NZ Dare Challenge # 8

Oh my gosh, this was a fun challenge and it really made me have to think. Last Easter we went down to our local beach and took the kids for an adventure, which by the way ended up at A&E, with my daughter Kristie cutting her leg open on an oyster shell. Poor baby. She was on crutches for 2 weeks. Anyway Adrian wandered off and I caught him doing something naughty but very very sweet. He was engraving our initials in the soft rock!! Ohhhhh, how sweet! I never get flowers because I made the mistake of telling him they make me sneeze, but then I find him doing little things like this for me.

This was a fun layout. I've used Chip board Flowers and Basic Grey Papers, Bazzill, eyelets, straw, stitching. The works!!! Sounds like a burger. I didn't think I would have time to do this Dare, but waa laa, I did it!! Hope everyone is surviving the holidays LOL!! It's been fun, but there's always a few stresses with the kids..... cya!

Yee Ha!! I've finished

   I've been very busy this morning and just finished another layout, hot off the press. I have wanted to use this Cow Hide printed paper from K & Company for so long and I finally got to use it!! Yay. My daughter Shae-Lee got a Jessie outfit for her birthday and I finally got the perfect photo (just by luck)!!! I brought some photo strips agers ago and have never thought to use them. I'm trying to use some of my old scrapbooking products. It's good when you can mix them in with the new products. I got a lovely present the other day from Lisa @ inspired2scrap. She sent everyone who entered her competition a little gift. Thank you so much Lisa. I got a packet of Plain Janes Chipboard flowers. Very Cool!!! I had also purchased some chip chatter self-adhesive letters from her. I used my chalks to colour them. The only drama I had was with the sew machine. I forgot to check the cottons. Live and Learn. Anyway if anyone drops by, I would love to heard from you. Please.........

Don't you love how we can read kids expressions!

How could you resist this little tiger. He is very very cute, but watch out when he turns on you because he wants some more chippies. LOL!! My son Jacob had his face painted at our school gala last weekend. I think the teacher did a fantastic job. Don't you!! Another picture to scrap when I get the time. 

Life gets so busy!

I can't believe it. One more day and then it is the holidays. Sleep in's for everyone, well sort of. No rushing around and trying to get everyone to school and kindy. Life has been so busy lately. Hopefully there will be more time for some scrapbooking with the kids. My two older girls love the hobby as well, so I will have to post some of their pages on my blog. I hope everyone who is at home with their kids has a great and safe holiday.

My Hubby is Nuts!!

I can't believe. Today was our school's Gala Day. We walked down and managed to spend a small fortune on complete rubbish actually. Well everyone had fun, especially Adrian. I was waiting in the face painting line, and Adrian came running up to me, all excited and told me that he had brought a bike for $5.00 at the white elephant sale. I couldn't believe it. Anyway next thing he raced off and then I turned around and he had riden it down the stairs and through the school grounds, then disappeared. We caught up after 15minutes and he had taken it home. Oh my gosh!!!! When we got home, he spent the entire afternoon going on and on about his bike and how much it would be worth in 20 years. New Zealand made and all......Ok Whatever Adrian. I can see it in the inorganic in a couple of weeks........$5.00. Well at least he had fun. He can be a big kid most of the time. And I don't know why, but I still love him to bits.... 

Out of the Closet Challenge

I just went to look at www.inspired2scrap.typepad.com (Lisa's blogging page) and she has a challenge for everyone, which is a little different from other challenge's I've seen. What a laugh, Lisa!!! Anyway, I just couldn't resist. I have to join and I didn't have to look very far for my entry, it's still in my album. I still remember doing this layout. The title is rope stickers, the rocks have been hand draw and coloured and I had just been to a creative memories home party and they showed us how to cut out around the photos........mmmm. I download the castle picture from a website. I didn't even know that anything about scrapbooking shops then. Know you just have to order online. Technology ay!!! Very easy to get lots of fantastic products. I can't wait for www.scrapbookingbydesign.co.nz to get up and running. I've had a little looky at Lisa's products and Oh My Gosh, she just has so many inspiring wonderful things. You could just imagine buying it all and just drowning in pleasure. Anyway enough dribbling. cya!!!!

