The week that was

What a fantastic weekend! Saturday we had soccer in Palmerston North, they lost 1 nil, but the other team only scored in the last 2-3 minutes, so it very nearly went into overtime. Our kids did so well! Then we cruised off to town to get Jade some new gumboots, she has a birthday party to go to next weekend at her friends place, and she lives on a farm, so gumboots were required. Lucky we picked nice trendy ones, zebra stripe to them, they look very funny. Another bargin scored by me they were only $5 each instead of 20, so of course i brought another pair for next year - leopard!

Sunday we did the normal housework, and recyling, then we went to base, and Jade rode her new bike around the triangle a few times with either Ralf or I running along beside her. She is going really well now. So we are considering sorting out another bike and the bike rack thing and going all together into town to go on some of the tracks there are around the place. Ralf also was painting the pole and backboard, he is getting ready to put up a basketball hoop for Jade. I think he is almost ready, apart from digging the hole etc.

This week nothing exciting planned, just the usual soccer practice, brownies, soccer etc. Jade's school is doing a production in a couple of weeks time, Ralf's parents are coming up to see it, so Jade will enjoy that. She is very proud when they come to watch her.

I have entered a compition at scrapbook essentials, a bit nervous about it as I have never entered a compition. They had a warm up challenge for the last week, and have to say I was a little stressed about it, as it did not feel as though it was just for me, it was for everyone to see. Hope I did okay. It starts for real on Wednesday for the next 7 weeks!!!! I will be very stressed by the end of it all!!

Anyway better get away for a zzzzzzz.

My Birthday Treat

atWell I spent the whole day on Sunday scrapping with Jo. The best thing was that Jo introduced me to "Sponge Fingers", like i needed another food group to be addicted to, yes a food group, these things are so wonderful they should have their very own food group!!! Basically the same as a sponge drop, only larger!!! Filled with fresh cream and a jam - oh my god! Well Jo brought some for us to have for breakfast as it was my birthday the day before, so in Jo's world you can eat whatever you want on your birthday, much like my world. MMMMM Sponge Fingers!!!! But it did not stop there, then Bruce cooked us a fantastic breakfast on top of that!!! Well they called it brunch, but it was 11.40am so it was almost just lunch, fantastic! In between all this eating we did manage to get some scrapping done.

This layout was my first play with photoshop. I am only jsut learning how to use this program, but of course the first thing Ralf taught me how to do was "inhance" my boobs!!! Well it was all over from there, I then trimmed down my tummy so it was nice and flat, took a little (a lot really) off the side, got rid of my flabby arms - opps went to far there, Ralf said they look like Victoria Beckham arms!!! Then a little of the cheeks and I just looked so fabulous that I had to scrap the picture. Man I am hot!!! We have a scrap camp up Pohongina valley twice a year, fantastic time, with a bunch of ladies with the same sad addiction as myself. What a hoot, all we do is eat, drink cups of tea, talk lots, sleep very little and then a little scrapping. Jo had been down to crafting connections before hand and was raving over taking photo's "Elsie Styles" so we thought we would do it as well, only problem was it was far to late in the evening and we were just to tired and getting extremely silly, and well i Just could not stop laughing!! Hence not a straight face photo to be had. Very fantastic weekend.

Jade's birthday party was the next subject. I know i should not have called the 8 year olds playboy bunnies but when they put on the rabit ears that was all I could think, that they looked like playboy bunnies, especially when they put the cotton ball tails on!!!

Ralf found out last week that he is on the short list to be posted to either Auckland or Blenheim, neither of us are very happy about this, but we just have to wait and see what they decide. Hopefully should know by the end of August.

Well as my previous post stated, Shortland Street is my other addiction, and it is nearly the end of the weather so I had better go and watch.

Scrapping with Jo

Managed to get some scrapping in last Saturday night with Jo. Lots of fun as always, lots of scrapping and lots of talking, and then some more talking!!! The first layout is one of my Mum. The community of Milton (Otago) had a fundraiser when the new prison was being opened, and you could pay to go along and spend the day in jail, and or the night. Staying in the prison as though you were a prisoner. What a hoot my Mum and her friend went along. Bit of a shame they were not allowed to take cameras inside. The teddy my mum is holding is one that Jade sent her for her birthday, it has a picture of Jade on the front, so now Mum takes her places and then sends text messages to Jade to tell her where she has been lately. Used the scalloped edged bazille from my SBO kit, and the orange circle is the new mm see through bits I brought from Kiwi Scraps. The stamp is one of my Maya Road journaling spots which I have not used much of yet, very nice not sure why I haven't.

