Sheesh 3 posts in one day!

Here are the pics of our new house. I cheated and just used the photos from the online sale ad lol.

Woo Hoo!!

Thanks Tiff. You told me to sub my 100% Boy LO to SM and they picked it up today!! So big hugs to you my dear. And congratulations on your Gigglepot LO getting accepted too. :D

Well Hello There.

I am sorry that it has taken me so long to get back on here and post. As most of you know, all 3 of my kids got sick just before we moved house and then just after the move, Daniel & I were struck down too. Then we had dramas with our internet not being connected in a timely manner and THEN i stupidly spilled coffee on my laptop and stuffed it. It's all fixed now though so no need to keep crying about it lol.

The house is great!! Lots of things we'd love to do but we will just wait and do them at another time. Thankfully we have so much land that the possibilities really are endless. At least for the things that we would want to do. I say 'so much land' but really compared to someone living in Cummins, our property is pretty small lol. We have 1200sqm for anyone interested.

We have split system heating and cooling but i don't think the heating is really that good. We end up using our wood combustion heater all the time. Much less expensive and a nicer feel IMO. The house is tri-level with the lounge, dining, kitchen and laundry on the bottom level, bathroom, toilet and 1 bedroom on the entrance level and the other 2 bedrooms upstairs. The house is made of Cedar and is unusual looking but just perfect for us. I love being able to wake up with the curtain open in my room and see and hear all the birds and the sunshine.

The house is not equipped with an abundance of storage space (besides the kitchen) so we are having to go to Ikea to get ideas. It is not something i would complain about lol.

In other news, there's only 4 weeks until we go to Bali!! I am getting very excited about it but also getting a little nervous about the plane trip. My girls haven't been themselves for a while and i am scared that they will hate the 6 hr flight and be PITA's. I sure hope not cause i want my morning champagne in the Airport bar lol. My first trip overseas deserves an early morning champers i think.

I have been getting a fair bit of scrapping done which has been great. I actually really like them all too which i am very happy about. I also managed to get the mini album i started at the retreat finished and i made a small one on Coban too. Although i need to get some new alpas as the stupid Vinyl Thickers i used were useless lol. I haven't yet taken photos of the albums so i will just post the LO's.




















I'll end this post now as i have a million and one things to do include having a coffee. I'll pop back in soon with some house pics and mini album pics.

Why's It So Hard?

OMFG!! I don't understand how it can possibly be so bloody hard to disconnect my phone line. I have been on the phone to Optus for what feels like all morning now and i have gotten nowhere!! I think i have told the girl on the other end about 6 times why i want to disconnect but she keeps asking me the same bloody thing. And then i get transferred all over the place to different departments and each time i have to give the same details... FFS people! Just disconnect my bloody phone line so i can get on with my day.

Sorry about that little rant.


We had open houses here over the weekend so i made sure that the house was spotless and i have been trying to keep it that way this morning. So far so good. I have the girls in bed and Coban watching Humphrey so the place is super quiet at the moment. I think it may be time for a coffee.

Flashback..

I never ever get to browse vids on YouTube but today i was looking for some music to listen to and i decided that i needed to hear some Smashing Pumpkins. I felt like a teenager again listening to one of my old time favourite bands. I absolutely adored Billy Corgan when i was 15. Anyway, i thought i'd post a couple of my favourite SP songs here for anyone that's interested. I'd love to hear what bands/music you all loved while growing up. Why not blog a YouTube vid for me to watch? ;)

My clever kiddies.

Grand Final Day 2008, my clever little girl Miranda, decided that walking was her preferred mode of transport lol. She took her first proper steps on the 6th Sept but on the 27th, she became a lot more steady on her feet and walked around for ages. She still hasn't quite got it down pat but she walks a fair bit and she is very chuffed when she does it. :)

The same day, my cleverest big boy learnt how to write his name on the chalkboard. I wrote it and then he copied it. Daniel & I were so proud lol.


During the week, i took Coban & the girls to see Fireman Sam at the local shopping centre. Coban was pretty excited about it right up until he actually had to go up and give Fireman Sam a cuddle. He was a bit surprised to see that Fireman Sam was so big and soft. I think the softness freaked him out a bit lol. So i didn't end up getting a great photo of them but there is this one...



I have managed to get another couple of LO's done this week too. I seem to be scrapping really quickly lately which is a real surprise to me. It used to take me 2 days to finish a LO most of the time lol. Both of these LO's are CT LO's for ES.

Layouts, Photos and life...

