Quick update

The mail man has been and left me this ...



OMG ... how spoilt am I ????

I was gobsmacked. I don't know what to say really, but a bleedin' HUGE thank you to my scrapping buddy Tanya ... awesome ... in her favourite trademark colour ... that would be ... you guessed it - P I N K ... yep, Tanya is a pink lady.

Thank you so very much.

I get to spend some time playing next weekend when Tanya is down ... so I'm looking forward to some true scrapping and creativity time, a few laughs, well probably a whole lot of laughs really, great comraderie and a little creativity, which time-wise should really be a whole of creativity. But it's all fun!!!

Now as you can see my birthday present has been put to very good use already ... didn't take long ... my 52 pieces of me album has two layouts in it already ... here's one that you have already seen ...





Now today, I have done and dusted - my third week challenge ... had to use a monochromatic layout and have your latest family photo. Well I don't have a latest family photo ... so that in itself was a challenge and I quite often think outside the square ... so this is what I have come up with.




This didn't quite turn out the way I envisaged it in my head, but so be it, these things happen. I still quite like it and it is now proudly going into my brand new birthday album from Tanya ... which will now make it 3 layouts stored away.


and ... another layout that I have completed recently.






I think this pic was taken very early 1968, going on the size of my little sister in another pic. That would make me just over 3 ... love the pic and I adore the layout that I put together with this one ... don't know why ... this is a, just because I do one.


Scrapping layouts these passed few weeks have been few and far between really. I've been more than a little busy at work and that's okay, as I enjoy my job ... but I must admit that I have been more than a little shattered lately.

Tomorrow I plan on having a 'me' day ... if that's possible ... time will tell.

On that note, better disappear and do a few things [read housework here people] around the house ... lol.

Take care.
M

It's been a while ...

Life sometimes just gets in the way ... this last week has just disappeared really, just like that ... think ... click the fingers and yep, it has vanished, kaput, gone ... disappeared ...

The term 'not enough hours in the day' is more than true.

Did very little creative-wise this week in my scrap room, but that's okay ...these things happen.

Yesterday tho I whipped up two 8x8 layouts for a new competition/challenge with the girls over at CPC - click on my links on the side and it will take you there ...

So I'm about to undertake 52 weeks of me ... now, just for the record, that is a WHOLE lot of me about to happen ... probably has its good and bad points but that's okay. Sometimes, I guess too much information. But as a scrapper we focus on others and I'm okay with that. I love being behind the camera and not in front of it ... and with this challenge, not all of our layouts will have pics, and I'm definitely okay with that ... so here we go.





I've started putting bits and pieces in a big box that I plan on using to complete this album - all 52 pieces of me and I'm hoping to stay with the greens, pinks, burgundy and white colour combo throughout ... may not happen, but hopefully it will. I've chosen an 8x8 size to scrap.

Now as we know, life sometimes gets in the way [sometimes a whole lot - lol] and it may be that I won't always complete my weekly challenge in the timeframe allotted, but it will happen ... I plan on having 52 layouts at the end of the challenge and I'm thinking that this is going to be way toooooo much information for future generations - but it sounds like fun and I love a challenge.

So I now have two under my belt ... I'm a happy camper, thus far.

Week 1 and week 2 - check - bring it on ... as we move through the weeks and I complete the challenges, I'm thinking that I might have to set up a slide show - something else to put on my to do list.

Talking about 'to do lists' ... on my 'to do list' is a hangi drop off this afternoon. Nathan's cricket team are still fundraising for their cricket trip to attend the South Island tournament in January. A hangi is being cooked today as a fundraiser and later on when it is all cooked, I will be able and about delivering meals from one end of the town to the other ... may have to get the map out ... can't have me getting lost now ... would never live it down.

So ladies ... another scratchie board will be underway again this week or next ... being cheeky here, but hey, you have to be in to win [or something] ... so if parting with $2 interests you and the chance of winning a scratchie board and the possibility of making it rich appeals, you know where to find me. All monetary donations gratefully received, but unfortunately there can only be one winner.

On that note. Have a wonderful, lazy Sunday afternoon.
Take care,
Me

Creativity ...

