"Gift Of Love" Award

Look what I got the other day form the wonderful Janine.

This is called the "Gift Of Love" Award and I get to choose between 4 & 8 people to pass it on to.
Here are 5 fabulous Blogs from my blog list

Renee

Ness

Tanja

Kaz

Hand Inspired

Been a little out of sorts here.

Isacc is growing up very quickly he is now 14weeks old and his mum (Sam) and dad (Ben) took him to get some professional baby shoots taken 2 weeks ago- he was 11 weeks old then and I just thought I would share a couple of shots with you.

I haven't been a slack blogger or scrapper lately on purpose but it seems that my mojo has taken an extended holiday :(. Please if you find it could you return it to me or better yet leave me a comment on a my blog to inspire me.

Who knows you may just have the right words that will bring the mojo back to me again LOL and if you do I will give one lucky blogger a little RAK just to say thank you.

Happy Valentine's Day

To all my friends I hope you have a happy Valentine's Day today.

You know we should tell our partners we love them 365 days.

Victorian Bushfire appeal - Shop at COLES today

The Victorian Bushfires are just devastating as we have all heard on the news since they have happened last Saturday.

My heart and prayers goes out to all those that have been affected by this disaster.

So I am asking everyone that reads this blog to go do their shopping at any COLES store today as they are donating all their profits for today to the bushfire appeal. Please even if its only a couple of items that you are needing from the supermarket like milk and bread, take that little bit of extra time and shop at COLES today. We will be doing our shopping there today.


The RED CROSS are also doing a wonderful job of helping victims from this bushfire and if you wish to donate please follow this LINK. Every little bit helps.

Happy Birthday Mathew

Our oldest son Mathew is 23 today. Here is a snap shot of him with his nephew Isacc. Don't they both look relaxed LOL.

Happy "SWEET" 16th to our "BABY" Boy!!

Today is Alex's 16th birthday.
Yep he is our baby so to speak.
We are having a BBQ Dinner for him this evening with family and friends.

Here he is in his school uniform but this photo was taken in 2008 when he had dyed his hair blonde which turned out a lovely shade of orange...LOL

JOY Canvas

Finished its in the gallery at Scrapping Around and now here it is for you all to have a look at. :) I went through a box of family shots that haven't been scrapped and you know there are still heaps of photos in that box but hey its ok they will be in scrapbook albums one day.
Items I used were:-
Canvas from the reject shop
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - FLORENTINE
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - CHANTILLY
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - ALENCON
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - TULLE
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ J
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ O
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ Y
Kaisercraft eggshell paint
Me & My BIG ideas icons - Small Scrolls
Spray adhesive. - Spotlight
I tell you the spray adhesive is fantastic for canvases as I have always struggled adhering to a canvas until now that is.

Happy Australia Day !!

To all our family & Friends we wish you a very Happy Australia Day. I for one am overjoyed to be a citizen of this great nation. My parents, Brothers and I migrate to Australia in 1974 ( I was 10 at the time) from The Netherlands. We became naturalised citizens 3 years later. Some photos of the Fireworks at the Geelong Waterfront from last night.

Take care and happy scrapping till next time I blog.

XOXO

Week #3 photo share

These are my 7 random photos from week 3. You will see our crazy son, Jess with Blackie, Isacc and myself, Necturines I picked from our tree, The crazy cat Garfield and a really random shot I took when we went to MacDonalds for a coffee. Can't say I didn't have a busy week at all can you LOL.

Such is life...isn't it!!!

Well I have had to have a good long think about things that are important to me and what really isn't and you know My FAMILY are #1 in everything that matters.
Having said that I have had to think about me and Stampin' Up! and as much as I love their stamps and other products I'm not a "party plan" girl at all. Just don't like having my supplies in boxes and waiting for the next booking at all so at the end of this month I am going to give up Stampin' Up!. It's a tough choice but hey it has to be made. I'll live and I won't stress about feeling like I am stretching myself too far and all over the place.
DH's work hours being what they are some weeks its just too hard to work around him and hte boys that are still at home. Plus my commitment to my DT work is much more important to me.
So good bye Stampin' Up! if you are one of my customers I will post a link to some wonderful ladies in early Feb that I know will be more then happy to help you with any products you may wish to purchase from Stampin' Up!

Catch you soon with another post :)

New family additions

Charlotte and Chloe have 2 new family members of the 4 legged kind. LOL
here is a pic of them aren't they just too cute.

They took Alex and I with them and we too ended up with another family pet.









This is Alex's kitten I think his/her name will be blackie but not sure just yet.

What I have been upto so far this week

Well I have been having a play with wordpress. There are just some things blogger won"t let me do that I really want to do and that is seperate my DT work from my Stampin Up! and also inform my Stampin' Up! customers on what classes, workshops, crops I am planning for 2009.

Sad that blogger won't let me do all this I know and I bet I am not the only one whom hasn't worked out how to do all that and a little more in blogger.

So if your looking for information on my Stampin' Up! classes etc here is the link ofcourse I will still be here and will link bits from here to my Stamin' Up! info and vice versa so don't stress to much.

Ok I'm off to have a little play with my stash and pack to go out and crop at a friends house this evening.

But before I forget hop on over to the Scrapping Around Blog as I have set the challenges for SYS #2 and the 4th quote challenge there while the site is being transfered to a new hosting company. So hoping that this wont take to much longer but they did inform BR that it could take up to 5 working days :(

Till next time take care

Playing in Kodak EasyShare sort off

Ok this may be silly but I normally just use Kodak Easyshare to upload my photos from my camera to my pc. Yes I know there are some basic things in there that you can play with to "alter" photos but honsestly I have a love for Paintshop Pro 9 that I do heaps in (maybe not enough though). So today I thought I would share my week 1 and week 2 photos that so far are my favourites.

