Life according to Pauline

Monday, October 8, 2007

A Gift for my Sister

Well I finally sent parcel to my sister for her birthday (later this month), she received it yesterday so I can finally show you all the secret things I have been making her.

I sent her a whole pile of scrapbooking supplies, and I made her the following...

I handmade this bag for her. It all stemmed from the little cat charm and grew from there. It took me a while to make it but I was very proud of my accomplishment, and not a sewing machine in sight!!!

I got a free gift in a magazine over here months ago, it was a little photo album and it took me a while to work out what I was going to do with it, but I finally decided to make a little album about Samantha....

Once I had finished this I decided to do one about Spencer as well...

I found it a lot easier to do Samantha's, I have to admit I have trouble doing boy scrapbooking, I mean you can't use pink, lace and flowers, all the things I like using!! But I'm happy how Spen's one turned out.

Diane sent a message yesterday saying that she cried when she saw them, which made me cry! She hasn't met Samantha yet and last saw Spen Christmas '05', she will see him this Christmas as Spen is going over to be with his dad in NZ for the Christmas holidays, so will probably get to spend a few days with my family over as well.

Hope you liked everything sis and I hope you have the best birthday on the 31st.

I love you so very much

xxx

Spen and Friend

While in Brisbane at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary Spencer got to have a moment he will never forget!!!

These are photo's that I took, Spen has the official one in his room. He was amazed at how heavy the koala was, but thought it was an amazing experience. It was great to see the smile on his face and the look of wonder in his eyes.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

More Queensland

Yes I am back to bore you with more holiday snaps!!!!!

I thought I had better add a photo of Jack....

Grandad Ray has some lovely flowers around his property, would love to have them in my garden but its to cold down this way for them, DAMN IT!!!

Gorgeous Lillies

Amazing & Tropical Hibiscus

And lovely orchid's

David took us to see some fruit bats, I was expecting to see 5 or 6, but this is what we saw....

There were hundreds of them!!! I kid you not!!! This is just one branch, they were hanging from every tree along the river for about 1-2km!!! Half of them were squealing because Cockatoo's were bugging them and waking them up. I couldn't get over how many of them there were and what a commotion they were making!!!

There was a wonderful array of birds at Grandads as well...

Rainbow Lorrikets (Spen's fav!)...

Unknown Bird, isn't he mean looking?...

After Bundy we went to my brother Darin and his wife Karen's place in Brisbane, about a 4-5 hour drive, not to bad really....

Uncle Darin

Aunty Karen

It was great to see them and spend some time with them. They came down to our neck of the woods last year with my mum and my other brother Kelvin so it hasn't been to long since we had seen them.

They have two pets, first we have Ottis....

Don't you love the look on Ottis's face?

And then there is the ever elusive Saffy....

She drank out of the pool every morning, I secretly kept hoping she would fall in! Mean of me I know.

It was usally all we saw of her, she wasn't keen on Samantha!

The first day we were there Darin took us to a local market next to the Brisbane river, but due to tight budget we didn't really buy anything except a couple of little trinkets.

Darin took us to a place called Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, which I think was my highlight of the holiday....

We got to see Dingo's..