fav photo of the day

ive been doing really well with my photo a day

at the start i was struggling to see the things that would look like great photos

and then we did a few things and it was easy, and then today eaiser ideas have just shown up in my head. I think this is my favourite favourite photo so far

its a photo that makes me smile but its also got a little sad side. I smile cause look how cute they look..hehe...and then i see how much my girls have both grown in the last little while...and then i look at emily and think oh my where has my baby gone...she has changed and grown so much lately and starting to lose that baby look, and all of a sudden she is looking so tall im not sure how that happens one day they look like they always have and the next taller! she is such a funny chicken with her new kindy bag too lol, loves it, its just like her big sisters and she knows its hers and fussy, she holds it all the way to and from kindy and then takes u into her room to hang it up where it goes in her room unlike her sister who we argue with from the time we get home to take it to her room lol

usually i would work today, hence the kindy, and i spent a wonderful afternoon with my lovely friend and emilys god mother so my day was filled up, because i felt just a little sad to see my cute family walk out the door without me this morning.

more cleaning tasks this week from the scrap heap

this week was a cardstock mission and i will admit i didnt think it was to bad, but it looks 100% better without all the stuff on the racks!

when it rains it pours

just lately ive had some great scrapbooking things going on

for years ive scrapped and played with some mag publications and its all been mostly a great time...i then wanted other scrap related things

as u do

then i went through this time where it didnt matter what i submitted no one wanted it, im pretty much mostly the whatever person, and then it changes as quickly as the mags stopped being interesting in my stuff

my luck starts with making masters top 100, and then getting my hm

then paper trends and the part of my project that was on the front of the cover (of which i have now seen but still dont have a mag copy, but it did look cool on a green wall) my first cover anythimg and first us publication

then the other day i saw stamping and papercraft who i have had heaps of success with recently and its a mag i really enjoy being published in as the ytake such care to photograph the projects, im on the cover that is out right now with a card called hello there...that was exciting to see

but nothing like what im about share was i expecting

went to ikea today with my friend julie

chris rings me talking about a layout i have coming out in scrapbook creations and that she had seen it...ON THE COVER

oh my god, my baby girl is on the cover of scrapbook creations!!!!

so i can already see the sales for scrapbook creations next month is going to be inflated by lots of jones family members!!!

how cool is that im totally floored by it...wow! cant wait to get my layout back now.. :)

congrats to the mason family on the safe arrival of beautiful twin girls and chelsea is in our thoughts as she overcomes her hurdles

a little bit of a tidy

Ok so i dont usually join in challenges usually i dont have time....that was until today. Over at the scrap heap they decided to start off the new year with a clean up your scrap space challenge.
here are my before the first challenge photos.....very sad!



Now challenge one was the take everything off your desk and scrub it clean...i couldnt quiet believe just how dirty my desk was...lets just say it was like putting a layout in a pile of dirt!, next was the scrub clean your self healing matt of which i couldnt get the paint off but its looking much better now! and then cull and throw out broken and empty things from tool boxes etc and put things away that just seem to creep onto the table area....of course u will have to ignore under the desk for the moment we havent had that challenge yet...but it was so nice to just create in something that wasnt a mess not that i did much after all this cleaning. But in my cleaning mood i found a double photo frame that was empty...it isnt now! lol


its begging to be messed up again isnt it lol, i did tidy after i fixed up the photo frame and it was so much easier cause it all had a place to go!!

happy new year

happy new year everyone

i have started my new year off by getting my first photo a day photo and taken a leaf out of ali edwards book and made the pages for my book for the month so that if im organised i should actually be able to keep up with 365 photos! this year. I have chosen to make mini monthly mini books which i will display in the house, my girls love mini books to look at. I used my bind it all to make the book with just papers that were in my scrap pile. I think i will get a small basket and throw page size scraps into it every time i scrap so things r cut and ready to go. I have decided to go for multi size pages behind this front page. Hoping it will look ok at the end.

