Today....

....I've managed to get on the computer!! LOL!!........hubby has not had much work on the last month or so due to the economic downturn so he's been at home hogging the computer!!...I've barely been able to get a look in! LOL!!!

So while I've got a chance, I'll upload some layouts and a couple of cards that I've done for Craft Queen using the June Ribbon Club pack...gorgeous colours!


















I'll also be doing some stuff for Craft Queen in July so stay tuned!

Oh, and I've also got a layout coming up in Scrapbooking Memories in a few months too!

On the family front....

*with all the wet weather, the boys and Kiara have had their footy and netball washed out for the last 3 weeks and they weren't happy!....hopefully this week's sunshine and wind has dried the grounds out and sport will be on this weekend!!

*Tabatha, our kitten is growing very quickly...she's now almost 4.5months!!...here's a couple of cute photos...



* with the way the economy is at the moment, John decided we needed a website for our business, so he's been busy getting that up and running. If you live in Sydney, Central Coast or Newcastle and need some painting done, check out our website...Brushright Painters...ok, enough of the shameless plugging! LOL!!!!

It's been absolutely freezing here yesterday and today!....my hands are ice-cold as I type this, so I'm off to have a coffee!

Stay warm!!...and thanks for dropping by!

Julie xx

some photos and scrapping shares......

I'm back with some scrapping and photos to share.....


Firstly, some pics from the Shop and Crop Escape last month...


Me, Kylie and Ali...
Not too sure what's going on here!! LOL!!...Kathie, me, Deb, Evana, Alison and Jen....




A group shot of the online girls....




Now these pics are from Kiara's first netball game last week....even though her team lost, she had such a great time playing the game, afterwards she said she couldn't wait to play again...and that's what kids sport is all about, isn't it?.....







Some scrapping shares....these are some of the class layouts from the Shop and Crop Escape...


First two are from Kathie Link's class...









And this one is from Alison Shearer's class...




I haven't really done any other scrapping lately...too much going on plus I think my mojo is on "go slow" at the moment! LOL!!
But...Nicole from Craft Queen has offered me a 2 month guest designer spot for June and July so stay tuned for those shares later!

That's it for now....pizza has just arrived...Yummm!!!

See ya!!

Oh and Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow!!!!!

Julie xx

Oh dear!!!!......

It's now the middle of April and I have not blogged for weeks!!..so slack! LOL!

The days go by so quickly it's hard sometimes to find the time to post!

Anyway, shall do a *dot form* catchup.....

*the boys have had several "trial games" for footy over the last few weeks with a couple more to play before the season starts proper on 2 May.

*we have signed Kiara up to play netball this year (Nettas - for the U7's)...but she had to give up Scallywaggs gymnastics...just couldn't stretch to doing both as she also still does swimming.

*Kiara broke her ankle 2.5 weeks ago...rolled it on the neighbour's trampoline...of course there were 3 kids on it at the same time and she was double bounced...now she knows why we say "only one at a time please!"....the x-ray showed she had cracked the fibula right at the very bottom of her leg on the actual growth plate which is softer tissue than fully formed bone so it should heal within 3-4 weeks without a full plaster cast! She is actually walking around very well on it now!!

*we have a new addition to the household....Tabatha, a beautiful 10 week old tortoiseshell kitten whom we adopted from Hunter Animal Rescue...she is such a gorgeous, placid little thing and is happy to be smothered with love by the kids LOL!! HAR do such a wonderful job caring for rescued animals so if you are thinking of adding to your family and you live in the Hunter/Central Coast NSW area, check out the HAR website...they have lots of kittens, puppies, adult cats and dogs looking for forever homes.

*had a fantastic weekend at the Shop and Crop Creative Escape on the 3-5 April. Loved catching up with the online girls and meeting some of the new ones and loved the workshops. Sasha, Suz, Bec and the DT girls did an amazing job organising and running the retreat. I have some photos and layouts from the weekend to share but will have to do that later as blogger is not co-operating!

Hope everyone had a lovely and relaxing Easter with lots of choccies to munch on!

Be back soon with some scrapping shares.

Julie xx

A few scrapping shares.......

It's March already????....where did January and February go??

I've been doing a bit of scrapping over the last few weeks so I've got a few layouts to share....

