Kells World!!

NEW BLOG!!!

2006-05-04T16:30:00.000+10:00

Well gals - I did it and got a new blog!!

Here is my new address: http://kelleyforrester.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Schools Back!!!

2006-05-02T13:02:00.000+10:00

Yep - The biggest thing happening in my life - Matts back at school! It is lovely and quiet here today - Cant wait till Thursday - That will be dreamy - Just having Alicia!! She is my angel anyway so it should be nice!!! So it has been a weird week - The miners in Tassie - How lucky that 2 of them have been found alive!! I was crying watching their families on tv - they were so excited that they were ok - As you would be! But their has been some tragedies too - Jen and Kell - I am thinking of you both and your families!
So it has been pretty quiet for me - Sunday i went for the scrap needs monthly crop - Had fun as always!!! I got one LO finished that i had started the night before and another LO nearly finished! I think i just love to go to chat!! LOL!!
More exciting news - I won 2 competitions on Serenity - A $20 gift voucher and also a Melissa Frances Ribbon Drawer - How stoked am i!!! Awesome prizes!! I not long ago found this site but i am addicted already!! LOL!! Lovely ladies and great competitions!! The comps are keeping me super inspired to scrap which is great!!
So i am sitting here scrapping now - Thought i would stop for snacks though!! I am trying out a different stitch on my sewing machine - Looks pretty kool so far!!!
Well i should probably get back to it - I will share a few recent LOs!! I have done a few using some Urban Lily papers as i am thinking about entering their DT contest! Thought i would see what i could do with their papers before i decided!! I like my LOs anyway so if i dont decided to enter or do and dont get it - I am still super happy!!! The first LO is me!!! The photos Lib took of me being Silly!! I still like them though!! LOL!!

Tagged!!!

2006-04-28T10:23:00.000+10:00

Thanks to Lib for tagging me!!! I will catch up a bit first then do the tag! Well wednesday - Volleyball!! We won! Then we came home and i did the last few details on my A-Z like filling out the form etc etc - then i posted it!!! How good does it feel to have it all done!!
So yesterday - I meet up with Jen and Lib out at the Erina shop - Should have seen us with our tribe of kids!! LOL!! So i got some new yummy papers!!! MMMMM I Love papers!!! Anyway - Then we set off for Chipmunks - OMG - School holidays is hell!! Never going there again in school hols!! Lib ended up going shopping and never made it to chipmunks!! LOL!! (Hope you got some good bargains Lib!) I think me and Jen lasted about 2 hours then both went home a bit stressed and just desperately wanting peace and quiet!! Hope you got some Jen!!! So then had to play volleyball last night - at 9pm - against a div 2 team - we are div 1 - So we absolutely slaughtered them and i hardly moved!! I was freezing when we finished!! LOL!! Usually i am so hot and sweaty and yuk but seriously - thats how much better div 1 is!! So we walk over to the counter and one of the girls from the other team is abusing one of the girls that works there because they had to play us - It was cause we both had byes so we played against each other instead - I get it - I accept it - Who cares!! But there is no reason to go off!! Geez - I felt like telling her to get a life!! Who cares!!! Least we beat them though - I would have felt real bad if we lost to them!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
So i havent quite scrapped as much this week - I dont have any deadlines so im not doing anything!!! I am working on a little mini album of Alicia - At the beach!! I did do a few LOs at the start of the week though!! How weird am i - Havent scrapped for like 2/3 days and it feels like forever!! LOL!!
So i will share with you the cover of my mini album - Was gonna share some LOs too but it wont let me - Stupid thing - I just uploaded a new version of internet explorer and bloody hell - It is totally different!! Why cant they just leave things the way they are!! GRRRRR!! Stupid windows updater thingy!!!

And now - The long awaited for TAG:

Born: 14th September 1981

First Job: Kmart Checkout Chick!!!

Fondest Memory: Well i will have to say the birth of my daughter - Now not saying i love her more than the others BUT i was in so much control over her birth and i did it how i wanted to - It was quick and well i have to say easy - The boys births were scary as i was sick with Matt and Mitch had the cord around his neck!

Last thing purchased: Ummm - I went to coles last night and got some coke, nappies, juice and some yummy mars pods (seriously addictive - if you have not tried these you are missing out!!)

Fish, Chicken or Beef: CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN - My fave meal!!! Anything chicken!!! (Leaves me a goner if the bird flu comes here huh!!!)

Movie: Ummm - I cant remember!! Oh a few weeks ago i watched Goldeneye on foxtel - me and Jono used to love playing that game on Nintendo 64!! Brought back memories - Oh and i watched Gladiator while i was scrapping last sunday night!!

Retreat: Last retreat i went to (And the only!) Was the scrap needs retreat in March!!! SOO much fun!

Flower: Daffodils and Singapore Lillies

Day of the week: Probably wednesday - pay day and volleyball day - gets me out of the house!

Indulgence: Scrapbook stuff and Pods!!!

What scrapbook lines/products, etc. do you dislike? Ummm - Not much really!! LOL!! Some of the older stuff!

What technique do you use more than anything else? Tearing - I LOVE it!!!

Who or What are your biggest influences on your style? I would have to say Jen - I love her stuff and i want mine to look that good!!

Have you ever had any scrapbook related tiffs with your Husband? Not really - Not unless i am on the puter at the same time as scrapping and he wants the puter!! HAHA!!

Finish this sentence, "If I wasn't a scrapbooker/stamper, I would spend my money on..." Clothes probably - I know i need new ones!! HAHA!!

If there is one person you have met through blogging that you know will be a life time friend who would it be?: I dont know - I have made a few friends through scrapping (not blogging cause i started blogging through scrapping!) that i reckon i will stay friends with!! I dont want to say names incase i forget people!!

What music do you listen to while you scrap? Ummm - Usually the music on my puter which varies - Newer stuff - Older stuff -I do love to listen to Pete Murray though - He is a fave!! I would be happy to just have the radio or Channel V on!!

Obsessions?: Scrapbook shopping, Scrapbook internet surfing (Forums, galleries - I am addicted!!) Oh yeah and the actual scrapbooking too i guess!!

Do you have an addiction?? Umm yeah - Obviously scrapbooking!!

Out of the box, (well on it ) who do you lust after on TV?. Wentworth Millar from Prison break!!

You just won a week long scrapbooking cruise for 5. Who is going with you? Geez 5 is hard to pick!! I dont wanna pick!!!

When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell? Jono, my mum - then announced it on the forums!! LOL!! Everyone that would listen!!!

One quote that defines you: "You have got to stand a little rain if you will ever see a rainbow!"

After answering the questions, tag four of your buddies I tag : Jen, Kel, Sal & Beck (And anyone else who wants it!!! LOL!!)

BLOODY BLOGGER!!!

2006-04-25T11:09:00.000+10:00

I made a whole post and it ate it so i will just post my LOs now cause i dont wanna write it all again!
Here is a sketch challenge LO - Bugs Bunny Boy and a mini album i made about my nan - All photo of her from when she was lots younger!!

Well Hello There!!!

2006-04-21T21:07:00.000+10:00

Im not so good at this blogging too often am i!! LOL!! Well i have been really sick this week though so thats my excuse and im sticking to it!! LOL!!
So not much happened this week! Been wanting to stay in bed every day and such a bugger when you have kids cause you just cant!! But i am starting to feel much better now so hey - Thats a good thing!!
I have not scrapped much this week - I did one LO yesterday which is for a sketch challenge! Will share that (The Shell LO) And i did one A-Z LO today and am doing another right now - So only 4 & 1/2 more to go and i am done - I will have to post it on wednesday so i gotta get it all done this weekend!!! But i am pretty proud of myself regardless of how i go as i got it all done so quickly and i am pretty happy with most of the LOs too!! I rarely finish a themed album and like it!! LOL!!
So i dont really have much to write - Just thought i would check in!! Here is a few of my A-Z LOs and my Sketch LO!!!
Check out the reptie park LO - I am SOOO pregnant there!! Fat cow arent i!! LOL!!! LOL and cant you tell how much my fashion has changed since then and the Queen LO - the pic was taken the weekend of the retreat!! Same pants and same colour top (They are different tops!!) Such a dag i am!! HAHAHA!!!

Happy Easter!! (A little late!!)

2006-04-17T15:23:00.000+10:00

Well happy easter everyone!! We had a pretty good one here!! Especially Mitch who got up before everyone else and stole his sisters chocolate aswell!!! LOL!! Cheeky little brat!! LOL!! Then this morning he stole my chocolate too!! Jono insists it was before he got up but i dunno!! Once he gets on his game he doesnt hear things very well!!! LOL!!
So yesterday we went to Jonos family for a few hours - The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and aunties and uncles - Can you believe i didnt take any pics yesterday!! We still havent done our easter hunt yet either - Our grass is too long so we were gonna do it at the inlaws but never got around to it and then we were gonna go to a park today but still havent!! We will do it soon!! Alicia is sick though so im not too bothered about getting it done today or whenever! I dont want to take her out in the cold!
So i have been scrapping up a storm lately and i love it!!! I am up to S now in my A-Z LO!! Not bad seeing as i started a few weeks ago!! HAHA!!
So Alicia had an appointment with the paedatrician this week as she had a heart murmur detected - It was quite scary though as the doctor was listening for AGES and not telling me anything! But he seems to think she will be fine and that it is an innocent murmur - I have had heaps of people tell me they have them so that is quite comforting too!! I scrapped a page the night before she went all about my fears - I will put it in my post - I really love this page as it is so heartfelt - Mainly journalling and i think she will really appreciate and love reading it when she is older!
Went up to Newcastle on Saturday night for a crop with the gals again!!! Fun as ALWAYS!!! Love these nights out!!! I got 3 & 1/2 pages scrapped - Probably would have finished the 4th one too if not for getting kicked out!! LOL!!
And dont forget girls - Chipmunks - Thursday!!!!
So anyway - Gotta go to the shops now - Need something for dinner!! Otherwise they will all starve!! (Especially if i keep eating there easter eggs!! HAHA!!)
So i will leave you with 2 of my latest LOs and 2 pics of my gorgeous boys with there easter hats!! matt made his at shcool by himself - Mitchy made his with lots and lots of MY help at home!! LOL!! (OK i made most of it and he just helped stick stuff on!! LOL!!)

Finally!!

2006-04-10T14:07:00.000+10:00

Finally thought i would update again!! LOL!! Sometimes i just keep thinking nah i will do it later and never get around to later!!
So here i am - Not much to report though!! Was a pretty quiet weekend - My mum dropped in from Coffs on friday arvo - huge suprise!!! Saturday i ended up staying home - was going to watch Jono play basketball but i ended up chucking a tiff and Jono ended up taking the boys to his mums and it was justme and Alicia and the sweetheart had the hugest sleep so i got some scrapping done!!! I was just on one of my moods!! As you do!! So it did end up good though cause i got some real nice quiet time!!
Friday night was the scrap needs cyber crop - that was fun!! Chatting and scrapping - my 2 fave things to do !! LOL!!! I got one LO done for the challenge and ended up starting another one too!!
I am still plodding along with the A-Z - I just finished K this morning!! Nearly half way!! LOL!! So 4 of my 5 done this week!! Might try and get as many as i can done this week to try and get it done even earlier!! But i do love to do other LOs aswell!! LOL!! Thats what makes me slow with my CJs too i think - Cause i love to do LOs for me!!!! I love to scrap!! Lately i am on such a roll that it is no problem but usually i can just do a few a week!! (OMG - I love the roll i am on at the moment though!! I love it!!!) So anyway - I should go - Gotta get Matt in about half hour!! FUN!! Alicia is wanting my attention and gotta put a load of washing in!!
Have a good day!! here are my 2 LOs!!

Busy Busy!!!

2006-04-07T13:44:00.000+10:00

Well i am glad i had nothing to do today cause i am buggered just from yesterday!! I was out all day - I took Alicia to the beach for the very first time - and she loved it too - She was such a sweetie on the way back up to the car she was cuddling me and kissing me - I think it was her way of saying thanks mum! She was so fascinated by the sand - why was it sticking to her feet?? LOL!! It was beautiful! And so relaxing and i am so glad i took her! Yes i know - I am slack - I live so close to the beach and this is the first time i take her! I'm more of a pool girl - which is odd cause i grew up going to the beach with my mum - loved it!! I still love it - Just not a fan of going often! i think its the sand and the seaweed! If there is a lot of seaweed - I wont go near it! And i hate the feeling of all the sand stuck to you!! But i am getting better with that!
So then we went to Saras and was talking to her for AGES!!! Geez considering we see each other all the time - I wonder how we keep thinking up things to talk about!! LOL!! Yet we still sit there and talk for hours on end!! Gotta love that!

Then it was off to the shops to get some photos printed of Alicia at the beach! Then pay the rent - Race off to get Matt then we went back to the shops cause i was starving and just wanted some lunch!!! Then home - Then off to the shops again as i had to get craft stuff for Matt for school for there easter hats, then get Mitchy, off to the shops again to get some groceries and pick up my photos (Which are amazing!!) then volleyball and then back to the shops again to get a few more groceries i forgot to get before (Well ok i had a craving for some pods and wanted them!!!) Then home to watch Lost and fall into bed totally exhausted!!! See - Very busy!!! And i managed to check out a scrap shop too - They are looking for a new teacher too - I am still not sure if i want to apply yet - I have till the end of April to think about it!! It is a really good shop though - They got tons of stuff in!!! And good prices too!
I got a great bargain too - I got a new cordless phone for $20!!! So stoked as Jono broke mine last year and having to use the old crappy phone again was annoying!! But now i can walk around and talk again!!! Not that i have many people i talk to on the phone - Most of my friends are over the net!! LOL!!! Great Bargain but!!!! Well i cant think anymore!! I will show off some pics of our beach excursion!!! I have no idea how i got that weird pink one!!! I do love how it came out though!! Different!!! HAHA - Do you like the wetbum one??? She didnt like it when we went to the waters edge and a little tiny wave got her feet so she plonked herself down in the water!! LOL!!! Mean mummy just laughed!!! It was classic!!

Woohoo!!

