Oh, take me back to Hawaii!!

I've had these photos kicking around on my desk for about a year now, waiting to be scrapped. I had no idea how I was going to put them all on a page together and have it not look too crowded and in the end I love how the page turned out :)

Isn't Hanauma Bay in Hawaii just gorgeous?!!! Oh we loved it so much. And loved having Will's Olympus camera that can go underwater, that was totally cool {hugs Willy!} We hired the masks cos otherwise it's impossible to see under the water- who knew! But seeing as Will can't swim too well and I can't breathe through a snorkel (why do I always get water instead of air?!) we forewent the snorkel, but having the mask was totally enough. Will mainly hung around the reef and I went out a bit further. At one point there was this fish, about 30cm long, that kept following me everywhere. It was starting to freak me out so I swam across 20m of open water and reached Will and said "I had to get away from over there cos there was this creepy fish following me" and he pointed behind me and said "That fish?" AARGGHH!!! It had followed me all the way over to Will! We laughed but I was kinda freaked out so we swam away and it stopped following me. Thank goodness, I was thinking it was going to drag me out to it's underwater lair and turn me into a mermaid and I would never be seen again.

I'm down to my last few sheets of the MM journalling spiral book :( I have loved using it on so many layouts, this shape and colour is my fave but I only have 1 sheet of it left {sobbing}. I love the giant size so I can write heaps when I want to. If anyone sees them anywhere for cheap let me know!!

I'm doing this market research thing tonight at Parra. They sent me a disposable camera and I am supposed to take 25 pics in 3 days. Mum said "Well, they picked the right person for that" but I've still got 15 pics left and I have to have them all taken by tonight! For some reason I have found it hard, and I think it's cos I love being able to see my digital pics straight away and I have no idea how these pics will turn out on a crappy disposable! We'll see :) At least they are paying me for the market research meeting- $80!! Woo hoo! I think I might have to get a Maccas Sundae on the way home {wink}.

:)C

V Fest!!

Will and I (and his friend Shawn) had a great day at V Fest on Saturday, although I think I must be getting old cos by the end I was so dead tired!! We had been standing for the better part of about 6hours so I don't think I can be blamed! The best acts for me were Duffy- man she sounds exactly like the CD in real life, that massive voice comes out of someone so tiny too!! She was great and we got pretty close (Will got almost close enough for a kiss.. well not quite, but the big screens were great for making us feel even closer!), the Kaiser Chiefs- awesome!! they played my fave song from the Hottest 100 a couple of years ago and it went off! and The Killers who totally ROCKED!! I can't get over how many people were there. We had to run between the stages cos the Kaiser Chiefs overlapped with Snow Patrol who overlapped with The Killers, all by 15 mins which totally sucked cos we missed some songs of each then. By the time we got to The Killers there were already about 30000 people there!! And we were only half way back!! Look how far we were from the stage!! Even this far back everyone was jumping, cheering, singing so loudly and having an awesome time! It was so great, although my feet were spasming from standing up too long! Lol. It was a fun day though. I think I OD'ed on too much free Coke Zero though. OOhhh... I don't want to see Coke Zero again for a while!

And to keep the happy mood flowing I'm sharing this scrap page I did last week of my birthday this year. I have had this red paper for absolutely YONKS, so it's awesome to have it out of my stash (Boo hoo, I bought 3 new papers at Spotlight yesterday, I think I'm still ahead though!!) Look at all my cool birthday presents! Didn't I get totally spoilt.. yep!! {cheering!!} I love that last little remnant of Sass Lass paper on the left and I cut the cute owl out of the other end of that scrap. I love the Sass Frass owl!!
Gotta run, gotta blow dry my hair and get off to work!
:) C

She is a sewing machine!

LOOK MUM, ARE YOU PROUD OF ME?!!!!! I MADE THIS!!

