Teaching scrapbooking classes

I taught a scrapbooking class last term at College at the night school and again this term. Many of the ladies from last term asked for a further class. I am teaching Scrapbooking 2 in ten days time. Instead of doing a l/o, I am doing little technique books with lots of techniques in them that each person can then use later

New house in Tawa

no not us but my parents. They have the cutest little house that is three minutes away from us. They are settled in well as is the cat! The garden needs some work but they will work on it slowly.

Crafting Connection 2006

CC was hot, the Mega Crop was not! It was noisy, it was unorganised. Someone did the introduction of the tutors which I feel should have been done by David. There was also a quiz which was a waste of time because all she did was pull a name out of the basket for the winner. Because of the noise you couldn't hear her either. She didn’t speak loudly enough, she wasn’t dynamic enough to get that many scrappers excited, the make ‘n takes were a complete waste of time. Personally, I felt that every one who dressed up should have got a small prize; she could also have gone round to each of the groups who were dressed up and spoken to them and announced their choice of name etc.

As for the rest - WOW! Cathy Z was delightful, Ali was sweet and helpful and Donna was so funny. I didn't finish anything: I wonder if I will! In fact, I haven't even looked at the product bags we were handed in Cathy's classes. These were design talks rather than create classes. I do have some photos though.














Donna had these cute little craft drills that we played with. I'd love one - but I'd never use it again!

It was fantastic meeting so many online friends - we had fun at One Red Dog etc

Settled in

Well, we moved my parents out of their house and put their furniture in storage. The day they moved, we saw a house advertised and went to see it last Sunday along with about forty other families/people. It was just perfect and we were all thrilled when we got the call in the aftrenoon to say it was theirs. What was even better, was that they could move in quickly, so on Friday they moved in. We worked hard all day, but tey onle slept there on Saturday night. After doing more work today, most of the boxes are unpacked - there is just some sorting out to do.

They have two bedrooms, a conservatory, lounge/dinigroom and an internal access garage - perfect for them. They will need to do a bit of work in the garden but that's lomg term stuff. For now, they are settling in nicely and we will fetch the cat tomorrow and then the three of them and have the rest of the week to sort things out.