<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619</id><updated>2011-07-31T16:06:16.409+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrate Everyday</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2345412017697054907</id><published>2009-06-08T08:30:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T08:33:11.526+10:00</updated><title type='text'>BIG DAY OUT</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SixACKlRoQI/AAAAAAAAAiU/f9XagO4EemM/s1600-h/scrap+21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344717263726551298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 289px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SixACKlRoQI/AAAAAAAAAiU/f9XagO4EemM/s400/scrap+21.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Great day, great inspiration and great company. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2345412017697054907?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2345412017697054907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2345412017697054907' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2345412017697054907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2345412017697054907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/06/big-day-out.html' title='BIG DAY OUT'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SixACKlRoQI/AAAAAAAAAiU/f9XagO4EemM/s72-c/scrap+21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-4626118666996371394</id><published>2009-05-25T17:37:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-25T17:39:06.970+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Caedence Rose</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShpLDRVSfII/AAAAAAAAAiM/nlr_6eHeXMY/s1600-h/DSCN1297.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339662827765529730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShpLDRVSfII/AAAAAAAAAiM/nlr_6eHeXMY/s400/DSCN1297.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-4626118666996371394?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/4626118666996371394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=4626118666996371394' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4626118666996371394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4626118666996371394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/caedence-rose.html' title='Caedence Rose'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShpLDRVSfII/AAAAAAAAAiM/nlr_6eHeXMY/s72-c/DSCN1297.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-49740726011649738</id><published>2009-05-22T17:49:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T18:15:43.751+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZagNeckFI/AAAAAAAAAiE/HaxZIyyFN70/s1600-h/P1010050.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338553917713977426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZagNeckFI/AAAAAAAAAiE/HaxZIyyFN70/s400/P1010050.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today was a very emotional and proud day as I watched my second grandchild come into the world (and I am still very teary &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;writing&lt;/span&gt; this post) At 8 minutes past one she arrived safe and sound into &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;mummy's&lt;/span&gt; arms, Zoe done an amazing job. I am so very very proud. Welcome to the world little one (she has no name yet, but will keep you posted)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-49740726011649738?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/49740726011649738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=49740726011649738' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/49740726011649738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/49740726011649738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/welcome.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZagNeckFI/AAAAAAAAAiE/HaxZIyyFN70/s72-c/P1010050.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6620746116267602290</id><published>2009-05-22T17:26:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T17:34:24.135+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Not An Ordinary Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZVbQcfEgI/AAAAAAAAAh8/MjVr2WeKyFk/s1600-h/photo%27s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338548335053574658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 289px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZVbQcfEgI/AAAAAAAAAh8/MjVr2WeKyFk/s400/photo%27s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;I am not at work - &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Annika Stayed at our house last night &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Annika is getting ready for school at our house &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aunty Naomi is taking all the children to school &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zoe has been having contractions since 1pm yesterday &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zoe is still at home&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;We are all waiting to welcome a new baby into the family &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;I am so excited&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6620746116267602290?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6620746116267602290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6620746116267602290' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6620746116267602290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6620746116267602290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-ordinary-day.html' title='Not An Ordinary Day'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ShZVbQcfEgI/AAAAAAAAAh8/MjVr2WeKyFk/s72-c/photo%27s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-9003775212237575181</id><published>2009-05-17T18:34:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-17T19:24:24.457+10:00</updated><title type='text'>WARNING - No photo with this post - it would have been UGLY</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;OK so the story goes......... 9 years ago before I met Pete, I was very much in to gardens and would spend whole days in them. Living in the Hunter Valley in a beautiful heritage home I had grand cottage gardens that adorned gorgeous tulips, stocks and Lillie's just to name a few and that's where my passion was. Upon moving to Brisbane, our gardens are very much different, more tropical, don't need allot of work and Pete tends to the needs of our yard. I am too busy spending time with my friends and my favourite past time............ In saying this I spent the afternoon and night with these wonderful women, so Sunday morning, I thought I would help out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Feeling a little guilty (notice I said little) I noticed the bush in front of our bedroom window needed a little trimming so I said to Pete, I am going to do some pruning this morning... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pete, no its alright I am just going down the road to get a new bolt and I will do it when I come back. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Lorna - no no its OK I can do it, so he went and got me the trimmers, Lorna starts trimming away, cause anyone can trim a tree - right? and besides I have done it all before, Its just been about 3 years, there were a couple I couldn't cut cause they were a little thick, so Pete went and got the little hand saw and started helping me. I was just happily trimming away.......................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Next thing, trimmers are flying through the air, Lorna's jumping around the front yard holding on to my hand saying a few choice words, over and over and over again. Yep Lorna cut straight through a wasps nest and the bustards got me and where chasing me. Shit they hurt (stop it, I can hear and almost see you all laughing)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pete thought I had chopped my finger off, the way I was carrying on and that was after he finished laughing and said thank god the dog wasn't near me cause I would have stabbed the poor thing, and shit hours later my hand still hurts like hell, Its still swollen and I'm still whinging (lol) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So, the motto to that story is, stick to the things that you love in your life right now, don't feel guilty and don't do something you really don't need to!