scrap apple comp week 3

well i thought i was out of it this week as i couldnt think of anything to do

the challenge this week was to

take something from your everyday life that you would like to have in you studio and BTP it

so hard right!! im a person that doesnt have much stuff lieing around that i could use and i thought about lots of things when finally yesterday the light went on. Not the greatest idea granted but it got it finished!!!

so this is what i did

i took this plan boring book stand, that was in my kitchen holding up a book that didnt really need a stand. It was filthy too as im sure u can imagine when it was on the top of our kitchen cupboards!!

after cleaning this little stand I made a plate for the front of it and a canvas to sit in it permantly so that my layouts have some support while in the stand before going into my albums.

all the pp squares have been stitched witht he machine and all the buttons sewn in place.

here it is complete and below in use holding one of my latest layouts

scrap apple comp

have joined in with the fun of the scrapapple comp

fantastic prize of new furntiure for your scrap space

this week we had to scrap about our spaces...what we have and what we would like in a planing activity...then turn it into a double layout

i always struggle with doubles and most of u would know im a single page scrapper lol...but here it is...it took me days before i was finally happy!

go check out the other entries...fantastic work
www.scrapapple.com.au

scrapjacked

has everyone found this blog

www.aussiescrapjack.blogspot.com

so much fun.. :)

here is my version of the layout i have posted as part of the scrapjack erica glover

its my take on her blink layout

which i have been in love with since i saw it on her blog and in forkeeps. I think its the journalling in the layout that gets me...so i didnt want a blink layout as such but one that had heartfelt or important journalling in it so i went with this. hope u all like it and remember check out scrapjacked


HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
hope u all have a great weekend and enjoy your family time

EMILYS BIRTH

i dont think i have ever shared what happened to day or week of emilys birth.

its taken me ages to actually put it down on paper and i guess osme of the feelings were a little raw until recently. it didnt go to the grand plan.

the other part of it was these beautiful photos that i didnt want to distroy...the main photo is one of my favs...i find it amazing,,,emmy is only a few seconds old in that photo...to have a record of her life from this point makes me cry...with lilly we didnt get photos until she was in a crib as she wasnt doing so well (she quickly recovered but.. :)) lilly was aobut to be wheeled away to special care before anyone even thought were was the camera. we didnt really expect many problems with emily even thou she was 3 weeks early so the camera was out and ready

the journalling about her birth is on the large pull out white card...its held in place by the flowers

this is what it says

Things never go to plan when it comes to babies theys eem to always have their own schedule to follow. At 36 weeks there was some concern about the size of our girl. An ultrasound confirmed she was already 9 pound. I didnt believe them. At that point there were doubts about a natural birth but i was sure i could do it. At my 37 week checkup the fun started. high blod pressure, protiens - i wasnt shocked because i had this before. A few days in hospital and it seemed to get better, until the morning i was to go home. I felt sick and dizzy and not myself. It was decided it was time to meet our baby. i was sure birth would be ok and we pressed forward with an induction. weveryone expected it to happen quickly, but no such luck. 3 lots of gel and finally labour started at 7 pm. I was excited until i was told i wasnt dilating and that emily seemed stuck ina funny position. We kept going. Early in the morning i am downstairs again, nothing cha nged. But everyon was worried aobut me. I didnt want drugs. the midwives talked me into taking strong panadol and a sleeper, so i would rest. the next thing i know its 6am labour stalled and i woke in a panci. I was a mess I knew it meant a c section. Something i didnt want. But its amazing what you will do for your children, but there was still lots of tears that morning. I was scared. emily had to be monitored but she never skipped a beat. At midday i was prepared. Outside the OR i broke out into a cold sweat but the lovely nurses gave me a warm blanket. I shoook the whole time. the pinal easy. but things changed. i was scared but excited were going to finally meet em. My DR was making jokes nad bets over the weight. lillys birth was scary, she was sick but emily screamed straight away. She spent some time in a curb but was perfect. it was a positive and lovely experience. Because there was no emergency everyon at moter mothers private was so patient with me and allowed me to get comfortable and explained everything during the procedure. Im not rushing back for a csection any time soon but i know that i made the right decision for emily and myself that day. Im not sorry and i dont regret it alt all. this was emilys birth it was just different to waht i expected. Bit it was worth it all. And look at the photos. Poor lilly was safely in her crib before anyone even though to get a camera out.thankyou Dr chueng and mater mothers private (brisbane)

cuse the typos

my 100th post

100 posts...WOW im impressed ive had that much to say over the last year and a bit lol

went to a fantastic retreat on the weekend...thanks girls i had a blast even if i could only stay for the day. Thanks to the girls that did my class i really hope u enjoy your project.

this is what i created at the retreat (hmm is it a retreat when your just there for the day??)

