I think it's about time.......

...to update this blog, don't you think!!?!  Been very slack in this department...but my New Year's resolution is  TRY  no... will continue to update at least once a week!  Been very busy teaching scrapbooking and card classes, baby sitting my darling grandchildren and generally just trying to keep up with this busy life.

I had a great Christmas with my family, unfortunately Russ & Susie were in America but hope to catch up with them in the New Year.  Made my New Years resolutions and I AM going to keep them up, I am very determined to do it this year!!

Well, not much on the scrapping side of things...the only pages I have done are my DT layouts for Nuts about Sketches.  Been busy making cards for my classes, glad Christmas is over, a little sick of christmas cards!

Here are my pages for  Nuts about Sketches:- Starting with this weeks sketch 141....

Tom playing in his Basketball Grandfinal, unfortunately they lost but he won Runner up Best & Fairest for the Association and won Best & Fairest for his home team Owen.  Well done Tom, congratulations.

Week 140....this is my darling youngest grand-daughter Montana, she is the cutest little girl, just love her to bits!!!

Next is week 139....photos of Emily & Abby enjoying the waves at Wallaroo, the sun was setting and it looked beautiful with the girls running through the waves and splashing, it looked like they were running in fire!

Week 138.... Cooper trying to get me on the swing.  The swing he is on belonged to his great grand father and when Travis was born he sanded and painted it and gave it to him and here is Cooper many years later swinging on the same swing,  Hopefully he can hand it down to his own children.

Week 137....Cooper again having so much fun in a few little puddles of water in the back yard of the Dublin Hotel where we lived. Isn't he a cutie!!

Week 136...Cooper again, I'm going through my multiple albums of printed photos that I had printed years ago trying to get them scrapped.  That's what I love about Shawn's sketches, I can get so many photos on my layouts.  Here he is trying to get Tom's Ninja Turtle costume on, he was unaware of me taking the photos, he was in his own world, it looked so funny.

Week 135...Abby celebrating Great Granny Peter's 79th birthday.  We all went to the Kadina Hotel for dinner where Granny & myself celebrated our birthdays, she turned 79 on the 25.1.2010 and I turned 56 on the 19.1.2010. 

Gee are you still with me!!  I didn't realise I was soooo far behind.

Well here is Week 134....Emily giving Cooper a ride on the motorbike....the helmet was so heavy for Cooper's little head he nearly fell off the back of the bike but he held on tight, thank goodness!  Emily couldn't hear us yell at her to stop.

Week 133....Mickayla at footy with their new puppy, Roxy.

Week 132, I think this is the last one!  Trudi, Mickayla, Ebbony & Cooper and myself with Emily, Tom & Abby went to the Edithburg swimming pool and had a great time.  Here is Tom with the water pistol thingy, he wouldn't have dared (I don't think so!!)

Well that's it for now, will update tomorrow when Week 142 is uploaded to Nuts about Sketches the first sketch for January, why don't you try one of the sketches, would love to see them.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy and great 2011.

Cheers

Another Nuts about Sketches layout

Here is Sketch 131 over at Nuts about Sketches and my Layout I did, love this sketch, another 2 pager and using lots of photos!

Have a go at this week awesome sketch, it's a beauty!



Another DT work

I have been luck to be picked as a Guest Designer for Creative Scrappers this week and here is my take on it......

Tom getting his trophy for getting Runner-up Best & Fairest for the U/12 for the Adelaide Plains Basketball Association. 

It's been a while

I know it's been awhile since I updated my blog, life has been busy busy busy!!  I took 6 grandchildren down to our beach shack for the school holidays and we had a great time, they even went for a swim, boy I bet it was cold!!  I will post some pics later, they are on my laptop and I haven't loaded them on to this one.

