I have been the laziest blogger in the whole wide world and I apologise to you all. It is only when I sit down to do this that I remember how easy it is and how much I actually enjoy it. Why can't I make this a priority??? A bit like scrapbooking I suppose. I laughed when I looked in my book at the last layout I did - it was so long ago!
However I have been organising the bits and pieces for my little scrap shop in a box, a bag and a basket!!! I have lots and lots and lots of new goodies that have come in, including lots of new paper so I'm thinking there might be a bit of a paper sale at my next crop night - hmmm!?!?!?!
And the next crop night is
Friday April 15th 2011
(which will be followed by a crop day at Karen's on the 16th, woo hoo!)
Friday April 29th 2011
Friday May 13th 2011
(which will be the week before Karen's weekend away, perhaps a good night to pack page kits to take away)
Friday May 27th 2011
(which will be the weekend after Karen's weekend away)
Friday June 10th 2011
Friday June 24th 2011
So there are now a few new dates to put in your diary!
INSPIRATION!
I was looking at another blog the other day, and, of course, I can't remember which one, but they said something quite profound about how we are all inspired by each other and that is one of the reasons why we like to scrapbook together. For me this is so true, I find all the blogs and websites I cruise around inspiring, but much more than all of them put together I find the friends that I scrap with incredibly inspiring. You are all so creatively different, and produce such different, individual layouts you couldn't fail to be moved by some of the wonderful journalling, cheeky titles, amazing colour combinations, clever shortcuts, etc, etc, etc that you use in your creative endeavours. I think it was quite amazing when Karen gave us each a couple of photos of us at one of our crop weekends away and gradually I think we have all scrapped these same photos and the layouts are all beautiful yet unbelievably different - truly inspiring - thank you my friends!!!
I've been trying to upload some photos of us scrapping together and for some unknown reason it is not working so I will upload this anyway and stick on some photos later.
Shelley
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Crop night CANCELLED.
I am so sorry but I am going to have to cancel TONIGHT'S Friday night crop as I am sick as a dog with the head cold from hell!
Yes, I went back to work and this is what I got for my trouble!
The next Friday night crop at my place is
Friday 25th February.
I hope to see you all there!
Keep watching the blog for more info updates!
Shelley
Yes, I went back to work and this is what I got for my trouble!
The next Friday night crop at my place is
Friday 25th February.
I hope to see you all there!
Keep watching the blog for more info updates!
Shelley
Monday, January 31, 2011
Dates for Friday Crop nights
I still haven't got around to putting up photos from the last crop. I feel like I have been riding on a rollercoaster lately. I wish it would slow down!
Here are the dates for the next lot of Friday night crops at my place. I think it is easier for me to just name the dates as I will never be able to please everybody so I might as well please myself!
Friday February 11th 2011
Friday February 25th 2011
Friday March 11th 2011
Friday March 25th 2011
Friday April 15th 2011
Friday April 29th 2011
Wish me luck as it is my first day back at work tomorrow after a yucky year. I have promised myself that I am just going to tackle things one day at a time and reflect on how I have got through it all at the end of term.
My plan is to get all my photos up by the end of this week - we'll see how that goes!!!!
Shell
Here are the dates for the next lot of Friday night crops at my place. I think it is easier for me to just name the dates as I will never be able to please everybody so I might as well please myself!
Friday February 11th 2011
Friday February 25th 2011
Friday March 11th 2011
Friday March 25th 2011
Friday April 15th 2011
Friday April 29th 2011
Wish me luck as it is my first day back at work tomorrow after a yucky year. I have promised myself that I am just going to tackle things one day at a time and reflect on how I have got through it all at the end of term.
My plan is to get all my photos up by the end of this week - we'll see how that goes!!!!
Shell
Monday, January 17, 2011
What a neglectful blogger I have been!
I haven't uploaded a thing since before Christmas but I do have an excuse - my PC crashed again!
This time without any warning at all.
And here is a lesson for all bloggers/scrapbookers/photographers/family archivists/etc,etc, etc out there - yes, I did lose some photos, about 5 weeks worth, and that is sad, but I didn't lose the lot, as I could have, because I had BACKED THEM UP!
And I have kicked myself for not backing up more frequently, as I will do in the future, but 5 weeks lost as opposed to everything is wonderful!
My computer crashed on the 27th of December and I didn't get it back until a couple of days ago as my computer tech was trying so hard to retrieve the lost photos - thanks Huw. In the end I told him to stop as it was going to cost me a fortune and I was missing my PC so much. How pathetic!
So when I finally did get it back on track I had 1500 emails waiting for me - aaaggghhhh! That, if nothing else, will teach me to look after my PC's health and BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP!
Even though it is school holiday time here I can't say I have completed much scrapbooking since my last blog post. Perhaps it is something to do with the 3 children hanging around here at the moment????? And I am NOT counting down the days until they go back as I will be going back to school too. I have had a year away from teaching dealing with illness and having a complete rest but it is now time to go back.
So I refuse to think about that now.
