June retreat 2012

Are you interested in a scrapbooking retreat for 2012?

June 22nd to 24th

Longpoint (near Liverpool/Campbelltown)

$98.

Includes basic breakfast for 2days and tea and coffee.

Access to Kitchen and close to local food shops.

$40 deposit due Feb 10th 2012

email me if interested: bh2110@bigpond.net.au

HELLO!!! yes I am still here!

HELLO!!!! Well it was nice to bump into an old friend last Monday and see that someone still checks by here. I promise to upload Project life asap....this old computer is moving sooo slow due the HUGE amount of file space taken up my my photos!!! Man I need to sit for hours and work on that, plus back up back up back up!!!

I still scrapbook and just had an absolute blast at the SAVVY/delights retreat ! My second one and I sure hope I go until we are old and have to catch a special bus to get there. I love my South Coast scrappy mates, well heck I have no Sydney ones left so I guess these wonderful girls are stuck with me!!! Thanks to my wonderful retreat seat partner Lisa Warren! She always offers the best advice and is like a personal tutor. xxxx

Here is some evidence that I still scrap. I have 3 2crafty layouts.





This one is a challenge from the retreat. I had to incorporate the transparency designed by Lisa.

Lots to catch up on! So little time xxx

Inspired Blueprints

Lisa Warren is one of my fav scrappers and I love her Inspired Blueprints website. For my Long Point scrap retreat Lisa gave us a sketch for a competition. I loved the sketch and loved following it to complete this layout.

Thanks Lisa, looking forward to a fun scrap night sometime soon. xx

Flynn at 18 months

My little tough nut. Always happy to laugh and smile.
You have learnt the word NO or shall I say uh uh and you shake your head.
You love to eat and you will go in search of food regularly.
You are happy and will say hello and goodbye to the people you meet at the shops.

You ignore me lots when I call your name.

You love to explore new places.

When you say squeeze hug to you, you squeeze your whole body and growl. It is too cute.

You point to your belly, nose and mouth when asked. You will clap when asked.

You love to ride your buzz car or bee bike FAST!

You only have a little bit of hair, i love your bald head!

You love to play with balls.

You pull everything out of the drawers and walk around with it, chew it, drop it and find something else to grab.

You always open my shower door and say "mum".

You will get me my towel as soon as the water stops.

You can say - Mum, Mumma, Dad, hello, bye-bye, car, yum, go, nar nar (dum dum), more, poo poo , shoes

2 Crafty Layouts

I am loving working with all the 2 Crafty goodies I get in the mail.
Check out the blog for more great layouts





Look at this tattoo swirl! love it

Polly Scrap Kits

I knew Kayla when she was just a "little girl"! We started chatting on KSK in around 2005 I think! She was and still is, a clever scrapper with a good eye for colour and design...

now this young lady has launched a FAB kit club......Polly Kit Club

Go take a look, I cant wait to they are released, well done Kayla xxxxx

Holidays r here

Finally time to catch up! clean and dag around the house in my PJs.

I had a fantastic time with great scrappy friends in June at our annual budget scrap retreat that I organise. I love this retreat, so cheap and no fuss.

Here are some of the layouts I got done, I will share more after I get them onto the 2 Crafty blog

Cracker Night - 2 Crafty

I was about to reminisce on my blog about Cracker night, but I though it would be much more fun to scrap it with some 2 Crafty product





I sadly had no photos of cracker night but thought this one brought back memories from around that time...until I realised I was dressed for a summer night, NOT winter lol



Here is the journaling .....



This June long weekend I found myself remembering back to Firecracker Night – (almost 26 years ago)…a long weekend tradition for Australian children until the sale of fireworks were banned in the 1980’s.
I remember mum coming home with a massive bag of fireworks. We stood in our front yard with all the neighbourhood families. Dad always had a bucket of water ready incase a fire started or anyone touched a hot one. It was exciting…from when Dad lit the fuse and you would hear the hiss - the loud cracks from the skyrockets, the glow of the spinning wheels and running to find the parachutes that would pop out of the aero plane cracker. I also remember the zap of throwdowns, you threw them at the ground and they would light up and make extremely loud noises.
Cracker night was banned due to too many injuries. Funnily enough on cracker night the ER had many people admitted with burns and even worse there were lots of eye injuries from people looking right at a cracker, thinking it would not go off to have it explode in their face.
Cracker night is a great childhood memory and sadly I don’t have photos of Dad, Mum and I on cracker night….just great memories…….June 2011

scrapping to share

I had a great social scrap with my wonderful scrapping friends Sandra, Sar and Linda last Saturday in Dapto at Scrapbook Delights. I love scrapping at Sandra's shop, we laugh lots and the Thai food is to die for!!!!