for the front of each month ive also decided to take family photos to see how much we change through out the year. It should be interesting i hope.

de christmasing

well ive just de christmased come on the new year

lilly was a little sad to see the christmas spirit leave the house but she will live.!

christmas morning saw us up at 6:30 which i didnt think was to bad and there was nothing slow about the present opening in this house it was all in for the santa gifts it slowed a little when things came out from under the tree, we were then off to my family for the day. But it was odd weather this year in brisbane and only the kids got in the pool,my family isnt really big into the gift thing which is ok the kids got a wooden cubby house a few days before so they were stoked with nanny and pa and some togs from nana and paulie...so they were very spoilt when it came down to it all. i spent the last 2 weeks nursing a stomach bug thing that just wont leave so even my waste line enjoyed the cheer cause i didnt parttake to much .

boxing day saw us at the sales even thou i said i wouldnt go, but only to our local target and shops. I got a few things on sale and a nice dress and shoes for a wedding in a few short weeks.

heres a layout of my girls christmas santa photo...we went on christmas eve....slack i know, but i knew it was going to be hard for emily....she only just made the photo poor pet

and some photos christmas morning before going to my dad and step mothers for a yummy lunch.

ooer and i almost forgot that my scrap supplies are the proud new owner of a clip it up...its fantastic! its all so neat and tidy now, wanting to top teir of it now too, but that will have to wait it isnt a cheap storage solution but way worth it!

well on to the new year, im not one for resolutions, but i have decided that in 2008 im go ing to keep a photo journal and take at least one photo of something each and every day, i will then put it all together in mini albums for each month i think! lol time will tell if it happens but i think it will be interesting to record our family's daily life including the growth of my kidlets in this way, i will share on my blog too

happy new year all

oh ps check out stamping and papercraft this month....ive got a card on the COVER...i was way excited to see it there...its a card called hello there and the cards use the lovely kate masons napkin mod podge technique, which has been explain by me in the mag with permission from kate and its only there to aid people in completeing my cards... :)

Masters 2007

Congrates to the girls that got the top title.. :) the work on the cover looks fantastic and i cant wait to go get my copy of the mag to see it all

the site has some of the hm stuff up gave the link yesterday and its all fab work...including my own storage item which was a buzz to see up there with some great names!

heres the rest of my entry....i loved it even if the judges didnt, its some of the better work i have produced this year i would have to say. Heres my mini book entry

its a book of envelopes that open in each one is a page of the book.

single entry

and my double...has opening tabs and stuff...about feeding emily

and finally my hm winning tool tote

some news and christmas

no paper trends yet to show off my work...but im told it looks great...im dieing to see it but

then my friend chris pointed this out to me

http://www.scrapbookingmemories.com.au/current_issue.php

im happy to have gotten something for my efforts...its nice, looking forward to seeing this mag the work on the site looks fantastic

and congrats goes to all the other winners both masters and HM's

here i go again i will be sucked in now for next year...bugger lol

im nearly ready for christmas some last minute things to organise tomorrow hoping the shops will be quiet seeing as its sunday...crossing fingers anyway

paper trends magazine

ive known about this for an age it seems and my project has been in the states for about as long

but this morning when i got a sale email from them i nearly died when there showing just partly on the front cover was my project...my first american publishing too

so my project is in the top line second last square...how cool is that i cant wait to get this magazine an aussies on the cover woohoo for me thats made my day

scrapping retreat

my first one in 15 months....long time! but i wanted to wait until emily was a good age to leave for the weekend with the whole feeding her thing

had a great time

spent most of my weekend working on this A4 book i made with my binditall its all about emilys first birthday, i had that many photos of it it was silly so now they r all in one spot...i actually enjoyed scrapping like this with them all in a book about the theme instead of in my albums...i dont know why maybe its the easy to put out for people to look at (my kids mainly)

i also achieved some pages i cant show and this double...which is good cause it just felt like i ate and ate all weekend
im loving making memories noteworth at the moment

this is the hail we had just a few short weeks ago...my eldest thought that i made it hail for her entertianment....too cute!

