Artypants Cyber Crop

Come and join in the fun. Starting Thursday, 28th February. 7.30pm is Artypants first Cyber Crop. Make sure you pop into the Artypants forum and register to be able to join in. It will run until Midnight Saturday, 1st Feb with all challenges to be uploaded to the gallery by Sunday evening. Fabulous prizes to be won and fun games to play.

We will also be attending Artypants for the weekly Friday night crop starting at 7.30pm and all those attending the crop will be playing along on the Cybercrop together on the lap top.

Thanks to Laura for co-ordinating Artypants first CC. Check out the forum for lots of hints of whats to come. From the home page click on the link to the forum and you'll find all the Cybercrop details in there.

My Little Big Kinda Boy

Check out how cute Bailey looks in his new Kinda uniform.

Time to share some Scrapbooking - Finally!!!

These are the bag hooks I made to go on the kids bedroom walls to hang their school/kinda bags on. Trying to neaten things up. Just waiting for Adrian to hang them.

This is a layout I did for the Artypants Design Team. Jodie gave me 3 pieces of patterned paper and some pearl embellishments. I added a couple of sheets of cardstock and some embellishments and came up with this layout.



Then with the leftovers I put this minibook together. Just goes to show what you can put together with the scraps. Then you don't end up with a never ending box full of bits and pieces of scraps.





This is the layout I put together for the February Challenge on the Artypants forum. The specifications were: predominately red, 3 or more photos and ribbon. The tiles down each side of the photos are actually ribbon. Even the dots on top. There is still time to put a layout together for this. Check out the forum for details.

Kaytie's 2nd Birthday

On 17th Feb we went around to David and Laura's to celebrate Kaytie's 2nd birthday. As soon as we got there the boys went and took up their territorial position in the garage. LOL

The kids had a ball all day playing in the pool. It was a very warm day.

Mel, got out the face paints for the kids.

And for the big kids.

This is Damien. There is also a thumb print on his forehead (under the thumb) to go with his 'no idea and monobrow. LOL

Mel wanted hers done so this is my creation on her face.

The kids playing the party games. Micayla won the prize for this one along with one of Laura's nephews.

Kaytie with her Elmo birthday cake that Laura made. It tasted as good as it looked. It was a caramal mud cake.

Holland Festival 2008

On Saturday 16th February we went along to help out at the Holland Festival yet again. This year it was just on Saturday instead of Saturday and Sunday. I must say it gets more boring every year. This year they had less rides for the kids. No entertainment on stage for the kids. Last year they had Dorothy the Dinosour, this year, nothing. For the amount of money the adults have to pay to get in, they are getting less for their money every year. Every year it's the same stalls and the same basic entertainment. I'm so over it. But here are some photos of the kids having some fun.

Here are the kids in front of their Opa's steam engine. This is one that was restored years ago with Adrian and his brother helping out. Bailey and Micayla love to get involved and help put wood on the fire. Bailey had his own 'baby steam engine' there as well and kept wanting to steam it up. He would go over to the big steam engine to get the oil tin and a rag for his engine. LOL

Micayla took this photo of Bailey and I in front of the steam engine. Now that she likes to take photos, I actually get to be in a few.

I took the kids to have a play on the jumping castles. Bailey just wanted to play on the normal kids jumping castle but Micayla wanted to have a go on the Bungee Challenge. She has to pull against the rope strapped to her body and place the little bag things at one end and then get them back again to stick them back on the wall. She had a lot of fun. Apart from these rides, the only other ones for the kids were electric cars. Usually they have merry go rounds, the teacup ride and even some dutch games and rides, but not even they were there. They also had an animal nursery, but I didn't get any photos of them cause I have so many from other years. Soooo over the animal nursery. But the kids aren't, they still went in there to pat the animals.

Later in the evening they have the standard dutch parade of all the clubs in their fancy club costumes. Usually 'Opa' goes in this but he quit his club. He still took the kids for a walk at the end of the parade and went inside for the dancing with the clubs. The kids had some fun, but in this photo Bailey looks like he's a bit weary on his feet and in need of a seat. LOL

My Boy's a Crack Up!!!

I was on the cross trainer today when Bailey came running out, one sock on one sock off, and went and stuck his foot in the freezer. What the.... you may be thinking, cause I was. He had been quietly painting his toe nails in the bathroom and he came out to set the polish hard by putting his foot in the freezer. After all, that's what Mum does!!! (my fingernails anyway).


I was thinking, OK now I'm going to spend the next hour and a bottle of nail polish remover cleaning nail polish off the bathroom floor. But when I went in there, there was not a drop spilt anywhere. I had to look hard to see where he'd actually painted his nails, because it wasn't on his nails, it was all over his foot. He's used a very pale whitish colour that you can barely see.