Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas left Singapore yesterday en route to Perth and will arrive in 2 weeks’ time. Very exciting to have such a big ship doing a full season of cruises out of Australia. The ladies on our 2 cruise groups, 4TH-SCRAPBOOK-cruise and 2nd QuiltCruise2013 are also very excited about it.
I'll post more info as soon as I get it.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
visitors
Well I haven't been able to keep up so well. I thought once a week at least would be easy, hum, not so.
My parents arrived from Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, so it's been great catching up with them. They're here for a month and we plan on doing a few day trips as well as having my dad help with work around the yard, we want a veggie garden and a few other things. So we'll have lots of projects to keep him busy.
My inlaws will also be here for a week next week, so we'll have a really full house. Hopefully, lots of helpers around for me to catch up on some things around the place. It's amazing how someone so small, can take up so much time. But overall, Cassandra is good at occupying herself and great company for me.
On the cruising front I can't believe our 2 cruises in Australia 4th Scrapbook Cruise and the 2nd Australian Quilt Cruise, are just about at final payment time. Wow did that year go fast! I'll be setting up a Yahoo group so we can all chat and get to know each other before the cruise. Should be a fantastic cruise on the Voyager of the Seas. If you're joining us, look forward to seeing you soon!
My parents arrived from Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, so it's been great catching up with them. They're here for a month and we plan on doing a few day trips as well as having my dad help with work around the yard, we want a veggie garden and a few other things. So we'll have lots of projects to keep him busy.
My inlaws will also be here for a week next week, so we'll have a really full house. Hopefully, lots of helpers around for me to catch up on some things around the place. It's amazing how someone so small, can take up so much time. But overall, Cassandra is good at occupying herself and great company for me.
On the cruising front I can't believe our 2 cruises in Australia 4th Scrapbook Cruise and the 2nd Australian Quilt Cruise, are just about at final payment time. Wow did that year go fast! I'll be setting up a Yahoo group so we can all chat and get to know each other before the cruise. Should be a fantastic cruise on the Voyager of the Seas. If you're joining us, look forward to seeing you soon!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Keeping up
Isn't funny how when you first start something, you have such good intentions and think you'll be able to do it without any trouble. Or when you meet up with a group of people you all tend to say, "hey we need to do this again" and everyone says of course they will. Only to find the good intentions kind of gave way to reality like, other schedules, things that come up last minute or that you just lose enthusiasm.
Yes, that's me too, you only have to look at this blog to see that!. But on a good note, I am trying harder to keep some things regular, like Cassandra's weekly toddlers music class and another meet up. The only down side is, it seems everything is now for her and no 'adult social things at all' I guess that's life with a busy husband who is almost always off playing music on weekends and not out or visiting other families. Oh well.
On a good note, I think he will be making time to update our CraftingCruises website. I am going to do my best to keep up with the blog (some enthusiasm such as a sign that someone is actually reading it would help!) and will be adding a yahoo groups forum for the cruises, which will be added, along with the existing forum, on our Craftingcruises website.
Let's see how we go!
Yes, that's me too, you only have to look at this blog to see that!. But on a good note, I am trying harder to keep some things regular, like Cassandra's weekly toddlers music class and another meet up. The only down side is, it seems everything is now for her and no 'adult social things at all' I guess that's life with a busy husband who is almost always off playing music on weekends and not out or visiting other families. Oh well.
On a good note, I think he will be making time to update our CraftingCruises website. I am going to do my best to keep up with the blog (some enthusiasm such as a sign that someone is actually reading it would help!) and will be adding a yahoo groups forum for the cruises, which will be added, along with the existing forum, on our Craftingcruises website.
Let's see how we go!
Friday, August 24, 2012
2013 Australian Crafting Cruises
We have 2 cruises in January 2013, a quilting cruise and a scrapbook cruise. Both are actually on the same ship on the same sailing! Yes I'm going to be running around like crazy with both groups!!
The sailing date is 13th to the 27th January, 2013. It's a 14 night New Zealand and South Pacific cruise on the big Royal Caribbean cruise line's ship, Voyager. This will be the first time the large Voyager ships have ventured over to Australia and I can tell you, it will be a huge hit.
