Monday 31 December 2007

Happy New Year...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE...

Well christmas is over for another year... we had a great day spending it with family.. Kaitlyn got totally spoilt as usual and she loved all her presents that she got.. her main present was a trampoline which she was totally surprised about...(we spent all christmas eve trying to put the thing together lol).. she was awake at 5.30am wanting to open up her presents so i let her open her stocking on her door first then at 6am i let her go downstairs to see if santa had been.. he even left her a note saying thanks for the yummy snack lol... so all presents opened and we had a yummy breakfast then off to my aunties for lunch.. kaitlyn went to her dads for chirstmas night this year and she again got spoilt...

I did pretty well myself this year very very happy with what i got..
* a new 1gig card for my camera
* season 2 and 3 of One Tree Hill
*3 new singlet tops
* a gorgeous handmade bookmark from my sister
* a remote for my camera
* a stamp making kit
* some a4 draws for my scrap room
*patricia cornwells new book

so i think i did pretty well this year....

well its now new years eve... bring on 2008

Oh and i can now share my exciting news with you all that i keep forgetting to tell you lol.. I have been asked to be a Design Team member for Karens Scrappin Cupboard.. yeahh im so excited about this.. such an awsome site to be a member of.. definatley go and check it out they have also started a projects blog that will have diffrent projects from the design team members on it so make sure you check that out...

Ill share some of my projects i have done soon.

Alison came over to scrap yesterday and i got 2 things finished... hope to do a few more things today before i go out.. Kaitlyn is at her dad's for a week and everyone else has gone away so its really quiet here (i miss my girl...) so plenty of time to scrap lol...

ok not much else to share... will update again in 2008

have fun and be safe everyone

xxxx

Wednesday 19 December 2007

Count down...

till Santa comes yeahhh... LOL not long to go now thank goodness... still have a bit of shopping left to do still but not alot which is good... then its just wrapping them (i really hate that part)... so tomorrow is my final day to go and get it all done...

So other things... i got a scraproom makeover yeahhh.. im very happy with how it turned out... we got rid of the old bed that was in the room and i got a new bookshelf in to store lots of my stuff on as well as hold my clip it up etc... i really love it now im off to scrap today as its given me lots of inspiration yeahh... here are some pics of my new room...




loving it it looks like such a scrap room now lol

OK what else... Kaitlyn had her end of year presentation assembley yesterday... she did very well this year was so proud of her report that she got home she got mostly outstandings and some highs which was a great effort for her... at the assembley all of year 1 did a singing item... they learnt how to speak french this year so they sang 3 songs in french and english which was great... Kaitlyn was on the french side (she is actually pretty good with speaking another language she also knows italian)...


she did very well....

Ok well today i must go and finish off making some chrissy presents...

ohhh will share my exciting news next post lol...

Merry Christmas if i dont get back here before then....take care everyone

xxxx

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Storms and other things

Well it hasnt really been summer weather latley... not the usual hot swealtering heat that we normally have.. instead im in jeans and yesterday i was even in a jumper what the??? LOL...



Last sunday we had a massive storm hit us and lets just say that i was not a happy chappy.. i was in tears... I was on my way to my grandparents house when the storm hit us... it was the most scariest driving experience ever in my entire driving life... the hail was the size of golf balls they were huge... here is a pic of them


some of them were even bigger then these ones... my mum took these photos to show the insurance companies as we had some damage done to our house also... our back pergola area where the stairs are was smashed by a falling tree branch and the roof on our pergola was cracked in lots of places so now we cant sit out there if its raining cause it dosnt do much lol

and this is a pic of the huge tree that fell down in our street.. this tree is about 5 houses up from ours and it crashed across our whole street lucky we have 2 ends we can get in and out of our street from...
but the worse part was my brand new car... i was in tears.. i mean there was nothing i could do but sit there and cry lol.. the roof, bonnet and passenger sides of my car have huge dents in them.. dont know the final damage cost yet (only got a hold of the insurance company today) so wont know the extent of it till i go and get some quotes to fix it... but its so sad my poor car...

not a very good pic but you can see some of the dents in the bonett... so hope its fixable...

other then that not alot happening around here... having done much scrapping i really need to but just no mojo what so ever... anyone send me any please... oh yeah and i really must go and do the rest of my christmas shopping... maybe sunday i might venture out and do it or friday if i feel like it lol.. i dread heading to the shops...

ohhh i do have some exciting news to share but not yet lol will share definatly when i can...lol love keeping everyone in suspense ...

well must go and get organised to see if i can scrap i hope that i can i running behind in my christmas journal and really want to keep caught up... off to see what i can do

take care

xxxxx

Wednesday 5 December 2007

My Birthday...

