Its Summertime!!!

Hi there everyone,

Firstly I need to apologise to everyone who participated in the Imaginarium Designs and Manor House Creations blog hop.  I had down that you were to come from LG's blog but you should have come from Adriana Bolzon's blog. Anyway the information was wrongly given to me so I apologise and I hope you all found your way around in the end.  Thank you so much to all that participated and left me amazing comments...you are the BEST!

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Okay so just a little business to attend to firstly.  My Christmas GIVEAWAY has come to an end.  Thanks to all you came by, left lovely comments and shared for me.  I am truly blown away. Love you all :)) wish I could pass something on to you all but I promise I will do another giveaway soon!

So the WINNER IS from Random Org.....

 

Julie Tucker-Wolek

 

 

 

And because I can't help myself....

I would love to send some Christmas cheer to:

 

 

Janice Nicholls

and

Kay

 

Please contact me on my email so I can organise postage.

 

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Next I want to share a layout I created way back in October or was it September...anyway it was a while ago but only got shown on the Manor House blog recently.  I have been dying to share it as it is one of my favourites. 

 

At the time I sat down to create this layout I had a mental block, you know how it is..I am sure you have all had them...frustrating aren't they! Well I decided to dig out an old layout and scraplift it! Why not...sometimes its just too hard to reinvent the wheel.  So I am going to share with you first the layout I did ages ago..could be 12 months or more ago.  It was the first time I started to rip and curl the pages.  One of my favourite things to do, I might add.  Okay here goes...don't laugh okay...LOL!! Some of you might remember it....I actually really loved it at the time, still do because its about both my gorgeous little boys....

 

 

So here is the scraplift version. Its actually untitled, only has a quote...I thought the photo just didn't need explaining...

 

So grunging it up a little...I dug out some Prima Craftsman papers and add a small amount of My Mind's Eye papers as well.  This layout is showcasing some of the most gorgeous new flowers Manor House have released.

 

 

"We don't remember Days

We remember Moments"

 

Can you see my cute little bird cage....sigh...ADORABLE...

I made this vine myself.  I had a ton of fun creating this...

Loving the effect Shimmerz has on my layouts and what it adds as well, don't think I will ever get sick of using them.

And WOW just look at that feather flower...so delicate and amazing!

 

So what do you reckon...can you see the similarities?? LOL!

 

And oh its December, its a month full of Christmas fun and happiness, it also means for us in the southern hemisphere.... the start of SUMMER!!!!! And oh how we kicked off the 1st day of summer here...nothing like spending the whole day in the pool.. swimming, relaxing and enjoying some good old family time with lots of laughs and ending the day with a yummy BBQ!

 

 

 

My cute little fish...oh how my boys love to swim!

 

 

Well that is about it for me today...sorry this has turned into a long post. Stay tuned, in the next few days I will share with you my December Daily....I am so excited and happy, its all coming together really well :))))

 

Have a wonderful and creative week and thanks for stopping by :))

 

Hugs

Min xo