Time for an update????

Hell Yeah!!!  I haven't posted since when???  Holy crud!!!  So, Taryn is off spending a few days at Tania's, no doubt having loads of fun with bailey and Jayden has just watched a movie and is now enjoying an uninterrupted turn on the Lord Of The Rings computer game, so thought it was an ideal opportunity to get in and get some posts underway and do a bit of a catch up/update, so here goes : -

Finally Done!

Remember these photos from a recent post on post camp blues?  Well this is what started my desire to have a huge clean up and shift around at the same time as I put the new tables in.  So the first two photos are the before photos.

Then the during photo.  I started moving furniture and also started washing the floor with a blue paint wash to help hide the 'already covered in blotches of different colour' look, as well as remove the bare concrete look.   Didn't end up looking as good as I had hoped (or as good as the initial test patch 2-3 years ago), but it's growing on me and soon I wont even really see it anymore.

Then, out with the old high tables and in with the new (to me), lower tables.  These are a much better height for scrapbooking, certainly better for my kids' classes in particular and also provide a more designated and perhaps larger scrapping area per person.

On the front of the tables, the cards I did at Tania's class at last ScrapCamp.  What a fun filled class that was!

 And from a couple of different angles, the rest of the studio.

I'm really liking it!

All I have left to do is put a few more things back into the studio (still in the rumpus) and then clear my own desk/scrapping space - ah well, baby steps eh?

Wedges? For dinner?

My family looked at me sideways a little recently when I told them we were having wedges for dinner.  "Wedges and....?" they asked.  "No, just wedges" I replied.  Again the sideways look.  "Trust me, they will be yum" I said.

So, wedges in the oven, chopped bacon in the pan, home made salsa in the chop, chop.  The final result (with a dollop of sour cream) was well received and they want to know when we can have 'just wedges' again.

Easy, yummy dinner!

Good old Edmonds

At Taryn's school camp, we had yummy shortbread with lunch one day and it gave me a lingering desire to have some more, so when I came home, I searched out a good/easy recipe.  The best I came up with was from the Edmonds cookbook.  A little on the pale side (cause I think my oven's top element is playing up), but non-the-less super yummy.

Then there was the Afghans for Mike - one of his favourite biscuits - also from the Edmonds cookbook.  Good old Edmonds, sometimes you just can't go past the classics!

Post Camp Blues

I hate the last day of ScrapCamp.  It's such a downer after spending 4 fun filled days with such awesome ladies, then having to pack up, clean and bring everything home again.  When I get home, everything just gets plonked into the studio and I am always too tired to sort it out same day.  I go to bed, get some sleep, then come back downstairs to this!

It always give me the post camp blues.  How on earth do I end up taking so much stuff?  I try to cut it down each time, but usually what I leave behind is the one thing I or someone else needs.  So, in the end, I take almost everything I or someone else 'might' need.  

I watched the other ladies get more and more organised as time goes by, but I just haven't managed that even for my own scrapbooking yet.  Maybe next camp?

Anyway, aft this last camp, I thought it was time I sorted the studio and brought in the new (to me) tables and got rid of those high ones.  Then I figured, hey, while doing that, why not rearrange some of the furniture as I'd planned to do and get some colour on the floor, so that is what I did.  Here's some pictures of start of the process.  I haven't quite finished, but will take some 'end result' photos soon.

One third of the way through the floor colouring.

Poor rumpus hasn't been the same since.  Loaded up with the old and new tables, along with loads of stuff from the studio.

It's slowly looking better - not so much of a jungle any more, but still a long way to go.

Hi Jayden

Vienna pops by to say Hi to Jayden during breakfast at Camp.  I love the smiles on both their faces, like they are really enjoying the moment.

Super Cute

Photos of Vienna at camp that is.

First - being chased by Taryn.  Her squeals of delight were just totally infectious!

Then cuddles with Poppy, one of the children from kids camp

Nice and clean after her shower

And so totally gorgeous!

And then this - totally cheesy grin when I asked her to smile for the camera.  I laugh every time I see it.

Vienna, you are so...Super Cute!