Here are some layouts that I have been doing.....these are my DT layouts for Nuts About Sketches, I love these sketches as they have mulitple photos on them which I LOVE doing!  Here is the sketch for week 130

here is my take on the sketch.   Tom riding his Xmas present, a battery operated Scooter.  I am trying to scrap some old photos I have in albums, these were from Xmas 2004!!

The next one is the sketch from week 129

and here is my layout.....Cooper trying to catch Hayley's cat in the haystack to tell it he was sorry for pulling it's tail!

The next one is the sketch for 128...

Cooper again trying to get Tom's helmet on....he is so cute!!  These photos were taken in 2006

Head on over to Nuts About Sketches and have a go at Shawn's sketches, they are great fun!!

New double LO

This is the double LO that I did for Nuts about Sketches, love it!!  The photos are of Montana, wow how she has grown!  She is 6 months old now and is just soooo adorable!

and here is the sketch.

Head on over and have a go at this weeks sketch.

Have a great day.





First Reveal

My first reveal for the DT at Nuts about Sketches is up, go and have a look at what the other DT members have done with the sketch, they are fantastic!  Here is the sketch....

and here is my LO I did....

Cooper sitting on our front porch, Steven was making faces and he started to laugh, love these photos.

Have a great day.

Just a few things..

Just a few cards and LOs I have been doing this week, not much but I'm happy to get something done.

First, this is the card we made last week, it's very cute! All products are Stampin Up.

This is the LO I did for my class.  Love the fence, it's a die-cut cut with my Bigshot!  This was the June Sketch over at Scrapability Sketches.

Thanks for looking

Have a great day

New Sketch

A new sketch is up at Nuts about Sketches , great multi-photo sketch!  Head on over and have a go at this fantastic sketch by Shawn.  Will try and get it done this week.

Woo Hoo!!

Woo Hoo!!  I've just been accepted to be on the Design Team for Nuts about Sketches !!  I start in September and I can't wait!  I love doing multi-photo pages and the sketches there are fantastic!  They also have great sketches for double pages.  Here is the Sketch we had to do and my LO I submitted.

The LO didn't scan very well, a bit over-exposed.  I made the flower with material and lace, I love it!!  I will certainly be making more of those!

Here is this weeks sketch, why don't you head over to Nuts about Sketches and see what the current DT have created with this interesting sketch and have a go and see what you can create with it!

Cheers

I'm Back!!

Hi there, I'm back...been a bit slack with my posting on here, will try and do a better job in the future.

Things have been rather hectic since my last post, started working again at a Cafe in Port Broughton, I enjoyed being back cooking again but my old body just couldn't cope with the hours I was doing and the travelling was getting a bit much plus I was getting no time to help Hayley with Montana, so after 3 months decided to give it up and concentrate more on my card and scrapbooking classes I teach and also to spend more time at our hotel in Coobowie helping them out.

Little Princess Montana has improved soooo much it is unbelievable!!! She spent a week in hospital trying to get her eczema under control and boy did it help....she is a totally different baby!  She went from a grissly, itching,  miserable baby, totally covered from her head to her toes in eczema to the happiest little Cherub you have ever seen! She still has the eczema but only in patches but we can control it better now. She doesn't wear mittens anymore, we can put her on her stomach (she used to rub her face raw on the rug trying to scratch it) she has learnt to do so much now that she is happier...she melts my heart!

So, on the crafting front, I have been busy doing my card & scrapbooking classes.  Thinking of doing another scrapbooking class during the week so that will keep me busy.  Here are a few cards that I have been making.

These we make last night, I used the Boho Background stamp set from Stampin Up for both cards.

I wanted to show the girls how versatile a stamp set can be.  Excuse the photos, I must find out how to take decent photos of cards.

I haven't scranned any of my LO's that I have done, will try and get them done over the weekend.

Here are a few more cards that I have been making.

I used the stamp set...Embrace Life for these cards.

                                     

Here are a couple of Xmas cards that we have made.

Must go, will up date some more cards and some LOs soon.

Cheers