from the heart

Maryanne, Sandra and I made a very special gift each for our very dear friend.

With Janice's permission (thank you so much) I can give you a glimpse of what I made. Click on the girls names above for their posts on their blogs.

love you dearly Janice.

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lots of gold rub (actually gave myself a blister lol) heat embossing the tabs, sewing coffee ring stains and thanks to Mel for the Twiddleybitz tab book.

Lots of love poured into this one.

THE BOOTS

Little Sean tried on his first pair of footy boots today.

ooooooh so cute.
They'll never be this clean again. Guaranteed.

thanks heaps Maryanne for letting me borrow your camera at home today. so appreciate it. Made my shutter finger very twitchy lol.

spring clean

Thanks Amy for the teddy. He's perfect!!
Off to Shabby Chic Shack for their International Scrap Week Scrap nite tonight. Cant wait.

sly sultanas

I found the transparency overlay in my stash (Little Yellow Bicycle) and so I based my colour scheme on that and on the Color Room Summer Room Palette (#3). Whilst I'm not a fan of banners I did find one that Kerryn Lawson had done that appealed to me. Thanks Kerryn for giving me the go ahead to 'lift' that idea and congrats on the pick up of this particular LO. She used the paper lace doily's as her banner and I included a little bit of that in mine. The colours on this LO are soft, pastel, and muted. Not quite as bright as Color Rooms but the hues are there.

can now reveal after publication in Scrapbooking Memories Vol 12. No. 10 -  Banners gallery

card shark

While I am not overly thrilled with this LO its the story of the photos that's important.

journaling says:

we have found a great way for you to recognise numbers and how to count them. I just hope this doesn't lead you into being a bit of a card shark later on in your life. 2nd September 2008

those little playing cards I found so long ago in a second hand shop. I just knew I would be using them at some stage down the track.

Avoidance

I had the most stimulating evening at the Lincoln Camera Club. L.S. came down with me to find out what it's all about. And man oh man, am I motivated now!!! For the next 18 months there are categories for photography of which I'll be shooting for. Some things I would have never tried before. IE-graffiti, grave headstones, lead light. Lots of other things too. And the best bit is LS is as motivated as I am so we both can drive each other to better ourselves (that's the idea anyway lol)

Cant wait to get the camera back to get stuck in it. Hopefully this week with fingers and eyes crossed. Just feel so lost without it. I have missed a few events that I would have had the camera at. Some I can recreate, some I can't. Not really that much in the overall scheme of things.

Had a wonderful lazy lunch today with friends. Kym lit up the garden prunings so we had a bushie as well this arvo before it started to rain in earnest. Roll on the season break. Any time now will be good please Mr Rain Man.

loosely based on Jody Wenke's Besties

the rocket.

There's a bit of a story with this vehicle so I've taken a bit of courage in my handwriting and wrote the story around the edge of the LO.
It reads: The Daihatsu was @ least 20 years old when Dad bought it from your Great Poppa Watkin's Estate in 1995. It was Dad's first farm ute. About 1999 the 'Rocket' went to Maitland for Uncle Giles to teach his kids how to drive and use on his other farm @ Warooka. After 9 years and sporting a new paint job, the 'Rocket' came home. Dad is very keen to teach you and Sean, when he's big enough, how to drive. Welcome home Rocket.

lest we forget

Image from http://www.ballinarsl.com.au/anzac-day/images/anzac-07.jpg

Annie and I have been talking about the significance and meaning of Anzac Day over the last few days. This culminated into my taking her to the dawn service in town this morning. It was a beautiful crisp dawn that has warmed up to a gorgeous day. Although she would have no idea on the total meaning of the spirit of the Anzacs, she does understand that men and women died when at war to keep Australia free. We have so much to be thankful for.

When the Last Post was played tears dripped off my chin. It is so haunting and so full of memories for the Diggers.

Lest we forget.

statement of fact

This is my answer to Colour Room Palette 3 challenge which is Summer Room.

Journaling says
Purple is my signature colour.
Photography by Annie Firth.

This photo was my blog header a while ago and it pretty much sums me up. Bold, colourful and definitely not shy. lol. Well I hope that's how I come across!???

oh dear, sean's on the sauce

found those little sauce bottles on Google Images. Printed on photo paper and raised them on foam squares.

colour room-pallette 3

ooo la la. sunroom challenge this week.

hug

I so enjoyed the process of fussy cutting that I gave it another go. The blooms are from Dear Lizzy's spring range. I just about gave myself a blister cutting all these out. Lots and lots and lots of foam squares with this one. Just love the contrasting hair colours of my two favourite girls.

mwah. love ya Paige.

latest

Sean and I went up to Lock to Shabby Chic Shack today. I need a resupply of papers with some bits and pieces. I picked up some Dear Lizzy from American Crafts for a couple of LO's that I intend on starting shortly. I wasn't overly enthralled with Dear Lizzy. Her stuff doesn't match the rave to me. Some of it is overly cutesy and some of it was just plain boring. I didn't go for her banner paper as I just don't do fads and to be honest, banners just dont do it for me. But some of her papers are fabo for fussy cutting. Found some Tim Holtz film ribbon. lots of ideas with this product.

