketch 109 together with CCG Challenge #95 this weeks challenge was to use Sienna, chartreuse, straw and grey and I love how these colours combine and the result.

Good Times: PP- BG, Bazzill Cardstock, Alpha: BG & MM, Embellishments: Tim Holtz grunge board floursihes, Butterfly is Collections, MM button, Heidi Swapp Tape, Versa Ink, Kaiser Bling.

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Well I do believe that's it for now. Till next time

Cheers

Leeanne x