rainy day today

i was SO disappointed!!!!!!!!! i actually had trouble sleeping lastnight because i was soooo inspired to take photos. i did a bad thing - i browsed photography blogs before going to bed. and i was too inspired to sleep!! i kept tossing and turning thinking about photos of the kids. so i was going to go do a shoot with brianna first thing in the morning. but i woke up to POURING rain!! and it rained all day. it drizzled/poured the whole time.

But i managed to get this indoor photo. brianna was very uncooperative though because she was cooped up in the house all day. at least i got one though :)




Liam in the bath. all i did was crop this photo. the colours and everything are straight from my nikon d60 .... MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. i love my nikon. i love the way it picks up the colours.


i took this photo yesterday. the best thing about early winter (before it gets too cold) = kneehigh socks with 1960s style knitted dresses.


just thought i would do a photo share :)

but im doing real well with my to-do list:



SCRAPPING TO-DO

1. Scrapboxx BOS layout - COMPLETED TWO LAYOUTS
2. Scrapboxx Feature 1 - COMPLETED
3. Five layouts for an SC article - ONE LEFT!!!!!! YAY!
4. Marijana's layout - my serious badness (sorry!)
5. SC Top10 layout for the beautiful Lusi :) - COMPLETED


OTHER STUFF TO-DO

1. Clean out my incredibly messy MM Tote - COMPLETED
2. Clean out scraps boxes and get rid of at least 70%
3. Edit photos from Sally's Bridal Boudoir photo shoot - COMPLETED
4. Do the wedding invitation for Kat's wedding - COMPLETED
5. Design the July KDD line - COMPLETED


Have a beautiful night :)

photography challenges/inspiration ???

i was just thinking tonight about how i would love to get more experimental with my photography. Just wondering if I decided to do it publically on my blog would ppl be interested in reading that sort of thing and maybe participating?

ive got lots of ideas but dont know if I want to do it on my own or share the experience here.

any thoughts? :)

Another weekend ... another wedding ...

My beautiful friend Jamey got married to her long-time partner Tim. She looked like absolute royalty!!!! her dress was amazing.


And here is me and my 'date' for the evening. My best friend in all the world - the wonderful Elisha. We even wore matching dresses like normal 'dates' do at a wedding, haha. We went into town without the boys and my parents babysat so we could go and enjoy ourselves. We didnt know anyone, but it was heaps of fun!!! I got heaps of pic


YaY my series of crazy hectic weekends has finished!!!! we've decided not to go into town this weekend for Troy's cousins bday.

Got a few layouts to share which I did for the latest Scrapboxx Newsletter that went out today. The first two layouts were for the last BOS kit, and the last layout was for a feature on journalling.



"Which way?" Featuring my stunning lil sis Jen :)




"silly girl"




"cousins"

look what marni made me!!!

Isnt Marni Telford just wonderful!! A couple of months ago we had a sleepover and she came and stayed over my house overnight and i kicked out troy for the night. she took some pics of me and brianna that day which i LOVE. Anyways, she scrapped it for me in true Marni-licious style :D She gave it to me last weekend at Maccas (mmmmm mcCafe hot choccy).

Thankyou beautiful!! i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! MWAH!



And while Im here, this is a pic of my beautiful boy this morning while we were playing outside. I decided to put a cute shirt on him and try to get some pics. This was my fav. He looks so serious!! looove his beautiful big eyes.



And thanks for ur opinions about the wedding invite. I agree about the font and the strip - so ill have a play and see what works :) thankyou beautiful girlies!!!

can i get your opinions ...

... on this wedding invitation (RSVP details have been changed to get rid of nasty stalkers haha)?? it would mean alot to me as ive never done a wedding invite before! i looked online a fair bit i found that wedding invites are generally quite simple. the below image would be printed onto ivory bazzill so that there is that delicious texture to the paper. and I was then going to find a bazzill the same colour as that red horizontal line (thats the colour of the bridesmaid dresses) and do something like THIS. See the purple one second from the right?? i was going to do that with some ivory straw. or maybe even a wide ribbon bow like the middle image???

i have no idea

opinions please :D

im thinking that maybe that horizontal line makes it look like a business card? feel free to tell me its crap LOL



Also - as for the wedding I went to last weekend here are a couple of pics ....