home from work today

with a sick kid

she is in a very quiet mood

so i cheered her up with some christmas craft

thanks to ali edwards that shared her button trees making me see that lilly (4) would be able to do it herself, its fast becoming my fav blog to go and visit...and to tia bennett whom had the orginial idea up on twopeas this week

lilly has been a treasure working on her project and its so very cute

this one is lillys...didnt she do an ace job...so very cute she is of course now so tired and cranky and worn out but she wont have a sleep!

and yes i know im very into the non traditional colour atm and its only november but i didnt have the heart to put it away after miss 4 did such a good job she is so proud of it lol.. :)

heres my scrapjacked entry for this month

and apart from that im SICK of waiting to be told that masters is actually over and the calls have been made....string it out much! i dont care tha ti didnt get the call as if i expected it but it would be nice to know its all over!

more cards

again

i couldnt be more pleased to see my cards in stamping and papercraft. its fast becoming my fav place to be published

just look at how they display and photograph the work its so lovely

these are my christmas cards.. :) they r very easy esp for mass production and take very few products which i like for mass produced cards makes them that little bit cheaper

i think they r cute..: )

its prompting me to pack some christmas supplies for my small scrapbooking weekend away this weekend...a chance to work on some christmas cards and things for the low times when i dont feel like scrapbooking

there r some really cute projects in the stamping and papercraft mag out for christmas

For Keeps ET

As per usual i got all my entry back

no winning layout in there not even a layout kept for publishing which was a little sucky

here they r

im very disappointed that they didnt keep this first one just for publishing

This is emily i dont know WTF for keeps are looking for anymore used to have a bit of success with them but NOTHING for a good 12 months or more ...this is a fav of my entry all the journaling spots are about why my emily is beautiful and its all that heartfelt stuff about her personality etc..: ) and i just love that photo of her

i was also very happy with this one of lilly just before she turned 4 and again journalling all about her at this age.

went for a bit of variety with this one..moving away from just scrapping children to show a different style i guess. I like it its not a fav but.This last one i was really really happy with. I quite like it and again its that little bit different to the others even thou its about my girls
and the last layout isnt scaned and im not happy with it so im not going to bother it let my entry down and i didnt have time to deal with the problem having said that i didnt expect to win...who really would expect it but i would of hoped that at least some of the above layouts would of been published but apparently they are no good in the eyes of for keeps...WHATEVER! i think they make my album look great so in the words of bart simpson...EAT MY SHORTS! hehehe

to blog

havent posted in a while

ive been wondering about blogging and if it really has a place in my life or my familys life.

it seems to open us up to people talking about your life, your untidy or tidy house and how many hours u actually spend scrapbooking or on the computer and not with your kids. it seems to let people think that they know u just because i shared some small part of our life and my scrapbooking. I am for the first time ever gratful to not be a known name in scrapbooking. And that prompted me to thinking about things and that i want...for the longest time i wanted the recognition (not the celeb title - im so not into any of that shit) i wanted to be published, wanted a spot on a mag dt team or to be a master. BUT WHY! it just seemed to be one of my goals maybe it will forever be one. I have read over the last week a distructive little blog u all know the one that has ripped apart people, their scrapbooking and then more seriously their lives. I have to say i dont want to be on a list of people that has been ripped apart by this blog just because their work seems to appear in mags a little more often than the rest of us, it has for me allowed me to evaluate what any of the above want means to me...while i would still love to win a comp that i have put my heart and soul into it wouldnt really mean anything to my life and what is important in my life that stuff wouldnt change so this blog while i find it depressive and creative sucking hole of despair put things into prespective for me.

im feeling for anyone that has had their life put onto this blog or anyone that had their work attacked, i for one would be sad to log onto my fav blogs and sites and not see the work of people because they were worried about reaction. I love all different styles and all different works even if its not how i scrapbook, i sometimes evny people and how they scrapbook because its so different to mine...sarah van wjick for one i love her work but its so not how i scrapbook and i think thats why i like it....roz james love her work too....love erica glovers journalling it inspires me to journal on my layouts about more than just what happened and the date i thank her for that and then the flip to all the people i just mentioned...i like the arty stuff too jen hall, emily falconbridge u know the stuff i couldnt scrap like that if my life depended on it but i love looking at it.

