I've Been a Bit Quiet this Week...

Tomorrow is the 12 month anniversary of losing my beautiful mum.

Today is the 12 month anniversary of the day when I had the opportunity to spend a night with her, caring for her, and I chose not to, because it was inconvenient. So many excuses for not staying. I want to travel back, give myself a slap, and stay.

I'm really struggling.

So, I've been a bit quiet.

Most of my energy is being put into trying to keep a smile on my face in public, and, its exhausting.

Thanks for stopping by...please keep me and my family in your thoughts and prayers, we are all having a difficult time :(

A Kaisercraft Share :)

With my NEW favourite collection Blae and Ivy (why, no, no I don't say that I have a new favourite collection each month....;))

Meet my nephew little Freddie :)
Not sure I like the paint up in the top corner. I think I got a bit excited...

And I made myself a Trinket chest!
All the girls in my house now have one ;)
Today, I had my first day of teaching since going on maternity leave 10 years ago! (and a possible day tomorrow too!) Yes, a complete shock to my system LOL, so if you don't mind...its bed time ***yawn***

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit!

It Doesn't Get Old...

That feeling you get, when you open up a scrapping magazine, and see your family inside.

Thanks so much to Lisa from Storyboard kits for inviting me to take part!

Seeing my family's smiling faces and seeing how excited the kids were to see themselves in print really reminded me that I should probably submit something occasionally! LOL

So, there was once this fool...

Who made some projects to send to Kaisercraft so they could take them to the US for CHA.

Then she sent them without taking any photos.

Yeah. me.

So, I've been scouring the internet to see if I may be able to glimpse them somewhere in the background...

And I found this picture here.
No.

The birdcages are NOT my projects.

But if you get out a magnifying glass, and look in the bottom left hand corner...
Hah!

My Mannequin!

I'm at CHA....kinda ;)

Christmas In July!

Or it is this week over at DownUnder Direct Inspiration!!

Full materials list found here.

I love adding a little more bling to Christmas pages than others ;)
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Just 'cause :)

A LO just because...doesn't seem to happen very often! LOL

My gorgeous Chari Beth :)

Some fairly old photos...as I was scrapping them I just kept focusing on her cute little chubby cheeks! She seems to have grown up so much in the last few years!

I just love these epoxy flowers layered on top of lace and bigger flowers!
And lots of layering of paper to give dimension and texture!
When making these shabby, vintagey kind of LOs I often struggle trying to find a good neutral alpha to create the title. This time, I made what I have here work!

I bought these Thickers a long time ago. I'm going to blame Lauren ;)...I think I saw some on a LO she did aaaaages ago, and loved them. I still love them, but they really haven't worked for any of my pages.
So i wrapped them in twine!
I think I kind of like the rough, shabby look they have!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

My New *Toy*

Not so long ago, I was tootling around the internet, when I stumbled upon a link to a super cool little camera store.

In the super cool camera store, I found a super cool little Polaroid camera.

And I ordered one.

Completely spur of the moment.

And then I suffered from horrific buyers remorse. For days. Then I worked up the courage to tell my husband. Who just rolled his eyes.

Then I waited.

On Friday, my toy arrived!
And its not so very little! Look! Its bigger than the boy's head!
We have been having so much fun taking old school polaroid photos!!!
I seem to have recovered from my buyers remorse....in fact, when I took the first photo, and Sam told me it was "awesomer than awesome", I felt better instantly ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tell me...am I the only impulse shopper out there!?!?!

Oops...edited to add the link to the cool camera store....www.photojojo.com