This next one is of my Jade. i have already scrapped this picture once, but I really love it, so I used it again. Used the orange bling bazille from my SBO kit. The dragon fly is from ScrapFX which Jo brought me back from SENZ, very cool, love the bling crown as well, I brought that in from the states, love it, lucky I still have a couple more to use!

This last layout is all about me! I love Shortland Street, was wrapped when they put the first episode out on DVD, Ralf was horrified that I was going to go and buy the women's weekly just so I could have it. Lucky I did not have to Jo had it, and hates Shortland Street, so was happy to give it to me. Heidi Swapp stamps in the corners.

Well that is all for me. Jo and I are spending the day scrapping on Sunday so no doubt there will be some more creations to be shown. Have a great week.

Littlest Pet Shop

Well some of you wanted to know what littlest pet shops look like, well the pets themselves, so I am including a couple of pictures of them, the first is of the whole army.... grown to 73 after the birthday, and then one of just a couple by themselves.

So now you know what she is addicted to!

Jade's Birthday

Wow I am so glad that the birthday is over! Terrible to say, but it seems as thought i have been planning this birthday for so long, and the day just seemed to go forever!!! So below are some photos from the day. Nyah and Georgia came for the day. Nyah stayed the night before so there was very little sleep the day before!

They had bunny ears which they all loved wearing, and then they wanted me to make fluffy tails for them! Insisted on me taking a picture from behind! This was followed by lunch of pizza, and then off to town for a scrapbook class for kids, where they did a page on friends, I will post a copy of it later. Following the birthday it was home for a couple of DVD's, tea and of course the birthday cake, and they ate it all - well Ralf and I might have had a wee slice or two!!

Well that is that for another year!

Addiction

Well I finally got around to taking some pictures of Jade and her addiction. She has 61 of these little pets with bobbling heads! She wants more!!! She went to Paraparaumu with 45, came home with 57 (some brought and the rest an early birthday present from Gran and Granddad), then brought herself the largest set which had some more in it! It will never end. But she has so much fun with them, pulling them out and and playing with them all. Oscar comes over for a sniff and sometimes thinks that she should have a wee nibble on one, which of course Jade does not like at all!!The funny thing is that her birthday is in a couple of days and I know she is getting more! When will it ever end, oh well I have to say I like them alot better than the Barbies!!!This one above is the new set she brought, rather large! So large in fact she told me that I could sell the Barbies so she would have enough room for it.

Jade's Home

I am so glad Jade is home, I have missed her!! She has speant the first week of the school holidays down in Paraparaumu at Ralf's parents place being spoilt rotten! I mean does she really need breakfast in bed every morning! Very funny, Jade thinks it was fantastic which is cool. She even managed to convince Granddad to go halves in buying another "littlist pet shop" toy, which she loves!! Twisted around her finger, Ralf and I think it is very funny.

Well i was so close to wellington I thought I had better stop in for a wee shop at Kiwiscraps, how could i not when it was that close. I brought some stamps from Fiskars, only because they had a long scallop stamp in it, which i really wanted, the rest are all birthday stamps, which Jade can use, i might use a couple, but that scallop stamp is cool! Also a couple of pieces of the Elise canvas paper which is quiet nice, will see how that goes, it is adhesive on one side. I specially went to get some bling as i was running out, but they did not have much which was bit annoying. Oh and the best buy i think was from mm, some clear acetate tags, brackets, and circles etc, very cool, will have to put one on a layout so you can see, as they are hard to describe but very cool!

So tonight i shall scrap. I have another pge nearly done, need to do some painting of some chipboard tonight and then stick it all down, it is looking quite cool. Of Jade of course.

Jo is up at Ohopi Beach (wonder whether that is how you spell it) this weekend with Bruce and Taylor "Hello Jo", poor thing is not feeling to well, hope she better by the time she gets back, I am sure we are well over due for a scrapping evening!

Well better away, to give Jade some more love - until she tells me to go away!

