School Holiday Fun

The second week of the school holidays, after the Grand Final Party was out the way, was very busy for us.

On the Wednesday we had Jaeda come over for a play. She spent the whole day with us and I took them for a ride on their bikes to the lake at Berwick Springs to feed the ducks. They rode and I ran. The feeding the ducks part was over very quickly. I think they threw in bread slices whole, they went through them so quick.

These photos were taken on my phone so they're not very good quality.



After they fed the ducks they went over to play in the park before riding home again. I had to push all the kids up the hill on the ride back. I ran while pushing Bailey and Micayla together and then ran back down the hill to push Jaeda up again.





Jaeda is under Micayla and Bailey if you can see that.

On the Thursday I picked up Paige and took her and Micayla to Artypants to do one of the kids classes. I then dropped the kids off to their Oma and Opa's for a sleepover because Adrian and I went into the AMTEL Awards at the Hilton (it's an awards night for the engineering industry). Iscar was the Gold sponsor for the evening. It was a black tie affair so of course I had to get a new dress. Apart from the boring awards the rest of the night was fun thanks to Tammy, one of the girls from the Sydney office. Thank god Tammy was there to party with is all I can say. If not for her the night would have been pretty boring, with the boys off doing their networking. Although we had Marty Fields as our MC and he was pretty funny. But some of his jokes I had already read on email. We didn't get to bed until 3am and I suffered a wee bit of a hangover the next morning, which was not good considering what was install for me for the rest of the day/night. I had visitors in and out all day after I picked up the kids, but at least I just got to sit around. But..........

I don't know what I was thinking when I agreed to let Micayla have 3 of her friends over for a sleepover. From about 4pm, 3 screaming girls invaded my house plus Micayla. Not real good on a hangover let me tell you. I let them burn up some energy before I settled them down to some quiet play. I gave them all a mask each and some paints, glitters, stars etc and let them go for it. Including Bailey. Bailey was loving it, doing what the girls were doing and he did a pretty good job of it too.

Here they all are making their masks.



now wearing them....


Then Bailey wanted a shot with Monty in it too, but Monty was not really co-operating.


They also did a vote on which mask was the winner and Sarah won. Then they put on a parade around the house wearing their masks.


with Bailey in the lead.

We then had dinner of fish and chips, and put them all in front of a DVD after getting their beds ready. After they finished watching the DVD they were put to bed, but of course, 4 girls in one room together, were not going to sleep in a hurry.

Kealy and Paige were picked up Saturday morning and we kept Sarah with us and took her home at about 5pm that night when we all went to Marty and Julies for Pizza, including Scott and Tania and Erwin and Kerrie. Then Sunday was a rest day before going back to school the next day. YAY!!! for that!!!

I'll leave you now with some scrapping stuff I've been doing. These are class samples for classes coming up in November at Artypants.

Christmas Gift Boxes





Paper Pinecone



I have been doing layouts for AED (Alison Ellis Designs) with their latest Christmas paper. I can't share atm. They are releasing the paper this weekend at Paperific, so I'll come back after the weekend with those layouts. I also have another layout I did for the Artypants monthly instore competition, but it's still on my camera and I can't be bothered getting it off right now, cause I'm about to go to bed to watch All Saints. So I'll come back later with that layout to share too.

Thanks for making it all the way to the end. Until next time...........

Sharing Time Again!!!

I did these layouts for this months Artypants Monthly Kit what seems like ages ago now. I finally have the OK to share.




These two layouts I did as single layouts because one is the first day of kinda and the one in uniform should be his first day but didn't have the uniform until about 3 weeks into kinda, so I made them to match because they'll be next to each other in the album.





This one is my favourite and the instructions for the step by step to this one is in the packaging of the kit and will be put up onto the Artypants forum shortly.

I made this skull and crossbone album for Bailey.




I was inspired by an ad in a magazine for this layout. I actually had a hard time thinking this was finished with so much empty space. This is definately not normally something I'd do. Just thought I'd challenge myself.



I've also been doing class samples for Artypants but the photos are still on my phone. When I load them to the pc then I'll share them too. Can't be bothered right now. Got to get to the ironing. I know..... boring!!!

I'll leave you now with a slideshow of the photos I took of Sharelle's baby, Peyton.

Grand Final Day 2008 - Go Hawks!!!!

The day started off early when Adrian woke me up at a sparrows fart when he went off with Scott and Darren to the Grand Final Breakfast at Noble Park RSL. I couldn't sleep anymore cause I was thinking about everything I needed to do and couldn't get back to sleep. I had a sudden thought at that ridiculous hour that I wanted new shoes, that's what got me up, because they became my new priority. LOL

Tania was going to come over early and start drinking with me but she got suckered into picking the guys up from the breakfast. I was quite prepared to let them find their own way home.

