TGIF

Yes its the best time of the week for me. Friday night. No work for two days!
Well the only downside is the bloke over the back with his band practise EVERY friday night.
We cant even have the windows open while watching tv cos we wouldn't be able to hear it.

Another weekend is here. Hubby is working again tomorrow so i'll get the house work done, how exciting, then either scrap or do some power point for work. I think scrapping is winning out.

2 more weeks and my cousin Haydn is coming over from Wales for four weeks. I'm hoping to take 2 weeks off so i can spend some time with him and then with my sister-in-law who is coming over to do some scrapping and also to go to the Michael Buble concert on 1st March. I'm soooooooo looking forward to that. There will be myself, of course, my daughters, Noriel, Krystal, my lovely niece and my gorgeous girlfriend Vicki going together. its shaping up to be a great night.

On a more sombre note, i would like to send my thoughts and prayers to all those who are caught up in the devastating floods in QLD. Its an absolute tragedy. We are doing a collection at work for the flood appeal. So hopefully come Monday and Tuesday we will be able to collect a nice amount.

Also there is some flooding in Victoria so send your prayers for our friends that are suffering there too.

ciao for now.

Hump day over and done with

Half way through another working week. YAY!!!
What have i done so far this week???? Watched 2 episodes of The Tudors, series 4 with my daughter Cherie. Played on the computer for work last night and tonight i went to weight watchers and found i'd gained 100gms. Yes i know its not a lot but i thought i had done all the right things this week. OH well tomorrow is a new day and start of a new week. I think i will have to change things around abit in what i eat. I do tend to only have cereal for breakfast. so tomorrow i will have some scrambled eggs on toast.

On Sunday week two of the 52 question challenge at ARTISTIC DOCUMENT was uploaded and the question this week was....How do i feather my nest. the criteria was we had to use something from a swap. My swap piece is the Tim Holtz bird cage and bird from our bird butterfly and bees swap which was held last year at ARTISTIC DOCUMENT

Front and back. (lighting wasn't the best)

Well thats it for tonight.
Take care everyone, especially everyone in Queensland. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

thanks for taking the time.

First challenges for 2011

You must be thinking Wow 2 posts in 2 days.
Well Hubby is at work and i'm on my own (DD1 is a sleep in the family room) so i have been doing some scrapping. Oh yes, i nearly fell off my chair when i finished the LO too.
so here are what i have done in the last to days.

The first two are the back and front of The 52 question challenge that Marie at Artistic Document is holding. Each Sunday she will be posting a question and the criteria for each tag. This first Question is What i wish for in 2011 (not a resolution). the criteria was Collage. So the first pic shows the back and my answer.



this second Pic shows the front and the question.

I used BasicGrey's Chablis form the Periphery range on the front and back and Kaiser Cle from the Le Chateau range, back and front. I also used Kaiser's key, lace and flowers on the front from the Devonshire collection embellishment pack. the flower on the back i made using T!m Holtz's Tattered flowers die and paper from an old book. spritzed them with water. scrunched them and added a kaiser brad int he middle then inked the edges in distress ink, faded jeans.

No this Lo is for the challenge set by our Guest designer Noriel. MY sister-in-law. I was so proud when it was announced that she had been chosen so i though it fir for her challenge to be the very first Lo i did for this year. Her challenge was to use only 6 inches of the paper, top, bottom, left or right, but it could only be in 6 inches. We could use as many embellishments as we wanted BUT NO flowers were allowed. she's tough! So a few girls did mention that it was a good way to use up papers with patterns down one side. I love those girls and their ideas. Well i had plenty of papers given to me last mothers day that i could use. I finally settled on this one and i loved the picture of the boys in our family. It was taken at my nephew's 30th birthday back in August 2010. It's not often that we all get together like this so photo op in the making.

Well the child (26) is awake and will no doubt want some attention before she goes out.

Thanks for Looking.

