OMG I am so addicted to Facebook that i spend all my time on there and forget about here.....

It has been pretty crazy around here, Lateisha now has her P's, so she is never home.....Ashleigh still trying to see how much she can get away with and as for Glenn and I...well we have been boat shopping for the past 8 weeks....We have set ourselves a goal this year....Fingers crossed we will find the right one...

I also had my first acceptance in Scrapbook Creations Magazine...I was quiet shocked they accepted one of my cards....yippee i say....i was a little chuffed.....

I still love scrapbooking but at the moment i seem to be drawn to cards.....Here is a page that i did.....I was inspired to do this after I saw a project from "Michell from Print Blocks"....

I don't like to lift but when I was the 3D Box that she did I just had to do a page version......

And here is one for the boys....nice and simple

See you again soon

How cute is this stamp.........I look at it and i see a little attitude...just like my girls.....I am having so much fun stamping....

Short and sweet....I'm off looking for new stamps....

Have a great week-end

I have no excuse for not blogging in such a long time......but i will confess that i will be seeing a follower tomorrow so i thought i had better blog before she tells me it's been a while....
But I can say that the past month or so has been so busy.....Lateisha goes for her "P's" very soon which I'm not looking forward to.....don't think I'm ready to loosen those apron strings just yet...and
my normally healthy one, Ashleigh has been sick with glandular fever.....but i can happily say that she is back to her normal self now and trying to get away with things normal teenagers do....i think she forgets that her older sister has been there and done that not so long ago and she also forgets that she is not good at hiding things from us.....Lateisha on the other hand was a master at it....
In between the teenage stuff i have also been busy getting creative...here is just a little i have been doing....

Thought i would try the new Kaiser papers for a Christmas layout.... and i have a new addiction to Sugar Nellie stamps....they are just beautiful....still finding my feet with stamping but I'm having so much fun trying....

Have a great week-end

xxx

Christmas was so much fun this year, mind you the girls think they are to old for stack on....I don't think so...to me it's just like not believing in Santa...if you don't believe you don't receive.....the girls normally wake us up with a stack on (jumping on us to wake up)...well this year we heard them rummaging in their Christmas stockings,,,,we were waiting,,,and waiting,,and waiting.....so by 8am and still no sign of the girls who mind you had gone back to bed....so we decided to do the stacks on them instead.....
We had a great Christmas day with family both lunch and dinner....Glenn's Uncle Lindsey and Judy were over from WA, so we got to spend plenty of time catching up with them.....and i even managed to get some scrapbooking done..not as much as i would have liked, but better than none at all....Now I'm just waiting for Glenn to go back to work after is operation, so i can get all those things done that i had planned on getting done but didn't cause he was home...

You cant half tell they want me to hurry up and take this photo so they can go back to bed....

well Lateisha anyway....

I hope everybody had a great Christmas and New year
Bring on 2010

Just wanted to share a layout for all those who purchased this kit. I hope you can see the colours in the layout better here than you could on the sheet. I hope you all enjoy doing this layout.

Have a great week-end.

Had a great week-end up the coast with Glenn and the girls. Mind you we didn't see the girls much, which left Glenn and I time to just relax and do nothing.....and that is what we did....If you havn't seen the movie "Hangover" you just have to see it.....And being the night owl that I am, i did manage to get an OTP project done....This Brag book was so much fun...Now its time to get stuck into some layouts.

Have a great week guys.

I thought it was about time i step out of this little box i scrap in....and can i just say....I'm having so much fun with it.....
It all started by making my own flowers. The rest of the layout was worked out around them...I know...it's funny how my mind works sometimes....
But let me just say....while I've been stuck at work for the past 3 weeks, I've been forced to get creative and take on Lesley's work.....and in the mean time I've got a little mojo back...and god it feels good......First came the layout and then came the cards.....

Has it really been that long since i was last here.....I was out of action 10 days with a head cold.....not much fun......it was good to have a forced break but the worst is always when you go back to work and you have twice as much work to catch up on...not to mention...layouts for classes......but i can say that it is good to be back in the land of the living....and back at the gym....
Now it's time to get creative.....

Have a great week-end

xxx

How good was today...The girls and I had a great day with Glenn....He got the usual "stack's on dad" first thing in the morning with a big sloppy kiss by both girls. Bacon and Eggs for breaky then it was off to spend the afternoon together.

We spent the afternoon at Southbank. We drove to Brett's Wharf and caught the Citycat to Southbank....It was good. I got to show the girls some of my stomping grounds as we went past, and we even got to show the girls where Glenn proposed and where we got married....

So after a good afternoon walking around the markets and having a feed we even managed some family photos...

And to top the day off, we came across the best little candy store and I just had to get a "choo choo bar"....amongst other things......

Here is a look at what we did last week-end with the little get together....

Have a great week-end

I just kept feeling that it wasn't quiet done but finally after two weeks of fussing over it....It is finally done....Here is the finished product....This ones going in a 3D frame.....OOOOO i have some cards to share soon.....