my work at times could be described as product vomit im sure...what can i say i like a well structured page with lots of product...im a lumpy bumpy girl...i like journalling that means something to my family...i like distressed items on my page and making my own embellishments or trying to find that way to make the product i can afford go just a little bit further. I generally like my finished work...i have struggled with my style this last little while as i see things i would like to change about it...but cant so i have decided to embrace me...this is how i scrapbook and im proud of it, i love sharing it with people because i like to see the work they have shared so with those feelings in mind heres some of the things i have been working on and doing over the last 8 weeks or so since i last posted.

did this today....it has been inspired by ali russel (she has the most beautiful circle layout on her blog atm i LOVE IT) and a layout i saw on 2 peas by one of the gg cant remember which one and u would probably have a hard time spotting the layout as in the end this layout didnt look anything like the one that got me working.

i have to say half way through i almost pulled it apart but i like it now lol....emily hitting the trantrum stage so funny...she watches and then looks finds a spot and throws herself down on the floor and cries lol of course i step over her and keep doing whatever it was that i was doing before while i have a giggle at her....she is oh so cute

obviously my dh is home today lol a whole layout started and finished in one day and uploaded that doesnt happen

one from the weekend friday, sat and sun nights worth of work...my friend julie inspired and then challenged me to scrap over the weekend to get me out of my scrapping low point..thanks julie...again looks nothing like the layout she sent me to inspire me lol

My final piece for scrapbook stuido in new zealand...cant believe that i have been on that team for a year and my time was up...thankyou to lisa i loved working with you and your store. I will still be around in the gallery. The plastic album that lisa sent me with lovely paper and things to play with was so much fun and it looks really different to your traditional album.

Ive been quite into mini books just recently. I wasnt a fan for the longest time...why i thought when i had my albums...but as lilly gets older she wants to look and as 4 years do she isnt always careful. So i made her a few mini albums that we have out in our house in a basket (thanks to ali edwards for that idea) and she loves them and i dont mind if they get read to death and fall apart because my layouts are safely put away about the same events for when she is old enough to understand you cant be rough. So here is lillys birthday mini book. Oh i got a bind it all...LOVE IT

seems blogger has had enough photos for today. Enjoy

cards

well we have been very quiet here over the weekend after our hospital visit and eventhing that happened last week, im over it all hehe...its amazing what finally getting to retreat into my scrapbook world can do for your mental well being hehe...not that i can share my work just yet

heres something i can share

my first set of published cards, i love how this mag set them up to be photographed each set is different and they all look fantastic.

so this is stamping and papercraft mag check it out.

heads work and more

well there is nothing like having a year off work to make something go fast is there!!
when i left work to have emily i was very lucky to have ALOT of long service leave and 12 weeks of maternity up my sleeve...all of which i was then allowed to double by taking half payments each fortnight giving me just over a year at home with my beautiful girls
this week it all came to an end.! I do enjoy my job...im a primary school teacher, its challenging and im not a paper work kind of girl so i would of sucked in a office somehwere i can tell u I do enjoy watching children learn and knowing that i was responsible for leading them down the path to learning and take my job very seriously and try to make sure its down to the best possible what i find difficult is the politics of school life i think i can safely say that this week i recieved NO SUPPORT from my colleagues....zip none nothing ! they have spent their time this week bitching about how the person that had my class while i was on leave didnt get to keep the job....u know im sad for her to she did work really hard while i wasnt there and myself and my friend that i share my job with thanked her for all her hard work, but lets just say people are making my return to work harder than it need be...as if it wasnt hard enough to go to work with the guilt i feel about having my kids in day care while im at work, as if it wasnt hard enough to walk into a class that has had another teacher for the whole year and attempt to fit in with that class and their parents and put a positive spin on everything all the other shit that has hopped on the train is making everything so much more difficult
i wish it didnt worry me but it does, i wish i was the type of person that would say hey, get over it im here to do my job so just leave me be but im not, im the type that will take it to heart and end up really hurt by what they r doing to say im sick of having it blamed on me would be an understatement (and ive only been there for 2 days this week...next week will be great with 3 wont it)
and to make everything worse
emily didnt sleep last night after spending a full day in care she was so clingy last night we couldnt put her down. I missed my kids like crazy yesterday and today and i know they missed me but being awake all night and then going to work is not fun
then today miss lilly split her head open !...just as i arrived to pick her up from daycare so i spent the afternoon and first part of the night in the emergency where they thankfully glued the problem up
sorry for unloading
i so wanted to retreat back into my little scrapbook world tonight but i am so buggered mainly emotional that i think i will be going to bed very soon!