I did these first three layouts as part of my application for the White with 1 challenge blog Creative Team. I wasn't successful but had fun doing these pages...

This one was for a challenge over at Shop and Crop using the January 2009 crop kit....

I took this photo on Australia Day this year....these beautiful birds were very happy to take pieces of bread from Kiara's (and her cousin Imogen's) hand.....

And finally, I am the featured scrapper this month over at Scrap the boys blog and this is the layout I did for it. The theme was to use any combination of "U R/You are" in the title and journal a minimum of 50 words...........

Not much family news to share....we're just plodding along in the same old routine. Oztag has finished and the boys' footy starts again soon with training already started. Kiara is thinking she'd like to play netball this year so we're looking into that plus she is continuing her swimming lessons.

We've booked another long weekend at Selwyn Snowfields for late August...looking forward to that. We were hoping to go to Japan next January for skiing, but after my sister-in-law Sue did some research on the costs etc, we've decided to put that on hold for now....with the crash of the Aussie dollar it was pushing up the costs quite considerably. We are also thinking of moving house later this year so we thought we would be better to save our money for the purchase of a new house.

Anyway that's it for now.

Thanks for dropping by....enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Julie xx

It's his birthday today!!!

It's Jordan's birthday today!!!....my big, baby boy is now 14!!!!!!

Wow, where did those years go....I can still remember the day of his birth as if it was yesterday, but I guess all mums remember the births of their children so clearly.

In the last 12months he has physically grown so much and he's now taller than his mum!!! :o

We're taking him out to dinner tonight and then a few of his school mates are coming over for an afternoon/evening of playstation, Wii and pizza on Saturday.

He is becoming a lovely young man...so sweet and caring.

Happy Birthday gorgeous boy!!!....Dad and I love you and are very proud of you!!!

Julie xx

Lovely Blog Award........

I've been very slack....the very talented Kathie Link gave me this award a couple of weeks ago and I'm only just now posting it!!......Thanks so much Kathie!!.......

I'm supposed to pass it onto another 7 recipients, and although it's lovely to be recognised by other bloggers, there are so many of these blog awards going around that it's getting difficult to award it to people that haven't already been given....can only think of a few...

Deb Godley

Jaimie Emmerton

Janine Kaye

Kylie Symons

Janine King

OK it's just a quick post today!

Thanks for dropping by!

Julie xx

Do you want to help the Victorian bushfire families???....

The very talented Sarah Gladman is organising collections of scrapbooking pages to create memory books for all those families affected by the Victorian bushfire.....it's so sad to think that they have lost all their precious photos and memories and this is a way that we scrappers can help....

Head over to Sarah's blog to find out more and if you would like to contribute, leave Sarah a comment and she will email you with her address.

I'll be contributing some pages...hope you can too!

Julie xx

A raging inferno....

That's what struck parts of Victoria on Saturday....a hell on earth.

I've been watching the TV footage everyday with tears in my eyes, like most people I imagine.

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has been so terribly affected by this bushfire tragedy....lives and property gone in a few minutes...complete devastation.

But the firies and all the emergency workers and volunteers are doing a magnificent job!!...the wonderful Aussie spirit comes to the fore once again!

I needed to put some words down on paper so I did this simple layout yesterday...I just felt that I had to record something about that awful February Saturday in 2009 while the thoughts were still fresh in my mind............









photo taken from the ninemsn website.





To all the victims and their families & friends and all the volunteer workers,

God Bless!

Julie xx

A bit of remodelling.....

....a bit of blog remodelling that is!!
Felt like jazzing it up a little and have redone the banner...although it doesn't fit exactly, but I couldn't be bothered fiddling around with getting the size right anymore...meh, I'm happy with it!

I'd love for you to leave a comment and tell me what you think of the changes!

Thanks!!

Julie xx

Melbourne photos...

This is just a quick post to upload a few of our photos from Melbourne.

We took around 220 pics so I've just picked a few that I liked.

I decided to do a bit of a collage...much easier and quicker to upload with Blogger! LOL!

Really love the Luna Park photo...will definitely be doing a layout on that one!!

Ummm...I've seen on other blogs, line frames around photos but I don't know how to do it...if someone out there knows, could you please let me know...I just think it looks better....thanks!!

Ok that's it!...told you it was a short post! LOL!!

Cya!!

Julie xx