Here is a challenge I give myself every two weeks....Every second monday I do a Cricut Class for those people who are lucky enough to have a machine and so it doesnt gather dust in the corner. The idea is to only use your Cricut machine and very, very little else...as you can see 97% of this layout is done by using the machine.

I have had the best week-end. Glenn and I spent the week-end down the coast for our wedding anniversary. You might think it's strange that I took my scrapbooking gear with me but we both took something that we enjoy. Glenn's was his fishing rod and mine was my scrap trolley....and I think I can finally say that I'm getting my "mo-jo" back.
We wanted to relax and do nothing while we were away and thats what we did....apart from the shopping, walking along the beach from Broadbeach to Surfers Paradise and then thinking "holly crap- now we have to walk back" and to top the week-end off we had our anniversary dinner at "Valentinos". If you like a good Italian meal and your down that way, then you just have to stop in for a meal....It just has to be my favorite resaurant of all time.....
Being the night owl that i am, here is a sneak peak at what i got started. Now that im home i will finish it of....this layout has got me so excited about scrapbooking again..


I've been playing again....It's so nice to be able to do things for me and not for work....Here is one of the cards i did at the retreat.

Share more with you soon. Have a great week.

So much has happened over the past few weeks, that i don't know where to start....
My youngest daughter got her first job this week....lets just say that I'm finding this one a little hard to deal with. Even though she can rest her chin on the top of my head, you just never want the little(youngest) ones to grow up....mind you we took her shopping today and she was still happy to spend my money and not hers......

How good is this sunshine....I have the joy of celebrating my 18th wedding anniversary next week. And i must say that it's with the most wonderful and sexiest man i know.....were heading of for a few days away this week-end....I sooo cant wait........i have two little social butterflies, so poor Nana is going to have her hands full running the girls to work and then to gatherings....i dare say that mum will need a few days off after we get back.......

I have a little sweet talking to do with Glenn....my camera is broken.....fingers crosses i get get another one very very soon....i have so much i want to share......

Well its time for me to do some work or shall i say creating....
Have a great week

Just a short note before i head away on the Stampin Up retreat.....yippppeee... this is my first retreat so I'm a little excited...But before i go here is the "Beauty" layout for those of you doing this weeks Design Studio....good luck....and remember....3D work is fun....
Have a great week-end girls and i will see you when i get back.....with loads of new card ideas......in between all the lollies and chatting, lollies, chatting......

Ps.....Pink was bloody awesome........and i can still mosh with the best of them.....mind you i think my girls were a little embarrassed.....but i had a good time....

have a safe one

xxx

I thought it was about time i posted a layout.....Here is one i did for this weeks Design Studio...

Every 3 weeks during the V8 Cars season Glenn and I have what we call a "Lazy" week-end...It's the one week-end a month that we spend doing absolutely nothing....and will any luck it will rain so we don't feel guilty about lounging around in our pj's, falling asleep on the lounge during the race...and I'm my case....waking up just as the race is on the last lap......But it's our time together and we look forward to it.....but i have so much creative juice in my head at the moment....i have two scrapbook workshops to plan for as well as a card making one..... So not falling asleep watching the race for me this week-end.......I'm really keen to see how much i can get done.....

Have a great week-end guys and go Lowndes.....

I am so excited....I had a visit from my brother Steven and his wife Gail this week.....i haven't seen him for nearly 6yrs....It was SO good to see them.....it was like no time had passed......the only change was his grey hair or lack of.......we spent four days catching up on just about anything and everything....and then they tell us they are coming back up at Christmas time.....and with them they will be bringing my nephew and his daughter.....little Summer.....she is two now and from the way talk about her, she is just beautiful.....
So all this sitting around for the past few days has really got the creative juices flowing.....mind you i have now been given a new subjuect to scrapbook.....you guesed it.....Summer......and much to my delight......you got...girly pages.....
Have a great week ahead.....

Why do long week-ends always feel so short... We decided that after 3yrs, we need a week-end away....so we packed up the girls and off we went....and now that the girls are getting older, we are getting to that stage where the girls would rather not come with us....but dad put his foot down and as it turned out we all had a great time....We headed for Alex Heads up the coast...

We stayed at the Seaforth.....and it was great.....here are some photos....this was our view from out balcony

Why is it that while your away trying to unwind.....that you spend the week-end eating total crap.....i feel so sick after the amount of naughty food that i ate.....look out gym here i come.....actually one thing i thought was really good.......i didn't end up taking any scrapbooking stuff away with me and even though i did take my gym gear....i didn't use it........i was so proud of myself.....i can honestly say that i did have a relaxing week-end.....