Yee Haa

I absolutely love playing with this Picasa Programme. This is going to be my next scrapbooking layout. Shae-Lee turned 4 back in July and her Aunty and Uncle brought her a Jessie Cowgirl outfit for her birthday. Well what a laugh, I couldn't get the bleedin' thing off her. She would go around the house saying "Yee Haa " or if she was in her pj's, she would say "Mummy I want to wear my Yee Haa's"!! Basically I had to take them off her at night because she was usually filthy, wash them and then through them in the drier. Don't worry about washing instructions!!! They washed like a rag. Shhhh...
We had lots of pictures, but in everyone the background was disgusting. The vaccum cleaner was out or you could see our gib board walls. (The joys of renovating). So by cropping and using sepia, it drew the attention away from the messy background and back to Shae-Lee. And I think the photo know looks like in the cowboy days, when they didn't have colour photos. Well I hope that is what it looks like LOL!!! Anyway very excited about doing this layout because years ago I brought some K & Company Cow Patch paper and I have always wanted to use it. Now I just have to find a little time.........

I'm a proud mummy

I just had to add this photo to my blogging page. I can't believe how the kids are growing. My mum was looking through my photo albums and commented that she would like to see a few dress up photos instead of my normal kids into mischief photos that I normally take. So this is for you mum. My babies are all growing up and I'm suddenly feeling very old. LOL!!

Oh yer, I forgot to say. I had my hospital appointment today for my 6 week checkup after my arm and hand operation, and good news. The doctor had discharged me, yessss!!! He said that he was very very surprised to see me using my arm normally because usually it takes months to get the use in your arm back, so someone must be looking after me......must be just a fast healer!!

NZ Dare # 7 - Anything "Metal" Goes!!

Ok!! Don't laugh. As I said in my blog earlier today, there are not very many photos of me, so when I'm on the wrong side of the camera, as I say, I freak and don't know how to act LOL! Anyway here's my take on the NZ Dare #7 - Metal Challenge. And I still have heaps of metal embellishments left..and look I even used embossing powder to for the title, what do you think LOL!!! I still think the little butterflies are so cute!! (both of them) Anyway dinner time. Homemade Pizza....mmmmmm!! My man's cooking, yesssss!!!!

A Rainy Weekend

I haven't managed to blog lately. Sometimes you want to blog, but you just can't think of anything to say. Anyway, I went to a crop night on Friday night, which was really nice to get out of the house and have a goss session with other woman. My girlfriend had done a layout which she had scraplifted off some very talented person, and I just feel in love with the layout and the colours. Very inspiring. I had the perfect photo of two of my babies, which I have wanted to scrap for a while. There aren't many photos of myself because like most women, I am always the one taking the photos. This photo was taken up at Hikurangi in 2003. I absolutely love the ocean, probably because when I was little, my parents had a yaght and we were forever on the water. So peaceful and tranquill. The water up north seems so crystal clear and clean, not like the beaches around auckland. Just breathtaking. My first father died when I was 8 years old and when I am around the sea, it just lets me feel close to him, because his passion was the sea, and mine too!! I changed the layout a bit and found some use for some of my old scrapbooking items that I had brought agers ago. These are just two of my four babies. My little man, at that time was freaking out about standing on the sand. No way is he like that know! & my baby is know 4 was sleeping in her car seat. So my two big girls had a photo with their old mum. LOL!! In the circle it reads

"From the moment that you become a mother, your life is changed forever. No longer do you have just yourself to look after. You are responsible for these tiny little people that you have created with love. From the moment that your babies are conceived and forever and always, you will love your babies unconditionally."

I can't really remember what it was like not to have my babies. I can't believe that my oldest daughter Aimee is nearly 12. Time flys. My youngest daugther Shae is now 4 and has started morning kindy. So I have some time to myself for the first time in I can't remember how long. (Mind you I still have the office work to do for our business!!) LOL. A bit scary and exciting to actually. And I know that I will fill in the time easily. I must admit, it is nice sometimes nice to do just nothing! Listen to music, and relax, like know. Just think and type your thoughts that are going through your mind for just a little part of your life!!

My husband went to the doctors the other day for something and found out that he had a few other little concerns that we have to look into. It just makes you realise that life is so very precious and that we are all here for such a short time realistically, and it really makes you realise that we are here, not just to work and survive, but also to try and slow down every now and then and enjoy things in life. Like a walk on the beach, your family, your children, music or anything that really makes you feel warm and nice. If you are reading this.. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, were ever you may be....