Project 365 Collage #22

It's collage time!! From top left: a couple of months back I got a sample packet of cranberries in my letterbox and it came with a recipe sheet.. well, I finally got to make one of the recipes- A Craisin/Oat slice and it was totally DELICIOUS!! I took it to work and it got snaffled up.. it's mainly oats, coconut, honey & craisins (which I didn't have enough of so I used raisins to top it up) and it tasted like the most delicious home-made meusli bar EVER!! YUM!; this is the window of Big City Chic and I found it quite scrabookingly inspiring with it's different PP's for each letter! I have yet to replicate it, but it's on the to-do list!; Will picked me up at midnight and we went for Sundaes and fries to dip into the Sundaes... yum!!; catching the tiny plane home to Grafton- it was actually almost full with 28 people on the way there, but only 18 on the return trip! We got our own flight attendant though!; my High School reunion!; meeting my old School friend Scott's new little baby boy Tristan, what a cutie!; the lamp the Worrell's gave Will and I for our engagement, so pretty!; look at these tiny tiny plastic kiddie chairs all set up for a show at the local shopping centre, isn't that the cutest thing! It was like looking at a real fashion show set up for babies!; and visiting the Dr cos I'm sick off work...

That's it! Yay for Friday... oh man I can't believe how much I want the weekend to be here fast!! It's been a very long week at work, and for no particular reason, just that it has dragged on so much!! Only one 8 hr day stands between me and 2 days of freedom... YAY!!

:) C

I Love you Tivo..

Yep I got my Tivo.. finally!! Remember it's how I wanted to stimulate the economy after KRudd slipped me a couple hundred $$ way back in April for being an awesome tax payer?! Well I didn't get it then cos I thought I had to buy all these fancy connections to get it to work, but after a quick trip to Dick Smith on Sunday I came away with a Tivo and some cheap-o connections from the crap shop down the road and I'm in business!! So the past few days have been an enjoyable sea of TV shows I actually want to watch. Yeah!! (FYI- it's basically a HD Recorder for normal TV but it does cool stuff that allows me to free up my own memory, like you can set it to tape a whole season of a show with only a couple of clicks and don't have to remember to set it every week, you can pause live TV, tape 2 shows at once while watching a 3rd and it acts as a set top box too cos I didn't have digital TV before.) Also it does this way cool thing where you put in an actor's name (such as Jason Statham) and it will tape anything that he's in!! Cool hey! Also you can log on to it via the internet so if I'm at work and forgot to tape something I can log on and do it! Yeah!! Happy me. Thanks KRUDD!!

So last week I also did some scrappin and I'm really knuckling down now and using up lots of my old scrappin stuff that I've had for ages. I consider something old if I got it more than 18 months ago (isn't that sad! I have so much stuff!!) and more and more I'm reaching for this stuff to use it up and only using a bit here and there of new stuff. Plus, I haven't gone scrapbook shopping for ages! You proud? I hope so, I am {wink!!}

My new fave shop is called Cupcakes on Pitt, and although there must be one in Pitt St in the City I've only been to the one at Parramatta, and BOY IT"S GOOD!! I saw a man come up the escalator with a box that had the logo on it and I ran down the escalator and chased around like a mad woman until I found the shop!! I was in HEAVEN!! The cupcakes are $2 each (can you believe it?!) and are just SO SO SO SO good. Yvette, you have to come to stay just to try some! I loved the Lemon Merangue on the left- there was a ball of lemon tart in the middle and the soft fluffy merangue on top was to die for! The Black Forest on the right was also really good: the ganache was just soooooo delicious! I have since been back for another Lemon Merangue and a Peanut Butter cupcake, also wonderful! So the OLD on this page is the PP, fozz felt, chipboard letters, the pink metal tabs, the pink slide frame (cut in half above the pics), the journal spots, metal flower brad, the cherry sticker and the white rub ons! In fact the only new thing is the jewels! LOL!! Yay me! And Yay for delicious cupcakes too... oh I'd love one right now {licking kips!}
:) C

Tuesday and I'm up way too early!

Hi Y'all!

I've got a training course at work today- it's something about Effective Management etc. There was a couse outline but I was more interested in the fact that it listed Morning Tea break, lunch break and afternoon tea break. WOW! 3 Breaks! I'm hoping they feed us those little sandwiches and cakes, I love those. They are always wheeling them from our canteen to the conference rooms and I look whistfully at the mini goodness as it whisks past me. Today, I might be one of the lucky ones! Woo hoo {waving arms and patting tummy}.

