photostory friday - anatomy of a scrap away

our bi-annual scrap away was last weekend. it's a chance to spend time away from the family with my girlfriends, in a totally creative space. we fed our souls...and watered them too.

it's also a time to eat, drink and talk. and talk some more. then eat. then drink. oh, and listen to music. we sleep too, except for when the smoke alarms decide to start chirping - at 5am (WHY do they always do that?)

so first - get someone else to pack the car, because quite frankly, you suck at it.

find somewhere fabulous and restful in which to scrap.

get well set upstay connected (for rugby score updates)

eat (and drink well)

and above all - dress well. ooops.

maybe we should re-name the scrappy weekend 'the schlumpadinka weekend'

usually we get all gussied up and 'lunch' on the saturday afternoon. lunch has previously turned into an afternoon's shopping at the local craft stores and taken up to 5 hours, thereby seriously cutting into our scrapping time.

this weekend we 'pushed on through', scrapping like mad things all day. around 4.30 we decided to get some country air, so decided to go for a walk...

in our pyjamas

because we can

even though we were on a back country road, it is also the main road to mt holdsworth, the entrance to a local forest park, and nature reserve. ergo - we got lots of weird looks from the locals.

like we cared

PS: edited to add (by miss 16): see the resemblance? bit scary...

mo' mojo monday, and my first poll

i know the title doesn't make any sense, but i just wanted to use 'm' words, coz it's monday and seeing as it's my blog, i can do that ok??? i'm also hoping that i will get back some of my mojo by writing the word.

i guess i still have a bit of jetlag (i ain't 44 anymore!) AND i had a migraine yesterday, so i guess i'm operating at around 85%. my head feels kinda thick and i have a laundry pile that won't quit. still, if that's the worst of my problems, i'm doing ok!!!

these 2 pics are for amanda, who has challenged all her readers to take self-portraits, and to post them - GOOD OR BAD!!!

as you an see, i went with the BAD. in my defence, i'm a lefty and i was sitting on the girls' right...and now i'm out of excuses. bad photo, but i have no shame, and amanda said it would be ok...

that's me, daughter #4 and her friend at a local netball game

3 of the 4 scrappy chicks at #4 scrappy chick's house. scrappy chick #4's 'S-O' was turning 40. remember tara? aka "she-who-can-get-5-in-a-self-portrait"; or tara - "she-with-the-very-long-arms". when i made a mini album for tara, there was an entire page dedicated to her self-portrait photos.

and now for my very first poll (and it's a snore to be sure)...

i'm bored with blogger already. i hate the way it loads photos at the top of the post rather than where the cursor is, and don't get me started on the whole line spacing drama. so, here goes:

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