SBO Kit

I got my kit on Monday from SBO which was cool. So love getting a kit, makes me think a bit more. Not to keen about the felt in the kit, I know everyone is using it at the moment, but not sure whether it is for me. I have made a couple of heart embellishments like the showed us in the instructions, and we shall see whether I use them, still don't like them the morning after!!!

The rest of the kit is pretty cool, loving orange at the moment so was quiet wrapped when there was quiet a bit of orange stuff in there. So here is one of the layouts I have done using the kit, following the instructions given, love the Heidi Swapp paint, alot thicker than the mm paint, which is a nice change, gives you some texture..
Might have to play with some of the orange stuff tonight, of course i will have to find a photo or two which will cope with the use of orange first!!!

Blogs rule

Wow really liking having a blog, now i have somewhere i can put the layouts as I do them without having to e-mail a copy to my Mum to see, now she can just look at the net, and find out she is on the world wide web!!!

This page is of Jade's soccer team this year, she is really loving it, even loved playing in the rain and mud last weekend!!
I have even done one of our wedding day, which is a surprise. Really love these two pictures, just after we were married, Ralf looks so cheeky, he still looks the same, just a weeeeeeee bit older!!!

This next layout was done after the Xmas holidays, yes just 10 days growth on that face of his. I went down to Dunedin to drop Jade off at Mum's for the holidays and came back to this, and he expected a kiss!!! As if!!! very funny, so I made him pose for photos which he did so well!

Jade's school went into school uniform this year, she was very excited about it, wonder how long it will be before she is hating school uniform and hanging out for those mufti days!!! She looks very smart, and it is saving us money which of course is great.

How many husbands would let you take this picture!!!! Ralf was being silly showing me about this guy on this movie who did the same thing with his shirt and then said "does this make me look gay", i laughed and told him he had to hold the pose, silly man did!! I of course scrapped it, Jo and i were in hysterics while i was doing this laughing at the earrings i added and the flower in his hair - so pretty!!

Jade's birthday next week, love birthday's even when they are not my own. Jade is having a couple of friends come around for a "photo shoot" and then into photographic solutions in Feilding, where they are running a 2 hour class for kids, doing a couple of layouts on friends. She is really looking forward to it. Thought it might be funny if they took all these photos first and then decided what ones they wanted to use from there. Will post their layouts next week!

Well that is about it, I had better go as Shortland Street is about to start and it is real life!!!!

Finally!!!

I am going to try uploading a layout again, getting a little frustrated that it won't work!!! Here we go......
Wow i managed to upload a layout!!!! Thank god for Yolande, if she had not told me how we would still be looking at text about me moaning about not being able to do it, so Yahoo to you Yolande!!!

This layout is from my daughters sleepover she had as a practice run to having a sleepover for her birthday. Well her birthday is next Thursday and there is no sleepover happening, she has decided she wants to take 2 friends to the scrapbook shop in fielding and do the 2 hour class for kids, doing a page about friends. Wonder who put that idea in her head!

wow it really is working!!! just trying out the different ways you can put them in as well. having fun now!

This layout is of ralf, an avid fan of mythbusters, when we were up in Auckland at Easter staying with our good friend Mel and Jase, there was a Mythbusters marathon on tv, well Jase being the internet buff was on the net finding out how you could do the diet coke and mentos myth, so off they went to the shop to get all the things. very funny as it did not work!! very funny!!!

I wonder how many different layouts i can upload tonight before getting sick of it all. i think not to many more. also another cool thing, is my work's photocopier has a scanner on it as well, so of course i can scan the 12x12 layouts on it nice and easily.

This layout is of my Mum and her Vespa. Deception, because she brought the bike and did not tell me about it for ages, i thought it was only 1 month, but she told me tonight that it was 3!!! Evil lady. She is having a blast now riding it around, she has joined the Vespa Club again same as when she was in her early 20's I think, good on her! Still deception though!

Well I think that is enough from me, time I went and did some scrapbooking instead of just making it all pretty for showing off.

A couple of layouts

Wow this takes ages to set up, i am sick of it already!!! Will play some more later, but have done most of it, how do i add layouts??? just figured it out, and then discovered that dial up - yes still on dial up is not happy with me loading them up - takes too long for an impatient me!!!

Well Here I am!!

Thought about having a blog, and now i do, will i keep it up? We shall see, so just a short note to start off with while i check out how to set it up some more and make it not so bland!!!