all about miss lil

its all about lilly today

as she turns 4



I will never for as long as i live forget the moment that i found out I was pregnant with you. It had been a strange time in my life as we walked the road of infertility between natural and medical assistance and the complete range of HIGH and extremely low emotions that go with it. I never for the life of me expected that test to come up with two lines that night...BUT IT DID.

We had been on holidays with my mum and her husband paul on the gold coast, we were resting and not thinking about being pregnant finally deciding a break from it all was what we needed. I was ill for quite alot of that holiday and couldnt stomach things like drink and breakfast (i know i should of known then and there...but i didnt...i knew i was pregnant with emily straight away cause of the same feelings...but not with lilly)

we came home still having no idea that our miss lilly was on her way finally turning us into a real family, it was a week after this that i was still complaining about not really feeling all that well and that i was extremely tired that my mum had said what if your pregnant?????

I was immediately off the phone and on my way down to the supermarket...funny thing is it never crossed my mind until that phone call...i spent the whole time until seeing the test saying I'm not, don't get hopeful (we had had so many high hopes dashed during that time in our lives)

I peed on the stick and then wondered off to do some other things including a phone call to your god mother and forgot about the test sitting on my toilet floor, still on the phone i went in to the test not expecting anything when there it was....2 LINES!!!!!!...2 lines...i dropped the phone and couldn't speak when sam asked me what was wrong i told her i had just done a test and it was positive....it was positive....i was FINALLY pregnant....at this point i really couldn't believe my eyes i almost hyperventilated i was in total SHOCK. when i rang my mother back i just said its positive and she didn't know what i was talking about for a second. This night...BEST IN MY LIFE, it is on a line with Lilly and Emily's birth but i will never ever forget this one moment that changed my world forever...there were alot of tears that night...tears of shock, disbelief, complete and utter joy and then some of fear as well.

lillys pregnancy didnt go without complication however and she was born a month early and low in birth weight (5pound 6) there had been placenta issues as well as my own high blood pressure issues and her birth while natural was with assistance and extremely scary....amazingly she recovered so quickly and so well that we were only seperated for a few hours (i wonder if its this experience even just a few hours that it was is what makes me not enjoy being away from my children...we dont do the baby sitting thing very often at all...i like having my kids with me or with at least one parent in general...funny i think im actually proud of the fact that they dont get watched by others very often except for the neccessity of day care for when im at work, we are very hands on parents i think or i hope)



after a rocky start...4 years down the track and my big girl is amazing. She is so independent which i would say she gets from me, she likes to do it herself (that is so me lol) She is kind and loving but strong willed and well can be stubborn...something else she gets from me hehe...and my beautiful girl used in the right way these things r so assets..: ) believe me i know. I cant believe how beautiful my girl is (both of them r actually) ringlets of curls and eyelashes most of us need to use fake ones to get, she is tall and skinny and has so much energy and generally loves life. I have loved being home for the last 12 months as it has allowed me to get to know my big girl and the child she has become in a completely differnet light. She LOVES being outside running around playing in the sandpit or her fort and chasing the dog. She LOVES craft and art she call s it all making lol. She pushes and challenges me to be the best i can be . She is daddys girl always has been there is just something between them that is so special and its really nice to watch them together :) Lilly is such a girl, she loves clothes (god help me lol) and hair pretties and rings and bangles all that dress up stuff but is a shocker at cleaning up and keeping her room tidy (something else im also hopeless at you should see this room lol) Both my girls may look like their father but this post has really shown me how much lilly and I are alike as well...its amazing really

