TOUCHING BASE

yes.....the rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated....as someone famous once said.
despite my friends emailling me, asking was i recently deceased because i haven't blogged, i can assure you all i am very much alive.
i don't have the "blogging without obligation" icon in my sidebar for nothing
*WINK*

i will update my blog soon....lots to talk about and tell, just not that thrilling.

some scrapping to share now and an invite to head over to TSE and check out their cybercrop challenges.
i love that you have a week to complete them and that some pretty amazing designers have set the challenges this month.
i became a member of the TSE forum after the amazing miss ruthy was named as one of their design team members and miss marie is the guest designer for the next 6 months. just a lovely, friendly forum and some pretty awesome scrappers on their design team.

this was a vain attempt on my behalf to use up some of my "ample" stash, hence the "blast-from-the-past" elements - the mulberry paper, the old PPs, the chipchatter letters and the scrabble word tiles.
didn't put much of a dent in my stash at all to be honest.
maybe that should be a challenge to myself to use a whole lot of the older parts of my stash on a couple of LOs
who am i trying to kid.....my entire stash is old hence my less-than-ordinary scrapping attempts...LOL

this is for the tribute challenge set at TSE each month...you chose a person in your life, living or passed over, that you want to scrap a tribute album for.
i have chosen mark because....well, i have FINALLY got some photos of him as a child and they are gorgeous photos and i want the kids to know about their dad as a person. i am hoping (though don't hold much hope) that mark will contribute in some way but that remains to be seen i guess.
this LO shows mark as a 4 month old baby and would have been taken in early 1965.
the photo printed up really well seeing it was printed off a scan and i have done NO photo editing on it at all.
wasn't he just the cutest little fella....???

this is for the 123 challenge for january.
it shows the moment that the boys' team scored the goal that got them a berth in last year's FFNC grand final. click on it to see the photo a bit closer up. it a cracker of a photo (taken by yours truly) and there is talk of getting it enlarged to canvas size and placed over the bar at the club

the february challenge has been set too - go and check it out...!!!

now until next time....
always remember to look for the things in your life that make you smile
~~ and let those you love, know that you do ~~

shazz xo