Wow, what a massive sense of accomplishment I have tonight... cos I made this from pattern to finished product in 3.5hrs!! Is that a long time? Ok, I don't sew all that often! And the last time I actually finished something, like totally on my own was about..... never! I usually need Mum's help or encouragement or sewing skills to finish projects... so Mum, I hope you feel the pride that I'm feeling right now! Cos not only does this little beauty actually look like the picture, but I don't think I made any boo boos at all! Awesome {high five... slap!} I got the kit from the Mathilda markets last weekend, it's by Sew Your Own and is just so so so so cute! The kit cost $25 but the full pattern is inside so I want to make it again in totally different colours, maybe greens and pinks, sweet! I think I was really drawn to the colours in this kit though, especially the turquoise and black combo, it's so cool! I utilised my wonderful patchwork skills (thanks Mum for the tuition {hugs!}) and I am so pleased with how she turned out. Pleased as punch!! The pattern allows for a 1cm seam allowance though, so I have acres of seams in this little baby!

And here she is, relaxing with a little hoot of owls beside the TV. I have 2 things to do now.. decide where to put her, and what to call her. I was thinking Babushka's need a cool name like Olga or Gerta. Any suggestions?

Will and I are off to V-Festival at Centennial Park tomorrow.. awesome! Duffy, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol.. should be coolio!

Have a good weekend!

:) C

Weekend Page as Promised!

Hello!!

You know I should really be in the shower and getting ready for work, but here I am posting. See how much I love you?!

Here is the page I finished on the weekend. It's a little shadowy cos I couldn't find a clear patch of sunshine this morning to take the pic, but you get the picture :). It's from our recent trip to Nelson Bay and our day outing to One Mile Beach. Most of my friends are Asian or Middle Eastern so have beautiful skin that doesn't burn. I, on the other hand, had to hang out in the sun tent so I didn't get burnt to a crisp! I did spend a little time in the sun but I hate getting really burnt and my friends will sit in the sun for hours on end!! (Yes, they get sunburnt a little too, Will complains that his skin hurts after being in the sun and I'm like "Thats cos you're burnt!!" its just that his skin is so dark you can't see it!) So I was chillin in the beach tent and opened my zipper window to find Will standing outside. We snuck a little kiss much to our friend's disgust! {smooch!} Lol!

The patterned paper on this page is by Scenic Route and is actually named after the town I grew up in! Yep, they have a Grafton range that is named after the little town where I was born! I can't believe they chose a town in Australia, Yvette even emailed them to ask if it really was and they replied Yes!! This particular paper is named Chapman St which is the street my ex-boyfriend used to live on. Lol. They have one called Carr St which is my old street, but I haven't used it yet. I only had one sheet of the paper and I loved the reverse side which had those cool waves on it. So I marked out a space under one of the photos and cut it out with my craft knife so I could have a bit of the wave paper on the front! Hehehe, sneaky! I love the little Lulu and Jon rub ons (the toilet people!) You know, when I go to do a beach page I don't have many beach embellishments. And you'd think they were quite popular.. not sure where mine all are!

Yay, thursday night means out to dinner at work night!! I think I might have a Chicken Katsu and a Chicken and Avo Sushi. Yum!

:) C

Project 365 Collage #9

Time for another collage!! The collage is a little dark this time, I must take more pics outside!

The last 9 days: My awesome clothes bargains from Target; finally getting some scrappin time in after OT Friday night- I scrapped in my pyjamas till 12:30, it was wonderful!; dinner at Alicia's and cuddles from Cooper. (He's "Hooray-ing" BTW!); all day breakfast (it was 2:30pm) with Willy at George St, Strathfield- Zenja cafe- it was delicious!; Will and I on our only relaxing week night together, totally captivated by the TV (except Will pauses to shove a jatz in his mouth!); scrappin late at night at my desk with my Ott Lite- I love the "natural daylight" of that lamp; my work-of-art fridge! I think it's time it had a make over and some new pics so take this as the "before" pic; late night shopping Thurs night; the new SU catalogue!! Woo Hoo!!

Just a couple of quick pics of Cooper at a baby animal farm they had a the Mathilda markets. The Mathilda markets are markets of handmade baby and kids stuff like appliqued onesies, soft toys, jewellry, hair stuff, beautiful clothes etc. Can you believe it, out of the 3 of us I was the only one to buy anything! I got a kit for a gorgeous little babushka doll that hopefully I will get time to sit down and make sometime soon! They had so many beautiful clothes, but they were very expensive. The onesies were like $20 or $30!! Felicity, Alicia and I had fun walking around the markets and Cooper enjoyed the baby animals outside! Although in the top picture he was just about to try to eye-gouge the calf! And he did try to grab the tail of the piglet too, but he was so cute to watch!