2006-04-06T02:05:00.000+10:00

Guess who figured out how to get music!!! OK - So its in a weird spot BUT its on here!! I am always going to others blogs to listen to music - Now i can go to mine!! (Ok so i am too lazy to put on my music player!! LOL!!) OK so i must be insane cause it is 2am and i am STILL up so if there is any bad spelling - oh well!!! I have had Sara here for a while chattin away!! As we do!! And then i had to scrap some more of my corkboard - I started altering one and i am just loving it so far!! Dont you love when it just works!! This week i have just so had so much mojo!! I am enjoying it so much!!! Love my scrapping!! So here are 2 pages i did this week anyway - One of Matt and one of the zoo!!
Anyway - I am off to bed now!! I dont wanna be too bitchy tomorrow!! LOL!!

Busy!!!

2006-04-03T16:51:00.000+10:00

Well i have been busy busy busy here!! Well and sick!! LOL!! We won volleyball last wednesday - But then lost on thursday night - But it was so close and i reckon we could beat them next time!! They are the number one team too!! Friday night i went out with a great bunch of ladies!!! Lots of the gals from scrapneeds! Always guaranteed fun - and this night was no different! The dinner was yummy!! The company was fun!! Wonderful night!!
So i wake up on saturday morning with the biggest full blown flu!! YUKK!!! So i spent most of saturday in bed!! Jono was such a sweetie to me!! I did get one LO done on saturday though - How i do not know!! I am trying to get this A-Z album done as fast as possible! I am up to H now - Not bad seeing i didnt start it till last wednesday!! LOL!! (Hows yours going Jen!!!) So i thought i would reward myself once i have H finished and do a LO for me!! LOL!! I want to use some of my urban couture paper for a challenge Megan set on scrap needs!! Or i could do a DT LO i have due in a few days!! LOL!! (Or both!)
So anyway - off to eat dinner!! Here are a few of my A-Z LOs!!!! Might be back later!! Might not!! LOL!!

I can spill my secret now!! YAY!!!

2006-03-29T10:24:00.000+11:00

I am on a design team!!! YAY!!! For the cute little website i have in my links - Stickers N Fun! My first LO was put up in the resource centre last night!! Its been so hard keeping the secret too!! LOL!!! I am so impatient and love to tell everyone!! HAHA!! I am so excited!! So anyway - Go check out the site - They sell all the new Chatterbox papers - Plus the GORGEOUS transparency letters - I used them on my LO and they are so beautiful - I just LOVE them!! Plus they sell heaps of kool stickers!! (Well derr!) All the gorgeous Suzys Zoo - They are very cute!! And they are getting in the gorgeous Sassafrass Lass papers too - They are so kool - I have some of them for one of my projects and i cant wait to play with them!!! Plus Jen has just introduced some $1 hot spot specials!!
Anyway - Here is my LO - I have to head off cause i have volleyball in half hour!!!

Monday Madness!!!!

2006-03-27T19:36:00.000+11:00

Does it sound like ive had a mad day?? LOL Not really - I just hate thinking up titles for these entries sometimes!! LOL!! So the weekend!! Saturday I didnt do much - I have been working on my blossom book and Jono took the boys to his mums for the day so i just had Alicia and she was an angel and had a really long nap too - Gotta love that! Then saturday night went up to my good friend Kells for a bit more of a scrap and she made the most yummiest dumplings!! OMG that woman can cook!! Every time i go up there i seem to get one of her yummy creations!!! So sunday i went up to Newcastle for the scrap needs monthly crop! Fun as always!! Did more on my mini album - Then got a bit stuck on it so did a LO instead! About me too!! I have got my mojo back now so i am scrapping away!! Gotta love that too!! So i did another LO this morning too - Jono had a RDO from work so i said oh honey - Can i scrap for a few hours PLEASE!!!! He said yes - It was blissful!! Gotta Love him aswell!!!

So this is the LO i did about ME!!! I am so happy with it too - I really do love that pic of me that Lib took!! Thanks Lib!!!! I cant wait to see some of the pics i took of her too!! Plus she took some of me on her camera aswell so dying to see them too!! Hope everything is ok Lib!!! Big Hugz so you get better quick!!!

So this week should be a quiet one!! (SHOULD!!) Volleyball - Kids at school and preschool as per usual!! Hopefully lots of scrapping!! Sounds good to me!!

I did do scrapping too!!!

2006-03-24T09:58:00.000+11:00

Just to prove i also scrapped at the retreat!! Here are some LOs!!! And here are two more pics aswell - Me and the Lovely Fiona - And Me and the lovely Kirst!! I also did another LO but i cant share it!! Sorry!!! Last but not least we have the Just Jen pose!! This has been in my head all week!! LOL!!! Anyway - I am scrapping right now so i have to take advantage of my girl sleeping and Mitch watching cartoons!! Might post again later!!! Might not too though!! HAHA!!!

The Beach photo shoot!!

2006-03-23T00:20:00.000+11:00

So Me and Miss Lib went to the gorgeous Shelley Beach on our way home from the retreat to take some pics of ourselves!! So here are some!! I know Lib has some great pics on her camera too so cant wait to see them ones!! Had to show off just how pink Libs hair is too!! Fingers crossed that today went well for you too - I was thinking about you and did send you a message Lib but i am guessing you were probably a bit out of it!! Hope you feel back to yourself in no time!!!
Anyway - I cant be bothered with any other pics - Stupid blogger is being a *******!!! Having one of THOSE days and just want to go to bed now!! Still have more retreat stuff to write - But mind is too URGHHH!! Tonight!! Later!!

Retreat #1!!!

2006-03-20T10:30:00.000+11:00

OK we might have to do this in a few posts cause i could not possibly remember it all at once and i got SO many pics!! LOL!! So i didnt get many pics on friday!! LOL!! Only one of Shell but i dont think we should share that one!! LOL!! We scrapped until about 2/2.30am - I think we got kicked out cause Kell wanted to go to bed!! LOL!! We were listening to music and chatting and scrapping - It was fun!!
Saturday - Lots more scrapping and we had some demos - Chipboard demo from Roz, Foam stamp demo from Chris, and a shrink plastic demo from Shell - Unfortunately i had a killer headache for the last one so i missed some of it! After Shells demo -me and Sara headed over to the SPA!!! OMG - I want one!! So fun!! And so relaxing and it totally took care of my headache! Then we had to rush off to dinner - Yummy chinese banquet!! The honey chicken was SO YUMMY!!!!! Had a few wines with dinner!! And lots of fun was had at dinner!! Lots of photos taken (Which i think Jen has lots of them!!) Then we headed back down to the scrap room - But then me and Reggie headed back to the restaurant to buy some more wine!! Got caught up with a few other ladies still there and drank some more and danced away!!! Then headed back down to the hotel and i was chatting to just about everyone!! PMSL!!! I think i was a bit talkative in the scrap room - I was a bit (Just a little bit) drunk so i was chatting everyones ears off!! LOL!! Jen told me the next morning she thought it was funny though!! HAHAHA!! I must say i was a little embarrassed though cause i really dont usually talk THAT much!! HAHA!!
So sunday morning wake up and go back to the scrap room - I got 3 LOs done over the weekend (Which i cant take pics of cause my camera battery charger is in my suitcase which is in Saras car still cause she left a bit earlier than me with a hangover!! LOL!! Poor Sez!!! So sunday we had the raffle drawn and i won a book!! YAY!! Then we had a challenge pack we did and i finished that LO and had Jens demo which was doodling!! And now i have had enough typing so you will all have to wait for more another time!! LOL!!!
So some photos:
1st: Our table - Miss Regina is behind the camers but she was sitting next to me and Lib and Miss Sara is also missing (She went home for a little bit in the sat) she was in between Me and Just Jen!!!
2nd: Photo from Dinner - We were bored from waiting so long for the food!! LOL!!!
3rd: Me and Chris Millar - I am so glad we got to meet in real life and you are so sweet and lovely Chris!!
4th: Me and Shell - I have gone met up with Shell quite a few times and finally i got a pic with her!! LOL!! She is such a sweetie!! And i love her to bits!! And thankyou so much for the RAK Shell!! I will definately get use out of it and i love it!!
5th: Me and Michelle Grant - I had heard of her when i went but OMg - This woman is a blast!! Absolute crack up and such a lovely person too!! I am so glad i got to meet you Michelle and i most definately had fun chatting with you in the spa!! I will be linking your blog to mine too - And this woman's scrapping is devine!!! The detail in her work is amazing and i was just in awe looking through her album!! GORGEOUS!!!

now i didnt get a pic with me and Roz or me and Jen!! (DERRR!!) But i am hoping that people with pics will send them to me!! (I already asked Jen to burn me a cd and i was going to ask Lib too! And i know that Fee and Michelle had some good pics too so i was gonna see if i could get copies from them too (When i get photos i have to have as many as i can get!! LOL!! Love them!!) so hopefully maybe there is something on someone elses camera! )
Well thats enough for me for now - I have heaps more pics etc!! So more later or tomorrow!! LOL!!!

Happy 1st Birthday My Princess!!!

2006-03-17T12:35:00.000+11:00

Well yesterday was my baby girls first birthday!! I still have such mixed emotions about it - I am so happy that she is growing into such a beautiful little girl but i dont want her to grow up anymore - I want the beautiful little baby i had a year ago back aswell! How sad!! I miss the baby smell and the baby snuggles and watching her sleep and her falling asleep in my arms (She will not do that anymore!) I miss my baby!
But then i have this amazing gorgeous little girl that i am watching learn new things every day - She is walking and talking and is so darn clever!! And i might have to say way too spoilt! She is turning into a little diva - Has to be around someone ALL the time and will not go near anyone other than mum and dad! She will cry as soon as anyone touches her! Maybe its a gal thing - Cause the boys were never this bad! But then i think its cute aswell cause she just loves us so much she wants us all the time!! LOL!! And she is getting quite demanding when she wants something too - I will have to do something soon before she turns into a spoilt little cow!! LOL!!
Well yesterday - We went to Chipmunks - a big indoor play centre - a few of my lovely friends came - Kellie with her cutie son Jackson, Jen and her adorable daughters Amelia and Marnie and Pink haired Lib with her gorgeous twins Claire and Charlotte! I had fun!! (Hope everyone else did too!! LOL!!) The kids all had fun - Especially around the food!! LOL!! And that jumping castle/slide i took Alicia on and got stuck on it!! LOL!! How funny!!! I got the most gorgeous pressies too (Well Alicia did!) Kellie made a lovely card and also bought a gorgeous little bangle and Jen made a lovely card aswell and altered a little beauty case - OMG - They are all such beautiful presents and cards! I LOVE them all - And i know Alicia will when she can appreciate them a bit more too!! I will have to get pics of them (Not today though - still have to pack!) Then when everyone got home we gave Alicia her presents - Well i had bought her this doll and when you press it in different places it says stuff - mama, papa etc etc - Well she is terrified of it - BUT Mitchy has fallen in love with it and is now carrying it everywhere and is now even asleep with it in his cot!! LOL!! Kids!!!!
Today - OMG OMG OMG OMG - I go to the scrapneeds retreat today - HOW AWESOME IS THAT!! I cant wait!! I am so excited!!! I have my batteries charged up for heaps of pics!!! (I got new ones after the bloody camera died on me yesterday!! GRRRR!!) Anyway - I should go start some packing at least!! Always leave stuff till the last minute i do!! HAHAHA!! Will leave you with some pics of Alicia on her bday!! (Thanks to Kell for emailing me some too!!!)

Only 1 WEEK to go!!!

2006-03-10T16:14:00.000+11:00

Till i will be at the scrapneeds retreat!!! Having a blast - With some great friends!! How exciting!!!
I still havent done any tags yet!! I am wondering if i will ever get them done now!! LOL!! Need more hours in a day!! I
Sara - She has a blog (Hasnt posted on it yet but she has it!! LOL!!) I helped her with it today!! I put her blog in my links!!
Well it has been a busy few days again!! Matt has been pretty sick - Still with the croup and asthma! He went to school yesterday but was off again today - He just didnt seem right so i went with my mummy instinct!! He had sport today as well which i really did not want him doing! So he got another day off - I feel like a bad mummy - 4 days off in the first 4 weeks - But he was legitamely sick - Not me being a lazy cow!! LOL!! No matter how crap i feel - My kids come first!!
So i have been scrapping away!! I did my CJ - FINISHED !!!!! YAY!!! I also did a LO of Alicia! I am really happy with both too - Which is suprising - I have been really happy with a lot of my scrapping lately - Usually i think they are not good enough!! So it is a nice change for me!!
So my LO of Alicia - I got all these new gorgeous SEI papers that i had wanted - I saw them at Jens and was spewing that none of my LSS had any - WELL the shop at Erina got some and i grabbed them so fast!! LOL!!
My CJ - Is using all the K&Co Neopolitan papers and stickers!! I did something different with my sign in pages- I always hated tags so these ones you just stick on a pic and sign away!! Now my pages - I tied heaps of fabric and ribbon down each side and also tied some little jewellery charms in too - With pics of my kids!! Very cute!! And the LOVE is a mini book - I might show you the pages another time!! LOL!! I can only be bothered to add this many pics!!
*Edited to add: I cant believe i forgot to before but have to say that Jen helped me out with my CJ cover by doing the doodling on the front cover!! Which i LOVE!!! Sorry Jen!!!

What A Week!!!

2006-03-07T19:17:00.000+11:00

Well i kept meaning to post but kept not getting around to it!! LOL!!
The kids have been sick this week - Even i managed to get a bit too!! So we have had doctors visits and lots of medicine giving!! YUKK!!! Lets hope we can avoid it all for the rest of the year!! Fingers crossed!!!
SOME super exciting news - I have booked into the Kiwi Scraps convention!! I am sooo looking forward to it! It isnt till August though so i have a long wait!! BUT i do get the Scrap needs retreat which is only 11 days away!!! OMG - It is getting so close and i cant wait!!! Cant remember my classes so i will have to put them in another time cause i cant be bothered going searching for them at the moment!! Waiting for the kids to finish their dinner so they can go to bed!!
Last saturday i went and scrapped with Jen again!! God that womans scrap studio is amazing!! I LOVE it!! So inspiring too!! And so is her scrapping! I feel so lucky to be able to scrap with her!
So i got my CJ nearly all done!! I did the covers at Jens and have done the inside here the last few days - I just have to finish off my own pages now!! NEARLY there!! AND now everyone dont fall off your seats - I am early!! I am not rushing it to quickly get it posted!! LOL!!
UMM - So cant think of anything else at the moment - Too busy time of the day!! I might have to post again later!! !LOL!!

