Sand storm........yikes..

We had a sand storm come through the other day, I was busy scrapping on the floor and was not paying much attention to what was going on around me till one of the kids said the sand was getting in their eyes! what sand? I asked, then I looked up to see sand flying in the window ( yes I had them open!! ) , so I jumped up and shut the windows but it was to late there was a layer of very fine sand over everything. Oh well out with the vac to get rid of it.

Now I check the news only to find Redcliffe ( my most fav place on earth ) was hit by a massive storm too (man I missed it.. ), so to all my friends on the peninsular I hope you got through it ok....

Here are some pics of the sand storm, Cam said it was just a baby one....

And here is one of my beloved Redcliffe, I miss being by the water!!!

Hugz to all......

I've been blessed.........

Oh yes this week I was blessed by the very talented Fashionista Lisa Garay, to be on the catwalk over at Scrap in Style with the layout of my brother and me....... Oh happy happy me.....

But I have been busy with stuff around the appartment still getting curtains organized and furniture but the girls over at Scrapchat are on their retreat and its the first one I have missed so I have been joining in from across the globe.

Well knowing I was going to be on a scrap mission while I was out shopping the other day at Ikea I found some cool things that really inspired me so last night I started my scrap retreat with a scrap wall yes you heard me a wall, thanks to the amazing sticker flourishes from Ikea I started to add a little me to the appartment.

where does the chair start and the wall end?

Some more Ikea inspiring stuff,

I love these set of card panels..... me's thinks they will make a great mini book...

And these retro funky napkins,

there is 50 a pack so why not swap with friends..........

The scrapchat girls have a layout challenge its ment to be a selfportrait,

but I've run out of ink so I used one of Erin instead that I did the other day.

This one was inspired by those napkins from Ikea...

I love these pics they came from an old roll of film I found in the car,

I was a bit confused when I got these pics back.

This one is my first desert layout,

I'm sure once I get my camera back there will be more......

And here is another one of those kids running amuck with the camera pics,

must keep a better check on my cameras......lol

Well the weekends over and the kids are back to school in the morning so I better get to bed,

still find it hard to get out of bed to take the kids to school on Sunday, it just sounds wrong.....

Have a great day tomorrow HUGZ

I'm all official now.......

Yes I have managed to get myself and the kids residance visas ( silly them for letting us into the country in the first place if you ask me! ) so we get to stay...... and I also got my UAE drivers licence so now I can drive on the wrong side of the road and not get into trouble for it!!lol

Funny I still go to get in the car on the rightside and the kids ask me who do I think is driving?? No really its not that bad once you get in the car from the leftside, you know where the steering thingy is, its the crazy speeding idiot drivers they have in this country that is the problem and I just don't think I could ever get used to being passed by a Land Cruiser doing 200km an hour! ( No really this is an everyday thing..)

So the good news is I'm mobil and I can at least get out and about a bit more, which in a way makes me wish I had my camera and then I just want to get on a plane home and not come back!! I'll get over it.... maybe! Well their could be some nice person out there in cyber space who works for Canon and you never know they might just have a 400d around the office that they don't use anymore and sling it my way? ( as if that would happen! )

There is one thing that has been going my way of late and thats my scrappin, I have found myself free of responsibility for the first time in ages and I have found a freeness in my creating it is the only thing that is keeping my sane as there is not much else for me at the moment......

Well here are my layouts from last week.........

I have to give the wonderful Fess ( aka Louise Nelson) a big thankyou for her inspiring cardboard layouts that promted most of these, as I'm not short on cardboard it seemed the perfect thing to be using but I must admit it had not come to mind till I had a look at Fess's blog.......

Well I hope your scrapping week was as creative as mine,

HUGZ......