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I've Been Busy

I've scrapbooked over 100 pages since I got home from my trip!
Most of them for the Serendipity Scrapbooks Last Scrapper Standing contest.
I am currently in 2nd place there... with about 2 weeks to go.

Here are some of my favorites I've done lately.

Want some FUN Challenges this weekend?

Come check this out!

Stay-cation online Crop Friday June 12th-15th Are you one of the many people that found themselves canceling their vacation this year? Maybe you decided on postponing it or scaling it back to a long weekend. Either way, Serendipity has the crop for you. We are celebrating Staying Home with a Stay-cation crop. Our Design Team has come up with clever challenges based on our favorite vacation spots and local treasures that we are celebrating. Just because you can’t go away this time of year doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate a summer Stay-cation. As with all of our crops, we give away an awesome prize package for the Queen of the Crop, not to mention each challenge and game is good for a RAK.Hope to see you there. Stay-cation forum Starts 9am Pacific/noon EST Friday the 12th

I've done a couple of the challenges already and they're great fun. Finally motivated me to get my but in gear and scrap again.

Tower Bridge & Tower of London

My last day in England was spent visiting Covent Garden Market (not as exciting as Camden market & much more crowded). Then we went to The Tower of London via Route Master Bus (that's the old ones). At the Tower we hunted gargoyles, harassed the Beefeaters (for directions to the gargoyles mind you), wore bunny ears, coveted the Queen's Bling, viewed Henry VIII's armor collection, and really wanted a cup of tea. Outside the Tower we watched the Tower Bridge open and let a "pirate ship" through. How do we know it was a pirate ship? Because the 5 year old nearby said so. Then we walked across the Tower Bridge, through docklands, and had dinner at a place with horrible service.







If you want to see more of my trip photos check out my shutterfly page

Tate Modern & The London Eye

These Kung Fu Bunny Statues near Trafalgar Square inspired us.












Does this place look familiar dad?





Proof that I rode on the London Eye. :)

In Jaz's Words

Copy/Pasted from the blog of Jaz...

She's gone on a Big Bus Tour of London with my hot pink Jimmy Choo heels, been to Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral, had a cup of tea by Nelson, been to the Queen's humble abode, walked down the Mall, went Gargoyle hunting, molested Kung Fu Bunnies behind Admiralty Arch, seen some lions at Trafalgar Square, survived John Barrowman wiggling his arse in the Royal Albert Hall, found a phone box that didn't smell like a public toilet (for anyone that wants the obligatory photo, it's the one by the entrance to the Royal College of Music), walked down Carnaby Street to Mayfair and on through Hyde Park, sat in deckchairs by the Serpentine Lake, laughed at me standing in the Diana Memorial Fountain, seen a creepy exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery with projectors (worked in a Groban joke there as well), found Platform 9 3/4, fell in love with the awesomeness of Camden Lock Market, had cinnamon tea in the best tea shop in the world overlooking the Regent's Canal, ate at the Camden Brasserie, mooched through Chinatown, seen Soho, had dinner at Balans on Old Compton Street, scoffed a cannoli and coffee at Bar Italia, been a Beatle up at Abbey Road, saw where the Tardis landed by Lambeth Palace, spotted the Lambeth Walk, and walked over Waterloo Bridge at sunset. Think that's it.

Still to come when she gets back from Sal's tomorrow...the giant Paperchase store, Tate to Tate, the London Eye (where we hope to recreate the Kung Fu Bunny pose), speedboating on the Thames (weather permitting), pie and chips in the Lyceum Tavern, Covent Garden, Tower of London, dinner at Butler's Wharf, a couple of museums, taking K9 for a walk in my local park, recreating a pic her dad had taken on the Albert Embankment in the 70s, and probably a couple more things I can throw in there for free. This evening she experienced the great British tradition of having someone fall onto the train line, meaning you are diverted to God knows where by the train operator, and having to find your way back to where you'd hoped to end up. Bonus for her...she got to kind of see Swindon.

Random Fave London Photos

Jaz took this one of my cons with Big Ben (she also took most of the pics in the Abbey Rd post- except the last 2). Big Ben is the BELL inside the clock tower...NOT the name of the tower. We did get to hear it chime, and the bells at Westminster too. Which was lovely.




Me at The Queen's place. She was home, there were lots of policemen & guards with big guns about... and her flag was flying. Jaz took this one too.


Victoria Tower at Parliament... from the top of a moving bus.


Dear Sherry & Jen... the Tardis landed here!!! Lambeth Palace.


Prince Albert Memorial outside RAH.
Jaz in the Diana fountain.
Carnaby Street.
Tower Bridge.
St. Paul's and one of the original buses...not many of them around anymore.
Lion statue near the London Eye.

Big Ben through the London Eye at sunset.