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.

Official New Moon Trailer

OMG, have just seen this and had to post it. I soooo can't wait.

Still have the mojo

Well, I still have the scrapping mojo, with major thanks to the 52 sketches, 52 weeks website.

It has inspired me to do so many layouts that I have been planning to do but not knowing where to start. I have just finished this layout which was taken from sketch #10 of this year.

It is hard to see in the pic but on the purple cardstock is watermarked flowers, you can see them better in this close up

I am also in the middle of a 2 page layout that I am doing with another sketch that I found at http://www.littlescrapbookshop.com.au/ and also about to do another 2 page layout maybe with sketch #34 from 52 sketches.

Unfortunately, I am not getting many challenges done for Ready Set Scrap this month but I am getting a lot of old pages done that have been needing doing for the last 2-3 years so, I win some, I lose some. There are a couple of pages that I can maybe do a challenge or 2 for, will just wait and see where the mojo takes me.

Take Care, Kim