Addicted to Books & Digiscrapping

Shhhhh be vewy vewy qwiet or you might scare off the absentee blogger ....... Its a fly by posting from me (surprise!). There is too much to say to catch up and I just think the best thing would be to start from today and continue the way I mean to go on ... scrapping and books! Its been a busy scrappy start to the week with the April BYOC out at The Lilypad. Of course I had to scrap a few pages for the April Challenges with the BYOC because its so much fun! Pretty Beach Toes - Template Challenge credits Happy Day - BYOC Challenge Credits   My Comfort Zone - Journaling Challenge Credits   Right Now - Scraplift Challenge Credits Added to all the scrapping I managed to get through this weekend I also managed to finish reading City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare.  Another enjoyable read although I probably shouldn't have launched straight into the fourth book of this series because frankly you can have T...

A friend of mine (yes YOU Carol!) advised me to pick a word for 2011, something that speaks to me and that fits to where I am heading with my scrapping. She gave me this advice as I was struggling to find any JOY in my scrapping by the end of 2010. So over the Christmas period I sat down and gave Carol's very wise words some thought and I decided that I had way too much on my creative plate (so to speak) - I was trying to juggle too many things at once and it was playing havoc with my creative impulses. So I decided that my word for the year HAD to be ......... What followed was a period of tumultuous agonizing and then a few tears, and I then resigned from the Pickleberrypop's Creative Team and I have cut back on some of my other Scrapping commitments. Now I can spend more time creating for my individual designers AND spend more time with my family and less time on the computer. Its about time I reclaimed my hobby for me and remembered its all about preserving the memories. Sc...

Well we are back from our wonderful week away and already we are stressed and back into the real world as if it never really happened! I have the photos though and the memories of the balmy nights and brilliant sunny days to remind me of the good times - ahhh feel the serenity! The school year has started and my girls are back into the grind already. It is a big year for them both - with Bella starting High School and Tasha being all alone at school without her sister being there to help her. Bella has settled in to High School beautifully and thinks all her teacher are amazing and awesome! In fact awesome and amazing have featured strongly in any of her conversations about school in the past week. She has even started getting the bus - which for her is a huge deal as she has never ever caught public transport in her life on her on before EVER! Tasha on the other hand was freaking out about going back to school and now that she is back has settled back perfectly well, she has found th...

I nearly forgot to come back and post again! I can't believe how forgetful I am, to much on my mind I guess. Well I have been busily making pages for PBP recently and I would love to share them here but first I have to show you some of the great challenges that we have going on over at PBP this month. These two challenges each have a fantastic prize this month - completing a page for either of these challenges (and posting the link in the challenge thread) will put you in the running to win a $10 GC to the Pickleberrypop Shop and with all the wonderful designers we have in there this is a prize NOT to be missed! If you are interested in finding out more just click on the images and it will take you straight to the challenge threads! This is my page for this great challenge, I love this series of books and I was devestated when the author passed away in 2007. But while researching my scrap page I found out that another author is stepping into his massive shoes and will be completi...

Ummmmmm Better late than never I always say LOL. Now I have been taking photos each day, I just haven't got my butt in gear to post them here LOL. My only excuse is ....actually I don't have one, I'm just too tired in the evening to sit down and post rofl! So before I feel sleepy again I'll post quickly LOL Day 40 There couldn't be anything else today, the news from the Victorian bushfires just gets worse and worse. I don't get the paper but I wanted to preseve the memory some how and I snapped a shot of the morning news program on TV. I am going to be giving a donation to the Red Cross Victoria Bushfire Appeal and I encourage every one to consider making a donation as well. It's such a tragic day and I just need to do something to help. Day 41 This lovely spotty crouton is just leaping up to the sky at the moment after some rain and some fertilizer! It was so small not that long ago. Day 42 Year 7 has kicked off with a regime of nightly homework - we have ...

Well I am feel pretty darn proud of myself at the moment! First I have managed to take a photo a day all week, I have completed the first two ADSR Challenges with by best bud Deb, done my part for the next PBP newsletter AND I have exercised four days out of five! Yay ME! Deb and I are Team 99 and we have used the cool blinkie that Mel made for us in 2007 and we are once again .... the Digital Duo, saving memories for all!! So here are my first two pages for this years ADSR! Challenge 1 was to tear a photo into three or more pieces and focus on journalling - so that's what I did - my page is about the struggle I face making changes in my life: Changes Credits are here Challenge 2 - Was a challenge! Deb and I had to do a joint page with 4 papers, 8 unique elements, 3 photos and 2 fonts PLUS it had to be something about Cabin fever!! Crikey! It was reallyhard but fun to do and Deb and I spent most of yesterday on msn trying to work out how it would all go. We had a nasty moment after...

