things to remember!

firstly don't forget my big sale this saturday from 8:30am...come on over and grab yourself some bargains.........Also this month's CC "what's old is new again" starts tommorrow afternoon so make sure you check out the various challenges at the cybercrop blog here over the weekend...you have until midnight wednesday to complete as many as you can...so come on get scrapping girls and have some fun with me!!!

i will have some very exciting news to post for you all on monday......just nutting out some final details ...so keep an eye on this blog for what i am sure will be fun and exciting news for you all!!!!

SALE, SALE, SALE, SALE,SALE!!

ok so i think you get the picture! i am having a sale AT MY HOME THIS SATURDAY THE 18TH OF OCTOBER!! there are lots of things on offer at amazing prices so head on over anytime after 8.30 am and grab yourself some bargains....... i have loads of stock that simply must go !!all patterned papers are 80 cents each as is any bazzill i have in stock......basically there will be nothing here over $15!!!! and thats for paper packs....so make sure you set aside some time on saturday to come over and check out the bargains!!! you won't regret it........DON'T FORGET TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!!

as for my online friends i am happy to post items on the blog should you want to check things out as well so just let me know and i will do that for you.....!!! have a great day everyone!

HOLIDAY FUN

this school hols we have had a very busy time! it has been great!!!....no constant whinging from boredom....it's a miracle!!!!!we started with eb"s birthday then a kids scrap class a few days later..
daddy had a day off so we went to stockton beach for some fun!!! the kids had a ball playing on the edge of the freezing cold waves...then
a sandcastles decorated with shells ........they really did have a great time before we had to bail because of the wind.....a great warm up to our chrissy holiday....can't wait!!!
our cousins came over from New Zealand this hols and we caught up a couple of times during their visit..it was the first time the kids had meet each other and they all got on like a house on fire!! it was fantastic...so great to see them!!!!.......this is just one of many photos i took but this one cracked me up...i was trying to get a group shot and silly me said" smile and says cheeky monkeys" ...so ethie was a cheeky monkey!!!hahahaha...i guess you had to be there but it cracked us all up!!!

we have had a BBQ at sandy's with the wonderful chef Mark!! thanks guys we had a great time!!! then yesterday we had a scrap day with Sandy and kaytlin...the kids scrapped more than me...actually i didnt scrap!!!

this is eb's very buttony creation..( the 2nd of the day).......she had a great time...got a little over her idea of putting the buttons on the flowers so kaytlin finished off the last couple for her.....then when she saw the girls stamp on their pages she had to add a flourish to hers...you did a great job honey...i am so proud of you ...giving everything including cutting and glueing a go yourself!!!you are becoming such a big girl for sure!!!
ethie came and went from the scrap table but managed to finish off one layout!!! and i love it of course..hahahahaha.....when those buttons came out he was in heaven...he loved sticking them down!! great job honey...i am glad you had such a good time....
now miss chantelle and miss kaytlin decided to scraplift a page from the current "scrapbook memories" mag.( page 77)..they did a great job and had a ball working it all out...even had to have the flourish the same as the page they were copying...all chantelle said was " won't aunty Kate be proud of me scraplifting from a magazine like a big girl""" i thought it was soooo cute ...so i hope you are suitably impressed aunty Kate...hahahaha......

as the for rest of the hols...i am rewarding my big girl with a trip to the movies this afternoon as she has been amazing this hols helping mummy out heaps and being very supportive of her brother and sister and their training...then tommorrow is merv's 40th birthday so out for lunch at least....saturday i have a Kaszazz demo and then we are off to the drive in for the kids then thats it!!! yeah the hols are finished and life gets back to the routine stuff!!!