Well another year gone and another year older lol...i got totally spoilt by everyone... my gorgeous girl woke me up at 6.30am to give me my presents lol... she also bought me a cake to have after dinner last night check out the cake she chose for me... there goes the diet thats for sure lol

my presents consisted of a new desk lamp i got one of those Ott-lite lights they are so good and bright (i can see properly now lol).. i also got a cd, come clothes and some new summer jammies.. totally spoilt... thanks to all my gorgeous friends for the birthday wishes too...


ok 2 more pages to share from my christmas journal... 3rd was all about cards.. i handmade all my cards this year using diffrent colours... i used the card i made on this page also


and the 4th is the perfect christmas for you... i used some photos from this year and last year as well... family and friends is what makes christmas perfect for me...well not alot else happening around here... its raining lots so not a nice summer we are having so far lol... off to a christmas party this saturday night so should be lots of fun and have a few drinks with friends...

will update more soon

Monday 3 December 2007

Christmas Journal

I decided this year to finally join in properly with Shimelle's Christmas journal... i loved all the prompts last year but didnt actually get around to getting any of the pages done.. so when i got the email from shimelle saying this year we could do it all again for free i thought why not and this year i intend to do more then just the first page lol... so here is my book that im using this year.. i decided on a Heidi swapp 9x9 album... i love working in this size not too big not too small lol... so here is my cover and this is my first page declaring what im going to do with this journal...


im nearlly caught up just got to print a photo for page 2 then im all done so far... waiting on day 3 prompt....

not alot else to report... its storming here so not alot of time on the computer... its my birthday tomorrow so will update with pics of my day tomorrow...

bye for now

xxxx

Wednesday 28 November 2007

Forgot about the Tag...

Sorry Trac forgot that you tagged me so here it is....

Here are the rules which you must abide by if you are tagged:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs

Here we go:
1. Im obsessed with Mickey Mouse
2. I love murder mystery books and shows
3. When i was in year 3 at school i was jumping down the stairs 2 at a time and broke my leg
4. Im a very messy person LOL
5. Im very impatient when it comes to tv shows. i like to go on the internet and find them to watch from the USA so im ahead lol
6. I tend to take way to many pics
7. I hate cleaning

Ok to tag 7 people well most i know have already done this before .... so consider your self tagged if you are reading this...
have fun

christmas has started....

Well i decided to sit down today and get all my christmas cards made up... yeah finished a total of 17 cards for friends and realtives... im in a christmas card swap with friends from Scrapfreak... so they will be sent off soon... i got my first one the other day and it was gorgeous... love getting handmade cards in the mail....

found this fun link today while surfing the net.. go and have a play its so much fun and wait till you see how they turn out lol... Make your own snowflake

ok not alot happening i really must start my shopping soon i have no idea what to get everyone....especially my dd...

Have a few scrappy projects on the go at the moment which ill share with you all when i can...

ok off to get organised to scrap tonight after i have watched the final of A farmer wants a wife....

hope everyone is well....

Saturday 24 November 2007

opps...

its been awhile since i updated this blog...lots have been happening... lets see where do i start...

well i said in my last post that i quit my job and i now only have 3 more shifts to go... im very excited and i so cant wait to get out of that place... lets just say its not a nice place to be at at the moment... so im looking forward to my last shift which is next saturday night yeahhh...

Then ill have heaps of time to catch up with all my gorgeous friends and yes you guessed it scrap lots lol...

I havnt shared many pages latley but here are all my pages that i have done for Lucy's blog Sketch World where im a Diva Designer for her.. her sketches are awsome definatley go and check them out....

Here are my pages i have done so far:













i have some more that i have to get done for her... also a few card sketches as well which i might get done tomorrow if i get a chance....



I did a christmas photo shoot with kaitlyn today... very cute photos... i have a few christmas pages i have to do so these will definatley come in handy... we put up most of our christmas stuff today... i know i know a bit early but kaitlyn will be at her dads next weekend so we did it this weekend so she could help out...




in other things scrapping i have done quite a bit these last 2 days i have been really into making off the page stuff and have found many great sites with instructions on how to make chrissy decorations.. here are 2 of them that i have completed



First is my christmas tree... this is totally handmade using patterned papers and a scalloped stencil and lots of double sided tape lol



and this is my fav so far... this is made out of 24 matchboxes (oh yeah if anyone needs any matches let me know lol i have thousands now LOL) then i just stuck them all together and used a bottom and top made out of thick chipbaord covered each mach box is made to look like a draw and its and advent calender for kaitlyn so when she opens up each one it has a small surprise in it for her...