Another post today!!!

2006-02-28T22:10:00.000+11:00

Gee you must all be thinking i am sick or something!! LOL!! Nah - Not me!! But both my babies are - My baby boy has a chest infection and my baby girl has an ear infection!! Great timing!! LOL!! I got them so antibiotics now so they should be better in no time!!!
Anyway!!! I did a LO today!! (Well i finished it off - I started last night before Alicia got sick!!) I am really really happy with it too! So i wanted to show it off!! LOL!!
I am so glad the kids have gone to sleep with no fuss tonight - I got to watch the OC and now All Saints in peace!! Ahhhhh So lovely and quiet - Jono has been watching the NBL and what a bummer - The kings lost!!! Oh well - they cant win them all!!
So i found out that Shell the cheeky bugger stole one of my MM flower stamps - She put it in her bra!! What a cheeky minx!!! LOL!!! Hope you get some use out of it while you have it Shell!! LOL!! You really do crack me up woman!!!
And LIB - I am so excited for you - Getting your first page published and it is such an awesome page too!!! I cant wait to see it in print!! It is so kool seeing your page in a mag - And i know you want this - Just like i did - So HUGE congrats sweetie!!!!
Alright - Jono os kicking me off!! LOL!! Hope you like my LO!!
Catch yas!!!

Bad Blogger!!!!

2006-02-28T11:17:00.000+11:00

Well havent i been a bad blooger!! LOL!! Sorry!!! I have been super busy though!! On friday i had Mitchy sick - So he got lots of attention!! Then on saturday me and Sara drove up to Jens and stayed the night and had a scrappy sleepover!! It was such a fun night - I think i am still buggered from staying up till 3am scrapping and chatting and then having to get up just past 8!! Shell and Ange came over to Jens too - We had so much fun!! I got 3 canvases mostly done - Finished them off at the crop on sunday!! I also got 2 LOs done so it was a pretty productive weekend for me!! Sunday was so much fun too!!! I sat with Sara, Jen and Regina - Beck did sit with us for a while too and Shell was coming to our table too (I think she was jealous - we were the cool table so she made up an excuse to use Reginas heat gun just to come sit with us!!!!! PMSL!!!) And Lib came and visited us too - Brought her totally adorable little twins with her - OMG - they are so cute!!! Gorgeous little kids!!! And Lib even brought me a lovely RAK too - Which i made use of one of the things straight away on the page i was doing!! Perfect timing!!!
So i came home and sit with hubby for a bit - check some emails then go to bed - Only to have to get straight back up to Matt being sick! Poor little man - Same thing Mitchy had on the friday! So he got yesterday off school - The last night we are getting the boys ready for bed and Alicia wakes up and starts throwing up everywhere aswell! She had me up till past 2 am last night!! She seems much better now though - Poor little baby!!! She is so sooky and cuddly when she is sick - I do love it though!! I love getting cuddles off my kids!!
So now here i am - Exhausted but still going!! Iwas a bit late getting Matt off to school this morning but hey - least he got there eventually!! And he got canteen for lunch and recess - who could be bothered this morning to make lunches!! No thanks!!! I have a half finished LO i want to do - A gorgeous pic of my boy Matt in grandmas pool!! So i just have to figure out how to finish that off!!
I will add my canvases and 2 LOs to show off!! (You should all know me by now!! LOL!!!)

Busy Busy Busy and YAY!!!

2006-02-22T23:55:00.000+11:00

Well we will start with YAY!!! I got the newest issue if For Keeps yesterday - And I am in it!! I love it - This is why i wanted it so badly - Cause damn it feels good to see MY LO with MY name under it - And i got a full page too!!! Bloody awesome!!!
Well my poor baby girl had to get needles yesterday - They are actually her 6 months one but we were late with them so had to wait a bit and also she kept getting the flu every time i had an appointment - then xmas etc - I totally forgot about it (Bad mummy!) Anyway - While we were there our doctor heard a heart murmur in Alicia and has given me a referal for a paedatrician (Bad spelling i know but why do they have to make them words so bloody difficult!) So i will have to get an apoointment and get her checked out - She told me it wasnt urgent and lots of people get them and they go away by themselves - I have also had some fantastic friends tell me about theirs or their kids heart murmurs being pretty much which helped a lot!! It is still scary though - Something could be wrong with my precious little baby girl - Scares the shit out of me! I am so lucky to have her anyway - She was completely unplanned and was a bit of a shock but i wouldnt have it any other way and i am totally and utterly in love with my gal!!! She is my world!! My boys are too - Dont get me wrong - But i have always wanted a little girl and i am so grateful and happy to have her!! All my kids are my life - I live for my kids!! They are the reason i am here!! I know that!!! Anyway - Off the track a bit!! LOL!!
So today we had volleyball and me and Sara won!! YAYAYA!!! And i got to see my good friend Kell whose birthday it was today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELL!!!! Glad you liked your card!!!! Also went shopping today - OMG - I bought a skirt!! PMSL!!! Anyone who knows me - Knows i am a tracky daks kinda gal!!! I love to wear comfy clothes and couldnt give a toss what i look like! Well i got a skirt!! It is sooo comfy too - I wore it this arvo and i love it!!! I need some new tops to go with them now!! AND - Guess what!!! I fit into a size 14 - I so love this whole losing weight thing!! LOL!! It was always so depressing to have to get the biggest size there but i tried on the 14 and 16 and the 16 was too loose - I always buy clothes a bit loose anyway as i hate tight clothes but this is just a prefect fit - And it was so cheap too - Millars fashion club - $13.95 - Gorgeous Gorgeous skirts they have!!!! So i will have to buy a top and get a pic of me in my new outfit!! LOL!!
Ummmmmm cant think of anything else!! LOL!! Will leave you with my LO that is in For Keeps this month!!! (Can anyone guess i am bit of a showoff???!!!!!)

Hope you are bored!!

2006-02-20T09:53:00.000+11:00

Cause this might be a long one!! LOL!!
Well friday night i ended up going out after all!! Me and Sara went and saw some friends and ended up playing poker - And i won!! LOL!! I won one of the $25 pots!! We played 2 games!! I was so stoked!! Considering it was my first time and all!! HAHA!!
Saturday i was buggered though - had a bit of a hangover and was sooo tired as i didnt get home till about 4am!! Jono was working too so i couldnt sleep in - Had to get up to my kids!!
Sunday was a lovely quiet day at home - Until i went pyscho with the cleaning and went through my entire bedroom and threw heaps of stuff out - You know those old clothes you keep for some weird reason - Even though they are as daggy as anything and those one with holes - Well - I threw them all out!! YAY for me!! I am in the process now of rearranging my whole room! just dont know how!! Bad news though - I blew up my vaccuum cleaner - Now it was a piece of shit anyway - It seriously didnt suck up much but still - My mum bought me that!!! I was a bit peeved!! So now i am going to have to invest in a new one!! GRRRR!! I have borrowed (stolen) Jonos mums for the mean time. (well for a few days anyway!) So i will have to Hurry up and finish what ever i want to suck up!!! (Sorry not want - need!!!) So we are having a big clean up here!! I want to get rid of heaps and heaps of crap - Seeing as Jono has the work truck this week - we can go to the tip super easy!! And we might even be working on getting the garage turned into a studio for me!! How kool would that be!! My very own studio!! Bliss!!! I told Jono he could do it for me as a suprise!! LOL!! He laughed!! HAHAHA!!
Anyway - You are probably getting bored now!! I will leave you with a few pics - First one - The gorgeous portrait i got done from little masterpiece - Isnt my little girl an angel!!! The second - My latest LO - I finished it on saturday - And have NO inspiration now!! DOH!!! The third and fourth - I got this gorgeous mini album from a gorgeous new shop i found out at Terrigal - I fell in love as soon as i walked in - I had been out there ages ago and it didnt have much but now - OMG!! I was in heaven!! They had heaps of new new stuff!! And the shop is just beautiful too!! And the lady who worked there was just as lovely so i will be definately be going back there!! She said she gets in new stuff every week!! Well i cant think of anything else - I know i am forgetting something but i might just have to add it in next time!!! Have a good day!!!

Boring Friday & an Award!!!!

2006-02-17T19:37:00.000+11:00

It is friday night and i am sitting here alone watching tv and sitting in front of my computer - Gee - What a life i have!! LOL!! I was scrapping but i need an E heidi swapp letter and i can get one from Sara BUT Jono isnt here so i have to wait!! I want my E!!!!! I was going off today scrapping away - then got stuck with no E!! GRRRR!! Dont you hate that!! I wanna scrap though so it should flow once i get my E!!! (Sounds like a drug doesnt it!! LOL!! I swear - IT isnt!!) It is an obsession though!
so another week of school finished!! Proud mummy moment - My Matthew got his classes merit award today!! How kool!! For trying so hard with his handwriting!! I am SO proud! Only week 3 and my boy who i thought would struggle a bit at school is going so well! Now i thought he might struggle a bit as he had the speech problems from the ear problems! Did the speech therapy for over a year and will be again next term - Plus - He is one of the youngest in his class - He only just turned 5 and obvioulsy most of the kids would have been 5 last year! So i am so happy about that!! It really did pay off doing all that boring speech therapy and homework!! (It was such a pain to get there with 3 kids too!) But i think we did it!!!
So i have nothing planned for this weekend - I am so hanging for next sunday though - Crop up at Newcastle!! YAY!! I LOVE going to these crops - They are so mch fun and such a great day out away from the boring house stuff!!!
15 more minutes till my kiddies go to bed!! YAY!!! Alicia has been gone for a while but the boys are still up! Sending me nuts as usual!!! Mitch has been a real turd today so i cant wait for that peace and quiet time!!! Bring it on!!!!! Well i think i might go turn that clock forward so they think it is 8pm!! LOL!!!
Will add my 2 latest LOs - Both of Mitchy too - One is him drawing away - My precious artist - and dont you just love the tongue hanging out - He gets that from me!! LOL!!
My other is Ouch - from when Mitch split his head open! My poor baby!! Jono brought home the stitches with him (he took him to get them taken out!) and told me i could scrap them!! PMSL!!!

Tired today!!

2006-02-15T20:02:00.000+11:00

I just cant seem to feel motivated today - Just wanna sit and do nothing!! HAHAHAHA!! I will keep dreaming!! Anyone knows with 3 kids thats just not possible - Well until bed time anyway!! Which was actually 5 mins ago but they can have another 5 mins - they were so good and ate all there dinner tonight!! (They do LOVE my chicken pasta bake!!)
Well yesterday and today Mitchy was at preschool and me and Alicia did a little shopping! Not too much though as i have too many bills to pay this week and next week - Paying for some of the retreat!! I am soooo looking forward to the retreat!! How EXCITING!!!
Anyway!! Not very chatty at the moment so cant be bothered writing much!! LOL!! Here are my latest 2 LOs - The family swimming at Mingara - The kids had so much fun!!! And Matts first day at big school - OMG - I submitted this one today and had a raspberry within 3 hours!! LOL!! Oh well - Least they didnt leave me wondering!!! Cant wait till the mags for March start coming out - I am in the next FKs issue and i am dying to see it!!! And maybe the next SC mag too - Not 100% sure on that one - but i think it is the next one!!!
Oh - Does ANYONE know when the For Keeps Awards of Excellence Book will be released??? I have been dying to know and i have a LO coming in that - But have heard nothing - They still have my LO too!! Please if anyone knows can you let me know!!!
Anyway - Gonna go get these 2 gorgeous handsome sweet boys of mine off to bed!!! (My beautiful little angel is already asleep!!) Speaking of my angel - I got the cutest clothes for her today and yesterday - ALL on clearance - I got 6 new shirts - A heaps cute Dora one that says ADORABLE!! And the most beautiful dress - I CANT wait to get some pics of her wearing that!!! It is so pretty and has these gorgeous flower and ribbon embellishments on it - Gonna copy them!! LOL!!
Alright - Im going!!! Bye for now!!!!

Challenge Part 2!!!

2006-02-13T23:18:00.000+11:00

This is part 2 of Ali's top 10 LOs you love!! Check out her blog for the details!! I have the link in my links!!

LO 6: Perfect - I just did this the other day but i really love it! It is a really simple LO - the most simple LO i have done in ages but i think it looks kool! I love the flowers i made and i LOVE the pic of Alicia - She is just so darn Perfect!!

LO 7: The 90's - This was a LO for a challenge on scrap needs but i really had fun doing it - It was fun to look back on the old movies and music that i enjoyed in the 90's! I did so much sewing too and the LO looks way better in real life!! Also love that pic of me too - Pre kids!!! There are not a lot of photos of me that i actually like!!

LO 8: Fun in the Pool - I just love this - I think it really came together well - The title was the 2nd time i had used texture paste too and i think the texture i got look good! I love the colours i used - I love the PP - I totally love the pic - It is hard to get good pics of Matt lately with a natural smile and not a fake one!!!

LO 9: Just Like Dad - I just love this pic of Mitchy!! Isnt he adorable!! It is a fave!! He has such a fun bubbly personality!!

LO 10: My all time fave LO - Alicia - 8 months - now i probably am not meant to put this one in cause it has been commisioned by SM and i dont know when but it is really one of my faves!! It was picked up by SM the day after i emailed it and i got lots of great comments on it - I was pretty stuck for ideas and was searching through blogs as i do - Came to Jens blog and was looking through her gallery - I just love her work and love how her pages have that wow factor - So i thought i want to try and scrap a page like Jen - So i did - I added fabric and tried to add more to the page than i usually did and tried a bigger pic! (I didnt scrap lift - just used similar techniques!) Well I LOVED it and have since tried doing them things more often but i especially love this LO!! Plus - how cute is the pic of my daughter!!
Well - thats my 10 LOs now!! Thanks heaps for the challenge Ali - It is fun to look back on your older LOs - I love so many of mine so it was hard to pick just 10!!

Matts Bday!!