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-9003775212237575181?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/9003775212237575181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=9003775212237575181' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/9003775212237575181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/9003775212237575181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/warning-no-photo-with-this-post-it.html' title='WARNING - No photo with this post - it would have been UGLY'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-4909993123939650354</id><published>2009-05-10T18:21:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T18:25:23.037+10:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgaPXKsMe8I/AAAAAAAAAh0/V1Cvid6GMu4/s1600-h/photos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334108436836416450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgaPXKsMe8I/AAAAAAAAAh0/V1Cvid6GMu4/s400/photos.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful amazing mothers out there!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-4909993123939650354?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/4909993123939650354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=4909993123939650354' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4909993123939650354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4909993123939650354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-mothers-day-to-all-wonderful.html' title=''/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgaPXKsMe8I/AAAAAAAAAh0/V1Cvid6GMu4/s72-c/photos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-7825949909367348564</id><published>2009-05-09T17:10:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-09T17:20:14.562+10:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgUumr-RjGI/AAAAAAAAAhs/k9cUNClKSeQ/s1600-h/DSC04696.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333720575864048738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgUumr-RjGI/AAAAAAAAAhs/k9cUNClKSeQ/s400/DSC04696.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A wonderful weekend in Port Macquarie with great friends and our wonderful family..... thank you for such a great time....love you all. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-7825949909367348564?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/7825949909367348564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=7825949909367348564' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/7825949909367348564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/7825949909367348564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/05/wonderful-weekend-in-port-macquarie.html' title=''/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SgUumr-RjGI/AAAAAAAAAhs/k9cUNClKSeQ/s72-c/DSC04696.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-3289996375027343585</id><published>2009-03-29T17:27:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T17:31:11.906+10:00</updated><title type='text'>How Did You Spend Earth Hour?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/Sc8jWjbz21I/AAAAAAAAAcs/N-dLAweYMC8/s1600-h/Earth+Hour+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318508555323824978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/Sc8jWjbz21I/AAAAAAAAAcs/N-dLAweYMC8/s400/Earth+Hour+1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/Sc8jPf_08_I/AAAAAAAAAck/IT5UsRQJDx8/s1600-h/Earth+Hour+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318508434142065650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/Sc8jPf_08_I/AAAAAAAAAck/IT5UsRQJDx8/s400/Earth+Hour+2.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-3289996375027343585?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/3289996375027343585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=3289996375027343585' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3289996375027343585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3289996375027343585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-did-you-spend-earth-hour.html' title='How Did You Spend Earth Hour?'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/Sc8jWjbz21I/AAAAAAAAAcs/N-dLAweYMC8/s72-c/Earth+Hour+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-8344153867680920788</id><published>2009-03-23T19:24:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T19:45:49.935+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Normality!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;This past weekend, has left me feeling as though I have finally got some normality back in our life's. After a sudden and rushed trip back to the Hunter, and a few other hiccups through Feb and beginning of March, things are easing, (It has helped having 4 days off) Saturday we took a trip to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary with little miss Annika and JJ,what an absolute great day we all had. JJ done the extreme and tackled the flying fox and absolutely loved the thrill, when we got home, I went off to Flourish and scraped all night with the girls ( I really needed the girlie chat time, thanks girls)On Sunday I slept in, I enjoyed an afternoon nap and watched a movie. mmmmm I haven't relaxed like that for months. Hope everyone is enjoying the week. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take Care&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316314993927247090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ScdYUecd1PI/AAAAAAAAAYU/ohNQiqHjeBQ/s400/March.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-8344153867680920788?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/8344153867680920788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=8344153867680920788' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/8344153867680920788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/8344153867680920788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/03/normality.html' title='Normality!!'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/ScdYUecd1PI/AAAAAAAAAYU/ohNQiqHjeBQ/s72-c/March.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2899433425883273424</id><published>2009-02-22T20:15:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T20:32:26.359+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Moonlighting</title><content type='html'>Such a wonderful evening spent with such amazing and inspiring women, 16 lovey people attending Flourishes first Moonlighting event and it was a huge success. It was great to see everyone again and I look forward to the next one.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take Care&lt;br /&gt;Lorna&lt;br /&gt;xx&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2899433425883273424?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2899433425883273424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2899433425883273424' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2899433425883273424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2899433425883273424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/moonlighting.html' title='Moonlighting'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-5324604383073378651</id><published>2009-02-15T21:52:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T22:05:29.230+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Got it all sorted!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgE1iXl0UI/AAAAAAAAAQs/aQKWRh1zN_E/s1600-h/scraproom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302993879034089794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgE1iXl0UI/AAAAAAAAAQs/aQKWRh1zN_E/s400/scraproom.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; My room that is, I have been so busy lately making so many layouts and stuff for the shop that my scrapping room got very badly neglected,(well it has for he last 6 months) and let me tell you I didn't have much scrapping space left on the table, so after a good day spent sorting and cleaning. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I feel inspired again.......... inspired to make another mess, thought I best take a photo whilst it is clean for 5 minutes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take care&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;xx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-5324604383073378651?