A promise is a Promise....

....and I am not one that likes to go back on a promise, so... here I am, keeping good to one.

I have finally gotten around to posting pics of some of the layouts that I have been working on before I got working with Scraptacular.... but what I didn't realise, was how many that I have forgotten to take photos of along the way... and then, there are a few... well.. Im sure I have shared, but can't seem to find record of showing, so ... please excuse me if you have seen some before. Others, well... had something or other missing... so have been buried on my desk just waiting for that last important touch to be added or... found while others, simply needed photos added.

While I know what photos I want to use, I don't tend to print photos until after I have created the page most of the time. I know.. i know... not something that is the "done thing" but something that I have fallen into the habit of doing...for, well...
Two reasons.

1. If I only scrapped photos that I had laying around, I would never get much scrapping done. I find it better to scrap when the mood strikes or a few free hours spring up, and pop the photo in later.

2. Young scrappers. Generally speaking, if there is a photo laying around and its not somehow "nailed" to my layouts or just my desk in general, it it free for the taking.. or atleast, the asking, nagging, begging! This reverts back to reason #1. If I had to wait for time to scrap the ideal photo, I would never get is scrapped because someone would have beaten me to the print!

Thanks for looking... I hope there is something there that inspires someone. (I have done my best to remember weather I have uploaded anything previously. If by some chance that at this late hour, I have been a dope and popped something up for a second time on this blog, please ignore it. Its late. I'm tired. Bed is looking very inviting!)

(I dont think This layout and this photo work properly together. I am thinking that I may have to reprint the photo in B&W. The photo was taken, yeeeeeears ago. Mirandas little friend had given her a dress up dress and boa to play in for the afternoon. I could not resist the opp to take some photos of her in it. It just was soooo pretty!)

(This little poppet loves school. To the point that she has actually asked, during the first few days of school holidays to go to school. When informed that infact there is no one there and that she would be by herself, she has said "that is okay mummy.. I will just take my story books and read on my classroom steps! Talk about Keen! I wonder if she will be like that still in a few years! ha!)

("Upside down Daddy!!!" - one of the most common phrases for a long while. Not a lot has changed... she still loves to be upside down. Miranda and Matt in the gardens near the old Parliament House in Canberra - One very chilly, winters day!)

(What can be said now that has not been said before!? If a soul can be split 3 ways, this girl and Matt are my other parts. Life would not be the same without this beautiful girl a part of mine. I didn't think I could love someone not related to me so much... though then again... she is my sister of the heart... my best friend... so anything is possible when it comes to her.
The background paper is actually a paper bag from The Body Shop the christmas before last)

(My Man Child...Jamie... The sweetest dude I know.. This is one of the few times he is not being his crazy self.. He didnt know this photo was being taken - perhaps that is a BIG part of the normality of this photo. hahah. )

(My gorgeous teenage daughter Kiera ... It is simple.. it is sweet... it compliments the photo... i think, anyway!)

(Do I need to say more? I cheated a little with this one... I actully scrapped it on New years eve, BEFORE the photo was even taken. Atleast when I usually scrap, I have a photo in mind. Hmmm.... Im not too sure what I would have done if fireworks pics did not turn out. I guess, considering that Mother Nature was giving her own show - with lightening, I could have snapped a shot of that, huh!?)

(I think this is a layout that somehow has slipped through the cracks when popping things up here. This was actually done, when I first started nursing a few years ago. I was tavelling between states on a weekly basis for a while (living away weekdays) and had a LOT of time on my hands when I was not studying. I took just enough stuff away to create... It is simple, though I think it just makes the beautiful photo just pop!)

(I dont have many photos of all the kids with my mum, though I was lucky this day at the beach, that they were all in the mood, right at the same time in order for me to capture the moment. It was my mums first every visit to the Brighton Beach Sheds and was something she had always wanted to see... I think the sight blew her away - There is nothing quite like it!)

(The beautiful, one and only Miss M. Who needs her daddy to take a picture of her when she can come up with one this great? I love it. Such a little poser.. though she loves to play with "george" (my camera for those who are not up to speed on my named inadement objects) and you can find her most weekends, snapping photos of her self as well as any number of obscure objects. I plan to make her a mini album/book "through the eyes of Roo")


(yep... you guessed it... that is me... as a baby..... wasn't i just too cute!? I LOVE this paper!)

(Miranda, sitting in her pram on the bank of the High Level of Katherine River. She had just woken up and was so hot. She just wanted to go home. We had been fishing for Barramundi in a known Croc hot spot. I was rather keen to get out of there too! Yikes!)

(Kiera Jamie and I at Mt Selwyn. Soaking wet, freezing cold but having too much fun to call it a day. The quote on the paper could not have suited the day better. I was being pelted with snowballs all day. The more I tried to stand up and get away from them, the harder and faster they were coming. I'm sure to a bystander, it was hilarious! ~I thought it was pretty damn funny as well~)