Check out the slide show above!!!!

How cool is that!!! I just flew through the gallery and grabbed a few recent uploads that caught my eye - great work people!!! If you want to see more awesome work for inspiration click on the link in the righthand side bar that says scrapbookin annie online gallery and it will take you there.
In case you are interested the above work was done by the gallery members as follows:
Happy Birthday card - CLeong
Special Occasion - Godzoned
Always - Zeetra
Hair - Dee
Christmas 2004 - queen b
Japan bag - ronJ
Dirks Disaster - The Fabries
Sarah's theme song - wantok
70th Birthday card - Arjay

(not necessarily in the correct order - hey its Monday, way too soon in the week to expect any kind of order!!)

Keep an eye on the blog - every so often I will update the slide show to show some of our gallery members other wonderful work!

School hols are here.....

Who can tell that the school hols are here... First day back from the beach and my eldest was on the farm tracks with his bike, fell off and has half a face plain, half a face scratched cut & bruised. At 9 years old, he's refusing to get out of the car incase somebody sees him - Way uncool. The 7 year old was sat in the car singing the new James Blunt song and thought that it was Goodbye My Liver - is this a sign of things to come - been having fun this week with the new K & Co takeout tags (1800 in a box for under$20) and pretending that the house isn't a madhouse.....we're half packed for the shift and had to find all of my scans last week - tried for an hour and gave up - WHATEVER....then found tham this week-whilst looking for something else!! We have half the house up at the new house and half the house with us as we use it - we thought that a gradual shift would work better - we asked for everyone to revisit their Journal Blok Challenge this week on the Gin & Tonic with:

The Journal Block - REVISITED
This really is week 26 to mark 1/2 a year
Go back to week
Week 6
and
Week 14

What have you done from your lists...........

Does it make you think................

Whats on for the weekend??????

Well, after out Telecom incident, we're finally ready for the weekend, apart from the fact that all of the streets telephones have gone on the blink and everyone who tries to contact us gets the answerphone - sorry.

Does anyone feel like coming over and taking my 9 and 7 year old boys grocery shopping?? Whoo whoo, this girl knows how to live at weekend!!!!! If you don't want to do that, you're welcome to come round to pack up my house ready for the shift on the 1st June..... Well if you don't want to do any of that, you could always spend the day scrapping and invite me round instead to get out of the other "tasks" that I need to do..........We finally got the gin & tonic back out again yesterday, and we're getting ready for the crop at the beginning of May, but what I'm really looking forward to is this Wednesday is going to be Whacky Wednesday at our local college. It's been a shocking start to the year for them with suicides and deaths, so the teachers are organising a day for the kids to get pampered and have loads of creative things to do. I'm going to go down and make bling bling, whatever and girlfriend cards and can't wait, they are a creative bunch and definately in need of something different at the moment. Keep an eye out on the gallery to see what gets made.... So on that note, I'm of to buy some cheap gem stones in Hamilton at Spotlight, do my groceries and make a desert for a dinner party tonight - BUT - if I go to Spotlight, I'll have to go past the cheesecake shop to get home easy desert - suddenly the shopping seems far more appealing, and as for packing the house, theres always tomorrow........and the fact that tomorrow never comes is even more appealing....

We had to post the G & T here!!!!

SORRY EVERYONE, WE BLEW THE MOTHERBOARD ON THE COMPUTER, SO WE HAD TO POST OUR G & T HERE AFTER TRYING TO SEND IT FOR 4 DAYS!!!!!!


HI EVERYONE
AND WELCOME TO THE
GIN AND TONIC

FOR FRIDAY 31ST MARCH

WELL, FOR ONCE IT'S STOPPED RAINING, ALTHOUGH
IT HASN'T REALLY BEEN TOO BAD TODAY.
HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE NEW HOMEPAGE???
IT'S BEEN LURKING AROUND UNDER THE SITE FOR A WHILE,
AND B GOT THE FORUM AND CHANGES FINALISED TODAY!!!
IF YOU LOOK ON THE TOP TOOLBAR, YOU'LL SEE THE LINK
TO THE FORUM - OR YOU CAN CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT
THERE AND GET POSTING!!!!
WE REACHED A MILLION CLICKS ON THE WEBSITE
THE OTHER WEEK SO WHY NOT HAVE A CHANGE???