2006-02-12T23:59:00.000+11:00

Well what a whirlwind of a weekend!!
Friday - Matt had so much fun for his bday - We were out late at Grandmas - He got spoilt!! As always!! He had a blast!!!
Sat - Didnt do much - Just had a pretty lazy day!! WAs wonderful really!!
Today - Went to Sydney Aquarium - Had heaps of fun - Totally buggered now though!! Didnt get a lot of great pics - Hard to get pics through glass with crappy lighting throughout the whole place!! I did get a info booklet though so i might have to use some pics from there when i scrap about it!!
Here are a few pics anyway!!
Well - Not 100% how to get the pics where i want them!
Pic 1: The ships we got to see before we went into the aquarium - they are at the maritime museum - Looked Very kool!!
Pic 2: Jellyfish! There were heaps in there - Looked like the scene from Nemo! LOL!! Except the aquarium had this speical light on them so they were this cool red colour - BUT when you use the flash for a pic - this is how they look! Didnt get a good red one! GRR!!
Pic 3: The boys playing! They had a play pool thing - The lever that Matt is pulling releases a heap of water like a wave once it gets enough water - Well scared Mitch every time there was a 'wave' - So classic!!
Pic 4: Sharks! How cool do they look sitting on the glass! This was from the inside of the underwater tunnel!
Pic 5 : Matt on the water bike thingy! There was a water play park we let them play on!
Pic6: Starfish: How pretty is it!!
Pic 7: Mitchys fave - A Dory fish!! He loved them and the nemo fish too!!!
Well i am buggered and going to bed!! Night all!!!

A birthday, some cupcakes and a challenge!!!

2006-02-10T00:55:00.000+11:00

Sound confusing?? LOL!! My baby is now 5!! (Well not technically untill 4.16pm) How cool is Matts bday - 10/02/2001 - 16:16 - He has one of those paladromic birthdays - 2001 in reverse is his day and month!! Cool huh - Even the time he was born!! I reckon it makes him extra special!! So weird thinking that this time 5 years ago - I was asleep in hospital (prob getting woken up about now to get checked over by a nurse - just as i got to sleep too GRR!) Waiting waiting waiting to hold my baby for the first time!! I will admit - I was hoping for a girl - I always wanted a girl - Ever since i was little! As soon as i met Matt though and held him - I didnt care! He was just SO perfect! So tiny and so beautiful!! Where did my little bubba go???? I wanna know - I wanna know how to freeze time so he cant grow anymore - So that Mitchy and Alicia dont grow anymore! I have another confession to make - I keep thinking about another baby - Now i dont at all want one - I love my 3 kids and am happy with just the 3! But i think i LOVE the baby stage - I love holding them - I love watching them sleep - babies are just so cute!! I think it is part of the reason i have been pulling out the kids baby pics and scrapping them recently! (Now dont think i am going to go for another one - I AM NOT!!) Well i have probably bored the crap out of everyone now!! LOL!! Sorry!!! I am waiting for cupcakes to cook!! LOL!! Told Matt if he went to school i would bake something to take in for his bday! So cupcakes it is!!
Now - Ali put a challenge on her blog to post 10 LOs - Check out her blog in my links to see - So here are my first 5! It is so hard to choose cause i admit - I do love nearly all my LOs - no matter how daggy they are - They are still my creations!! (I was wondering the other day - Do you think in a year or so - the pages we are doing and loving now will be daggy?? LOL!!) OK - Dont you just hate it when the blogger doesnt want to upload bloody photos!! GRRRR - Tomorrow i promise!!! (technically today!)
OK - It is letting me add LOs now - So here are the first 5!!
1: Alicia as a bub - I did this LO at a fundraiser crop day and i was so happy with it! I just loved how it turned out and it was a fave for ages!!! i still think it looks kool!
2: My crap pack LO - Jen made a challenge to do a crap pack LO - I was so happy with how it came out - Not crap at all!!
3: Alicia again - I know!! But i love the background of this LO - I chalked the whole thing and i think it came out so awesome!!! Very proud of that one!!
4: Matts 4th bday - I think it looks kool as a bday present!! Something a bit different!
5: Hulk - Mitchy! I just LOVED this pic - First one i altered to be black and white and colour! I think it looks kool! It really pops out at you!

Just a Quick one!!

2006-02-07T22:40:00.000+11:00

Just a quick hello as i am pretty buggered!! Had a huge day with lots and lots of walking!! I met up with my lovely friend Kell at Westfields and we went to a few shops, then went and met up with another friend we chat with online at stickers n fun, Leonie - she is up here for holidays and we went and met up with her at Erina scrap shop (So i managed to buy a few goodies too!! LOL!!) It was great to see her BUT i dont have any pics - cause Leonie has them in her camera!! LOL!! Will post one when i get her to email them to me! Had lots of fun!! But i am buggered now cause then i went back to westfields and did some more shopping - then had to walk really fast up that hill to get Matt so i wasnt late!! PMSL!!
It is Matts 5th bday on friday - How scary!! 5!! Where did them 5 years go??? He is soooo grown up now - SCARY!!! We are going to go to the aquarium on sunday as part of his birthday present! I got a kool bargain today too - A scannerz little handheld game thingy - $20 from Dick Smith - I was over in Big W a bit later and they were $45 in there - Woohoo!! Love bargains!! We are also getting Matt this really KOOL fish tank from the Borders shop at Tuggerah - Now why do you ask would a book shop sell a fish tank!! LOL!! It is a national geographic one so that is the only thing i can think! It is really kool though as it has a little periscope thingy - So you can look down the pole and see the fish swimming around! It looks mad and Matt fell in love with it when we saw it So i reckon he will love it! I am going to take him on friday arvo to pick a siamese fighting fish to go in it - Love them fish too - They are kool!!! (Using that kool word a lot arent i - Will have to think of something different!)
Well anyway - I am just rambling on with crap now so i think i might go add some more to my LO and then buzz off to bed!! I will add the 3rd pic of our sat night crop too!! The Angels picture!!!

Phew - What a blast of a weekend!!!!!

2006-02-05T21:41:00.000+11:00

I have had a fantastic weekend!!
Friday night - It was the lovely Shells hens night - We had so much fun!! Great food, Great company - Lots of laughs!! We even got flashed by this really drunk chick! LOL! I am so glad i went and thanks to Sara for driving me up!!! I know she had heaps of fun too!! So much talented gals in one place too - I was in awe!! Jen (we all know i love Jens stuff!!), Shell, Kim Archer, Roz James, Ali Stafford plus the scrapneeds gals Kell & Mandy!! I remember sitting there for a minute thinking oh my god - I am sitting here with all these brilliant scrappers - How kool!! (I probably sound like i am completely nuts now but i was stoked!!) I cant wait till the retreat now!!
Saturday night - Sara drove me up to Newcastle (Again!!) And we went and scrapped at Jens house - OMG!!! We had so much fun - There was Mel, Libby, Jen (of course!) and Jens friend Ange (Happy Birthday!!!) and Sara and I! (derr!!) We laughed so much and i so cant wait till the next one!!! And Jens studio - OMG!!! I was in heaven - It was beautiful and i want one!!! I got a pic and brought it home and showed Jono and said right - now i want one!!! He told me to start cleaning the garage out then! (Umm - i wanted him to!! LOL!!) So i guess that will just have to wait!! HAHAHA!! It was sooooo worth the drive!! So Miss Jen - Just let us know when the next one is and put our names down again!!! I managed to do one LO! Hope noone thought i was a bit rude as when i am scrapping i get a bit quiet - So i tend to do a little scrapping, then chat etc!! LOL!! Cant do both!! I tend to write things i am listening or talking about!! HAHAHA!!!
Today was a quiet one which was lucky as i dont think i could have handled going out again!! I managed to scrap another LO though - So i was happy with that!!!
Have to try and get to bed at a decent hour tonight (HAHAHAHA - i hear you all laughing at me!!) Gotta get up and take Matt to school - Still trying to get used to all that!!! So far so good!!
OK So the pics - There are us gals - Minus Ange as she left a bit earlier than the rest of us!! Then there is us at the time we left!! LOL!! There is another one of us striking Charlie Angels poses but it wont let me put it in so i will have to add it next time i post!! The LOs - The standing tall one i did at Jens - the background i made to look like ALicias dress! And the water baby one i did today! Lots and lots of sewing!!! I thought i would take close up pics of them both as they really do have so much detail you cant see properly!!

I did it!!

2006-02-03T11:05:00.000+11:00

Jen - Your LO is done!!! I really like it too!! Lucky it has your daughter on it and not mine or i would keep it!! LOL!! Mind you - She is pretty darn cute - I have been staring at these gorgeous pics for the last few days!! I have hidden 2 pics behind the other 2 pics!! I am so not used to these smaller pages!! Not sure if i like it or not!! Might have to try a few more!! LOL!!

Double Tagged!!

2006-02-01T19:43:00.000+11:00

Well i was double tagged!! By Chris and another by Helen!! Thanks girls!!!
Well what a day - My Matthew started school today - My eldest is now in Kindergarten!! How exciting and sad!! LOL!! I was glad that he went happily and wasnt even upset - I was even happier when he was so excited to see me in the afternoon!!! Have to show a pic of my handsome Matt all dressed and ready to go!!! (I got in trouble from Jono for not tucking in his shirt - But i reckon it looks daggy!! LOL!!)
Well i got the most perfect paper today to match Jens gorgeous pics of her daughter to scrap for the photo swap - I was struggling abit until i found this paper - Now i need to sit and actually scrap!!! I just couldnt find the right papers for the colours in the photo!! Dont you hate that!! LOL!! I cut up at least 3 sets of cardstocks to do it but just wasnt happy!! LOL!! I might have to scrap some 8.5 x 11 for myself now!! LOL!! See how i go with Jens LO!! Looking forward to friday - Shells hen night up at Newcastle!! Get to catch up with all the gals again!! YAY!! We won volleyball today - It was so hot playing too!! I thought i played pretty good today though! (No big head or anything!! HAHAHA!!!)
OK - The Tags:
1. First time you got kissed: In year 7 (real kiss - not a silly kindy kiss!! LOL!!)
2. First time you drove a car: On my uncles property in Lithgow with my cousin - I was probably about 9/10 - I crashed the car into a tree stump!! LOL!!
3. First time you scrapbooked: About 2 years ago
4. First time you went on a date: When i was about 16
5. First time you fell in love: Year 8 - With this red head guy named Trent (now i think EWW!) Nothing like the love i have for Jono though - This is real!!!
6. First time you cooked for someone: For Jono when i was 16 - I cooked spaghetti bolognaise - He hates it!! LOL!! Always has and yet he ate it anyway!!
7. First time you got on a plane: When i was 17 - Jono took me on a holiday to the Gold Coast!!
8.First time you shaved your legs: Haha - When i was in yr 5 - I also shaved my arms!! HAHAHA!!!
9. First time you put on make up: Dont remember!! Never cared much for makeup
10. First time you moved out of your home: When i was 14 - Left home to go meet my dad - Moved around heaps for the next few years! Lotta problems there!!!
3 people to tag:Jen, Mel & Libby

The rules for this particular tagging are as follows: Remove the blog name in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add yourself to the bottom slot

Ngaire
Charleigh
Samantha
Chris
Kelley

Here are the questions:

What were you doing 10 years ago? Probably wagging school!! LOL!! 14 - i was an evil teenager!

What were you doing 1 year ago? Wishing my daughter would hurry up and be born and probably in immense pain from the hip problem i had while pregnant! (Gee i am glad thats over!!)

Five snacks that you enjoy:
Chocolate (ANY!)
Ice (weird i know!)
Popcorn
Biscuits
Strawberries

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics :
Beautiful - James Blunt
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Prince
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Pretty Vegas - INXS
Any song from Grease - I have watched it hundreds of times when i was a little girl!!

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
Buy a new car with air con!!!
Buy a big house for ourselves with a pool and air con!
Buy my self a new wardrobe
Go on a family holiday to the US with the ulterior motive of doing a huge scrap shop!!!
Build myself a massive gorgeous scrap studio and fill it with anything i want!!! MMMMM I wanna win the lotto now!

Five bad habits:
Too much time on the computer
Dont spend enough quality time with Jono
I get too cranky sometimes
Dont keep the house as clean as i should!!
I am a bitch!

Five things you like doing:
Scrapping
Spending time with my family
Chatting
Cropping with good friends
Scrap shopping

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again:
Short skirts
Skimpy clothes
A bikini!
Big High heel shoes
Overalls

Five Favourite toys:
Camera
Computer
TV
Playstation
My scrapping supplies

5 People I am tagging:

Kell
Jen Hall
Shell
Lali
Regina

Lots!

2006-01-30T14:38:00.000+11:00

To catch up on!! It has been one big weekend!
Saturday - Went to my nans for our late family xmas!! It was great to see the family - especially my nan - She looked quite sick though - skin and bones and you have to wonder how much skinnier she can get. We had a bit of a scare with Matt - He fell in the pool - managed to get himself up to the side but it was very scary - you know that feeling when you heart just jumps and you have to get to your child as quickly as you can! Jono was pretty cranky as he had told Matt he couldnt go in the pool till half an hour after lunch but my family had taken him in! But we wont go there!! He did love it in the pool though and i got some pics!!! See my handsome boy in the pool!!!
Sunday - Went up to Newcastle for a crop with lots of the scrap needs girls!! I got the most gorgeous LO off Jen - We are doing a photo swap and she is the most speediest scrapper!! I totally totally love it - Check out Jens blog for a look!!!You are amazing Jen and continue to inspire me!! Sara drove me up and we spent the whole day chatting and scrapping - Can it get any better!! I had so much fun and cant wait till the next one - So much talent in one room too - Regina did the most amazing LO of her baby - Mel did gorgeous sewing - lots and lots of it !! Looked lovely!! Jane worked on some A-Z LOs - I didnt see many though! I didnt even get to see Libs work - So Lib - I wanna see - Hurry up and put them on your blog or in the gallery! Kell did the most gorgeous LO of Sophie - I really loved what you did with the blues and oranges and hurry up and finish it so i can see the rest! Jen - OMG - You are a scrapping machine!! 4 LO'S!!! I dont know how you do it!! And they all looked great aswell! Didnt see any of the other girls work! But what i did see - It was fantastic! Now Jen had a visit from Janelle - She did a photo swap with her aswell - She did the most amazing page of Jens daughter and she had her album with her and the 2 LOs i saw were so stunning! I look forward to seeing more work - I have added a link to her blog - You have to check out the amazing sewing she does!! I love that there are so many fantastic scrappers out there where i can get lots of inspiration from!!!
Anyway - Have to go get the kids ready - We are going for a swim somewhere when Jono gets home!! (More photo ops!! HAHAHA!!) I will put in my LOs i did over the weekend! The sweet baby one is Matt when he was a bubba - I did this at the crop on sunday. I also started the Love you one on sunday - Finished it last night and loved it - then woke up to it being all smudged with blue ink so had to smudge some more and sandpaper some and this is what i came up with! I did the amazing one on sat night when i couldnt sleep!