:) C

P.s. Do you like his little Hawaiian shirt?! I got it at the International Marketplace in Waikiki. So gorgeous! I like how Mummy colour-coordinated too :)

Weekend Wonders

Hi Y'all!

Wow, I chocked up my weekend so full of stuff it's hard to know where to start! I finished a page (to be posted later this week.. ooooh suspense!) on Saturday as well as making 3 cards at Felicity's house. Yes, I had to take everything I own and yes, I did end up only making 3... ssshhh {pressing fingers to lips} it was a good effort!

The first card I actually made 2 of (you know, make one, make 2)... isn't it just so cute! Felicity wanted a card for a friend who just had a baby boy and like me, the friend loves Woodland animals! So this was a super easy card for me to make, cos you know I love owls and the woodgrain is so sweet! The brown spotty paper is Stampin Up Close to Cocoa designer series paper, I love it and the ribbon I got at the Scrappin shop in Yamba back in Oct! I don't know what I would do without this October Afternoon owl set, I use it all the time!

And then I had to beef up the baby cards in my box so I used my new Hero Arts sets I got for my birthday. I love the clouds and the boat is from the baby boy set. This is the first time I have used buttons in fully ages! Buttons were the first craft thing I started collecting and hoarding all those years ago. Mostly I got them from the Op Shop at home but I have bought them on and off from real stores too {lol!}. It was so nice to get some out and embellish this card, I love them!
And then, just quickly I made this card this morning for a friend's birthday tonight. We're off to Pancakes on the Rocks... YUM!! Anyway, as soon as Will asked me for a card I pictured the Monkeys! Ric is so much like that monkey peeking around the corner of the tree at the bottom- he always comes across Will and I sneaking a kiss at work or smooching or snuggling in the locker area and is like "Ew!! Do you have to!" So when I put this card all together I was laughing so much. I hope he appreciated it!
Better run to dinner now!
:) C

Sell me your tears Gypsy!

Yes, it really is me!

I finally got to scrap some pics from my Halloween Theme Birthday Party. I had to start with these cos I have about 50 pics of other people in their cool costumes and I have no idea how I am going to choose which ones to put on a page.. or how I am going to fit that many pics on a page even after I cull them!

Yvette, you may recognise the flocked cream paper (that stuff is so delicious to touch!) and the crinkly satin ribbon- thanks so much {hugs}! I love the owl paper too, it is just the cutest, I think Kaisercraft are doing a great job with all their product! I also used my new Labels 1 nestabilitie to do the journalling block (it's the backside of the owl paper actually) and the cool white flourish rub-on is by Hambly Studios.

I loved getting to dress up in this cool outfit (which all came out of my cupboard BTW!!), one of my friends walked straight past me when she arrived cos she didn't recognise me with black hair!

I just went for a 35min walk through the National Park behind my house. It was so beautiful with the Whip birds (my fave bird call!), the grass trees, giant gums, palms and ferns in the hollows and miniature rapids in the creek. You couldn't hear any evidence of the city down there in the gully, it was so so quiet and peaceful. I guess Brownville does have some redeeming factors after all!

:) C

P.S. I'm going to Fliss's for some card making today.. hopefully I'll have some cool ones to post after that!

I heart Valentine's Day :)

I've found some time for scrappin! I think this little wedge of time was hidden at the back of the fridge behind the moldy cheese. I dusted it off and this is what I came up with..
An explosion of Valentine's Love! These are the pics from this year's Valentine's date to Newtown. I managed to use up a whole wad of those old Provo Craft glue stickers that you sprinkle glitter on (you know, the ones that were out about 6yrs ago.. yes I still have a lot of them!) but they look quite cute IRL, and go well with the lovey dovey theme here! Do you think I used too much stuff on this page? I was going with More is Better, but I still wanted to include the 4 pics as well. I like it anywho so I guess that's all that matters! Can you see in the bottom left hand pic I made a Heart shape with my beans around the mash potato?! Lol.. sorry Mum, but I was playing with my food {wink!} I love the stripey paper, it's one of my fave colour combos- love the pink/red/blue/brown thing it's got going on. Cute!
Well... I'm thinkin I might get a tiny bit of inspirational blog surfing in before bed time, so toodles! And sleep tight!
:) C

Some weekend cards.