isnt that cute and it didnt take me that long to make them either...



















here are some more photos of kaitlyn decorating our christmas tree... she was very proud of herself as this was the first year she could reach the top of the tree (on a chair lol) to put the star on top.. she did it all by herself (gregdad just had to straighten it lol)
and check these out my mum hand made these for us... Kaitlyn, my brother josh and I... everything on these stockings is done by hand including making the stocking itself.. my mum has made 7 of these now for family ....they are totally gorgeous... Kaitlyn got hers today as a special surprise so santa knows to leave her little goodies in her stocking....
well i think i wont bore you anymore lol... i know tracy has tagged me but ill be back to do that soon i promise... i also have another blog prompt to do also so will get that caught up soon too...
Oh forgot to say im joining in agian this year with Shimelle for her Christmas journal... if you join for a year you get every year after that free... so since i did it last year this year its free for me... i didnt get much done last year lol so hopefully this year i will cross fingers for me ....

be back soon i promise...
bye for now
xxxxx

PS if you stop by to check out my blog dont forget to say HI...

Friday 9 November 2007

too tired

too think today lol... not alot been happening latley.. my only news that i have is i quit my job yeahhh lol... dont know exactly what im going to do with myself once i finish up there but hey all is good ill be much happier then what i am now so thats the main thing... no more stupid hours that i have been doing... so December the 1st is my last day there....lets hope the rest of the month goes fast for me please...
on the scrapping front not alot happening... have found a couple of awsome sites that i have joined in on with heaps of fun challenges... have done 2 challenges for Scrapfreak this card was a sketch challenge
and this page was for the STAR challenge you had to scrap a page using inspiration from a star scrapper.. i chose elsie flannigan love her style although i dont really think i can pull it off as well as she does but i tried...

oh dont forget to check out Sketch World blog.. its Lucy's first birthday of her sketch blog heaps of fun happening over there so go and check it out lots of gorgeous sketches and card sketches as well... im about to start to scrap some of them so check them out on the blog soon...

well not much else to report... just wanted to give my gorgeous friend kylie a huge huge hug she knows why.... ((((((((((((((HUG))))))))))))))

hope everyone is well

chat to you soon

xxxxxx

Saturday 27 October 2007

Huge update...

So you may want to get a cuppa lol...

Ok where to start.... oh yes our QLD holiday

We had the best time... the flight up was so much fun Kaitlyn loved her first plane flight she was a bit nervous at first but once we got going she was fine she loved it... here she is sitting in the plane waiting to take off...

So the first day we went to Dream World.. this was Kaitlyn's favourite place.. she is such a little dare devil and went on most of the rides that she was allowed to go on with height restrictions etc... she had a lot of fun running around all the diffrent places in there...we got to go into the big brother house... that was fun to see.. here is kaitlyn in the lounge room of the big brother house




The next day we traveled up to Australia Zoo.. it took us 2.5hrs to get there due to huge storms.. when we got there they had had a huge electrical storm so there was no power there... it was a bit dissapointing there wasnt what we thought it would be like... so we walked around the park a bit a few things we didnt get to see like the tigers etc due to the huge storm.. we got a photo taken with a huge snake it was so heavy... we walked around patting all the kangaroos etc too which was ok they were all a bit wet though so not nice to pat etc lol...

we also got to see Steve Irwins truck and you could sit in it for photos etc...kaitlyn and the big croc


the next day we went to movie world with Kylie and her family... Kylie and I were like big kids and went on all the rides lol.. it was lots of fun



the next day was sea world... again we went with kylie and her family.. it was great having them up there kaitlyn loved having connor and shanice to go on the rides with and yes it was fun i had kylie to come on the big rides with me LOL




so that was our holiday.. we had a great time didnt want to come home... we had major storms at night but the days were gorgeous and the place we stayed in was really nice to.. kaitlyn loved the pool and we got to swim in them a couple of time...

Ok what else.. well kaitlyn had her 7th birthday and got totally spoilt... she got lots of gorgeous presents from everyone...



she is starting to collect Beanie Kids (they are teddies and you can get many diffrent types of ones).. she got some more for her birthday from her aunty Danielle and then she also got some money so she went and bought some more today... all up now she has got 20 beanie kids 1 bigger one and 2 figurines... she wants to collect lots more... dont ask me where we are going to put them lol..


