Just a Quickie...

... because, for about a week now, we have been on dial-up, having used all of our broadband allowance - mainly due to DH being home on leave, and looking at car sites!! And we still have a couple of days to go until a new month starts, but I can tell you, I can't wait! I don't know how people on dial-up do it; there are so many sites that I can't even open, and others that take more than 15 mins. It's driving me crazy! Never mind, only a couple more days, right?

Anyway, here is a layout I did for the Prima September Build-A-Page challenge that didn't win! But I love it, it's one of my faves in a period where I'm not scrapping much, and not happy with what I am doing.

and a close-up:

Love all that Prima! I love that photo of Aurelia too; I think she looks so old and, as the title says, I can almost see her future face.

Oh, and I was pleased to be asked to feature as Inspiration of the day on the Craft Gossip blog; my Golden Girl layout was posted on 26 Sept along with links to my gallery and blog, so to anyone who is visiting here from that blog, hello and welcome!

Onto more mundane, everyday things, we are, of course, on school holidays at the moment, so I've been spending lots of time catching up with friends and their kids, and I feel like we've been so busy. We went to see Jack and the Beanstalk, a play at the Bruce Mason Centre, over on the Shore today, and Aurelia loved it. My sister was here at the end of last week, and Aurelia had a fantastic time playing with her cousins. We also went rock-wall climbing with Kim and Luke on Sunday, which Aurelia loved - after saying it was going to be 'boring'! Unfortunately, Luke wasn't so keen, and didn't want to climb, but we spent the rest of the day at parks and playgrounds, feeding ducks, watching eels and catfish swim around, and just generally enjoying the only sunny day for a while.

Aurelia and I are off to Tauranga at the end of the week to see my sister again, so will be in for a busy and loud week, I'm thinking. I'm just really hoping it stops raining so the girls can play outside.

Ok, it's taken me about 20 mins to download the photos above, so it's now my bedtime. Night night all. Enjoy the holidays!