Friday Fences #5

Friday Fences ~ #5

Some of you may or may not know that I love Photography.

Not very good at it, I only have a point and shoot Nikon camera.

My gorgeous daughter Emma is studying photography

and has a real eye for it and I love her work.

Janis introduced Friday Fences 

I thought I'd share my own fence in the front of the complex.

Back fence

ENJOY and come back on Friday, 

I hope to find more fences

to share with you.
You have got to check out this awesome fence.
Fayes' unusual fence, what a lot of work.

7 Layer dip

Well I have loved this recipe since I was introduced to it

at a workshop by Debby M, although everytime I make it

I eat way too much as it is soo moorish. 

Today was one of those days.

I thought I would share with you all so you can

 make it yourself and enjoy it as well.

 I made two dishes today, one to take to an all day craft

and one for home, I dont think I could face the one at home.

Here are some sites with the recipes of varying ingredients

and titles.

Quick 7 Layer dip

7 layer taco dip

Carole Ann Sluchinski

My variation is putting the cucumber in  as well,

gives a nice crisp crunch to it. I also add

shallots or scallions to mine.

ENJOY!

2 avocados

1 tsp lemon juice

garlic seasoning to taste

1 tin refried beans

1/2 jar salsa

1 cup sour cream

taco seasoning

grated cheese

1 tomato

1 lebanese or telegraph cucumber

2 sprigs spring onion

1/2 cup chopped olives

extras our cream

sweet chilli sauce

Mash avocado with a little lemon juice

add garlic seasoning to taste

spread onto bottom of glass dish.

Mix refried beans with salads

spread over the avocado.

Mix 1/2-1 cup soup cream with

taco seasoning, add a little at a time

until you get the taste you like.

Spread that over the refried bean mix.

Sprinkle grated cheese,

 then finely diced tomato and cucumber

chopped spring onions, chopped olives

and garnish with a little sour cream and

sweet chilli sauce.

Serve with your favourite corn chips.

Bookmark Swap

I played in a book mark swap in my online group

StampHappy

and these are the wonderful bookmarks I received.

Sue Gregory, Chris Ward, Unknown, Lesley Cathcart

 Maryann Einam, Pam Fuda (hostess), Caron Wade, Louise McGrath

 Theresa Kamp, Elizabeth Kelly, Linda Boardman, Rhonda Bakewell 

 Kylie Atkinson, Lisa Manyweathers, Wilding, Joc Luhrs 

Bridget (mine), Jenny Gallagher

WOYWW #125

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday #125

I have forgotten to tell you all about who started this

Julia Dunnit

For the first time I have been able to bloghop

to a few links and leave comments.

I hope to visit all the blogs in the links to say thanks for

their eye candy and wonderful ideas.

I actually look forward to Wednesdays now
(today is Monday and I'm already
wanting it to be Wednesday LOL)

So I did promise some of you that I would show you (shock horror!!) the rest of my craft space other than the dining table which in this case is the floor underneath and the side table where everything else is stored.  But there is story as to why its like this and has been for the past year~story at end 

So now I can show you what I've been working on the past couple of weeks, it was a Christmas card swap which I was hosting on BSL, an online craft group. 

I needed a magnifying glass to cut otherwise my eyes go all blurry after awhile and it's very annoying, 

I have glasses but they don't seem to stop the blurrying

Come back and visit my next post with a Christmas ornament

and a blog hop of the same to see some great ideas

BSL Christmas Card Swap

I hosted a Christmas Card Swap in an online group 

BSL and here are the results of everyone's cards.

Dawn Mckenzie

 Deanne Stewart Mills

 Deanne Stewart Mills

 Jenny Hubbard-outside

Jenny Hubbard-inside

 Margaret Luck

 Margaret Luck

 Rose Grasmeder

 Sue Miller

 Theresa Kamp

 Trish Coote made a few designs

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

 Trish Coote

My card - details of what I used are in this post

Thanks for playing in this swap ladies, your cards look lovely

Weekend at Mollymook

I mentioned in yesterdays post our weekend away

at Mollymook, gorgeous place right on the beach.

We had dinner at the Mollymook Golf Club.

I wasn't very hungry and ordered an entree

of Buffalo wings, well when it arrived it

was entree size hee hee, 3 single wings, luckily

I ordered some chips to go with it.

Anyway we went home and there was a 

yummy chocolate cake made by the very 

talented Sharon and I couldn't even eat that.

So the 3 chicken wings were probably enough for me.

oh I know why I was so full, I had made

a 7 layer dip for lunch and it was yummy,
Instead of lettuce I put cucumbers and tomatoes.

I think I had too much.

Anyway this is the card I very productively made

The background is a stamp from Stampin Up called

Parlor Prints 125026 page 100 

Ideas Book and Catalogue 2011-2012

The card has 2 1/2 flaps, 2 flaps measure 11cm 

 and the third flap is half that size, width is 14.75cm

Embossed in gold.

The medallion die is by Nellie (I think)

A sneak peek at the stuff I am playing with on my desk.

Surprisingly the desk is still clean lol.

Funny how when ones desk is clean you don't 

want to craft and mess it up.

And when it's messy you just keep crafting 

and have piles and piles of stuff you have to rummage 

through to find what you want

WOYWW 124

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 124

Yep I missed a week

But I have a clean desk woohoo

  

 The photographic tent takes up a third of my 

150cm x 150cm desk dining table.

I finally got enough cheap lamps to act

as lighting, I only had 3 before and the

light sucked when I took photos

 Laid out the stamps I am going to use.

Some cute flowers I tried to make on the weekend away

down the coast. Was not very productive at all

but it was a nice weekend away with lovely

ladies Anna and Penelope and of course hubby

and adorable Zara the LARGE poodle.

She kept me in stitches with all her antics-

the funniest of all was when Michael was scratching

her belly, she was flat on her back with all 4 paws

sprawled out and one paw stuck right under

Michaels armpit, everytime he pulled the paw out

she'd shove it right back up there.

The rain poured down but crafting is enjoyed 

indoors so we were good

(ok I cheated these are not today's photos
but the clean desk one is)

Some progress in this photo.

Three projects going on at once hahaha!!!

Flowers, red strip of flowers and

a book of instructions for something

I am planning to design.

I won't say yet what it is or it might

give the game away!

There you go!! Today's photo of the whole desk
area, not very successful trying to clean up the
extended desk, ready for Saturday when my
crafting friends come over to play.