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/5324604383073378651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=5324604383073378651' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/5324604383073378651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/5324604383073378651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/got-it-all-sorted.html' title='Got it all sorted!!'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgE1iXl0UI/AAAAAAAAAQs/aQKWRh1zN_E/s72-c/scraproom.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6307977602477685069</id><published>2009-02-15T21:39:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T21:49:59.316+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Roses are Red</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgAt5t6o3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/RUXr78gOlnM/s1600-h/Recently+Updated1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302989349816279922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgAt5t6o3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/RUXr78gOlnM/s400/Recently+Updated1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Valentines day to everyone and hope you all had a wonderful weekend............ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I woke to these gorgeous flowers and chocolates from my wonderful man, and yes he really is wonderful and in so many ways, too many to count!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember to hug those around you and tell them that you love them. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take Care &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;XX&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6307977602477685069?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6307977602477685069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6307977602477685069' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6307977602477685069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6307977602477685069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/roses-are-red.html' title='Roses are Red'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZgAt5t6o3I/AAAAAAAAAQc/RUXr78gOlnM/s72-c/Recently+Updated1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2057066998214329423</id><published>2009-02-09T15:30:00.016+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T20:36:44.653+10:00</updated><title type='text'>It Got Better</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZADZ4HE9PI/AAAAAAAAAII/7r5yqSR74bY/s1600-h/Lorraine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300740504508757234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZADZ4HE9PI/AAAAAAAAAII/7r5yqSR74bY/s400/Lorraine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Well after a little setback earlier in the week - re last post and a couple of other little things, the rest of my week got better. Lorraine one of my great work mates left us on Friday, however the celebrations begun on Wednesday - and I am not too sad that she is leaving us, because we are also friends outside of work so we will see each other again. The building Manager and his off &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;sider&lt;/span&gt; took us for lunch on Wednesday to Belle &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Epoque&lt;/span&gt; Cafe in the Emporium and let me tell you I had the best Peppered Eye Fillet you can imagine, melt in your mouth moment. check out the link &lt;a href="http://www.belleepoque.com.au/"&gt;http://www.belleepoque.com.au/&lt;/a&gt; and if your ever in the Valley, its a must visit. Lorraine and I enjoyed it so much that we went back on Friday for lunch on her last day, that was after the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;scrumptious&lt;/span&gt; farewell morning tea we held for her. After work we all headed to the Fringe Bar for Drinks, &lt;a href="http://www.fringebar.net.au/"&gt;http://www.fringebar.net.au/&lt;/a&gt; than onto the Lunar Lounge on James &lt;a href="http://www.lunarlounge.com.au/"&gt;http://www.lunarlounge.com.au/&lt;/a&gt; what a great night was had by all, thanks guys for making me laugh, Lorraine its not goodbye its see you later, you are such a wonderful person and I look forward to many many more &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;BBQ's&lt;/span&gt;, outings and great times. Hope everyone had a great week and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;here's&lt;/span&gt; to an even better one heading your way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZADv31ICfI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/uInJ-mdLKQM/s1600-h/Lorraines.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300744268805574962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZAG0_NYETI/AAAAAAAAAIY/5zVYFyELmuw/s400/lor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Lorna &lt;div&gt;xx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2057066998214329423?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2057066998214329423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2057066998214329423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2057066998214329423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2057066998214329423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/it-got-better.html' title='It Got Better'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SZADZ4HE9PI/AAAAAAAAAII/7r5yqSR74bY/s72-c/Lorraine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2253158728248497427</id><published>2009-02-07T13:30:00.009+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-07T18:29:50.873+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Final Moments</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SY1GRinl2OI/AAAAAAAAAIA/y6InuwvRYT0/s1600-h/ray.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299969603649525986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 247px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SY1GRinl2OI/AAAAAAAAAIA/y6InuwvRYT0/s400/ray.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Tuesday night I received a call to let me know a dear person who I used to work with had died, from a very short battle with cancer. Yep he only found out not to long before Christmas, and it started with a cough, just a simple little cough, that wouldn't go away. My heart immediately went out to the family for their sudden and sad loss. Ray you were a husband, a father, a grandfather, a son, a brother, a cousin, a uncle. Most of all you were a great friend a wonderful person with a great sense of humor, a gentle and caring soul. Ray, you will truly be missed by so many, however you will always be remembered for what you gave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It really amazes me that there are so many people out there that are struggling to hold on to their life, to their last breath, to the ones they cherish, they have so much strength and courage. Than their are people that just hold on to the small and insurmountable things that at the end of the day, really don't matter really are uninportant and yet they feel the need to squabble and fight over those things. It is at times like this, that always makes us reflect on life, what is important to us, to our families and our friends, what makes us happy and the people around us happy. Take the time to say I love you............its important, and don't worry about the little things. Life is way to short. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2253158728248497427?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2253158728248497427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2253158728248497427' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2253158728248497427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2253158728248497427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/final-moments.html' title='Final Moments'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SY1GRinl2OI/AAAAAAAAAIA/y6InuwvRYT0/s72-c/ray.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-7908824480484166521</id><published>2009-02-01T11:33:00.066+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T21:09:02.061+10:00</updated><title type='text'>My life changing announcement</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV-s8Dl3UI/AAAAAAAAAHg/uRpeiVuXh7o/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297779847171792194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV-s8Dl3UI/AAAAAAAAAHg/uRpeiVuXh7o/s320/Opening+Night+resized060.