On the scrapping front not alot happening.. i did go and spend the night last weekend at the Scrapgirls retreat that they had up at penrith.. that was a great night got to catch up with some good friends of mine... didnt sleep much lol and didnt get alot of scrapping done but it was a fun time....
Oh forgot to tell you all my exciting news LOL... I got onto a design Team... it dosnt offically start till december but i got the email the other day saying i was successful.. so yeahh i cant wait.. its a brand new site but go and check it out her site is gorgeous... so ill be having lots of fun over there playing...the site is called Maya Memories...

Also if your around sydney this weekend come and say hi to me at the paper craft festival at Penrith... im going there to help out my gorgeous friends Sue and Craig with their online store Scraploot... so make sure you come and check it out they have the most gorgeous stuff there and there are also going to be some fun new stock there that you dont want to miss out on Sue and Craig have really outdone themselves this time... so come and say hi ill be there on friday and saturday....

well if your still with me yeahhh i know its been huge but its been awhile since i did a big update... must blog more regular from now on....

ok off to do some scrapping lots of projects that i have to get done

and im also Cyber Cropping tonight over at Crafty Collages come and check out the challenges they are awsome... so come over tonight and say Hi

bye for now

xxxxx

Sunday 21 October 2007

Just a quick post

to say a huge


HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO MY GORGEOUS GIRL KAITLYN WHO TURNED 7 TODAY....


Yeah honey i love you heaps....

she got totally spoilt and ill be able to share more photos soon when i get a spare minute to sit down and show you all....

i also have some other exciting news to share with you all but will share that later on too.....


bye for now
xxxx

Saturday 6 October 2007

woohoo another TOOT for me...


Yeah i got accepted as a DIVA designer over at My Sketch world... woohoo its a sketch blog with heaps of awsome inspirational sketches over there... go and check them out... im just about to start on my first page for them.. looking forward to doing more stuff over there...
ok off to do some scrapping its National Card making day so im doing some challenges etc so im off to get a start on them....
chat to you all when i get back....
xxxx

Thursday 4 October 2007

ohhh forgot to say...

i have started the Tony Ferguson diet i have been on it now for 2 weeks.. well i had my weigh in yesterday and i have lost 1.9kilos and 2cm off my waist woohoo... very happy with that effort... i have 8 more kilos i want to lose.... i think i can do it lol... we will see how i go during my holiday...

bye for now

xxx

some exciting things...

yeah some exciting things have happened in the last few days for me inregards to scrapping... firstly my big one was getting asked to be a guest designer over at 2 Jills... woohoo i so cant wait its not till january but even so they are a really cool kit site go and check them out... they have also just started a whole new message board with heaps of games and challenges going on go and have some fun over there... they are american but they love having internationals join in....


and my other news was i won the weekly BOM challenge over at Scraploot woohoo...this was the page i did for last weeks challenge... yeah i get to go shopping lol...

well im going to try and get some more scrapping done tonight... i have 4 more sleeps till kaitlyn and i fly up to QLD yeahhh... im taking a few things scrappy to do but not alot... something to keep me occupied at night time...

ok off to scrap must get some pages done before i go away....probably wont blog now till then so ill see you all in a weeks time....

bye for now

xxxxx

Tuesday 2 October 2007

this is funny join in....

i just found this while i was blog surfing join in its really funny:

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car),Scully Astra
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie),Mango choc chip
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name),S-Pow
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal),Purple Gorilla
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born),Louise Auckland
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 3 letters of your first),Powshe
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink),The Green Coke
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers),Keith (sorry, don't know my other grandfather's name)
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy),Celine jubes
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ),Lorraine George
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter),Montgomery Melbourne
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).Summer Lavendar
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)MangoJeanie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree),Thickshakemaple
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”), The Scrap warm weather Tour

LOL try it some sound a bit bizarre but its funny....

All up and running again

Ok well i finally found the time to sit down and fix up my blog... i was trying to get one of those diffrent templates onto my blog but in the process i deleted everything on my blog... so i had to redo all my links etc again... just taken me the last hour lol... oh well its back up and running again...

i have also just changed it to pink and black.. Pink being for breast cancer awareness month... so go and change the colours of your blogs to pink also to show you care....http://pinkforoctober.org/ this site you can register your blog to say its gone pink... go and join in

ok what else has been happening... well im now on holidays from work for 2 weeks... yeah im so happy about that one thats for sure... Kaitlyn is also on school holidays and next monday we fly out to QLD for a week up there going to all the theme parks etc... so cant wait looking forward to it... Kaitlyn is super excited as she gets to go on a plane for the first time ever....