Well today was another quiet one here at my place, the family is still away - but boy was it a hot and humid one, and apparently tomorrow will be worse - 34C!! YUCK! I will almost be glad to be at work tomorrow in the air-conditioning. I haven't done much around the place today, some washing of sheets and towels and I watched the last movie of The lord of the rings this afternoon. My all time favorite movie, ever ever! I still cry like a baby at the end - silly hey? But I am really just popping in to let you know I have actually been a little productive over the last couple of days and I wanted to share my flurry of activity with you. Over at DST one of the Aussie girls let out a call for Summery desktops for January because lets face it people, all the lovely freebie ones are all sparkling and glistening with snowy prettiness, which while nice in the right setting, looks damn odd on a computer where the owner has a line of sweat rolling down her back while she creates LOL. So A...

I haven't scrapped for a while for one reason or another and I have really been lacking the motivation to scrap as well. So I was pretty damn excited to see the September challenges pop up over at Pickleberrypop . And ooohhhhh the Solids Only challenge hosted by Ann-Marie is FABULOUS! It's hard but then it wouldn't really be a challenge if it was easy now would it LOL. And do you see those lovely papers by Ann-Marie?? Well if you pop over to this thread and check out the challenge you can get them for FREE! Yes free! Seriously, how cool is that? Anyway I felt pretty inspired by the challenge and here is the page that I did for it! Always be joyful! Credits here Well I had planned to post some photos of my big girl's birthday but soo many of them had other kids in them so I won't post them sorry. But there were lots of smiling faces and happy kids. Ok, got to go, emails to send things & to do LOL

For any "non-scrapping" friends and family that might be reading, a TOOT, is something you say when you have something to show off about or brag about hahahaha, you know, like blowing your own horn LOL. Well I just had to share this fabulous Toot of mine with you..... check this out ....... that's my page on the front page of Pickleberrypop!! OMG Toot toot! hahahaha Lookee, I made Layout of the Week over at Pickleberrypop this week! yahoooo! I was so surprised and thrilled to be picked and to have an opportunity to show off Natalie's great products on the front page of one of the coolest scrapping sites around for a whole week. Wow, I'm just gob-smacked. Well that's all from me for now LOL, I'm too overwhelmed to scrap at the moment in case it sucks haha. ta ta toot toot haha

That's right friends, Spring has come again to my little part of the web! Well at least in the form of a super fun Collab kit called Spring Magic..... and can I say how very excited I am to be able to present this to you! When Natalie told me she was doing a surprise collab with someone I had a great time guessing but I was so thrilled to find out that she was doing it with the wonderfully talented Sharon -ksharonk designs - whose blog I have happily stalked for AGES! Isn't it lovely??? If you like it, click on the image and it will take you straight to the Pickleberry Pop shoppe! And here is a LO I did with it - I couldn't wait to get in and use it, the colours are sooooo beautiful! It's just for my friend Carol, who loved this picture of my kitty when I was posting my 365 photos LOL Credits here Oh and I did a Vintage LO using Anna's lovely Vintage Lace Alpha too - for you, Mum. Credits here Ok well, not much elso going on here, housework still needs to be done an...

OK I just had to share this LO - I just finished it for a Blog Challenge over at Catscrap with the totally gorgeous Enchanted Forest Collaboration kit by Madame Mim and Milla! I was really thrilled with how it came out and I just have to share it with you all! Enchanted Credits here Other than that there isn't much to report, it's pretty quiet here and the kids are in bed and I have some scrapping to do for Natalie now LOL. Best get to it then ta ta from me, for now LOL

I might start off with a couple of LO's first because all I seem to do these days is post photos LOL. I used Natalie's fantastic kit Home Sweet Home kit for this family LO. I love the colours and I am really happy with how it turned out :) Family Credits here This is my LO for the last Pickle Jar Challenge over at Pickleberry Pop - I was really reluctant to use red and blue together but hey... those were the rules for the challenge so I gave it a go! Love Credits here And THIS LO was for the Designs in Digital Blog Challenge "Scrap-it-for-me" hosted by the delightful Shannon. She asked us to scrap a photo of her little man Coen as she was having trouble scrapping with it LOL. It is a gorgeous photo and I loved scrapping it for Shannon! Coen Credits here Well thanks for looking at my LOs - I appreciate it :) And now for Project 365 lol Feb 13 I know I have shown you pictures of my puss in a pot before but this time she has flowers growing out of her butt LOL! Feb 1...