Sean's first full day of Kindy tomorrow. I think I'll follow the bus in and watch from over the road to make sure Annie takes him to the spot where the Kindy kids congregate before being escorted to the Kindy.

Wednesday is my second day of Fitness Classes. Because of my back, shoulder, knee and hip issues (just shoot me now!!) I started with low impact on Mondays and Pilate's on Wednesdays. I'm on the bike in earnest and back on the Slimm Replacement meals. Since I've stopped horse riding (officially retired, -sold the horse, sold the horse float) my bum has grown. And I have 'puter belly. (you know that extra roll in the tummy area, well that grew while I did a lot of photo processing photo shoots last year when I was crazy busy with it.)

After Fitness I'm heading over to Tumby to clean house. Our tenants over there have left and its a pig sty. I spent Sunday from 11 to 5 there and all I got done was the toilet and the kitchen. It's that bad. I had a bucket next to me in the loo so I could dry retch into it while scrubbing the floor with a big bristle brush. We have been doing 3 monthly inspections there and all was fine until they gave notice and within 2 weeks it all went to shit. It is soooo disappointing.

The camera is still away being cleaned. I was very surprised by the quote. I thought it be alot more for the body and 2 lenes. When it gets back I'll do a test shoot before referring on to you who I sent it to.

Just submitted my 11th assignment for my Photography course. One more to go. Its been the most awesomest learning experience and I can thoroughly recommend this one. It pushed me to be so much better than I thought I could be. Visit The Photography Institute and have a look at the prospectus to see if it tickles you. Its a Diploma course and its well worth the $$.

that it for the last couple of days.

restoring vintage snapshots

just signed up for this

go to Jessica Sprague to sign up. The class is discounted atm so is very very affordable.

If your looking at doing family history, restoring some of those precious damaged photos, or wanting to digitize those sentimental snaps then this is for you.

get on it NOW or you'll kick yourself in the butt that you missed it.

dew and web

I had a photo challenge txt'd to me this morning from Sandra. Take advantage of the dewy morning, find a spider web laden with dew jewels and shoot it.

Well unfortunately I was on my way to Lincoln when I got the txt but fortunately I happened to have one in my photo archive that I took as part of my photography course. Still pretty happy with this shot.

Thanks heaps Sandra. Always love spontaneous challenges.

the inspection

I've been spotting a bit of fussing cutting happening lately around the place. Its been in the digi world for a fair while and now I'm seeing it on paper LOs too. At first I didn't know really what it was called but I've heard Sandra mention it a couple of times so I thought I'd investigate.

Its a quilting term:

•When you find a particular design, picture or print in your fabric and then cut around it so it fits into a patch or block on your quilt.    www.how-to-quilt.com/articles/glossary-of-quilting-terms.shtml

Imagine the quilt as your LO and the fussy cutting is the particular design, picture or print of PP that you embellish your LO with.

So with this in mind I came up with this LO.  Lots of foam squares too.

ps. thanks Judy for letting me know of the typo. Inspection now spelt the right way on the LO.

duh -smacking head with hand.

I wasn't going to be home at this time of day today. We have a first day of Netball and Football for the 2010 season. Annie is still playing Netta which means she doesn't have competition games on Saturdays, just coaching during the week. But we still go to watch the matches when its our home game. Today it's Ramblers home game and its raining atm. So while we are not committed to going EVERY Saturday this year I can pick and choose depending on location, weather, kids, colds and stuff. So we are still home until the rain lifts. Shouldn't be long as it looks like a passing scud according to BOM radar

fingers crossed.

my falmy

Just found this on my pillow.

Gosh, she just knows how to melt me.

bless her cotton pickin' socks.

Janice

I would like to give a big big shout out to Jancie who has her first ever published LO in this month's Scrapbook Creations.

Awesome stuff chick.

Feels good doesnt it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.


And we are all so happy for you.

happy dance happy dance happy dance.

2wd

Another bingo LO from sketchesby{tamara}. (scroll down the page a bit and you'll see the bingo grid).

I did this one last night at Scrapworkz scrap night.
I took the line that had bling, chipboard, 3 or more papers, blue and tearing.

That little bee I found in clipart. I printed it twice and used foam squares in between the two layers to lift it from the page.

The journaling is much easier to read on the LO.
It says
Look after those feet mate.
Cut your toenails straight across the top.
Wear good fitting shoes.
Beware of bunions.
Give them a good ol’ rub now and then.
They have a long way to carry you in your lifetime.

the colour room

palette 2 as just been released for this week.

his room

you can use white, black or Kraft card along with these colours.]

yummy.