Tea Anyone?

I know, I know, I haven't blogged for a while. I had a lovely friend come to visit for a few days and we had a lovely time seeing the sights of the amazing North Coast. Then it was back to school for my kids and back to a crazy routine for me as a Mummy.

I have a very cute crafty thing to show you today, a Tea Bag Holder. There are quite a few of these floating around on various blogs and sites on the internet. This is the one I designed for my recent class this month.

Stampin' Up! Products used:

Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Pretty In Pink,Lucky Limeade, Whisper White cardstock & Classic Stampin' Pads, Black Staz On, Watercolour paper, Twitterpated DSP, Leaves Sizzlet, Morning Cup Stamp Set,Wide Oval Punch, Ovals Bigz die, Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon, Word Window punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Clear Rhinestone Brad.

What do you think? I think this makes a great gift for a tea lover! I even designed a card to match! I'll save that for my next post!
Sorry to leave you hanging!
Yours in ink,
Joelle

What? 4 days in a row? Unheard of!

Well yes, unbelievable, but true. Blogging for a fourth day straight. You know you have been hanging out at the computer too much when the cat sits on the keyboard! It's true, she is actually sitting on some of the keys!
Today I have decided to share some photos of our travels during these school holidays, there are actually many perks to living on the far north coast, but one of my favourite things to do at this time of year is to go whale watching. I am definately a fan of most animals and these creatures absolutely fascinate me. They seem to perform beautifully; breaching & playing in the balmy north coast waters as they travel north to warmer waters (and who could blame them, it's soooooo cold down south!). So, although I do not have any actual pictures of the breaching, playful BIG and little (way too cute!) whales we spotted (my super zoom camera is broken - BOO HOO!), I do have some photos of the magnificent places we visited to see them - Lennox Head and Byron Bay.

Lennox Head

Byron Bay

We went for a beautiful (though very tiring) 4km walk along Byron coast land & up to the lighthouse & the most Easterly point of Australia. There were SOOOOOOOO many stairs! But well worth the walk - well I thought so anyway, some of my children would not agree!  I did actually have a fantastic photo of the Byron Bay Lighthouse, but for some reason my computer didn't want to comply with the pic rotate function tonight, so after six VERY slow loading (internet speed is shocking here! - very similar to dial up speed - YUK!) attempts I am giving up. Check out those beautiful north coast days though - hard to believe it is the middle of winter. I do have more to show you, but I am leaving it at that tonight, I have spent far too much time with my computer lately (trying to create my own banners and graphic art for my stall, storefront & blog!).
My little owl eyes are tiredy tired,
Yours in inky claws,

Joelle

P.S I promise to upload some more crafty shots really soon.
P.P.S.S Ok so, I didn't take this, it is actually from the National Parks website, but these are the gorgeous creatures I was telling you about. We actually saw little ones breaching and spurting water from their blowholes - FASCINATING creatures aren't they! Got to love humpback migration season on the Far North Coast of NSW.

Humpback Whale Breaching