Do you have a celebrity crush? You know, the person who whenever they come on an ad you stop dead and marvel at the beauty that is them. Or in my case, the dirty sexiness that is Jason Statham... mmmmm Jason Statham. Yeah, Will knows it. There is something in that beautiful rough English street-accent and his unshaven stubble. Mmmm!! Will's always like "Well why don't you marry him then?" "Cos he's in England, and you asked me first" is my usual answer. Though if JS makes it over here before April 10 next year, Will might have a battle on his hands!One night when we were in the cinemas in the city I came across a giant cardboard poster for Transporter 3 with Jason Statham on it!! Oh my heart {fluttering}!! Well Will grabbed my camera and snapped a pic for me in my closest moment with Jason Statham ever (did I mention Will helps perpetuate my celebrity crush?) LOL! I did get some funny looks, but honestly, those people don't understand. He's hot. That's it. (I don't even care that he has a receding hair line. I'll stiill marry him!!) So I've finally scrapped the pic! I had to modify a letter Q for the U cos I'd run out of U's, pretty nifty hey! Yvette taught me that :)

Gotta run and blow dry my hair so I look presentable at my Leadership training day!!

:)C

Boy Oh Boy.. cardmaking late then early again?

So I was up late last night making cards, come to think of it actually, it wasn't late for me.. normally I sleep at midnight but I finished card making then promptly fell asleep on the lounge watching the Tour de France at 10:30pm. Hence, I woke up this morning at 7:22am (almost an hour before I normally wake up on a weekday!) and so just went straight back to my desk and back to my cardmaking! Did you know Rage rewards the early waker? Usually by the time I wake up on a Saturday it's that weird time between when Rage has started playing the weird "I'm sure they don't even play this on Triple J" music and before Video Hits begins, so I'm stuck watching crap for my breakfast. But early, before most people even open their eyes on a Saturday morning (i.e. 7:22am), Rage plays all the good clips. Hurrah for ABC!! I enjoyed my morning sing-a-long while cardmaking!

So here's some pics of what I got up to: for these preppy baby boy cards I broke out some of the unused stamps from the Hero Arts Precious Baby clear set that Felicity got me for my birthday. I love all the stamps on this set but for some reason have been using the same stamps (namely the elephant and the cloud) over and over, so I decided it was time to break out some of the others!! Did you know the secret to stopping the ink beading on brand new acrylic stamps is to rub an eraser (the plain old soft school kind) over the image, then clean it well on your stampin scrub (if you've got one) and then start stampin away baby! I tells ya, works a charm! I do that for all my acrylic stamps! Take that as my "Tip for the Year". I'd say "Tip for the day" but seeing as I haven't given out any other tips this year, that is probably going to be it for the whole of 2009. Cherish it. It's 7 months worth of thought right there.

Anywho, do you like the cards? I have kept one cos I loved it so much, just in case Felicity has a baby boy in Nov (this is not a random thought, she is actually pregnant and due in Nov, so don't think I'm crazy- it's not "in case she has a baby" but rather "in case she has a baby boy". Lol!) I wanted to use a colour scheme other than my normal baby blue and green, I love the boldness of the red and blue together. And the red gingham ribbon is one of my faves!

Will and I are going to Nick's Diner at Macquarie Centre for dinner tonight and then to the movies afterwards. We're gonna see either Bruno or Harry Potter- yeah, a bit different to each other! We'll see what time dinner finishes. I had to book Nick's cos we've tried to go there for dinner before and they couldn't fit us (and the restuarant is pretty massive) so this time when I called the girl had to go away and "see if we have any room for you"! We are only 2 people! Wow!! It's cos there's only like 2 other places to eat up there. It's seriously lacking in good restaurants- what I wouldn't give for a Hogs Breath less than 20 mins away!!

Well, I hope you're having a fantastic Saturday!!

:) C

Egg All Over My Face..

Attention People buying me Christmas Gifts!!


I would really really really like this for Christmas!! It's a "Sunny Side Up" pillow by diffractionfiber on etsy!! Isn't it totally the coolest thing?! I LOVE it!! Mum will probably say "Ew, gross" but you know I'm still a kid and this would be so cool on my lounge! Alternatively, if you know some crafty people they could probably make something similar don't you think (hint hint!) LOVE IT!!

They also do a totally awesome Fortune Cookie pillow where you can customise a little note that tucks into a pocket like a real Fortune Cookie! I'm thinking I might get that one for Willy {giggling!} So cool. I don't know how people come up with these ideas but they are seriously ingenious! Have you cruised around Etsy before?! You definitely should, I love it!! http://www.etsy.com/ it's like ebay only much better (if you're in to totally unique, beautiful, original handmade artisan products made by home craftspeople or small businesses or you want something vintage and totally special and you like to support the little man, than this is for you!) Check it out.

