Whoops!

Sorry, made a mistake, the flower crystals are 5 for $1 and I said they were 10 for a dollar! Whoops!
And I do have them in a few different colours, pale blue, aqua as shown in photo, mauve, red. please see my ebay listing if you are interested.

Here are a couple of layouts I did earlier this year. They don't have much on them in the way of embellishments or anything as I thought the photos just said it all.

Georgie looks like such a baby in these photos, She has grown up so much since then!

I also completed this double layout a while ago and even when I look at it now I am very happy with how it turned out. Sometimes they just fall into place so quickly. And at other times you can agonise over a layout and then when it is finished it still disappoints you!

It was fiddly to highlight the journalling with the little letters but I was happy with the result when it was finished.

And didn't I warn you that I like bright colours on my layouts? Perhaps I should warn people to put their sunglasses on before they take a look!!!

A very productive Melbourne Cup Day

I cannot believe I have just typed half my blog post and looked up and realised there is nothing there because the keyboard USB fell out......

So I shall calmly and purposefully start again without screeching too loudly and waking up the children who are finally asleep.......

For the life of me I can't remember when I last picked the winner of the Melbourne Cup, which is what I did yesterday. I love the races and having a bet but over the years I have had less and less time to indulge myself, as well as having a husband who indulges himself to the max at this time of year (easily indulges himself enough for twenty people) so I don't really bother much anymore. I had $5 each way on the winner Americain, and what a fabulouly exciting race it was, and I cheered that horse all the way down the straight to the finish line for my $5 each way. So I did have a win yesterday, and Adam collected my winnings for me today. But it all pales into insignificance compared with what I achieved yesterday - my sister Barbara and I reupholstered my hideously, disgustingly filthy kitchen chairs!!!

Those friends that know me know that I have a large light timbered, extendable kitchen table which was originally in the dining room in this house. We bought a new dining setting several years ago and moved the large extendable table into the kitchen. The chairs have ALWAYS been horrible. they were upholstered with this urky creamy beige colour (so not me) and were always intended to be recovered but it was one of those things that never happened and they just got murkier and more and more hideously disgusting until I could bare it no longer, and now they are brilliant, in bright canvas stripes of turquoise, navy, lime and white! I will upload photos as soon as I get the chance.  And to say we reupholstered them is making it sound a grander task than it was as my kitchen chairs only have fabric on the seats so that is actually all we had to do but it still took us all afternoon to complete them all. Sam, my son, was chatting to me this morning and informed me that he thought the chairs looked fantastic but of course that they don't go with the light fittings anymore so what am I going to do about that now!!! I was so pleased that he liked them and then utterly deflated by the end of his statement when I realised that he was right and I had made a new problem for myself but at least the chairs look fabulous and amzingly, really lift the spirit of the room! I suppose this all seems very small and insignificant but to me completing anything these days is a major achievement, let alone having the motivation to get moving and do it, hence my reason for bragging about it here!

And so on Friday night, when I have some friends over for the first of many Friday crop nights I hope  - my scrapping buddies will be able to put their bottoms down on these gorgeous new seats instead of worrying about what diseases might be lurking on the old ones!!!

And today I even scotchguarded them - oh happy day!

This is Georgie dressed up for book character day at school. Thank God for chipboard letters! And yes, of course, she is Goldilocks!

It really has been such a busy, busy week. I finally had an overdue order of Glue Glider Pro Permatac cartridges arrive early in the week, contacted all my previous customers about them, and they have been going like hotcakes on ebay! My etsy shop has had more views this week than it has ever had, thanks to the facebook and blog crosslinking I think, and I've managed to upload sime extras into there as well. Lots more lace and trims and ribbons have arrived to be sorted for the shop in a box, a bag and a basket so everything seems to be just humming along. Why does all of this seem to be falling into place lately? It doesn't feel all over the place and itty bitty like it used to, it really is all coming together. Is it the blog that's helping me to sort all this out? I shall have to ponder this all a bit more I think.

And to any of my friends reading this post if you are planning on coming over on this Friday night to scrap can you please let me know by email!

And here are my gorgeous three, Sam 13, Sebastian, 10 and Georgia 7 all ready to go to the footy with their Dad a couple of months ago. Sadly, they have no taste, so they barrack for Carlton, but you can't have everything!
Do you think they are used to their mad mother photographing them all the time?

Frustration!

I have been sitting at this keyboard with Sam for about three hours and I think we are both ready to strangle each other. Nearly everything we have tried to do has not worked but it may be because Sam's abilities and mine are a poor match. He seems to be much more ambitious than I am and moving a bit fast for me. And now he has woken Sebastian up, who was sleeping soundly on the couch, by putting a piece of ice between his toes - oh the joy of little boys who are awake past any sane person's bedtime!
I am going to try to upload some photos before I go to bed but my lesson for tonight has been to try to do just one thing on this blog at a time - not 27,463!!!
                                                                                                                                                                    

    

This is the pinkest boy layout you will ever see!





This is the other half of it which I have tried to line up with the other side to no avail!
Sebastian and Sam are wearing Barbie's (my sister's) old nighties and some hats from the dress up basket and they have STOLEN the shoes from Lauren who used to live next door. She had a habit of leaving her high heeled shoes on her front doorstep until Sam and Sebastian discovered them. She came over one night when she was looking for a particular pair as she was going out and Sam had hidden about 8 pairs of her good shoes in the dress up box and under his  bed!

This is Georgia when she was still a Kinder girl dressed up for a special dress up day at school. Sebastian, in the following layout was in Grade 2 at the time and his lovely teacher asked Georgie to join Sebastian's grade for the special parade and she held Georgie's hand and lead her around at the head of the grade. Georgia was ecstatic! She just couldn't wait to start school! She has sadly outgrown Dora and sees her as babyish now that she is seven and a half!

How cute is he? A shame about the flare on the layout but the actual page doesn't look like this. He was trying to look like a grumpy pirate but he's just too cute I think.

Sam is in the circle, getting in on the action at one of our friend Blair's football matches!

The three kids all mucking around on the stage area underneath the big screen at Federation Square in Melbourne. The screen was blank so I put a rubon quote about family on it which suited this layout. The other half of this layout is below.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at a few of my favourite layouts.