"caring for other living creatures helps you care for yourself"

oh, that's bright white and a bit scary!!!!! but below is my entry into the November Scrap the Girls challenge (using white, orange, red and blue). Had fun with the glimmermist with this one, didn't turn out how I imagined in my mind, but oh, well, it's done!!!!!!! And if you haven't seen it Scrap the Girls are on the look out for new members for their Creative Team so check it out and send an entry in :) , more information can be found here http://scrap-the-girls.blogspot.com/ .

and I just love this next LO I finished off for a sketch challenge at Bons, used some Imaginisce and Cosmo papers, bookpaper, glimmermist and lots of other bits and pieces, really love how this one turned out :)
Hope everyone is coping in the heat, it's supposed to reach around the 40 mark here on Sunday, not looking forward to that at all, fingers crossed for an unexpected cool change :).

"fulfillment and joy come to those who make the most of what they've got"

Well, with only another 6 weeks to the Chrissy madhouse I've been busy sourcing, buying and hiding everyone's Chrissy gifts :). Still have heaps to do though, never seems to end!!!!!!! inbetween the usual sport stuff, after school stuff, paperwork, house stuff and more stuff!!!!!!. Tim and I celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, and yesterday saw us head out to the Hunter Valley wineries for a romantic lunch, Tim drove, I drank wine and some more wine and yep well - LOL was a great afternoon, but saw me in bed by about 7.00pm!!!!!! that'll teach me to drink in the middle of the day - LOL.

I've also been scrapping, inbetween everything else I've been doing, below is my interpretation of the SnB sketch challenge for this month - there is only this one challenge this month and get your entries in to win a huge $20 voucher - AWESOME!!!!!!!

Used up some of the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers, spotty Bazzil, Pink Paislee rubons, foam thickers, Kaiser pears all available in the SnB shop :).

The next LO was for the sketch challenge on the Scrapbook Savvy site - loved the clean cut lines to this sketch and used some of the gorgeous Fancy Pants papers, journalling notebook and stickers.
Thanks for popping by :) hope everyone has a great weekend.

"Spend and afternoon alone. Give yourself time to reflect"

and I have been scrapping :) and it's felt good too, but the house is paying for it - LOL!!!!! This first LO is one I completed at Peta's retreat and I have to say what a wonderful day it was, got to meet some gorgeous girls Sar, Marijana, Leesh, Deb, Ang, Barb, and of course to catch up with the "others" Kate, Michelle, Carol, Tash ......... lots of laughs had the best day.

so this one Summer = Brown is exactly how I remember life on the farm BROWN, DUSTY, lots of DIRT and flies!!!!!, glimmermisted nearly everything in sight and had loads of fun doing it :). Used the Jillibean soup Kraft paper, Maya Rd kraft journalling spot and chipboard tree and ricrac, Jenni Bowlin ticket, thickers and alpha stickers all available at SnB.

and this one was for the sketch challenge at the Scrapbooknbits cybercrop over last weekend, just love this photo of Drew inspecting his sand castles LOL, again some more glimmermist and some Fancy Pants papers and rubons and bits.

Hope everyone has a great Melbourne Cup day and hopefully someone will win something!!!!!!

Sale, sale, sale .......

Scrapbooknbits is turning 3 so come and celebrate and get some bargains on the way, 20% off store wide to help stretch your $$$$ further :).

"believe in yourself and your ability to succeed"

this Friday is another fun filled Cybercrop at Scrapbooknbits, pop in for some laughs, games, prizes and scrapping of course!!!!!!

"success will come to those who are the most persistent"

well eventually you would like to think that if you keep on trying then you will succeed, won't we!!!!!!!! I'm sure we do, it just takes longer than we hope :)

If you're looking for something fun this week visit the SnB forum and join in the fun and games that Karen has planned for this Friday night at 8.00pm - it's PICTURE NIGHT, I can only assume what it involves as it's still all a big secret, but come and find out it's bound to be a hoot.

and if you're up for a challenge and some awesome prizes then check out Bons up for offer is a 3 month subscription to one of the monthly kits, over $100 worth of prize up for grabs, can't be any easier or better than that :)

I've not been scrapping (story of my life at the moment) still recovering from a super busy school holiday, and now we're on the run down to Chrissy so onto the next level of busy!!!!!!!! Have a great week everyone.

"It's the choices you make in life that make the difference"

and another month down and another month down, another month bites the dust ........ but it's been a great month - it's my birthday month (and it feels like I've been celebrating for the whole month too!!!!!!!) Back a few weekend ago I had a HUGE, bonfire bash here at our house - lots of friends and family came to help me celebrate and I had an awesome night.

Here I am with the amazing turkish delight chocolate mud cake that my wonderful SIL made for me - it truely was a work of art and was delighfully sinful to eat - LOL!!!!!!

and then last night I had my fabulous IL's here for tea - a few too many wines, lots of laughs, and seafood for dinner - another perfect night. My sensational DH bought me this gorgeous ceylon sapphire ring (to replace the engagement ring I lost a long time ago now) and a matching bangle ........ isn't he just the sweetest!!!!!!!! It was a massive surprise as my DH doesn't do shopping and certainly not impractical, trivial shopping like this so I was just not expecting it - LOVE HIM TO BITS.

and my lovely kiddies all helped their Dad to purchase a Wii Fit for me - yippeeee yay, I've been having so much fun on it - that's if I can ever the kids to let me have a go :) So I've been super spoilt this year, but you only turn 40 once so we've made the most of it :).

and I've also been scrapping this one is of the kids dressed up as their Book Week characters, used some of the new Imaginisce Perfectly Posh papers, Twiddlebitz & Scrap FX chipboard, Tim Holtz journalling ticket, Kaiser pearls and glimmermist.

and for this one I had a play with the new Cosmo Cricket Earth Love papers - just love this range :) and added a Maya Rd journalling spot and owl stamp and some funky My Little Shoebox acetate shapes - too cute.

Thanks for stopping by and until next time - cheerio :)