Video on How I Take Photos and a Giveaway!

Hello wonderful readers...today has been quite a busy day and an odd one too...

It all started out by heading off to have my haircut and a little shopping day out...so after managing to reach the garage to drive away, I realised that I was missing my watch and I feel naked without my watch, I returned to the house and then to the garage to try again to leave. I managed to be on my way and about 15 mins into my travels I realised I had forgotten my sunglasses, so had to squint for the entire day, was not pleasant.

So now comes the odd part, heading to my neighbouring town to have my haircut, singing along to the music that was in my CD player to look ahead to see signs of roadworks ahead, so hence needing to slow down as the sign was saying to travel at 60km's. Now sometimes I will admit that I am a little naughty to when I travel through these areas and do go a little faster then the sign suggests. On this occasion decided to do the right thing, considering I had a Police Officer sitting right on my bumper...so I dropped to the 60 and travelled along, watching people on the opposite side of the road to me go flying by fast. Thinking this is odd, but not wanting a ticket I ventured on, to then my disbelief and heart falling out of me, the lights went on the Police car, meaning pull over...I thought I know I am about to be served a ticket.

The Police officer pulled up alongside and suggested that I go a little faster, at this point I was nearly laughing and had to point out to him that actually I was abiding by the law as there was a sign back further clearly stating 60km's. Would you believe he never saw that sign and thought that I was being silly in the car. He apologised and said that he was incorrect and that I was doing the right thing, that he was having a really bad morning and that he was terribly sorry....LOL.

I mean what are the chances of correcting an officer of the law...my heart returned to normal and I proceeded on to have a good day out.

So if you are still with me and have not fallen off to sleep from reading all of that, I now have 2 fun things to share with you all...the first being a video on how I take photos of my cards.

This has been a long awaited video that some of my readers have been waiting for and I thank you for being so very patient as I saved to purchase my new video camera..I do apologise in advance about my voice...my cold is getting better but is still holding on strong so I am not quite back to being 100%.



If you have any questions that you would like further answered, please leave me a comment, contact me via email or in the ask me a question at the top of my blog and I will try to help you out.

The next exciting news that I wish to share with you all, is that my good friend Latrice, has asked me to be apart of her...

Handmade Holidays is a class that is all about Doing it Yourself. You will learn how to create projects with varied difficulty from cards to a monogram wreath. We will focus on both Fall and Christmas holiday for our DIY projects. Lots of the items you will have on hand and a few you can find either online or at your local craft store. No worries though the class blog will be available to you for one year.

This class is taught by Latrice Murphy and some well known guest designers.

The Deets

Registration Dates: October 7-21, 2011

Class Dates: October 24- November 4, 2011

What are we making: We will complete 10 Fall and Christmas themed projects. Here is the full list of projects.

1. Cards using sketches (2)
2. Scrapbooking with sketches (2)
3. Holiday Wreath
4. Yearly ornament
5. Paper pom pom balls
6. Holiday odd and ends banner
7. Framed artwork with stitching
8. Ruffled pillow

Tutorials: Each day there will be a photo tutorial and we will also have 3 videos (Maybe more)

Flickr: We will have a flickr group set up in order to share our projects and to ask any questions during the class.

Supplies needed: Because there are 10 projects in this class the supply list is big, but most of the items you will have in your crafting stash or you can improvise. A quick trip to your local craft store and you’ll be set. You can also get most of the item online at eclectic Paperie. A full supply list will be given to all registered students on October 17th (One week before class starts)

Discount codes: Registered students will receive a special discount code to eclectic Paperie that is good through the entire month of November!

Prizes: There are prizes from May Arts, Penny Black and eclectic Paperie to be given!

Cost: $10 for students who sign up within the above registration dates! Whaaaaat! Yes…just $10! Individuals who sign up after the above date will pay $12...if you would like to register please go HERE to do so.

She is such a sweetie that she has also allowed me to giveaway to one of my lucky readers a spot in the class, all you need to do is leave me a comment here on this blog post by Sunday 16th October, 10pm (Australian Time) for a chance to win a free spot.

This is going to be so much fun and I hope that you will join Latrice, myself and other Guest Designers.

I know that this has been quite a long blog post tonight and I thank you all for hanging in there with me...

I will be back tomorrow with a creation for you to feast your eyes on.

Hugs