I was doing so well with my regular posting in March, now the wheels have fallen off a bit! I meant to post these cards on Sunday, then Monday and now I'm squeezing this post in before work! Must leave time to make lunch and blow-dry hair!

I made these 2 cards on Saturday, it all started with looking at the actualy working space on my desk shrinking and shrinking cos I had so many scraps creeping in to the middle! I pulled out all the scraps, threw away the tiny ones (why do I insist on keeping unusable sized scraps?! {sigh}) and pulled out some stamped images to make cards with. This kitty from The Cat's Pajamas was there so got layered up with a scalloped nestabilitie piece, some papers from my scrap stash, some beautiful Prima flowers (I don't care if everyone else is over them, I LOVE them still!) with jewels in the centres and some pretty satin ribbon. I glitzed up Kitty's pearls with Kindyglitz too, for a little sparkle!

And then I found this Toilet-girl stamped out on my desk. I love these stamps by Scenic Route and so I thought why don't I make a card for once that I would like to be given to me. Something funky, a bit retro with lots of my fave symbols and pieces on it. Don't get me wrong, I usually do like the cards I make and would like them to be given to me, but this one was something different. Cos I didn't think about what other people would think of it.. so here it is.. I just used a black felt pen to draw the mary-jane shoes, bracelet, necklace and heart on the toilet-girl, isn't she so cute! The skull tape was from Yvette for my birthday and I already had that piece of scallop paper kicking around on my desk (see- ridiculous shaped paper scrap!) so I jewelled each "bump". Then there was a big empty space at the top so I used an a-symetrical flourish and stamped the sentiment and punched it out with a circle punch. Isn't the sentiment so cute!! "Hey You!" So if anyone is visiting me they may steal away this card and send it back to me in the post! Anyone... anyone.. LOL!

:) C

Saturday is for Fun and Relaxation.. Woo Hoo!

So... come here often? Lol. It's Saturday which means NO WORK and ALL PLAY!! YAY!! Whenever I am home on the weekend I love to put on a movie, and especially Musical movies! I love singing along and crazy dancing when the mood takes me... I've already watched Dreamgirls and now I'm watching Xanadu. Yep, Xanadu! We had the soundtrack on Vinyl when I was growing up and we always played it while doing our housework. As soon as I put it on just now I got a big smile.. it so takes me back!!

Last night while doing OT at work, Will got a text from his sister asking if I had any Wedding cards cos it's her Best Friend's wedding today. Talk about leaving it for the last minute! I came home and checked out my box and decided I had to make a couple more to give her a bigger choice. I love this set of wedding stamps by wordsworth, the "better than hollywood" sentiment is so cool! I love the leg back on the girl as he dips to kiss her.. so sweet! And this SEI paper is one of my faves at the moment too, I think I only have a little bit of it left {sigh}, yes I know there will always be nice papers!

And I made a more traditional card too, using this giant chipboard sentiment I found amongst my 3D stickers. I have no idea what style of card Will's sis would want so I thought I'd better include a few different ones. I blinged up this card with some paper flowers with Kaiser pearls as centres. And I used my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder on the BG paper and inked over the edges and some of the dots with gold brilliance. I think it turned out quite nice! So, these 2 cards are not a bad effort after 10hrs of work!

K, it's time to get away from the computer and back to my creating cos it's Saturday and Saturday is for Fun and Relaxation!!

:) C

Some girly Cards...

I finally got to make those princess and ballerina cards I wanted to on Sunday! I got up super early yesterday morning and had to forego my morning run in exchange for getting in some creative time. Feeling a little guilty for not exercising, but it feels like forever since I've created something!! Then when I got home from Thursday night shopping I made 2 more cards, happy happy me!

I love these Lizzie Anne Designs stamps, aren't they just the sweetest-faced little girls! I dug out all my prettiest paper pieces to make some sweet cards for little girls. Not sure if you can see it but I blinged up her Tutu with my Sakura Gelly Roll glitter pen, so sweet!

I won a LAD competition last July and so got 2 sets and 4 individual stamps to add to these 2 Ballerina themed stamps and would you believe I still had 1 whole set and the 4 individual stamps that had never seen ink! Argh!! Well the princess set has finally seen ink with these 2 cards. I blinged up the heart paper with my gelly roll pen too and coloured some parts of her dress with it also. I love those pens, I think I'll be spending a lot on Stationary when we go to Japan!