Well then, another weekend has disappeared and so has Monday come to think about it ... I don't know where the days go, but they seem to be flying at the moment and there are truly NOT enough hours in the day.

I was more than a little creative in the weekend and here's a layout that I am going to share ... still playing with the circle idea and I so love circles ...





Journalling reads : photo opportunity - all dressed up, before being dropped off at school social [dance] - year 8 - SBHS / SGHS - spunky young man. Cool duds dude. October 2007.

I adore the BG Periphery range and I have been using quite a few of these papers lately. Add a little ribbon [and this particular ribbon was in the blue ribbons swap with the girls over at CPC - thank you], throw in some glitzy brads and there are quite a few of them and wait for it ... plenty of zig zag handsewing, a few rub-ons and of course my hand journalling, which I seem to be doing more of lately ... and there you have it ...

Nathan - smooth operator.

Love the way this layout has come together and I have been saying that quite a bit lately after I have created a page and that's good ... going through a patch, where I am enjoying the layouts that I have been creating.

I opened one of my albums in the weekend and liked everyone of the layouts in it ... rapt with my scrapping of late.

I also played with a layout on Saturday night which I had sitting on the 'to be completed pile' as I wasn't happy with where it was heading ... well I finished that particular layout yesterday as well, but unfortunately, not going to share that with you all atm ... we will see ... possible submission material - who knows - lol.

Yesterday afternoon I spent quite a lot of time cleaning my scrapping table and I do seriously mean just that - cleaning my scrapping table. Doesn't happen very often, but there comes a point in time and things just have to go ...

Wonder if I can apply that to all the scrapping supplies that have since landed on the floor ... lol.

On that note, time to be a little creative tonight and head into my scrap room for a play for an hour or two. Heater is going in there and it's probably the warmest part of the house tonight.

Mother Nature has thrown a wobbly, big time in the deep south today ... cold and miserable, blowing a gale. We have had sleet and hail, sunshine, wind, rain ... horrible. Truly!!!!

Bye for now.
Me


P.S. oops before I go ...

Sung in my bestest voice to my special little friend ...

Miss Paige ...

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to my wee friend Miss Paige
Happy birthday to you

Big hugs to a very special little girl ... she is a real wee cutie patootie - truly!!!

See ya

T.G.I.F.

And that's about all I will say on the subject. It's been a very long week and I'm absolutely stoked that it is now the weekend - lol.

This week we had a sketch challenge released with the girls at Scrapbook Essentials -click on my sidebar for the link. This is what the sketch looks like ...





And this is what I came up with ...



Love it ... this photo of Nathan is a wee cutie ... love the pic ... he's grown so much in the last 18 months or so. He's now taller than me, but I think that I've already told you that ... his body has changed big time and he now looks so totally different - all grown up - IYKWIM.

I've used Daisy Bucket papers, rub-ons, chipboard stars painted with a denim blue dauber and then I have painted opal dust on the top. I've also used the new self adhesive felt, that is absolutely G O R G E O U S and I seem to have a wee few packets of them in my collection now ... an old HS file tab, a few gemstones and hand journalling to boot.

Love the way it has come together.


Another layout is in the early planning stages using this sketch as well ... love the circle and give me a sketch and I can normally work with it - funny that!!!!


I actually did work with the first sketch - it was from the BG newsletter and was a 6x12 layout ... I had a play with that one with my mystery photo swap with the girls over at CPC - click on my sidebar to head over the ditch to visit the girls there ... but unfortunately I can't share that layout until the pigeon carrier makes his way over the ditch and lands on my scrapping buddies doorstep ... lol.

Let's hope the pigeon carrier has a tail wind ... lol.


Anyway, while I'm blogging I'm not scrapping as such ... so will finish this and this will be a short and sweet post.

But ... before I go ... I just want to say ...

Happy birthday to YOU
Happy birthday to YOU
Happy birthday to my scrapping buddy Miss Meg ...
Happy birthday to YOU !!!

Happy birthday my friend, and I hope that you have had a super duper day today ... catch ya!

See ya.