Time to Blog again

It's been awhile I know. I've got soooo much to catch up on. We've been away on holidays and so much has happened. I didn't get time to blog before going away so I'll start with stuff I did before Christmas. Firstly these are the Christmas gifts and decorations I made.

This is the exploding box card I made for Micayla's Grade 1 teacher. The boxes are filled with Christmas Chocolates. Thanks to Fleur for the instructions for this one. The paper I used was the free paper from the December issue of Better Homes and Garden Magazine.

This is the little canvas I also made for Micayla's Grade 1 teacher. This photo was taken at the school excursion to Cranbourne Botanical Gardens.

These are the gifts I made for Judy and Jodie at Artypants.

These are the Christmas decorations I made for home.

The wreath's flowers hanging from the bottom are crooked. I've packed it away now so I can't take another photo.

These are the gift boxes I made for my niece Taylah and Micayla to put their gifts into. The pyramid box was for Taylah. These were made from the Alison Ellis Christmas range papers.

Micayla and Baileys Birthday Party Photos

As promised, here are the photos of the kids birthday parties. The following posts all contain the photos I've been waiting to access, but have been spoken about in the 'Catch Up" Post.

It was an Under the Sea disco party and Micayla as you can see is a mermaid along with nearly every other little girl that was there. Bailey's part of the party was Lightening McQueen.

Playing Pass the Parcel.

Thank you to Mel and Laura for doing the face painting. Gave me a break from all the kids.

Micayla really does LOVE having her face painted.

And here are the cakes. What a disaster. Micayla's is icecream and kept melting while I was decorating it and it looks disgusting and Bailey's cream didn't set properly. Tip, do not try and whip Coles no name brand cream, it doesn't work, not for piping anyway.

This is what the kids got for their birthday from us.

Micayla also got the 'Polar Express" DVD and they both got new helmets.

Sorry some of the photos are not turned around. I can't be bothered going back to fix it and reload them.

Photos of Micayla's Spider Bite

Isn't this gross. This is the surgery procedure when she had to have all the puss cut out. This was the next day after I'd taken the dressing off to redo it.

Allison Ellis Design Team Layout Photos

Now I have my fantastic new PC, as promised I can now share all the photos I couldn't before. I'll start with the Alison Ellis Design Team layouts I did for her to use at Paperific with her new Christmas range as well as some with the Garden Party Range.


If you look closely at this one you'll see the 'watermark' photo of Bailey printed on canvas paper under the 5x7 photo. It's actually the same phone on the canvas paper as the 5x7 photo.

This 'Family' one is her older Christmas range.

This one was done with her Christmas range but it's not a Christmas layout.



This is the layout I did for the Scrap Pile Guest Design Team back in October. It was a bit rushed and I was feeling a bit scrapped out after the AED layouts, so it's not one of my favs. I'm going to do something else to it. Maybe put another title to it???

I'm back online!!!

Yay!!! I'm back. I have my new PC finally up and running. I just love it. It's a tiny little tower with a humungeous Samsung 22 inch LCD Screen. I can see clearly now!!! Suffer Darren, mine's bigger than yours now, but that's not hard; ROFLMAO. Have a lot of playing to do so stay tuned. I'll be able to upload the photos that I promised now. Just give me time to sort it all out.

He's Finally Done It!!!!

Bailey is off the Training Wheels!!!

Adrian has been spending some time with Bailey to help him ride his bike without training wheels. He rode for quite a long way without them the other day so we decided not to put them back on at all. I just dropped Micayla off at a birthday party, which is just around the corner, so we walked. Bailey rode his bike all the way there. A little bit wobbly at times and fell off a couple of times, but he did it. Yay!!!