I'm running away!

I am a bad bad blogging mummy. I have neglected my blog. How bad am I???

Sorry blog. What can I do to make it up to you?

Maybe after my retreat this weekend I'll have some cool things to put up in here. I'm running away to QLD for a few days! I'll be heading to the Ohana retread with all my lovely ScrapChat friends (except for some that sadly couldn't make it - we'll miss you guys!).

As it is, I'll just have post up a few photos from the last couple of (rather busy) months. I hope that makes you happy, my poor neglected blog...

We've had Elizabeth's 4th birthday. That was heaps of fun. She got heaps and heaps of presents, and her cake was a treasure chest that she helped me decorate...

My sister had her baby - Isabella Ruth Alice. It was a looooong labour, and was set to go even longer, but they decided enough was enough and chopped her out by emergency c-section. Both mummy and baby are doing really well now.

I finished crocheting a dress for Isabella, about 1 week before she was born. Good timing I reckon! Modelled by the ever-poseable (but rather grumpy) doll Beatrice.

And we had fun around Halloween by actually carving jack-o-lanterns! Not that we actually celebrate Halloween, but I've always wanted to carve a jack-o-lantern, and now I have!

And finally, a quick picture of my 2 kiddles *acting* like little angels. Of course Blogger is having a little hissy fit, so you might have to flip your head sideways to get a good look at them...

OK, I'd better run. Phillip's having his immunisations this morning. That'll be heaps of fun...

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Phillip is sitting on my lap right now about to head off to bed, and he just wanted to say "hi", and "good night". I guess his spelling isn't the greatest... LOL

I actually got a few photos of my kiddles the other morning. TOGETHER! That is virtually impossible. The last photo I had of the 2 of them together and both looking at the camera, and HAPPY was in January I think. I've been able to photoshop a couple of decent pictures from combining 2 vaguely decent ones, but it's not the same! So here's one of the photos I got on Friday morning. There are others that I love too. Maybe I'll share them in my next post...

Last weekend I got to stay over at Sharon's house (thanks for the hospitality Sharon if you ever read this!) to do a bit of scrapping on the Saturday, and then we headed off to the stitches and craft show in Sydney on the Sunday. I managed to complete a few things on the Saturday.

Sadly I'm not as impressed by the work I do when I'm out of the house, as the stuff I do when I'm at home. I tend to get a bit more arty and do a lot more detailed work at home. At crops and retreats I tend to do a lot more clean-cut stuff and it tends to be a bit more, I dunno, boring? Not really the right word, but I'm never quite as happy with the things I do. But in the end I have a few more memories down on paper, a few more challenges done, and most of all, I get to have fun! And I guess that is the point eh?

The "Fashionista" LO is the basis for a sketch over at TAN's blog if you want to have something to get your creative juices flowing...

I'm starting working on a rag quilt at the moment (I figure if I put it in here I might actually FINISH a creative project!). I haven't really made a quilt before. I made a king-sized quilt cover for my mum using a very random style, but never actually a REAL quilt! Wish me luck!

Woo Hoo! I'm on a roll!

Elizabeth likes dressing herself at the moment. We have had some interesting combinations so far - dresses over jeans, singlet tops in winter, and of COURSE orange, navy, pink and red go SO well together. But yesterday's outfit was a stunner...

So what if the grey and black striped leggings are inside out? So what if the bright blue knitted jumper is inside out too? So what if the off-the-shoulder checked red gingham Dorothy the Dinosaur top doesn't match anything? It's FASHION daaaahhhlings!

All done, and some digi scrapping to share

Well, Tanyah's blog is all set up. All pink and pretty with butterflies and flowers and gems.

My blog is set up too - a little bit different... A bit of a grungy, dirty and ecclectic look I reckon! I like the coffee stains particularly. Even though I don't actually drink coffee... LOL

I put in an order with BigW online the other day for 2 8x8 soft-cover albums. At less than $10 it's a GREAT way to get digi creations out of the computer and into a book. You can fit 20 LOs in each book (more if you put multiples on each page, but then they get pretty small and you can't see the detail). I wanted to do 2 books, but I needed a few extra LOs to bulk them out, so I whipped up these LOs in an hour or so!

So today I get to go pick up the 2 books. Added to the 1 I already have, I will then have just about all of my digi scrapping in a hard-copy form as well as on the computer.

It was my sister's baby shower on the 8th. Lots of preperation. Of course, like usual, we over-did it and had heaps and heaps of food, lots of games and all kinds of things. It was a fun day!

I made a nappy cake. It's got wipes, baby bath, 2 packets of disposable nappies, 3 cloth nappies, 4 pairs of frilly baby socks, and the thankyou gifts for everyone for coming (the lolly pops).

And I HAD to include an embarrasing present opening photo of Sarah here. Love the double chin... hehehehe

So, I guess I should go clean the house or something like that. Maybe go get some morning tea for the playgroup tomorrow. Lucky me is on morning tea.

Please excuse the dust

I am in the process of changing my blog around a little bit, and also experimenting with Tanyah's blog (figured I'd muck around with mine cause I know I can change it back). So if you're popping in you might notice a few strange things happening...

Great news and my first Scrap N Craft With T Digital Freebie!

I am very proud to announce that Tanyah at Scrap and Craft with T has asked me to be on her design team, and I (of course very reluctantly! LOL) have said yes! And to celebrate there is a gorgeous digital freebie (even if I do say so myself) all set for you to have a play with.

There are 2 papers, a 5x7 frame, buttons and more!

Head on over to HERE to get yours!

And for those of you who like a bargain and some great scrapping products, head on over to the Scrapchat's auction site this weekend!

WOW is it going to be BIG or what???

Come and grab a scrap bargain and the biggest bargain is a FREE DIGI PAPER!

Hi there everyone. I have been a busy little girl lately. Sadly not too much to share on here. More washing vomit and poo. Sadly so many bugs have come throught this family in the last month!

But I still have had the chance to upload some (what I think are) gorgeous baby clothes to the Scrapchat TRASH AND TREASURE day!

Head on over to the auction site to check out the rest of my things (the trash and treasure day is Sunday 26th - all items are only available for one day!), and there's SO much more there too - crocheted flowers, transparancies, kits, hand-made buttons, felt and paper embellishments, and HEAPS of stuff! I am sure to be doing a bit of shopping for my bargains.

And next up to share with you lovely people is a small digital freebie. I made an antiqued scalloped paper for a page I did for Roll 2 Create's fortnightly challenges.

Here's the LO which includes the FREE PAPER...

And HERE is where you can pick up your own copy. I also used other elements from my different freebies for this LO - the blue paper was from my GROOVY GRUNGE Pt 1. The paper flowers are from my first kit I ever made KIT 1 (the colour of them have been changed). Hope you can use something in your own LOs! If you do please drop me a note and let me see your work!

I have also done a little scrap therapy in the last few days - scrapping about the every-day stuff. The stuff that takes up so much of my life, but so rarely makes it into my scrapbooks!

So here's my POO LO!

Hope it gives you a bit of a giggle. If you take up the challenge of creating your own "every-day" LO, let me know so I can check it out! It's great to have LOs like this that aren't the lovely posed portraits and beautiful landscapes...