Just this today

Credit: Dianne Rigdon - Fresh Start (including font); Special thank you to atomic cupcake.

Will is being a monster - L8R !

Tum te tum tum

Hmmmmmm.

Have been seriously put out this week. My darling other half took the modem to work as his work one was stuffed. He didn't bring it back. He bought a new one the next day to replace it and it would not cooperate with the firebox. He also did not have the IT guy's mobile to ring for help, so we had to wait until work on Monday to get it right. I guess I shouldn't complain too much as it is his work that pays for our home ADSL. I was just majorly concerned as I really wanted to get a subscription to atomic cupcake before their prices went up. I scraped in so now I have some new actions to play with.

Yippee!

As for the children, Will has been saying new words EVERY day! Cracking us up with what comes out. the funniest is hen he tries to say Scoop and it comes out poop with an exhalation through his nose at the end. I'll try to record it and put up a sound bite if I can.

Timmy has been gettig better with his TT. He can go the whole day without wetting his pants now. FINALLY. Just got to get those poos in order. He can go the whole day at preschool and then as soon as he comes home. Whammo there it is smelly and disgusting in his undies. GROSS.

AJ is back at school. Loves school. He came home today and told me we had to walk to school on Friday as it is walk to school day. I don't think he realises the distance that involves! We have a compromise, we will drive part of the way and walk the rest. His cross country race is that morning too so I don't really want him too tired to run.

We have a new fur kid too. A hooded rat. Just haven't come up with a mane that sticks yet. Timmy has called him Mouse, I call him Whatsit, mostly he just gets called the rat.

Must go and peel some vegies. I am being all domestic and cooking a roast pork.

I'm it, I've been tagged

The rules:
Get tagged
List five things that have not been revealed on your blog.
Tag five others.

1. I love indoor rock climbing.
but
2. I am scared of heights.
3. I love white chocolate.
4. I drink WAY too much tea.
5. I rip out recipe pages from waiting room magazines!

and I tag Retta, Marg, Claire, Sarah and Dee!

Toot toot

LO of the day clickchicdesigns how cool!

How sweet he is!

I was woken in the wee hours this morning by Will. Cimbed out of his cot and then thumped down the hall to our bedroom. Picked him up and snuggled him in the crook of my arm, where he promptly fell asleep with his arm cuddling me. Sigh! Such a precious moment. His little face was so angelic, I wish my eyes were a camera to take a photo. I guess I did take a photo with my eyes, that image of him sweetly sleeping in my arms is burnt onto my heart forever.



Here he is at his second birthday. Credits: Kate F - Sunshiny Days and More Sunshiny Days; Tara Dunstan - Tarty Templates COl 7 #2.

PLUG PLUG PLUG

I have been suffering from my own lack of creativty and have been relying heaps on sketches and templates.
I love this place -------->Pagemaps and I also came across this one ----->Little Book of Sketches I used one from LBOS in this LO of AJ.


Credits: d2D - Keela (papers); Faer Oak - kitbashvol2 (memoirdflourish - recoloured); scrapastrophe - photo prongs; Bella Gypsy Designs - Plush Petals; Sketch - Litlle Book of Sketches Designed by Catherine Latta.
Fonts: honey I stole your jumper: cast iron

I actually thought I was just rambling to myself, but I discovered that people do come and see what I am up too! Awwwwe shucks! Thanks for caring! MWAH!

Hello stranger!

Remember me?

I am so hopless in keeping up to date with my blog.

How can it be April? Not fair, Will turned two in March. AJ and Tim have just finished term one of kinder and preschool.

I need to find motivation, not just here on my blog, but IRL too. I just don't seem to get anywhere these days. House is a sty, always, no matter how hard I try to keep it tidy. I just have not seemed to find my groove at all this year.

Does anyone know where motivation is hiding? Come out come out where ever you are!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!!

