More OA Goodness...

Any theme at all can be scrapped with these gorgeous ranges, I have so many photos thrown in with these papers and can't wait to get more done.

This one is using Fly A Kite and Sketch #183 from Pencil Lines. My gorgeous Bronte girl. She makes me smile every day. xoxo


And this one using Thrift Shop, of my Dad on Xmas Day a couple of years back. We found this hat and knew it was just perfect for both my Dad and Dan's Dad...and we made them both wear it over the course of that Xmas Day! My Dad wasn't very impressed... ;)


My week is going quickly considering Dan is away, although my nights are lonely and I can't wait for him to get home on Friday afternoon.

Stuck?!

If you're like me and get in the mood with your scrapping where you really just don't know where to start, you need to head on over to Stuck?! Sketches and get yourself motivated with the perfect sketches to get your page started. My friend Sara runs this wonderful ning community.

Last night, I knew I wanted to play with the new October Afternoon ranges in store now at Scrapbook Savvy - Thrift Shop & Fly A Kite. I'd had a long day with the kids and just didn't feel it...but after heading over to Stuck!? I found myself a starting point and just went with it. After that I managed four pages in total last night and the mojo just flowed...I just needed to get myself in the groove, if you know what I mean. ;)

Here they are, both using April Sketches from Stuck?!




We had our friends the Baldock's over for lunch today, and had a great day except for when Cooper nearly had his toes chopped off when the very sharp Barbie Mate fell on his little foot....ouch! Two big cuts now steri-stripped and bandaged up...fingers crossed for a quick heal up. :(

Off to spend the night with the family before hubby heads off to QLD tomorrow for work, its going to be a loooong week for me without him here!

My time is up...

...over at Inspired Blueprints at the end of this month. You have one last chance to join me with the last sketch I have completed for IB, Sketch #46.



And my take which I did on the Easter weekend just gone, of Georgie the Easter before.



Upload your layout to the gallery before the end of April to be in the running for an awesome prize from our sponsors.

Of course I'll still be playing along with the girls at Inspired Blueprints, I've loved my time there and thank Lisa and the rest of the team for having me. :)

The Weekend Already...

I don't know where time goes, seriously. I'm sure it was just Monday and now its the weekend again. I love the start of my weekend being Friday night crop, but the rest not so much. With Dan at work all weekend everything just seems harder. I miss him. The kids miss him. Its not ideal and I can't wait for him to get off this shift and be able to really become a part of our family on the weekends. He hates missing the important things like birthdays and get togethers, but especially at the moment missing out of Cooper's football games is killing him. Work keeps saying things will change soon...I just with soon was NOW. Ok, rant over.

To celebrate my little boy scoring his second try today, here's a couple of layouts I did at Savvy crop last night using a mix of Teresa Collins Sports Edition, October Afternoon Thrift Shop, Jenni Bowlin bingo cards and BRAND NEW release Thickers which are now in store at Scrapbook Savvy. The first one is inspired by a page on the front of last month's Scrapbook Trends mag.




Hope your weekend is better than mine, life is not so cheery with an unhappy husband. :(

Childhood love...

This is one for Cooper's album, of his little friend Sophie. We tease him about her being his 'girlfriend' and he gets cranky. They get along great and look forward to playing together, albeit not often enough these days with everyone's busy lives.



Do you remember who your first 'love' was? I don't mean in highschool, but when you were LITTLE! I remember from the time I was in kindergarten I 'loved' Mark Pearson...and anyone who I went to school with will remember Mark and have a giggle with me. We would go to eachother's house to play, and we'd play kiss & catch in the school yard. I will never forget his white blonde hair, he was so cute!! :)

Leave me a comment and tell me about your first love!

Want $25 to spend at Scrapbook Savvy?

Silly question, of course you do!! All you have to do is enter our Sketch Challenge each month and some Savvy spendings could be yours. Our sketch each month is designed by the gorgeous Anthea, and this is what April's sketch looks like:



And my take, of my cheeky girl last Easter, found in the fridge stealing chocolate at every given opportunity!


Don't forget to play along, and pop yours in the gallery by the end of the month for your chance to win. :)

This flu still has me, and is driving me crazy, I NEED to be better!! Fingers crossed for tomorrow...

Getting through them...

The 'old' photos I have left to scrap, that is. Have been trying to go back and pull these out instead of constantly scrapping the new ones.

Here's my two eldest, having a shower and a laugh together. Love the way that Georgie is looking up at Cooper like he's her everything. xoxo



Even though they spend most days trying to kill eachother, I know they really do love eachother. :)