What Have We Been Doing???

It seems some people out there need to get a life, LOL. I am getting nagged to update my blog cause they are bored. Didn't realise people found my life so interesting ROFL.

Haven't really been doing anything but scrapbooking. Been too cold to go out so I've just been hibernating in my scraproom mostly. So over this bloody winter. Bring back the sunshine!!!!

I completed all my Masters entries and they went off to Sydney ages ago. Just waiting now, hoping to get the call. But apparently they are only shortlisting to the top 50 now instead of top 100 that they used to call. Once that was finished I got stuck into some class samples for some new classes I am running at Artypants. See instore for the timetable. Timetables are available for August through to October.

These are just a few of the embellishments I've been working on for class samples. I've had lots of fun playing with different mediums and techniques. Book into a class and I'll show how to do it too. There are so much more than this that I've been working on.

We are now running a few challenges over at the Artypants forum. This is the layout I created as a sample for the August challenge, which is creating your own background. Pop on over and take a look. There's a prize up for grabs each month.

With all the class samples out of the way, I got stuck into a project Alison from Alison Ellis Designs (AED) asked me to do. It's for the Scotch/3M website. They are now having a craft sections and wanted some step by step projects to display on their website. They were just after something simple and effective that people would want to have a go at and easily be able to do with some simple instructions. This was using mostly AED products.

Back in March we had Mum and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary and Mum was saying that she hadn't seen any of the photos. So I decided to put them together for her in a mini book. They visited on Sunday, so I only had a week to do it in. It was put together pretty quickly so it's not really my best work. I usually like to hand make my embellishments and fill up the pages more with them but didn't have time to do all that. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with it and Mum and Dad loved it, so that's the main thing.

I've had another layout accepted by Scrapbook Creations for publishing. It's one of Bailey waterskiing. It's actually the first layout published with a photo of Bailey on it. It will be out in issue 62 in the gallery for 'four or more' photos.

I've been playing around a little bit with my new camera. I took some action shots of Micayla having a kick of the footy at the local football. She's not a very good kick as you can see by where the ball is but check out how high she kicked her leg.

The kids had Olympic day at Kings Swim Centre last night. Here are some photos of the kids swimming and then at the end when they were being presented with their gold medals, after a lap of honour around the pool. Then a cuddle with Kingsley, the Kings mascot.

Bailey in Level K3

Micayla in Level K8 - a smidgeon away from K9

It looks like Micayla was losing in this photo, but in the end she won this race. I just like the synchronised shot of the backstroke arms. It would've been better if the other swimmer was in the shot more but my main focus was Micayla.

Micayla had "Wicked Day" at school today (15th August). She went as Glinda the Good Witch. I made her hat for her. She was voted best Glinda the Good Witch in the Junior section of the school and had to stand up the front at assembly this afternoon and say a thank you into the microphone. She said she was very nervous. This was her costume.

I was playing with this photo and set it to 'glow'. I think it reflects the photo of Glinda the Good Witch well with the glow in it.

Until next time. Thanks for lasting till the end. I know it's been a long time between posts.

Artypants 1st Birthday Sale

Artypants are having their 'Cranbourne' 1st Birthday sale

Saturday, 26th July

10.00am - 4.00pm

Shop 3-5 Bella Centre

33-39 High Street

Cranbourne

Diagonally Opposite Kelly's Pub

20% off storewide including items already on sale (So some items can be 70% off)

Face Painting

Free Make and Takes

New class timetables are available now. If you book and pay for your class on Saturday during the birthday sale you will receive a free gift when you attend the class.

The Most Exciting New Ever!!!!

My budding young scrapper has had 2 layouts accepted by Scrapbooking Memories.

Micayla's layouts will appear in the 'Young Scrappers' section of Scrapbooking Memories. Just don't know which issue yet.

This is 100% strike rate for Micayla. Her first ever submission and the only 2 we sent in were both accepted. I felt so much more excited for her than I did when I received my first publication notice.

