I've been wanting to share this layout for what seems like ages....and finally I can.
This layout and card were done as part of the Amy Butler Sketch Challenge done for Scrapbook Memories Vol 10 No 6, which by the way is out now. I've never done a sketch challenge before and i found this very hard at first, but once i got into it, I really enjoyed it and was happy with the end results.

I hope you all have a fun and creative week.

Will chat again soon.

xxx

You know your life is getting way from you when *1- you celebrate your 17th wedding anniversary *2 - your eldest daughter has been doing the practice test for her learners permit & *3 she only has 10wks of school left before she leaves to study to be a beautician, oh and i forgot one *4 you notice that your not as fit as your used to and you notice a few more wrinkles than you had the last time you looked...
Don't get me wrong, I still think Glenn is the yummiest and most sexiest man on the planet and i am so lucky to have spent the past 17yrs with him and look forward to the next 17, but it also tells me that I'm getting older. I don't normally think about all this stuff but so much is happening this year. We have Glenn's 40th in a few weeks, then Teish is 16 in yeh about 10-11wks and our baby girl was 13 this year. Teish cant wait to leave school and do Beauty and has her next 2yrs all planned out. She is already talking about leaving home when she finished her course.....What ever happened to staying home until you got married........And to top it off....now that the girls are getting older they don't need me as much......or that's what it feels like....but in saying that, i have had more time to scrapbook or should i say ...make cards.....here is one i whipped up the other week...we did this in class this week and it was good to see everybody interpretation of it......and as usual the photo does not do it justice.

As you all know, i am a huge Scrapbook fan but when it comes to card making, its not my strongest point, so here is one of my first attempts at stamping. I personally think it's cute and to be honest i look forward to expanding my knowledge in this area......it is so much fun ....and addictive.......

I'm off for now but I hope you all have a great week-end.

I thought it was about time I stopped in and said hi.....
Well give me a head cold anyday. I've been down and out with the flu and I'm finally back up and running trying to catch up....mind you I do have to say that sleep is so over rated, and I am so over that feeling of trying to swallow razor blades, so anybody who has it at the moment, I feel for ya..........and Dr Phill, if anybody wants to know what's going on in the world of Dr Phill, just let me know......

I did my first layout yesterday, my god it felt good to be back in the land of the living...I felt like i have'nt scrapbooked in sooooo long..... I will be able to share a few layouts with you tomorrow....sorry i left the camera at work......

Oh one more thing, how's this .....who has ever heard off a fire wood guy going on holidays in the middle of winter......what was he thinking.....we have been out of fire wood for the past couple of weeks.....i know, i know,, we live in sunny Qld.....but I'm like a frog at the moment, and our house is freezing......i rang a guy the other week and a "no show".....mind you i did sound like a horse when i rang.....he probably thought it was a prank call......well i finally got onto another guy and he rang back tonight to say we will have wood first thing in the morning.....so i will be as happy as a pig in mud......

Well I will be back real soon to share some layouts with you....

We decided that I already had enough germs and didn't need anymore so I hope all who are going to the EKKA have a great day, and enjoy some Moorish Nuts(showbag) for me.

Take care

Jody

xxx

Ps:....take a look on my sidebar.....when i wasn't sleeping or going through boxes and boxes of tissues, I did manage to do some surfing on the net....i came across some very talented ladies, and if you haven't noticed, i have a new addiction.......Cardmaking.....my god that is so addictive once you get started......will share some cards with you soon.....

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

Oi, Oi, Oi

Hey everyone, I thought it was about time I shared another layout with you. This layout was in this months Scrapbooking memories. OhOhOh i have a new addiction. Cards, well i have been doing cards now for a while but i have really got the bug at the moment. I have not long been introduced to stamping....my god is it addictive..almost as bad as scrapbooking. No guese as to what stock i will be adding to the shop now.

I finally got up enough courage this year to enter the Scrapbook Masters...I decided at 8pm on the Sunday night before the competition closed....and had to have all 4 designs finished within 36hr, in order to make sure my entry got to them in time cause we all know that Express Post means 2 days overnight.. All was going well, entries all finished and done, all saved to disc ready to go, I even decided to save a disc for me, while doing so i got interupted and didnt add a layout to my disc. Can anybody tell where im headed with this yet... Well you got it, i sent the wrong disc. I was so please with my entries and was going over the disc when i noticed what i had done. I can't beleive it....how stupid am i.....Well there is always next year.