We set up the projector in the garage and had the game showing on that. We also had some lamb cooking in the webber for a late lunch. Scott organised the betting for us. I won the first goal kicked but it was actually the 5th goal kicked by Gary Ablett. The first 4 goal kickers names were still sitting in the box that nobody had picked. It was an awesome game to watch, I'm sure you'll agree. There was lots of shouting and screaming and drinking going on in that garage. Did I mention drinking!!!! Laura won the winning team and margin. Congrats Laura and thanks Scott and Adrian for running the betting.

Things got pretty messy towards the end of the night and I have posted up the photos that are not X rated LOL. I'm slowly remembering things, especially when people are reminding me. Someone please remind me that I'm not a kid anymore and alcohol and kids scooters do not mix. I am now nursing a cut and slightly black eye from crashing the scooter and hitting my eye on the table before falling into the shed wall. I can still hear everyone laughing.

Anyway, I'll now share some of the photos:

First the kids playing.

The girls were very proud to show us their acrobatics.



Bottom row, left to right is Sarah Peters, Paige Haines and Micayla, top row, on the left is little Cassie Armitage (Jodie's (Artypants) daugther) and Kealy Fox.

The following photos are to indicate how quick Baileys moods can changes as soon as he sees the camera.

(1) Obviously Buckaroo is not working the way he wants it to.



(2) He's spotted the camera



(3) Buckaroo must've worked that time.



Gee your strong Micayla. Note the big screen on the wall in the garage, where we watched the game from.



The boys in the shed. Left - Marty Peters leaning on the boat, Scott Graham sitting on Micayla's bike, Darren Fox at the end of the table and Dave side on view.



Darren being a pig!!!



Put it away Darren. Couldn't put the other photos of Darren up. Don't want my blog being reported.



Laura Overdyk and little Kaytie.



David Overdyk. This is a great shot of you Dave. Oh and thanks for the Vodka and Red Bull. I'm sure I didn't need it.



Julie Peters, another great shot.



mmm, wouldn't say this was such a great shot. I hate dancing shots.

Erwin van der Geer. mmmm Great Shot ??????

The girls around the table that we couldn't be bothered cleaning. Left with her back to us is Julie Peters, then Tania Graham, Mel Fox and Laura Overdyk.

Marty Peters and Scott Graham

One of the sedate photos of Tania and I, Mel on the right. Mel was sober, Tania and I WERE NOT!!!

These photos were all taken much later in the night. Sharelle, Paige and baby Peyton; Judy, Jodie, Bec, Melinda and their families were all there too, but left before the camera came out. They're probably happy about that lol!

Frankston Motor Bike Club

We have decided to join the Frankston Motor Bike club so that we can have somewhere safe we can take the kids to ride. The Grahams, Peters and Fox's have also joined. Last Sunday (21/09) we all went down to the track. The kids had a ride first.

This is Micayla. She is too big for this bike now and actually has a Honda CRF 80 as mentioned in a previous post, but we didn't want her riding this one yet cause it's quite a lot bigger and she doesn't have all her armour, boots etc yet. We'll be picking all that up as soon as what we've ordered is instore.

Micayla and Deegan Fox riding around the kids track. Deegan is the one in front in the blue and Micayla following directly behind him.

The Grahams and Bailey. Scott had been for a ride over on the big boys track.

Deegan's had enough for now. Behind Mel Fox are Marty's kids and Kealy. Marty is the one on the right hand side of the photo.

It's now the big boys turn for a ride.

This is Adrian at the front of the first photo and then going over the jump.

We went back over to the kids area and Bailey had a go this time. There is actually 4 tracks. One little circle, the one that Bailey is on above for the ones just learning. Then there is the track that Micayla is on in the first 2 photos, for the kids with more experience and some bigger bikes. Then there's another track for the bigger boys but with smaller bikes, then the big boys track for the big bikes.

This is the first time that Bailey rode without Adrian running along behind ready to catch him when he fell.



Look how little he looks in this photo below. So darn cute!!! Little body with a massive helmet on top LOL.



Bailey and Deegan riding around the track together in the photo below.



And then Bailey had a little stack into the tree. Nothing serious though, no tears. He did really well and even put his foot down to stop the fall.

The Winning Layout

As said below, I won last months challenge with Scrapbook Creations. And as promised, I'm back with the layout that won. This layout consists of Alison Ellis Designs (AED) papers (Flights of Fancy range) and chipboard.

I've Won Again... YAY!!!

I got an email last week saying that I'd won the "Try this Technique" challenge for Sillhouetting on the Scrapbook Creations Website. I don't know which layout has won it though. I'm still waiting for them to update their website so I can find out. That's why it's taken me so long to post it on here cause I was wanting to include the layout as well. When I know which one it is I'll come back and share.

I am so excited. I'm stalking the posty for my $200 worth of Kaisercraft and Stampin Up products. Should be here any day now. I love it when they come. It's like Christmas.