Even with my hair set in curlers and under the hair dryer thingo i still cant put my camera down. this is my photographing the bride-to-be :)



and here is Sally. so beautiful! just dont look at her feet. she got a spray tan done and her feet are soooo orange its not funny. actually .... it was VERY funny. i lied. hahahaha. we couldnt stop laughing when we were doing pedicures saturday morning.


Me and my man. he has a bit of a goofy smile here - but i still like the pic.


And me and Linda - another bridesmaid. i only just met her and she is so sweet.


Oh well - off to go finish my next KDD line. It was due yesterday ... my bad!!!

But before I go, Id better update my todo list so i keep on track:



SCRAPPING TO-DO

1. Scrapboxx BOS layout - COMPLETED TWO LAYOUTS
2. Scrapboxx Feature 1 - COMPLETED
3. Five layouts for an SC article
4. Marijana's layout - my serious badness (sorry!)
5. Secret project that I cant share yet
6. SC Top10 layout for the beautiful Lusi :) - COMPLETED


OTHER STUFF TO-DO

1. Clean out my incredibly messy MM Tote
2. Clean out scraps boxes and get rid of at least 70%
3. Edit photos from Sally's Bridal Boudoir photo shoot - COMPLETED
4. Do the wedding invitation for Kat's wedding - NEARLY COMPLETED
5. Design the July KDD line.

Getting there!

Yesterday ended up being a very scrappy day :D I was inspired by the To-Do list, and also a box of delicious goodies from the Boxx. So here is my updated list ... ready to work on again tonight!!!

SCRAPPING TO-DO

1. Scrapboxx BOS layout - COMPLETED TWO LAYOUTS
2. Scrapboxx Feature 1 - COMPLETED
3. Five layouts for an SC article
4. Marijana's layout - my serious badness (sorry!)
5. Secret project that I cant share yet
6. SC Top10 layout for the beautiful Lusi :) - COMPLETED


OTHER STUFF TO-DO

1. Clean out my incredibly messy MM Tote
2. Clean out scraps boxes and get rid of at least 70%
3. Edit photos from Sally's Bridal Boudoir photo shoot
4. Do the wedding invitation for Kat's wedding



And because posts are always more fun with images, here is a little something I did for the last Scrapboxx Newsletter. I had forgotten to upload, so here it is :)


Apple tree :)

Its time to get organised!!!

Im taking some advice from the forever beautiful Tatum Woodruff. I have so much on my plate with so little mojo - so Im going to do up a to-do list to keep me on track, motivated, and organised. So starting today I will tick these off as I complete - even though Im not allowed to share online any of these yet. But the time will come when they can be shared :D You will just have to wait.

I luckily had a chance to scrap today while the kids slept. Its so lovely when brianna decides to nap :)

So here goes ... time to clear the brain ...


SCRAPPING TO-DO

1. Scrapboxx BOS layout - COMPLETED
2. Scrapboxx Feature 1
3. Five layouts for an SC article
4. Marijana's layout - my serious badness (sorry!)
5. Secret project that I cant share yet
6. SC Top10 layout for the beautiful Lusi :) - COMPLETED


OTHER STUFF TO-DO

1. Clean out my incredibly messy MM Tote
2. Clean out scraps boxes and get rid of at least 70%
3. Edit photos from Sally's Bridal Boudoir photo shoot
4. Do the wedding invitation for Kat's wedding




hmmmmm I feel more motivated already!!!

two posts in one day after a drought!! :)

wow - no posts for 10 days - then two in one day. im a good girl arent i! :)

i forgot that i did these two layouts for the April challenges at the Top50 site. thought i would share.

MOTHERS ARE A BLESSING. i got really arty with this one. lots of painting and colouring with coloured pencils. i love those prima paintables when i get them out. this is my mummy. :) this layout doesnt even come close to fitting in my scrapbook. the thick cardboard was bad enough, but then i had to go and mount the paintables onto foam tape cos it looked cool. so now it is sitting at mums place on a stand on the paino.


