I'm A Style Star...

I totally forgot to blog about this, but a couple of weeks ago, I won a competition!! Yes, me! And an International competition, no less! I was so excited I nearly wet myself. It was a one-layout comp over at Scrap In Style, a 'Style Star' search, and the theme was 'Spring Green', to interpret as desired. The winning layouts were picked by Creating Keepsakes magazine too, which is so super exciting; to think that the people who publish CK picked my layout (along with 2 others) from hundreds of entries!!! Here is my winning layout:

I really love this layout; those photos of Aurelia are just gorgeous and show her personality - and I love that green dress! And those Websters papers.... just LURVE Websters... and Prima. You can read the announcement here. I won some cool stuff too, including a couple of CK books, and some other stuff from Scrap in Style, but I don't know what yet. Too cool!! Can you tell I'm excited? The funny thing is, I originally intended the page to be for a Scrap Tech Tuesday for Scrappin' Patch, showing paint lines for journalling, and I only entered the layout in the comp at the very last minute, on a whim, never dreaming it would get me anywhere. So there you go, a lesson for you all that you need to submit your pages, 'cos you never know what might happen.

I am currently in Tauranga, visiting my sister and her family, but heading home today. Unfortunately, I seem to have picked up a bit of a cold, so feeling a bit miserable, but I guess I'll live. Looking forward to my own bed and not being woken in the night by a crying baby and naughty toddler, but otherwise I am very sad to be going home. I always miss my sisters. Oh well, not long until the next lot of school holidays when we can visit again. We have had mostly lovely weather here, until the last 2 days, but now it seems winter has finally arrived. I'm sitting here in quite a few long-sleeved jumpers...

Oh, and I know I promised a photo from the Retreat, but you are going to have to wait until I am home again, sorry! Will blog again soon, I promise! I am looking forward to doing some scrapbooking; I never scrap at my sister's place; too many children running round and not enough space or time, but it's a good break anyway, and hopefully I am inspired to get stuck in when I get home again. Although I have a list as long as my arm of stuff I have to do, like paint our bathroom, backup photos and home movies, and move all my photos to my new external drive, as our computer is running out of memory... what? Doesn't everyone have 10,000 photos of their 4-year-old sitting on their computer??

Talk soon!