Thought i should blog!!

2006-01-27T15:34:00.000+11:00

I have been such a lazy blogger this week!! Bad me!!!
Anyway - Havent done too much - Shopping (as usual!! LOL!!) volleyball, scrapped! Chatted on the net!! Same old, same old!! I feel like i have such a boring life sometimes!!
I should have more to write next time though as I have a family get together at my nans tomorrow! And i have a crop up at Newcastle on Sunday!! I am soooo looking forward to the crop too!! I love going up there!! Especially for a whole day - I love getting a day off!
Well i have scrapped 2 LOs of Mitchy - I keep thinking i dont scrap him quite as much as the others so i sat and made an effort to do a few more! One was a baby page of him - I also did a baby one of Alicia the other day - They both have pics of them on the day they were born - I also went and got out a few pics of Matt from the day he was born so i will have one of each of the kids but they will all be different - I was also naughty - I took a photo and the little armband off an old LO - Some of the first ones i did was of their baby pics with a preggy pic of me and it had their arm bands on them - Well i think i can scrap them so much better now and really have a great page of them as a keepsake of the day they were born - I felt so guilty pulling them off an old LO though! It was when i was a film girl and i lost a heap of negatives so i dont think i can get copies of the pics anyway! Oh well - I think they are way too precious pics to be sitting on the crappy LOs they were sitting on!!! I dont want to go redo any others though - I do like having them all there - I can see how i have grown etc. And i do still like most of the LOs (not as much as the ones i do now! but they still have sentimental value to me!!)
Anyway!!! I plan on getting lots of photos of the kids this weekend - I am running out of inspiring pics - I can always tell when i need new photos as i go searching through old ones!! I have tons and tons and tons of photos though - I just like to scrap the nice ones that jump out at me though!! I am so picky!! Well - think i might go scrap instead of sitting on the computer!! I have added pics of my 2 LOs of Mitchy and also a clock i altered for my stepdad - Not very me - I had to do a masculine one!! I would have used flowers and purples etc!! He will love it though!!

Bloody hot monday!!

2006-01-23T12:17:00.000+11:00

I hate heat!! It is a well know fact that i hate the heat!! Why does it have to be so bloody hot!!! GRRRRR!! Well now that i had my whinge!! LOL!!
What a weekend!! Mitchy slipped over in the shower on saturday arvo and cut his head open - my poor baby had to have a few stitches. I felt so ill just looking at his head - lucky jono was with me or i reckon i would have thrown up or passed out! He was so brave though!!! Bit whingy now still but i reckon his head would ve hurting still! Still makes me shiver thinking about it.
I have been scrapping up a storm too!! I am loving the new We R Memory Keepers papers!! I want them all!!!! LOL!!! (I want all scrappy stuff though!!) I cant wait till i have paid all my bills and everything is done so i can do a big scrappy shop!!!
So here is my gorgeous Alicia - I love this pic of her - not even a day old!!
And my Matt - Isnt just the cutest pic - I love it!!!
I have the most gorgeous pic of Mitchy too - He was dressed up in his dads work boots and wearing his bag and he looked adorable - I just cant match it to any paper i have!! LOL!!
Anyway - Too hot to type anymore!! Might check in again later!!

Friday finally!!

2006-01-20T14:33:00.000+11:00

I love fridays!! End of the week - start of the weekend! I must admit though - Lately - not loving them so much as Jono has been working on saturdays so it isnt really the end and start for us!!
Still feels like it though!
Well - I have been scrapping a little! I just cant help myself - I love it! I finished off the corkboard for Jono and also did a page on - Me and Jono!!!

I put some photos on the corkboard of all of us over the past month or so!! He loves it!! I also made my own chipboard letters for the word dads. And used the heidi alphas for board. There is also a metal plate in the bottom right corner that says lifes moments simple pleasures, Cant really read it in this pic - Will have to take a better one - The light was glaring from the window on the pics!!

Well - Havent blogged much this week have i - Naughty me!!! Tuesday - went shopping - Mitchy was at preschool - Same on wednesday!! Thursday stayed home and then i went to volleyball last night!! Have been busy copying some dvds - and watching some too - Some awesome movies - War of The Worlds - Really didnt think it was my type of movie but it was great!! A bit gory but excellent movie!!! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - OMG!! I Loved the first one - Could watch it over and over - This one is just as good but totally different!! Johnny Depp is a legend!! Always though he was good in Pirates of the Carribean but he kicks ass in Charlie!!! You have to go hire it and watch it if you havent seen it yet!!! I still have a few here to watch - Bewitched and Mr & Mrs Smith!! We saved them to watch for tonight and tomorrow night!! We are trying to spend a little us time and less computer time!!! It has been fun this week though!!

Anyway!! I am off to cut some more flowers!! I got my order from scrap needs today and i am in love with these new We R Memory Keepers Papers - If you dont have some - go check them out and buy some!!! YUMMO!!!!

New Banner!!

2006-01-16T17:47:00.000+11:00

I made a new summery header for myself today - Was waiting for stuff to dry and had to do something now didnt i!!! LOL!!
I am altering this cork board for jono - Looks pretty kool so far - Just got to figure out how to embellish it a bit - Pity I cant stick flowers all over it or i would be in my zone!! LOL!!
I stayed up soooo late last night scrapping - Did another LO of Alicia - Yes i know - I scrap her more than the others but she is so darn scrappable!!!! Perfect age!!
I really have done nothing other than that since last time i posted!! LOL!! Boring arent i!! I also did some work on some circle journals too! Cant wait till i have all the ones here done and posted!
Well Off to do some more to this cork board now!! Catch you all later!!

Phew!!!

2006-01-15T16:16:00.000+11:00

What a great night last night was!! Jen - You amaze me - 4 LOs!! I only just managed 2! And not only was it 4 LOs - but they were all GORGEOUS!!! Definately let me know when you get them classes up and running cause i will be there!!!
Thanks to all the girls for coming out to Erina!! Kell - i hope we managed to cheer you up a bit!!, Megan - I LOVE your A-Z album and you were so much fun to sit next to!! Sara - Hope you had fun too and glad you came!! And Mandy and Lauren - I didnt get to talk to you much cause you were up the other end but i did see some of your work and it was gorgeous!!
Cant wait till the next crop!!!
Well other than that i really havent done much!! Alicia has bit of a fever so i am getting lots of cuddles which i love!! Pity she doesnt give them all the time and not just when she is feeling a bit sick!
I will put in my 2 LOs i did last night!! Must thank Jen and Megan for there help on my dreaming LO!!
Hope everyone who reads this is having a great weekend!!

YAY!

2006-01-14T00:14:00.000+11:00

I got tagged!! My first time!!

4 jobs you've done:

Kmart check out chick
Worked at a caravan park in their take away shop
Fruit Market
Office Assistant

4 movies you could watch over and over:

Pretty Woman
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I just love it!)
Sweet Home Alabama (Isnt it the best LOVE story!!)
Reign of Fire

4 Places you've lived:

Umina
Liverpool
Ourimbah
Tuggerah

4 TV shows you LOVE to watch:

Grey's anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Charmed
Lost

4 Places you have been on Vacation:

Port Macquarie
Surfers Paradise
Coffs Harbour
Lithgow

4 websites you visit daily:

Scrap Needs
Stickers N Fun
Lots & Lots of Blogs (I am so addicted!)
Ebay

4 of your favorite foods:

Chicken Burritos
Chocolate
Roast Beef & Baked potatoes
Chicken and Cheese Pasta Bake

4 places you would rather be right now:

On a beach
In bed snuggled up with Jono (damn insomnia!!)
Spending time with the family
Scrapping with good friends!

4 bloggers you are tagging:

Mel
Lali
Regina
Anthea

Have fun Girls!!!! I would have tagged you too Kell but jen already did!! LOL!!

Well i am sitting here scrapping - Yay for me!! I already finished off one page on Matt - And am starting one on Mitch right now!! Trying to equal up the boys pages with Alicias!! LOL!!

Well i will put them in tomorrow when the light is good to take a pic - That is if i finish Mitcheys page! I cant wait till tomorrow!! I get to scrap with Sara, Jen, Kell, Megan, Mandy & Lauren!! How kool!! I love scrapping with friends!! Not that i scrap a lot but i do love to chat!!

Well i am off to do some more of my page!! have a good night everyone!! I will leave you with a piccy of my handsome Matt - I got sent this pic from my SIL today and i just LOVE it!! cant wait to get it printed to scrap it!

Today!

2006-01-12T12:45:00.000+11:00

Not a very original title i know but i hate trying to think of them!! HAHA!!
Well today i get to start up volleyball again! I know it is going to hurt too - I have had so many weeks off!! Oh well - i guess hurt is good!
Well i went to Saras last night and scrapped with her - I managed to do 2 LOs!! Both of my baby girl but i am really happy with both of them which is the main thing!! I got home a bit late though!! LOL!! I got carried away scrapping! (as you do!)
I am so looking forward to Saturday - I dont get to go to very many crops - Except the scrap needs ones at Newcastle but Jen emailed me the other day asking me if i will go to the crop at Erina scrap shop on saturday - Oh yes!! I love crops!! i hate going by myself though and noone goes with me!! (Mind you i am trying to drag Sara along too!! Go on Sez - you know you want to!! LOL!!) And maybe Kell and Mandy are coming too! I love crops!! LOL!! And especially so close to home - I dont have to drive over an hour to get there!! It is only about 20 mins or so away! YAY!! Now if only we could convince Mel to come!!!!
I dont really have much news to post!! Bit of a boring week! Just doing my usual - kids, cleaning, scrapping, chatting!! Etc!! I am starting a healthier living/weight loss plan - There is a thread on Scrap Needs and i have been wanting to lose a bit of weight anyway but mainly eat healthier - So i thought what a great way to do it - Then i can chat to others doing the same thing!! So hopefully it works - I will have to go weigh myself to see what the damage is!! LOL!
Well i think i have bored you enough!! WIll put in my 2 LOs i did last night!!
edited to add: Hey Mel - with the top hibiscus - I had originally done two lots of the hibiscus mask on one piece of cardstock but it was too much so i just tore on of the hibicus from the 2nd one and edited it a tad bit!! LOL!!

Rainy Monday!!

2006-01-09T14:42:00.000+11:00

When it rains on a monday dont you just wanna stay in bed!! I do!! LOL!!
Well not much happened over the weekend! I did have lunch with a scrappy forum friend on sunday - she was on holidays up on the coast so we met up and went to lone star!! It was great fun!! Her 2 girls are just beautiful too!! I have made some fantastic friends through my scrapbooking and i totally love it! I have never really had a lot of 'real life' friends - just a few that i treasure - but i have so many friends now through my scrapbooking and i love it - I must say it has helped a lot with my people skills too! So often i would go into a shop and just buy something not really talking to the people working there - Now i will find myself chatting to them!! LOL!! What can i say - I am a chatterbox!!
Anyway - Saturday i was in such a scrap frenzy - I did 2 LOs and they were done in the day time!! On friday night i also finished my LO for the scrap needs january competition!
I also received this gorgeous diary from the lovely Chris Millar as her RAK for her blog challenge!! Thanks Chris - I love it!! And a huge congrats on being part of the scrap needs DT!! Awesome news and you must be so thrilled!!!

Well i so have to catch up on some circle journals!! I have been sitting here this arvo working out my budget for the next 3 months - how depressing!! LOL!! Gotta pay lots of bills, a few fines (my bad!), the scrap needs retreat, matts school stuff, matts and alicias birthday! I hate money sometimes!!! LOL!!
Anyway - Off to try and scrap!!

Yay Me!!

2006-01-06T14:53:00.001+11:00

I have completed my calendar!! I am so happy with it too! Feels good to be finished - Now i can scrap a LO - which funnily enough i just started one! The January challenge for scrap needs - to scrap a photo of you in your teens and about the era you were a teen in! Which for me was the 90s! I got a pic printed out yesterday plus got some new papers so i am all set now!
And a HUGE thankyou to Chris - I got your RAK today for me posting my photo for this challenge!! It is such a beautiful diary!! I would have a pic of it already but my camera died just after i took pics of my calendar and i have to wait for the batteries to recharge up now! Dont you just hate batteries!!! I was spolit today as i also received a box of the We R Memory Keepers alpha letters from the lovely Leisa from Scrap needs!! Thankyou so much for both of your RAKS Chris & Leisa - Made my day!!!
Well not much going on here - just waiting for Jono to get home and trying to keep the kids out of my hair!! LOL!! Not that it is working as i have put cartoons on yet they are all still in here playing!! GRRR!!!
Well i will show off my calendar cause i am so darn proud of it!! LOL!!
I must thank Kim Archer for the inspiration with this calendar - I loved the one she did and posted on her blog and just had to do one aswell!!! So thanks Kim!!!
Oh and more kool news too - I am getting another LO published!! My Sweet Thing LO of Alicia - In SC issue 29 in the all stitched up gallery! My first LO for SC - So now i am getting a LO published in all Aussie mags within a few months of each other!! LOL!! So kool!!
And congrats to lali for her first LO being published in the same mag!! Your stuff is fab and about time they noticed you!!!

Hot again!!

