Straps!

In the past couple of weeks I have made camera straps and today I made myself a guitar strap. I'm loving sewing! Not sure when I'll get back to scrapbooking again but I'm sure I will here and there.

Teen Birthday Card

I was asked to make a large birthday can for a friends 16th birthday party for the guests to write in. Having girls, I didn't have any teen boy papers or embellishments in my stash so I went shopping. We have 4 shops in our little town that sell scrapbooking supplies but not one of them had anything for teen boys! Dyllan loves his music so I knew I wanted to feature that. For my last resort I headed to our music shop to find supplies. He gave me a sheet of music and some picks.
I went home and downloaded a drawing of an electric guitar and then did my best at paper piecing the guitar together out of scrap paper. I'm happy with how it turned out.

A Dad and his Daughters

I love this photo so much of Murray and his girls.  We had ridden our motorbikes out to some caves and I took this of them in the cave on my iPhone.  I love it!

Recording Tayla’s Arm Dramas

A double page (simple) scrapbooking layout to remember the details of Tayla’s broken arm saga.

 

Been a while!!

As you can tell by how active this blog is, I haven't been doing any creating lately. I have put Twocan Stitch on hold for the time being to have a break and haven't done any other form of craft. I do desire to learn to crochet though as I want to make Amigurumi creatures :)
I'm doing distance Ed with Bree at the moment so my free time when I'm not working is filled with schooling.
Everything for a season right? :)

My new camera

Canon 600D with 18-200mm lens.









Arriving in 2-3 weeks as Harvey Norman was out of stock.

October 2011 Wave Rock Retreat layouts

Well I have finally gotten around to uploading my layouts from the retreat 2 weeks ago! (Thanks to a reminder from Lissa)

I was able to get 5 singles and 3 doubles finished as well as helping Karen in the shop.

It was such a great weekend once again with all new tutors!

These two layouts are from Mistra Hoolahan’s classes.  I LOVED getting dirty and learning some simple but very effective techniques.

 

These next 3 layouts were from our trip to the snow in Melbourne in July.  I have done a double layout for each of the girls albums and will do another double for our family album.

 

Here is Tayla with her ‘Think it over’ baby she brought home from school for Child Care..

And Bree’s Basketball team.  A very quick and simple layout…

Tayla and Ashlee mud skiing with Bindy at the Schroders in Victoria…

So that's it :)

I did really well in selling my hair accessories at the retreat with a total of 48 sold :)  I’ve just put some new Resin accessories on the blog today if your interested: www.twocanstitch.blogspot.com

I’m off to Lissa’s tomorrow and hope to get some more scrapping done :)

Next week I am doing ‘A Week in the Life’ by Ali Edwards (Google it to find out more).  I will be taking my camera with me where ever I go and taking photos of everything I do (minus the private things) and then at the end of the week I will scrapbook an album about my week.  I plan to upload my photos here each day so you can follow along if you like!

See you soon.

Gayle

Retreat Time

Only 3 more sleeps then I head off to Hyden again to the Wave Rock Scrapbooking Retreat.
I'm not teaching this year, but I am helping out in the shop as well as taking my Twocan Stitch accessories along. This is the first time I have sold my hair accessorises like this... Other then online.
I have spent the day making price tags, backing cards and a catalogue in preparation. I am working the next two days but hope to get some more products made at night before I leave.
I will be taking Hair Lackies, Hair Clips, Headbands and Necklaces with me as well as my catalogue for orders.



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If you are going to the retreat.... See you soon!!

New Look :)

I LOVE owls and clouds so when I saw this Blog in a Box I had to buy it!

It's by Zoe Pearn and I bought it at Sweet Shoppe Designs.

The instructions are easy to follow (but some experience is probably helpful)

I'm off to the Wave Rock Retreat in a few weeks so have to start thinking about photos to print and organise! Arrr.... I'm really looking forward to it as I didn't get to go last time.

Back Again :)

Mum, Suzie and I have just arrived home from our craft weekend together at the Duke of Orleans.  We all got heaps accomplished and had the BEST time together!  We weren’t ready to come home.

Mum and I arrived at 6.10pm on Friday night.  We didn’t do any craft and just sat and watched TV.  Here we are relaxing on the couch…

Then Suzie arrived at 9.30am Saturday morning and we got crafting!

 

and eating…

Suzie and I went for a walk along the beach and into the bush to try and find some wild orchids but weren’t successful.  I did get some nice beach shots though.  It’s such a pity that this beach is always covered in seaweed…

I did hair accessories for most of the weekend.  Here are some of the ones I got finished.  I will put them all up on the website and facebook tomorrow…

Princess Collection…

    

Amelia Headbands…

and I revamped my shopping list clip board I made 5 years ago.  It used to be in heritage colours but now its decorated in the new Miss Nelly range by Kaiser.  I have a notepad hanging on it…

We have all agreed that we have to do this again!

Gayle