... somehow, in attempting to check out the new Template Designer for Blogger, I inadvertantly changed all the settings in my blog, and I can't get it back to looking how it did! I've been browsing through all the new options, however I'm not finding any of them to be particularly inspiring, so I've chosen this one for now, until I have the time to sit down and go through them more carefully.
Well, what a busy little bee I've been - I finally finished off the wedding invitations this week, and delivered them to the client this morning. She was very happy with them, so now it's just a matter of waiting for the RSVP date, finishing off the placecards, and then that's another job done. I'll try and take a pic of them this week and post it up on here to show you.
I also had the opportunity (finally) to meet the lovely
Leanne Stamatellos yesterday, as I had arranged for her to do a family photo shoot with us. We arranged this back in February this year, and we nearly stumbled at the last hurdle - Nick came home during the week and announced that he now had to work this weekend! Thankfully, it was only on the Sunday, and thankfully Leanne was happy to change her schedule around whilst in Melbourne, and we were able to fit our shoot in on Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday afternoon as planned.
It was so nice to finally meet Leanne - I have 'known' her for quite a while, but have not met her in person until now. She was fabulous with the boys - instantly forming a rapport with them - and made both Nick and I feel very comfortable in front of the lens ... hopefully this will translate to some lovely photos. I can't believe that to date, we only have ONE photo of all four of us, and that was taken back when Liam was only about 5 months old! I'm very much looking forward to seeing the pics - Leanne thinks she may be able to have a sneak peek up on her blog by next weekend ... I'll post something here as soon as I can :)
My Saturday was also particlarly busy because I had to prepare for the school Trivia Night last night - as well as running around picking up the props that I wanted for the photo shoot, doing the grocery shopping and getting my hair straightened, I also had to fit in making the rice paper rolls that I was taking for supper last night - and I wanted to be in town for our photos by 2.30, to meet Leanne at 3.00. A busy busy day, but all the timing worked out perfectly, and Melbourne put on an absolutely stunning day for the photos.
The trivia night was heaps of fun - we didn't win, but I think we ended up coming 4th or 5th, out of 20 tables, which is a pretty good effort. Our table was themed purple, and I was fully purpled-up - even donned a long purple wig for the night - I'll see if I can post a pic on here at some stage. Thanks to all my purple team members for coming along and helping us on the night - we had a blast!
Poor Nick had to work today though - headed out the door at 8.30 this morning (yes, on a Sunday!), and didn't get home until after 8.30 tonight - so, he's understandably exhausted. The boys and I did have a lovely day though - after delivering the invitations this morning, we headed over to the Eltham Lower Park again, and the boys had a pony ride and then we all went on the trains ... so many people there today though - had to queue for an hour to get on the train!
Anyway, I think that's all that I have to report to you for now - now that I have the wedding invitations done, I should be able to devote some time to scrapping again. Can you believe that I haven't scrapped one single photo from our Fiji trip yet? And I'm going to have even more to work on soon once Leanne's pics come through ... I'd better get cracking!
I think it's time for another reorganisation/clean out of my scrapping area - it always seems to work to provide me with some inspiration (and refresh my memory as to exactly what I have in my stash) - that might be a good place to start tomorrow night, and see if the inspiration flows from there.
I hope you all have a lovely week ... thanks for reading my ramblings ,,, and I'll talk to you soon.
Cheers,
Ness.
