Cupcakes

Well my birthday has come and gone. I had a pretty good day...only worked for half the day, spent the afternoon shopping and then went and saw Wild Hogs in the evening. It's a hilarious movie!! Totally recommend it.

I enjoyed spending time with my friends at the Casino and also enjoyed the Brissie Papercrafts Festival on the Sunday. I tried a few new techniques in Zina Wright's class such as using felt and poppets. I haven't actually finished the page yet as I need to get some black and white photos done.

I've got a new obsession...Cupcakes! I made some last week, which turned out edible but not as fabulously as I'd hoped. It seems cupcake making and decorating is an art. There are heaps of cupcake blogs out there, All Cupcakes All the time is my current favourite. Flickr also has lots of fun piccies of cupcakes to drool over.

I'm busy packing up all my worldly possessions this weekend. Work is moving to the Coast in exactly 4 weeks and I haven't even started looking for a place to live! I've discovered packing is a lot more work than I remembered, so it's going to take a while.

Birthdays

Today I'm going to my godson's first birthday party! He turned 1 yesterday and today there will be a party in a park, complete with BBQ and cake! I bought him some very cute winter clothes and a Fisher Price fire truck that has a fireman and a dalmation doggie. Must take camera!

Next Friday is MY BIRTHDAY! I'll be 27 :( So far the plan is to go see Wild Hogs at the movies on Friday night with Mum and maybe I'll pop in next door to Cold Rock for some yummy ice cream.

Saturday night I'm going to the Casino with some of my friends and we're going to gamble and drink yummy expensive cocktails.

Then on Sunday afternoon I'm attending a class at the Brisbane Papercraft Expo, which I've never been to before. The class I'm attending goes for 3 hours and is run by Zina Wright and is called Get Creative.

And in other non-birthday but very exciting news.....drumroll please.....I have lost 2.3 kilos this week!!! Since last Saturday. I am totally wrapt. I haven't lost this much weight in a week since my old Atkins days. I decided to stop doing Weight Watchers last Saturday and count calories and fat instead. This obviously works much better for me!!

Despite the fact that I have been trying to lose weight since the start of December, this brings me to a total loss of 2.8 kilos!

Bring on the cyclone!

I am so glad this week is over. It's been long and tiring. It's really warm here in Brissie today. There's a tropical cyclone halfway up the state and bizzare as it seems, everyone's hoping it will come down south and inland a bit so we can get a big chunk of rain. That will totally solve the water crisis (for a year or so anyway!) It's name is Cyclone Odette!

Here's some cool stuff I will be getting in the mail over the next couple of weeks.

The latest Poppy Ink kit called Rock Star:

The Poppy Ink Aussie add on kit. I think it's a mixture of stuff from the US add on kits.

I also ordered some stuff from Jenni Bowlin's site. I got the March Add on kit, the March Substitution kit, 6 chipboard scrolls and the vintage red journalling cards.

The add on kit:

The substitution kit:

The chipboard scrolls - I love these!:

And the journalling cards:

Today after getting my hair cut (just a trim) I stopped off at Photo Continental and bought 1 of almost every sheet of Basic Grey's new line Phoebe. I got 2 of the plain colours because they always come in handy. And so ends this weeks shopping binge. I hope!

I plan on getting some scrapping done this afternoon. I've downloaded a bunch of new tunes for inspiration so hopefully I'll have a few pages done by tomorrow. One would do really :)

Ode to homewares

I bought the cutest little hot water bottle today! It's only small but it comes with it's very own stripey jumper! Look:

Say it with me now....awwwww! :)

I also got this little cup thing with a chandelier on 2 sides.

I'm not sure what I'll use it for but if all else fails, it'll become my toothbrush holder!

I'm 99.99999% sure that I will be moving to the Gold Coast in about 6 weeks so I'm busy collecting cute fun things, such as the above, to decorate my new flat with. This will be the 2nd official time I've moved out (not including the time I moved to the UK for 10 months), so I actually have a few large housey items such as a fridge, a microwave and various other bits n bobs. I dont have a kitchen table yet. The year that I was living in Melbourne, I didn't have a kitchen table at all! I borrowed someone's outdoor plastic lawn table and chairs. I think I ate at that table maybe once or twice. This time, I intend to buy myself a real live wooden table with real wooden chairs from IKEA! I love IKEA!