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; OK, I know you have been waiting......and the life changing news is.....I'm teaching again, and I feel inspired by the most amazing brand new store, Flourish, ScrapArte Studio. Now ladies if you want to see a shop full of elegance and style, filled with the latest styles and trends, and just waiting for all the new CHA products to come in. Its a must see and I promise you, you will definitely be enthralled.... Friday night 30Th January was the opening night, (see photo overload) the store was filled with 70 wonderful people, champagne, finger food, games and prizes,as talk and laughter rang through the store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV-C5djFJI/AAAAAAAAAHY/2rZbF2QEHWw/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297779124920849554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV-C5djFJI/AAAAAAAAAHY/2rZbF2QEHWw/s320/Opening+Night+resized042.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Congratulations Jan and Ruth on your store opening, you should be so proud, you have worked so hard and the store is gorgeous, may you have many wonderful years ahead of you. We look forward to watching the store evolve. it is a wonderful privilege to be apart of the teaching team.&lt;br /&gt;Keep an eye on this blog for an update of my/other upcoming classes which will also be linked through the store,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flourishstudio.com.au/"&gt;http://www.flourishstudio.com.au/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the address to this wonderful store is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3/12 Kenrose St, Carina &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(just a couple of minutes from Carindale shopping centre)&lt;br /&gt;Shop Hours - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monday to Saturday 9.30 to 5pm (closed Sundays) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for all you scrapaholics out there, my Challenge for you this week is to pop into Flourish and have a look, go on I dare you, you won't be disappointed, I promise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297769861044567442" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV1nq1U_ZI/AAAAAAAAAGY/g7nX5RRGgug/s320/Opening+Night+resized103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYWACcWGY0I/AAAAAAAAAHo/mdOLgCZuL2c/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized132.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297781316128236354" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYWACcWGY0I/AAAAAAAAAHo/mdOLgCZuL2c/s320/Opening+Night+resized132.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7xgJ0jVI/AAAAAAAAAHI/5jHs52nU7SU/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297776627046190418" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7xgJ0jVI/AAAAAAAAAHI/5jHs52nU7SU/s320/Opening+Night+resized080.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7ZYUAJRI/AAAAAAAAAG4/NMyGpc1cSO0/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297776212624549138" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7ZYUAJRI/AAAAAAAAAG4/NMyGpc1cSO0/s320/Opening+Night+resized075.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV622NTVzI/AAAAAAAAAGo/XNEc34vK7wY/s1600-h/Opening+Nightresized+090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297775619354089266" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV622NTVzI/AAAAAAAAAGo/XNEc34vK7wY/s320/Opening+Nightresized+090.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7LX3z12I/AAAAAAAAAGw/S20i2klAXkM/s1600-h/Opening+Night+resized126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297775971988133730" style="WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV7LX3z12I/AAAAAAAAAGw/S20i2klAXkM/s320/Opening+Night+resized126.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-7908824480484166521?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/7908824480484166521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=7908824480484166521' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/7908824480484166521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/7908824480484166521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-life-changing-announcement.html' title='My life changing announcement'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYV-s8Dl3UI/AAAAAAAAAHg/uRpeiVuXh7o/s72-c/Opening+Night+resized060.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-8527220103760766759</id><published>2009-01-29T13:48:00.007+10:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T11:32:21.654+10:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYT7f5rOClI/AAAAAAAAAEI/_flcwDQSMVI/s1600-h/Aus+Day+27-01-2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297635587171158610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYT7f5rOClI/AAAAAAAAAEI/_flcwDQSMVI/s320/Aus+Day+27-01-2009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well Australia day was celebrated at Byron Bay this year and a wonderful day was had by all. Shopping in the morning and beach in the afternoon photo's below. Schools back yeah and my darling boy went into grade 9 with ease and my beautiful Annika started school, why do they have to grow up so fast and she was sooo cute. Something exciting is happening for me tomorrow, that will change my life..again, in a good way though and will update with more detail on Saturday. Until than I hope everyone is enjoying there week. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take Care &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;xx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-8527220103760766759?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/8527220103760766759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=8527220103760766759' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/8527220103760766759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/8527220103760766759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/01/well-australia-day-was-celebrated-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SYT7f5rOClI/AAAAAAAAAEI/_flcwDQSMVI/s72-c/Aus+Day+27-01-2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6706285030997013403</id><published>2009-01-25T20:17:00.010+10:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T07:00:21.661+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SXw-gFstACI/AAAAAAAAAEA/wkijwDSiHY0/s1600-h/img043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295175982887272482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 161px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SXw-gFstACI/AAAAAAAAAEA/wkijwDSiHY0/s200/img043.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all you Australians out there, Happy Birthday, Hope your day is filled with family and friends, lots of BBQ'S and a few drinks to celebrate. Whatever you are doing today, have a great one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Birthday &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Australia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and Happy Birthday to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;........................... (photo courtesy of the Miss Deb) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6706285030997013403?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6706285030997013403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6706285030997013403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6706285030997013403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6706285030997013403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-birthday.html' title='Happy Birthday'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SXw-gFstACI/AAAAAAAAAEA/wkijwDSiHY0/s72-c/img043.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2500204780612719345</id><published>2009-01-23T09:52:00.009+10:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T13:46:28.563+10:00</updated><title type='text'>In the wee hours of the morning</title><content type='html'>It just came to me,can you believe it, my morning usually starts at 5.40am with the sound of the alarm, this morning was different, I woke before the alarm by the sound of one word. That one word just rang out in my head and woke me up, my eyes popped open.........that's it, that's my word, I couldn't believe it my word woke me up, so without any further ado my word for 2009 is...... &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Courage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It baffled me all morning, and as I drove to work trying to work out why this word came to me. For every meaning I came up with I couldn't make it suit what I wanted it to,that is until I got to work and looked up the meaning and here it is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courage(noun)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quality of being brave&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's Perfect exactly what I wanted, I was so excited. This year I am going to have the courage to change my ways, I am always the softie, always giving in (even if I don't want to) and feeling guilty afterwards..........not this year, nope If I can't do or I'm not free, than that's it.......no guilt's, no, well, maybe because you want to.......So its the courage I need to pull this off. (wish me luck) So welcome 2009 and welcome Courage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2500204780612719345?