Scrapping Friday

My sister and I had a lovely Friday scrapping and chatting. We only did layouts chosen out of magazines and it was a lot of fun!
A glorious mess! Who can scrap neatly anyway?

My sister did 4 single layouts - this was her favourite for the day.

I did one single layout and 2 doubles. Here is 2 examples.

This layout was done with a variety of photos my sister in Australia sent me in 1999. I was rather happy with the result.

As I said in my previous post Colin left on Saturday. So far everything is going well except that Andrew refused to go to school this morning. I gave him a choice of going to school or being grounded from the computer for the whole weekend - he chose not to go to school. Silly child!

We had a lovely day yesterday. Spent some time at home in the morning and then went to my mom for lunch and then of to Stodels. I bought 2 punnets of flowers for the garden and Andrew chose a punnet with mixed herbs. My mom added a chocolate mint to his collection out of her garden and she gave me 3 evening primrose plants. Will take photos when my flowers are in full bloom and show you!

2 down and 6 sleeps to go!

Sweet thing!

I bought this "nest" for Jamie last year in winter, because they can sleep in it and then obviously be warmer in winter. Anyway, I had to put sunflower seeds into the bag to get her to actually go into it and she never slept in it. It now hangs on the side of her cage and she loves crawling into it. It looks very fun as you sometimes see this little head appearing, or at other times you can see her tail! She has totally destroyed the bottom of the bag, but it is so cute to see her in action that I actually don't mind!

I am going for my normal Wednesday breakfast with my mom and afterwards I want to go to Stodels to go and buy some petunias to give the garden some colour. And then of course look to see what they have on sale! So far most of the plants in the garden is stuff we bought on sale and the garden is coming on nicely.

Later .....

Gardening

Wednesday was such a lovely day that I suggested to my mother that we go to Stodels for breakfast, just so that I could be outside in the sun for a while. We had a lovely breakfast and it was great sitting with the sun warming up my back! Afterwards we went for a walk to look at the plants as I had a while before having to pick Robyn up from school.
The people that work there was busy putting out plants at very special prices and we were the first to have a look. I bought this stunning Red Robin shrub as the red leaves attracted me and obviously with a name like Robin, who could resist! The plant was marked down from R180 to R20 - a real bargain! My mom stays in a complex and she also bought one to plant there.

After we got back to my mothers house we looked the shrub up in her gardening books and discovered that the new leaves are red and then turn green as they mature. They also have small little white flowers in spring. To gorgeous!

I also bought some other plants, but I think this one is the most interesting. The garden is coming on since I decided to "take it over" at the beginning of the year. I did a LO so it will be nice to compare it this time next year.

I am going to visit my friend in Monte Vista today, and tomorrow we are going to a 60's 70's dress up party. Watch this space for some funny pics!