I can hear music...

I saw Music & Lyrics at the movies last night. Hilariously funny! Seriously...if you need a laugh there's nothing funnier than Hugh Grant dressed up in 80s gear singing a very cheesy pop song! And his dancing! Brilliant!

The weekend is pretty much over although the premier of Ugly Betty is on tonight so I'll probably watch that and flick over to the Biggest Loser as it's weigh in night tonight.

I bought a beautiful platter thing at Myer yesterday, it was on special as were the two colourful ceramic bowls I bought. I've also ordered about 270 photos on snapfish, which are most of my Las Vegas photos except for about 30 or so pics of the Bellagio fountains.

I've had a very lovely lazy afternoon watching TV. Serendipty with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. And How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. I've never seen it before and I missed the first half hour but what I saw was excellent. Great storyline! Fabulous cast!

I've almost finished my Statue of Liberty layout. I just need journalling. Unfortunately I have nothing to say about it so it's just sitting there waiting for words.

Poppy Ink!

So this very yummy box of stuff was sitting on my doorstep when I arrived home! There's some gorgeous colours and the coolest shrinky stickers! Ooh and some bling bazzil and lots of funky papers and fab ric rac!! Two of the ric rak colours go perfectly with a layout I'm working on at the moment of the Statue of Liberty! (would you believe blue and lime green!?) Gonna have fun with this.

I had hoped the earrings I purchased on Etsy would arrive today but I guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer.

Today's two peas challenge is a cracker:

Challenge - If you could live in any other time period of the world besides right now, what time period would you love to live in??? and why?

There's probably one or two different time periods I'd love to live in. The first one that came to mind was the time of the French Revolution. It's my favourite war. As in, the one I find most interesting. All wars are bad, but this one was sooo blood thirsty. I don't actually think I'd have liked to have lived through it, but it seems like such an interesting era. If you like getting your head chopped off that is! I've probably read the Scarlet Pimpernel a few too many times!

Another interesting era would be the 1950s-1970s. I'd love to witness the birth of rock n roll, back when music mattered so much and some seriously amazing musical artists came on the scene. I realise people who are a few years older than me got to live it but it's not the same hearing about it from people.

A Card!

I went on yet another mini shopping spree this morning. It wa'sn't intentional though. I really just wanted to get a copy of Elsie Flannigans book 52 Scrapbooking Challenges. I ended up getting that as well as:


Basic Grey Blush letter stickers, Heidi Swapp Center of Attention outline rubons and block black and white alpha stickers:
Black, white and dark pink Bazzil Bling cardstock and KI double sided patterned paper (reduced to 30 cents a sheet!!!)



And I have actually been productive this morning too. I made my cousin's 30th Birthday card.

I've been wanting to alter my style and make it more colourful and fun so I figured this card would be a good way to start.

I always make fun of this particular cousin by sending her cards pointing out how old she is (she's 3 years older than me) The quote on the card reads "Wisdom does not necessarily come with age"and on the inside it say "Sometimes age just shows up all by itself"

Front:


Inside:



Products used:

Poppy Ink Owl stamp
Making Memories tiny alphas
KI patterned paper
Heidi Swapp block alphas (for the 30)
Puffy red hearts from a Poppy Ink kit


I hope she likes it!

Etsy

I love Etsy. It's such a cool idea! I just bought myself my Valentine's Day present. I know I was thinking about getting a ipod armband but I saw these earrings and fell in love! The seller is j.nic designs and these are the earrings:



Beeeautiful! I love turquoise and I dont have any turquoise jewellery so I thought I'd do something about it!

I know which website I'm going to check out when buying my mum's mother's day pressie this year!

Vintage fun

I've had quite a bit of fun over the past 24hours, spending cash on various things.

Last night I popped into a shop on my way home called Bay Swiss. It's a homewares place but also does food. Anyway I ended up getting 4 bright pink place mats for $3 each! Reduced from $5 each. Bargain! And I got the cutest gingerbread man cookie cutters. There's 3 in the box and they're called Already Been Chewed Cookies because they look like someone's taken a bite out of them.

Aren't they cute! The pink stripy thing behind the box is one of the placemats I bought.

