Summer

Kathy and Bruce from the campground invited us to spend early yesterday morning picking some cherries straight from the tree in their orchard. We now have enough to feed a small army but they're so juicy and tasty we'll be living off them the next week (I've also frozen a whole pail). What a lovely way to start off the weekend!

Yesterday afternoon we went down to the lakeshore and laid out on the grass. Watched the Dragon Boats racing across the lake, listened to some live reggae music band, ate lemon slushies and watched a bride and groom get their wedding photos taken in the park! Came home and nursed my slightly sore-should've reapplied the sunscreen-more-often bits!

Happy Birthday Canada!

1st July marks the day in 1867 when the first of the colonies were joined together as a federation of four provinces (the original partners in crime being New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec!) It is celebrated as the 'birth' of Canada as a new country (rather than a bunch of British colonies) So Happy Birthday Canada!! 142 years old!

We spent time down at the Kelowna waterfront parks enjoying the live music stages, the street vendors, the buskers, the folk dancing and ethnic food stands. And at 10.30 the grand finale of fireworks over the lake. We watched from across the lake on the Westbank. Fantastic stuff!

Some new Digi layouts

Here's a couple of new layouts with the latest of Carol's digital kits. This first page has been on my to-do list for a while. I loved some of the old Route 66 relics we saw on our travels through Arizona last year - I admit I had to convince Chris to take a small detour to see this old wigwam motel - and you can actually stay in them - cool huh?! Carol's new kit 'Retro Americana' seemed perfect for this!

(All page elements from the 'Retro Americana' kit from cpz designs - available exclusively from Scrapoutsidethebox.com from 29th June. Fonts: Gill Sans MT & CK Alis Writing)

And I have scrapped this pic before, but I love it so much and this kit 'Sparkle' is so great for 4th July layouts! I'm pretty pleased with the result - think I might prefer it to the original page I did a couple of years ago!

(All page elements from the 'Sparkle' collaboration kit from SumScrapper.com)

Happy Fathers Day

To the best Dad in the world. Love you lots. H.xxx

A new Blog design

So happy to have a spiffy new blog design thanks to Erin at Designer Blogs. She's done a great job don't you think?! And thank you Erin for putting up with all my little requests and nit-picking during the design. I'm so happy with the result :-)

I'm a cpz designs CT member - yay!

I'm delighted to be on the Creative Team for cpz designs - aka my very talented friend Carol whom I met last year at CKU. She has turned her hand to designing digital scrapbooking kits and is producing some fabulous products. And since I'm on the CT I get to play and create with them for free!!

These 2 layouts are using elements from her latest kit - 'Pop Star'

This is the 'annual' layout I create for our Wedding Anniversary - maybe one day I'll scoop them all together into 1 album - but I think we should get to, say 25 years to make it worthy of an album all of it's own!! This year's country was Ireland!

(Page elements from Pop Star kit - cpz designs, Fonts - 2Peas GG's Love Me, Anarchy, Gill Sans MT)

These photos are of the best carnival EVER! Somerset carnivals are just the greatest spectacle of lights, dancing, music and costumes - all on giant tractor trailers 30-odd feet long!

(Page elements from Pop Star kit - cpz designs, Page Template - Michelle Filo for Pencillines, Fonts - Arial, CK Jolly Elf)

Go...Tim GO!!!

Seriously excited for one of our wonderful dear friends -Marty Kopra. Her son - Tim Kopra is one of the astronauts due to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 13th. We are so amazingly excited and privileged to have access to Tim's expedition blog via NASA. We hope that the expedition will go smoothly and successfully for them all. Here is an interview by the STS-127 crew on You-Tube...(the crew Tim is launching with next week!)