Cleaning up my photo files

I have been trying to clean up my photo files. They are a huge mess and do need alot of work. With that said I deleted about 2000 photos. Most people are shocked when I tell them I delete photos. For me it doesn't really matter. I still have 5,500 photos sitting in my folders and that only accounts for the years since Miss Adventure was born.

Anyway, whilst I was cleaning and deleting I stumbled across some old photos I have scanned. It was lovely to have the opportunity to remember my childhood. Sometimes I really wish I could remember more.



It is hard to believe that this image was taken over 30 years ago. Time really has flown and I have travelled a long way.

Cheers,
Rebecca

A ball

Each year in Vientiane there are two major ball. One is a fundraiser for WIG. The other is a fun night put on by the Australian and New Zealand Business Association. May saw the WIG Ball roll around. This year I went all out and had a gown made. I even had my hair 'done.' Food was good as was the band. We did end up coming home early though...we just aren't night owls.

A Special Moment between Miss Adventure and me

Miss Adventure: Mum, what are cheeks for?
Me: (being a total nerd) To keep your food in. If you didn't have cheeks you wouldn't be able to hold food in your mouth.
Miss Adventure: Hmm...I think they are there for me to kiss.
(Two little hands grasp my face and pull me close to kiss each cheek).

Pleeeaaassse

Tantrums have become common place in our house. Instead of the number of tantrums minimising with age Miss Adventure has decided to increase them. If this face doesn't work


the tears will begin, and then comes the tantrum. We are working on it though. Wish us luck!

The summer holidays

It's funny. have watched so many movies and TV shows that refer to 'The Summer Holidays' but I have never really experienced them. We have our up and down moments but moments like these really do make up for them:

Dance Recital

What a weekend! It is the end of the school year here and everyone is getting ready for summer holidays. This culminated this weekend in a dance recital with rehearsals, a birthday party and two farewells.

Unfortunately I don't have any decent photos from Snake girls birthday night. I can say that it was a huge success and Snake Girl is very happy.

The dance recital was beautiful. I have a heap of photos but can't really show them as they all have other people's children in them. I think this one should be okay:



Cheers
Rebecca

The not so perfect photo

When it comes t scrapbooking I have had a bit of a block lately. I snapped out of it the other day and came up with some lovely pages (as you can see in my last post.) So, when I saw Nicole's challenge I thought "Why not?" I grabbed some old photos, from when MA was a bub, and scrapped them. The photos are not perfect but they are the only ones I have so they are precious.

As you have probably worked out family is one of the most important things to me. I just hope the kids feel the same way.

Black is back (and so is the multi-photo page)

In an effort to try and use what I have in my current stash of supplies I decided to create some pages using black cardstock as a background. I also decided to use up some photos... hopefully no more single photo pages for a while. The only problem is that I have a bit of a block when it comes to using a number of photos on one page. I therefore turned to Becky Fleck's "Page Maps." It is such a fabulous resource. I also decided to try and use up the supplies in the BB's May Kit.

Anyway, enough rabbiting on here is what I came up with:

This design comes from p.46. The original was by Denine Zielinski.

(Design by Becky Fleck on p.95)
I think the layout explains itself. I have had these photos in an album since my grandmother died. I just couldn't think how I could do them justice. Then I saw Becky Fleck's design about her family and had an 'AHA' moment.

This is directly lifted from Becky's layout on p.19.


After creating some really lovely pages using the Page maps book I decided to go it alone. This is the page I came up with (and the one I like the least).

Talent

We always knew Snake Girl had talent we just never knew it extended to singing and dancing.


On the weekend Snake girl and a group of friends participated in her school's talent show . The girls looked the part and performed beautifully. We were all very proud. I am especially thankful for the input of the other mothers. They organised the practices, costumes and make-up. I just handed over the money. Thanks Ladies.