Addicted to Books & Digiscrapping

I never used to appreciate Fridays as much as I should have until I stopped working them! Since starting my new job and only doing three days a week, I can tell you Fridays are now officially my favourite day of the week - followed swiftly by Mondays rofl! Fridays are my scrapbooking day. I catch up on my CT duties, I post around the place, I finish up pages, I update the PBP fan page on Facebook (and play some games while I'm there!), and I generally have a great time. Then a couple of hours before I have to get the kids from school I race around the house like a mad woman, cleaning, tidying, washing etc etc until the place is sorted. Sounds crazy doesn't it! Why don't I just spend the whole day cleaning, taking my time and not turning my house into an Indy race track. There is a simple answer - I don't want to hahaha! It's nuts but I like it :) I wanted to share with you some pages that I posted this week using one of our new designers at Pickleberrypop - Joyce

Well it has been one LOOOOOng week here I can tell you! I have been having a migraine cluster and a half and even though I am on medication they kept coming!! Last count was 5 in four days!! Eeeek. Thankfully I have come out the other end now (phew) and (touch wood) every thing has settled down again. Needless to say my scrapping, housework, parenting and work duties have all suffered to varying degrees AND I believe that I have missed two days in my P365 *sob*! But I can't complain - its over for now! Today I am taking Bella to try on her new High School uniforms and order them so they will be ready for next year. We are going with friends of ours so the girls can giggle and have fun while her mother and I have to be resuscitated over the price of everything! Its at times like this when I wonder why we didn't go public schooling and I am pretty sure I'll think it again when we get our first semester school fees hahahaha! I'll let you in on a secret, I am making Bella a

Hmmm the jury is still out on that one at the moment but I am starting to think so. My FB page is much more up to date than my poor neglected blog. But I don't plan on letting go with out a fight and once I have come back from harvesting my Farmville crops, battling rampaging wizards on School of Magic, planting onions on my Island and dealing with blood suckers on Vampire Wars, I am SO coming back here to update my blog ROFL *stupid FB*. But I am still taking my daily photo I promise you and I am still amazed that I have made is so far throughout the year I mean wow it's October and I am still on track! And after tomorrow i will have endless netball photos to take now that Bella will be starting Summer season netball. Its a first for both of us, she has never played club netball before and I have never watched it before (or even understand it to be honest! Ball games are so not my thing!). But you know I look at it as a mother's duty to spend perfectly good scrapping time

I'm sorry I haven't been around much recently, I was just sooooo busy doing so many other things that blogging just seemed too much on top of it all. BUT oh wow I have a wonderful feeling of satisfaction as I have finally managed something that I never thought I would, I am up to date with my project pages!!!! I could feel the project slipping further and further out of reach as each week passed but YAY after a big day of sitting down and just doing it I'm now up to date!! The pages aren't beautiful but they are done!And now that it's done I am going to go back to blogging once a week again (at least that is the plan hahaha!) Ok without rambling on and on here are my Project 365 pages UP TO DATE!!!! Week 26 - July 06 to July 12 Credits - Paper & template - DebF, stitching,paper,flourish & Staples - ksharonk, Alpha - FruitLoOp Sally, Word Art - Weeds N Wildflowers Week 27 - July 13 to July 19 Credits - Paper & template - DebF, stitching,paper, flourish &

Ummmmm I really really can NOT believe that it's been over a month since I posted! That seems really weird to me - perhaps if I wasn't spending so much time on YoVille on Facebook I would be here more often rofl. Stupid game has taken over my life but I really really wanted to get a new bath for my bathroom so I have been working hard and saving my pennies hahahaha. But in between working at YoVille I have been mucking around helping get some very exciting things ready over at Pickleberrypop for their third birthday celebrations next weekend. I'll show you a quick sneak peek a bit later of a wonderful surprise that will be unveiled - you will love it!! But first off I am going to catch up with some of my project 365 pages - I know I am sadlly behind with these but I spent a bit of time this weekend catching up. My pages are not terribly fancy and I have kept the decorations very plain. I still have a couple of weeks to do but I am a LOT closer than I was to finally catching

Well I finally made it back here to post - I have been pretty flat out since getting back from our quick trip to Townsville and it seems like every time I sat down to blog something else more important came up! but here I am sneaking in a clandestine few moments between piles of laundry (still waiting to be put away from last weekend) and the vacuum cleaner that is currently sitting on the floor near me reproaching me in silence. I would like to post some of my recent pages as it seems to me that my blog has been taken over by my project 365 (which I am still going with!!) and I am not getting to show off my new things! So here are some of my recent pages for your viewing pleasure - at least I hope your enjoy them *wink* This page was made with the scrummy collab between FruitLoOp Sally and Tracey Stroud called Peppermint Smoothie available at PBP Wonder Credits here Here is my latest page using the lovely goodies from Cherpea Designs at Two Little Pixels - this is from her lovely ki