I haven't been completely idle though. I have sorted out the scrapshop in a box, a bag and a basket which needed a good tidy up and I even cut down some USPS flat rate boxes that I had received supplies in to act as temporary paper holders. I covered them with some contact I had leftover from covering last year's schoolbooks to give them a bit more strength and although far from perfect they don't look too bad. I was going to cover them with scrapping paper but I spied the old roll of contact on top of the cupboard in my office and thought I would use that first, and then if I wasn't happy with how they looked I could still go ahead and cover them with scrapping paper knowing that the contact layer would just give them a bit more strength anyway. So 5 bright paperboxes are finished and, best of all, they haven't cost me a cent!
Julie, Karen and Pauline came over to scrap last Friday night and we all enjoyed ourselves. It was quite a hot day so when Julie arrived late in the afternoon we sat out the back with the big umbrella over us, our feet in the pool, while my crazy fish/children leapt about in the water. While lazily enjoying doing nothing much I noticed a bare bottom in the pool. Georgia's bikini bottoms had fallen off but she just kept swimming. When I asked Georgie what she was doing she told me that her bottoms had fallen off but she couldn't be bothered putting them back on - oh, the summery delights of life when you're 7!!!
So I have to admit that I don't think a great deal of scrapping was done by the 4 of us but - big deal, the friendship, gasbagging and the giggles were what we were really there for! I did take some photos so as soon as they are uploaded I will add them to the blog.
Here are some layouts that I completed a while ago but I haven't put on the blog yet.
This is a four page layout I did ages ago when Sam came second in his age group in a writing contest run in our local area. It is an Australia wide writing competition for children and Sam came second in the under 10's poetry category with his poem 'I am". Sam sat in the front row and accepted his award when his name was called. We were so proud of him. Sam was so surprised when one of the shortlist judges read his poem aloud in a deep booming voice. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end as he read. He commented later that he couldn't believe that such a powerful piece of writing had been written by such a small boy. Sam was overwhelmed. He said the reading of the poem in a voice so different to his own made the words come alive! What a night!
This is one of my all time favourite layouts of some photos taken on the same day as the layout above. It just all came together on this one. Journalling is again under the photo. The machine stitching is actually one of those fantastic rollon rubon thingys. Daisy D;s brand I think. I just love them - so much easier than really stitching!!!
This time without any warning at all.
And here is a lesson for all bloggers/scrapbookers/photographers/family archivists/etc,etc, etc out there - yes, I did lose some photos, about 5 weeks worth, and that is sad, but I didn't lose the lot, as I could have, because I had BACKED THEM UP!
And I have kicked myself for not backing up more frequently, as I will do in the future, but 5 weeks lost as opposed to everything is wonderful!
My computer crashed on the 27th of December and I didn't get it back until a couple of days ago as my computer tech was trying so hard to retrieve the lost photos - thanks Huw. In the end I told him to stop as it was going to cost me a fortune and I was missing my PC so much. How pathetic!
So when I finally did get it back on track I had 1500 emails waiting for me - aaaggghhhh! That, if nothing else, will teach me to look after my PC's health and BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP!
Even though it is school holiday time here I can't say I have completed much scrapbooking since my last blog post. Perhaps it is something to do with the 3 children hanging around here at the moment????? And I am NOT counting down the days until they go back as I will be going back to school too. I have had a year away from teaching dealing with illness and having a complete rest but it is now time to go back.
So I refuse to think about that now.
I haven't been completely idle though. I have sorted out the scrapshop in a box, a bag and a basket which needed a good tidy up and I even cut down some USPS flat rate boxes that I had received supplies in to act as temporary paper holders. I covered them with some contact I had leftover from covering last year's schoolbooks to give them a bit more strength and although far from perfect they don't look too bad. I was going to cover them with scrapping paper but I spied the old roll of contact on top of the cupboard in my office and thought I would use that first, and then if I wasn't happy with how they looked I could still go ahead and cover them with scrapping paper knowing that the contact layer would just give them a bit more strength anyway. So 5 bright paperboxes are finished and, best of all, they haven't cost me a cent!
Julie, Karen and Pauline came over to scrap last Friday night and we all enjoyed ourselves. It was quite a hot day so when Julie arrived late in the afternoon we sat out the back with the big umbrella over us, our feet in the pool, while my crazy fish/children leapt about in the water. While lazily enjoying doing nothing much I noticed a bare bottom in the pool. Georgia's bikini bottoms had fallen off but she just kept swimming. When I asked Georgie what she was doing she told me that her bottoms had fallen off but she couldn't be bothered putting them back on - oh, the summery delights of life when you're 7!!!
So I have to admit that I don't think a great deal of scrapping was done by the 4 of us but - big deal, the friendship, gasbagging and the giggles were what we were really there for! I did take some photos so as soon as they are uploaded I will add them to the blog.
Here are some layouts that I completed a while ago but I haven't put on the blog yet.
