Home alone!

Today is wonderful. I am listening to the awesome Missy Higgins (above) playing very loudly while I am surfing the net, and earlier I was scrapping. How could life get any better? Well it can! Missy Higgins is the only sound I can hear!

No babies crying, no toddler asking for juice, no husband yabbering away.

Why?

Cos I am home alone! Mum has taken the kids up to see Max's mum and Israel has gone to work! And I tell you what, it's bliss!

I have just finished getting the table set for my class tonight and I thought I would come and post some pics I took last week but haven't loaded them up yet.

Chloe playing dress ups

Gemma
I love how this one of Chloe turned out!

Chloe insisted I took a photo of her feet

My princess

Such a funny face Miss Ashca!
Trying to look innocent - it wont work Ashy!

Such a Chloe face

What's with girls and clothes?

I just walked into Chloe's room to find the girls all playing with Chloe's clothes! What is it with girls and clothes? Even as young children, us girls just love clothes!

Visual DNA

Saw this on Elsie's site, thought it was pretty cool, so I did one for myself.

You can click on the link below it to either read my stuff, or make your own.

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

Friends

I just did this page tonight. It is the sample page for the class I am running on Sunday night. I hope it's okay? I really like how it turned out, but I am doubting myself whether the people attending my class will like it!

This is kind of a dodgy photo. The colours are a bit different IRL. Anyway, here it is...


Also... the photo was taken and edited by Clair

Finishing Touch Ideas

I was going to enter into the call for a DT role here, but never got around to it cos it was at the same time as all the computer troubles.

But.... Dee, did enter it, AND she got it! Congrats to Dee! Dee is already so good with using embellishments, that I am sure she will astound FTI!

Anyway, here is a link to their cool site, check it out!

Finishing Touch Ideas

Self Portrait

Elsie Flannigan has a very cool challenge on her blog!

You just have to take a self portrait and post it on you own blog and then her sister Emma will vote on which one she likes best and then the winner will get a cool prize! Love, Elsie products!

Not you all now how much I love these products and I am anxiously awaiting my order to arrive, so of course I HAD to have a go in this challenge!

Here is my self portrait, I just took it then!


A bit dorky, but oh well - gotta be in it to win it!

Catch you all later!

Sneaky Peak!

Oh my goodness! I am sooooooooo unbelievably excited right now! I just went out shopping and I grabbed one of the things I needed for my class on Sunday and then when I got home all the supplies from 3AS arrived! I just couldn't resist showing it off!

We have the gorgeous Sassafras Lass Sew Fine papers, and then of course the fun and bright Basic Grey Color Me Silly papers, plus a few other bits and bobs!

Thanks heaps to Jo and Rosy at 3AS for donating the $10 voucher that will be given away as the door prize on the night! And thanks also to them for supplying most of the products that will be used for the class. These two ladies are awesome!


I still have to get some more cardstock and ribbon that I forgot to order. So I will be heading off to Spotlight for that tomorrow. Hey, does anyone feel like a shopping trip to Spotlight tomorrow? I love to have a shopping partner! Let me know!

Okay, off to unpack my shopping while the girls are all sleeping!

Mothers Day!

I hope all you lovely Mummies out there had a wonderful day!
I did!

Here is a brief run down of my day...

First of all, at 7am I was woken up to Ashca crying that she wanted to get up, so I promptly kicked Israel in the shins! He got up and gave all the girls their breaky. They all came in at 8:30 to say Happy Mothers Day and give me my lovely pressies! I got some hairdressers scizzors and the new Missy Higgins CD, both which I was very happy to receive!

Israel then had to go and help a friend move house so I spent the morning getting the kids and myself ready for the day.

When Israel got home we headed out to have a lovely lunch with my Mum, brother, step-dad and my step dad's mum. I had a really good time there, and it was gorgeous food! But the best thing of all was that my girls were all really well behaved! I was a proud Mummy!

Here are some photos from lunch...




After lunch, we headed over to Israel's Mum's place. It was really nice. But unfortunately Immanuel (Israel's brother) and Kerry were not there. We got some really good photos while we were there, here are just a few to share...













So all in all, it was a lovely day!

Thanks to all those people who made it special for me! But most of all to my 3 beautiful girls for putting up with me as their Mummy! I love you all so very much!

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!

I miss my puter!

I just don't seem to get online enough these days. It's really very annoying!

But tonight (or should I say this morning? It's 12:19am you see!) I am uploading photos to be printed at our local camera store. And it's taking ages, so I thought I would jump on and finally say g'day again.

I finally caved in and decided that I can't cope without my computer so now my step dad Max is going have a look around at his work tomorrow to see if there are any old computers I could use. I don't mind if it is something crappy, I just want something! We will hopefully be getting me a new computer in a year or so, so if Max can get me one, this will just be a tie me through until then. I so hope he can find one!

Well lots has been happening here this month. We have been doing soo much it's kind of annoying actually. I am looking forward to having a weekend where nothing is on, but of course, something is always on! If we have a free night, we always find ourselves saying "hey lets invite someone over". We love entertaining!

This weekend just gone I was up in Sydney. And all by myself too! It was kind of sad being away from my chickies, I missed them sooo much! But I think I actually needed a break. Some time out. I missed Israel sooo much too! I found myself picking up my phone to call him at every opportunity. I think he actually got a bit sick of me calling!
The reason I was up in Sydney was for my grandfathers wake. It was great to see the whole family again, and we had a good time celebrating Jock's life. Lots of good stories told, and lots of yummy desserts!
Here are some photos:
all the cousins...

everyone...

The wake was on the Saturday night. On the Saturday, Dad took me clothes shopping for my birthday and mothers day. I got a whole new wardrobe. It's amazing how new clothes make you feel sooo good! We went a bit overboard money wise though!
Here is a photo of me and Dad. It's at the airport though, but I am wearing some of the new clothes we bought...

On the Sunday morning I caught up with lovely 3AS girls. Now that was a FUN time! I had such an awesome time meeting them all in real life! For those of you who don't know, 3AS is 3 Angels Scrapping. It's a scrapping forum, gallery and shop. I hang out there whenever I can! If you want to check it out, the link is in the sidebar.
Here is a photo of all us girls together:


Talking about scrapping.... sooo much is going on at the moment. Of course I have my usually albums that I am constantly working on. Then I am also involved in the 3AS circle journal. And last Friday I also got an email from Scrapbook Creations saying that they wanted one of my pages! I am soooo excited that I am finally going to be published! I will post on here when the mag is released. The acceptance has inspired me to have a go at the For Keeps Awards of Excellence. I don't care if I don't win anything, but I think it will just be good to have the challenge of going for it, there is a bit that I will need to do for it!
On top of all this I have decided to try doing some classes. I will be holding the first class here in a couple of weeks, and so far only have 2 people booked in, but hopefully more will book soon. It is a beginners class the first one, and then I will progress on to bigger stuff after that. I am charging $10 per person and that includes a ticket to the door prize. So I personally think it's a pretty good deal. Anyway, I give it a try, and if it doesn't work out, at least I know I have tried!
Another thing I am doing is I am now going to organise craft stuff with my MBA. First up I am holding a craft night at my house. It's going to be open to everyone with any type of craft. Basically for everyone to just sit arounf and do their own thing and have a good old chin wag! I am really looking forward to it!

Oh my oh my! It is soooo late! I really should get to bed!