Happy New Yeatr

A few days late with the wishes but as you can tell i'm not one for updating on a regular basis.
Oh well.
The Kitchen and renovations are all finished except for curtains and a new fridge. And i'm loving it!!! I've never cleaned my kitchen as well as i do this one. Yes i hear you the novelty will wear off but hubby will make the most of it while he can.
Didn't have the nicest start to December. It was the hardest for my daughter which i found very hard to cope with. She's still having times where she doesn't cope but i hope a New Year will bring new happiness for her.
Christmas came and went far to quickly. We had a lovely day with Mum and Dad coming for breakfast. We also had a niece, Rachel, (Yay i got her name right) who is from Wales and is/was in Oz on a working Visa. she is a beautiful girl, not just in looks but in personality too.
Lunch was Hubby, myself, Cherie, Melissa and her boyfriend Todd and of course Rachel. We had quite a few laughs and some had a snooze after. Then in the evening we went to our dearest friends for tea. over all a really lovely day.

Hubby spoilt me and gave me Photoshop elemtents and Premiere elements. I've had a go at doing a digi Lo but there is still a lot of practise to go. I may just do a course on Photoshop so that i don't waste his money. lol.

New years was a fun night as we went to a friends 40th birthday party. Hawaiian theme so we all had to wear lei's. mine was white fragipani's which lit up and flashed. I wore a dress which has the hibiscus all over it ( i bought it in Hawaii). Had a few wines and a few more punches (alcoholic of course)

I started back at weight watchers before christmas and have lost 2.5kilos. my aim is to get to 64kg. so 18 more to go. I didn't go over the christmas break so i was happy when i wiehged in on Wednesday night that i had stayed the same. i've been a good girl and kept track of what i have eaten each day.
Had a lovely surprise visit from my sister-in-law and her darling husband on Monday. They are over in Adelaide and staying with some friends. We caught up with them again on thursday but i can't wait till the end of February when she comes back and we go to the Michael Buble concert with our daughters and my best girlfriend Vicki.

Well i've rambled on and i hope i haven't bored you to much.

Hi everyone. These are the last two Lo's i have done for this months challenges over at Artistic Document. The My girl Lo is the colour challenge. you had to use the colours in a pic as inspiration. I used the pinks whites and greens from the pic.
My girl is My gorgeous daughter Cherie celebrating her 25th birthday last year. She's come home for 12-18 months to save to build her own house.



The second one is the Sketch Lo. Both challenges are set by our gorgeous Miss Kym. This one is of my equally gorgeous youngest daughter Melissa and her boyfriend Todd. We had gone over to Melbourne to celebrate our nephews 30th birthday (which is the same day as Melissa's) and the two of them were goofing around.

Hi everyone, didn't think i'd get to do this in time but........
Over at Artistic Document we are having a blog hop challenge. We all set a criteria on our blog and then go to the others to get their criteria to do a Lo. There's also a thread for the non bloggers to set criteria.

Mine is masking. use what ever medium, ink, paint, chalk.....
this is a lo did a few months back.

Have fun.

Not much to report on the Reno's since my last post.

the study/scrap room is painted and my scrap desk is in and almost full again. Once the spare room is empty the DD1 will be moving back home.

All our appliances are ordered and the kitchen goes in on the 27'th of this month. picked some colours for the family room and just have to pick some tiles for the kitchen.

Haven't done a lot of scrapping this last month.but got a few of the CC challenges done at Artistic Document.

this one was for the blindscrap for the CC we have each month. This is my gorgeous sister-in-law Noriel (scrappin girl) the picture was taken last November while we were in Melbourne and we celebrated her birthday and my hubbies birthdays.

these two OTP's were for Challenges set by our DT memeber Megan a talented NZér

The "S" was one of the CC challenges and the bag was for themonthly challenge. I'd crakled the bag and had made the butterfly dress form for a swap we did a few months back and thought it tied all together fairly nicely.

Not a very interesting post tonight but i'm on my own and have no one else to talk to so you all have to suffer. lol