This is a four page layout I did ages ago when Sam came second in his age group in a writing contest run in our local area. It is an Australia wide writing competition for children and Sam came second in the under 10's poetry category with his poem 'I am". Sam sat in the front row and accepted his award when his name was called. We were so proud of him. Sam was so surprised when one of the shortlist judges read his poem aloud in a deep booming voice. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end as he read. He commented later that he couldn't believe that such a powerful piece of writing had been written by such a small boy. Sam was overwhelmed. He said the reading of the poem in a voice so different to his own made the words come alive! What a night!
Georgie where's my lipstick? The smudgy blue and pinky red background paper was perfect for this priceless moment when Mummy ran and grabbed the camera before cleaning her daughter up!!! Would you believe she is sitting in her carseat in the car!
Journalling is on a tag behind the photo explaining how Sam managed to make his way out to the middle of the ground, right where the presentations were happening, at a State schoolboy's football championship game in which our friend Blair was playing, by somehow pretending he belonged there. I was mortified at the time but saw the funny side of it later. I suppose confidence can sometimes be a good thing!!!
So I hope you are all having a fabulous New Year! And I hope to see at least some of you at my next scrapping Friday on the 21st January!
Shelley
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Teacher Presents Complete - Hooray!
Well ,of course they are finished as we gave them to the teacher's last Thursday and that was the second last day of school. I am never going to leave them to be completed so late again!!!
My last entry said I was going to start them on that day, which was Saturday, so , of course, I didn't touch them at all and finally got them started on Sunday night.
I didn't photograph Sebastian's teacher's present as i didn't alter it much. It was an Essendon tin lunchbox so i just added some red and black ribbon to the handle and a tag in red and black lettering that said Mr Payton's stuf! he also got an Essendon beer mug.
Sam was in Year 7 this year, and my best buddy Kim, informed me that Mitchell, her son in year 8, told her that you don't give high school teachers presents. It just isn't cool. I discussed this with Sam and he decided that he didn't care if it wasn't cool, he still wanted me to make Kate a present. Sam's high school is also organised a bit differently as Sam had his teacher Kate for most things every day, and only went off to specialist classes for things like art and Wood Tech (which Sam loathed with a passion).
My last entry said I was going to start them on that day, which was Saturday, so , of course, I didn't touch them at all and finally got them started on Sunday night.
I didn't photograph Sebastian's teacher's present as i didn't alter it much. It was an Essendon tin lunchbox so i just added some red and black ribbon to the handle and a tag in red and black lettering that said Mr Payton's stuf! he also got an Essendon beer mug.
Sam was in Year 7 this year, and my best buddy Kim, informed me that Mitchell, her son in year 8, told her that you don't give high school teachers presents. It just isn't cool. I discussed this with Sam and he decided that he didn't care if it wasn't cool, he still wanted me to make Kate a present. Sam's high school is also organised a bit differently as Sam had his teacher Kate for most things every day, and only went off to specialist classes for things like art and Wood Tech (which Sam loathed with a passion).
So I decorated a clipboard for Kate. The stripey strips are just the reverse of the sun paper. I put her name on it in 3 different sorts of stickers in the corners. The back was covered in the stripey reverse of the sun paper. I had already painted the edges of the board orange ages ago.
I also decorated a small notebook that I picked up at the supermarket which luckily already had an orange cover!
Georgia had two teachers this year and she loved every minute she was with them. She informed me that Miss Narres liked owls and Mrs Winship liked pirates. I had these tins up on my shelf for ages. I think originally I was going to decorate one for Georgia but never got around to it. I liked the owl one so much when I finished it I wanted to keep it for myself!
Front.
Branches I had in my stash. I think they were originally from a CK kit of the month. Owl was a diecut I bought to use on a page but it was too big. I just enhanced his feathers with some sparkle gel and added some bling to his eyes which were just pinpoints.
Side
Back
side
tag
Lid
3 other flowers, all different, are hiding beneath all the ribbon on the handle!
Front
just added a bit of bling to these stickers.
Side
Back
Again added extra bling to the treasure chest.
Side
Front showing name tag
Lid
And again, three extra different flowers hiding under the ribbon decorated handle.
Hope you liked them!
Shell
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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.
Thanks for looking.Please leave a comment so I know there is someone out there!!!
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!!!
Friday, December 3, 2010
I love putting rubons on photos - they always look great!
Cut these letters on the cricut and was really pleased with them. I can't remember where I got the big footy diecut shape from but I wish I could! I love the grass paper too but I can't remember where it came from either. I always need footy stuff so if you ever see any around please let me know.
Sebastian and his best mate at footy Zak. They both look so much older now.
Photos and layouts like these will help to remind Sam of all the fun he had, the skills he developed, to his credit to a much higher standard that I ever thought he would, the friends he made, and that every now and then he would do everything right, and be in the right spot on the ground at the right time, to look like a champion!!! Good on you Sam!
Sam is now continuing his role at our fabulous footy club - Werribee Centrals Junior Football Club, by being a timekeeper at all the matches his Dad coaches and his younger brother plays in, and helping his Mum with the club emails and club website!!! Which I haven't actually started looking after yet but it is on my very long to do list before footy season starts again! Phew!
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