2006-01-03T13:23:00.000+11:00

Well i am feeling hot again today!!! Not as bad as the other day though but still - I wish it would rain - No actually i wish it would snow - I want to be freezing!!! LOL!!
Well - Alicia had her first swim the other day - It was so cute - She totally loved it - Will definately be taking her to the inlaws for some more swims!! It was the hottest day too so i bet she felt nice and refreshed from it! Might have to look in to getting one of them good pools for us too! We had one my mum bought is last year but when we put it up it just wont hold the water and it keeps on emptying itself - Stupid thing!!!
I have finally done some scrapping too!! YAY me!! I have been feeling like it all week but since it was so hot i just couldnt bring myself to do it! (Mind you i am today as i just really want to again!) I scrapped a LO of Alicia and her teeth! Now i am doing a desktop calendar - It is looking really kool so far - I am using all Junkitz papers - the same as what is in my CJ - from the friends collection - Lots of lovely blue colours with a hint of green!!!
Mitchy started back at preschool today - he will be going tuesdays and wednesdays from now - And Matt starts school in a few weeks - I think i will be getting on top of things a bit better with having a break from the boys a bit more - I will still have alicia but she still naps during the day!! LOL!! Just have to get used to the early mornings - getting up to take the kids to school!! Hope we dont get too much rain either as we will be walking most mornings!!
Well anyone - enough chattering from me - Going to do some more scrapping!!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

2006-01-01T01:38:00.000+11:00

Well it is 2006!!! Where did 2005 go??? It was a pretty good year for us - Our beautiful Alicia was born, Jono got a pretty good job, our finances are getting way better, slowly we are getting new things - new tv, new computer - now i just want some new furniture!! And scrap wise i had a great year too - 3 LOs getting published - 1 in the Awards if Excellence book, winning a scrap needs comp and having a BTP up in the idea centre for a week, I feel like my stuff is really coming together for me now!! Now i just need to scrap some boyish LOs a bit better as i have been told i scrap too many of Alicia!! LOL!! She has so many milestones at this age though and i want to try and keep up to date with them - And go back and do the boys ones!! LOL!! (Plus - so much easier doing girly pages!)
I am such a doofus!! I was actually 17 in that pic i put of my teen years in my last post - I was thinking about it and even though i did turn 18 that year (99) I wasnt actually 18 at mums wedding! HAHA!! I probably should have thought of that first huh!!! LOL!!
Well we had a pretty good day here - We had a huge waterfight outside and i took heaps of pics - Although not all of them were the best - I did get some kool ones! Then we just played and had some yummy chippies for dinner - that deep fryer is sure getting a workout! I then gave the boys bit of a treat and we had sparklers outside - i wanted photos too but my battery died for my camera!! LOL!!! So i kept some to try and get pics of another night! (always the scrapper!!) Anyway - i will post some pics of the waterfight!!
I hope everyone had a fantastic night and also has the best year ever!!!
Happy Birthday to Mel for yesterday too - Sorry i forgot to put it in my last post!!!

Nearly the New Year!!

2005-12-31T02:35:00.000+11:00

Not long to go now!! Hope everyone has a great one too!!
Not a lot has gone on here - i have hurt my finger though so this wont be a huge post! We got a PS2 - part of our xmas pressie that was a bit late so we have been playing the Buzz game quite a bit! It is so much fun but i have been getting my ass kicked by Jono!! LOL!!
I havent been able to scrap the last 2 days but i am really wanting to! I got the new SM and MR today and inspiration plus!!! I also got this calendar base thing i want to alter - If you check out Kim Archers blog - she has one - I want to do one too as i just fell in love with it!!
I also have ideas swirling around my head for the january challenge for scrap needs - to scrap a teen pic capturing the era - 90s for me so i figure it cant be tooo hard!! LOL!! Anyway - Chris put a challenge up on her blog to put up a pic from our teens on our blog so here is mine! I was 18 and bridesmaid at my mums wedding - Most of my older pics are not on the computer so i will have to search for another one to scrap!! LOL!! This one isnt really an era capturing photo now is it!!!
Anyway - my finger is bloody hurting - Going to watch footballers wives in foxtel to fall asleep!!! Night all!!!

What a Christmas!!!!

2005-12-27T10:10:00.000+11:00

Well i must say i had fun but i am glad it is over!!! There was a big bushfire in Tuggerah that was threatening my SIL Saras house - So half the family was there ready to move stuff if it was going to hit - thankfully it didnt - what a day to happen though - Christmas day - and them poor fireman having to fight it on christmas day!
The kids had an absolute blast!!! All 3 got bikes and they just loved them!!!
How happy do they look on them!!! Should see what i got for xmas!!! I got spoilt!!! Look!! Arent they just so cute!!! We went to get one kitten and Jono liked the black one, i liked the grey one so he says why not get both - so we ended up with 2 kitties!! LOL!!! They just need names now!!
I also got a gorgeous set off my inlaws - all frangipani stuff - 2 frames and a letter holder and a box and a glass candle holder - They all look gorgeous - And i have already started altering them a little for my bedroom! (My MIL said i could!! LOL!!) It was all in this lemony yellow colour - I have just painted the box purple and it looks awesome with the frangipanis on top!!! Just need to do one more coat then seal it and I want to add my name to it somehow!
Well i have to go down to the shops - Need some xmas photos developed so i can scrap!! LOL!! Also need to get some kitty things!! HAHA!!
Will add some more pics and stuff later!!!

All Done! YAY!!!

2005-12-24T01:09:00.000+11:00

All done with the chrissy shopping - totally - no more!!! Now comes the horrible job of wrapping them all! What a huge job too! There are so many things to wrap - And lucky Jono gets to build the boys bikes tomorrow night!! HAHAHA!!!
We got our new tv today - Ended up getting the 130cm one and our free gift was a deep fryer which has already been used 3 times!! LOL!! I love it!! Jono is so happy with the tv - It is soo big!!
Well i did another LO the other day - another one of Alicia! (I do scrap the others - i swear i do!)

Oh - I forgot to say Happy Birthday to my little sister for Tuesday too So - Happy Birthday Laura!! she turned 6 - growing up so fast!! And it was my BILs bday on Wednesday - So Happy Birthday Dan!!! (Honestly - who has kids in december!! What a stupidly expensive month!! LOL!!)

Well - better TRY and get some sleep!! I need to make Jonos xmas pressie still - He keeps being home though and i dont want him to see it!! LOL!!!

What a day!!

2005-12-22T01:29:00.000+11:00

Well i think i have finally got all my xmas shopping done!! YAY!! Now just to find one thing for the father in law and i am totally done - Guess what me and jono are getting - either a 130cm or 117cm rear projection tv!!! YAY!! It is SO KOOL!!! And we get a free dvd player with it and also a free gift but we dont know what that is yet! As i am already a customer of radio rentals they sent me a good offer - 2 months rent free - Why not!! We couldnt really afford to go buy one outright so this way we are just paying it off and i have worked it all out - We dont pay tooo much extra - It is worth it to do it that way for us and after the 36 months we get to buy it for $1!!! Just like our dryer and washing machine! It is SO kool but!! We are really excited about it! We are hoping for the 130cm as then we can get it on friday otherwise we will have to wait till next week - The lady was unsure of the price and is getting back to me in the morning so i will know then!
Can you believe i have been in bed but just could not sleep so got up again!! I am a fruit loop!! Why can i not sleep at this time of night? It is just not normal!
OMG! I hate christmas shopping this time of year - People are NUTS!! So pushy and darn rude!! It is supposed to be a happy time of year but it really is stressful isnt it!
My kids are getting so spoilt!! I said i wouldnt do it again but i have! The boys are both getting a star wars bike and a plug in tv game - Matt is getting star wars and mitch is getting buzz lightyear - The star wars one is so kool - comes with a light sabre and you watch the tv while waving it around to play it - He is SO gonna love it! He is obsessed with stat wars - He loves it - I remember after the first time he watched the last one that came out he had to come and say "mummy it was so kool - annakin turned into Darth Vader and it was just so kool!!" PMSL!! What a cutie!!
Anyway - I guess i should TRY and sleep again - At least there will be something on telly to watch in about 10 mins for me! Roswell - I have seen them all ages ago but i did like watching it and it is pretty good compared to some of the other CRAP they put on late at night!
Oh and we lost our volleyball grandfinal today - by 4 points - We were down by heaps though and came back - We just werent in to it today!! We did get some white singlet tops though and i wore mine this arvo when i went shopping and it was really comfy!!
Anyway - Will leave you with my latest LO - I love these papers i found - K&Co - And i love this pic of Alicia - She was laughing! I have written on a tag book thing in the pocket that tells her my wishes and hopes for her - To live a long healthy happy life, to always smile and laugh and i hope i get to see it all!! etc (Thats just the short version!)
Well i have rabbitted on enough for nearly 2am!! LOL!!

Catch up!!

2005-12-18T22:12:00.000+11:00

Well i figured i should come and fill in about the weekend!!
Matts graduation was great!! He looked so handsome dressed up with the little graduation cap and cape! He was so very shy - It was gorgeous! Here is a photo with his teacher - She is lovely and he get on with her well!!
We had a pretty easy day on saturday - Jono and I both have the flu so we took it easy - although he did work for most of the day - We had a HUGE storm in the morning - poor mitchy was terrified! I went and scrapped with Sara in the night time - Got one and a half LOs done and got a few cards made - then decided that everyone else was getting shop bought cards!! LOL!! (I only made 6 too!!) We had fish and chips for dinner - they were so yummy - Alicia especially loved the lemon! LOL! (See pic!!)
Today we again had an easy one but we did put up our chrissy lights - OK OK they are super late but hey - least they are up now!! They look pretty kool too - Now i just need to get a great picture of them! I have put a pic in here but they look way better in real life!!! I finished off the LO i started last night too - Very happy with it - Found some gorgeous K&Co papers the other day and was dying to use them!! I really want to work on Jonos xmas present but havent had a chance yet - I am altering a cork board for him!! Hope he likes it - I am sure he will - He loves my scrappy stuff! (Well most of it - He loves to tell me that things are crooked!! HAHA!! Drives me nuts!)
Anyway - I am off now! Will take some pics of the LO i finished today and show it off tomorrow! I am so happy with it!!!

Love Fridays!!

2005-12-16T12:12:00.000+11:00

End of the week - weekend coming up!! YAY!!
Well i have Matthews preschool graduation tonight - I cant wait - Got the camera ready to take lots of pics!! He got a really great school report too - I loved reading what a pleasure he is to teach! Makes a mother all proud!!!
Well i finally did Jens crap pack challenge! The 3 embellishments i used were cardstock, heidi jewels and fabric! I really like this LO too!!

I wasnt too sure about the fabric ties at first but i do like it!! Dont you love that feeling you get when you do a LO and you just really like it! LOL! Everyone probably thinks i am a nut!! HAHA!!!

Well we lost volleyball again last night! By 3 points - but against the team that is coming first in the comp so i was pretty happy with that - I have been sick or injured for the majority of our games this comp so i know i have let us down a bit!

Well Jono is home today so i should probably go spend some family time with them all!! I will come back later and post a pic of Matts graduation!! Have a great day!!!

Buggered!

2005-12-15T14:22:00.000+11:00

I did so much shopping yesterday and i am getting the flu so i am buggered!! I bought nearly all the kids pressies! We just have to get Matt one more bigger thing, Mitch a few little things and Alicia a few little things! I am quite relieved to have it nearly all out of the way though!! Be glad when it is all over anyway!
I finally finished the canvas i started on sunday - It is very bright but it is very christmassy! It is for Jonos mum - I thoght it could be something she could bring out every year around christmas time to display!

So Jonos mums presents are all done - Now to finish off daniels and andrews and make a start on emilys! Not long to go now!! How exciting!!!

I finally found a crap pack so i can have a go at the challenge that Jen set - Reject shop $2 papers!! Check out Jens blog if you want to see what it is - I just hope to get some time to sit and have a go at it now!!

I sooo need to do something about xmas cards too as i have gotten quite a few but havent made or sent any yet - I might have to just buy some soon!! LOL!!! Maybe make some - buy some!! HAHA!!

Anyway - I should go do something - Maybe some scrapping as cleaning sux!! LOL!!

Happy Birthday Ty!!!

2005-12-13T15:11:00.000+11:00

Well it is my little brother Tysons 5th bday today so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!!!!!
I finally have pics of my LO io started on sunday and i finished off the calendar for Jonos mum for xmas so here they are!!
I got an email with the target catalogue this morning and how sad am i - I got all excited as they have 20% off toys plus one of the things we want to get Mitch is reduced from $100 to $60! I was umming and arring over getting it but seeing as it is quite rediced now - I will have to go find it!! LOL!! So i am hoping to get ALL my xmas shopping done this week! I will feel so relieved when it is ALL done!! I still have to make a few things though but thats kool - I enjoy making things! I just hope they all like them! I wish Jono would get home on time today as i want to go out to Erina and get a few pressies i can only get from there as i dont want to drag Alicia out there tomorrow after volleyball! Especially if it is super hot like it is right now!!! It is so quiet here at the moment - Mitch and Alicia are sleepin and Matt is watching cartoons - BLISS!!! Wish it was this quiet more often!!
Anyway - Dont really have much interesting stuff to say!! Just wanted to post these pics and say Happy Birthday to Tyson!!!

Oh Christmas Tree...

2005-12-12T23:46:00.000+11:00

LOL!! All this christmassy stuff is getting me in the mood for christmas - VERY slowly though i must say! I went and bought a new star and a few more decorations for my tree today - Only from woolies though as Jono didnt get home till after 5.30 when all the other shops were shut!
I bought the cutest little dough santa though - I love it!! It reminds me of something i just cant think what (that probably sounds real bad but oh well!) Anyway - I also got a kool lit up star - I love it and Matt told me that i was the bestest mummy in the whole wide world when i had it all up on the tree.
Here are some pics of my new things though!!
I finished off the LO i started yesterday - Will take some pics tomorrow!!
I also started a calendar - Copied the idea from Jen! I just need to find a good quote for it - It is for Jonos mum so i was thinking a grandma quote! Have to see what i can find - Think i will do it tomorrow though as my head is a but BLURGH! tonight - Think i might head to bed very very soon!

Crop day!!

2005-12-12T01:01:00.000+11:00

Went to a crop up at Newcastle today - Had tons of fun - Did more chatting than scrapping which is always the way with me!! LOL!! I started a canvas which i need to find some embellishments for, made part of a christmas cracker and started a LO on Alicia - Which i have in front of me right now - I want to use my sewing machine though so i will have to wait till tomorrow as i am not waking up Alicia behind me just to do a bit of scrapping!! LOL!! Besides - I should go to bed soon anyway - I was up early this morning (Not that anyone would know cause i was still 40 mins late to the crop!! LOL!!
I saw some GORGEOUS work today Kell and Mandys mum did some lovely canvases, Mel did 3 lovely LOs, Lib had her album was was beautiful and i loved the princess LO she finished today!! And Jen - Well - Totally put me to shame - she sat there and totally powered away and did so many things while i didnt even finish one and hers all looked stunning and mine just didnt look right - Any of it!! But Jen - you have inspired me - I bought 2 of them woolies calendars on the way home and i am determined to get them done this week some time for Jonos mum for xmas and my mum for her bday!! Then when i get good at them - I will do me one!! HAHAHAHA!!! I am evil!! LOL!!
I did something in the settings Jen so hopefully you will be able to leave comments now - Let me know if you cant! I was talking to Jono tonight and saying i wanted to come up one night in the new year to one of your classes in your studio!!
My kids got to watch some fireworks last night - So kool - The local school is just at the top of the hill from our estate and they had their christmas carols night and had a firework show - Very pretty!!!
Oooh - AND i finally put up the chrissy tree tonight!! LOL!! Only 2 weeks late!! HAHAHA!!! I really need to get some decorations though as the boys broke heaps playing with them and we need a new star or angel as the boys broke that too!!! So i will get them on tuesday!!
Anyway - I have written enough!! Will catch up more later!!!

