Addicted to Books & Digiscrapping

It's Saturday morning here and everyone (except me) is still asleep, so I thought I would quickly catch up with my blog :). This week has gone by so quickly that my head is spinning - I mean where did the week GO???? Most of it was just work BUT on Thursday we went to the Ekka! Now it has been a couple of years since we were last there and we had we promised to take the kids - yikes! I was a pretty reluctant to go with the 'flu being so nasty this year but I'm very glad we went. It was not crowded at all and we had a great time. The kids had a ball! Click on them to see it WAY bigger - LOL! On the ADSR front, I finished challenge #9 quite easily because the challenge was to do a layout about an embarrassing moment, journal it, put on at least two ribbons and a tag :). Well those of you who know me will know that my whole life is a series of embarrassing moments - so I had plenty of food for thought. I ended up picking the most recent of my moments - LOL. Embarrassing! Cr...

Well the dust is starting to settle after I handed in my resignation and I have to say, I'm feeling HEAPS better about doing it! I felt a bit freaked out at first but I'm OK now - LOL! I was so freaked out that I forgot to mention that it was a special day for us on the 11th August. It was our seventeenth wedding anniversary and hubby & I went out for dinner and saw the new Harry Potter movie! It was really lovely just to have some adult time, just the two of us :) Here is how we looked this time 17 years ago - we were SO cute! I'm so lucky to be married to my best friend. On the ADSR front - I love what Deb did to my Challenge #7 LO! The rubber bands are fantastic :) - have a look! Credits are here . Well not much more to add - all is going along swimmingly here and no other news to report. I hope that this finds you, my family and friends, all happy and well. Ta ta

Well I'm sorry that it has been a little while since I popped in here but it been a bit of a bad week! After what has been a pretty stressful time at work (understatement and a half!) I finally buckled under the pressure, they broke me and I quit ! I gave a months notice and I quit the job that I have been at for eleven years. I am now gainfully "un"employed! Hubby & I decided that I needed some time to sort my head out, so I'm not looking for other work until Jan 08. During the next few months I can spend some time with the kids, get fitter, lose a bit of weight, and try to remember what it was like to be calm and happy - LOL! The kids are pretty excited at the thought of having me home and I know that once the waves of panic subside I will be happy too! So fingers crossed in Jan 08 that there are a few part-time payroll jobs on the north-side up for grabs or I'll be moving to a caravan-park coz I've had to sell the house - lmao!!!! On the ADSR front - I ...

I stumbled across a thread at DST that linked back to Amanda Heimann's blog and she had this YouTube video on it that just blew my mind. I haven't laughed so much in ages and it proves to me that parenthood is a universal condition. Watch this for a laugh and a bit of a tear :) Follow this link to go to the video - if I put it on my blog the music clip I have drowns out the words of the song which are the best bit - try it, you wont be sorry! Nighty night :)

Wow this challenge was REALLY hard! The rules were that we had to ............. " create a "messy" style layout. Please use a solid paper and only 2 patterns for any paper extras. You must use at least 15 elements and no more than two elements can be from the same designer. Please do not use the same element repetitively more than twice as this counts as your two items per designer. Use this roadblock to challenge your creativity and to think outside your normal scrapping box. The messier the better and please feel free to use more than 15 elements as that is the minimum requirement only. We would also love to see some fancy title work (an alpha used for your title work can be considered one element) and there should be at least a tiny bit of journaling. Include dates, location and names somewhere on the layout." I must have done 4 LO's (and canned half of them!) before I hit on the idea of this one. I suppose on the plus side, I now have a couple of LO's in...

I can't believe I'm finished this already LOL. The idea of this challenge just jumped out at me and the LO just burst into life - pretty funny hey! Credits are here and if you can't read the writing just check out the credits link as the copy there is bigger and easier to read! I am so not typing that journaling out again - lmao! Hey I forgot to mention that I finished Harry Potter ages ago! Sorry about that :). Anyway I just wanted to say that I was very happy with the ending and I felt it ended just as it should (no plot spoilers for anyone who hasn't read it yet LOL). Now I'm going to dig out my copies of Susan Cooper's "Over Sea Under Stone" novels to re-read because I have heard a rumour from some friends in the US who tell me there is going to be a movie released in October based on this series. I remember that I loved this series so much that I had the set shipped to me in Townsville from the UK! I hope that the movie does it justice! Well I...

Hmmm I had a bit of trouble with this LO :(. It took ages to come together and I'm NOT entirely sure that it works but as a good friend of mine (M:) ) said, it is about finishing the race and not how popular your LO's are, that matters! So anyway I've finished it and that's that! So here it is: Credits are here Just wanted to share some exciting scrapbooking news with you! The wonderfully talented Carol has been selected to be a guest Creative Team Member for one of our very favorite designers ksharonk - horray! So pop over to her blog and check out her fabulous LO's. On the home front, we have recovered from our recent infestation of "hair lice"!!! Yuck! I washed everything there was to wash in HOT water (water restriction be damned!) and have treated and gone over everyones hair with (if you will forgive me) a fine tooth comb ! That was enough drama for one week and apart from me losing my voice because of this head cold all has been good at home :). So...