I must mention that the idea for this came from something i had seen on the making memories idol site while i was there voting for my dear friend chris millar...VOTE 1 this tuesday

anyway

this is for another dear friend whos husband is a dentist. Our dentist actually...and this is about my daughters first visit to the dentist after she chipped a beautiful tooth (it looks ok now) to say i was nervous about her first dentist experience was an understatement...i had such horrible experiences as a kid with having to go to the free clinic and well lets say i have spent alot as an adult having that work repaired even with health insurance...so it was important to me that her first experience be a great one so that she isnt frightened like me...not that i got out of having a check up the day we were their either lol...lilly told me when she finished that it was my turn lol and we were not allowed to leave until i was looked at too very funny...of course had i known that would happen i would of taken the time to floss that morning!! lol oh well troy was so fantastic with her that i wanted to share it with their other patients and local people to our area. A great dentist i have found out is a rare find...and one that spent the time with my daughter to make sure she was as comfy as possible and not to frightened is a rarer find i think....so anyway on tuesday im going to take this up to them and pop it in the waiting room to show how great troy was..: )

if your local to the north side of brissy...i live at northlakes and troy owns Northlakes Family Smile. here is the link to their site http://www.familysmile.com.au/ if you need a dentist look no further he is fantastic

oh ps...i just had to play in photoshop i admire everyone elses blog so much when they take the time to work on their photos first...have to say im still working it all out but hehe

making memories idol

go check out this comp

its full of fantastic inspiration

www.makingmemories.typepad.com/mmidol/

voting is each tuesday for us...register and keep C HRIS MILLAR in the comp

she has made it to top 10

well done chris...your work has been fantastic

i have been busy this week finishing off my everyday moments album, which was posted yesterday with just enough time to arrive at pride in time for the close ofthe comp...and i was also working on a class im teaching on the weekend at a small retreat...i would share it but i cant at the moment...maybe after the weekend.. :)

hope everyone else has some great stuff planned for the weekend

YUMMY fancy pants PAPERS

oh paper addiction has the best papers in store right now
YUMMY fancy pants collections with matching rubons and the most darling bottles of buttons from rusty pickle that i have ever seen so cute and in such pretty colours too
i have had the pleasure over the course of the day to use all these products in a sample for the store....the fabric flowers i got at paper arts on friday cause i liked the ribbons that came with it but thinking while purchasing when will i ever use these bright colours and look i used them before a week even passed woohoo!!! its a pretty busy layout but i like it...i want to return to my roots a bit in the coming months as i think i was in a better scrapbooking space saythis time last year even thou i wasnt scraping much if that makes sense.
if u look closely at the frame too i got to use kates napkin technique on the frame...i just used a plain white one as i havent gone napkin shopping yet lol...but added the flourish rubon ...i really enjoyed making my own transparency embellishment woohoo

kate masons class

oh i had the pleasure of participating in Kate masons class at brissy paper arts on friday
see slide show for the project
thanks so much kate it was a fantastic class...i actually didnt think i would want to finish it when i got home but i did...i couldnt help myself i was so inspired by you such a clever person u are... :) hope your new book goes well it looked great
i learnt the greatest little trick with tissues, modpodge and plastic that i already know will star in my work again soon

a hat trick

Pinched this from Lisa's blog!, but only cause jody challenged me...hehe... The trick is, everything has to be a three word answer.

1. Where is your cell phone? in the kitchen
2. Boyfriend? a loving husband
3. Hair? curly, long, out
4. Your mother? Lives in townsville.
5. Your father? lives in brisbane.
6. Your favorite item(s)? new plasma tv.
7. Your dream last night? Can't really remember.
8. Your favorite drink? canned diet coke.
9. Your dream guy? dan of course!
10. The room you are in? My messy scraproom.
11. Your fear? not having money.
12. What do you want to be in 10 years? wife,mother,teacher.
13. Who did you hang out with last night? My dear husband.
14. What are you not? rich, famous, unhappy.
15. Are you in love? almost 10 years!
16. One of your wish list items? a back deck!!!
17. What time is it? Half past nine.
18. The last thing you did? put baby down.
19. What are you wearing? shorts and T-Shirt.
20. Your favorite book? Derr ... Harry Potter!
21. The last thing you ate? a hawinian pizza.
22. Your life? Work in progress.
23. Your mood? really quite happy.
24. Your friends? in my thoughts.
25. What are you thinking about right now? anges new baby.
26. Your car? fixed mit outlander!
27. What are you doing at this moment? Ummm, this list!
28. Your summer? Much prefer winter.
29. Your relationship status? Very happily married.
30. What is on your TV screen? soon csi newyork.
31. When is the last time you laughed? all the time.
32. Last time you cried? today stuipd movie.
33. School? Absolutely loved it!

