Tomorrow...

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

Tomorrow is the beginning for me of the 90 Day Food Patrol Challenge. This is something I have looked at for a little while, but have brushed off...because I'm not THAT big, or it was my b'day or it was xmas...or whatever! But the bottom line is I AM NOT HAPPY with my weight, attitude or appearance right now and only I can change it. So tomorrow I begin. 90 days of focusing on myself and my health, my wellbeing, my fitness and my commitment. As I said on my facebook last night...

"I am creating a road with no exits come Monday! Please support me. Don't ask me to stray and don't doubt my commitment. Its only 90 days in my life and I can do it!"

I do understand that this is the beginning of a lifestyle change for me, and I can accept that. As quoted from the 90 day challenge book "If you continue to do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got". That was enough for me to really grasp what I'm doing to my body, my life, my family right now with being unfit, unhealthy and unhappy with the way I am.

I will be here tomorrow with a photo and my first page for my Move More Eat Less Project. Stay tuned for that, and don't wish me luck cause I don't need it! Just staying focused and taking each day at a time will get me through. :)

Suppose I better share some scrapping while I'm here! I have a few I've done this past week with Donna here, Scrapbook Savvy crop day and then Scrapbooking Delights crop on Friday night!

Only Original Savvy Girl - using some Bella papers available at Scrapbooking Delights and about my gorgeous DT girl Kerryn who I met IRL for the first time at the 2010 Savvy Delights Retreat, and who is the only original Scrapbook Savvy Design Team member left from the days before I owned the store. xx


Young Aunty Sar - using the November We're Savvy Kit and a S2S iphone App sketch, about me when I was a teenager with my niece and nephew (who are now 15 & 18, omg how scary!).



It's A Boy! - Another S2S iphone App sketch with a gorgeous kit from Scrapbooking From Scratch, of a frozen beer that was just too funny NOT to photograph!


See you tomorrow!

Georgia Patricia

- we argue every morning about what she is going to wear, and every time it must be 'a dress'.
- she kisses me randomly as she walks past me during the day. xx
- she dances. all the time.
- she sings and makes up her own lyrics, quite funny to listen to when she doesn't know you're there.
- she colours in, inside the lines.
- she has to have dessert every single night, just like her mama.
- she is very over protective of her 'stuff'. the joys of being the middle child.
- she loves to look at her scrapbook pages that mummy makes, asks questions and wants to know the story behind the photos.
- she steals my headbands...i mean, we share headbands. ;)
- she does pointy toes just like a ballerina.
- she loves listening to stories, but doesn't get read to often enough in our busy house.
- she is a wonderful big sister....most days.
- she adores her big brother.
- she is our princess. xx

The day our Princess arrived


1st b'day


2nd b'day


3rd b'day


and today, our big 4yo girl


Happy Birthday Georgie Princess, enjoy your day, we all love you so very much. xx

Life is Good!

Still love this Echo Park Life is Good range, its just so versatile! This page is called Baby Shower of Leesh not long before Oli was born in Nov '09. :)



Tomorrow my big girl Georgie will be 4 years old and I cannot believe it! Where has that time gone? I will have to dig out the external hard drive to do a bit of a photo post about my girl in the morning. xx

Are you Stuck in 2011?

Has your mojo gone missing after the excitement and wind down of Christmas & New Year? If so, here is the brand new Stuck sketch to get you motivated and moving forward in your scrapbooking goals. :)



And my take using the October Afternoon Seaside range, some of which is still available in the Savvy store.


Make sure you link yours to this post over at Stuck for your chance to win some awesome sponsor prizes!

Another great day spent scrapping with Donna & Emma, and joined by Des in the afternoon. A very productive few days so far while Don has been here...back to reality far too soon for me though when they go home on Thursday. :(

A New Start & The 1st Page for 2011

So, I have many a goal for the coming year.

Too many to write down here....especially after journalling them all on my title page for my new 52 Weeks album for 2011.

The usual ones - lose weight, save money, clean the house...blah blah blah. But also new ones like looking after me & my health for the sake of my kids and teaching them about healthy living, being kinder to my husband and not yelling at him just because I can and prioritising as the 'woman of the house'. All the little factors that are going to build up to make the me I want to be, once again. I have been her before, and I know I can be once again...its just not as easy as I would like it to be and I am going to have to work and make an effort to be her again.

Here's my page - I Need To Put Me First in 2011 using the new October Afternoon Schoolhouse range.





My family is still here visiting me this week so all is hectic in my house, but after Georgie's birthday on Wednesday I plan to begin my new year resolutions and start making a difference to my world.

I have joined a wonderful 'project' (I guess you could call it) over at Cathy Zielzke's blog called Move More Eat Less, which you'll see the logo for on my sidebar here. I have been reading up on this for the last couple of days and am loving everything about it. A basic philosophy of moving more and eating less. Makes sense, right?

On the weekend I will share my first month's details and photos, and once a month I will update my progress here. I am not turning this into a weight loss blog...just in case you were getting scared about that! But once a month I will bore you with the details...and this is going to be a scrapbooking project for me too, so hopefully with my scrappy commitment, I'm set!

Wish me luck!

The Free Savvy Kit Goes To....

Comment #26 out of the 44 comments received...


Which is the gorgeous, Ruby!


Congratulations Ruby!!! I'll be in touch with you really soon and we can work out just which kit you're taking home. :)

Thank you so much to everyone else who entered, it was so lovely to receive all your comments and kind words. xx

A New Year & My Final Layouts of 2010

Happy New Year! Hope you had a wonderful new years and aren't suffering too badly today (unlike Dan & Donna who have been holding down the lounge for most of the day!). I've kind of half cleaned up after our party and am thinking its too hot to anything else but scrap now...I've taken the kids to the pool already and now they've gone for a visit to my Aunty's place with Donna. :)

Here are the final pages that I haven't shown you for 2010 - they are totally random, some done at the start of the year, some done at the end...but for some reason they haven't made it to the blog.

6x12 holiday layouts, all using a We're Savvy kit from a few months back.




And the randoms...






So the final count for 2010 was 412 layouts, can you believe that! That is over eight albums full of pages which is a lot of memories preserved for my family this year....so if nothing else has been achieved in this year gone by, at least I have my pages to show. ;)

This year there will be again lots of pages...but there will be lots of other stuff too. I have some aims, goals and resolutions in mind...but that post is for another day.

Have a fabulous New Years Day...oh and a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my friend Kindra for today. Lotsa love chicky! xx