I LOVE YOU BABY

BIGGEST HUGS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG NUMBER 4!

the birthday express

i have to say i love august...its my favourite m onth

we celebrate the birth of both our beautiful girls in august...and while its my fav month and one i prepare for months in advance with present shopping and layby where neccessary by am i glad once its all over

my big baby lilly is turning 4 on wednesday...i cant actually believe she is 4...this year she is really into the whole birthday thing....for months she has been talking about it and looking at the birthday cake book and talking about having a party. Never having had a birthday party for her (except the first one) we decided a little party would be nice...lilly asked for a princess fairy birthday party...we made crowns and wands and ate a toads stool cake..lilly was beside herself which makes all the getting ready worth it doesnt it...her face once she got home from swimming lessons this morning to see our house (sadly inside) decorated with hellum filled pearly pink and purple balloons with fairy dust on table clothes of fairys with fairy cups and plates and a princess balloon that has been singing happy birthday to her all day was a priceless experience.

Well this before the party and look at that face hehe....i think she has looked this exicted all day even now when she is beyond tired she is still on that happy nice place high.

Why do kids always pick the cake u really have to think about...but thankfully she was very happy my the jones version of the cake lol

This is my larger open living space....thankfully it can accommdate a party who knew lol....the rain the rain im a little sick of it even thou i know we really need what we r getting scary that it really is only a 3 month supply...anyway...i have to cutest photo of lilly upon walking into the room all set up for her party...eyes as big as saucers.

Making crowns...the concentration...she kept going back and adding things to her crown and wand all day and she was so fantastic with the glue and the craft that im thinking its time to add at home glueing and making into the daily routine (we do craft all the time paint and stuff....)

her finished wand

Blowing out the candles on the cake. the cake took me all day yesterday to bake, cool and ice and well we do have half left but five seconds after the song its all over, u would only do it because u love your children hehe

well its after 7:30 now and both my beautiful girls are in bed with no tears or dramas...they were both very tired girls i think hehe

i have to say hellum filled balloons esp the singing birthday one - well worth the money...they have kept children amused all day and much of the night in this house...and the best part we have enough hellum to blow the big one back up again before the tank goes back on monday....however it has had a quick hole repair tonight lol so i hope it lasts...they say u get 50 plays of the song and i must say we have to of had ALOT more than that out of it

now she has to wait until wednesday for her first real B _ I _ K _ E, for that one i cant wai tto see her face

congrats to everyone that got a masters call i cant wait to find out what happens now...whatever it is all my things are at sm as we speak

a big good luck to heidi swapp on her big move to china

and a WOW how exciting to kate mason - twins

and to the millar family...thinking of u guys...happy birthday angel princess rani

a reason to save

there is nothing like a great reason to save is there

last week my parents (dad and step mother) were telling us of their plans for the france holiday they have booked for a little over 18 months from now. They have decided to rent a large house (they plan to be away for a while i think), and are going to hire a van type transporter van...im going ok...interesting and looking at them sort of werid i have to say...what would 2 people want with that....the next sentence i had to ask them to say twice! lol they have invited us and the kids of course to go with them and my step sister and her partner and kids as well and the best part and the part i had to ask for twice...all we have to do is pay for our flights and have spending money...YEH!!!!!

