The latest...

We'll another few weeks/days have past since my last post and I guess you keep wondering "what's up with Cathy".... hehehehehe... okay now you know where I got the name for my blog!! Well anyway I've been working hard and also scrapping hard.... I decided a while back that in order to catch up on all my layouts that are outstanding I had better scrap a page a day... well deciding and doing are two vastly different things... anyway I have managed to scrap one page or so every other day... did about four since last week alone... so am feeling good about that. i have planned all my pages up to the last lot of photos I had printed (10th April) so now it's just a case of get on and do. The last two nights I sat sorting out papers for some of my 2006 layouts... got about 1/2 of them done so reckon I'll scrap those then plan the rest.

Next week we have off... school is closed, I've taking leave and Keith is also off work... why you might ask... well we have two long weekends so the work week is only 2 days long and I didn't see the point of going in... so decided a holiday was in order... plus I couldn't bear the thought of having Aaron with me at work for two days... the last time I took him in I got hardly anything done!

So now you know... I'me scanning my layouts as I go but must still "stitch" them together so hopefully within the next few months I can get all my outstanding ones loaded onto the net for you to see... but don't hold your breathe while waiting.

Holiday report back

Well I promised to give you some pics and a report back from our holiday.... so here it is!!!

The Train was a HUGE success... highly recommended form of transport to get from A to B or should that be from Jhb to CT... hehehe... this is something that I think we will do again and even do the return trip too... such a relaxing and enjoyable trip. yes there were glitches... but they were minor... like our doorknob on the compartment that was bent so we couldn't lock the door from the outside, we couldn't go for breakfast in the diningcar as there were two huge groups who had booked it out (but we got to experience "room service" instead!), oh and we shared 2 beds between the three of us as by the time we got our beds they had run out and only had two left (note to self.. get your bed as soon as you climb on the train and they offer it to you!).

So here are the train pics...

And here are some pics of the many things we did.... we went to the MTN Science Centre, Grandwest Casino (for Aaron to do the kiddies rides ... didn't even venture near the gambling!). We took a peninsula bus tour.. was really enjoyable. Visited with family and shopped for a new lounge carpet (see below).

The last year has really seen us "renovating"... with the saga of the geyser bursting (see previous post on my other blog!) and redoing the kitchen we ended up with the whole of our downstairs being redone. Well once the tiling was finished we decided that the old carpet was VERY grotty too and needed to be replaced, so Keith put done laminated wood flooring. And now after sooooooooo many years of him asking me to replace the curtains and me saying "only when the floor is done" I have now DONE the new curtains... just finished hanging them today! And also due to the new floor we decided we needed a centre carpet for the lounge so spent a day or so in Cape Town looking and eventually found one we liked at a price we liked, so bought it and flew it home on the plane with us! Oh and in January Keith put up a retractable awning as well. Things are definately looking much better now in the Sanders' household!

Next on the list... hmmm let's think..... well Keith is looking for a coffee table now, and we still would like to get a piano but I think the next major project better be building on the bedroom at the back of the house that we have planned for over two years!

Aaron is on school holiday at the moment and is spending this week with my parents... so I'm having a break too (hehehe)... I have been doing som scrapbooking as well (in between making curtains, reading and some shopping!). And looking at how far behind I am I am thinking that I must set myself a goal of "scrap a layout a day"... maybe that way by the end of the year I can be finished with 2004, 2005 and 2006 and maybe even make a start on 2007, oh never mind 2008... I must still PRINT my photos for this year! Okay off to sort those out for now.... till next time.. :)