making lemonade!

so do you know that old saying "when life gives you lemons make lemonade"??? well i am afraid our life has been full of a lot of lemons lately which is why i seemed to drop off the face of the earth.....but instead of getting on here and venting and being a sook i am going to make some lemonade and show you some of the good things that have happened around everything else.....
first up we have miss ebony dressed for her dance concert....last weekend was a practice as well as photo day the following day with the real concert being on this weekend.....this is her jazz costume for "Locomotion"

this is her Tap costume for her "Broadway Baby" tap routine....it is so cute!!! yeah i know i am totally Bias.....chantelle was in plasters still last weekend so couldn't do hers but the plasters are off now and she is very excited to be getting her turn this weekend...i'll share some pics of her then...

next up we have chantelle and ethan with santa at the special children's christmas party last wednesday...we had a great night...we could all harldy move when we left we were all so buggered but it was so, so worth it!!! my hat goes off to all those workers and volunteers who make the party possible every year...they do an awesome job and it is always a fantastic night for the kids.....

in amoungst the hectic stuff around here in did have a november class with the awesome "Splash Dance" range from imaginsence...it was so good to create with...i had a ball with it!!! here are the four single page and one double page layout i came up with...... i love this flook of a photo taken at taronga zoo of this very happy penguin so much that it just had to be scrapped....i have also used the awesome I-Rock and some twiklers dust on this layout!

i had fun with this page fringe cutting the matting paper then rolling the edges inwards...it was fiddly but fun and so worth it i think???? i gave the I-Rock a spin again too....slowly becoming addicted to it....LOL...i can see myself using it heaps! yes i did it again!!! LOL...i I-Rocked the circles on this simple double page layout....i kept the papers sinple so that the photos and bling would stand out more....merv and the kids had a great time buliding castles when we went to crescent head january 09....do you think ethan was happy?????

unfortunately the photo of this page is shocking....it just didn't photograph well at all....it is on bubble bazzill which i rubbed over with blue chalk just to slightly high light the circles......my attempt at seaweed was funny but hey it doesn't look to bad..insert rolling eyes here......casey is the leopard seal at taronga zoo...he is so gorgeous...we watched him for ages.....

speaking of not photographing well....when we went on the dolphin curise for ebonys birthday i had an awful time trying to get photos but if you look really, really hard you might see some...LOL.... this last page of ebony and myself being silly was made from some left over Petal Pushers papers from a previous class....i think i used a krissy sketch from wicked for this too....

thanks for stopping by and putting up with such a long post....
chat soon

jules xxxx