MORE THAN 4000 PAGE VIEWS!!!

HOORAY! I have now had more than 4000 page views! This may not seem like a lot to you but it means a lot to me. Thank you to everyone that visits my page. Whether it is just the once or you are a regular visitor. I would love some extra followers so please consider it!

 

 

 I was so excited when I first found myself on Google I had to photgraph it!!!

 These are some random photos of scrapping at my place and when we are scrapping away together, even having home made facials! Thanks for your support my scrapping buddies! You can kill me later for putting your photo on my blog!!!

And this is a random photo of Georgie just because it makes me smile. She was ready for bad hair day at school in 2010!
Thanks again for your support,
Shell

Plan for today

My plan for today is to try and get all my teacher presents done! A big plan but I'm going to try.
I have never left it so late to get them done before. If I do get them finished I will photograph them and upload them on here.
There is so much stuff to be done around here that my head is in a whirl. The Christmas rush has well and truly started but I refuse to let myself stress out about it this year - I absolutely refuse!

Here are a few more layouts for you to look at while I go and start those teacher pressies.

I had this hideous green paper with a white border I had got from who knows where and was going to toss it when I realised it would be perfect for one of the squillions of footy layouts I seem to do. The bouncing footy lines are pen of course, not stitching!

These are my fabulous scrapping buddies on one of our weekends away. The font and frames are from the Hannah Montana cricut cartridge. I was really pleased with how this double layout turned out!

The coach isn't a weirdo trying to kiss Sebastian because it is his DAD! I like how the title turned out even though I used lots of different lettering it still seems to work.

The Easter Bunny must have a very big pouch as he always leaves such interesting pressies behind for us!

Thanks for looking.Please leave a comment so I know there is someone out there!!!

Day out at Cristina Re!

I had a lovely day out on Sunday 21st November with my bestest scrapping buddies at the Cristina Re concept shop in Collingwood. The shop was very pretty and full of lovely Cristina Re stationery as well as her own tea label, teacups and teapots and other bits and bobs.

We made a couple of lovely quick cards at a workshop and indulged ourselves in the pretty afternoon tea. The table looked beautiful and the food was delicious and plentiful but my one criticism would be I thought when they were charging so much per head that they could have had a little more variety in the food on offer. I also could have had a manicure as part of the price but I thought it would scare the manicurist if I showed her my horrible bitten fingernails - a habit I have never been able to break. I have more photos of my scrapping buddies enjoying our afternoon out together and will try and upload these if they give me permission to do so.

Crop held last Friday night

Pauline, Kim and i had a very pleasant time last Friday evening. As I have already said to them via email, it was almost like we were here by ourselves , it was so quiet!

Adam was away for the weekend, Sam had gone to Luna Park with Youth Group, Sebastian watched his wrestling DVD's in the back room and Georgie watched telly in the front room, so it was just the three of us, beavering away in the family room, seemingly by ourselves.

At one stage Georgie came out , jumped on the computer, put the headphones on and did what she always does, brought up her favourite songs on youtube, and started singing - completely oblivious to the fact that we were sittting in the same room with her!!! She sang Justin Beiber and Miley Cyrus and the girl from iCarly (I can never remember her name) until I butted in and informed her that we had had enough of her singing, beautiful though it was. Not the slightest bit offended she disappeared back into the front room and we were alone again.

This is Pauline and Kim hard at work at the kitchen table. I'm not sure how much they got done, as they were both a little flustered by the time they got here, but that's not important. What is important is that they did take the time out of their busy, busy schedules, to do something for themselves, which we so often forget to do. It is crucial for OUR sanity that we take time for ourselves, just as we insist our partners and kids do, as we run around organising and assisting them. So we ate pizza, we chatted, we laughed,  listened to Georgia sing, and we even scrapped a bit and manged to take the edge off another hectic week, even if just for a few hours! And, come to think of it, we didn't even consume any alcohol!?!? Thank you Pauline and Kim for sharing my first (of many I hope) Friday night crop with me, XXXOOO, and allowing me to put the photo on the blog. Pauline was worried about what she was going to look like in the picture but I think she just looks busy!!!

Oh, and you can just catch a glimpse of my newly recovered chairs in the photo above, under and next to Kim. I still haven't taken a good shot of them but Barbara did on her phone so I will get her to email it to me and I'll put it up on the blog.

This is the weird layout I was working on that night. I found my list of baby names in my knicker drawer a few months ago and decided that I would scrap the reasons for my children's names. I never thought that a layout with no photos could be so difficult.