She {Megan}walked the Knysna

Hallo all!

Just a quick share on some photos Megan brought back from her trip to Knysna.  Every year the Grade 11's read the book "Kringe in 'n Bos" written by Dalleen Mathee, then they have to pass all tests on this book and then they qualify to go walk the Knysna woods. Of course we must buy all the equipment like bags, stoves,sleeping bags,etc. and the travelling costs to Hartenbos can be paid through the year.  The trip from here is very long, almost 21hours, that I think is very hard on them.  Then there is 5 routes they can choose from, they are all between 50km's and 57km's.  Route 2 was the one Megan went on, that route is 57km's and includes a few rivers and mountains to cross.  She and her group of friends completed every day's route successfully. So here are some photies:)

I have a very generous friend

My friend Helen is celebrating her Blog Anniversary!! She is not just sharing her wonderful talent in Scrapping, but she is giving away some beautiful things! Here is a glimpse:) OK, so off you go and pop in at her blog:)

Have a lovely Friday:)

Matric farewell {photoshoot}

Ok, this did not go as planned, for many reasons. My very good friend Helen gave me some great tips, but for the following reasons they did not all go according to plan:

First of all, the girl and guy were not a couple,making the romantic type of photo's impossible,I thought they were.

Then I tried out a new lens, a 50mm Nikon fixed lens, when you are use to zoom and focus you now must move closer or away from your subject all the time, BUT you do get clearer photo's in the end. They were in  a bit of a rush.

I am quite pleased with the family photos, though.

And from the beginning, although it is a friend of mine, I was VERY nervous about the whole thing.  So here a few of them.

And for the next time...I don't know, maybe I will stick to outdoor wildlife photo's and my MAIN subject Megan!

Some {Productiveness}

Ok, so this is what I am busy with. A part of block three of my Autumn House quilt. I am a little behind on my schedule, but am busy picking up the pace.

I finished this bag, sorry for the pics on the grass, but they are busy installing blinds in my house. I made this bag with cotton twine, I bought on huge roll of this and then mixed it up with a local brand of cotton. I just love this and hope that I will find more of Vinnis colours here in town. It is a 100% cotton yarn. 

Then, block two of my Autumn house quilt.

And block one. I am not so much into the embroidery side of the quilting business, will have to learn a few stitches, but for now back stitching will have to do.lol!!

And YES, I am already building up some stash!

This is latest range from DA Gama.  All the way from Cape Town, another local manufacturer! yay to that! 

I bought the whole range, but only in quarters, so when I decide what I will be making out of these, then will I buy the background, which is usually more.

Tomorrow I am off to my quilting group in Hartebeespoort Dam, lovely group of ladies and of course we always share some cake and coffee!

Kruger in Photo's

I know I have been sharing quite a lot of these photo's @ the Kruger,but I am in awe each time we pay the park a visit. We saw beautiful game, elephants,bucks, hienna, rhino{with a horn},lots of crocs, but did not add those{sorry}I have so many and don't want to drag the post. We had to overnight outside the park, since all the camps were fully booked. We stayed at the Protea hotel next to the Kruger Gate. We enjoyed a delicious buffet in the evenings, all together with some lovely wine, me and hubby,Megan had a cross-country race and had to study, so she stayed with grannie. We drove back to Steelpoort via Sabie and Lydenburg in such bad mist, I was terrified. But all in all a lovely unforgettable weekend.

Completed Crochet Cushion

This is a cushion ,my mom and me finished.  I taught her the pattern of the flowers,so we ended up making about 90 of these flowers.

I think they came out pretty nice,the hard work was to sew them onto the cushion.  We took a old cushion to sew it onto.  Currently, I am busy to make a handbag, hopefully I will be able to show that soon!

so, this was just a quickie,speak soon:)

2 Layouts

I have come to realise that scrap booking is not like {riding a bicycle} when you don't do it for a while,for sure you will loose the touch.

I did these two layouts, one double page and one single, since Sunday! I struggled putting things together, nothing would just fall into place.

I ended up using a mishmash of products and still struggling to get the results.

But anyway,here they are!  The first layout is of Megan and her friends having some fun at Gold Reef City. I saw the musical notes and when I scratched into my stuff, I got these big notes and thought it would be nice to duplicate it on my layout,I used some paint on the edges, did some stitching! Then those mini

ice-cream sticks, I had, since started scrapping, so I saw a layout in the Australian Scrap Magazine,they used them, I decided to give that a go too!! Used some Bo Bunny papers and October Afternoon.

This one, I had the photos, but could not decide should I go for the sea look or just a Megan layout, so decided on a Megan layout, although she is sitting on the beach!lol! 

With this one I could not decide what to do with the heading for the layout,walked around doing other

things, while thinking. This was the end result, using Prima Paper, some Daisy D rub-ons, Making memories blings and some flowers.

So, this is my scrapping so far, since last touching some paper and glue! Will definitely have to pull some finger, to make scrapping {easy} again:)
Thanks for popping in:)