Well guys, I've got the flu at the moment and my 5 mins of feeling normal is just about over. Have a great week-end.

Jody

I cant believe how long it's been since my last post. The shop has been keeping me busy as usual. The girls are keeping the "mum's taxi" service very busy. Ooohhh too be a teenager again. On second thoughts maybe not. My baby girl is growing up so fast. yeah i know, she is 13 and taller than me, I know that isn't hard. Being 5" short is a real joke with the girls now, they introduce me to their friends then add "isn't she short", they say I'm cute because of how short i am. I will have to show you all a photo of the girls and I so you know what i mean. I will get back to you on that one. But in the mean time, here is a layout I'd like to share.

I hope your all enjoying the school holidays. Week one is always the easiest. I dread week two when the kids get so bored that you and they cant wait to go back to school. Fingers crossed that the weather is as beautiful as today for the next 2 weeks.

Take care

Jody

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PS. Don't forget to pop over to Created By You blog and vote for your favorite layout in our latest online competition.

We have all been sick over the past month......I think I was the one who got it started when i was sick for about 36hrs with a slight head cold, while i got over it pretty quick, the rest of the family got a really good dose of it and not just once, both the girls got it twice and too top it off, I now have it again, so Ii hope that it finishes with me....

As much as we need this rain and I just love scrapbooking in this sort of weather, my washing is piling up and i need time for it to dry. I have a dryer but i hate using it.....I just hate wasting power.....If Glenn worked for energex, i wouldn't mind so much but he doesn't and as with the price of things these days the dryer is the one thing that i hate to use. And hows the price of fuel this long week-end....gggrrrr I suppose I'm just lucky that Glenn and I are work-a-holics and don't have a life as we never get to go away that often.

Anyway I thought it was about time I shared some layouts with you all.....I always have plenty to share but as usual I have to wait until I have finished with then in classes.

Have a safe long week-end

Jody

xxx

Well one thing is for sure and that is that computers and I don't mix that well... I have finally worked out my mail merge that has been bugging me for ages now....and let me just say that i felt very stupid when it was staring me in the face......now its time to work on my newsletter email template.....now lets hope i have better luck with that....i am going to try and design my own, but please if anybody out there has an easy way for me to do this, please please let me know.

I thought it was about time that i got a start on my wedding album...I mean I have only been married 16yrs...Its just one of those topics that we put of doing because we don't want to muck them up.....and even though i have been scrapbooking for nearly 7yrs, wedding pages still worry me a little.... Not only is it funny to look back at how young we were but its nice to just look back and remember how much in love we were and to think how much we still are today. Is it possible to love somebody too much...????? I could just cobble him up sometimes.....As a mother with teenagers, i just hope that the girls will one day find someone as special as their dad....

well enough of the soppy stuff.....

I hope all your Brizzy girls are enjoying this rain.....It must have known that we need water in the pool !!!!!! with any luck it will rain all week-end and give me a good excuse to stay inside and get creative

Well no matter what you get up to, I hope you all have a great week-end

xxx

Isn't it funny how you either love or hate the cold weather...normally i would say that i love it but at the moment my family does not....I shouldnt laugh but everybody in my family have all had the flu that is going around but me.....and to top it off...they have had it twice in the past 6wks...they all blame me saying that i must be the carrier....."sharing is caring" is what i always say.....

Well apart from looking after my sick children and husband, i have been busy with the shop as well as been busy helping a friend out with a special project for her work....I will share more about that in a few weeks when the project is finished....I have also been lucky enough to get some scrapbooking done. I have so many layouts to share with you all. Here are just a few.

Well it looks like I'm only going to be able to show you one layout as my computer doesnt want to play nice tonight. I will try and share some more with you tomorrow..

So until then, have a good one.

xxx

Picture this......as a scrapbooker who has two girls and just loves to use loads of ribbons and flowers on her layouts.....then is given a challenge that is way out of her comfort zone.....Boy layouts.....yep you got it....i have given myself a challenge to do more layouts that are for boys.... I was very pleased with my efforts with this layout and would love to know what you think. Once again i have use the Kaiser range of papers and rub ons for this layout, but they just have the greatest range that i couldn't help myself..

Well I'm having withdrawls, so now I'm off to work with some flowers and ribbons and maybe some cutting out of fiddly stuff. I havent done any of that for a while...

I hope you all enjoy your long week-end, and what ever your doing i hope this nice weather stays with us.

