Grandfather's Chair...

I remember this chair from when I was little. It was at my Nana's house. Bought by by Grandfather (my mum's dad) when he was sick. So, this chair is probably about 36+ years old. Older even, than me.

At my Nana's house, this chair had the best position in the lounge room. Right in front of the TV, near the door to the kitchen. Soooooo many cousin photos were taken in this chair. I remember thinking that it was enormous. All 15 of us and my Nana would fit comfortably (it seemed) in and around the chair.
When my Aunt moved from Gin Gin down to Victoria, we went over to pick up some bunk beds for the girls, and she offered us this chair. I jumped at the chance. I loved this chair. In the absence of my actual family being around me, I thought this chair would remind me at all times about my family, and it does.

But its age is starting to show...

The top of the chair is starting to droop...probably because for as long as I can remember, my Aunts would come into the lounge from the kitchen lean on the back of it to talk to everyone watching TV or playing in the lounge. It was SUCH a good height to lean on! And, as cousins got taller and too big for the chair and the arm rests, we got to lean on the back (although I'm not actually sure I ever met the height criteria for a leaning position LOL)

So, I 'fixed' it...

And then the splits that had been straining burst... and the kids discovered the joys of picking out the foam... I can't even imagine how I would go about fixing this...

And the foot rest. Look how 'wonky' (for want of a better word LOL) it is. I remember as a kid launching my smaller cousins into the air, just by sitting them on the footrest and the quickly reclining...I guess it took its toll...

And as gross as the chair is, I can't bear to throw it out. It is just too filled with memories. I know one day I will have to bite the bullet, but just not today:)

Its Tuesday:)

And this is what keeps Sam and I busy on Tuesdays.... We get a just turned one year old to play with and snuggle! So much fun, but gosh I had kind of forgotten how much work a one year old is!

While she had her ten minute snooze, I managed to finish my Scrap The Girls LO... (yeah, its was mostly done, ten minutes is usually only enough for me to manage to get into my room LOL)

Loving Bo Bunny PPs at the moment...Not quite how I saw it in my head, but what LO of mine ever is!?!? I am learning to just enjoy my scrapping time, and not focus as much on what actually appears at the end. Honestly, am I ever going to be happy?!?!? I may as well just have fun with it:) And Prima...flowers and bling flourishes...oh and the lace *sigh*
So thats me for today!

The Twilight Before Christmas

Hah! I love Twilight, but this cracked me up...

Wicked Princess LOs for march:)

So, I was lucky enough to get my mitts on the gorgeous Snorkel kit this month for Wicked princesses....The colours in this kits are SO cool, and I think my all time fave part of the kit was the 'Prepare to be Amazed stamp'. I can totally see this stamp being used on MANY LOs in the futiure..super heroes, graduations etc :)

Ugh, all the pics have been loaded bass ackwards (as my eloquent husband would say LOL)

This was a quick card I made using the scraps...I actually made another, but have NO idea where the photo is for that one... And the funniest LO this month....

Singstar was SUCH a hit at christmas time. Mick even had a go despite rolling his eyes and declaring he would NEVER sing using THAT...obviously a few drinks were required, but his version of 'Burning Ring Of Fire' has yet to be beaten LOL

And love this fish PP...the little opaque fish are cut out from some file folders I had on my desk.

And the instructions for this one are in the downloads section of the Wicked Princess blog.

I also started working on a little something to be shown next month :) Using the February card kit from WP...you should check those card kits out! I made one LO and two cards with heaps of stuff left over! And the kit only cost $14.95

Have a great week everyone!

QLD Election...

We just voted. Exciting stuff...

Last night at dinner we were discussing the election (hmm, sounds quite high-brow, I assure you it wasn't LOL)
I was whining because I had no ideas about who to vote for (I'm man enough to admit I didn't even know WHAT we were voting for!)
Charlotte said "I'd vote for Sarah Campbell-Brown"
Mick and I looked at each other. See we had never heard of this person, yet Charlotte was determined that we should vote for her. Hadn't even stopped to think or ask possible candidates.

Apparently the school leaders are being elected at school, and Sarah Campbell-Brown is one of the candidates.

I was sooooooo tempted to throw away my vote by writing Sarah Campbell-Brown on the bottom of my ballot (or 'parrot' as the kids were calling it) and putting a big fat '1' next to her name. But I restrained. And now, I actually can't remember who I voted for....maybe I should have just voted for Sarah Campbell Brown...

Friday Faves!

Oh my! Its been TWO weeks since my last faves edition, and I thoroughly enjoyed the no computer/phone time! So here are mine from this week...you can probably guess most of them already LOL

#1 Looking at all the beautiful photos from THE WEDDING. So many happy lovely memories:)

#2 Okay, so not so predictable is my file folder obsession this week! I seem to be cutting these opaque coloured beauties into all sorts of sizes and shapes for use on scrapping pages. I think they'd make a good alpha too.... #3 Yeah, back to predictible...my ghd. I used it for the first time today, and LOVED it!!

#4 Family holidays! Hah, I even like the dorky stand-under-the-sign-of-the-town-you-are-visiting-photos! A definite anti-fave though is coming home again *sigh*. We have been home for almost a week, and my bags are still packed...I am dreadfully lazy waiting, poised ready for action if we need to travel again at a moments notice

#5 is scrappy...these delicious flowers from Prima.

I may have stimulated the scrapping ecconomy just a smidge by buying one or two new blossoms...

These next ones I justified by telling myself I have lots of wedding pics to scrap...

And these I just fell in love with.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

Wedding video *heh*

Dad had said he would get up to dance to the Rolling Stones...so my brother obliged, and BOY did he go off! The lady he harasses in the pink dress is my mum, Beth is the trouper dancing with him and high fiving him at the end, and Nat is the little princess in the white dress...enjoy!




I love my family!!!

Oh, and if you have a few hours...there are a MILLION pics being uploaded into Danny's flickr account here