The 2nd Quilting Cruise with Dorothy Clee and a guest instructor, Amanda Daly, will have 5 classes. All classes are held on sea days in the mornings so you have all afternoon at explore to enjoy the amazing ship.
Dorothy has lots of info on the classes and great pics of her work, on her blog, definitely worth reading Dorothy's blog
The 4th Annual Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa Kennedy as the instructor, will have 6 classes. We have a good size group on this cruise and a few loyal repeat cruises. A few have been on the last three of them. You can go to Melissa's blog to see samples of her work and some posts from the last couple of cruises.
Go to Craftingcruises.com for additional information. We also have a forum with lots of information on general cruising.
The sailing date is 13th to the 27th January, 2013. It's a 14 night New Zealand and South Pacific cruise on the big Royal Caribbean cruise line's ship, Voyager. This will be the first time the large Voyager ships have ventured over to Australia and I can tell you, it will be a huge hit.
The 2nd Quilting Cruise with Dorothy Clee and a guest instructor, Amanda Daly, will have 5 classes. All classes are held on sea days in the mornings so you have all afternoon at explore to enjoy the amazing ship.
Dorothy has lots of info on the classes and great pics of her work, on her blog, definitely worth reading Dorothy's blog
The 4th Annual Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa Kennedy as the instructor, will have 6 classes. We have a good size group on this cruise and a few loyal repeat cruises. A few have been on the last three of them. You can go to Melissa's blog to see samples of her work and some posts from the last couple of cruises.
Go to Craftingcruises.com for additional information. We also have a forum with lots of information on general cruising.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Flights to Australia
So I'm a little late doing this, but I had to make sure everything was going ahead with the cruises. Oh I need to fill you in on our 2 cruises next!
So looking at the flights from Qantas and VAustralia Oh My Goodness!!!! I think they've mixed up the first class fares with economy!!! I know prices have gone up and I'm sure with the fuel situation at the moment, they will go up again. But really, almost $5000 for just Cassandra and I, that is insane!!
Maybe I need to start hanging out in some of the popular celebrity bars in Hollywood, I can try to catch a ride on someones private jet!
So looking at the flights from Qantas and VAustralia Oh My Goodness!!!! I think they've mixed up the first class fares with economy!!! I know prices have gone up and I'm sure with the fuel situation at the moment, they will go up again. But really, almost $5000 for just Cassandra and I, that is insane!!
Maybe I need to start hanging out in some of the popular celebrity bars in Hollywood, I can try to catch a ride on someones private jet!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
back posting, look what we've been up to!
I'm back!!!!!!!
OK, it's been way, way, way too long I know. To be honest, I didn't even want to bother with it anymore. But, I've been thinking about how business is these days and everyone wants to see facebook pages, twitter notes (no, I'm not starting a twitter account just yet, one thing at a time) and blogs. So I'm going to attempt to do it again.
Now it's not going to be long posts to start with at least, I just don't have the time to be able to sit for too long and our just turned 2 year old daughter, makes sure that doesn't happen.
Oh I guess I do have a good excuse for not keeping it up, a time demanding girl named Cassandra!
So to just get back to the re introduction of the blog, I'm going to quickly review of last years cruise with Crafting Cruises.
2011 - the 2nd Annual Australia Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa Kennedy. We had a great time and a really good size group this year. The cruise was a 7 night Tasmania Cruise. I had all my family on this one with our 7 month old daughter who had more than enough baby sitters. 4 classes all held on the sea days and lots of ladies enjoying the open work room all day and night throughout the cruise!
2012 - A busier year this year for us, we had 3 cruises in Australia early this year.
3rd Annual Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa. This year we were on the bigger ship, the Radiance of the Seas. The sailing was a 12 night South Pacific cruise going to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A little bit of a longer cruise, so being a bit more expensive, we didn't have as many sign up this year as many of the usual group from the last 2, had mentioned they will go on the 2013 cruise. It was a small group, but they had a blast being able to socialize more together.
We also introduced 2 new cruises, the first was a quilting cruise.