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2500204780612719345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2500204780612719345' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2500204780612719345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2500204780612719345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-wee-hours-of-morning.html' title='In the wee hours of the morning'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-971355789429671572</id><published>2009-01-19T10:07:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T11:37:19.621+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog..Blog...What Blog??</title><content type='html'>OK girls I hear you..............Promise to myself this year.............Blog more often!!(think I can do it) So as you may or may not have read, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Briohny&lt;/span&gt; filled you all in about how I have been on the Greek Isles with my lovely Pete feeding me grapes and wine, Oh and naked of course (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;lol&lt;/span&gt;), Where is that bloody lotto win anyway surely it must be my turn. (dreams are free) Oh and thanks for the tip because seriously I think November and December had fallen off my calendar because they are just gone, no, really, I can't find them anywhere, however we are still in January so I'm safe there. OK,OK for those that I have not caught up with for a while I will go back a little, November and December were both whirlwind months as I am sure everyone felt a little the same way. In November my beautiful Girl turned 18, had her formal and graduated from year 12, extremely proud mum, She is a very talented and inspirational person, love her enormously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December, well with Christmas parties, shopping and a little more shopping a wonderful day spent with Heidi &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Swapp&lt;/span&gt; thrown in there, catch ups with work and than Christmas...........Christmas was to be a little different for us this year and by no means our traditional year, It was the first Christmas ever I spent away from Zoe and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Annika&lt;/span&gt; as they went to Melbourne, so we had our family Christmas day at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Narrell's&lt;/span&gt; on the 21st Dec, a wonderful BBQ feast, we than headed for Port &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Macquarie&lt;/span&gt;, in the wee hours of Christmas eve morning arriving there around lunch time. set up camp (as we camped in Pete's mums back yard) once all done we relaxed for a while, popped over to see my mum and sister as she drove down from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Brissie&lt;/span&gt; as well, than on to Karen's and back home to a reasonably early evening, woke Christmas morning to open the pressies, bacon and eggs for breakfast, relaxed a little more, went to Pete's aunty's for lunch with all the family, home again for a little afternoon nap.&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;mmmm&lt;/span&gt; love naps, than on to mums and the beach for Christmas dinner, chicken, champagne and prawns on the beach whilst watching the kids swim and play was a superb and totally relaxing way to top the day off, absolutely loved it. The next couple of days were filled with a little shopping but mostly the beach, I got to stay a great night at Karen's and yes we drank a little &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;tooo&lt;/span&gt; much and there were lots of Christmas cheer that evening. We went on to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Cessnock&lt;/span&gt; for the next couple of days staying with our old neighbours and visiting wonderful friends. Justin Makes mean homemade pizza's...........&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;yummmo&lt;/span&gt;. Than back to Port, packed up the tent and car, beach and headed home for a relatively quiet New Years Eve, which was spent at home with family and friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of our holidays were spent cleaning out cupboards, cleaning windows, painting and catching up on all the things you just don't have time to do the rest of the year, we did however put in some little day trips to the beach at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Southport&lt;/span&gt;, the Botanic gardens and we went to underwater world. It was a great feeling to have everything back in some sort of order and to feel a sense of clean and fresh to start out the new year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; of January marked my first day back at work for 2009, and yes I struggled with the concept. I love being at home, I loved the idea of cleaning and throwing (and still needed a little more time) I loved the sound of no alarm, I loved my house always clean and tidy.......oh and the list could go on. If only I could stay at home and still get paid the same.........wouldn't that be great, although I couldn't do it all the time as it would send my around the twist, I like getting out. I like the stimulation, I like the friendships that you make and I like the thought of learning.&lt;br /&gt;So after a week of settling back in (and yes it took a week) I am ready for another year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and I almost forgot to share my news, my gorgeous daughter got an OP 8 and got accepted and got her first choice at Griffith university to a double degree, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yep I am the proudest mum in the whole wide world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am still deciding on my word for this year, I will have it in the next couple of days, so I will share than. So until then, stay safe, stay beautiful and stay tuned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking forward to a wonderful 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"&gt;Lorna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XXX&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-971355789429671572?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/971355789429671572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=971355789429671572' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/971355789429671572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/971355789429671572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2009/01/blogblogwhat-blog.html' title='Blog..Blog...What Blog??'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-3986140637774802989</id><published>2008-10-09T20:27:00.027+10:00</published><updated>2008-10-19T20:13:04.215+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Crop Royale - weekend In Sydney</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsH7S_xgbI/AAAAAAAAACY/9Ig2-uHI75c/s1600-h/DSC03059.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258805705178186162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsH7S_xgbI/AAAAAAAAACY/9Ig2-uHI75c/s320/DSC03059.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsHZZp_k0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/QE64O9-SE-E/s1600-h/DSC03153.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258805122850329410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsHZZp_k0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/QE64O9-SE-E/s320/DSC03153.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsDTIBYD5I/AAAAAAAAACI/bN2AznGwq5E/s1600-h/Crop+Royale+weekend.