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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 craf...

  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 Appleb...

  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 th...