Two Challenges & Hong Kong

This layout qualifies for two challenges.....


The sketch over at SOUS www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com and Scrap It With A Song at www.scrapitwithasong.blogspot.com

The song at SIWAS is Elton John's "Your Song" - I chose the line 'a big house where we both can live'

I have used the Lime Tart Half Tart Kit from August '09 www.limetart.com and photo's of our house just after we finished building and moved in, last May.....

The papers are Pink Paislee 'Captivating', the alphas are Paper Trunk, the transparency by Teresa Collins, butterflies are Collections Elements and the large red floral is by Basic Grey.....

Everything on the page was in the kit including the metal embellishment and the ribbon....

ADDIT: This layout won Top 5 in Challenge # 1 at Scrap it with a Song.....

Now for a couple of photo's from our recent Hong Kong trip.....

I was amazed at how closely packed everything was - everybody lives vertically!!!!

This was the foyer of our beautiful hotel - The Harbour Grand Hotel.....

The above building was once HMS Tamar - hubby was here in 1981 when he was in the Royal Navy - of course it was returned to the Chinese in 1997 and is now Chinese Government buildings - one of the reasons hubby wanted to return - Nostalgia......

I loved the old with the new - a temple nestled UNDER all these skyscrapers.....

Sadly our whole week was marred by cloud cover, and all the buildings being SOOOOO tall, they were usually buried in the clouds.....

This is the world's largest floating restaurant 'Jumbo' - three floors of the finest dining. We travelled there by junk, great experience.

We didn't have time to go for dinner, but we had a fine lunch there of the most amazing dimsums yummy yummy.....

Another temple on the road, Hong Kong is full of these beautiful buildings.....

Next time I will post some of my favourite photo's "Disneyland Hong Kong" .....

So, that's me for now - til next time.....

Hugs

Jane xx