And I had to mix it up a bit away from the pink theme so did a green/purple theme for this princess.. I think she looks quite funky in her 2 tone dress! Lol! Yes, I know, this Chatterbox paper is about 40 million years old, but it is so sweet! I think I only have one tiny tiny piece of it left (thank goodness actually, I'm kinda sick of seeing it in my stash!) And I'm using up scraps which is heading towards good news for my NYResolution! I have no plans for the weekend... so I'm hoping for many more creative hours!

:) C

Project 365 Collage #8!

Wow, we're 70-something days into the year already!! How time flies ;) It's time for another 9 day round up...

Here's the scoop:

Cooper is now such a big boy! I visited for dinner on Fliss's first day back at work (and Granny's first day of the new babysitting job!); baking again (is there a baking pic every collage?); the path through my bedroom- I think it's time to clean again; Will doing the "House" pose... LOL and "ew" all at once- lucky that's a fresh-out-of-the box glove; Dad's birthday! Yum, Icecream cake!; all my wonderful purchases from Craft Fest; 2 year Anniversary with Willy on the Sydney Showboat; my new Mobile.. farewell old white friend... hello spunky new touch phone!; something I do everyday, many times a day.. injecting insulin (thought it was about time this made it into the collage.)

That's my life!

Happier days today though, I didn't do overtime and instead went shopping!! I was so chuffed to have some time out to do something for myself and even happier to get over $200 worth of clothing at Target for only $121!! And then I had a fly buys voucher so it was even cheaper... lucky me! It's a reward for doing all the OT at work {wink}. I was eyeing off the boots at Target on Sunday but Fliss and I decided Target would probably have a shoe sale soon enough.. and I only had to wait 4 days cos now they're having 20% off! Awesome! Then I saw the totally cool checked puffer vest and could imagine myself in it a lot this winter, so got it. I've been keeping my eyes peeled for a stripey shirt so it went into the basket, then the stripey shoes were on sale for $5 and the slippers were too cute to pass up and I got 7 pairs of undies on sale too. I don't think I could have done any better!! Do I detect a bit of a rock chick theme here? I do like my splash of punk clothes here and there.

Almost the weekend... YAY!!!

:) C

A Cruise!!

Wow, we had a totally wonderful Anniversary dinner, thanks for asking! Will's surprise turned out to be a 3 course dinner cruise and caberet show on the Sydney Showboat! It was so cool :) the food was totally delicious, the boat was charming and we had fun dressing up to go on it!

There was a massive variation in what people were wearing- from jeans and casual tops to the Indians in their Sari's and Nikes (what?!! Are Nike's traditional indian footwear?) then the tables of Little Black Dresses and Will and I looking pretty spiffy too. I was happy with what a wore in the end! Look how dark Willy is in this pic! I think I need to tell him to stay out of the sun cos it accentuates my moon-tan. LOL!

We ate fine dining food- miniture spiced lamb cutlets, frittata, smoked salmon for entree then mains of Veal and miniature quiche for me and Chicken on creamy potato salad for Willy then shared a delicious Dessert platter of brulee, Tiramisu, tiny Pavlovas and Mud Cake. YUM YUM YUM!! I tried out my So You Think You Can Dance judging techniques to Willy during the Caberet show (cos you know everyone is a real judge after that show) but they didn't need much judging, I thought they were very good! The views as we cruised around Sydney Harbour were just spectacular. Not a bad way to spend a Monday Night I thought!

Happy Anniversary Willy and thanks for the beautiful Surprise!!

:) C

Happy 2nd Anniversary Willy!

Happy happy happy happy happy Anniversary...

Can you believe Will and I have been together for 2 yrs? Man that time has flown by! This is the very first pic of us, taken on a crappy mobile phone on our first date :) Will had gotten advice from everyone at work and had bought me flowers and met me at my front door, paid for my dinner and even opened the car door for me! What a sweetie!

He has organised something for dinner tonight in the city, but it's a surprise. All I know is it's a 3 course A La Carte and we have to be at Wharf 7 at King St Wharfs by 7pm. What could it be? The very helpful Will first told me the dress code was formal, so I organised my outfit around that, and last night he confirmed it was smart-casual. A little different! I think I might be a litle overdressed cos I have organised to wear a cute new Cooper St dress I bought a couple of weeks ago and it's strapless, white and short. Hmm... too bad! I'm wearing it, even if I will be a little overdressed I'm still going to enjoy wearing my new dress!

