did i do that?

a little late is better than never...

Here are a couple of picks from Tyler's day out at the raceway for his birthday party/sleepover.  The boys had to be shushed at 11.30pm and at 4am I had to drag them out of the room that Peyton was sleeping in because they wanted to play the Playstation.  Poor Peyton had the blankets up to her chin and looked like a deer in the headlights with all those boys in the room!  5 all up.  Is it wrong to call other people's children 'turd burgers'.  Oh... Well, I guess I'm wrong! haah!

Much fun was had by all.

I'm making an awful habit of taking photos, uploading them and then forgetting about them.  Slap me, please!   Actually, the only reason these photos made it is because I am using some of them for a layout I'm putting together.

I did this... here's a sneak at next month's Dimensional Pop at Scrapbooks etc.

Over and out...

XX

the contingency plan

I had a moment today when I thought I was going to puke all over the checkout chick.

This was my thought process:

• I wonder if she has a bucket.
• When was the last time my hand was in my mouth?
• Did I pick up a bug from the handle of the trolley?
• That rubbish bin outside the door might meet me soon.
• OMG! Could this be morning sickness? Then I remembered that I'm fallopially challenged.
• Does Swine flu start with a chunder?
• If I puke in that bin I'll have to turn my back towards the shoppers so hopefully my butt will block the view.  Hang on... the view of my butt vs the view of me yakking.  Nuh huh. Scrap that.
• I could ask the checkout chick to babysit my groceries and high tail it to the loos.
• Yeah...
• The people in the Post Office will probably wonder what a manic green woman would be doing sprinting past the window but it could work.

Then I was OK.  Just thought you should know.

UPDATE: 

I sincerely wish to THANK Jill for starting the rumour and the consequential emails and texts.

NO. I am NOT pregnant!!!! My small "I'm fallopially challenged" remark means 'The nursery is there but the footbridge has gone'.  Both of them!  The result of a series of ectopic pregnancies. The playpen is still there though... hur hur...  HOWEVER! I have NO plans to conceive, adopt or foster any children.  This body has done it's share of stretching, populating and feeding. No more. Zilch. Nada. Nicht.  Thank you for flying Air Lynette.  The dishes are done.

Mojo challenge?

Are you up for it?

Sherryn will be setting the challenge this time!  Wheeeee!!! Hop to it, girlie! 

ok! some shares...

OK!  So  I've been a slacker!  I've been hosting two birthday parties in two consecutive weeks as well as everything else on my to-do list! Then there's facebook and forums and... and... I could go on and on...

So!  Here are a couple of layouts I've completed for Scrapbooks etc for the Month of May.

And this here was my Dimensional Pop class for May at Scrapbooks etc

And this would be the Product Pick class at Scrapbooks etc for May...

So!  There you have it and there you go and now I am off to do housework and then spend all night creating. 

pip pip!

it's D Day peoples!

Mojo Challenge alert! WHOOT WHOOT!!!

Ok, so this challenge was more about the art and not the materials and to be honest, I really thought I wouldn't be able to make it.  Thank goodness for the fact that we are almost an entire day ahead of you lot in the north or I wouldn't have been able to do it.

I mixed it up.  Some embossing and masking and I used acetate, hemp, glitter, rubons and pearls on the page.  I also used a paper punch and cut around some flowers.  I think, after all of that, it constitutes the minimal 3 mediums and techniques.

Here tis... Sorry about the artificial lighting.  It's like that because it feels like the middle of the night at the moment because it's been dark all day. We are in the midst of a deluge at the moment.  It's great!

Here's the photo...

...of my gorgeous Sister-in-Law, Janene. Isn't she pretty?!?!?  Janene is the mother ship of Bailey and Lochie who feature on here regularly.

Here's the snippet...

And here's the layout...

Yep... Graphic 45 again.  Still lov'n it.

I am now on snail's pace internet speed as 4 kids have had their share of the internet and downloads this month.  Another couple of days and I'll be back to the warp warp.

I'll list the other challenge partakers here as I discover them.  Leave me a comment complete with your blog address and I'll create the links.

Shalom. 

