Possibilities

Bless warehouse guys who pack stuff badly... I now have a few of these to play with...
I'm hoping to use them to organise a bit more of my scrappy room. So many ideas....

Plus have brought some more pockets and gonna try the book ring thing to get some of these pages sorted rather than sitting in a box.

That is once I can get in there - time to pack up after the mayhem of the last few weeks and put away the dressup boxes ;)

Snowball Run 2010

So for the last 2 months Mike and I have been spending every spare minute in thrift shops and at signwriters getting organised for the weekend that just passed.
We joined in with 89 other cars and over 200 people for Auckland Motorsports Snowball Run.

Basically put it's a 'race' from Auckland to Taupo (340km - 211miles) & back the next day, collecting points from challenges along the way. We stayed in Taupo, had a theme dinner and Ewen Gilmour the comedian did a stand up set for us there.

You had to have a theme for your car so we went "Westies" styles, the Tool Guy & the Missus taking off of Outrageous Fortune (FYI - It's SO hard to find leopard print clothes out there).

Here's a photo montage of our crazy, sometime stressful (maps!) but so super fun weekend.

Ninja Nigel reporting in...its rainy.

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Snowball Run 2010

The start of a 3 hour stickering ordeal. Finally on our way...175km (105miles) to Auckland and tomorrow mornings startline.

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Bout time

Like I said...
Gotta love that rain...

Bring on the RAIN!

crappy weather = scrappy weather!

HOORAYS!!!!!

So yeah I've been scrapping... nothing is QUITE ready for 'display' haha but guess what - it's meant to rain again this weekend ;) So in the meantime I just wanted to share SOMETHING...
So it's raining - you wanna scrap - I get inspiration from movies.. I can honestly tell you what movie I was watching when I made a layout hahaa... sad but true.

So here are my current top 10 scrappy watches....

500 Days of Summer - Penelope - Marie Antoinette - Garden State - Elizabethtown - The Lovely Bones.

PS: If this feels dejavu-y it's coz I have done this before but hey some of them have changed... sort of.

I've just been watching Kara talk about trying to find a cheap way to keep your layouts together - ad I love she used copysafe pockets but I do 12x12s... thinking about the bookrings though, coz honestly it's getting a lil crazy and I can't find the old 3 ring plastic simple ringbinder styles folders I have a couple of and love... so bookrings it might have to be... somehow... any ideas peoples????

Anyway off to bed for me... see ya real soon!



PS: I've been playing with my blog again so let me know if it looks ok from your screen :)

Because I think you need to be this happy

Honestly...
So
DAMM
good!
TRUST ME!

Tiramisu

Photo courteous of taleitalei - coz I ate it all before it even had a chance.

4 eggs, separated
250g mascarpone
200g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed, extra strong coffee (or 1 cup worth of espresso), cooled
2 tbsp Kahlua
enough sponge fingers to line the base of your dish in two layers
chocolate (just enough to grate over the top)

This recipe made 10 ramekins worth, so it'll serve 10 as a really small dessert, or probably make 4-6 generous helpings. Combine the liquer into the espresso. Resist the urge to add more, since you really just want a hint of it - you don't want to get drunk on your dessert. Or maybe you do, in which case add the whole bottle.

Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until pale and frothy. It should form ribbons when you pull the whisk through the mixture. Whisk in the mascarpone.

Use an electric mixer or standing mixer to whisk up the egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold this into the egg yolk and mascarpone mixture.

Dip a sponge finger briefly (they fall apart if you soak them for too long) into the coffee and liquer mixture, then place it in the base of your dish. Repeat until the base is covered in one layer.

Spoon over the egg-and-cheese mix, using about half. Grate over some chocolate, then make another layer of sponge fingers, and another layer of egg-and-cheese. Grate the rest of the chocolate over, or dust with cocoa powder.

Refrigerate for at least 3-4 hours or for up to one day, then serve!