Busy girl!

Well, another Monday and I've had a really productive weekend. Most of last week was taken up by preparations for Mum's 60th birthday party which was on Saturday...I managed to get a mini album done for her as well as bind the quilt I'd made. So thats why I couldn't tell you what was next on my to-do-list...cause Mum reads my blog and I would've spoiled the surprise! LOL

So this is what I made her, you like?

First her quilt, which Georgie loved, can you tell?



Mum liked it too...



Then her mini album, it was for everyone to sign and leave birthday messages, with room for a couple of pics from the night.





And a last minute card I made on the day, inspired by this card over at Scrapping Outback.



Mum loved everything I made her, she is definitely worth all that time and effort!

Sunday I had Emma & Hayley over to scrap, and I had the most productive scrap day I've had in ages. Ended up with four LO's done by the time I went to bed last night! I'm scrapping off my to-do-list and slowly getting there.

The first page is for Chipboard School over at Scrapping Outback. This week we had to use something that WASN'T a scrapbooking product to cover our chipboard. I was a bit stumped...but finally decided to use the blue rag paper towel my hubby gets from work. As I was covering my chippie I was thinking to myself 'what the hell am I doing?' but I'm stoked with how it turned out in the end. I've wanted to do a page on this cutout cardstock for a while now, it was easier than I thought and is a great effect.





Next was for the challenge over at the 123 Challenge blog.



Then for White With 1, which was brown this month and the theme was Dads.



Last night I joined Mandy over at Scrap Therapy for a Blind Scrapping session. It was heaps of fun and I was absolutely stoked with my LO at the end. Thanks Mandy!



Off to playgroup this morning with the kids, looks like its a nicer day than yesterday, thank goodness. Then cleaning the house and some typing work this arvo. Hope everyone has a good week!

Cheers,
Sar

2 more challenges done!

Last night was very productive and two more challenges crossed off the to-do-list! I finished my LO for the monthly challenge at Scrapbooking Delights which was an all black & white kit, with one item of colour allowed from your stash. Here is my take, a very old pic of me & Daniel from our Melbourne Cup cruise in 2002. There were a few pages already up on the wall at the shop today and they all look amazing! I don't envy Sandra at all having to judge them.



Also done is this week's challenge on Scrapping the Music. I haven't done any of these before but loved this week's topic so will definitely be visiting them again. I love this LO with my new Noteworthy paper, MM glitter alphas and Queen & Co felt. I absolutely adore this pic, Georgie just sitting and watching the other kids play, you can even see Cooper at the park in the distance if you look close enough! All she wanted to do was join them, poor baby, she was only 9 month old here.



And guess what....I've found the culprit in the missing heat gun saga!! My bf Alicia has been away for six weeks galavanting around Australia, and got home only yesterday. On reading my blog she started pissing herself laughing when she read about me & Emma turning the house upside down looking for the heat gun...it was safe & sound the whole time in HER scrap room!! She said I lent it to her one day we scrapped at her place....but me and my baby brain can't remember that at all! LOL

Best go, lots to do,
Sar

Very Excited!

Check out my new blinkies <<<<< over that way. Very excited! Tanyah from Scrap 'N' Craft With T has asked me to do a step-by-step class on the Kaiser Skull album that I'm working on for her, for my Guest Design Team spot next month. Can't wait...will be fun writing instructions and taking pics along the way. AND, at the end of this month I will be hosting a 'Blind Scrapping' session on her blog, with step-by-step instructions for a LO...the end result, you don't know till its done! Check out all the fun happening on Tanyah's Blog, lots of challenges and giveaways happening all this month.

Had a visit from my SIL Hayley yesterday...with lots of scrapping goodies that I'd totally forgotten we'd even ordered! Naughty huh. Look at all the yummy petaloos and felt, and the alphas, my god. Now where am I gonna find a place in my overcrowded scrap room for all this?! Guess I'll have to go scrap, use up some supplies, just to make room! Ha ha.



Still a bit sore and sorry here in my house, my face isn't AS puffy as it was, but still definitely not back to normal. Hoping for a better night's sleep again tonight, last night was shocking. You'd think that'd make me go to bed early tonight, but no....

And to finish, a smile from my baby girl Bronte, just to make your day like it does mine!



Cheers,
Sar

Feeling puffy!

Well the wisdom teeth are gone and I officially look like a bullfrog! My face is soooo swollen....Daniel thinks he is absolutely hilarious when he asks me 'Did you get stung by a bee?' or 'Are you allergic to peanut butter?'. Smart ass. I've decided today to stop taking the Panadeine Forte as its starting to make my tummy hurt, so just on the nurofen and antibiotics now. Hopefully I don't wake up at 3am tonight in pain like I have the last couple of nights, as the Panadeine Forte has really helped to zonk me out!

I scrapped yesterday to take my mind off it...and also because my LO for Chipboard School at Scrapping Outback was due today! I'm absolutely STOKED with the result, and geez I had fun doing this page. Thanks heaps Nicole for the challenge!!



The techniques we learnt this time were putting foil on chipboard, doodling on them then painting. I actually learnt this technique last year in a class with Celine Navarro but it was great to do it again. We also painted the edge of chipboard and sanded the edge of chipboard. We had to use ALL of these different techniques, but on a page that we'd painted the background AND we had a sketch to follow. So many criterias, but it was so much fun!!

Now, whats next on the list? Can't say really....cause its a surprise!

Off to have some yummy homemade chicken soup made by my Mum, she is such a gem! What would I do without her? Love ya mum!

Cheers,
Sar

To-Do-List

Blogging two days running, whats going on... ;)

My to-do-list is not going to worked on very much this weekend I presume, just two hours now until I have my wisdom teeth out. Just passing the time at the moment....