Have been doing a bit of scrapping latley... Im in the process of joining in a DT competition over at Crafty Collages having alot of fun doing all the challenges that Ally has been setting over there.. in the end she is going to pick a person for her Design Team.. so fingers crossed... make sure to go and check out the site its alot of fun over there....
On sunday Kaitlyn and I went over the Sue's house for a scrap day... lots of fun and of course lots of money spent there lol... I got a total of 3 pages done that day.....
On a sad not my printer decided to pack it in also... wouldnt print anything out unless it was blue that you wanted lol... So today i went and got a new printer and it prints the best photos out ever im really loving it.. I got a Canon printer this time (my last one was an epson)... so now i can print out my photos again and get some more scrapping done yeahhh...
I have also found another fun site that i have joined in on woohoo its an american site and its so much fun they have heaps of challenges etc going on over there... http://www.scrapfreak.com/store/home.php

not much else going on in my life... might go to the movies tomorrow and take kaitlyn to the library... last saturday we went up the coast to the wild life park with my sisters family... it was a great day.. got lots of pics to use for pages which was good.... we got to see the new crocodile which he didnt do much just layed there lol...

well must go and get organised for dinner and kaitlyn is bugging me to use the computer...
bye for now
xxxx

Tuesday 11 September 2007

Look what i did today

yeahhh looked what i did today i had a play with my new bind it all system.. wow it is so easy to use and i had so much fun playing with it... i made a 9x9 album for a competition i am doing over at Scraploot called Spring book of me its a 12 week challenge... so i decided to make a album for it also just something diffrent... here is my attempt at using the bind it all...


see told you i had fun today lol... ok off to have a sleep now i have 2 overnights at work the next 2 nights... then scrapping time for me... oh and class on friday night at Scraploot yeahhh

Wednesday 5 September 2007

Look what i got....



yeahhh look what i got the other day from Maevan (thanks hon) i was so looking forward to getting one of these i had been tossing it up to get one for awhile then maevan said she was getting some so i thought why not... look out i think lots of mini albums are going to be happening soon LOLwoohoo see i told you i was excited about it LOL... so cant wait to have a play with it....


I have done a few scrappy things over the last couple of days... these are for my BPS class that i am doing this month...


this was a tag project that we had to make: and then we had to do a page using a 5x7 photo.. this is mine:
loving this class i think its giving me lots of scrapping motivation... ok off to watch a movie and have a lie down very tired...
3 more days of work to go yeahhhh

bye for now
xxx

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Not alot happening...

around here latley... i have been so swamped with work latley that there is not much time for anything else unfortunatley... i have been working full time hours for the last 2 weeks as work.. one more week to go then back to 3 days a week yeahhh... i cant wait...i need scrapping time... i did manage to do one page and a stamp folder (thanks to Tracy such a good idea)... so was happy with that... here is my page that i did at Sue's house on saturday night... apart from that no scrapping what so ever ... this page was also for the scraplift challenge over at Mojo Holder... last one for august so i was a bit late LOL but still wanted to share


i have so many new goodies that are waiting for me LOL...


not much else happening... im going to get a scraproom makeover LOL i have decided to sell all my furniture that i have in storage (its costing me a fortune to keep it there) so im going to move the bed out of my scraproom and bring down my big book case cabinet so ill have more room to put all my stuff in... cant wait i so need to get organised in here i cant find anything...cant even see my desk at the moment LOL...


Fathers day was on sunday..we didnt do anything special as my dad was in melbourne for work so we just went to lunch at my aunties new place... Kaitlyn went to her fathers house for the day.. she is going there for 3 days this weekend... which is good as i have all overnight shifts at the end of this week so ill be sleeping most of the day....


not much else going on... have to work again tonight yuckkk... did you all go and check out the awsome site i found Bad Girls they are having a comp soon and it sounds like a heap of fun... there are so many people signed up for it its going to be huge...i have joined up but will see how far i get LOL...


Oh yeah im also doing a Big Picture class at the moment called daily Dose alot of fun we have to take a photo a day and at the end i think we make a book with these photos... there are also daily projects that you can make with instructions... lots of fun so i might go and catch up with them and do some of their projects i have done all my photos....

have fun all xxxx

Sunday 2 September 2007

check out this site its so much fun

go and check out this site that i found... lots of fun happening over there.... Bad Girls


will be back later on to update more on whats been happeing

Wednesday 22 August 2007

yeahhhh 2 pages...

wow finally i did 2 pages today... woohoo go me LOL... here they are the first one is a free Kim Archer class page i did... great class loved how this one turned out...

and the next one is a page i did with inspiration from a great new challenge blog that i found called Mojo Holder.. its great they give you a weekly scraplift challenge from diffrent people... this is my page using inspiration from challenge number 25...

so i think my mojo is slowly returning yeahhh... off to clean up and see if i can get any more done lets hope that i can....

xxxxx