When You Are Over The Rain.....

Well pretty much for weeks up here it has been raining........we have gone into the pool a couple of times but kinda freezing......(well for QLD weather anyway) & we can't go to the beach or the park, so this afternoon the girls were drawing & I decided to make chocolate chip cookies, mega choc chunk.....so hey the pink is a bit late for Valentines (but hey I am behind on everything at the moment)......and the cookies were YUMMY.......in our house they don't last long, so I thought it would be good to take a photo.......I bought the pink stuff on a whim a couple of months ago (it was really cheap) with these gorgeous matching cupcake teacups etc........well I have 3 girls, I have got to get used to Pink.......(mind you with my girls pink is not their favourite colour!).......so hence was our afternoon.

Technical Difficulties

Well I am experiencing some technical difficulties...........so sorry, am not sure if it is the operator........LOL..
It has been a busy week again, so will post again soon, also might actually have some work up to display etc, here's hoping. If you get chance, go onto this amazing blog called OLW - one little word, my gorgeous girlfriend Rebecca put me onto it.......amazing, the word this week is TRUST, why not think about that this week and try to create something with it. The pages on this blogspot are amazing, go have a peek!!!! By the way I have to say congratulations to Rebecca getting published in Creating Keepsakes......you go girlfriend.......what an artist I am in awe!!!! Anyway lovelies I am bushed have to head, no photos, no more words, sorry all out.......plus technicalities driving me crazy. I'm out. Love Mx

A Busy Week

Well I am officially the biggest slacker when it comes to blogging. This week has been a crazy one and I have been trying to organise my space as with a new desk it seemed that it was great, but then I got a big block, all this stuff and space but no creativity. Anyway this is the time to look around and just relax.......I have tried to put myself into a style for scrapping......I have never liked being put in a box.........scrapping is no exception. I am a mix - I love bohemian, grungy, ribbon, paint, chipboard..........anything really......I also love new stuff..........like a toy store........having the new stuff but not using it......just looking at it thinking about using it.....I am one of those ones the shops love, spend the money but then don't use it.....LOL

This week was also hard in another way, my middle girl started her first day of Kindy. Little Lulu, I was so scared for her, as I was not sure how she would handle it. She is such a cruisey happy little thing and quite happily plays on her own, but loves hanging with mummy & daddy, she has always said she didn't want to go to gool (school), she wanted to stay home, she wasn't a big girl. You can imagine how I was.........I held it together until after I dropped her off and she was happily settled with her little best friend Gracie........"see ya mum" then I lost it. The time seems to go so fast and she just seems so little......anyway she had a great day and loved it wanted to go back the next day.........told the teacher it wasn't dark enough to have a sleep (she was in a comatose position when I picked her up, took me 10 mins to wake her up) and she was fine to put on her pants herself (they were on back to front). She is such a gorgeous little thing, I will miss her terribly for that day each week. At least I still have one baby still at home......

Anyway must be off, I need to go & actually do some creative work as well as my normal job of housework...... I will leave you with a photo of Lulu, she finally has enough hair to put in ponytails, much to her delight!!!!! Love ya & make someones day this week!! Remember it is better to give than to recieve. M xx

My Space

Well this is usually a no go zone, but I was so excited that I needed to share. Now for all those people who know me and can appreciate scrapbooking but aren't into it, probably won't understand........but when I sit in front of this table I am in BLISS..........

It all started when DD (Dearest Dad) came up for holidays, we all decided that the kitchen table just wasn't ok, and as we didn't have plans to move soon, I really needed some space. So DD and DH got together, DD built this awesome table (which I said he should paton) and then off to Ikea we went & had a blast buying all this cool storage stuff. It was supposed to be kitchen stuff but you know Ikea, you can use it almost anywhere, easy to assemble & reasonable prices I also came up with this cool idea of a curtain thing they had to hang all this stuff on it, isnt' it the coolest .......when I get home I realised though, that I have a serious obsession with scrap stuff.......still have enough storage for more (yes very sad, sad)..........LOL

Anyway short post tonight, leave you with one thing to think about.........

Life is a gift..........don't leave it unopened!!!! M x

Ali E Challenge

Well I decided to take up the Ali challenge of finding a word for myself this year, (I can't remember where I saw it, cannot for the life of me find the article now) .....LOL Anyway I thought long and hard and decided that my word for this year is .......CREATE!!! So off I went and bought the words (thanks goodness for Spotlight) painted them, in between getting dinner and 3 rowdy girls to bed (Daddy is away & they have decided to push every boundary they can!!) & so my 2008 begins with the challenge of taking some photographs with this word.......and then I will do a layout!!!! The decision for me this year is to actually complete some of the projects that I have started & left by the wayside, start some new ones & definately just be Creative........I am letting that inner creation come out.......you probably won't be as excited as me, but I look forward to sharing this journey!!!! Now I just have to complete my Me page being totally honest at 35!!?? Scary. Exciting news today will get to hold a new baby next week.....Yippee.........our gorgeous friends Sheree & Daren had a baby girl............Girls Rock!!!!! Now as a fellow scrapper I am sure she will be fully pumped to go get some GIRLY papers........LOL!!!! Well I am pretty tired now so signing off..........remember Hugs have no side effects...........Hug someone today. Love ya M x

FABRIC FRENZY

You know I have always loved fabric......at the end of last year I decided to go and make a quilt......I did one class and then christmas came etc etc.........it got put on the back burner, but it really lit the passion in me that I once had for making things and appreciating colours, textures and fabric. I started a beautiful antique quilt for my Mum (don't worry Mum I will finish it, but might have to do it when all girls at school) LOL.....anyway this is some of the fabric that I bought to start this passion. Isn't it just beautiful. Well then I saw the new CK magazine, lo and behold Elizabeth (CK Scrapbooker of the Year) has done this awesome album using fabric, sort of like a go ahead to do it., she has an amazing blog, go check it out......It bought back so many memories from when I was little of all the things my Mum used to do. She really has always been so creative and crafty!!!! So many times I didn't want to be seen like her, as I was never really confident in who I was!!! I guess I had never really let my creative ME out of it's little box. I am so excited for all the things that I will get to do.....so just wanted to share that with you.......Don't let anyone ever put you in a box, be who you are, BECAUSE THE YOU, YOU ARE IS SUPER SPECIAL AND UNIQUE!!!!!!!!! Love Mx

1st day of Prep

Well she did it.....the first day, no tears, just happy mum and happy girl. She was so excited we had everything ready including her two sisters by 7.45am. She was like 'come on mum lets go' but we had to wait for Daddy to come home from night shift so he could come too.....it's a very exciting day. I was very impressed with myself for not crying cause she is like my first baby leaving her mama. She actually said to me, Mum you can't cry you have two other kids to look after!!! what a crackup she is. Such a little treasure, so ready to take on the world and grow up.
anyway here is a photo for you, I think she looks gorgeous!!!! Am out tonight for some time out watching a movie and dinner, I had forgotten what that was like!! Am so excited!!! Go Nana, who is minding the troops while DH is away for 3 days on a bucks week-end.........Apart from tonight I am hoping for some EXTREME catch up scrapping time.....Yippee Mx