Showing posts with label scrapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrapping. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 June 2007

Time flies when your not having fun!

Oh that title sounds horrible, but our last week or so hasn't been fun at all. We have had sleeping problems with Ashca and Gemma. Lets just say it's been quite horrid! However I am glad to say that last night was good, and I was talking to a friend today who gave me more survival tips, so hopefully things we be moving up from here.

A few other things have been happening, nothing too interesting to you guys probably. But it's the little exciting things that make my life worthwhile.

Gemma has started talking a little bit. She says "uh-oh", and the other night she said "bye bye". Ashca and her both say the normal "mama" "dada" and "baba". Previously they have just been saying these, but not in reference to the actual people. But I have noticed them saying "mama" just to me now, so that's pretty cool. Ashca has also started making "woof" sounds when she hears a dog. It's pretty funny.

Gem has also now progressed to 3 teeth (she got one up the top the other night), and Ashca still has 2 with no signs of any more coming through just yet.

Ashca has also been cruising around lots more now. She lets go of furniture and can stand for a coupld of seconds unassisted, but this is only when she feels like it of course! She has also taken a couple of steps on the odd occasion too. Not anywhere near wlaking by herself completely yet, but definitely a start.

Chloe has also been a great source of entertainment lately. She is talking so much! She is always coming out with things that make me laugh or go "awwww". The other night I was making her a choccie milk and she started singing. You may know of the kids christian song "Jesus loves me", well if you don't know it, it goes... "Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so. Well when I made Chloe her choccie milk she made up a new version of the song, it went like this... "Chocolates yummy this I know, for the bible tells me so. How gorgeous is that?! She is such a funny chook!

All the kids are little bit sick at the moment, which is probably a major contributor to the problems at night. I think they are on the mend now, so happy with that.

I haven't been doing a great deal of scrapping lately. I have been busy working on Ashca and Gemma's birthday invitations. Talking of that... we did a little photo shoot the other day for their invitations. We didn't end up using any of these photos, cos we found better ones from only about 2 months ago, but here is a little collage to show you what photos we did get.



The only other scrapping I have done for at least a week was this card...



Good news though... my "Love, Elsie" products arrived yesterday, so I think I will be scrapping with them very soon! Well at least once I get the courage up to do it. I have a lot to live up to to achieve her kind of look. I really hope I don't stuff it all up!

I also went over to Tracey's on thursday to celebrate James turning 4. Here is another little collage of photos we took that day.


In other news... Mum and Max leave for the US tomorrow morning. They are going to be gone for a month. It's going to be so weird not having Mum right around the corner or just a phone call away. I will miss you heaps Mum! The good thing about her going away is that she will be bringing me back Elsie's book "52 scrapbooking challenges". I am totally excited and can't wait to get it!

We are also leaving for a little holiday in a couple of days time. We are heading up to NSW for 9 days. We are driving so it's going to be ... ummm... fun? Well, how do you think it will be with 3 kids!? I will try and log on and do a quick post every couple of days while I am away so you can see what we are up to, but I don't know how lucky I will be with getting internet access. I'll see how I go anyway.

Okay, I have one more little girl to put to bed, so I better get going. Will try and come back again and post before we leave on Tuesday, but don't hold me to it!

Thursday, 21 June 2007

some scrapping...

Just popping in quickly to show off some scrapping I have done lately.

some cards first...




And now for the LO's...

(Some of you from my class may recognise these papers.)



And lastly a "photo frame thingy"...


I have done a few other things which I would really love to show off, but I am holding back as I may be entering them into the FK awards of excellence.


Thanks for looking!

Sunday, 10 June 2007

A bit of scrapping...

I have done a bit of scrapping, so I thought I would share...

Firstly, here is the card I made for Tracey's birthday last week...


And here is the present I made for her. It is a mini canvas trio.


Next is a LO I just completed. It was for a challenge over at 3AS
For the Queens birthday long weekend we have been challenged by Rosy and Jo to do a page containing the word "Queen" in the title, it also has to have bling and pink on the page too. There are some gorgeous pages coming out! Check them out here. We have until Monday night to upload them so there is still time for you to give it a go if you want to.



Well Israel is on his way home from work now, he has been at work all day today and will be there all day tomorrow too. It's report writing time so it's a bit crazy. Then he has all the end of term stuff to do, plus we need to start getting things organised for our big trip up north in 3 weeks time. I am so excited, it's going to be such fun!

Alright, will be back tomorrow.

Oh, before I go, a little reminder... if you haven't voted for the class one homework pages over at the Scrapniques Classes blog, you better get on with it! Hehe! Voting closes tomorrow at midnight!

Tuesday, 5 June 2007

Scrapniques Classes Blog

I have finally started up a blog just for my classes.

Scrapniques Classes

I have a little comp on there at the moment, so check it out. I would love it if everyone I know could have a go at it!

I will also be putting the homework pages from my last class up there in the next day or so. I will be asking everyone I know to vote for one page as the winner. The winner will get the next kit for free! So check in again tomorrow night as I should have the pages up by then.

Monday, 14 May 2007

Am I back?

The reason I ask is because everytime I say I am back online, something always stops me blogging as much as I would like to!

Well hopefully now that I have a computer to myself again (thanks to my lovely step-dad!), I should be able to be online more!

Since I last posted i have done heaps of scrapping, but I wont bore you with it all. This is just my latest 4 that I did over the weekend. There are others that you probably haven't seen in my 3AS gallery (unless of course you are a 3AS girl and then you would have seen them).

This one is of my brother in law Samuel. I don't particularly like the LO, but I love the photo of him.
Gemma and her first teething rusk
Ashca at a friends wedding
Chloe and Coby, about how they just LOVE playing together
So much has happened since I last posted. Too much to catch up on!
Here is just a brief rundown though...

Me: I have been scrapping a fair bit. I have also been organising my scrap classes. My first one is this weekend. I am soooo excited! I am pretty nervous too though.

Chloe: She is going through a real testing and defiant stage which is totally doing my head in! Lots of tantrums and just generally being difficult. Hmmmm... just as I typed that, she ran up and hugged me then ran off to play again! She must have sensed what I was typing!

Ashca: She is our wild child now! She is so full on it's exhausting! She has also just learnt how to wave. It's very cute!

Gemma: She has had a tough couple of weeks. 2 weeks ago all the girls were sick, Gem and Ash mainly, and since then Gem just has not been right. She hasn't slept as well as she used to, and wasn't drinking her bottles much at all. I am happy to say though in the last 2 days or so, things are looking better for her. She is playing more, sleeping more and drinking more.

Israel: he is so busy with everything in his life these days. He is so busy with everything he has to do at work. It's a total misconception that teachers only work 9-3:30. He has to be at work by 8am, and often wont leave til 5pm or later, and then still has heaps of work to do at home! I really feel for him, because it's hard for him to find a balance between work and family. I think it will all settle down over time though. I just wish I could help him more.

Ummmm... I think that is pretty much all I can think of to say right now. I do have some photos to show of Mothers Day but I will do that in a new post. See you again soon!