A week before Christmas

Boy did this weekend just fly by! So how are you all doing?

My weekend has been a very busy one. Friday night my mom and dad walked in the door just after i had. They stayed for a cup of tea and a little chat and then went home. We ordered Indian food and pretty much went to bed early.

Saturday morning i was up by 7:30! What was i thinking...lol. Actually,my back has been giving me problems again so i am battling to spend more than about 6 hours in bed. I got up, put a load of laundry in, made a cup of tea and then sat down to finish my grans album. Six pages, five hours and a whole lot of mess later i had finally managed to complete it. I so love how it has turned out. My parents have some friends from SA visiting here on holiday for a few days so i have asked them if they wont take the album back for me and send it door to door services from back home.

Here is my album.......

Saturday afternoon i spent photographing it, and sorting out all the packaging. We then took it round to my mom and dad's so they could have a look at it first, before i complete wrapped it up. My mom was in tears which i guess is a good sign.

After that we went to Jessops to have a look at what extras we could buy for my camera. Stu had bought my a filter adaptor off of ebay for about a quarter of the price and when it arrived on Saturday morning i decided i had to have some filters to go with it. I ended up coming home with two filters. A soft diffuser and a radial zoom. I didn't get much time to play with them but these are some photos i took while trying them out....
The diffuser makes the image look very soft - its going to be great for portrait photos next year

And then the radical zoom is a lot of fun to play with. I'm not 100% sure what i am going to use it for yet but i have some ideas knocking around in my head.

Sunday i had a great lay in. I woke about 9am.....much better than Saturday, then i spent some time reading my new book and then we watched 1 episode of star trek series five that we haven't seen yet. Now I'm not a Trekkie or anything but i did enjoy it.....lol

Once again i have a busy week ahead. Hope everyone has a great day.