a new profile pic

and i know its probably about time i add in a photo of me with both my girls
emily will be 7 months old on saturday...i cant believe it
my darling girl is getting so big so quickly. She is sitting on her own for quite some time now, and crawling all over the house like a mad thing, we have only 3/4 baby proofed...but i swear lilly brings more of it back than i can get rid of in a day...all those little toys she seems to of gotten...but she is learning where to keep themslowly. We have put up the gates which r to keep emily out of lillys room and the other lounge (which starts its first transformation into a media room on the weekend WOOHOO)

emilys new thing for the week...u guessed it DADADADA...lets just say that the DADADA in this house was very encouraging of this lol...i keep telling him she doesnt know what she is saying lol...but she does im sure of it

nothing to much going on here...i got my car back...i dont know if anyone remembers but all the way back on boxing day i had a car accident...nothing serious except the damage to my car!!!!...well after waiting for the shops to open up again after the christmas break they found out a part they needed was in australia...so then we had to wait a month for that...nearly 10 weeks after the accident i got my car back!!..once they got it on the road smaller things kept going wrong with it so there were quite a few extra days without it this week...but finally its all systems go and is running like a dream and it is looking all shiny and new...WOOHOO nothing worse than not having a car believe me

one last thing
making memories idol... VOTE FOR CHRISTINE MILLAR
chris has made it through the first round so its down to 30
congrats chris..woohoo

my top 10

thanks for passing this on chrissy
it was fun to go looking at my older layouts and pic favs

thanks

to all those people that visit my blog
i wish blogger had the ability to let me respond to you all privately
i love the comments recieved

some more pcos info
i always have my ear to the ground on this subject as it will effect me forever even thou i achieved my family
keep an eye on the csiro website...they are working on a study linked to pcos atm and their total wellbeing diet...i have dabbled with this diet it is great
also found out that it seems to run in our family;....so as the mother of two girls im extremely fearful for them now too.. :( i had never once thought about it being a genes thing im praying it likes to skip generations

my journey

i wished i blogged back then i think it would of been really helpful to have this style of journal and to now go back and read it, but instead i suffered this path alone. As the years have past i have met so many people with infertility problems explained and not explained...its the cruelist thing to ever go through and it changed me in ways i never knew until i was given the biggest gift of all..my children I have suffered this path twice to have my girls, i have PCOS (Poly cycstic oviarys) there r some radical ideas out there on how to solve the problem but for those of us that suffer it in the classic form infertility, excess hair, hard to lose weight etc to do anything is a major life transformation. I was lucky enough to stumble across sharkeys healing centre and use a herbal mixture to help me normalise and cleanse my body with the results speaking for themselves really. Im not sure why i wanted to share this with you all...i would like to hopethat anyone who reads this that is suffering this path knows that dreams do come true, that they are worth every little test and tear you will endurer while on this path and that we should talk about this...it touches so many people and so many people that i have met...i really find it quite scary because when its u u feel like no one else can understand...i wish i had know some of the poeple i have met when i was suffering it would of made it not easier but different

this layout im sharing started out being for my everyday moments album in the my life section, but it sort of spiralled and i ended up submitting it for the heartfelt journalling...still it might go into my album

the journaling reads

for the longest time i wanted a family. Chrildren to call my own. But at first my dream didnt come true. Much heartache, depression, tests and specialists took over 2 years of my life. Just as I was starting to accept out dream may never come true those 2 special lines turned up to change my world. I visited this part of my life once more when our dream included another world changing want. I look back now at that time and I look today at my beautiful children and know they were worth every tear and test endured.

another year older

well once i got over the inital bad start (my husband had purchased the present but forgot today was my birthday...lets just say it hasnt won him any browny points) to my 31st birthday i got a pretty cool present...sad part was that i didnt actually enjoy opening it because i was a little upset with said dh by this point...but i put it aside and finally enjoyed it much later on...still not a happy camper but

anyway...thought i would share some pics of my present

and yes that very special coloured box is from

and on this inside was something my dh was going to get me when we finally got the keys to our house but it wasnt a great time with all the bills associated with getting the keys to our house...u know the story

not doing anything else today so im sure it will be one filled with looking after children...its a bit sad really

our miss emmy is almost crawling...she has been dragging herself around for weeks but this morning has gotten up on all fours....god help me now...im excited and yet i know what this means this time lol....its almost the same time has lilly started to crawl too...on my birthday (yes my girls are that close in birth lol...3 years apart but both born in august...u wouldnt believe the jokes we hear about that lol and no its noone birthday