PETA'S RETREAT!!!

i had a wonderful time at Peta's retreat as well as a badly needed break, even though my weekend had to be cut short.......thanks for a great time honey...xxxx..... here are the pages ...both classes and my own...that i managed to get finished on the weekend...i also did a couple for my CC which are on the CC blog and a mini album which i gave to mum for her birthday...i still have to take photos of it..... this page and the one below of Jon are an aussie scrap source kit that i purchased from Peta...i love how the pages turned out especially this one of ethie!! really love them!!! i even did the beading on this one...shock horror!! hahahaha
but i didn't do the beading they asked for on this one of Jon....i thought it was too much....well thats my excuse and i am sticking to it!!! hehehehehe
this one is just me playing around with a paper kit from peta....awesome pink paislee and bo bunny stuff...so bright and funky...just loved them!!
this is my adaptation of peta's sunday class....as i couldn't stay for the class i had to copy peta's page on the friday night instead so i had to improvise a little to get it done!!

this page was a blind challenge class on saturday...i have used a photo from Marelle of her gorgeous girls that i had for a photo swap at Bon's....i figured if i used it for the class then i couldn't stuff it up on marelle...well that was the plan anyway...i will apoligise now though marelle for my stitiching...i am hopeless at stitiching!!!! we have used the new BG "eva" range and heidi swapp felt shapes.....some fibers and we even got to use Kate's cuttlebug to emboss a piece of the PP then sanded it to bring the pattern out more...i hope you like it Marelle!!
i just love the simplicity of this page...yeah right...i love the photo who am i kidding!!!! i do love the new SR papers too..honest!! i used a pagemaps sketch to get me started with this one.....
this friday class was so much fun!! i had a great time doing it and love the result....i even pinched the concept for my kids class this week!!! it is a great mix of colours and shapes...just love it!!
this page is a blind challenge we did as a bonus with the above class...again really happy with the end result and i even stuck it down as i went along...rare for me but i did it!!!!
last but definately not least is the very first class we did on friday using some awesome teresa collins papers.....i have used the family photos taken at ethan's pirate party showing off the many different shots peta took to get a good one!! really really love this one!!!!

photo swaps!!

i have particpated in of few photo swaps lately and here are the gorgeous pages created for me....i have been lucky both times to have my pages done by some awesome scrappers and friends!! this first one was created by the talented miss Kate!! i just love it. the new SR papers and embellishments are so cute!! i was very honoured to have Kate use ethie's photo for her dt work as well!! thanks honey ..i really love the page!!
this gorgeous one was created by Peta..i sent this photo in because i loved it but didn't know what to do with it because of all the reflection in it!! peta you did a great job with a difficult photo and i love the quote you chose for my man...i just love the whole thing really !!!

thanks ladies for taking the time to create such gorgeous pages for me!!!

ebony's birthday with Loopy!!!

my gorgeous miss ebony turned 3 on the 27th of september...i can't believe she is 3 already!!! here is just a few of the tonne of photos that were taken on the day and at her party...she decided to have a PINK party and we had LOOPY the clown come over an entertain the kids..it turned out to be the best thing i have ever done for them.....she was fantastic and they all had a ball!!! here we have Ebony with her new baby Angel that we gave her for her birthday!! she is just beautiful and huge!!! everyone loves angel so she has turned out to be a great pressie!!!
the wonderful LOOPY...she was just fantastic...i think we will have to have her back again sometime....the kids loved her!!!
i thought at one stage the kids were going to chuckle themselves to death ...they were all cracking up at loopy so much it was great!!!

ethis even had a go at copying a few actions!!
then of course he had to try out a little bit of magic for himself using loopy's special feather wand and magic bag!!!
Loopy then made balloon animals for everyone starting with a butterfly for the birthday girl!!! we had swords, dogs, hearts, giraffes and all sorts of great balloons!!! then they played with huge bubbles and had an awesome treasure hunt with a TONNE of yummy lollies!!!
to finish the day off we tried to get a nice group shot with loopy...man was that interesting but i think i like the fun ones anyway...they were all enjoying her so much and that is what counts!!!!
a BIG thanks to everyone who came and celebrated ebony's birthday with us and a HUGE thank you to Loopy for helping us make eb's day so special and loads of fun!!!

grammy's B'day!

grammy's birthday couldn't go by without some sort of celebration so we had grammy and her friends Veronica and Tracey over for dinner...this is my dodgy attempt at a photo with the kids and the cake we made!! oh by wasn't that interesting...hahahaha......we had a nice catch up with the girls though so grammy had a great night!!!