Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone. I hope you get your share of eggs! I spent this lovely warm easter morning at the Darling Range Pony Club, where my daughter Lauren, her amazing horse "Condor" were competing in the unofficial hack division. It was so wonderful to see her ride as she was nervous and Condor was a bit fidgety. It was all very exciting and nail biting as I am listening to all the comments and comentary from all the girls! Congratulations Lauren! oh and Condor as well!
Danielle did the makeup on the horse, they get darker legs and shades of black around the eyes. They also have a major shampoo and tail plait and come up all shiny!

She competed in 5 events and placed one first and also three third places, so she was one happy camper! Here she is with her first place ribbon.

Lauren was with her good friends, Jackie, Anna, Rachael and sister Danielle who do several shows a month and they all go and support each other.

Have a great easter break!

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Julie

Give Away

Maxine Hazebroek made this amazing sample for SIA last week. (I pinched the photo from her blog! thanks Max). I can't tell you how intricate and how beautiful it looks in the flesh. Using the new chipboard Floral Bouquet, Max had put them to good use and created another stunning piece! Anyhooo there is a giveaway on Max's blog, check it out you could win it all by just commenting. How easy is that to get some of the Collections product for free! Now go on head on over!

New Products

New in store now are 2 new 6 x 6 papers from Collections - Baroque (Left) and Shabby Chic (right). Both ranges do match the previous papers Vintage and French. (Click on image to view a larger one). We had a lot of fun creating with these colours and I hope you will too. I think Baroque will be a lovely for the cooler months and they are rich and have a great contrast. Both were well received at SIA and we did the make and take with the Baroque.
The latest four designs for transparencies, fun to cut up and use, a style for everyone, Ornamental, Vintage, Flourishes and one for travel, Europe. (Click on image to view a larger one). We hope you like these A4 sheets with a rich solid black and on heavy plastic strong enough for pages in mini books. Speaking of mini books we will post more on them as we have a new set of 5 mini books that are so tiny but so cute. Well back to packing! Have a great day and don't forget to pop over to Max's blog as she has got some give away going on there!

We are back from Sydney

Thanks for all your lovely comments on the last post! Audrey and I got back this arvo from Sydney. I have been working since I got off the plane and packing orders etc. So if ya can pop over to Audrey's blog she has some photos of SIA and some really nice things to say! Max also is showing some really cool inspiration with the new product. Sorry I am pooped and I will hopefully post something worthwile soon. I really want to say THANKS AUDREY AND MAX for making it a really successful show, your samples KNOCKED EM' DEAD!!! and we had a blast! Thanks must go to all my customers who supported Collections and made it very special for us! gotta get some sleep! zzzzz