Even though it was a little on the cool side.....well for me anyway.....Glenn and I did manage a nice stroll along the beach.....we even sat and watched the over 55's surf contest....and let me say, that while they were out in the water....you couldn't tell weather they were 15 or 55....they were really good.....Glenn even picked up some really flat and interesting pebbles along the beach....he said they were for my pages that i was going to do on our week-end......well i take it I'm doing a layout now.....As for the girls, they spent most of the week-end in the room watching movies......and we took them shopping as usual.....then back to the room for more movies....well next time they can stay home......mind you they did have fun once dad had a few drinks and they decided to have a pillow fight at 10pm.......

Night In with the girls....

OMG don't we just love taking photos.....well we thought it was about time....every week or so, the girls and I get together and catch up.....Krissy and I decided it was time to crash Nic's house and of course Krissy's camera is never far away.....we were meant to get some stampin done, but as usual we got very little done.....maybe next time.......

As you all know, boy layouts are not my strong point but i thought it was about time i shared some layouts with you.....The first was for out "Kits", the second was for out Cricut Class and I just had to throw in a girly one.....we are just waiting on few items and this will be available again as a kit.

They are all nice and easy, which is really good when you have scrappers block.....We are going away for the long week-end, and being the night owl that i am.....you got it......I'm taking some scrappin stuff with me......so fingers crossed that the nice sea breeze and ocean views gets my creative juices flowing again.....have a great week-end .......xxx

The Day that Burpengary got flooded

We have lived in this area for the past 13 yrs and I must say we have never seen anything like it before.... We've had heavy rain before, but nothing like this....Since the moment I woke up until about 11am the rain just didn't stop.... It took me 1hr and 5mins to drive my daughter to school....only to be told to pick her up and hour later......anyway I went to work as usual and my mid morning I was just in awe of what was going on outside work.....I was walking a customer out of the store when I looked across the road and saw the intersection.....My god....i couldn't believe it....but what was even funnier was watching the idiots driving thru it......and then later in the day....kids playing in it...I think we lost count of the amount of cars that got stuck in it.....The shops around us were all closing so i decided to do the same.....just as i was leaving the sun was starting to shine.....but the funny thing was.....there was an eery feeling around.....like you were in the eye of a storm....maybe I'm weird but it was just strange.....

As usual, Glenn missed it all and was sleeping..... So i went home and when he woke up he wanted to go for a drive and see for himself....by the time we got down, the sun was well and truly out and had a bit of sting to it and the water had started to go down......

We also wanted to look at the bridge that is the centre of our lives as we drive over it up to 4 times a day......

Now check this out....The bridge has a walkway that goes under the highway......here is the street light leading under the bridge....

And this is the local park....

They say we have more rain on the way......If you have to drive in it....please be safe

xxxxx

My saying of the week.

"It's easy helping them grow up, but it's even harder watching them grow up"

Our youngest daughter Ashleigh turned 14 today, and as usual she was spoilt rotten...one of her presents was a new camera....Both the girls take the best photo's and know that good or bad i will scrap it.....so you can just imagine how many photos I have to play with....Ashleigh has taken this photo herself all i can say is "bring on the photo's".....

Looking at this photo also makes me take a step back and look at my girls, I'm so proud of both of them....Don't get me wrong, I am far from having perfect children, my god they are teenagers after all.....and no angels....but like any parent still so proud.....

Ithought it was about time i shared some layouts. Here are a few that i have done for the Design Studio as the "Created By You paper Crafts". And yes your eyes are seeing right.....there are some boy layouts.....and my model is my darling nephew Brandon.....he is such a darling little boy and takes the best photos.....

Have a great week-end.....

The past few weeks have been very busy.....I had a birthday over Easter and can tell you that Glenn got be the absolute best present ever....4 Personal Training sessions at the gym....I know to some that would be the worst present in the world but for me it was the "bomb'....My trainer Jodie is just the best.....tough but she does boxing and that is ssooooo goooooodddd....mind you for the following 3 days after a session, i know I'm alive...well i can feel all those muscles i didn't know i had.....
We stayed home over Easter but have decided to try for a holiday in June. You will soon learn why......
For Glenn's 40th late last year I got him a voucher for 5 V8 fast laps down at Qld Raceway.....Well we finally booked in and at 5am.......yes 5am Sunday i dragged myself out of bed and away we went.....When we got there we couldn't believe how many other people were there ....there was just people everywhere....mind you we didn't know what to expect....
Glenn signed in, got into his race gear and then went to debriefing.......half hour later and he was ready......he headed straight for a car.....here we were waiting for him to jump into a Holden but no he got a Ford.....not that there is anything wrong with that....but anyway.....and away he went...He had a blast......He said it was just the best....So girls if your looking for something for the man in your life why not....He is already planning the next time....but he said 8 laps instead of 5 would be better.....you just start to get into in by the 4th lap and then its time to pit.....
For his 30th I made him jump out of a plane, 40th put him in a V8 car....now what can i do for his 50th.....bungee..........

So after our V8 Experience and then watching the V8's on TV we are looking at heading to Townsville in June for the V8's. I'm still trying to talk him into going to Bathurst....