Today Mum and I went into the Valley to do some vintage/retro fabric shopping. The Valley is hard to describe. It's just outside the city centre, it's where China town is, is very hip and has lots of clubs but is also full of people you don't want meet late at night in a dark alley if you get my meaning. Anyway they have markets in the mall every Saturday and there's a lot of 2nd hand clothing/vintage shops. We managed to score some seriously scary stuff! It was so much fun. I actually bought 2 headscarfs at the markets which are quite nice. The blue one is more of an aqua colour:

The stuff below is stuff we found in 2nd hand stores. Most of the stuff we bought is 100% polyester!

In this picture we have a lovely bright green polyester shirt, a funky brown, orange and cream patterned shirt and a dark blue velvet skirt! How 70's is that patterned shirt?!

In this picture we have a red/pink striped top, another polyester dotted blue shirt, a flowery skirt and a very cool wavey blue shirt that makes your eyes go funny when you look at it!

In this photo we have a mini skirt that is black and brightly patterened with dangly bead things. I think it'll make a lovely cushion!. The pink flowery dress is actually really pretty in real life and the funky wavey red and black top would make a lovely head scarf.



And finally below there is a hideously scary shirt that's made up of quite a few different patterns. A almost as hideous red dress, a very lovely blue silk tie and a very funky red and white belt!

We also got a whole bunch of records, including some of the smaller ones! Some of them I'm actually keeping to listen to and the others are going to be altered.

We're probably going to be making hand bags, cushions, lamp shades and the like out of all our finds!

Yeehaw!

There's no journalling on this layout as I felt it was one of those pictures that speaks 1000 words :)

And really, what can you write about a bloke standing in the middle of times square in his tighty-whities?

The black alphas are Heidi Swapp, the Cowboy is Basic Grey, painted and NYC is also Basic Grey covered with BG Blush paper. The background is BG Blush too. The star is Heidi Swapp covered with silver glitter. Times Square is BG letter stickers and the brackets are BG chipboard painted.

Finding Dory

I would like to apologise to the aquatic community. I just ate Dory for dinner. That's right, I had Dory and chips for dinner (bloody yummy it was too!)

I did my attempted run thing again today. Still only managed 3 mins worth of running but I think I ran faster or better or something because my calves were screeeaming in pain. They were even more sore than my tendonitis which is saying something!

CHA is happening in Anaheim at the moment (disneyland and scrapping all in the one suburb!) Usually a lot of stuff appears that I absolutely love. This time there's only a few things but that's a very good thing as I'm trying to cut down on my scrapping spending.

The new stuff that I totally fell head over heels for is the new line by Elsie Flannigan called 'Love Elsie'. She's got 3 lines but the one I love the mostest is the one called 'Toby' It's a travel themed line and it's sooo freakin cool! A lot of companies assume that you want to do all your travel stuff using Parisian type colours and designs. Which would be fine if all you did was travel to Paris! Elsie's new travel line is bright and funky with lots of green and blue. Check out her blog!

I also love Basic Grey's new Precision File Set. Fabulous for when you're doing stuff with chipboard! Definitely getting one of those! I'm not drooling over any of their new paper lines, though I like most of the plain colours. Some of the patterns are ok but most are too flowery for me. More elephants and rockets I say!

Bazzil has some new bling cardstock which looks good, as well as some new shaped cardstock! I also liked Heidi Swapp's bling crowns! Very cute.

Today's Two Peas Challenge:

Inspiration. What kinds of things inspire you lately? Blog about it.

Well I'm totally inspired by that new Love Elsie line at the moment! Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Generally speaking though the thing that inspires me most is probably....colour. I sometimes go through phases of like one colour and trying to use it, wear it and just generally look at it. These days I'm going through a bit of a red and turquoise/aquamarine phase. I love retro colours too...it's amazing how colours that used to look so bad together can be altered and made funky!

Also my photos inspire me. I'm not saying they're all fabulous, but there are some that are really great. And when I sit down to scrap, I usually like to make sure I showcase the photos rather than make it all about the embellishments. Although sometimes it's just good to have fun and play and chuck whatever on a page! :)

Running!

I think I've tried to post this about 5 times already today! Silly Blogger!

I've started trying to run, using a program called Couch to 5k. It is a program that takes you from being a walker only through a 3 sessions per week, 9 week program (repeat weeks as necessary) that gradually increases your intervals of running until you are running continuously for 5km. Day 1, week 1 is 8mins running, 12 mins walking. I managed 3 mins running, 4.5 mins walking plus the 10minute warm up/cool down. Plus I staggered up a hill to get home.

