Life

The Cat and the Celtics

The Cat in the title doesn’t have four legs, doesn’t meow and is in fact the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens.
The Kilmore Celtic Festival is where Allan and I rug up warm and head up the Hume Freeway to spend a day immersed in Celtic music of every flavour.

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Life Word Art Freebie

Life is Wonderful! And as some comedian once said: It beats the hell out of the alternative! I love life. Everyday brings something good . . . even if sometimes you have to search a little to find it. Anyway, for no reason in particular I’ve decided to celebrate Life today with some free Word [...]

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Face to face with a Star Commenter

I have been writing Scraps of Mind for nearly five years now and I’ve had the chance to ‘virtually’ meet many wonderful people. I live in Australia and most of my readers live overseas from me so there’s not much chance to actually meet in real life. So how exciting it was to finally get [...]

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A Muse on Old Friends

I love my old boots. They’re 11 years old and I’ve ‘replaced’ them twice with newer boots. But I just can’t get rid of my old friends. And although I wear my newer boots, whenever I know I’ll be doing a bit of walking during the day I always reach for my trusty old boots, [...]

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Wrapping Up the Celtic Theme

A Contest and a Video Following on from my update last Monday on the Kilmore Celtic Festival, I came across the video below. It seems a fitting conclusion to my Celtic week. But first a gift wrapping contest Yes, you read that right. Many scrapbookers extend their love for all things paper and decorative and [...]

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Kilmore Celtic Festival 2009

Someone must have pressed the fast forward button and whizzed the year through, because I can’t believe it’s been a year since we headed off down the Hume Highway on our annual pilgrimage to the Kilmore Celtic Festival. And of course, my annual homage to the event. Once again I meant to buy the early-bird [...]

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Word Art Freebie

Here’s another Scrapbook Freebie for you Although you can use it for cards or anything else you want. Last year I ran a fortnightly newsletter which many of you subscribed to. I gave away three original pieces of Word Art in each newsletter. Well life is a tad more hectic this year and I don’t [...]

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Get Your Name Right on Facebook!

Facebook is really handy for tracking down long lost family and friends from your past. And getting your name right probably seems so obvious that you might not think it worth writing about. But here’s a tip I discovered a couple of weeks ago. If your current name is different from the one you were [...]

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Happy Scrappy Easter

Easter is many things. It is obviously a festival of Christian significance, celebrating the sacrifice and rebirth of Christ. It has long been a festival celebrating the new life and rebirth that is Spring (in the northern hemisphere that is. down here in Oz we’re in Autumn.) It is a welcome holiday break for those [...]

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Tide Loads of Hope for Disaster Victims

It’s always pleasing to see the corporate world giving something back to the community isn’t it. So when I was told about this program run by the laundry products manufacturer Proctor and Gamble, I thought I’d like to share it with you. The program is called Tide Loads of Hope. And it helps in the [...]

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