Take care and thanks for stopping by.

Just a quick post to share a layout with you. I am happy to say that this layout is in this months issue of Scrapbook Creations (52). I have 2 layouts in this issue, but this is my favourite.

I'm feeling very creative at the moment and hope that I can share more with you soon.

Have a great week.

xxxxxx

Ps. If any of you want to give up smoking, give Muzzstop a go. I no longer want to rip anybodies head off. It has been two weeks now and i feel great. I have no cravings at all, but i do find that i am a little bored....give it a go, it really does work... www.muzzstop.com

Where did February go!

February must have been the busiest month ever.....and truth be told, i love being busy and i must admit i work better under pressure.... and no doubt this month promises to be just as busy with work.
Now for those of you who know me well...I think you should take a seat while you read on....I gave up smoking. I have been told it take three good attempts to really succeed. last week i decided to give Muzzstop a go....and yes it worked. I had 2 sessions and feel great....my go how much better does food taste when you don't smoke.....the only problem i am having is the boredom, i have no cravings, i am just bored...I knew in myself that it was time to give up and that if i wanted to start jogging like i have been going to start up for the past few months, that i had to give up......fingers crossed......if you think I'm a gym junkie now....it will only get worse...last time i gave up i put on 20 kilos.......
As we all know i have two girls, and you know how much i love working with flowers, ribbons and anything pretty....well how is this for working outside the square.......i find it so hard to work with boy layouts.....but i must admit i did have fun doing this one.....
Do you every do a layout that when your finished, you look at it think, yep that's nice but your still not happy with it and you know it is missing something....i wanted to keep this layout simple but every time i look at it i just want to play with it more and make it my busy usual style......it will get a tittle when i can think of the right one.....you can only put Best Friends on a layout so many times...
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh.....i had a page published in Scrapbook Memories (Feb issue).....it was funny....i had people ringing me telling me that they recognised the girls photo before they realised that it was my page.....i knew it was due to come out, i just had the wrong issue in my head....my god how blonde am i.....I have another cumming up in Scrapbook Creations very soon and then another later in Scrapbooking Memories....After so many rejections it is nice to see one in print...

Well that's all for now. I hope you all have a great day....

Jody

Growing up to fast

Is there ever a day when you dont want your children to grow up. Well mine is today. Today my eldest daughter Lateisha started her first part time job..We told her over the holidays that she needed to get a part time job to help pay for her City Beach clothing lifestyle, we never thought she would actually do it.. I cant in only 18mths she will be going for her learners permit...

To finish off, i would like to share a layout that i a few weeks ago. As much as we all enjoy scrapbooking, do you ever have that one layout that you're really happy with and you had fun doing....well this is one of them. I have another to share once i have finished doing it in classes.

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Have a great week-end...

Jody

Busy Busy Busy

I have been trying to post all week, and if it's not one thing it's another. I am feeling very un needed if you know what i mean. My baby girl started high school this week and I have felt very deflated all week. She on the other hand thinks it's great and is having a ball. Lateisha thinks it's great to have her social life back...
Now I have to laugh at these photos. The first is Ashleigh on her first day of grade 8 but the one I think is funny is the second one of both of them going off to high school for the first time together on Lateisha's first day....ok your wondering what i think is funny.....check out the hair on the both of them....

I hope everybody with children, enjoyed the first week back to school, I mean come on... you have to look foward to getting the house back in order...nah that can wait till after you have that first cuppa with your feet up, doing some scrapbooking in peace and quiet and then if your anything like me you run around about an hour before their due home and get all that house work done.....

I hope you all have a great week-end....I will be back later to share some layouts...but right now I'm beeing nagged to get of the computer so they can talk to their friends... i mean come on!!!they just spent all day with them at school, but no thats not enough because they were interupted by classes that cut into the social side of their schooling...ah to be a teenager again..

Take care

Jody

Don't we all agree Scrappers block is fun. I drew a blank on this layout but once i got started again everything else around me just had to wait until i finished...It's nice to do some layouts with Ashleigh instead of Lateisha...I am really loving the photos of Ashleigh at the moment. She is really starting to blossom and takes some great shots.
Have you ever been given a challenge that would take you well and truly out of your comfort zone? Well my sister-in-law asked me to do this picture frame for a gift that she wanted to give her brother...I had no problem with doing the frame...the only problem i had was that the subject for the frame was based on a baby BOY.....as you all know i have two girls....after doing layouts with pretty papers,flowers and ribbons i was just about pulling my hair out...i must say that after staring at the pictures and the frame for a few days i was happy with what i come up with and my sister-in-law liked to end result...

