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.

Change of look

Hello, not done a great lot today as I'm still struggling with this wretched flu bug ... harrumph. So I just played about with templates instead (if only I could change the way I look as easily!) and just happened to wander into a wool shop on my daily constitutional so am now knitting a nice pair of multi coloured socks - at least I hope they're going to be nice!

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!

Inside the confessional!

Finished off the inside pages this afternoon (then of course had to wait for the Stickles to dry...) so here are my 5 confessions: 1) I had a 21st party for my teddy bear 2) Sometimes I dream of chocolate cake 3)I don't know how to do this! 4)I love to win at Scrabble 5)I burnt my hand 5 months ago and haven't ironed since. This has been such fun Shimelle, thanks!

I have something to confess...

I've only got the cover finished, but well on the way with the rest. Check back Sunday! But just to get us on the way here's the latest fun blogthing I've seen

You Are Lightning

Beautiful yet dangerous People will stop and watch you when you appear Even though you're capable of random violence You are best known for: your power Your dominant state: performing

What Type of Weather Are You?

Bitty Blossoms

The Bitty Blossoms are my UKS team, and cyber friends who keep me sane and provide lots of laughs too. This was in response to our own team challenge (first one!). The remit was to only use 1 photo (quite hard for me), plain cardstock, scraps of patterned paper no larger than 6x6, and no bought embellies. I'd had this picture in mind for a while and am quite pleased with the cheery colours of it. Another glimpse of sumnmer (I'm getting desperate here, haven't seen the sun for a long time....)