Hot already!!

2005-12-10T11:32:00.000+11:00

This heat sux!! Let it be known - I HATE the heat!! Much prefer winter - snuggling up in bed!! MMMMM!!!
Well Jono is out playing paintball and i am here with the kids again!! Story of my life huh!! LOL!!
Cant wait till tomorrow cause i get to go to Newcastle to crop!!! YAY!! And i am getting a few goodies from Kell but SHHHH dont tell Jono!! HAHAHA!!! I got my secret santa pressie today - So KOOL!!! I LOVE it!! The lovely Kat - Made the most gorgeous card and i got some MM ribbons, some heidi swapp jewels, some lovely girly tiles and a K&Co Lifes Journey album - The same kind i use for the CJs - Which is pretty darn exciting as i just started a new thread in scrap needs for a new CJ for next year and i wont have to buy a CJ when i want to start!! So THANKS Kat!! Your pressies are perfect!!! And the card - It is so beautiful!! Kat is one talented lady!!!
Well i was busy last night making up coasters - I have made 3 now - half way done!!! I will show them off when i have finished!!
Should see my kids - Alicia is in her walker eating some bikkies - Well Matt decided it would be fun to push her around - so he is dragging her around the lounge room and she is absolutely cracking up - And Mitch is running around going RARRRR! So cute!!! Noisy - But cute!!! I LOVE my kids!!!
Anyway - Will leave you with a LO i did this past week - This is one Jono told me to do - He told me what to name it and also told me i had to do the swirly pattern!! So i listened to him and its not so bad!!!

Nearly the weekend!!

2005-12-09T00:55:00.000+11:00

I am so looking forward to sunday!! Get to go to Newcastle for a crop with the scrap needs girls!! YAY!!!
I took some pics of my gorgeous kids all dressed up in santa hats today - Couldnt one of them together so i had to get cute single pics!! LOL!!! Arent my babies beautiful!! Love all these pics and i am going to scrap a canvas for Jonos mum using them!! Plus a LO for me too!!! I need some new good pics for more inspiration!!! LOL!!! I am getting bad - I love to scrap the "good" really nice photos now and the more crappier ones keep getting pushed aside!! LOL!! Oh Well!! LOL!!
Well - Me and Sara won volleyball tonight - we kicked ass!! Had a really fun game though - we were all laughing and joking - All good!!!
I didnt really do much else today - I finished off my scrapaholics CJ so i can finally post it off to Lali - So late though - Sorry Lali!!!! Bought some coasters to alter to make little plaques as pressies for a few friends! Not much else though - Boring arent i!! LOL!!!

For Keeps LOs!

2005-12-08T07:44:00.000+11:00

I got mine back so hey - thought i would put them in here!! (Well technically they are sitting at the post office but i know it is them!!)

This is a LO of me and my babies!!
There are tags in the pocket which has journalling about what i love about being a mum!

This is my little brother and sister - Laura & Tyson! Arent they gorgeous!!

This is my little girl finally eating some "food" only thing she would eat for ages!!

This one i wasnt 100% happy with but it had to go as i finished it the night before i had to send it!! LOL!!!

And it is true - she is always happy!!!

I will post again later with news from the past few days! Gotta get some kids breakfast!!

So Darn Hot!!!

2005-12-06T21:33:00.000+11:00

When will it stop! I cant stand this kind of heat! I LOVE cold shivering weather!! The kind where you are so cold you want to stay in bed under your nice warm doona!
I cleaned up the kids little clam pool today and they were so happy playing in the lovely cold water!! It was so cute to watch!!
Also went shopping today - Got another pressie for Mitch so i am slowly getting the xmas shopping done! Also got myself some more paint and ribbon!! LOL!! I am so spoilt!!
Some Kool news - I buy off this ebay seller - scrap est - Lovely lady Annette runs it - Well over november she ran a competition - every buyer got an entry in the draw and i won!!! Woohooo!! $50 worth of chatterbox products - I cant wait to get them!! I am so stoked!!
Will leave you with another LO - I feel a bit like scrapping - might have a cold shower, then come and scrap!!! This one is of ME!! When i was a little bubba!! On santas knee - how cute!!
And can you believe that paper i have used - the green glittery one is one of the first papers i ever bought from a scrap shop!! Ages and Ages ago - Or should i say many many papers ago!! LOL!! I fell in love with it but was never brave enough to use it!
Oooh - I FINALLY started my A-Z album aswell - The one that For Keeps are running with Deluxe Designs - I started with the letter H though!! HAHAHA!!! A bit different i think!!!
Anyway - off to the shower now!!!

Another week gone!!

2005-12-05T00:19:00.000+11:00

Gee this year has gone so super fast - My daughter will be 9 months old soon - Where did that 9 months go?? She is growing up so much! And my Matt starts school next year - OMG!! My eldest child will be going to school - SCARY!!! Makes me glad i scrapbook so i will be able to remember everything when i am old and senile! Scary things kids are!!
Well i have been scrapping up a storm this week!! Completed 5 LOs and done nearly all the circle journal stuff i had to! YAY for me! I went up to my friend Kells last night and scrapped with her - Nearly did a whole page!! And my sweet friend Kell gave me the most sweetest present! She gave me this kool big toolbox on wheels that i have wanted for AGES - that now houses most of my scrapping stuff!! I LOVE it!!!!!
I cant wait till next sunday - It is the monthly scrap needs crop day at Newcastle!! So kool!! I have had so much fun at the past ones i have been to!! And the lunch was pretty good too!! I LOVE good food!
Anyway - I really havent done anything that exciting over the weekend!! I might go pick the next photo to scrap!! Will leave you with a LO of my Mitchy - He gave me the most beautiful cuddles and kisses at bedtime tonight!! SO darn cute!!

Thundery Thursday!!

2005-12-01T21:30:00.000+11:00

What a day weather wise! First it was sunny - then thundering and raining - then sunny - then raining!! I swear - It is starting to feel like tropical weather!! Well i have been a slack blogger and have not written much this week - Not much happening though!! I did get some fantastic news on tuesday though - Got a letter from For Keeps mag - One of the LOs i did for the Awards of Excellence competition is being published in the Awards of Excellence Book!! How exciting!! I cant believe it!!! I am still in shock!! In the last 3 weeks - 3 LOs being picked up!! After months of submitting - It feels like it is really paying off sending all them emails and receiving all the rejections!! Still not helping me scrap more though!! HAHAHA!!! It is so NOT flowing like i feel it should be at the moment! Finding it hard to get motivated - Takes a lot of playing with stuff!! LOL!!
Well that was the most exciting thing to happen all week!! Played volleyball yesterday and tonight - Lost both!! LOL!! Had lunch with my good friend Kell yesterday!! Lotsa fun!!
Well i will leave you with a lovely clipboard i altered - I was gonna give it to my mum for her bday but i think i want to keep it!! So i bought another mini clipboard and some more paper so i could make another one!! HAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!
Also - HUGE Congrats to Lali from scrap needs on her pregnancy!!!

Girls Night Out!!

2005-11-26T14:30:00.000+11:00

Last night was our girls night out from scrap needs! Very fun!!! I had a blast!! This is us!! from left - Mel, Jen, Kellie, Megan, Me, Jane & Shell!
Arent we gorgeous!!! I cropped and lightened the pic a bit so now it isnt the clearest but you get the idea!!
We did a secret santa aswell - I got the most gorgeous pressie!! Jen had altered a diary planner for 2006 and i got it!! I LOVE it!! So thanks heaps Jen - It will definately get lots of use!!
More Scrap Needs news - The retreat!!! In March 2006 - I will most certainly be there - It is going to be so much fun!! And some big name scrappers will be there - All the DT members from scrap needs - Jen, Shell, Erica & Roz!! And it is held on the beautiful Central Coast!! Gorgeous place (I know - I live here!!) So if you are interested - Check out the scrap needs website and hurry to book your place - You have about 3 weeks to pay the deposit to secure your place!!
More exciting news - I am getting another LO published!! The LO i posted in my last post of Alicia at 8 months - Scrapbooking Memories want to publish it!! I couldnt believe it!! Scrapbooking Memories want to publish MY LO!! I will actually get to see MY work and MY beautiful daughter in print - with MY name underneath them!! How Kool!!!
Well i have probably rambled enough!! My head is throbbing a bit so i am going to go lie down with my boys - (Hopefully they will lie there and watch cartoons and fall asleep so then i can too!! LOL!!)

Another wednesday gone!

2005-11-23T23:28:00.000+11:00

This year is going way too fast! It feels like a blur! I stayed up so late last night scrapping! I did a LO on my gorgeous girl though that i absolutely LOVE! I got my inspiration from the lovely Jen Hall - I love how she uses fabric ties on her LOs and i had a look in her gallery in her blog and decided to have a go myself! Jen is a gorgeous scrapper and a lovely lady too - I have had the pleasure of meeting her in real life - go check out her blog from my links!! So this is my way of thanking Jen for the inspiration!! LOL!!

I hope you like it Jen!!

Well busy day today - I had volleyball this morning - we lost too! Bugger ay!! I then went and had lunch with my lovely friend Gretta and her cutie little baby Dominic! She is enjoying being a mum so much - It was great to see her so happy!!! she deserves it!! Then had to get the boys and i ended up being lazy and getting maccas for dinner - I fell asleep not long after getting home and Jono put all the kids to bed! What a sweetie! I cant believe i fell asleep!! LOL!! I will be up all night now!

I have been trying to think of xmas pressies for Mitch and Alicia - Matt is pretty much done - Just waiting for toys r us to get the last thing in - I have decided to get Alicia a Care Bear - But - Cant find the colour i want! Why is it the shops only have the yucky orange or yellow ones!! So annoying! I want pink or purple! I want a pretty girly one for my little princess! I have half my xmas shopping done - Just so hard when my kids are spoilt rotten and have everything already!!

Anyway - I am going to go do some scrapping! (Well try to - I have some more circle journals i got to do!!)

New Look!!

2005-11-22T00:21:00.000+11:00

I have decided to revamp my blog a bit!! I have been trying to upload a header but it just wont work for me - Trying to get some help with it though!! And i got rid of all that pink!! YAY!!!
Pretty nothing day today! Yesterday we took the kids up to the water and Jono took the boys in a paddle boat and a kayak - They had a blast!! It was very kool - I got a few good photos - Would have taken more but i was pushing Alicia and then i had to watch Mitch aswell while Matt had a go in the kayak - I want to try and do a home photo shoot some time soon - I need some great new photos for my scrapping inspiration!!!

I will leave you with another LO i did last week! This one is using a challenge pack from my LSS - I might win a voucher for there if i get enough votes!!!

I am so slack!

2005-11-20T00:31:00.000+11:00

Over a week since i posted last!! I am a naughty blogger arent i!! Me and my daughter have both been sick though so I will blame it on that!! I have scrapped a few pages!

This one of Alicia was for the scrapneeds Lucky 3 challenge - I am pretty happy with how it turned out as I would never really scrap them colours together!! And i altered that pic of Alicia to match it!

I also did this one of Matthew - We had to handsew, use tags, handwrite and use handwriting! I tried to scrap one of the boys so it didnt look like i was always scrapping Alicia!! LOL!! Plus i think these pics of Matt are pretty cute!! He was so proud of himself being able to blow bubbles by himself!!

Well not much happened this week - Volleyball on wed and thurs - we won both games too - Had lunch with friends on wednesday.

Well i am going to try and head to bed and get some much needed sleep - Hope i feel better tomorrow!! (Well today technically!)

Sunny Saturday!!

2005-11-12T13:17:00.000+11:00

Well it is pretty warm here today!! I would love a nice cool rainy day!!
Guess What!!! I am so excited - I am getting my very first scrapbook LO published!!! In For Keeps magazine - Issue 40 which i worked out will come out in about March! I am so stoked!! And it is a LO of Alicia so my beautiful girl will be seen by everyone who reads it!! How Kool!!
Well it has been a busy week again! Wednesday especially! Volleyball and Matts school orientation - Thankfully only one more week to go and it is before volleyball this week! Took the kids down to chipmunks yesterday - They ran around for about 2 hours - they slept in this mroning though so maybe i should do it more!! HAHA!!! Alicia has a bit of a fever so she is a bit cranky! She amazes me though - I just turned around to see how she was and she waved at me - The first time she has waved!! So then we kept doing it to each other!! So cute!! Even though she is sick she is still one amazing little girl!!
Well i have double booked myself for tonight!! I am going to scrap with a friend and it is scrap needs 1st birthday party!! I want to do both!!! Bugger! I might have to steal my friends computer for a while at her house!! LOL!!!
Here is a LO i did this week of my gorgeous girl!! I love them prima flowers!!! YUMMO!!!

I went to my first paper fair!!!

2005-11-07T20:30:00.000+11:00

I had so mush fun!! yesterday, Jono and me went to the paper crafts festival down at Penrith - Yes - Jono went with me!! Isnt he a sweetie!! He carried all the bags for me and kept telling me to buy whatever i wanted!! I love him so much!!! So i have taken a pic of all the yummy goodies i got - I so easily could have gotten more too!! LOL!!! I also got to meet up with some lovely ladies that i have chatted with for over a year! It was great!! Pity i didnt get to spend more time with them though!
And here is a LO i did the other day of my handsome Matt! Very simple but gee it was hard to do though! It just didnt come easy to me!
After the paper fair yesterday me and Jono went and played Aqua golf, mini golf, we then went and ate at lone star and also stopped in and bought some krispy kremes!!! YUMMO!! It was a fantastic day!! So relaxing and it was great to spend all that time with Jono with no kids!! Definately need that more!!!
Well now i am sitting here watching greys anatomy - brilliant show - i love it!! And trying to scrap a CJ that i REALLY need to do NOW!! So i will check back in soon!!!