I am SOOOO looking forward to our June retreat this month....now off to mark reports so I can go to Long Point with NO work hanging over my head.

bye bye

where did may go???
last week i cracked a tooth and the pain took over my week
Now May is over and terrible Winter arrives tomorrow
I now have a hole in the bottom left gum and one less tooth in my head
I am hoping I have a better week.

REWIND!!!!! PAUSE!!!!!! Go BACK!!!!!!!!

a layout...wish i had time to do more

Happy Monday

In a month and 2 days I will be on a scrap retreat!!!! Must start preparing so I can get lots done!!

Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only exec member in at school
Darren never put the car keys back and they went MISSING
Had to call up Karen Mc to get a lift in to school
Things stolen
Uniform!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timetables
Max dropped off at school very unwell, I smashed the anti biotics
Fever.......pain, tears
Preschool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Photos!!!
Max crying
Overseas enrolment - People that cant DO their job
The Intrepica sales lady being a lovely help!!! Wondering what sort of nutcase school she had walked in too!
HOME!!!!
Lucky the night ended with a glass of bubbles with 2 good friends

tuesday night

Lots of ironing to be done but I am exhausted after staying up to 1am this morning to fix up the timetable for school.
In bed watching this great show about GOOD FRIENDS!!!! Winners and Losers makes me smile, cheers to girlfriends!!!!!

scrapping

A layout for the wonderful 2 Crafty, lots of great layouts and ideas on the blog.

proud mumma moment

Today while I was scrapbooking Max came into the room and asked to draw. He handed me the book when he was done and said "I wrote your name". I was sooooo shocked and happy, to see him write a word for the first time other than his own name and the word ice cream that he copied at preschool this was another one of those "truly great proud mumma moments".
he can write mum!!!!!!!

bless him xxxxxx

sick again

Poor bub!

and yes I missed some days in May...as my sick boy kept me busy and blogger was not playing nicely!

Can I have another 4 hours in the day please????

this is me

On Mothers day I was inspired by the beautiful light behind me to take some selfies! I used to do so many ME pages before children and as I was looking in my albums on Mothers day I saw that I haven't done much at all these days.

I brought my first pair of black ugg boots this year and they are my new favourite shoe.

My favourite TV shows are Keeping up with the Kardashians, Winners and Losers, 7pm project and loving that RPA is back on.

Last Movie I saw was "Just go with it" it was funny !

Since Easter I have been eating way too much chocolate. I still have 10kg (at least to loose).
I hate that exercise takes time and I have barely any.

An untidy house frustrates me. There are lots of random things scattered throughout the house..they need to be put away...and when they finally are Flynn goes and gets them again.
I now am an electricity saving, whinging, PAIN in the butt as I hate that it has become so expensive and our bills average around $750 each quarter!!!!!

Flynn being clingy frustrates me! Then I have to remind myself, enjoy every minute and stop wishing it away! I wont get to keep my cute little toddler forever.

I am blessed to have some fantastic girl friends.

I hate that my dream home is not in my dream neighbourhood - where kids play and ride their bikes.

It seems as soon as we get ahead financially we go straight back behind.

I am thankful for all the things my dad does, he makes me smile.

I don't own any really nice jeans!

I am worried I am forgetting how to be a "great teacher" while I am off class.

I want to achieve everything on my list and if I ever do I can think of another 20 things to add that I need to do.

I'm tired and since I love my sleep and find it hard to wake up for Flynn at the ungodly hour of 6:45am I am off to catch some sleep xxx

Life Long Friends

My photography failed to capture the BLING of all the silver glitter on this layout! It is truely one of my favoutires.

The title is from 2 Crafty. Every week there is lots of new inspiration on the 2 Crafty blog and don't forget Vanessa makes all of her chipboard here so you are supporting Australian made by asking your local scrapbook store to stock her designs.

sick

Max and I are sick again! He always manges to get it and successfully pass it on to me!
We spent the day on the lounge under a quilt each! No food, just chats, naps and ABC for kids TV!

yawn and brrrrrrr, the cold weather has hit so I am off to bed!!!!!!

I am a lucky mum

A nice day doing the usual - kids birthday parties at Monkey Mania, hanging out clothes and just being a mum! I think at one point I thought about getting away from it all next year and just being ALONE!!! But then I would miss these 2 gorgeous boys toooo much oh and since the hubby cleaned up for me and did some shopping he could be missed too!
A bit upset there was no card to tell me what a fabbo mum I am AM! but oh well, off to build a bridge !! Happy mothers day to ALL xx