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258800616990838674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsDTIBYD5I/AAAAAAAAACI/bN2AznGwq5E/s320/Crop+Royale+weekend.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsDJunPbJI/AAAAAAAAACA/R2m0qXuOs9Y/s1600-h/Crop+Royale+weekend.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsC3HxFxRI/AAAAAAAAAB4/ktHd1GONg98/s1600-h/Crop+Royale+weekend.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsCcFABrhI/AAAAAAAAABw/pZ4MOxnSIJw/s1600-h/crop+Royale+weekend+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258799671287066130" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsCcFABrhI/AAAAAAAAABw/pZ4MOxnSIJw/s320/crop+Royale+weekend+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsCK_3P9_I/AAAAAAAAABo/oO3XMLMH3L8/s1600-h/Crop+Royale+weekend+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258799377850300402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsCK_3P9_I/AAAAAAAAABo/oO3XMLMH3L8/s320/Crop+Royale+weekend+1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsB40Rr21I/AAAAAAAAABg/07cV08lXGtY/s1600-h/Crop+Royale+weekend+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258799065502309202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsB40Rr21I/AAAAAAAAABg/07cV08lXGtY/s320/Crop+Royale+weekend+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well what a weekend, an absolutely wonderful weekend and a must to put on the calender for next year. I will start at the beginning shall I!! hang on, has everyone got a cup of tea or coffee you will need it!! Friday night went to the airport with miss Debs (chauffeur driven by my lovely Pete and son JJ) The flight was delayed by about 45 mins, however we made the most of it had some dinner and Debs tried to pick up a guy....... yep any guy (no seriously she was a little picky and couldn't find one) finally it was time to board and a little goodbye kiss to the fam and we were off, it was a good flight and going over Sydney by night was quite spectacular, (and there was no camera in sight, I told Debbie to keep hers down lol) The wonderful Miss Lorraine B (Her Royal Majesty's Tours) was there to greet us with the lovely Miss Loretta herself. Chatting all the way back to Lorraine's and when we got there we were given red wine and got stuck in to helping her pack kits, yep we had a late one. Up early Sat morning got ready, packed the car and off we go for a great day...yee hah and long awaited for I might add, we got to the location of Crop Royale itself, a little shop called Fantasia, and when we walked in I was gobsmacked the shop was huge and so full of wonderful goodies it took awhile for me to lift my jaw. What a wonderful start to the day, huge shop, lovely staff and great people, all waiting to start a scrap filled day. There were four lovely girls from Maitland in there coordinated printed T's looking like little princess with all the added bling. So, Set up begun, registration begun and then classes, the classes were amazing, and the kits were amazing so much product (luckily I took an extra suitcase) we were sooo spoilt, and let me say the teachers were exhilarating and we managed some serious scrapping, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper were all scrumptous and delightful. Lollies on every table chocolate bars thrown at you.... so much food, let me tell you, we rolled out of there. Prizes, prizes and more prizes Lorraine and the girls were giving these away prizes every 1/2 hour all day and all night (thanks to the wonderful sponsors) I was very tired come 11pm and my brain wasn't functioning very well, but still on a high from a tremendous day, packed the car back up and headed back to Lorraine's where the four of us sat and chatted about the day over a coffee on the back veranda. Sunday morning Lorraine woke us at about 9.30 and her wonderful hubby had cooked everyone bacon and eggs on the BBQ for breakfast, and after breakfast he took us for a spin in the Mazda convertible (check out the photo,I look good in it, don't I)I told you we were spoilt.Then we met up with a few of the girls and headed to Yum Char, we were the dumb char's at the yum char's and ate ourselves silly..... Now did I happen to mention to anyone that I &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; and the ultimate word here being &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; on a diet!!! after lunch it was off to Bondi Beach for the arvo................ WOW and guess who we had photo's with, Yep you guessed it the guys from Bondi Rescue itself, yummmo (and yep Miss Debs tried to take on of them home too) Traffic on the way back leaving Bondi was horrendous but as always and never failing Miss Debs made sure the trip home was entertaining to say the least, It started Lorraine mentioning how lovely these purple flowers were on the medium strip, to Me mentioning that Pete would love a cutting of them to grow in the garden. Well Miss Debs was off, out of the car over to the medium strip, bum in the air and taking pieces of this plant and back in the car, than she proceeded to do it again this time she thought she would give the car beside us some cuttings as well and yep you guessed it, it was a car full of guys and she was even giving them planting and growing tips (seriously do you really think they were interested) shortly after that she just strolled up to some random guy walking along minding his own business and pulled on his towel, he jumped 20 feet and than she told hime she just needed to light her smoke(it was a bit windy), must have said a few other words as he walked off with the biggest smile on his face, as if that was the best think that had happened to him that day. In to the city to drop off the Miss Loretta as she was spending Sunday night in the city and doing some sight seeing on Monday before going home on Monday night, than onwards back to the lovely Miss Lorraines where darling hubby had made a gergeous roast for dinner.... yum yum, played with computer and than a must do early evening. Monday up early and the very lovely herself Miss Sherry took us to the airport, so then it was back home to tell all, of the wonderful adventures and people met. The absolute biggest biggest huggs and kisses to the wonderful Baite family for the wonderful hospitality we were shown thank you for sharing your family and opening your doors for us, my home is always open for you guys and thank you for showing me that there are still beautiful people out there, and to the lovely Miss Loretta its was so nice to meet you and I can't wait to catch up again...........Bring on Crop Royale 2009........Yooh Hooooo!!!! Both Miss Debs and I are there with bells on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-3986140637774802989?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/3986140637774802989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=3986140637774802989' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3986140637774802989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3986140637774802989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/10/crop-royale-weekend-in-sydney.html' title='Crop Royale - weekend In Sydney'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kXEM5ot3mtI/SPsH7S_xgbI/AAAAAAAAACY/9Ig2-uHI75c/s72-c/DSC03059.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6030067977545035594</id><published>2008-10-08T17:34:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T18:05:03.677+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Its about time</title><content type='html'>I know its been a long time a very long time since I last posted, I have been &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;soo&lt;/span&gt; busy, with work, family trying to catch up with friends and going away. So whats been happening? I have been away on a great weekend to Port &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Macaque&lt;/span&gt; catching up with family and friends. It was so great to catch up with you Karen, and thanks for letting us stay as always:) and can't wait till &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Christmas&lt;/span&gt; when I spend a week down there! Have been catching up with friends for lunch, and even a great crop day, it was so nice to see &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Briohny&lt;/span&gt; again and share some great laughs and whats even better is that we don't have to keep on swimming anymore - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;lol&lt;/span&gt; and it was good to see Peta and Jan too:) I taught my last two classes at