Two more to share

I went to the scrap shop on Saturday night determined to get some scrapping done.

I love the quote on this 'sisters' layout. I found it on Karen Days "Count" layout. Hope you don't mind Karen...

This next one if for my Book of Me. Not too impressed with how it turned out, but you get that sometimes hey.

One Week to Go!!!!!

Only one week til I head off to the Wave Rock Scrapbooking Retreat so expect this blog to be flooded with layouts soon!!!!! YIPPEE YAHOOO

My Photography Gallery

I have just created my photography gallery. A photographer came into the scrapshop yesterday and she gave me her website for her photography...I went on then thought "ohhh...I could make one of these for my photos". I am in NO way a 'photographer', but I thought it would be fun.
So here is the website Gayle Smith Photography

Jewellery Set

The first two kids classes for the school holidays have gone well. I have 16 kids tomorrow for the Princess Diary. Next week I have Jewellery making and a Pirates Treasure Trove. Here is my example for the jewellery set. Tried to keep it simple for the kids.

Feels so great to be back working again and to be part of a 'business vision'. There are so many changes happening at the shop...so very excited to be a part of it all. As you can see by the blinkie in the sidebar..we are going online soon...YAY!

6 Layouts in a night

There is a bit of a story that goes with these layouts. If you want to read it go to SoF under 'I have a Scrapbooking Testimony'.

Gotta be quick cause I have to go to work....

Gotta love Felt!

I have just used felt on my layout for the very first time! I told the girls on SoF a while back that I can't buy felt in Narrogin so the lovely Tam and Karen sent me a heap! Thanks so much girls. I was inspired by Ngaire's blog to do a felt rainbow on my layout...and then it kept going...raindrops, flowers, grass, stars....I am sooooo happy with how it has turned out.

Murray is heading off for the week so I intend to keep all my scrap supplies on the kitchen table all week and to see how many layouts I can get done while he is away. I'll be teaching kids worshops most days, but at night it will keep me occupied.

Just a reminder.....if anyone has any masculine layouts they would like to submit to my masculine scrapbooking blog please email them to me on mgsmith1@bigpond.com

Family Heirlooms

At the moment I am working on a layout all about our family heirlooms....well I haven't actually started the layout, but I have done a photo shoot of the items we have. We have items from both Murrays sides and my sides which is great. Here is a collage of some of the collection (not all in this collage)

This is one of the layout topics for the Book of Me course we are running at Country Scrapbooking. Country Scrapbooking will soon be an online store as well as a shop front in Narrogin WA.....keep an eye out for more news!

Edited to ad.....I have finished my layout...here it is

Kid's Holiday Workshops

I fell inlove with this Bella kit when I saw it yesterday and just HAD to use it. This layout is for a kid's distressing technique class I am teaching in the school holidays.

Every school holidays our local scrap shop "Country Scrapbooking and Accessories" holds 2 weeks of kids workshops. These holidays I am teaching;
*Distressing Techniques layout
*Pirates Treasure Trove
*Princess Diary
*Basic Jewellery Making (necklace, bracelet and earrings on tigertail)
*Canvases
*Accordian Book
*Set of 3 cards (scrap style)
Each class runs twice a day, first for the 5-8's then for the 9 and overs.


I am really looking forward to working these school holidays. Murray is taking the girls away for the first week but for the second week they will have to come along to work with me and either join in on the classes or watch DVDs.

New Masculine Layout Blog

Yesterday I spent the whole day staring at a photo of my husband Murray I wanted to scrap and was totally uninspired. This happens a lot when I try and scrapbook men. I have no problem scrapbooking girlie layouts because you can add flowers and ribbon and girlie stuff, but when it comes to Murray, he doesn't appreciate those elements on his layouts. Anyway, it got me motivated to start a blog just about scrapbooking our MEN. It's called Masculine Scrapbooking Layouts and I would love it if you would email me your 'manly' layouts so I can have a variety of scrappers layouts on it. Also, I would love you to (if you feel lead to) add my link to your own blogs to advertise it a bit.
I'm looking forward to watching this new blog grow with a wide variety of Masculine layouts.
Gayle

~September 2007 Layouts~

These are my pages for Allison's CJ on Worship. The first page is my worship ministry testimony and the second page are my two fav songs at the moment.
Boy, it's September already!

Here are my first layouts for the month.