Another at Home Retreat Layout

This layout is for the BowerBird Challenge!!

What a great idea!!

We had to use as many as we could of these items....

A piece of fabric

3 buttons

piece of string or wool

blue ticket

white chipboard

paint

a star

something metallic or metal

a flower

a red letter t

a cloud

lace

a black letter a

2 photos

a blue circle

something pink

ribbon

glitter

an envelope.....

I used them alll.......

"Laugh it up"

At Home Scrap Therapy Retreat

Its a lovely rainy day here today...

What's it like where you are?

Perfect whether for a stay at home retreat,

other than the fact that i had to get up early to work this morning!!!

Here is a layout i did last night

This is from the

Colour Room Palette #8

The thing i love most about that challenge site

is that not only do they give you the colours to inspire you

you also get an awesome sketch to work with!!!

This is a photo from 1961 of Mum when she was in the Air Force...

Wasn't she beautiful!! Still is of course!!

And here is my sketch challenge

for the Clayton's Retreat over at

Scrap Therapy....

While all the girls are up in Cairnes on Retreat,

we decided to have our own at home....

"A Single Lily"

Retreat to your own scrap room this weekend

Come join us at

Scrap Therapy

this weekend for the Clayton's Retreat.....

Participate in this sketch challenge done by me

to win a RAK

Check it out here

Emelia & Solo

Here is a Video Emelia made showing her fun, successes and a couple of scary moments with Solo... Its beautiful!!

Scrap Retreat without leaving your home.....

Feel like going to a retreat this weekend?

You dont even have to leave home.......

Come join the

Scrap Therapy Clayton's Retreat....

Challenges and Prizes all weekend..

Challenges start today!!

Register now to participate

here

123 Challenge - June.....................Its Back!!!

123 Challenge is back again!!! Yay!!

Keeping it simple this time round

but still very inspirational

and helping you to take your scrapping

to that next level!!

Check out June's Challenge

Nearly Done Now

The flooring is now down

and we are in the process of moving everything back

Im so happy with it

It looks like i always imagined it would look....

This is the before photo of my corner of the office.

The room was so full!!

See at the bottom right, that is actually Stuarts Desk...

I couldn't move, just shoved in this tiny spot!!!

But now look!!!

Its so open

I still have lots of stuff on my desk...

And i just have to tidy up under that hutch part....

But so much more organised and neat!!!

Look at my cupboard!

We didn't buy anything either,

just reshuffled what we had a got ride of heaps

of junk!!!

Im very happy with it!

A Face Lift

Its ten years in June since we moved into our

Brand New Home.

June 2000

Just before GST

When we built we did everything cream

as we didn't own much nice furniture

or anything and we weren't sure

what colours to go with....

As time went on, we ended up going with the darker

wood furniture and for some reason

i always thought burgundy....

So we have done the entrance and formal lounge

and dining with the deep red feature walls.

Now we have ripped up the cream carpet and

tomorrow we are having a dark brown wood flooring

put in...

The older furniture like that corner TV unit

will be replaced with darker wood.

This is the view looking back to the front door..

Still lots of cream...

We decided to go with a contrasting colour for the office.....

Doesn't it look great!!!

I like it so much that this colour will be a feature wall

in the family room too i think!!!

Will show you photos when the floor is done

and the house is relatively back to normal

state of cleanliness...

Its such a mess at the moment.

All the furniture and bits and pieces are around

the rest of the house!!!

A2Z Scraplets New Releases - May

A2Z Scraplets have had a huge

release this month!!

Here are some of the layouts i did....

"Perfection"

Using Scraplets Perfection

and Floralette Bird 10

"Timeless"

Using Scraplets word Timeless

and Florish

"How does your Garden Grow"

This uses Scraplet Doodlet No 5.

This is also the colour challenge

in Colour Room Palette No 5

"Ride"

using Border Strip Coggs

This layout is also the colour challenge this month

over at Scrap Therapy

A New Scarf

I just thought id share......

I love my new scarf

Pink with white dots, so adorable!!!

Ive been everywhere trying to find others similar in different colours, but cant find anything!!! Bumma!!

On my way home tonight the sunset was amaizing!!

Its been overcast all afternoon

and freezing!!!

As the sun was setting and being that its overcast

when driving past the golf course,

it was like someone drew a line half way up the trees

and the bottom of them was grey and drab

and then the top half looked like it was on fire!!

