Busy, Busy, Busy

I have been flat out the last few weeks, have had relatives staying and just general busyness.

Bethany received 2 awards at assembly last Thursday, a special award for Italian and the writer of the month award. Unfortunately I was at work so I missed it but Pete has been on holidays so he was there.

I haven't had the chance to do any scrapbooking for the last 2 weeks due to the relatives visiting but last night I was back in my room, cleaning it up and sorting it out and today I am going through all the layouts that need completing, trying to finish them off so I can start afresh.

I have taught myself to make a centrepiece fold-out album. It is a mini album that folds out to stand on its own. I found pictures of it online on other blogs but no instructions so I studied the pictures until I worked out how to make it.

This one is one that I have made for my cousin of her kids at Christmas.

I am almost finished another one of of my girls dancing for last year except it is a diamond shaped one as opposed to the square shaped one above.

I also went to a class and learnt how to use masks and glimmer mists. Below is a layout of my cousin's son, Nathaniel, taken on his 7th birthday.

I'm back

Yes, that's right, I am back.

I have been around, just not enough time to do an entry. Been flat out with work, Bethany back at school, girls dancing (now 3 times a week) and just general life.

The scrapbook shop that I am on the design team for has just signed a lease to move to bigger premises, so I have managed to get back everything I have made for them so far. I now I have had the time to take the pics.

The below Halloween themed items are what I made with my first design team pack:

This is Bethany dressed up to go to a monster birthday party.

This is the first ever off the page Kaiser album I have done.

I was so happy the way they turned out.

With the next pack I made these layouts:

This is Bethany and her cousin Rhiannon, the photos were taken 4 years apart.

This is my mother and her twin sister when they were young girls.

And this is one I did of Bethany (wasn't overly impressed with this one but I handed it in anyway).

I have also been working on some new style mini albums I found pictures of online. I will upload some pics of mine tomorrow as well as a couple of other layouts I have done.

See, I have been busy, busy, busy.

Where have I been?!?!?!?!?!

Oh My, where have I been, it has been such a long time since I posted.

Well, my girls have had their end of year dance recital. We did their dress rehersal a week before (photos below) and realised that the little purple outfits needed a headpiece so 5 days before concert I was making 10 little pill box hats.

The day after I volunteered to make them I was given my first design team pack for Scrap It Flaunt It. I had 2 weeks to work with it. I was given a Halloween pack. Good thing I had taken the girls trick or treating for the first time ever so I actually had photos to use. The pack consisted of 6 patterned papers, a sheet of alpha stickers, a sheet of border stickers and a sheet of embelishments. I made a lovely little single page layout of Bethany dress as a zombie from a birthday party last year and a haunted castle chipboard album of them trick or treating, but duh, forgot to take photos of them before I gave them in so will have to nick back to the shop and take some.

Then we had Caitlyn's 3rd birthday. She seems to have grown up so fast.

Also went to the New Moon midnight screening. Finally! Was awesome and I can't wait for the next one. Took Bethany to see it 2 days later and an hour in was evacuated from the theatre because of a fire alarm so had to take her back 2 days after that for her to see the end.

And now am getting set for Christmas. Have got the tree out and half decorated. Have started putting the lights on my house (hoping to finish that in the next day or 2) and lots of pressied to buy.

So with all this, have been significantly absent from blogs and challenge sites but now that things are starting to wind down (if you can call Christmas winding down)am hoping to log back on more often (and actually get stuck into some scrapbooking).

Til next time
Bye

New video

I have just seen this and I so can't wait.

Finally....an update

Oh my goodness, where have I been??

Well since my last update, I was sick for over a week. I had 4 days off work I was that unwell. Since then I have been flat out with the girls and catching up on the work I missed as well as trying to keep on top of the housework.

I have done very little scrapbooking in the last 3 weeks but have done some. I finished a double page layout of my youngest daughters first couple of days












I have also been trying to finish layouts that I have started but never finished. The next layout I started about 8 months ago. I did the left hand page and then just stopped so I made the right hand page last week. The title is Trying to take the perfect Christmas Photo











I had so many outtake photos from this shoot, I just didn't know what to do with them all. This is only a handful on the left hand side.

So now that things are starting to settle down, I am looking to jump back into my scrapping again with renewed mojo.

Until next time.

PS - Yippee I have bought my ticket for the midnight session of New Moon. Only 26 sleeps to go - Yay

Good news and bad news

Wow, what a week. Started with the absolutely great and awesome news of me being invited to join the design team at Scrap It Flaunt It, then just as quickly I discovered the bad news that one of my favourite challenge sites, Ready Set Scrap had closed. This site was a great source of inspiration whenever I was stuck for an idea to jumpstart my mojo.

Next great news again, one of my other favourite sites http://outofthehatscrapchallenge.blogspot.com/ is turning 1 and offering a totally awesome prize pack to celebrate. Hop of on over and check it out, here is a pic of all the great stuff they are giving away.

And finally, some lovely ladies are starting up a new challenge blog as of 20th October. The blog is called http://aussiegirlsgonescrappin.ning.com and I can't wait for it to start. I am all signed up and ready to go.

Well, will log off now, Bethany has a big day with a dance competition tomorrow afternoon and then I am off to my crop night at SIFI. Have to get everything packed and organised tonight as I am not going to have a spare minute tomorrow.

Some great news

Hi guys, sorry I have been MIA for the last week or so. It has been so flat out around here with renovations, school stuff for Bethany, work, getting Bethany ready for her dance comp this Saturday and the normal day to day stuff.

Today I got some great news. I spoke to Maureen at my local scrapbook shop, Scrap It Flaunt It, Armadale, and they have asked me to join their design team. I am so excited. I submitted an application to them when they first opened last year but I must admit my scrapbooking was not very ... ummm established LOL. Since then I have been working to enhance my technique and learn new skills and am very happy with the direction my work is now taking and finally it has paid off. I am so happy to be with a great group of lovely girls like the ladies at SIFI and I thank them very much. WOW a DT member!

I have been scrapping up a storm, working on three layouts at once but have only really got 1 completely finished. This one I completed for Totally Addicted to Sketch but also realised that I was only pearls and rhinestones away from completing it for the September Number challenge on Ready Set Scrap. So I added them and submitted them for both.

The other 2 layouts that I am working on are 2 page layouts so they take me a little longer to fiddle with.

Well, it is now 9.15pm so must log off, have ironing to do, dishes to wash and would like to do a couple more small things on my layouts.

Thanks for stopping by.