Bye Bye Bali

Well, that's me finished my Bali layouts, feels great to have finally done something with those piccies, that's one of the things I love about scrapping, it gives you a real sense of having achieved something! I still need to put them in an album, though. And of course, I now need to decide what to scrap next! I think I'll go and search out the piccies from Singapore, and stay in Asian mood for a while longer. The Monkey Forest temple. Another collage of Bali life and people, called Bali Smiles. Busy street scenes. And lastly, Serenity (you can't quite see the lettering on the middle photo) Hope everyone's got the weather they want today, I'm quite glad the snow has stayed south for a change, though I've been enjoying all the snowmen pics on UKS and folks' blogs this past day or so!

Bali dance

Well all the driving around of the past six days caught up with me today - I am so tired again, but hopefully a couple of days of faffing around the flat and doing some scrapping will help the recuperation! I did manage one lo today, getting near the end of the Bali photos, but here's another one from the temple dance. I really love the Basic Grey papers, they suit this theme so well, this is more Urban Couture I've used.

Remover of Obstacles

Another Bali layout, and memories of a trip through an exotic landscape of rice terraces and coconut trees to this shrine, with the approach carved out of the rock. A truly amazing place. Ganesh is known as the Lord of Good Fortune and the Remover of Obstacles, so I've placed some flowers round his photos and hope that the some of the obstacles can be removed from my life (especially regarding my diet and healthy living attempts and this current and very tiring bout of flu!) Here's another layout featuring the gorgeous landscape of rice terraces and coconut trees.

Airport Stories

This photo was taken at Melbourne Airport. After a year of travelling on a 'round the world' ticket my plane was delayed for hours when a truck crashed into one of the engines and they had to try and fix it. Quantas were very good, first sending up some voucers for refreshments, then some pizzas, and evenually just opening up the bar as we were the only ones left in the airport! So a group of us sat round the table telling our stories of how we each came to in the airport waiting for the plane to Bali ... One of the girls from the table (Anita from Holland) and I decided to team up to find some accomodation near the airport as we arrived very late. We both wanted to see more of Bali so travelled up to Ubud together and spent a lovely few days sharing meals and sights and travels. This lo is the first time I've tried sanding the edges of the photos, and I justlove the effect, it seems to suit the BG Urban Couture rather distressed look. Well, I've had another lazy tired day today trying to shrug off this flu ... hope everyone else is much chirpier!

Bali: An Island People

Still feeling fluey today, though a lovely lunch and a walk round the garden centre did help, and tonight I finished off a lo I started yesterday for my Bali theme. I have so many fascinating photos from this trip that I can't bring myself to just use one! So this is another multi layout. Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

Bali Life

I know this lo is really busy, and the most multi lo I've done, but I think it works as a collage of memories, and captures the busy island scenes! It's hard to remember these beautiful relaxed fruit breakfasts when you're dasing for the kettle and it's pitch black outside, so this is to remind myself...

Dreaming of Bali

I went there in '94, at the end of a year spent mostly in Australia, and of course I have about two drawerfuls of photos from my travels. So the time has come to start scrapping them! I've started on Bali, some colourful and exotic memories to lighten up a dark January. There was a bit on the news that today is officially the most miserable day of the entire year, don't know about others but I always find January pretty depressing. It's so dark and cold and damp here, and I always seem to get the bug that's doing the rounds, so this was something to cheer me up!