so france here we come....we started saving this week...how exciting is that

we have been before but stayed in the main areas of france...the tour towns...paris, nice etc u know the ones... :)

everyone is discussing the location of the house at current and if we just go for one location the whole time or go for two locations...im with my step mother in saying we go for two locations so at this stage everyone is going towards a house in the country side but close enough to paris to come in for the night once or twice and then into wine country

it will be so interesting to actually be in the smaller towns and part of the life over there for a few weeks and will be very different to the france i saw from the hotel point of view so we r very excited here...

dan and i r thinking of either going home via london or america for a quick visit...probably london...the euro star was suggested and then a few days in london and then fly home from there....dont know we have done london...I LOVE THE PLACE...but would also love to go to newyork and then florida (have family there) and then home....will be fun with a 5 year old and a 2 1/2 year old wont it lol

seeing a pic on kerrins blog just before made me think wow we will actually get to see that again and i will ge tto take the sorts of photos i want this time

u know the bit that is very exciting...a french mark in my passport....u pretty much have to fly into france to get one...when we came over from the uk its this sort of no big deal thing which is sad and u dont get stamps anymore as it sjust one big thing now...so i will finally get to add a french one to the lonely uk and swiss ones in my passport hehe

taught at blossies in morayfield yesterday....it was lovely...a great bunch of ladies who worked at the project so well cause we had to move quick. here is the project

its a large canvas...we turned it around and used the back of the canvas...its a tops idea isnt it...i wish it had been mine but alis no...i saw a lady in nz do it first...i sadly deleted the name but and cant remember otherwise i would plug her work it was beautiful. Im working on doing a few canvas's like this as gifts in the next few weeks too...its so clever! i have to admit i was just thinking derrr when i saw the effect...i love that it has a frame

hope everyone had a great weekend

enjoy your week

jacqui

a great week

well it started off with dread
emily turned one
but i bravely went there and dealt with it all well
and then i have followed on to have the best scrapbooking week ever plus so other great things hehe
after years of sm masters submissions i finally got in the top 100...but oh the packaging up of those articles is not fun, im so worried its going to get damaged on the way and not look the part on arrival...but still to have gotten this far is fantastic as i had decided not to do it again if nothing came of it this year...but im kind of pleased i can try again next year now hehe
that was monday or tuesday...tuesday i think

then wednesday my dh said the words every woman wants to hear....i will do the housework for u for the next 2 days...WOOOOHOOO lol....my dh always helps out int he house...with whatever he is really pretty good...the last few weeks he has been working ALOT...out the door by 9 and not home until after midnight (he is a chef...and a very good one at that) in that time we ordered garden mulch and things to finish off our main part of the backyard and well its lucky im not frightened of hard work cause u know who had to do all the work....ive been so buggered i havent scrapped much at all...i often wonder if my dh notices the house is generally clean and tidy and the clothes washed and put away etc etc...and well the answer is YEP he does... :) so that was nice
then
my face cleanser fell and broke on the floor...dan didnt notice it and showered while the container filled with water...and well that just wasnt going to wash my face was it...to my delight upon walking into myers yesterday where i left $300 dollars lighter in the pocket...it was clinque gift with purchase time...WOOOHOOO so i replaced all my skin care items which were looking just a little bit sad (I have to say i hate it when everything runs out at the same time thankfully it doesnt happen often) and came home with a little gift...and the lip plumping lip gloss is worth a go ladies....oh it makes your lips all nice...not big but u end up with no cracks in your lipstick...oh i love products hehe

after i got home yesterday after a lovely morning tea with my friends Chris , sal and julie (during our lovely morning tea we got in trouble by these cranky old ladies for making to much noise...how rude is that) sitting in my inbox was a message from kim archer tell me i had made the short list in her search for a miss september comp for Kim Archer at home

so while i havent won anything its not about the winning is it...sometimes its just nice to know your up there in the right place with your work

thanks for reading my ramble hehe...clearly i have nothing worth while to talk about lol

hope you all have a great weekend

heres some pics of my miss emily on her birthday ps im not a good dig artist hehe...but it was all so pretty i had to use it...the kit is downloadable from www.shabbyprincess.com and it is called spring breeze

a call

i got a special phone call yesterday