Well i am still alive in case you were wondering lol. A fair bit has been happening round here and i just ahven't had the desire to sit down and type about it all. Plus i was doing too many LO's and couldn't bring myself to sit here for ages uploading them all. ;)

There is only 4 weeks to go until we move into our new house!! There is still so much to do here but i have packed quite a bit of stuff already so we're well on our way. I need to get Daniel out into the garage this weekend to sort it all out. We have heaps of stuff here that belong to one of Daniel's friends who is overseas atm and i really need to get rid of it all. There is NO WAY it is all coming with us. I have made it perfectly clear that i won't be cluttering my new house with this stuff. So hopefully Daniel will speak to his friend asap and get him to organise somehwere else for it all to go.

I found out from my Dad this week that my Grandma has broken her hip. I haven't heard anything else apart from the fact that she had an operation on it. She has osteoporosis so i'm not sure how that affects it but i'm sure it can't be good. I hope to hear from Dad soon to find out exactly what's going on. I feel terrible because i have been lazy and not writing to her for ages. And i mean like since the girls were born. :( I sent her & Grandpa some photos back with Dad last time he came down but that's been it. Daniel has suggested that we go over and spend a weekend with them soon. I know they would love to see the kids; especially Grandma.


Last weekend we had a photo shoot with Dannii from Kipindi Photography and it was a really great day. We got some unreal shots and i couldn't be happier with the results! Here are a few of my faves.



Thanks so much Dannii. We all had a great time with you last weekend and the photos are stunning. I really appreciate your time and effort and i now have so many fabulous photos to scrap. *mwah*

And i will leave you now with the heap of LO's that i haven't shown in here yet. But be warned, there are LOTS....




































These last 2 LO's are in the latest issue of SM. They don't look quite as nice in the mag. The colours are a bit off but you get that. The last LO accompanies my Click & Crop article and i also designed the free paper and alpha set. I was really worried that the paper wouldn't look very good IRL but it has turned out pretty well i think. I'm not too fussed on the alphas but i went with what they wanted.

I've run out of time so i'll leave it there.

Child Free for 2 Days!

The kids are heading over to Mum's today to spend 2 nights there without us. Daniel & I are going into the city to see Wicked the Musical and then stay in a gorgeous hotel afterwards. It is all put on by one of Daniel's work suppliers so there will be quite a few other work guys and their partners going. I can't wait to get dressed up and let my newly-cut hair down lol. We even get 2 free cocktails once we get to the hotel and Daniel has said i can have them both WOOHOO! Well actually i told him that i could have both and he agreed lol.

Saturday night we have a friend's daughter's 16th birthday party to go to. I'm sure it will be a great night as there will be quite a few of us oldies there. I'm sure i will feel old but oh well. ;)

Last night i went and got my hair cut. I got about 4 inches cut off which was a bit weird but i feel so great now. My hair looks so much healthier and feels so soft and silky. I know that will all change once i wash it and try to blow dry it myself lol.

Oh and before i forget, I have been chosen to be on the Elemental Scraps Creative Team. :D I am so excited about it too. The girls over at ES are so lovely and friendly. I feel as though i belong IYKWIM. Plus the designers over there are just fabulous! I had a hard time trying to decide what to scrap with first lol. Oh and you wouldn't believe how many of those girls have twins lol. It's like a digital scrapping twins club. I have lots to do before we leave today so i'll leave you with a couple of LO's.




These first 2 LO's are what got me on to the CT. I used 2 ES Mega kits; Cottage Chic and Festive Cheer. And this next one is my first actual CT LO.


I used Rachel Martin's Backspin kit plus Valorie Brown's Embossed Krafty Papers.


This LO was my last as Guest CT for Pickleberrypop. I used Kaye Winiecki's Plain & Painted paper and Stripees plus KateF's Crazy Quotes, Splittery Splats papers and sketch alphas. And Deb Fisher's Journal tag.


I used Kaye Winiekci's new Stripees~ available at The LilyPad.


And this LO is featured in the latest Scrapbooking Memories. It was for a challenge. I had to scrap a girly page without using pink.

I better go......

New Look

I decided it was time that i made myself a new blog header and figured it would be a good idea to spruce the old blog up a little while i was at it lol. So what do you think? I think it will take me a bit to get used to but i think it looks ok.

There's not a lot happening here at the moment. Daniel is going 4wd'ing on Saturday with his brother and his Dad and he is taking Coban along too. Coban has really only been once and that was very tame so he is in for a big adventure. I bet he will have a blast. I think i have packed my point and shoot so i will remind Daniel to get his brother to take his camera so i can have some photos of my big boy. I think i will spend the day scrapping lol. Well the 3 hours that i will get when the girls are asleep during the day anyway lol.

I found out today that 2 of the EB girls received phone calls from Scrapbooking Memories telling them that they had made it through to the Masters top 50. So a big congratulations to Mel & Sonia. You girls are amazing scrappers and i have everything crossed that you become Masters for '09.

The house is slowly getting packed up. We don't move until the 25th Oct but i like to be organised.

I really don't have anything else to say so i will leave you with these LO's.