Over the hill now! Chuckle! Not much of a special morning for me, the usual, get the kids up fed, dressed and off to school. My lovely other half bought home flowers for me last night, and my present was nicked, Will ran off with it saying Thank You (how cute at that age) he was interceped by his older brothers who the preceeded to help me unwrap and read the cards. AJ was reluctant to go to with his kinder class this morning, even though he was keen to get there on time. I left him in tears on the floor after he tried to crash tackle me as I left. :( I hope his day improves.



Being my birthday I thought I would share what I have been working on, there is more to come as well. I call this "patchwork angel". If you desire this kit, don't forget to leave some luvn' after you click here to download.

Umm...Merry New Australia Day?

Kinda gotten lost in all the end of and new year hype and lagged with the old blog. Time has flown and it is almost Australia Day, end of holidays and the start of the school year. Yikes! AJ starts kinder soon and Timmy might be off to preschool. We had every intention of starting Tim at preschool, but he still hasn't toilet trained yet. We are thinking of postponing his enrolment for a term or even maybe another year.

Have plans for this blog to start sharing some of my digi scrap ideas - papers and some elements that I have been working on for awhile.

What news? Well, let's see, I'ver started training for a half marathon although my training has become quite slack in the last week as the temp rises here and added to some really bad nights (kids/dogs/heat) I have opted to sleep instead of getting up early to run. I am inspired to do so, my nephew Ben is training for the paraolympic rowing team and has to put in some hard yakka -and he was quite impressed that I was giving it a go. Now he's doing it tough!

Phew it is hot in the study! I need to get motivated and get some housework done instead of this lolly gagging ;)

My Turn!

Feel a bit like I am following the crowd with this but what the hey! Have been making my Christmas cards using other people's templates so I thought I would give it a whirl. Here's my take on a Christmas card template.



This is what it could look like. Credits go to ScrapCloud Designs for their Mittens and Marshmallows Mega Kit. Font used was Gaelic Condensed.



So while I go and bleat like a sheep for awhile you can download this template HERE!

Baa! Baa! Baa! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

accidental photos

We went to Cotter with Mum and Dad on Sunday and naturally I took some photos. What I got was some unexpected results. Still new to my camera I still genaerally take my photos on auto so I assumed that the camera was still on full auto. The night before my darling man had been playing around with the settings and had left them at that.

This is what I got, these are as is, so I might do some level adjustments later but I thought these were pretty cool.

Daddy and Will.

Daddy, AJ and Will.

AJ.

Tim.

Will.

ohh Timothy!

It's good thing that you are so darn cute. But not last night or should I say this morning. You woke up and snuggled in with me at about 2 am, but you couldn't settle. You wriggled and jiggled and squirmed your little heart out. Then you got out of bed went to the lounge and turned on the light. I know I heard! You came back to bed and wriggled and jiggled and squirmed your little heart out. I got up and went to the loo. You got up and started to have melt down "I don't like it", no neither do I. You went back to the lounge and I follwed with blankie and the bear, tried to convince you than it was time for bed, but you wanted the TV on. NO. I explained that the birds were asleep and the tress were asleep and the toys were asleep, you agreed the crocodile was asleep and so was the cushion, but that car over there was awake! I went back to bed.

Before I could fall asleep Will wakes up for his usual booby cuddle. Guess who wouldn't go back to sleep either. At least he was happy to be in his cot cuddling his teddy bear with me beside him listening to his musical aquarium.

Timmy had crashed by then so I poped him back into bed.

Guess who was WIDE AWAKE?

I made a hot choccie and then went to bed at 5 am.

did ya notice?

I have done some redecorating in here!

twang twang twang

Geeze the old dulcimer is a bit tuneless! Hasn't been played for awile. Oh well you get that.

It feels like a lifetime ago when I posted on PBP that I would put up my button templates. Well here is the first. This is the butterfy one. I have set it up as a layered tiff file and intructions are included. I designed these on PSE4, so the instructions are for PSE4, however I am sure most of you will manage to adapt them to your own preferred program.