It's tough, but I'm determined to keep at it because I felt so good after all the aches and pains went away. There's podcasts that you can download and it tells you when to run and when to walk.

I've decided to get myself an armband for my ipod if I'm still attempting this running thing by Mid-February, as my Valentine's Day present. Something similar to the one below. I keep worrying my ipod will fall out of my pocket.


Aren't I romantic?! :)

Happy Australia Day!

It's Australia Day today! Which means a day off work and a family BBQ. It's my uncle's birthday today too so every Australia Day we have a family get together. I just got home from the BBQ and I'm exhausted!


Despite the fact that it's a public holiday a lot of the shops were open so I went to Target and Kmart and Best & Less to pick up some homewares type stuff. I did pretty well. I got a beach towel (in case I move to the Gold Coast!), salt n pepper shakers, a nice serving bowl, a frying pan, tea towels, baking trays, a cake tin and lots of other things.


I made a couple of cards this afternoon as we actually celebrated 3 birthdays at the family BBQ. I totally left it to the last minute so they were a bit rushed.

This one was for my cousin's girlfriend who ended up not being able to make it to the party.
The papers are SEI and came from a Jenni Bowlin kit, as did the scalloped oval thing.

This is the inside of the card, using an SEI rubon that came with the Jenni Bowlin kit.

And this was for my uncle. I used Basic Grey paper, MM tiny alphas and some ribbon.

Raining, walking, scrapping..

It's raining!!! This is a very good thing, as pretty much all of Oz is currently in the throes of a very severe drought. It's been really muggy all day and so hopefully the rain will cool things down a bit. I hope some rain ends up in the dams. Probably won't though!



I am also glad the rain held off til after I got back from my walk. I had a go at doing some intensity training. I heard about this new study that's been done where they found people burned 3 times as much fat by cycling for 8 seconds really fast then cycling normally for 12 seconds then going back to the fast 8 seconds etc. for 20 minutes. My fitness level is a bit crap (er...understatement of the year??) at the moment so I did some walk/jogging for about 10mins. It almost bloody killed me! I then had to stagger up a hill to get home. Hopefully I can increase my walk/jogs as time goes by.


The sneekie peekie of the Feb Poppy Ink kit is up.

Finally some bright happy colours! The kit is named 'Funky Town'!! I love the stripes and the birdies! And the ric rac!!!

Other fabulous news... Friday is Australia Day, meaning I don't have to go to work!! Tomorrow is the end of the working week!

The Flamingo!

I finally got my latest layout finished.

The Flamingo hotel in Vegas. Products used are Bazzil Bling cardstock, Heidi Swapp chipboard circle letters, Basic Grey ribbon, chipboard swirls covered in pink glitter.

Go the Roar!

Last night I went to the soccer with a friend. Queensland Roar played Sydney FC. Unfortunately it ended 1-1 which meant that Sydney went into the finals! We was robbed!!

It was a great game though and there were over 32,000 people there! We went to a game this time last year and there were only 13,000 so there's been a massive increase, probably thanks to the World Cup last year. I actually ran into a friend who I haven't seen in ages on our way out. 32,000 people and I run into someone I know. It's such a typical Brisbane thing. There may be 1million people here but it's still very common to run into people you know wherever you go!

I've had some biggish news work wise. There's a very strong possbility that the office is going to move from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. That's about an hours drive from here. I found out on Friday. Hardly anyone at work knows, it's very hush hush. So I'm posting it on the internet ;) I'll find out in about a month whether or not it will actually happen. Our office lease expires at the end of March so they will either move the office then or stay put for another year.

I was suprised by the news, but not overly upset. If the relocation happens, I will move down to the Gold Coast. It's very nice down there - there's lovely beaches. I'm kinda looking forward to it.

I've been working on a scrapbook layout for about a week now. It's almost done, I'm just waiting for some chipboard to dry. It would have been finished earlier but I was having glitter issues. Hopefully I'll get it finished and scanned later today!

Vegas layout

I managed to survive my first week back at work. It was tiring but I'm sure I'll get back into the swing of things soon.

I finally finished a 2 page layout last night that I've been working on for about a week.