tagged

well it had to happen lol
chris tagged me so here we go

A=Available? married!
B=Best Friend - dont have one...have lots of dear friends but
C= Cake or pie - pie...savoury kinds
D= Drink of choice? d coke
E= Essential item you use everyday - My toothbrush!LOL
F= Favorite color: pink
G= gummie bears or worms- Worms
H= Hometown - Northlakes - brisbane
I= Indulgences - scrapbooking
J= January or February - feb..its my birthday
!K= Kids and Names - Lilly and Emily
L= Life is incomplete without... Hugs and kisses!
M= Marriage date - jan 8, 2000
N=Number of siblings- 1 brother and a step sister
O = Oranges or apples - apples
P= Phobias or Fears - Something happening to the kids
Q= Favorite Quote - Friends know us but love us anyway
R= Reason to smile - I love and I am loved
S= Season - Spring, or autumn...its so cool and so not hot
!T= Tag 3 or 4 people - Ky, Chrissy, jo kneller
U= Unknown fact about me: i spend to much money hehe
V= Vegetable you don’t like - tomato
W = Worst habit - I turn all the lights off...dan hates it
X= X-rays - chest, neck and back after car accident....arm and foot...after breaks and knee after dislocation
Y= Your favorite food - Lemon Merginue Pie, prawns, chocolate.. I could go on and on!
Z= Zodiac Sign - Pieces

time for some scrapbooking

i just noticed how long its been since i shared anything

these are two pages i was working on last night

50 years is of my grandparents on my dads side...i am guessing that this photo is about 10 to 15 years old...i wont knowuntil my aunt rings me back with the date

Friends...is of me and my friend suzanne...the flourish is something i made myself all inspiration coming from those biggest board sets of chipboard florishes u know the ones

IS IT HOT ENOUGH

well is it hot enough for us all!!!
i know the next big purchase we make with be airconditioning
at this stage thinking about ducted...but my god HOT
my poor miss emily has not coped well with the heat at all today
she has been attached to the boob in one way or another all day and when she wasnt she was a very unhappy baby!! its like come on u would be so much cooler on the floor but no no...poor little poppet and she sweated so much today because she wouldnt let me put her down but in a strange way i was sort of happy she was feeding so much...at least i knew she was hydrated! Needless to say that i had a very hot and uncomforable day and the only time i was cool was at the gym this morning!! i know a family that will be spending the day at the shops tomorrow if this heat doesnt go anything for an airconditioner

been on holidays

just spent the most fantastic week on the gold coast in sunny qld
i love it down there...my mum has a time share unit and this year we were given the opportunity to use it again...we have done this holiday many times in the past...but its always just as relaxing as ever. The beach is right across the road and we had beach views...i just love the sound of the waves as u go to sleep...i spent my week by the pool with a book or watching dan and lilly at the beach...emmy loved the water in the pool...but didnt think much of the sand...im right there with her...i didnt even go swimming at the beach (would rather be in a pool) and i was covered in the stuff.

dan took lilly to dreamworld on monday and she was beside herself...she had so much fun...and free for her too as she is still under 4 woohoo!!...i will upload some pics in a few days when we r unpacked

as for the diet..it suffered of course...but thats what holidays r for...back to normal this week being home and all!!!

i actually came home to a lovely surprise from my friend suzanne...that left us today to move up north to do her country service...my wonderful friend had left a photo of us together at my front door and a beautiful note...thanks sweetie...it was such a lovely thing to come home too...im going to miss u this year.

WEIGHT CHECK IN 2

well i have to admit after last week i didnt expect much this week
then i watched operh (sp) and well the life of a stay at home mum was fully lived lol...i dont usually watch her but she had a weight loss guy on...he was talking about water weight when u first start a diet and how u really shouldnt weigh yourself for the first 2 months until u actually really start to lose weight...i understood what he means but i cant do it...i need the scales as motivation!!!

so starting wieght this week
94.8
weight in
94.2
total weight loss
even 3kg

not bad i say for only 2 weeks
i have been this week fighting cravings which is horrible...but so want to say until i go on holidays next week to have just one naughty meal
my check in will be late next week...on holidays...home on friday so i will check in then...good or bad...its ok...im on holidays!!!

time for a change

and look i got real clever this monring and finally with the help of a great blog sorted out my banner...thankfully i will never have to do that again lol...but im so happy i have wanted for ages
and the brushes in my banner r from jason galyor...fantastic brushes there

other things
been married 7 years today...wow
emmy had her injections
a nice layed back sort of day
while dan had emmy at the doctor...yes im a chicken when it comes to needles...i spent some time with lilly on her own something i havent done in months!!!...actually since emmy was born and lilly was such a pleasure too...we went and did some girly shopping and she came home with nail polish and lip gloss in one of those kits for little girls...to cute!! and we had lunch...i miss my time with just lilly so much that i have to make sure she get some...i have so much time with just emily which i love...but i miss my oldest too and the time we spent together before emmy was here so i guess thats something i want to achieve this year...my second goal after weight loss...now that emmy is that little bit older and can go for a while without needing me is to spend some mum time with just lilly.