Couple of layouts.

Just thought I would share a few of the latest layouts I've done. I've been very slack since my scrapping weekend away, I had great intentions of keeping the mojo going but I've been so , so tired lately and just don't seem to have the energy or motivation to do much scrapping at all. I'm about 10 weeks behind on my art journal challenge with Emily Falconbridge and I have hundreds of photos to scrap!! SO I am making a concerted effort to get motivated!!

Here's the few I have managed to do anyway:

Feeling old!!

I used to nanny for the family of the trumpet player in this band, The Cat Empire- Harry . We just bought their new album and I love it, such fun funky music. It makes me feel really old though to see Harry up there playing his trumpet, he's a very talented young man!!

More...

Here's a few more photo's from our day up in the hills, it's so beautiful up there and if it wasn't so far away from the business we would seriously look at moving there, we both loved it so much. I had been to Maleny for our girls weekend away but not Montville and I wish we had of headed straight to Montville, it's such a pretty little town with lots of cute and quirky shops to wander through. Next time we have visitors we will definitely be taking them up there for a look.

We took this one of all of us by self timer but it's a bit dark, it was late in the afternoon. I thought I would include it anyway as it's not often we have a photo of all of us together.

Sisterly Love???

Ella has been going through a very loving stage, she wants to hug and kiss us all the time, sometimes with a little bit too much passion. I love that she wants to do it as does Col but I'm not sure that Huddy does. I took these photos on our day up to Maleny/Montville for Col's Birthday. The cafe where we had lunch had a cubby house in the garden which was perfect to keep the kids happy while we had lunch. Ella decided she needed to give Huddy one of her hugs and kisses while we were there. He already has the "get off me and leave me alone face" of embarrassment, lol.

My poor Hubby!

It was Col's Birthday on Wednesday but yet again we were a house of sickness :(. Ella and I had some horrible tummy bug and she spent Tues and Wed vomiting, and I felt like crap so Col's birthday was a huge non-event. I don't think the kids even realised it was his birthday as we decided to postpone it until Sunday when we are all feeling much better and he is home for the day. The kids and I have been shopping to get his presents and they are very excited about his Birthday on 'Sunday" lol. I hope we can make up for the horrible day that was his actual birthday.

So if you read this before Sunday, give him a call on Sunday to wish him Happy Birthday, he'll wonder how on earth you know, lol.




Oh as an aside, I just wanted to say I'M SICK OF HAVING SICK KIDS!!!!!!!!! We have had such a bad run of sickness the last few months I think we have well and truly had our share so NO MORE! thankyou very much.
Ok I feel better now I got that off my chest, lol.

Our little Artists.

Ella ia really enjoying her drawing at the moment and has started doing drawings of people that you can actually decipher as a person instead of doing a head on one side of the page and eyes on the other (not in the head) and feet/arms/ears etc, elsewhere. She is very into drawing all of us at the moment and I am loving it. I thought I would share a photo of her artwork, it's got the whole family in it, including the two cats, lol. She had done individual ones of all of us prior to this big one and was getting sick of it by the time it got to Huddy and the cats.


Thought I should also share a photo of Hudson's artwork too, he loves drawing as well and I can't wait to see his interpretations of us in the future.
Excuse the crap photos, the drawings are hanging on the wall in the kitchen where I can't get straight on so I've had to take the photos from an angle which makes the drawings looks a bit odd.

A Wonderful weekend away......

I had an absolutely fabulous weekend away!!! It was a beautiful spot, the house was perfect for a large group and for scrapping, the food was yummy, the drinks plentiful and the company superb!!!!! What more could anyone ask for??

I managed to be quite productive with the layouts (well for me anyway) and finished 8 of them as well as a starting a mini book so I'm rapt I did more than the last weekend away. One of the layouts included a really fun challenge by Sharon which was a round robin where we each started our own layout with a photo taken on the weekend by Megan of ourselves and then passed it around the table, each having only 10 minutes to add to the layout. All the layouts turned out fabulously and I love mine - it's the one with smile on it. The talent there on the weekend was phenomenal and really inspiring for me, I've come back with a renewed energy for scrapping, I just hope I can keep the mojo going.

I missed the kids and Col terribly while I was away but I must say it was nice to only have myself to worry about and organise and it was wonderful to be able to wake up by myself each morning instead of waking up to yelling children!! I think having some time away makes you more appreciative of everything you have and it helps to renew your energy as well. Hopefully we'll be making this a 6 monthly event, I can't wait until the next one, lol. I didn't take many photos at all on the weekend and none of all the girls really but I thought I would share some of the ones I did take, it was such a pretty area, so green and lush looking thanks to all the rain they've had up there lately - so beautiful. Also I've finally checked out Picasa and wanted to have a play :). The last photo is of all the work done by us all on the weekend - not bad hey!

So EXCITED!!!!!!

Tomorrow I'm heading off to Maleny to stay at Wattle Gully Retreat for a weekend with the girls - Ruth, Gayle, Megan, Kath, Sharon, Kirsty and Anita. I cannot wait!!!!! Well I have been waitng nearly 5 months for this to come around so I'm really excited and looking forward to heading up there tomorrow. We are going for a craft/scrapping weekend to get away and scrap to our hearts content or to just put our feet up and relax. I'm nearly organised, just a bit of cooking to do, pack the scrapbook supplies into the suitcase properly and find a few clothes to take with me. I've even planned a few layouts, my aim is to well and truly beat the total of 5 layouts I did on my last weekend away, I'm such a slow scrapper but this time I'm a bit more organised and have managed to plan my layouts a bit more.

I haven't been to Maleny yet but hear it is really beautiful, will let you know next week when I get back. We're going to have lunch in Maleny tomorrow on our way to the farmhouse we're staying in and then get ourselves set up and organised and scrap, scrap, scrap!!! I'm sure there's going to be lots of laughter, drinking, eating and not much sleep over the weekend - I can't wait!!!

Shall share the finished products next week with you :)

And lastly a layout I did for the Scrapbook Princess using some of the Love Elsie range and a lot of bling. The photo doesn't show it properly but the dots in the chipboard ovals are all bling.

Happy Birthday Blog!

Wow I can't believe I've been doing this blog for just over 12 months, where does the time go? In the last 12 months I've done 65 posts, just over one a week so that's not too bad I reckon. Although I do wonder at times why I am doing it, my Mother has no idea how to get it up even after I have told her how many, many times *rolls eyes* and I think the only family member that checks it regularly is Sharon, the main reasons I started it. Still I think it will be a lovely thing for us too look back on and see where we have been. I know there are a few people that check in regularly but if you stop by please leave a comment so I know I'm not rattling on totally to myself!!
xxx

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there

I hope you've all had a wonderful relaxing day with your loved ones. We've had a very lazy but lovely day. The kids woke at the usual time just after 6am so I got up with them and we let Col sleep until 9 when we woke him with his stash of pressies and breakfast in bed. The kids thought it was really exciting opening pressies in bed and then having breakie there, they wanted to have theirs there too.

Ella & Hudson gave him the obligatory socks and jocks (which Col needed), a children's story book called "My Amazing Dad", a deep fryer that Col has been wanting for ages and a little book I made which was full of photos of Col and he kids. I think he was pretty happy with it all :).

We had a lazy morning and then packed up a picnic and went down to a local park where we fed the ducks, kicked the soccer ball around, played on the playground and ate heaps - a very lovely pleasant way to spend the day.

And of course here's a few photos for you :)

Huddy looks like Chad Morgan in this photo with his hat on sideways, lol.