I love you Willy, you are sweet, kind, giving, helpful, selfless, funny, generous, innocent, a long story-teller, hard-working and mine!

Happy Anniversary!

:) C

Craft Fest and some bugs...

Hi Y'all! I had a fun day at Craft Fest yesterday with Mum and Auntie Julie. Can you believe they were dressed alike? (apparently a co-incidence but I'm no sure sure {wink!}). I forgot to take a pic of them though, so :( {frowny}, but I bet we looked like an interesting bunch, twins dressed alike and then a daughter of one of them, who could have been either one's daughter. Thankfully I wasn't wearing Apple Green too or we would have looked totally ridiculous!

Here's a pic of what I bought... There wasn't a whole lot of new stuff at this show at all. In fact I could probably say none at all! Is this the fate of us now with the economic downturn (the blame hound?!) I still managed to have fun and buy lots {clapping hands!} My favourite buys at the show were the Argyle Cuttlebug folder which I have wanted for ages and the bunch of Hero Arts stamps :) I love all the tiny owls and cute sayings! There is even a tiny tiny owl which is exactly the same as the Maya Road owl Rub ons I have already and love {cough...rip-off.. cough...}. I got some cute sayings to go with the tiny owls too "Hi" "sending love" and "Hey you" Happy me. I got some bargains like Vinyl Thickers for $5.50 and the Hambly Press layover for $3.15. Yeah, there are some Diabetic Living mags snuck in there too... they were on sale, what can I say?! And you must give me the biggest pat on the back cos I only bought 2 patterned papers. What?!! Only two?! What a champion!! I stopped myself from even looking at most of the papers so I wasn't tempted. I am pretty happy with myself! Over all, I liked Craftfest. I thought it was pretty good being all on one level in one big room, and the Woolworths dome is much bigger IRL without all that fruit in it like at the Easter Show! Hopefully next year there will be more exhibitors too. Thanks Mum and AJ for a great day out!

And this morning I woke up anxious to do some crafting cos I haven't been able to (too much real work and OT) lately. I put on the Scarlet Pimpernel (old family fave) and got to work. I only made these 2 cards but I had fun digging out the Bugs and Kisses set by SU. The bugs are so cute and more often than not I head to my acrylic stamps instead of all my gorgeous SU stamps. I will have to make a better effort on that front! I needed more cards in the box that could do for little girls, I know girls aren't really into bugs but I wanted to do something out of the ordinary and I love the bugs.. maybe now I'll go and make some Princess or ballerina cards too :)

And when making one card.. make another... This cute paper I got from the Scrapbooking shop in South Grafton when I was there in Oct. I love circles and anything graphic and the colours in this paper were so cute! I love using 2 colours of the satin ribbon too, they look so pretty intertwined in the knot and the pink/green combo is a fave of mine.

I hope I can fit in making a couple more cards before church. I just walked up to my local SC and now there is a big storm coming over. I am a little worried cos I haven't seen Mr Puffy for a couple of months now. Mr Puffy, Mr Puffy, wherefore art thou, Mr Puffy?

? C

Project 365 Collage #7

It's collage time for Project 365 again!! Here is what I have been up to the last 9 days...

From top left: A sunday walk to my local Shopping centre; Willy cooks me dinner (Fried Rice- YUM!!); Having a Hypo at work- sugar down to 2.7 so I had to hide out at the lockers and have a popper... just another aspect of my everyday life!; OT at work means eating dinner out of Tupperware with plastic cutlery- luckily there were knives today, usually there are only forks and spoons and it's hard to cut meat with a spoon!; on our way to Nelson Bay we stopped off at RAAF Williamtown and watched the fighter jets do take off and landing manouvers- awesome!!; Willy enjoys some boogie boarding at One Mile Beach; I enjoy a cocktail in the pool with the really awesome table and umbrella built in!; Will catches nothing fishing (which is normal!! Who knows why he persists and actually still loves it?!); my nightly ritual lately is to hop into bed, turn the TV on and play Animal Crossing on my Nintendo til I fall asleep (usually about 7.5 mins! Lol!). And thats the Good News! {cue "Good News Week" music- love that show!}

I am excited tonight cos it's the end of my 53hr week (thank goodness!) and I'm off to Craft Fest tomorrow with Mum. Woot {blowing on hooter!}. I am ready for some serious inspiration and purchasing!!