Check out the dimension ... i didnt even think of that when making it. my bad! :)



WEEEEEEE - liam adores slides. typical little adventurer boy. i didnt think of this at the time but now i have no white "e"s left. none. it was hard enough to come by as it was!!! i wasnt having a good night the night i did these two layouts was i?!!?? just wasnt thinking all night. haha. i really need more white alphabets now. :)





also - Ive updated the KDD blog with the latest release. So go check it out :D im so happy to be bringing out the second line. let me know what u think! but so far my fav i think is my fourth line. cant wait to show u :)

life in slow-motion ...

have u ever felt like ur life is totally in slow motion?!? my weekends have been so incredibly busy that my weekdays seem like a preperation for them - and im finding it so hard to get things done. i havent had time to be spontaneous. to let go and have some fun. and cos of that im kinda feeling all ho-hum and like i dont have the energy to even get dressed in the morning. im wishing i could be a homebody but the kids arent allowing it.

oh well - three more weekends of trips into town (2 hours away) and then itll be all over. last weekend i had sally's hens night. this weekend is sally's wedding - which im a bridesmaid in. then next weekend im heading back into town for another friend's wedding. then the following weekend im going in for troy's cousin's bday party.

5 weekends in a row.

bleh.

so because of this, plus looking for a house to rent, im not getting much scrapbooking done. or taking photos. i love and i miss these.

so i apologise for the lack of posts!!! soon things will be get back to normal.

but ill leave u with some work i did awhile ago that i hadnt had a chance to upload yet :) This is a Scrapware minialbum. I decorated this for SIA and had so much fun. Its a combination of wooden and acrylic pages, with some of the wooden pages having windows in it. its such a fun album that i ordered some more to do again. It is probably the funnest design for a minialbum ive ever had in my hands :)

Papers are Kaisercraft and Fancy Pants. I used my white stazon to ink around all the acrylic pages.


FRONT COVER (acrylic):



PAGES 1 (acrylic) AND 2 (wood):



Gotta love those windows to see whats under!!


PAGES 3 (wood) and 4 (acrylic):


PAGES 5 (acrylic) AND 6 (wood with window):


PAGES 7 AND 8 (wood):







And here is a layout I did for Scrapboxx using SR papers. The two ppl in the photo is my bezzie mate Elisha (who is totally awesome!!!!) and her hubby:

my FUN long weekend is over!!!! doh!

what a crazy fun weekend! so busy!

Friday night we had the KDD blog party - which was AMAZING!! We had over 120 visitors for the night, exactly 20 girls chatting, and lots of blog gatecrashing and giveaways :) thankyou so much girls for coming along and playing with me!

So that was a late LATE night, then we got up early in the morning to drive to mackay to stay there overnight. I went shopping and bought both liam and brianna their winter season outfits. yep - the WHOLE of winter! i got them PJs, socks, shoes, boots, new singlets, jeans, and some SUPER cute new going-out outfits. it was so much fun. brianna got lots of funky stockings, knee high socks and adorable footless tights. i love shopping for the kids. i spent a fair bit of $$$ though - but it had to be done. its already getting cold here in moranbah. i even picked up a few things for me. thank goodness troy hasnt logged into internet banking yet LOL. he will die! hahahaa

but now with all these new clothes i dont know what to dress the kids in. i want them to wear all of them at once! haha

after shopping saturday troy and i went out for dinner and went to a mate's place for boardgames while the grandparents babysat. so we didnt get to bed till about 2am saturday.

then sunday morning we went to the botanical gardens after breakfast for a photoshoot of the kids. they LOVED it. especially the little miniwaterfalls going under the bridge. ill show u some photos later :)

then we drove back to moranbah sunday night. finally - an EARLY night!! and yay for sleepins! brianna woke up this morning at 8:10 and liam woke up at 9:40. shock horror!! they were exhausted.

but then cos today was mayday we went to the big BMA party that gets thrown every year. its just like the show but its all free. cos we are a mining town BMA pay for it all every year. so much fun!! they have about 10 show rides and heaps of stalls.

so now im very very tired. Desperate Housewives starts in 5 mins so im off to make a HUGE cup of tea and sit back and relax.

goodnight my lovelies!! i got to use my new camera alot over the weekend so ill show u how it went. the photos turned out very well :)

mwah mwah!

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cyas tonight my lovelies!!!