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WEEKS CLASS IN A PACK -
IT'S " LAUGH " BY ANNIE
AND THE PACK CAN BE PURCHASED HERE.
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE LAYOUT
HAS BEEN EXPLAINED ON THE BLOG,
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR PHOTOS
GETTING UPLOADED NEXT WEEK -
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SCRAP THEM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.......

JOURNAL BLOCK CHALLENGE
Week 24
- next to last week!!
If you were to dedicate
your journal block challenge to anyone,
who would it be,
why,
and what message would you give....

DON'T FORGET THAT IF YOU'VE MISSED SOME OF THE CHALLENGE, YOU CAN VIEW IT ON THE BLOG HERE


NAMING AND SHAMING!!!

NOW THEN JAN & DENISE
LAST SATURDAY, YOU WERE ALL EXCITED AT GETTING
BACK YOUR CAMERA - AND YOU SAID
THAT YOU'D BE BACK POSTING LIKE MAD

WHATEVER!!!!
WE'VE BEEN WAITING ALL WEEK!!!!

AND SUE WELLINGTON-
DON'T THINK THAT YOU'VE GOT AWAY WITH
(ALMOST) FORGETTING TO PICK SOMEONE UP
BECAUSE YOU GOT CARRIED AWAY AT THE SHOP@!!

JUST FOR YOUR INFO
CAUSE EVERYONES ASKED
WHO'S BEEN IN (OR DUE IN!)
THE SHOP IS STAYING OPEN AND STAYING HERE UNTIL SOLD
ALL CUSTOMERS WHO KNOW US WELL
BE ASSURED THAT YOU WILL BE INVITED TO
HER LADYSHIP BEING PUBLICLY SHAMED
BEFORE SHE LEAVES - ILLNESS OR NOT
(SHE IS SOOOOO GOING TO GET IT!)

JUST IN THIS WEEK
ALL NEW CHATTERBOX, TRANSPARENCY ALPHABETS,
TRANSPARENCY QUOTES,
PAPERS, CARDSTOCKS- 40 NEW DESIGNS, RIBBON.
EYELET OUTLET BRADS
JUST LEFT LA (WE HOPE)
3 NEW RANGES FROM AMERICAN TRADITIONAL
INCLUDING THE EMBELLISHMENT & STICKER & CHIPBOARD LINES
NEW & RE-STOCKS BASIC GREY
ALL NEW PRISM PAPERS

WELL, WE'LL LEAVE IT HERE FOR THIS WEEK
JUST A QUICKIE
TO GET YOU USING THE NEW FORUM@!#

THE BLOG HAS GIVEN YOU YET
ANOTHER CHALLENGE THIS WEEK

AND REMEMBER

LAUGH

REBECCA, PRISCILLA, CHRISTINE, BELINDA,
JENNY AND ANNIE

Not So April Fools!!

Aaaagh! The April Fool bug has struck and we can't get the G & T out!! Had every computer technician over this morning - and it all worked - then they left AND IT DIDN'T - so it will have to be a Monday morning thing - IN THE MEANTIME -
WHY NOT TRY POSTING ONTO THE NEW FORUM....................................

We drank the G & T

Who's been into their inbox looking for the G & T this week??? We drank the lot and it made us laugh!! We had a new "mail washer" installed this week and it's definately female - it's washing our outgoing too and took all of the colour out!! It should leave by lunchtime today (Saturday). I stayed till almost 8pm last night to try to get it to go, and then re-read the blog - laughed in a rather hysterical manner and systematically "left the building". I've planned our mad weekend and told my dear hubbie about it all - THEN this morning, I couldn't sleep too well and he woke up to go milking...
Imagine the conversation:
Can you not sleep
No
Are You In Pain
No
Is your head Aching
No
Are you sure your not lying to me
No
Right then you can get the cows in..

He disappears to make a cup of tea, comes back in the room and says


LAUGH

Well the new Chatterbox images have arrived, and we want to get them online!!

Until next time.....