- Mellinda's photos of Shelby (DONE)
- Something (can't say what) for next weekend
- LO for guest spot at Scrap n Craft With T (DONE)
- Mini album for guest spot at Scrap n Craft With T
- LO for chipboard school (due 9/9, still trying to find foil tape, argh!)
- LO for Say It In Scrap 'The Ugly Truth' challenge (DONE)
- 123 Challenge (due 15/9)
- Scrapbook Divas Sketch Challenge (DONE)
- Scrapbook Divas September Diva Challenge
- Colorstory Challenge
- Puzzle Sketches Challenge
- Category Stories Challenge
- Black Magic Sketches Challenge
- White With 1 Challenge
- Aussie Scrapjacked Challenge
- Scrapping Outback Summer Challenge
- Scrapping Outback Card Challenge

Ok, it looks like a lot now that I've written it down!! Geez, I'm gonna be busy...

Went to the midnight crop at Scrapbooking Delights last night and had a ball. Even managed some scrapping! So glad that my buddy Kel decided to come along, thanks Kel! Had fun as always watching Lisa at work, she amazes me.

Here is my double LO for the Scrapbook Divas Sketch Challenge, using more from my Sissey kit.



And my take on Say It In Scrap's challenge for this month which was The Ugly Truth. The journalling on this one says 'The Ugly Truth is that no matter what Mummy does she'll never be your fave person, that role is taken by your cousin Emma and always has been!' So true...



Just to be extra mean cause I am fasting and not allowed to eat until after my operation, Daniel decided to cook a chocolate cake today!!! I tell ya. Here are some pics of my kids enjoying the beaters...





Best go, have to feed the baby and then get myself ready to leave. Eeek....

Cheers,
Sar

Nervous....

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. I am getting all four wisdom teeth out, in the chair but under anaesthetic. So right now it is after midnight Friday night, I've just gotten home from crop night and I'm eating a big bowl of chips! I know I can't eat tomorrow so making up for it now... LOL

Have way too many deadlines for this to lay me up for too long, so fingers crossed it all goes well.

My week has been pretty good, not too much happening. A bit of typing work, lots of kid stuff, not much cleaning (oops) but a fair bit of scrapping. Have been aiming to get into the scrap room every day, even just to go and sit down and look at what is on my desk is comforting to me.

Still working on that to do list, but let me tell you...its a long one for this month! I'll check back with that tomorrow, and also with the layouts I did tonight.

Here are a couple of pages I did for the beautiful Mellinda from the SM Forum for her angel baby Shelby. Shelby passed away nine months ago, only nine weeks old. So many of the lovely girls over at SM have scrapped pages for Mel of her Shelby, and hopefully this can give her some comfort. This was such an emotional experience for me. After a few attempts, I finally managed to scrap these pages this week. I think having Bronte still a tiny baby has really made this hard for me, I can't imagine in my wildest dreams what Mel and her family are going through. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about them. Thank you Mel for allowing me to be a part of this gorgeous tribute to your baby girl.





Bye for now, wish me luck for tomorrow.

Sar

Catch up

So I've been a bad blogger! So many of us have been saying this of late...life just gets in the way sometimes, doesn't it?!

Last week was totally draining, Michael's funeral was last Wednesday and it was a really hard day. It totally hit me that day and I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. Being at the burial was the hardest thing ever, its just so final. I well and truly made up for the fact that I haven't really drank in two years, and totally wrote myself off! I can't really remember much about getting home at 10.30pm (yep, 12 1/2 hours after the funeral started) but Daniel reckons I was well and truly wobbly. I don't know that I felt better for drinking so much...but it definitely eased the pain a little on the day. The next day wasn't so good though...LOL!

The week brightened with my Cooper turning 4 on the Friday. I can't believe he is so grown up already, it amazes me every day watching my children grow. Here he is bright eyed on the morning of his birthday after opening his pressies.



We had a family dinner on the Friday night and then his party on the Saturday at the Fire Station. He was stoked and had an awesome day, I think the party was a hit with all the kids, they really enjoyed running around at the station and exploring the fire truck. Here's a couple of pics from the day.

The kids running around and around the fire truck...



Georgie having a go at the pinata...



The cake made by my lovely friend Deslie...didn't she do an awesome job!



And Cooper blowing out the candles...



Not very much scrapping to show off this week, after the draining week I had it was really hard to find any inspiration. I managed this LO on Sunday night for the August Sketch Challenge at Scrapbook Divas...even though it was too late to be in the running, it was good to get it done.



And I'm very proud to have won a prize for runner-up over at Scrapbook Divas for my 'Mummy Hearts Owls' LO in my last post. First time I've ever won anything scrap-wise! Such a great forum, I'm really enjoying my time there.

Here is my LO for this week's class for Chipboard School. Its basic as, was done last night at the absolute last minute and I really hadn't found my mojo still. But its done and I've learned the technique of stamping, colouring with gel pens & DM'ing...its actually a really good technique and hopefully I'll use it in the future on a better LO.





So its the start of September and I'm hoping to get more challenges completed this month than last. I didn't even get the monthly kit challenge done for Scrapbooking Delights! Every time I pulled it out I just couldn't do anything with it, then the end of the month came and went and I ran out of time. I think I may follow Alison & Anne-Marie's lead and make myself a to-do-list. I'll get that done and put it up next time I blog...then you all have to get me honest! LOL

I better go play with my kids, have been a busy bee doing typing work here and at Dad's most of today. Then I will be venturing into the scrap room tonight to see if my motivation has returned.

Bye for now,
Sar