There's a rainbow

Another magic view from our backyard.  I think as I age I enjoy our yard and surroundings even more than when we first moved in 23 years ago.  

Now this view I am working on this weekend.  The last room in the house to have a Spring clean during summer. ;-) .  Since it is the last room in the house it has been the dumping room for all those items found in other rooms I wasn't quite sure if we needed or where to put it.  Also it is my craft room and over the past three months three people have given me a lot of their crafting stash as they don't do paper craft now due arthritis and not well (cancer).  

This is the view at the end of Saturday for the amount of stuff I removed from this room there is still a lot in there. :-o  I now have a boot load of stuff ready for Lifeline, the garbage bin is full and I have a bag of goodies to take to the high school art department.  Fingers crossed today I find my desk top and sewing machine to continue my crafting.

Sunday afternoon and it's done - yes a happy dance was done.

Continuing the view theme - Sully viewing his chew toy and trying to summon it back to himself with all his brain power. Yes, he did figure out that he had to go down and pick it up.  Sully seems to be up to that lovely toddler stage where they try to play the game of drop the toy and parent picks it up.  Took me a little to cotton on that he was pushing the toy off my lap on purpose. Smarty.

Hope all your plans are coming together.  Happy weekend.

 

Good Morning from Gordonvale

 

Hi everyone, this is what greeted me this morning so what a day it will be. :-)  That is Walsh's Mountain in the photo or as it is locally known - The Pyramid.  

Each year in August there is a foot race up and down the 922m - which is only part of the 12km race.  One of my closest friends holds the female record and we are waiting for her daughter to take that from her in the next year or two.  Sadly the race didn't happen in 2020 but fingers crossed we are back on track this year.  I have been up and down 5 times over the years and it is a 5 hour round trip just from the base for me.  I do carry a little food and possibly a thermos of coffee to enjoy the view at the top. :-)  Here are the top times for the race:

The current record for the 12.2 km race stands at 1:15:34 set in 2007 by Neil Labinsky, a mountain specialist runner from the Sunshine Coast. The Women’s record is 1:32:06 set in 1997 by local runner Anita Appleby.

You can find out more here.

A Christmas Catch Up

 

This year for Christmas I wanted my card to have a surprise due to 2020 being full of surprises.  I found a tutorial for pop up cubes which I had so much putting together and using a lot of my Christmas paper and embellishment stash.  I would have loved to made more but time ran out. The pop up cubes all lay flat and can be put inside a card so when the recipient opens the card it pops up to the cube. I had to put these magic boxes inside bought Christmas cards as I didn't have time to make a simple card for the outside. I was really impressed I had made anything at all. :-) If/when I find the link to the tutorial I will share it here as it was easy to follow.  I used plastic hair ties in lieu of a small rubber band for the pop up mechanism as they were the perfect size.

This pop up box did end up with a matching card to place it in as it was part of the Craftmad October swap  with the theme of different shaped cards.

Another four boxes showing two sides of the four decorated sides.

Yes, I tested out each of the boxes when I had completed them many many times as I loved that I could create something like that from paper and cardboard in my room.

These two cards were created for our December swap over at Craftmad the theme simply being Christmas.  The card above I layered up card stock and paper, used my music embossing plate for the red paper then used an emery file to rough it up.

I used this lovely shaped card I had from Blue Edge Crafts and layered papers up and topped with the 3D paper tole image which luckily I had hand cut a couple of years ago.

My Saturday morning walk started a little gloomy with the dark clouds and high humidity but all brighten when I spied this full rainbow. Under the rainbow is the Gordonvale racetrack and in the centre of the racetrack is the golf course.

Hope your week is a good one.