Here are some examples of what you can do with it. Different backgrounds and bevel depths will change the charatcer of the button.

Click here to download this button maker template. Let me know how you go, both postitivve and negative feedback welcome. Have fun!

I'm so sleepy....

Not getting enough REM sleep so I am totally exhausted. Will has been teething all week and chooses to do so in the middle of the night. I thinl he spends more time in bed with us than in his cot. Two more eye teeth to go, so hopefully another two weeks of this and then SLEEP! AJ has been bed hopping too. The other morning he came up to me about 5 am whining where's my blankie? Huh? go look in your bed! Not there. Where's my blankie? Did you take him to the toilet? I don't know. You look mummy. No you. I can't find blankie! (insert inappropriate thoughts from my head). I get out of bed, look and there is blankie in his bed. ARRGGHH!!!!

Happier note, I bought a new camera! So be warned, an influx of photos coming this way!

David Palmer - World Champion!

We are so proud to say that David is World Champion again! YAY! In what? SQUASH
Its great to say we have a sporting legend in the family!

Bubbles!

Here's is my lastest, my inspiration was some fancy camera work on a TV show called Top Gear (a car show on SBS), this is where I got the idea of splitting and tinting the photo.



I wanted bubbles, and couldn't find any quickly so I made my own brush. Here it is. I am quite proud of my effort.



No Longer Available. Enjoy, and please let me know how you use it.

A letter to Aunty Kit

I was inspired to scrap this page after reading Faer's blog and downloading the latest PBP mega kit freebie by Heather's d.r.e.a.m.. Faer has been making some really nice sketches available to download. The one I used was called Letter Sketch, and combined with Heather's part of the mega kit I came up with this LO of my Great Aunt Kit. I altered and coloured the heart to match the ribbon buckle. She always had the most beautiful and stunning stationary and the paper's in Heather's kit remind me of my favourite aunty.

Writing the journaling was quite cathartic for me, it bought back some memories for me that I had not thought of for a long while. I was crying during the process, I really do miss her. Kit was a very special lady. She had experienced a vaired and rich life. She was an "old school" teacher and had some very strong opinions on life. She was never idle. She had some wonderful stories to tell us. Even when she was "elderly" she kept up with her calisthenics. Her favourite phrase was "now let me give you some advice". She was even in a buliding society advert in Newcastle where she was recorded talking about surfing there.

Just thinking about her again has brought tears to my eyes. Here's to you Kit!

So sick of being sick

Yep that's it so sick of it all. As soon as one child gets well another gets sick and now I am as well. One week down of antibiotics and another week to go for me. I have a stupid bacterial infection in my throat and it has really knocked me out. My darling J came down with it yesterday and got AB's as well. Not happy, he cannot afford time off work - he has some deadlines for work this week.

Some exciting news for me down at clikchicdesigns I am a finalist in the August colour challenge! If you really want to you can vote for me here .

Life is pretty busy here, we went to Wakefield Park (Golbourn) Monday to watch a friend drive his civic around the track. All the boys had fun (even the biggest) who had a chance to drive around at high speeds.

I am busy preparing for a big gathering at my place in September. I am hosting a rather large BBQ for my internet mother's group. There are families coming form NSW, QLD and VIC. I am getting really excited as some of us will be meeting for the first time after chatting to each other for 2 years over the net.

"POP"

The sound of me pulling my finger out.

My slide is updated except for one scrap LO. Try and work out the new ones! I will howeverpost two of them because I am mighty pleased with them and just love the kit I used for them. There will be more of these comming soon.



Credit goes to Faer Oak for her beautiful faer haven grand opening kit (available at the pickleberrypop shop). It was almost as if she had designed this kit for my wedding photos only. I was only just a few weeks ago actually thinking of making my own papers to go with my wedding photos and voila! here's this fabulous kit!



This one you can really see how well the greens go well with Ali's dress. Ahhhh. Beautiful.

Have some photos of the weekend that will be up later on, but Will beckons with a wail, it is lunchtime........