This is page 1:

The title was done using Basic Grey mini mono chipboard, which I painted red and then covered with modge podge and poured glitter all over it (and all over me, the table, the floor etc..). Then once that dried I put more modge podge on top to seal it. It turned out really well.

Page 2:

The heart is fabric and puffy, it came in the Janurary Poppy Ink Kit. I can't remember who makes the 'fabulous' rhinestone word. Isn't it fabulous!? :)

Funny story about getting these layouts digitally stitched together....for ages I've been trying to find a freeware stitching program, because I'm a cheapskate and won't pay for something I hardly ever use. Anyway over the past couple of years I've downloaded various 30 day trials of software. So today after searching the net and reading that most people had some sort of panoramic stitching software that came with their scanner or digi cam, I had a search on my software at some of the programs I never use and lo and behold there's one called Photo Stitch by Canon. Only took me about 4 years to figure out it was there! And it's such an easy program to use too!

I've uploaded the Vegas layouts onto Two Peas and I must say I love the increased size gallery piccies. They used to be large then got reduced so you could hardly see anything, now I can actually sit back in my chair and look comfortably. I don't know what's happened but in the past day or so there's been some bloody great layouts. They're usually pretty good, but it seems the Peas have upped the ante a bit recently. Or it could be that I can now actually see the layouts and therefore realise how good they actually are!

Friday's Two Peas blog challenge:

Challenge: What are you listening to lately? What are some of your fave songs/artists? What's on your playlist right now? Blog about your fave music.. right now.

Grab a cup of coffee and make yourself comfy, this could take awhile.

Music I am listening to lately: a lot of Robbie Williams, various Top 40 songs byFergie, Pussycat Dolls, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Scissor Sisters and a few older top 40 hits by Britney, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Ricky Martin. Oh and some Wham/George Michael stuff!That's just the stuff in my Pop playlist.

My ipod has almost 6gig worth of music on it (only another 24gig to go!) and I listen to a very wide range of music and it's sorted into specific categories. Sometimes I prefer to listen to just one artist - Robbie, Elvis, the Beatles, Cliff Richard and Michael Jackson have their own playlists.

I then have a country music playlist with artists like Toby Keith, Terri Clark, Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Dixie Chicks, Clay Walker and may more.

I also have quite a few movie and musical soundtracks which have their own playlist. I also have a Broadway playlist of select songs from various Broadway shows, a soundtrack playlist for songs from movies.

I have an Oldies playlist with songs by the BeeGees (love them!), Abba, Blondie, the Eagles, Don MacLean (American Pie!!), John Denver, Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison etc.

My Rock playlist has artists like Bon Jovi, AC/DC, Kiss, the Doors, Guns n Roses, Sex Pistols and the Who.

I have an Xmas playlist and also a Workin for the Man playlist which has a lot of songs about how work sucks! Great for when you really dont feel like going to work.

2 Peas Blog Challenge

I just had a look at the Tuesday 2 Peas Blog challenge and thought I'd weigh in on the topic.

Challenge: Valentines day is right around the corner. What are you gonna be doing for your valentine this year??? blog about it.. or what do you hope to get from your valentine??? anything? Share your valentine wishes.

As per my post below, I'm single and therefore expect to get BUGGER ALL on Valentine's Day. I usually hate Valentine's Day, although the older I get, the less I care about it.

Almost every year I buy myself something for Valentine's Day. I started this in 1998. I felt sad and pathetic about not having anyone to celebrate V-Day with so I bought myself 2 CDs. Ever since then I've tried to buy myself a present, if finances allowed it. Last year was by far and away the best Valentine's Day I ever had. A couple of days before I booked an open jaw flight to America (Into Vegas, out from New York for September). I paid for my plane ticket on February 14 and I was so excited. I have no idea how I'm ever going to top that!

Other things I have bought myself for Valentine's Day include CDs, a Fish and Chip dinner and books.

You may correctly assume from the above ramblings that I have NEVER received anything on Valentine's Day. Not even a card.

If anyone has any ideas on what I should buy myself for Valentine's Day this year, let me know! :)

So tired!

Work is exhausting! Actually the work part isn't so bad, I'm busy but not frantic, it's the getting up at 5:20am in the morning part that's doing me in. Thank god I only do the 7:30 shift every 2nd week. I get to leave work at 1pm every second Friday and thank goodness it's this Friday! Only a day and a half til the weekend!



