If you go down to the beach today....

you will have it completely to yourself!! I had a stroll down about 7.45 a.m. and the water was like a mill pond, nobody in sight... I collected shells, fed the fish and sat....
One set of footprints...
and the fish were happy to see me and my bag of bread!
and I solved the mystery of the little balls of sand and perfect holes... little crabs make them!! They are the weirdest thing to watch... if you stand very still for a loooong time then they all pop out of the holes with a ball of sand, deposit it and pop right back down again! I've been to the beach loads of times and wondered what created the balls of sand but never saw anything until today...
maybe its because I was wearing my new sandals and not my Crocs!! How cool are they? They are made of plastic so I can wade in the water and they cost £1.00 !!! LOL

And to the beach...

So I was up and about and looked out of the window to see that the beach was empty and the water like a mill pond so I armed myself with bread for the fishes, that stupid hat and my crocs and went for a lovely stroll - and it wasn't even 7.30 a.m. - its the nicest time of day to me, not too hot, nobody about to laugh at the hat, fishes are hungry...

Little fairies come in the night and rake the beach, tidy the sun loungers and have it all pretty for the morning...
The building work in the background is going to be a restaurant, swimming pool, beauty parlour and bowling alley.... yay, way to go... go faster!! ;)
A walk along the beach edge early morning and late evening... bliss!!
OK, took this photo from the beach looking back at our villa... yep... its that close!!

Now I have made you all green like cabbages... I had better get on do something useful... like scrap!! LOL

Life's a Beach...

It was Chris' day off yesterday so we went for a walk along the beach before it got too hot. I had my new green Croc's on so could paddle in and out of the water - Chris eyed them with some horror so I informed him that they were all the rage.... his reply was "who for, ducks"? Hmmm, not a fan of the Croc look then? LOL Anyways, walking along pootling about in the shallows and we spotted little schools of fish (that doesn't look right, maybe its shoals of fish)? Anyways, these little groups of fish were so cute, some had the most amazing stripes and would come quite close if you stayed still and they didn't spot the bright green Crocs!!
I started picking up pretty little shells until one I picked up suddenly produced a head and some claws and said ' oy, this one's occupied'!! I put him back a bit nippish!! ;)
What a beautiful sight to wak up to every morning.... yep, life's a beach alright!!

My air shipment arrived!! Yippee. was that quick or what? Wednesday evening they delivered it and this is what Thursday morning looked like!
I have to admit.... I'm getting pretty good at this packing and unpacking game....
Chris and I went shopping to pick up some bits to make the scrap room workable... do you like my new PINK computer chair? Kewl or what!! I also picked up this drawer unit for embellies and inks and stuff so hopefully the scrap room will begin to get a bit tidier and I will get closer to being able to scrap again!!
When we were in the HUGE stor at the mall that sells all the electronic stuff Chris showed me their craft section.... oh my, I was away with the fairies... found these extremely large sheets of coloured chipboard for silly money (about £2 a sheet) so my biggest fear of running out of materials to make mini books is now allayed!!

So, its coming together... the computer is set up, my new pink chair is in place and I am almost ready to go...

Once I put that lot away...

oh and put that lot away... but the unit from the spare bedroom with all the cupboards is going to be great...

and I have a quiet zone at the other side.... to sit with a magazine and get inspired....