You know what else is making me happy?... changing my Computer Wallpaper to this pic:

It has been over a year now since Will and I were in Hawaii and when I was going through our pics again the other day I came across this one of Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head and it was so sunny, bright, happy and reminiscent of a fantastic holiday that I just had to put it as my Wallpaper. I love Hawaii {heart!}

:) C

Some Creative Stuff

This is for you Fliss, for hassling me into posting yesterday! I'll reward you with a card post today :)
I made these cards last week before holidays, but I only took pretty crap photos of them late one night, so I apologise in advance! I uncovered my Bella stamps and coloured a whole bunch to go with this colour scheme. This is my all time fave Bella, I use her all the time (you may have noticed!) She is such a perfect girl and goes with so many sentiments! I'll have to dig out my Coco Chanel phrase again cos that one is the best! I cut out the BG paper with my new Labels 1 Nestabilitie die {love!} for a bit of interest. I am working on using up all my scraps as well as the solid sheets of paper. I am going to have to be totally self controlled on Saturday cos I'm going to Craft Fest at Olympic Park with Mum. Eeek! How will I stop myself buying papers? We'll see ;)

And you know I stick by the rule, "when making one card, make two!" It truly works a charm. And it means if you (are a sucker like me... ahem.. I mean no...) happen to like to keep your cards cos they're so cute, you can give one away and keep one for a little longer, then give it away. This last step is vitally important or you get stuck with a mountain of cards you'll never give up! Kinda like my plasic bag collection... but that's another story. I like to do one blonde and one brunette card. I haven't broken out into doing Bella with purple hair yet! Maybe one day.

And then the final card which I made using the negative of the Labels 1 cut outs from the above cards. Genious! I knew I wanted to use it as a window once cut out so I made sure I cut it down one end of the paper and not right in the middle. I think its quite cool! The shoe is a 3D sticker, but it is so hot! And it reminds me of Alicia, so it must be fashionable ;) {wink!} I love this sentiment, it's from Bella too.

Happy Hump Day of the Week!

:) C

I'm Back!! And a slightly darker shade of white :)

Hi Y'all!! We had a wonderful time at Nelson Bay!!! We walked along the bay at Corlette, ate Icecream from the fantastic Icecream shop at the Marina, had Spanish one night, ate lots and lots of BBQ and basked in the fantastic pool at our house. Our house overlooked this bay and although the water was a bit sludgy here we still walked around in the shallows and the boys went kyaking and fishing here. Will did say he thought he was going to drown at one point when he was being doubled on the Kyak by Alex and they tipped over, I was like "Couldn't you touch the bottom?" "yeah!!" LOL! I would imagine putting your feet down would stop you from drowning... I might be wrong {wink!} It was so beautiful to see the late afternoon sun with the silhouettes of the yachts!

How cute are these Hermit Crabs? We didn't put them like this, they did this themselves!! Adorable! I wonder if they crossed paths at the same time and one had to give way to the other? That would have been hillarious to see!

So here I am enjoying myself in the really cool 80s Pool complete with cocktail table and market umbrella! This area was perfect for me cos it meant I was in the pool and feeling cool but still in the shade and not getting burnt! (Cos we all know tanning is skin cells in trauma!) When I grow up I want to have a pool with a cocktail table in it! P.S. that beer bottle isn't mine... the glass of champagne may have been though ;) And take a look at Alex, could anyone get browner! Thats the bummer of having Asian friends with really nice skin that browns easily... my whiteness is overwhelming around them!

And last of all here is Willy attempting a Bomb in the pool. Why is he still wearing his hat and sunnies? Who knows, they didn't last long in the pool anyway! Look at him hold his nose, isn't that just so cute! Not something I expect of a 20-something guy, but so Willy! How did the bomb go? Not so good!! It was a meager splash, but I held my champagne and the bag of tomato chips well out of the way just in case! (Hurrah to Samboy for bringing back Atomic Tomato flavoured chips!! My favourite- together with Light and Tangy of course!)

So that was my weekend, I hope you had a good one too!

:) C