But I have been a bit slack at the posting of my photos and posting on my blog - sorry! I have managed to keep up my photos daily so far except for one day where my migraine shattered me and I took a pile of pills and went to bed. It's a fly by posting from me I'm afraid - I will try to get updated after we get back from our trip up to Townsville. We are leaving on Friday and are going to have a fabulous time catching up with family and friends! We haven't been back to Townsville in 8 years and I can't wait to see how the old place has changed! It's a wonderful opportunity for the girls to see where Mum and Dad met and were we lived. I imagine that I will take lots and lots and lots of photos - enough to tide me over until the next time we get up there! Anyway I won't ramble on - I have sinus and an earache at the moment and all I want to do is go to bed so here are the past two weeks Project pages and i will bid you all a fond farewell!! Project 365 - Week 20 -

Well I can't believe it but here I am - on time and ready to post last weeks page! Woohoo. Feeling a bit proud of myself and I am hoping that this means I am finally getting my act together. I'm pinching myself that I am sti ll going strong with the project and although some days are harder to come up with a photo idea than others (check out the peg basket rofl) I haven't lost my enthusiasm so far. I have realised that I don't have a lot of interesting knick knacks around my house to take photos of though a nd I thought that I should maybe invest in some to give me more stuff to photograph *grin*. I somehow don't think hubby will be very agreeable with that idea so I might pass for now. I am hoping to do a self portrait this week so you can tell me if my face is looking any thinner hahahaha as I can't really see any difference but then again I see myself every day. So here you are - on time for once - Week ummmm 19? of my Project 365! Credits - Paper & temp

Hi I'm just shooting past with a quick blog post - I'm doing a bit of blog hopping this morning and I hope that I make it to all your blogs to say Hi!! I would like to post some of the pages that I have scrapped this week - I went on a bit of a scrapping bender late in the week and this is the result :) The Sea using Olga Unger's great new Sea Paradise Credits here There is something so magical about the sea. It is a vastly powerful force, untameable, unknowable and yet so intriguing. Here is my DD walking alone the beach at Hervey Bay pondering the mysteries of the sea. Close to you inspired by the Carpenter's song :) and using Dawn Inskip's fab new Strawberry Crush Credits here Looking at Natasha I often have this song just pop into my head, when she was little I would sing it to her with her Lullabies at bedtime. I think it's the angels appearing and sprinkling "moondust in your hair and starlight in your eyes of blue oooooh oh" that gets me every t

Well another week goes by and I realise that I still haven't posted my last Project page here. Maybe I just like to work behind the deadline LOL. I have managed to get last weeks page finished and maybe if I REALLY concentrate I will actually post my current weeks page on Monday! Project 365 - May 11 to May 17 Credits - Paper & template - DebF, stitching,paper & Staples - ksharonk, Alpha - FruitLoOp Sally! It's been a busy week really with lots going on at home and work. I had Tasha home sick on Monday, a busy day at work on Tuesday and then Wednesday this week was particularly exciting/scary when we had the biggest "rain event" here in Brisbane since the 70's (so I have heard). There was so much rain that we had widespread flooding across the city. At work my car is parked in a side street and all morning the water ran down the road steadily. but after staying at the gutter level all morning it suddenly rose high enough to put an inch of water in my car.

Yes I am so very, very slack and I have gotten so behind in my posting. So rather than beat myself up I am going to just post two full weeks of photos and consider myself all caught up lol. I am finding myself very tired at the moment and all I seem to want to do is surf around the net for a bit in the evenings and then go to bed. I'm going to be upping my exercise regime this week so i am hoping that my energy levels will improve. I have plateaued in my weight loss journey (giggle I hated it in Biggest Loser when they said "my weight loss journey"!) a bit over the last few weeks and I think I need a kick start back into it again so I can be a few more kgs lighter when I go back to Townsville in June. Even though it will be nearly Winter then Townsville is still pretty much shorts and teeshirt weather all year round and I would like to look a little better in the shorts before then lol! So without further ado here are the past two weeks Project photos for your perusal. Pr

Hi everyone, how is everything going with you? Things have been a bit messed up here with me unfortunately *sniff* I got another migraine on Wednesday and it has taken me until today to shake the darn thing! I am pretty sure I know what triggered it (lunch at an Asian cafe) but I'm not sure WHAT in lunch triggered it (they say there is no msg in their products). It was pretty nasty and I felt so fragile for three days, I couldn't even look outside the windows because the light hurt - but anyway I'm better now and I won't be eating THERE again so all's well that ends well! I have finally finished last weeks Project photos and I have created another page for it - it really is an easy way of showing off the photos :) Credits: DebF's Year in Review template & paper & everything else from ksharonk designs. There are lots of things going on in the background that I am working on and I can't wait to share some of them with you but until then you will have t