Debbie

Sherryn

Keri

New Mojo Challenge

Ok!  Debbie drew my name for the next mojo challenge so here goes...

I'm kind of thinking... but not really - I can't tell these days! Haah!

Challenge:  Use 3 different mediums OR techniques on one page e.g. crackle medium, distressing, alcohol inks, embossing, etc on one page.

Due Date:  Tuesday 19th May (because I am busy and I might be able to get it done by then! Ha!)

So!  If you'd like to be a part of this challenge, leave a comment preferably with a link to your blog and/or email address.  When the due date is up, leave a comment on the GONG blog post and I'll create a link to all of your creations.  If you don't have a blog, don't despair!  Send me an email with your creation attached and I will post it here for you! 

C'mon!!!!! YOU CAN DO EEEET! (name that movie)

still struggling...

and plodding along with different projects and still LOVING Graphic 45.   This time it's the Playtimes Past collection.  Here are a couple of snippets of my contribution to our Sketched! class at Scrapbooks etc. this month.

My twin kidlets turn 10 years old this year.  I've purposely not made a habit of giving them a party every year but this year happens to be a party year.  So being twins and sharing the same birthday they have agreed between themselves that the weekends on either side of their birthday will be a separate celebration solely for that person.  Tyler is first next weekend.  I made his invitations from scraps but I didn't take any photos of them... =(  Tyler and his friends will be enjoying a blat around a raceway for a couple of hours and then back to our house for a sleep over.  Wish me luck. ={

Girlfriend, on the other hand, is having the following weekend.  She wants to go shopping so the theme of her invitations was shopping. So a gaggle of giggles will shop, go to the movies and then back to our house for a sleepover.  I printed out some fake money to put in the bag and the invitation looked like a clothing tag complete with barcode.

And this was part of a Master's Challenge for Scrapbooking Memories this month. 

And here was last month's Maya Road Challenge.  I really enjoyed putting this album together.  Just ignore the dirty table surface... it's not really there.  "It is not the spoon that bends..." Name that movie...

Have an excellent Mother's Day tomorrow all you Mums!  I want to see a Miele with a big red bow around it!  Wish me luck!!

the challenge

I did a marathon effort with this!  I finished a layout just in the knick of time for Scrapbooks etc and went straight into this one.  No clean up or anything which made me feel kinda grotty if you know what I mean.

This challenge was to use an element or elements that another from the group sent on.  This is what Sue Bull sent me from across the ditch...  Thanks, Sue!

• The magic mesh was used in the circular looking blooms and underneath the photo.
• The heart stamp was used to stamp a border around the central block of patterned paper.
• The Heidi Swapp stamp was used on the tag on the left hand side.

I had to take the obligatory snippet...

And here is the layout.

The colours aren't true but they are close.  I had to take them in artificial light.  It is 11pm here right now.

So!  There you have it and there you go!  I am off to check out your challenges now.

So all of you ladies in the other hemisphere have a lovely day.  My day is as done as my layout! Good night!

I'm cacking myself!

10 years ago I absorbed all things techhie! ('technology' for those 'out-of-touch' ones amongst us =D)  Now, I feel like I am turning into my MOTHER!  I would rather hand the phone/remote/mouse to my sons rather than have to deal with instructions and the bother that comes when things "Don't just WORK"!!

So, the day when I decided to enter into the realm of Facebook and Twitter, I did so on my own steam.  I kind of figured it out as I went along and in April I managed to get "hip" to the goings on of today's forms of communication.  Yep!  I am up there! I've got it going on, ahuh!  I gave them both a poke and then ran for cover.

Now, all I'm getting from sons #1 and #2 is "Yeah!  Mum's on Facebook? Do you know anyone else who's on Facebook?"  "SHUT UP YOU TWO! Like anyone I know couldn't be tech savvy enough to find their way around modern forms of communication as easy as Facebook!... sheesh... AS IF!!!! Now, can either of you help me find my TweetDeck?" haaah!

I did this for Aussie Scrapjack this month.  It's a Jack of Ruby Bisson's.  Follow the link to see Ruby's and the other creations.

Still lov'n on that Graphic 45...