So bright!!

But by the time i got home to get the camera, it wasn't the same..

You can just see the line i was talking about

but photos don't do nature justice sometimes!

I heart Faces - Flowers & Faces Challenge

This week at

I Heart Faces

its the Flowers & Faces Challenge....

and here is my photo..

This photo makes me so sad

it was in 2007

when i was maybe at my slimmest in so many years.....

I look at this and think, see I can do it!!!

I would love to get this look back again...

See other flowers & faces photos here

Prima BAP Challenge - May

Here is this months

BAP Sketch over at

the Prima Blog here

And here is my layout...

featuring once again

the adorable

Zane!!!

"Too Cool for PreSchool"

Yay!!

This layout was featured on the

April Prima BAP post!!

Yay!

Happy Mothers Day

I hope all the Mothers out there

have had a really great Mothers Day!!!

Emelia made me breakie this morning, she is a lovely girl

and then presented me with this

An IOU Voucher....

Not an actual voucher, but an IOU voucher

for a HOT ROCKS MASSAGE

I cant wait!!

I went out to the Pistol Range this morning

to watch mum and had Morning Tea with her.

And gave her the pressie i bought....

Then Emelia dresses up and when to the races...

her first ever one.

After Miss Showgirl, she has the gear to wear now

and looked very growd up!!

Her and a friend had some fun last night..

Talk about laugh!!

I cant believe how much my daughter is like me!
They had a lovely time!!

And on Friday night, the girls and had an impromptu

get together.....

We consumed 5 bottles of wine,

4 pizzas,

made heaps of little flowers using candles and satin

acquired 2 new burn blisters

and laughed and laughed!!!

There was Jack, Brenda, Bridge & Me

I was very pleased with my handiwork!!!

So all in all, its been a very social weekend this weekend....

Fairy Princess Cart

Ok, here is the finished product....

I meant to have it made before the Prima DT Applications closed,

but didn't get around to it..

It was so busy!!

Obviously Ive used mostly Prima

but there are also some A2Z Scraplets in there,

and also Stuff2Scrap by Leeanne Pearce.

Im really happy with how this turned out!

A Fairy Princess Cart

Im just putting the finishing touches on this awesome little cart i found at the reject shop last week... Its a shabby finish, and i thought it would make the perfect little frame for a canvas..

I used all Prima Products....

And it looks so totally CUTE!

I will share photos of the finished product tomorrow..

Huge Imaginisce Giveaway

Melinda Spinks

is having a huge Blog Giveaway

with all her left over bits of

Imaginisce products..

Pop over and check it out

Crafty Sketches - 1st May Challenge

Here is the sketch from Crafty Sketches this month

And here is my take on it

"Seaside"

See other takes on the sketch over at

Crafty Sketches

Gunnedah Show Final Day!!

What a huge weekend!

Im still debating whether staying at the grounds is easier than staying at home.

At lest when you are at the grounds, the family has to fend for themselves, but when your staying at home - you still have to do the home stuff and the event stuff!!

So the jury is still out on that one...

Emelia did two events today

the 60cm and the 75cm showjumping.

She went really well in them both

but not fast enough for the ribbons.

We have a mate Steve...

Ive mentioned him before... he does the drags and things with Stu, as well as Archery.

Anyway, he and his wife have three girls

and then had an unexpected pregnancy,

which turned out to be this gorgeous little BOY!!!!
Nate.......

He looks so like his Daddy!!
But can you imagine growing up the youngest boy with three older sisters!!!

He is going to start work with Dad next week to make him a MAN!! lol

And i did some layouts last night

for Angels R Scrappin in Tamworth.

This one is using Birch Habadashery Papers...

So gorgeous, all glittery!

"Hoot Hoot"

And this one using Mooi papers

which are made and designed in Tamworth!!

"Mum's the Greatest!"

Gunnedah Show Day 2....

Well, day 2 in finally over....

we no the outcome of the Miss Showgirl

But before then,

Emelia did a couple of events in the District Competition

She got a 5th in the Girl Rider Class

But only did one Hack class and didn't get called in

Then there was Miss Showgirl...

Emelias friend Miranda won the

Miss Junior Showgirl

Miranda is pictured here with Emelia

And the best part was the ride in the old cars

Here she is doing her "Special" wave to her Daddy