How awesome is that!!!!

An Update from Me!!!

I've been so busy working on my projects for my Scrapbooking Memories Masters Competition Entry that I haven't had time to update too much on here. I've had the kids home on school holidays but we didn't do much because I was working on the Masters. Thankfully that's all finished now and it's on it's way to Sydney. Because that's been the only scrapping I've been doing I have nothing to share. The kids did have some friends over to keep them occupied during the holidays, while I was busy. Micayla had her friend Paige over for a sleepover. She also had visits from Chloe and Hayden, Jaeda and we paid a little visit to Colleen so Micayla could see her friend Emma. They also went for a sleepover at their Oma and Opa's while Adrian and I had a couple of days away together in Macedon and the Macedon Spa. A little more on that later.


Well you know that I have a new camera. The next day after buying the camera we went to Mitchell Van der geers 1st birthday and I took lots of photos just to play with my camera. Here are some of the photos from that day.

By the time is was the 'cutting of the cake time', Mitchell was fast asleep. I thought this was a nice mother and son moment.






This is Erwin and Kerrie's eldest, Jordan. He's nearly 3 and enjoying a yummy piece of vanilla mud birthday cake.






You can tell he really enjoyed it.



This was just a shot I took of Micayla, just playing with the camera settings.



This was present opening time but I think Mitchell was more interested in Daddy's beer!!!




My kids were having a ball helping to open the presents, as all kids do. LOL




The next day the kids went to Adrian's parents and we went off to Macedon. It was a very relaxing couple of days away but it rained the whole time. We even got snow, but we were fast asleep when this happened. On the Monday we both went for a gorgeous 1 hour aromatheraphy relaxation massage. That was just totally awesome. Then we went for a drive in the rain. We went to visit some wineries but the were all shut except for the one at Hanging Rock. When we got there were found there was a gate entry of $10.00. We thought it was worth paying that when it was p***ing down with rain and all we wanted was to visit the winery. We decided to come back in better weather and make a day of it with the kids. But these are the photos we got of Hanging Rock.

The rock from the road through the car window. Didn't even want to get out of the car in the rain to take the photo, so just waited for the windscreen wipers to clear the window before I took the shot.



And this is the picture of the rock at the front gate. LOL

This is the view from out room. As you can see the view is blocked by crappy weather.


This is the view from the restaurant at the resort. We had dinner here on the Monday night. The meal was awesome. For dessert we had the tasting plate for 2. It was a little bit of everything on the dessert menu. Adrian only ate a little bit of it and I ate the rest. Was so full afterwards. The restaurant had windows all around so you got a 360 degree view of the Macedon Ranges. Pity you couldn't see much.




We were enjoyed a glass of wine in the spa. What else can you do when it's so wet outside. Very relaxing anyway, especially after a massage.



I found this kangaroos feeding outside our door the morning we were leaving.


Then on Saturday 12th July we went to Darren and Mel's for Kealy's 7th birthday. They just got themselves a puppy that morning. Poor dog didn't know what it had been brought home to. The house was full of kids that just wanted to chase and cuddle him. Poor little thing ended up throwing up. They called the puppy "Biffo". Here are a couple of photos to share.

Apologies to the Fox family. The dog's name is Biffa. He copped a biffo though, ~L~.

Micayla and Kealy


Bailey kept wrestling with the puppy. This was the best shot I could get that wasn't all blurry. Still working the camera out.





And here's Micayla having a cuddle with "Biffo"

Artypants 1st birthday

Artypants have been around longer than 1 year, but they will be celebrating their first birthday in the Cranbourne store on

Saturday 26th July.

More details to come

So Watch this Space.

Just mark it in your diary!!!

Also keep an eye on the Artypants website for more details

Doin' the Happy Dance

Adrian took me into the city last night and look what I came home with.

Wooo Whoooo!!!! It's my dream camera. My Canon EOS 40D Digital SLR. Now to learn how to use it. I've played a little bit. It's just awesome. Can't wait to see the results from it.