05.03.09
McLeod’s Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
Last year, when McLeod’s Daughters wound up its filming, the Production Company sold off all their costumes, clothing and props that had been used in the filming of the series. Myself and my friend Kelly were lucky enough to get many items of clothing worn by the stars and we took numerous visits to the clothing sale just down the road from where we live. I’ve got an Akubra worn by Rose that fits my daughter although all the other clothing (jeans especially) were so tiny that I sold them on ebay. I do have a shirt worn by Moira though! It was great fun and the buzz was huge! I was quite a fan of McLeod’s but must admit that the last couple of series lost me a bit – but visiting the clothing sale and seeing old clothes that were recognizable as being on the show (and I even saw a ‘bloodstained’ jacket) reignited my interest.
Kinsgford Homestead was opened to the public for a couple of days while they sold off larger pieces of furniture and fabric, and I was able to get a lot of photographs. Here are a few that I scrapbooked.
McLeod's Daughters
I’ve used the following products:
Bareback and Wanted stamp sets, Weathered Background stamp, Outlaw Designer Series Paper, Jumbo Eyelets, Chocolate Chip double stitched ribbon, Hodgpodge Hardware, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Lovely Lilac, Sage Shadow and Ruby Red cardstock and Close to Cocoa Textured cardstock, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa ink.
01.31.09
12 x 12 double layout – water-logged
Here’s the layout that I was working on when we had the power failure the other night.
And a closer look at each individual page:
I’ve used Spring Break Designer Series Paper (DSP) as a starting point for my colour combinations (Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Sky and Old Olive), and added the following embellishments; Soft Sly double stitched ribbon, pewter jumbo eyelets, pumpkin pie & not quite navy brads and I just love the Crystal Effects used as water droplets to mimic the droplets on Ronan’s face!
(The title stamps and metallic feature that is threaded onto the soft sky ribbon are non-Stampin’ Up!)
I just LOVE this pack of DS Paper – it’s so… boyish, yet because it has flower images all over it, it’s very cute too. It really lends itself to being used on ‘little boy’ layouts. The other thing I LOVE about this particular sheet of paper, is that it matches (to my mind, anyway LOL), the stamp set called Live Your Dream. So, I’ve coloured the small flower stamp from Live Your Dream with Markers (Not Quite Navy, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie), and stamped it onto the Very Vanilla Cardstock to create an all-over background image.
I’ve coloured and stamped the main flower from Live Your Dream and used it as a feature on the page. I stamped it again on a separate piece of paper and cut out the flowers and leaves to adhere with pop up foam pads.
This set of photos makes me laugh – Ronan was absolutely SOAKED! He couldn’t have got any wetter. LOL. He was having a blast spraying his dad with his soaker gun but in return was getting drenched! It was so funny. He thought it was hilarious to ’sneak’ up on dad, trying to get as close as possible to squirt him, only to be saturated with the hose. Oh happy days!
I think I’ve used too much Crystal Effects for the water droplets… but it was fun making them. I’m still learning ‘when to stop’ in regards to embellishments, so bear with me. 
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Thanks for looking! (Please don’t be shy about commenting and saying “hi!”)
01.29.09
Scrappin’ in the dark!
Even a power failure can’t stop me from scrapping when I feel like I’m in ‘The Zone’. LOL.
Yep, after a day of 44+ degrees temperature, we had a power failure at night just as I was in the middle of a double 12 x 12 layout. I’d finally managed to sit down to my layouts after putting my daughter back to bed AGAIN – she ‘d one excuse after another; ‘it’s too light’, ‘I’m thirsty’, ‘my tooth hurts’, ‘I can’t sleep’…. when the power went off. GREAT! There followed a comical shuffle/run/scramble-whilst-trying-not-to-bump-into-anything to get to screaming daughter, telling her to “be quiet, mummy’s coming – don’t wake Ronan!”
After setting up the camp lights in strategic positions near the children’s bedrooms, and after letting Laura sit with me a while, she went back to bed and I was then able to consider my options. Hmmm… uncomfortably hot (nothing I could do about that!), can’t watch ER on telly (again, nothing I could do about that), lights… Gone! Scrapbooking layout… interrupted rudely…. BUT… perhaps…..? LOL. Yep, I took my hurricane lamp and continued scrapping. I actually felt quite peaceful. I had the rough layout design worked out, but I was at a critical point and really didn’t want to leave it for another day. It’s the first 12 x 12 layout I’ve done for a good few months so I didn’t want to lose my mojo. LOL.
The pictures are pretty dark – I swear it seemed a lot lighter when I was sitting there working, but you get the idea – it’s not how I’m used to working but it was kind of fun too!
You can’t see much, I know, (it’s a “mystery layout!!”) but I finished one side last night so it was TOTALLY worth keeping on working in the dark, and I’ll work on the other page tomorrow. I have a niggly headache today (must be the heat *swelters*), so I’ll post pictures as soon as both pages are done. It’ll be a nice surprise for you to see how they finally ended up.
Thanks for reading!
PS – the power came back on after a couple of hours and we could put the aircon back on – *phew* it was the hottest night too! We’ve got the rest of the week of heatwave temperatures to endure – not looking forward to that, so keep your fingers crosed that there aren’t any more power cuts.