I hope you all have a great week and thanks for popping by.

Jody

I hope your all enjoying your holidays. With this wild weather we are having here in sunny Qld, i have been able to do some scrapbooking and not feel guilty that I'm not out side working in the garden which so needs a lot of attention. But while I'm enjoying all this scrapping time, I've drawn a blank on a layout that I'm working on so i thought i would share some of work with you all...

I hope to share some more with you soon

Happy New Year to you all.

Take Care

Christmas Day 2007

I was worried that as my girls get older that Christmas wouldn't be as much fun...Well how wrong was I. This year for the first time in many years, we did not have to wake the girls instead the girls woke us up. I found the 7am wake up scream and jump on the bed by both a little hard to handle as the night before we had to wait for the girls to go to bed and that didn't happen till about 1.30am...i could wait any longer so i called it a night at 12.30am and left it up to Glenn to put the stocking in the girls rooms.... The girls we well and truly ready for presents..they had moved the coffee table out of the way, and even got the garbage bag for all the paper. So with presents unwrapped and a beautiful bacon and eggs breakfast we all decided to hit the rumpas room and give the Nintendo Wii a go....I'm sorry but i just can't bring myself to making an absolute idiot of myself and left that job up the the others...I must say i haven't laughed so much in ages... Glenn has spent more time on the game than the girls...

Tonight I had the realization of my baby girl growing up slap me in the face... Ashleigh had her year 7 Graduation. I was so proud of her, but what topped the night for me was how beautiful she was all dressed up...I know as parents we are all biast, but hey were aloud to be....

I cant wait to scrapbook these photos, and as usual i took to many....or should i say as a scrapbooker that i probably didn't take enough....

Speaking of scrapbooking i have been busy at work with mum still in hospital, but i am happy to say she should be home for Christmas. To look at her you would never know she had a stroke, and she is walking really well now....as busy as i have been i have still managed to get some scrapbooking done...my favorite at the moment is a desk calender that i have done for next year. I have 3 big birthdays in our house next year...13th - 16th - and a 40th so that will explain the photos to go with every month... I have also done a clock that i will share just as soon as i find the right verse to go on it...I'm just loving off the page work at the moment, especially this time of year.

I hope you all have a great week and for those of you who are like me and still have a little Christmas shopping to do, good luck with those crowds, finding a parking space, waiting in those long lines at the check outs....so tell me again why i aways leave things to the last minute...

Take care

After being married for 16yrs, I have just realised one thing...Don't take your husband Christmas shopping, especially when he is in his "Scrooge Mc Duck" mood. Next week i think i will head out on my own. Bring on the 1st December so i can put the tree up. My youngest Ashleigh and i have taken over that roll as Glenn and Lateisha have no interest, it's also good quality time sent with Ash and she can now reach the top of the tree for the angel, i still need a step. At just 12 i already know she will be about 6ft, she gets the height of her dad, I'm just glad neither of the girls will know how much fun it is being 5ft tall.
I have been working on some layout for classes and i hope to share them soon, but here is another Christmas card I did using the Kaiser Wooden Flourishes and Rub ons

Have a great week

Jody

My darling daughters have had better social life than we do at the moment and really both Glenn and I have been feeling like a taxi service, but I have been told that goes with the territory when your a raising two teenage girls or really just teenagers in general...

Why is it that the closer to the end of the year I get, the busier we get..... As much as i love to scrapbook I also like to dabble in a little basic card making as well..... To get me going again, I came across a couple of cards that I did for classes last year....they are so much fun once you get started.....

I will have a few more to share with you over the coming weeks, but be warned, I am a huge fan of Christmas and probably the biggest kid in the house, I had been known for going a little overboard when my girls were little, but hey that was half the fun. I cant wait to really get into the spirit of Christmas..

Have a great week.

Jody

I've really enjoyed the school holidays with the girls this past week and a bit. We have just hung out at home by the pool and spent quality time together. Mind you it has been like the local drop in centre with the girls having sleep overs every other night, but all in all its been fun as well.

As you can tell this just happens to be one of my favorite photos of the girls and I. I have used it on a couple of layouts. This photo is 12mths old now and i am trying to get the girls together for an updated photo but whenever they took good I'm in my tracky dacks or in my work clothes or vice versa.. The girls also have a habit of taking a lot of photos of themselves & their friends and by the time i get around to using the camera the batteries are flat.

