It's Finished!

Hi There,

A few months ago my sisters introduced me to the wonderful world of scrapbooking. I wasn't sure about it at first as I didn't think I'd be any good at it so Kirstin  suggested I start a project that has to be completed and then once it's finished I could decide if it was a hobby I enjoyed, Surprise surprise I LOVE it! So over the past few months I have been working on a 2008 calendar I still don't think it is wonderful as Kirstin and Tracey are both so arty and do some spectacular pages but it's not too bad for a beginner. :-) 

So here goes with a bit of info about each page...

January

This layout is of Port Jackson, this is where Roger and I used to go every year camping after xmas in the summer holidays. It's a lovely place and feels like you are in paradise we haven't been able to go the last couple of years last year because our wedding was just around the corner and there was so much to do and the $$$ were running low and this year because we no longer have a vehicle big enough to take all our gear but we hope to be able to go next year.

February

Well I'm sure this one says it all, Roger and I were married last year on the 24th of February and it seemed only fitting for this calendar that February was dedicated to our wedding as we will be celebrating our 1st anniversary.

March

As Easter is in March in 2008 year I decided a photo of our pet bunny was the perfect thing for March, I now have my very own easter bunny. :-)

April

Mine and Roger's birthdays are both in April and I had these pictures of us as babies at about the same age so I thought it was a good way to display them. (this was also the very first page I ever did).

May

There's no particular meaning with this month I had no idea what to do for May and I wanted to do something with the pictures I had from Movie world when we went there while on honeymoon so that's how this page came about.

June

My Girls. For years I was involved in a theatre company and over time I became very close friends with a group of girls, for some reason we always referred to each other as "Pretty" and then one day we had some jackets made with our "Pretty logo" on it life has taken us all in different directions now and some of the girls aren't even in NZ anymore but I will always consider all of them very close friends and I love them all.

July

BOMWATS! One of my addictions/obsession is wombats or Bomwats, I had this wombat hole punch that mum got for me and then I took some photos while in Australia at the beginning of the year so I put this lay out together. I think they are such adorable creatures.

August

A day at Western Springs. A while ago Tracey, Steve, Roger, Ashley and I went to Western springs to have a walk Ashley had a wonderful time playing on the playground but she seemed to have an even better time following Roger around and doing what he did. She really loves him it's quite cute.

September

I just loved this photo of my Cat, he is like my baby and I had to get him in the calendar somewhere.

October

This is another one of those months I wasn't sure what to do with but I thought I should have a page for roger since he is going to have to stare at this calendar all year so I did a page of him on the Coastguard boat, yup it's him driving the boat (not that you can tell).

November

I had these gorgeous photos of Ashley adn Devin playing at various different times over the year.

December

The gingerbread house. Last xmas I was given this kit to build your own gingerbread house it then sat around all year and Iw as determined to get it done for this xmas so while in Auckland for the xmas break Roger, Mum and I sat down for a few hours and put this thing together. It was lots of fun but it was so big we had no idea what to do with it when we were finished.

So that was my first attempt at scrapbooking it's not too bad but I'm now looking forward to getting in and getting some 12x12 layouts done so watch this space and hopefully I will do some pages that I want to share.

Have a great New Years everyone.