The first Australian Quilt Cruise with Dorothy Clee on a 10 night South Pacific cruise. Dorothy was on our scrapbook cruise and has been teaching quilting for quite some time so it was a perfect fit! She has a B&B Russellee bed and breakfast where she has retreats for both scrapbookers and quilters. She was such a great help putting it all together and would spend many, many hours, along with her helper Larainne, in the work room helping the ladies with any questions and help working on their projects. Dorothy has sailed on the Rhapsody so many times, she new it very well.
Classes again held on sea days and the ladies had the chance to work when ever they wanted in the room. We were restricted at night though as security wanted the irons and any large scissors, locked away usually by 9pm. But everyone was very understanding and had a great time.
The third cruise was the first Australian Stamping Cruise with Rachel Grieg of Darkroom Door on a 12 night South Pacific and Fiji cruise. Rachel has such a great following in Australia, the cruise sold out very quickly. Again, Rachel was a great help and spent lots of time in the work room helping the ladies with projects. Rachel's husband Stewart, was also helping out by selling product onboard. They had set up a shop onboard so the ladies had everything they wanted and more!
So now we come to our 2013 cruises. This time we will have the 4th Annual Scrapbook cruise with Melissa and our 2nd Quilting cruise. The fun thing about this one is we have a couple of ladies who have crossed over from scrapbooking to also do their quilting onboard. Yes, these two cruises are actually on the same ship at the same time!! More on that next time,
OK, it's been way, way, way too long I know. To be honest, I didn't even want to bother with it anymore. But, I've been thinking about how business is these days and everyone wants to see facebook pages, twitter notes (no, I'm not starting a twitter account just yet, one thing at a time) and blogs. So I'm going to attempt to do it again.
Now it's not going to be long posts to start with at least, I just don't have the time to be able to sit for too long and our just turned 2 year old daughter, makes sure that doesn't happen.
Oh I guess I do have a good excuse for not keeping it up, a time demanding girl named Cassandra!
So to just get back to the re introduction of the blog, I'm going to quickly review of last years cruise with Crafting Cruises.
2011 - the 2nd Annual Australia Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa Kennedy. We had a great time and a really good size group this year. The cruise was a 7 night Tasmania Cruise. I had all my family on this one with our 7 month old daughter who had more than enough baby sitters. 4 classes all held on the sea days and lots of ladies enjoying the open work room all day and night throughout the cruise!
2012 - A busier year this year for us, we had 3 cruises in Australia early this year.
3rd Annual Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa. This year we were on the bigger ship, the Radiance of the Seas. The sailing was a 12 night South Pacific cruise going to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A little bit of a longer cruise, so being a bit more expensive, we didn't have as many sign up this year as many of the usual group from the last 2, had mentioned they will go on the 2013 cruise. It was a small group, but they had a blast being able to socialize more together.
We also introduced 2 new cruises, the first was a quilting cruise.
The first Australian Quilt Cruise with Dorothy Clee on a 10 night South Pacific cruise. Dorothy was on our scrapbook cruise and has been teaching quilting for quite some time so it was a perfect fit! She has a B&B Russellee bed and breakfast where she has retreats for both scrapbookers and quilters. She was such a great help putting it all together and would spend many, many hours, along with her helper Larainne, in the work room helping the ladies with any questions and help working on their projects. Dorothy has sailed on the Rhapsody so many times, she new it very well.
Classes again held on sea days and the ladies had the chance to work when ever they wanted in the room. We were restricted at night though as security wanted the irons and any large scissors, locked away usually by 9pm. But everyone was very understanding and had a great time.
The third cruise was the first Australian Stamping Cruise with Rachel Grieg of Darkroom Door on a 12 night South Pacific and Fiji cruise. Rachel has such a great following in Australia, the cruise sold out very quickly. Again, Rachel was a great help and spent lots of time in the work room helping the ladies with projects. Rachel's husband Stewart, was also helping out by selling product onboard. They had set up a shop onboard so the ladies had everything they wanted and more!
So now we come to our 2013 cruises. This time we will have the 4th Annual Scrapbook cruise with Melissa and our 2nd Quilting cruise. The fun thing about this one is we have a couple of ladies who have crossed over from scrapbooking to also do their quilting onboard. Yes, these two cruises are actually on the same ship at the same time!! More on that next time,
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