Week #2 photo
Here is our ever so hansome and cute godson JJ on his trike begging me for a photo. Couldn't resist since he asked so nicely.

I used the Spotlight in fun effects to darken the edges.







Week #1 Photo
Our hansome soon to be 16 year old giving a ride to Bella on his major new toy that he bought himself with his earning from Toys-R-Us.

For this photo I just had to use the Fisheye effect in the fun effects.







Easy peasy you say and yep it was so if you have a program that you use to upload your photos to your pc go check out what else it can do and hey leave me a comment when you have done it so I can check it out.

Happy New Year

May 2009 bring you joy, happiness, prosperity, love and your hearts desires each and every day.
Besides my scrapping goals I am also going to choose one word for this year. My word for 2009 is:-
JOY - the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation. A source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated.

The idea behind the one little word concept is to give yourself something to focus on throughout the year. "A single word can be a powerful thing. It can be the ripple in the pond that changes everything. It can sharp and biting or rich and soft and slow."
Do you have one word for 2009? If so then please leave a comment. I would love to know what your word is.

The end of 2008

OK its the last day of the year and here I am thinking of some goals for my own scrapping for 2009.

My goals need to be realistic and need to include my DT work for Scrapping Around, but I also want to challenge myself a little if I can.

So this is what I would like to achive for my personal goals :-

Layouts:- 1 a week so thats 52 for the year

Cards:- 1 a week so again thats 52 (for family and friends)

OTP'S:- Create 1 a month so thats 12 for 2009

Photos :- Take atleast 1 photo a week of something different. Now for me this isnt an easy one but I think its achivable. By different I mean something that catches my eye or even a new purchase for our home.

Scrap my stash before I buy new items...now thats going to be a tough one what with all the new products around.

I also want to learn how to use Paintshop elements 3 better.

Submit layouts to a few blogs and maybe a few mags just to see how I go.

Be a better blogger...been good so far butr hey we all know how time can slip by when things in RL happen.

Here are just a few items I have finished over the last few days of 2008 that I thought I should share with you all.

Kaiser wooden words Live, Laugh, Create!

I used the following items:-Kaiser Silver Paint

Kaiser Purple Paint

Silver rhinestones again from Kaiser

Green Tara Purple 2cm flowers

Kaiser 2cm flowers in white and pink.

Kaiser 3cm flowers in dusty pink

Live out LOUD LO

I used the following items:-

Heidi Swapp mask

White paint

2 scoops brads

Queen & Co - Mini Sprinkles Sonic Bloom brads

DM

Bazzill white cardstock

Glitz Designs - Sublime Collection - Journaling

Glitz Desings - Sublime Collection - Doodle Flower

Heavens Blessing LO

I have used:-

Bazzill - Powder blue CS

Urban Lily - Baby Denim stripe

Crafty Originals Chipboard word - Heavens Blessings and cut the S off Blessings LOL

Crafty Originals - Chipboard Storks

White paint

Spearmint paint

Yellow paint all from Kaiser.

Twinkling H20's mini pots in Oyster, Buttercup & Bashful Blue to give the sean on the Chipboard.

TLC rub on mini letters.

Close up of one of the Storks So tell me have you set any scrapping goals for 2009 as yet? if you have why not pop on over to the Scrapping Around Forum and join myself and other members in keeping track of your goals for 2009 just for a bit of fun and inspiration.

Christmas 2008 photo share

Evening all,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Just thought I would share a few photos of the day with you all.

Rob, Matt, Char, Sam, Alex and I with Rob's mum Our 4 cheeky monkeys with Sam's partner in the background.
Great nanna with baby Isacc

Isacc relaxing and taking in some rays on Uncle Alex's pocket rocket ROFL

I think by the time Isacc is able to ride it he will be so over the pocket rocket then again maybe not he is a boy after all and boys like bikes and cars don't they ?

Till next time take care and enjoy :)

Merry Christmas

Only 1 more sleep to go and Santa will be here. I can't wait to see the faces of our teens when they open their gifts. This year will be ultra special for us in many ways and here are just a few of them.

1. it is Isacc's 1st Christmas

2. We have my mother in law coming down for the day.

3. I don't need to cook as we are going to our daughters house LOL May you all have a wonderful Christmas day with your loved ones.
Stay safe.
XOXO

1st Christmas

This is the layout I created over the last 2 days of Isacc's 1st Santa photo.

I have used:-White Bazzill cardstock
Black gel pen
Rainbow Kindy Glitz
Dimentional Magic
Silver Rhinestones - Kaiser
Christmas tree and word chipboard from Crafty Originals.
1st chipboard alphas from American Crafts
Christmas Spirit - JOLLY paper
Christmas Spirit JOYFUL paper from Kaisercrafts

I cut the baubles out and used Scrapdots to 3D them.I ran the chipboar through my Xyron machine before I inked and DMed them. I left it on the adhesive backing to dry which I found pretty easy and saved making more mess on my craft matt.
On the Christmas tree and word I used Stampin' up! inks they were Old Olive for the tree and Blue Bayou for the word. Then I coated the whole lot with DM and added a little Rainbow Kindy Glitz to the tree once it was dry.
1st apha number and letters just had a little Rainbow Kindy Glitz added.
With my black gel pen I just doodled around the photo and on the sides of the paper.

I realised earlier while reading my own posts, that I hadn't shared photos of Sam and I decorating the tree the day before she was due to give birth..........

so here it is.And here is the finished tree lights and all. I so loveeee my angel lights mind you there are 4 sets on the tree. LOL

Sitting on Santa's Knee

Here is my beautiful grandsons very 1st Christmas photo. I just love the look on his face... don't you?? He is 12 days old here:)