I hope you enjoy the layout. I have one more to share with you that i am over the moon with, but as usual when you submit a layout they never seem to be in a hurry to get back to you. I can't wait to share it, i have gone out of my comfort zone and used bright pink and i think it looks great. I hope to share it with you soon.

Have a great week-end and lets hope it's not as hot as they say it will be.

Jody

I am happy to say that all my class work is up to date and I've been able to scrapbook just for me. Although the following page is a class it has given me great inspiration to get creative over the week-end. I find my scrapbooking is heading in a new direction and all my techniques that i have been doing over the past few months are now starting to blend together and i am just loving the effects, but funny enough is that I'm slowing getting over loads of flowers and ribbons.

They are still a big part of my work but it's nice to play with new products.

Well I'm off to get creative, so I hope you all have a great week-end.

Jody

xx

Do you ever wonder what to do with those not so perfect photos that you've taken and you really don't have the heart to put them at the back of the photo box. Well i was looking at the photos below and thought exactly that. This is what i call three typical Ozzie blokes, rugged, down to earth and what you see is what you get. This is my darling husband and my two brother-in-laws. Once again 90% of this layout was done using the Cricut Machine.

This is what i call the 30 minute quickie. I wanted to do a simple layout with little fuss. This is my girly girl Ashleigh. She just loves when i do pink pages for her.

I'm feeling very romantic this week-end. Glenn and i celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary. He gave me the most beautiful card with the most beautiful words written by him that bought tears to my eyes. I hope to do a page for him to let him know just how special he is. Even though he already knows, i know he likes it when i do layouts for the two of us.

I hope everybody is keeping well and has managed to stay clear of the dreaded flu that is going around. Glenn and i took Lateisha and her friend to the EKKA last week end and if you ask me- it is a great way to waste money, But for the girls they had a great time. Ashleigh on the other hand chose to go to a friends house instead, which if you ask me was a smart move. We felt we should spoil her a little more with the show bags to make up for her not coming. Well for us that's the EKKA done for another couple of years.

That's all for now but I hope to share more layouts with you soon.

Have a great week-end

Jody

Well i did it, i manage to keep my secret from the girls about the Cristina Aguilera concert. I must admit that it was hard and with the girls having such a busy social life they had made plans for that night. Once we had given them an ultimatum being a party or a concert, it only took them a couple of second to make their minds up... then it was "what are we going to wear".. All in all the girls had a great night and now they are saving for their next concert.. what have i created. Sarah and Ashleigh look excited but of course Teish has that yeh whatever look on her face. She is going through that "I know whats best stage" meaning that you tilt your head and don't look at the camera because of course that takes a better photo...that's right it looks great doesn't it and has left me not wanting to scrap these pictures....aaahhhh to be a teenager that knows all...

I have had some fun playing with some wooden products. Not what i would normaly do but i had fun.

I have also been playing with my Cricut machine. This layout is 90% done with the machine. it was hard not to use other flowers.

Well i hope you all have a great week.

Take Care

2 posts in a matter of days. I have got the scrapping bug big time at the moments. I managed to finish the masculine page of Glenn that I was scared of, and I also wanted to share a Wedding page that I have done.

I just wanted to share some layouts that i have done over the past few weeks. The first is of me baby-well not so little daughter Ashleigh and the second is of my husband Glenn and his brother Matthew.
I was never to sure on using large letters on a page, but i was happy with the way this layout turned out.

This is a basic layout using the Cricut machine to do most of the work. I never feel very comfortable doing masculine pages. I find it hard to work out of my comfort zone. And who said you cant use flowers and ribbons on a boys page. I still manage to find room for them. I have given myself a challenge to work on pages that i feel are way beyond me - meaning masculine. I am working on one of Glenn at the moment that is taking a little longer than i had planed. I hope to share that with you soon. Give me girl pages any day.

While i still love to Scrap, i have found a new addiction in Card making. Here are just a couple of basic cards that i did for a class.

Did anybody go to the Pink Concerts last month? or better still get photos? I was a great concert. The girls didn't want to come with me so this month i hope to surprise them with their first ever concert-Cristina Aguilera. It should be fun..I can just imagine myself being the groovy old girl in the mosh pit.....ha

Well i hope you all have a great time with the kids over the school holidays..