Scrapbook Princess and thought they went really well and would just like to say thank you to the girls for sharing my last class and making it special. As sadly this month I resigned from teaching at Scrapbook Princess - time was a big factor......... well lack of it anyway. Thanks to the push from Jan I booked into the wonderful day with Heidi &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Swapp&lt;/span&gt; and just can't wait. Can't wait to be taught by her, can't wait to sit with the wonderful Jan and Ruth, Debbie and Lorraine and Donna. Great friends in the scrapping world make a big difference and these gals make you realise that they are still out there. (wish you were coming &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Briohny&lt;/span&gt; Have just had a great weekend in Sydney, but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;I'm&lt;/span&gt; leaving that for a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;separate&lt;/span&gt; post and will add some photos. My sister has been doing some huge reno's at her house so I spent a morning with her picking tiles, its always nice spending time (when I have time) with my sister and I wish we had more times together sometimes. its really funny because we either see each other all the time or very rarely. she really is a special person and I am so proud of all the hard work she puts in around her home, being a single mum can be so stressful sometimes...... but she pulls it off rather well. Pete and I celebrated our 8th year anniversary together, wow now that eight years have flown, and I still love him more everyday, and I am so grateful and lucky to have someone like him in my life. Ok now this is all getting a little mushy so i'll just leave it there!! and don't forget to come back soon for my weekend away on Sydney post and photo's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ciao&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6030067977545035594?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6030067977545035594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6030067977545035594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6030067977545035594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6030067977545035594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/10/its-about-time.html' title='Its about time'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-605173257372855846</id><published>2008-05-06T14:46:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T15:10:48.975+10:00</updated><title type='text'>WOW has it been that long?</title><content type='html'>Where on earth did April go? I must have missed that month, I haven't bloged since March.. wot the? Now I have to really think of what I have been up to. I will start with the long weekend just passed as that is still fresh in my mind. Saturday just bummed around did some washing, went and got my hair cut and yep had time to do some scrapping, Sunday met up with the girls I used to work @ the club with and had lunch on the pier in Eagle St, at the Boardwalk cafe what a wonderful day and the weather was grand, sooo nice to catch up with them all,You ladies rock i am so glad we have decided to do it every second month. Sunday we went on a bush walk at Mt Cooth tha and than on the way home we stoped at New Farm and caught the ferry accross to Southbank had some lunch and than sat in the park with my brother and his friends, another splendid day. The Anzac weekend another long weekend that went by way to fast, My friend Debs came and stayed as it has been way too long since we caught up (wow I have a lot of ways don't I) We went to scrap day at the princess and had a great day, some great laughs and Yay Deb's got some layouts done after months of not scrapping. Sunday went to some markets and some other scrap shops and than Debs went home, it was so good to catch up after a long time. Now apart from that I really can't remeber what else I did.... I really need to update more regulary now that age is setting in.(lol) I hope everyone else enjoyed thier labour day weekend. So for now its see you all later&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-605173257372855846?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/605173257372855846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=605173257372855846' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/605173257372855846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/605173257372855846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/05/wow-has-it-been-that-long.html' title='WOW has it been that long?'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-4991739825242250845</id><published>2008-03-29T18:40:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-29T18:56:14.288+10:00</updated><title type='text'>A BIG hello from Me to You</title><content type='html'>Hey from me to you, Easter has come and gone for another year. I love Easter the weather is not to hot and not to cold,  and its a great time to have a break and 4 days to relax and enjoy, we (family) went out on the yaught and watched the begining of the Brisbane to Gladstone race always exciting sitting along the starting line and sailing a little way with them, It was such a hot day that I and the kids jumped overboard me cloths and all. We sailed home and enjoyed a Good Friday family and friends BBQ a fun and relaxing day had by all. The rest of the weekend was spent watching movies and enjoying some day sleeps...mmm love my mumma naps. Before I knew it though it was Tuesday and back to work, the company moved over the easter weekend and we are now in the Valley, right behind the emporium, yep your got it great shops and great food and best of all great prices too!! NOT!! saw a lovely pair of shoes and thought wow there on sale turned them over and yep they were $550.00 on sale!! whot the?? I know I love shopping but that's not a very good bargin.. can you imagine how much Scapin stuff i could get for that!! This Friday night is my Stiches Class see my class samples below, So don't forget to book your spot and come along and have some fun.. See you all there&lt;br /&gt;So from me to you a big goodnight and until next time have fun and stay safe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-4991739825242250845?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/4991739825242250845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=4991739825242250845' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4991739825242250845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/4991739825242250845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-hello-from-me-to-you.html' title='A BIG hello from Me to You'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6467526410233941742</id><published>2008-03-12T16:03:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-12T16:18:40.006+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Week Come and Gone</title><content type='html'>Well I am almost 3 weeks old in my new job now, and feeling &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;alot&lt;/span&gt; more settle. WOW I cannot believe we are in March already, soon it will be &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;christmas&lt;/span&gt; again - I best start shopping(&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;lol&lt;/span&gt;). We just had a weekend in Port &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Macquarie&lt;/span&gt; (again) as it was our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;nices&lt;/span&gt; 1st birthday, we last saw her at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;christmas&lt;/span&gt; and what a difference those couple of months make at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;christmas&lt;/span&gt; she was hardly crawling and now she is running every where... So very cute! Every time we go down its such a long &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;hearl&lt;/span&gt; and so nice to be home, but this time after spending a wonderful Sunday on the beach and headland I just wanted to stay there, and if I had my way I probably would have.&lt;br /&gt;My darling middle child (Naomi) got her licence, how &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;scarey&lt;/span&gt;  I must say... for me not for her, she's loving it!! The freedom, The independence, It makes me feel old, i only have one more to go, it makes me want to cry and celebrate all at once.