I had a good and unexpected mail day today....my Poppy Ink kit arrived, along with another order I placed from Blue Bazaar. The kits only come out today so I wasn't really expecting it til Friday. I ain't complaining!

It's Valentine's/Love themed this month. There's quite a few Basic Grey Blush papers, some other funky papers I've never seen before, lovely cardstock (the bright pink is gorgeous!), a 7 gypsies word stamp, funky ribbon and bits of fabric and loads more. I don't really have a use for Valentine's day stuff, being single and all, so I guess I'll just have to be creative and find another use for all the lovey-dovey romance stuff!

I really enjoyed Night at the Museum on Sunday night. It was funny and had a twist or two in it that I wasn't expecting! Makes me wish I had gone to the Museum of Natural History when I was in New York.

Happy Birthday Elvis!

Ok so Elvis Presley's birthday isn't until tomorrow but I doubt I'll have the energy to post tomorrow as I'm going back to work so he gets an early birthday greeting from me.

If he was still alive, Elvis would be 72 on 8 January 2007. So Happy Birthday to the King!

Today is my last day of freedom, I've had 3 weeks of staying up late, sleeping in, too much food and too much shopping! I'm kinda glad to be going back, but also sad that I won't be able to sleep in anymore!

I found this link to the most hilarious YouTube video on Two Peas today. Go here I haven't laughed that much in ages, I had tears rolling down my cheeks and my stomach hurt from laughing so much. Do yourself a favour...check it out.

This afternoon I am going to the movies, yet again. I'm going to see Night at the Museum.

I can hear music..

I accidentally deleted a large chunk of my music from my computer, which meant that the songs wouldn't play in iTunes, so I've spent most of this afternoon trying to add back as many of the songs as possible. Not a fun job. I've still got a lot to download but at least it's been good to clean up and clean out my songs.

I've also managed to finish a 2 page layout this afternoon of the John Lennon Imagine tribute in Central Park, using some of my newer and older supplies. Now I have to decide which layout to do next...always a struggle for me. Am I in the mood for pictures of the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, or something else?

Tomorrow I am having lunch with a friend in town. Not sure what else I'll do. She and I are going to see the Brisbane Roar (soccer team) in a couple of weeks, which I'm very excited about. It's something to look forward to!

Oops I did it again!

I went shopping again. Scrap book shopping, naturally. In my defence I had a full punch card thing to the store I went to, which gave me $25 off my purchase, plus I used the $27.55 I got from winning lotto on Saturday night. We actually won lotto twice, two 5th divisions. I got one and mum got the other. So I technically had over $50 in free money t0 spend!

I bought some card stock - black, chocolate and cream. I totally forgot to get paperbag cardstock as I've run out and I prefer it to kraft. Doh! I bought some lovely alphas - the Making Memories cheeky shimmer alpha stickers in red, K-ology Addison chipboard which is a lovely blue & green mixture with lots of glitter, that is currently all over my hands, and chip chatter upper case in brown.

I also bought some of the new Basic Grey Blush papers. Beeautiful! I just love the pinks and reds and aqua colours. I have no idea what I'll use them for but they are soo pretty!

I actually finished a layout yesterday. I haven't scanned it because it's not all that fabulous. It's a photo of a chocolate crepe I ate for breakfast in Las Vegas!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it's 2007! I remember when the year 2000 seemed a long way off!

I feel sorry for all the poor souls in Scotland. Edinburgh's famous Hogmanay was cancelled due to gale force winds, as were the celebrations in Glasgow. I was a part of the 2004-2005 Hogmanay celebrations - me, an English friend and 100,000 strangers. It's a lot of fun, though very squishy.
I spent my 2006-2007 New Years Eve at home, watching a few movies - Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and I watched most of Chicago, did a spot of scrapbooking and ended up in bed at 11:30. I was awake til 12:30 so I did see the New Year in, even though I really just wanted to be asleep. The neighbours dog had other ideas apparently.

I saw Flushed Away at the movies this afternoon! It was really funny. One of my favourite parts was when the bad guys were chasing Roddy and Rita and one of them says 'Danger is my middle name' and the other bad guy says 'I thought your middle name was Leslie'. I think I was the only person in the cinema who laughed at that joke. :)

This picture is one taken last night in London, fireworks near the London Eye! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!