Finally!!!

2005-11-01T13:25:00.000+11:00

I am making another post!! It has been one hectic weekend!! I am still buggered! Jono and I went bowling on sunday - we played two games and i won the first!!! I was so stoked!! He flogged me in the secong though! And we went for a swim after he got home from work yesterday - both times with no kids and gee it was relaxing!! To have US time and NO KIDS!!!! And i am so excited - If we get some money that should be coming on thursday - we are going to the paper fair at penrith on sunday - and Jono is taking me - which means that he will probably let me buy whatever i want!! How kool!!! So Penrith here i come!! I cant wait to get some great goodies!!! YAY!!! I have done hardly any scrapping this week - I feel lazy!! I might have to get off here now and go see what i can come up with! Jono will be home soon though - Melbourne cup day - they get off early so they can watch the race! Which he has no interest in! So we are all going shopping! FUN!! I also got to see my mum and my nan on saturday! My nan is quite sick so it was great to go down and visit and she got to see the kids! Well I am going to scrap!! I actually feel like it now!! I promise i wont wait so long to blog again!! LOL!!!

I have been so slack!!

2005-10-27T12:28:00.000+10:00

This week with blogging!! My head is everywhere this week! Too much going on!! I was even having trouble scrapping till last night - I got in my zone last night!!! And scrapped this one of Alicia!! I love it too - I am really happy with how it turned out!!
Well busy week - Have had Matts speech therapy - he was a bit of a bugger though - he was fidgeting and not concentrating - driving me nuts! Had volleyball yesterday and it was so yukky and hot!! We did win though! And Matt had another school orientation - 2 down 2 to go!! Cant wait till that is over!
Jono got a new job - He starts on tuesday so that is pretty exciting - a bit extra money each week! Definately will love that!!!
I have been chatting to my sister Kristy and my cousin Nicky nearly every day since i have been back from my sisters wedding! I am loving chatting to them again! Will have to try not to get out of touch this time!! LOL!
Well this arvo - busy again - Have to pay the rent, go to the doctors, and then have volleyball plus i need to go get formula and nappies etc etc!! And Food!! I seriously need some food in this house!! The fridge is so bare!! I really should be cleaning as my mum is coming tomorrow but i am in one of my blurgh moods and i cant be motivated to do anything!!
Mitch has been a real turd today too - really testing my patience - He threw a matchbox car at me to wake me up - At 7am!! I was so not impressed - It hit me right in the eye too! GRRR!! KIDS!! Alicia has been bit of a cranky bum too - She is getting her two bottom teeth! So between my blurgh mood, Mitch being a turd, Alicia cranky and Matt just constantly nagging and never shutting up - It really is one of THOSE days!! LOL!! Well hopefully tomorrow is better!!

Lazy Day Sunday!!!

2005-10-23T18:27:00.000+10:00

Well i have not done much today but it has been fun!!!
I scrapped a BOM page today - Was a pretty speedy page for me too!! I had quite a few pics of me when i was younger that i stupidly hacked when i was a young teen - So i wanted to use some up! Now to figure out how to use those ones i cut into stupid shapes!! LOL!!
Cooked a yummy dinner - Crumbed Chicken mmm - my best and favourite meal to cook!! We all played outside for a while this arvo and played ball and pushed the kids on the swings! That was fun too!! And i am about to get off here and go scrap again!!!

Start of the weekend!! YAY!!!

2005-10-21T22:10:00.000+10:00

Well i love fridays!!! I love weekends!! Always have!!!
I have had a bit of a lazy day today - Jono got home quite early so i had an afternoon sleep as i was feeling a bit yukk!! Feel much better now though!
I got my lucky 3 challenge pack from scrapneeds today! So excited to be doing that!! I also got a CJ today and i cant wait to get it done and sent as the next one i will get back will be mine!!! YAY!! I bet it is stunning too!!! I will show it off in here when i get it back anyway!!!
I did this LO of my sister and niece at Kristys wedding - i finished it off yesterday and am quite happy with it!! Love basic grey!!!
I have been pretty slack this week blogging!! It has just been one of them weeks - I have not done a lot but still been busy! Well that would happen with 3 kids wouldnt it! LOL!! Well i am out of here now as i have to go grab some toilet paper from the shops and i was going to drop in to Saras house!!
OOh - I did this on google - it came from one of the girls from scrapneeds - You have to type in your name and then 'needs' and see what comes up - here is what came up with my name!!:
1. Kelley needs to change if he wants to succeed with “Boston Legal" (OK!)
2. Kelley needs to confirm the audio/visual needs (OK!)
3. Kelley needs and deserves your support (LOL!!)
4. Kelley needs surgery (Well i hope i dont!!)
5. Kelley needs more credit (Yeah - bring it on!! LOL!!)
See Ya!!!

I am BUGGERED!!!

2005-10-17T23:09:00.000+10:00

What a weekend!! Last minute i decide to go down to Sydney a night early and catch up with my aunt and uncle - Had a blast too so i am glad i did go!! Then i had the wedding on saturday and my sister was so gorgeous!!! She looked beautiful!! I will put in a pic!! I cant wait to scrap them but i have to go get some printed first cause of my stupid printer that will not print colour properly!!! I ended up staying down in sydney on saturday night aswell - Stayed with my sister and her hubby and their friends and my cousin nic who i adore!! Havent seen her for ages so i was glad i caught up and spent some really good time with everyone! Then on sunday i went and visited with my dad and my aunt and my nan and then my other aunt and didnt end up leaving Liverpool till after 9pm!! LOL!! I got home about 11;30pm - I was buggered and still am!!! Mitch was a bit sick today aswell so i couldnt even have a lazy day!! LOL!! Jono was great though and let me have a little nap when he got home! (Which is why i am still up now - but am about to go to bed!!)
I have a few scrappy things i have to do tomorrow - Circle Journals - Monograms for a swap, cut up some fabric for a swap! I am way too behind!! Life is getting in the way!!!

OK - First pic - My beautiful sister Kristy and her gorgeous daughter Kiera-Lee! Dont they both look beautiful!!!
Second pic - From left - Sam (The youngest sister of the three of us), Me(The eldest), Kristy(The middle), her hubby Shane and he is holding Kiera, my step mother Barb (She is Kristy and Sams mum though) and our dad!

Anyway - Off to bed now!!!

Freaky Friday!

2005-10-14T13:39:00.000+10:00

Well we lost our volleyball final last week! I hurt my leg too while we were playing! It seems ok now but it really hurt while i was playing!! I finished off a LO just before i left for volleyball too - My gorgeous girl sitting up for the first time!! I was so proud!! Still am - She is so clever!! So beautiful too!!! (Can you tell i am a proud mum!!) She is sitting on my lap right now too - watching me type and trying to touch the mouse and keyboard herself!! Cheeky thing!
Might be going out tonight - Some friends asked if i was interested - Maybe!!! Anyway - Whoever might read this - hope your day is going well!!

Thursday!!

2005-10-13T16:26:00.000+10:00

Another thursday here!! Gee this year is going unbelievably fast!! Got another volleyball final tonight - Cant wait!!! It should be a really close game too!!

I finished off this LO this morning - My son has the terrible two's!! I forgot to add 'persistant' to the list too!! I was cranky at him when i started it - not so cranky when i finished it though! My plan was to put journalling on it about how much he gets on my nerve but how much i love him anyway!! Didnt turn out that way though!!! LOL!!

Well things to do - I will check in later with how my volleyball final went!! Lets hopw we win!!

Tuesday!!! Its hot!!

2005-10-11T12:06:00.000+10:00

Well I tried to go to bed early last night - And i still didnt make i there till after 1am!! I am the worst at staying up late! Well It is my Best friends birthday today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA!!!! She has recently started scrapping aswell and I love her stuff!!! She is obsessed with basic grey!!! She works well with it too!! It is also my friends daughters birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALANNAH!!!!
Well have to go - Matt has speech therapy! Hopefully this will be his last term of it - He may have to do it one more term after he starts school - depending on his progress!! (He had a lot of ear infections and it affected his hearing and speech a little bit - we caught it really early so it is a good thing! Just a pain to go to all the test and appointments etc etc - Been going on for 2 years!)
These 2 LOs i did last week - I saw a friends artwork with chalks and loved it so i asked if i could do something similar for a background for a LO - I love how it turned out! Very different! The other one of me - I had to play with my new daisy mask!!! (I am sure any scrapper understands that!!!)

What A Weekend!!!!

2005-10-10T22:03:00.000+10:00

Well i had a big weekend!!! Two HUGE nights out - Am buggered today! I also scrapped at Saras two nights aswell - Before we went out on friday night, then last night too! I have not had an early night in soooo long! I am really tempted to tonight though! Have to watch 24 first though!! LOL! Never liked it when it first started but i am hooked now!! SAme as Greys Anatomy! Awesome show!!!
Well i did get a few pages done since i posted last!! 3 of Alicia and 1 of me!! I think i need to start scrapping my boys more!! I did take some gorgeous pics of them the other day i just need to get them printed! I went to Big W this arvo - It was 40 mins till they shut and they had turned off the computers - I was peeved - they were still open and it wasnt like i wanted the photos that day - I just wanted to put them in! HOW RUDE!!! Well this is one of the pics of Mitch anyway!! I love it!
Something exciting from today too - My gorgeous little girl learnt to sit by herself!! I was on the computer and heard her awake - go to get her and she was sitting up in her cot! So cute!! She was so happy with herself too! I was so proud!!! Doesnt she just look so cute!!!
Well i was hoping to get some scrapping done tonight but its just not workin for me so i think i will just give up and have an early night!! (If i can actually sleep!! LOL!!!)
Night!!!

I must be nuts!!

2005-10-06T13:37:00.000+10:00

I went and dyed me hair!! It is this reddish coppery colour - It is slowly growing on me but when i woke up this morning and looked in the mirror i went Oh No!! LOL!! Was up so late doing it too!! It looks different in different lights so sometimes i really like it!! LOL!! How funny!
So here is a pic of my hair!! And a pic of a LO i did monday night on Alicia! Gotta love the junkitz papers!!!
So we have volleyball tonight!! YAY!! I do love my thursday night games - We won our game yesterday too - It hurt too - It was so hot and i was stuffed afterwards!! Have not played when it was that hot for so long as i missed out on last summers games as i was pregnant with Alicia!! We have finals next week too! How kool!! We are a pretty good team so we do have an ok chance of winning - we are coming 2nd in the comp but only by a few points! And we drew against that team coming first last week!! Well - I should go - The boys have decided they want to jump on the trampoline and i guess i should supervise huh!! LOL!!

Tuesday/Wednesday!

2005-10-05T00:47:00.000+10:00

WEll it is tuesday night but technically it is wednesday morning!! And i am still up late! I have the worst sleep habits! I could stay up till the sun comes up! Pity we dont all stay awake during the night and sleep during the day - that would suit me to a T!!! It is just sooo quiet when everyone else is asleep - I can scrap in peace, i can watch tv in peace - I can do what i want!! I can eat in peace! One thing about having kids - when you are eating something - they ALWAYS want some too!!
Pretty nothing days the last two days - Scrapped a bit, cleaned a bit, did some washing - played with the kids - Got cranky at the kids!!! It was cooler today so i think they were being extra naughty for being good when it was so hot the day before!
I have been scrapping away! Last night i sat there for a few hours and scrapped a page for the chatterbox competition but i really dont know if i am happy with it or not!! Havent decided yet! I did a page on my gorgeous girl tonight then started a door hanger for my friends brand new baby boy!!!
How crappy is this show on channel 10 - the hotdogs show - OMG!!! Well - I must admit though if i could call for the competitions i probably would cause who couldnt use the extra cash but he is pretty bloody boring!!! I left my telly on while i was scrapping and it is up to that show! Think i need to go turn some music on instead!!
Well - I am probably boring the crap out of anyone who might be reading this!! So i might just go find myself some music and lie in bed and hope i fall asleep! I wouldnt mind going for a drive but that would wake me up!! Night all!!!
I have put in a photo i love of my gorgeous daughter Alicia - She looks like she is posing for me doesnt she!! Cant wait to scrap it - Will be getting some new photos tomorrow!!! (Well today!!)
OK - Night!!!

GO THE TIGERS!!!

2005-10-03T13:27:00.000+10:00

They really did kick ass didnt they!! I was pretty happy!! Awesome game and i went to school with one of the guys playing!! So i thought that was pretty kool too!!
Not much going on today - It is so hot here!! I want to try and get some more done on my chatterbox LO!!
A LO i did the other day - I saved it for today to celebrate the tigers!!!! Photos i took from the zoo!!
Did i mention it was hot here?? Poor kids are all in singlets! Look so sweaty and miserable! Being quite well behaved though - maybe it is too hot to be naughty!!

Lazy Saturday!

2005-10-01T13:46:00.000+10:00

Slept in again today - The boys went out with their dad again and it was just me and Alicia and she loves lying with mummy in bed! So sweet!! Had a big night last night - ended up going over to a friends house and then went out with Sara to the club - It was a fun night!! And i got invited to go out again tonight!!!
Sitting here a bit half asleep now though!! Have to drink some more coke - need the caffeine i think!!
Well i managed to scrap a page yesterday arvo - For a challenge on scrap needs - My Matt being a cheeky bugger!!
Well now i am going to go and play - I saw a really kool technique last night on some artwork that i want to try for a page!! I will put it in here if it works!!!

Very Pink!

2005-09-30T13:49:00.000+10:00

Well this blog is very pink!! LOL!
Oh well - This was the only one i could see where to change the links so the pink stays!! Maybe when i get a bit more used to it all i will change it!
I even worked out how to put a pic of me in!

YAY - Its Friday!

2005-09-30T13:10:00.000+10:00

I love fridays - End of the week - start of the weekend!!!
I should be sitting here scrapping but am instead am playing around with this blog stuff! My daughter is lying in her cot blowing raspberries to me!! Cheeky bugger! The boys are out with their dad today - So some peace and quiet for once! Now if only i can get Alicia to sleep!!!
Now - lets see if i can get a LO in here!

This LO is of me, my mum and my beautiful baby girl! I did this one the other day and went nuts with the sewing machine!!

Well if anyone has read this hope it wasnt too boring! I have had a pretty boring day so not really much to read about today!! Maybe over the weekend!!!