&lt;br /&gt;just a quick post this week, but keep looking you never now whats around the corner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Chao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6467526410233941742?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6467526410233941742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6467526410233941742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6467526410233941742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6467526410233941742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-week-come-and-gone.html' title='Another Week Come and Gone'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-3706697142793371111</id><published>2008-03-01T18:31:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T19:55:28.408+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Yay for Me......</title><content type='html'>For those who know me, know that this week I began a new job, I forgot what a scarey place it is when your not in comfort zone, Monday I hated it and didn't want to go back, Tuesday I felt sick just going there on the train... I was the new kid on the block and I just wanted to go home, however Wednesday was a little better and come Friday I knew that, I am just going to love it there. It's amazing the process of it all and how quickly we forget what it's like, I went through the oh no what have I done, to the yep I made the right disscission, At the end of day it didn't really matter, because everything in life is a gamble, if we don't take chances and if we don't make mistakes than we never learn and we never grow, so yay for me I made it through my first week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I poped into the wonderful Scrapbook princess, and all the girlies were there scrapping away, I was only poping in for a quick selection of goodies for my upcoming class's and a few hours later and trying to walk out with a few free extra goodies as well but Deb wouldn't share.(so unfair Deb!) How amazing was the work there today, awesome stuff, from cards to double layouts to Briohny stitching away on the machine to create some fabulous masterpice, and good laughs all round. For those that have never been to a crop day at the princess,you should really go along you will be amazed with the ideas floating around the room and you will have a great time with some pretty awesome girls, so mark the next one on your calender now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I best go and attempt to scrap something for the upcoming calender otherwise Mel will be out with that whip again, and let me tell you it hurts........ lol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again for reading and until next time, I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful weekend and have a great week!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-3706697142793371111?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/3706697142793371111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=3706697142793371111' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3706697142793371111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/3706697142793371111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/03/yay-for-me.html' title='Yay for Me......'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-6261814362220756790</id><published>2008-02-19T13:56:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2008-02-19T14:32:46.158+10:00</updated><title type='text'>The sun still comes up in the morning</title><content type='html'>One of the luckiest aspects of my job, is meeting some of the most fantastic people, two years ago when I statrted here I was fortunate enough to meet a lovely young women named Helen Johnson who was in one of the bridge groups who plays here at the club every Wednesday, and every Wednesday I grew to know and love her just that little bit more, she was such a vibrant, happy person with so many stories to share. At 97 she still lived on her own, played lawn bowles twice a week, visted the library and played bridge and you would not believe her age. Last year she turned 99 and her only son was planning her 100th birthday. Last week I learnt of her passing only the week prior. I was devasted to say the least, however was happy to hear it was quite quick. I believe her funeral was rather large and that her son spoke in great lenghth of her amazing life. The funeral was based on the celebraton and was bright and cheery. Whilst the sun still rises in the morning I would just like to say I miss you Helen, and you will always be rembered.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-6261814362220756790?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/6261814362220756790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=6261814362220756790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6261814362220756790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/6261814362220756790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/02/sun-still-comes-up-in-morning.html' title='The sun still comes up in the morning'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-1764128325429893618</id><published>2008-02-03T16:30:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T16:52:18.959+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Can you see it</title><content type='html'>Yep I can see it, can you see it, have you looked closer, really really closer. Yes you got it, I have posted again. day 2, Im excited,  yippee Im going strong now. However stay tuned for day 3 cause it will be even better!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I take a breath because I am going to get on a serious note.. today,  after waking up and thinking OMG does it have to rain all the bloody time when Im not at work, can we just have one good sunny bright weekend. Well today I have been talking to a work collegue/friend  as he was released out of hospital yesterday after having a brain bleed and a mild stroke, and will take a couple of months to recover and he is only in his early fourties, however whilst talking to him he was mostly telling me of the young man (25) who was in the bed next to him who was in a motorbike accident (not wearing a helmet) has 25 bleeds in the brain has lost his speach, however he still understands all that is said to him and cannot walk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow really makes you sit up and notice everything around you, celebrate everyday, the sun is still shinning even when it is raining, and everyday is bright, look at what is around YOU and everything in you life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until later, enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great Monday.... Thanks for looking.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-1764128325429893618?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/1764128325429893618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=1764128325429893618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/1764128325429893618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/1764128325429893618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/02/can-you-see-it.html' title='Can you see it'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613898844847051619.post-2858506162157371563</id><published>2008-02-02T20:20:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-02-02T20:47:25.145+10:00</updated><title type='text'>Well its a start.........</title><content type='html'>Yay, well here I go. After a long time thinking about it. I have finally done it. I now have my very own blog. For those who know me this is huge, really huge, I don't usually  share. So that's it for today, Stay turned, I'll be back tomorrow.... cause Ive got a blog now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6613898844847051619-2858506162157371563?l=lornabarnes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/feeds/2858506162157371563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6613898844847051619&amp;postID=2858506162157371563' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2858506162157371563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6613898844847051619/posts/default/2858506162157371563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lornabarnes.blogspot.com/2008/02/well-its-start.html' title='Well its a start.........'/><author><name>Lorna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06264606923138983894</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
