Our week ...

Well I'm feeling a bit slack in that I haven't put any shots up so here are two from today.

Jack & Lachlan have done both lots of "learn to swim" these holidays and we can see a definite improvement in their swimming.

Here is Jack today ...

PS: Sue recognise your nephew!!

Lisa's Summer snaps

"Hi Meredith,
Hello to you and your family - I hope you had a great Xmas and New Year. It's been flat out for us - good to be home for a rest! LOL!!
I've attached a few pics for the Summer Photos Challenge- was really hard to narrow it down..................
Summer to us is always at Arno Bay (one of these years we might head somewhere else................) We always end up playing croquet on the lawns out the front of the house, so some shots from that too.
And also Fireworks at Cowell between Xmas and New Year. My first time photographing fireworks and pretty happy with how they turned out.

Mmmm, 7 photos!! Sorry, as I said, was hard to narrow it down! I won't be offended if you don't post them all! LOL!
Will hopefully get my scraproom sorted this week and have some scrapping to share soon too!

Hugs,Lisa"

Love the fireworks shots Lisa and the jetty looks beautiful too! Looks like you would have had a relaxing holiday!!

Thanks for sending in the photos!

Marika has some marvelous shots & a couple of layouts!!

Hi again!! Gosh this is a busy job when there are lots of "entries" in the challenges!!

After a small technical glitch I can now bring you Marika's photos for the challenge and then 2 new layouts.

Marika said ...
"Hi Meredith,
I have attached a couple of photos as well as a couple of layouts. The double page is inspired by a Backy Higgins sketch and the single page is a scraplift from the December Scrapbooking Trends magazine. I hope you had a great Christmas and new year.
Thanks Marika"

What a delightful face!! Makes me feel so happy looking at it!

And this looks like so much fun!! A great action shot Marika!

And now the layouts ...

Love this one ... the tag ... does it have journaling on it?

A great record of fun times at Port Neill ... good to see a double page with lots of photos! I haven't done a double for ages ... maybe that could be a challenge soon.

Thank you Marika ... glad I could get the photos up for everyone to see.

Karen's cooling off!

Just had this one pop into the in box!!

Karen said

"Hi Meredith,
Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. Just emailing my summer photo challenge, usually summer means BBQs by the pool, but so far this summer our pool has been out of action waiting for a new liner. So Sunday we got cracking, probably not the best place to have the camera and it was really glary (?) and secondly I thought Id attach a LO I managed to do last night. Its of Mitchell getting his Christmas lunch, I thought it could nearly double up as the photo challenge - summer means seafood!!!!
Cheers
Karen D"

Looks lovely hey! I'm just wondering how you took the photo??!! The colours look amazing!

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently Jane Pearce's husband, Paul, took the photo!! Great work!

And now Karen's fab layout!

This is fantastic - love the patterned papers, the 'U' (those rubons I still haven't used!!), the journaling strips and the little black flowers! Wow! Makes me feel inspired to scrap!!

Keep those photos coming girls!!

Bring on the cricket ...

Sandra is back ...

She said ...
"Hi Meredith
another summer photo from me
Look over our front fence, over to the oval, and spot the cricketers!
During summer its cricket
and in winter its the footy!
I don't know how many times I have looked over from the comfort of our air conditioned house on a stinking hot day and thought to myself....
"silly buggers, playing in this heat!"

cheers for now
I hope everyone is enjoying the summer weather at last!
sandra"

Flip flops, jandals, thongs ... whatever you call them!!

Janice has sent in a photo ...

She said

" Hello Meredith, Hope you are enjoying the school holidays.
Since I am at home I thought I would do Tiff's next challenge and send in a photo.
Summer to me means spending time at the beach… we all look forward to heading to the beach
and usually make a day of it either swimming, fishing or just mucking around in the sand.
One of our favourite spots is Point Drummond….(so many places to go out there …Greens Bay, Hall Bay, The Caves)".

Great photo!!

This might be hard to believe but I bought my first ever pair of thongs last Summer!! I grew up with a Dad who disliked them and called them 'Japanese riding boots"!!! They are a great shoe though aren't they!!

Now back to Cummins!!

Sandra is next with her mouth watering photos!!

Sandra said
"Hi Meredith
When I think of summer I think of barbies!
The kids just love them!
Trish and Fletch came round tonight for a quick impromptu barbie ... which are the best kinds! Didn't think to get the camera out when the prawns went on ... would of been great to have the iconic 'shrimp on the barbie' shot!
Happy New Year to you and the family.
cheers
Sandra

Looks so good Sandra.

Thanks so much girls for being so hot off the block with your photos ... gives us a bit of action on the blog!

Next up we have ...

Maryanne has sent some photos from up north.

She said
"hi meredith have sent 3 photos, but you dont have to put all on blog.Have been fiddling in photoshop with these. summer for me atm is a holiday, and these are some shots from our trip so far.
1.swimming pool at katherine,
2.boys at simpsons gap at Alice Springs
3.loved this bus in coober pedy, an advertisement for an art gallery!

hope you had a great christmas.[and hope I havnt overloaded your internet].
cheersmaryanne

Firstly we have Coober Pedy ...

And then swimming at Katherine ...

Wow that pool looks inviting!!

Thanks Maryanne!

First Summer is ...

Trish has been extremely quick off the mark with her photo ...

Trish said ... "Hi Meredith. Nothing means summer more than stewing home grown apricots. Yummo.
Cheers Trish"

Wow ...

Coincidentally, I have just been having a chat with some friends about making jam and one, Ingrid, said that her Dad puts a whole lot of marbles in the pot (like 20 or so) when he makes jam to stop it sticking on the bottom!! Then Ingrid went on to say that she had also tried forks!! Yes folks you read correctly ... forks!! Any one else heard of marbles or forks??? Ingrid was a bit worried as she had less marbles than she started with in a recent batch of mulberry jam ;-)