Last week has been a little off-colour in our household, when we took it in turns to be unwell, so the mojo for creating scrapbooking pages was also very low for me, and what do you do when you can't muster the will or inspiration to scrap, I for one go to my favourite gallery at the Lilypad, and look at what the rest of the Creative team members are up to. Want to come with me? This time it's a little spring parade with some elements of nature from different corners of the w

My Dad was a keen photographer and we loved to see the photos he took. But his format of choice was the slide, or colour transparency. Which meant that, instead of getting packets of photos to pore over, we had to wait until the special evenings when he would pin a white sheet up and pull out the slide projector and the boxes of slides. In between, we could use the little 'pre-viewer' designed to allow you to check out a photo before you projected it onto the sheet. But, trut

In preparation for the big changes around here, I have been busy doing my digital housekeeping and I found some previously unposted layouts I found, done in the past for magazine assignments. First up is my grandmother and my aunt in Blackpool (either that or a photographer captured Daughter-Two on a time travelling jaunt!) Credits: My Pamela Kit, Worn Page Borders and Hint at it Love no.02 brushes and Katie's Vintage Blendables No.05 and From my Bookshelf Blendables No.04. (

A few months ago I hosted a webinar at Get It Scrapped on designing double page spread scrapbook layouts. I always love it when I get an opportunity to collaborate on a GIS webinar, and I always end up with pages that I love for the daughter's photobooks. Here are the layouts I created for the webinar: That Easter page is also available as a template: You can use it to create a double page spread - or use it to make single pages, just as Jana and Brenda did: #digiscrap #scrap

The writer of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Richard O'Brien, who also played the character Riff-Raff spent much of his youth in New Zealand and it was while working at the Embassy Theatre in Hamilton that he came up with the idea for the Rocky Horror Show. The movie theatre has since been demolished, but on the site there is a statue commemorating O'Brien (who chose to hold his honorary New Zealand citizenship ceremony in Hamilton) And it happens to be right next door to whe

Spring seems to have finally (but sporadically) sprung in this part of the world. The other day I missed the bus and since it was so lovely I decided to walk downtown instead, as that would be quicker than waiting for the next bus. I suspect that stopping to take photos along the way might have delayed me a bit though. Here's my route in chronological order: #Vacation #NewZealand #travel #photography