:) C

Etsy Finds :)

Oh My Gosh, my internet has not dropped out yet and I've been on it for 15 mins! Hurrah!!

Check out these cute little brooches I recently got from Entangle's Etsy Store! How cute are they! I wore the gold bow on the right to work yesterday and got some lovely comments about it! It is good quality and really heavy and together with the gold bow at top left cost me $3.50US. Wow!! He he. I love the 80s stylised chick too, I'm sure I remember Yvette and Alicia had some stuff in the 80s with a similar girl on it :) It's Alicia's birthday in 2 weeks and she is notoriously hard to buy for, so I'm thinking the 80s chick might go to her. I think she'd like it! And the other tiny tiny brooch is a little Cuckoo Clock! That was the first one I put in my cart and what drew me to Entangles. Oh so cute! I'm wearing the top left Bow today, so sweet! I might have to raid Mum's brooch collection next time I visit and get these guys some friends!

:) C

Warning...

I warn you internet... you are that close to ending like this:

GGRRRR!!!!

Project 365 Collage #21

Oh, wow, don't tell me the internet will let me make 2 posts tonight!? Quick, take a picture! Will and I at one of our fave cheap eats from the Entertainment Book- Oscars at Pyrmont. They do $15 ribs on a Monday night! And I'm a sucker for ribs :); the last of the Twilight books, oh they were so good. I'm reading this for a second time now!; check out my new Wall Art! I got this vinyl New York Skyline from House to Home in Wollongong, for the bargain price of $7.95!! I was worried that I'd never get it off the wall, but it's got other ideas, cos every couple of days I have to run my hand over it to stick down all the loose edges! Oh well, you get what you pay for!!; my pink and brown wedding cards; My FAVE winter (and summer actually) drink- Hot Milo, oh oh oh oh so good! And my fave mug too ; how can you beat this for morning tea? A Coffee from Gloria Jeans and a Lemon Merangue cupcake from Cupcakes on Pitt at Parra (keep your eyes peeled for a page I just did on these beauties!!); Will and I out to brunch at Zenja North Strathfield- the food here is really nice and the coffee is lovely too, but the Barrista (and I think owner) is a total bastard to his staff! As you eat you can hear him talking down to them and yelling to them that they are stupid etc.. sours the mood a bit!! We prefer to sit outside where you can't hear him, or you can sit inside if you feel like a bit of drama; my attempt at the Cinnabon Cinnamon buns flopped- I finally found something I can't bake!! {brushing tickets off self}; and finally scrappin fun! This page had to squish a lot of pics on cos I loved them all!!

Lets see if this posts now!
:) C

Where have I been?

"Where have You been?" I hear you ask... I've been right here... bashing away at the keyboard cos my internet connection is TOTAL CRAP!! Anytime a tiny little breeze (e.g. the flutter of a butterfly's wings) comes around, my wireless connection takes a holiday. And that's how it's been all week!! ARGH!! Yes, it has been massively annoying!!

So... quick to it:


Here's my Fiance (awesome pic.... not!!) taking a swig of a very interesting drink in Japan. This thirst quencher was called "Sweat". Yep, like the stuff that oozes out of every pore during the City to Surf (3 weeks to go and haven't trained for 2 weeks cos I've been sick... ouch!!) He said it was salty, like Powerade, but grosser! We had seen it in a few vending machines (on every street corner actually!) and curiosity finally won over Willy! I love the face he's pulling in this pic.. it's one of the many interesting faces of Willy :) See the Japanese book paper at the top? I bought the book in the Jimbocho district in Tokyo especially to pull apart and use on pages! It cost me Y100. hehehe, bargain. I love it! Now I've lost it. Damn! It's somewhere around my scrap stash.. hmmm... wish I could find it!

The OLD on this page is the red disco ball lace paper, the background PP (one of my first graphic papers ever bought! HOnestly, over 5years old!!)

AND THEN I HAD KEPT ON TYPING AND LOST IT ALL COS MY INTERNET IS A WANKER!!

.... I was saying- the journal spot and rub ons are also old, yay to me (said with less enthusiasm after having typed it all out before).
Hope you finally get to read this (and Unwired can buy me a pony.)
:)C

Wedding Cards

Hi Y'all. I'm throwing off the sick blankets today and Will is taking me into the city for the Aroma Coffee festival that is on today at the Rocks :) I imagine we will be 2 of tens of thousands of people so I hope my sick little body is strong enough to cope!!

Remember I made a whole bunch of pink and brown wedding cards a few weeks ago, well I broke out of the pink wedding card mold to make some Blue and Brown Wedding cards using up almost a whole sheet of leftover 3D stickers from my massive stash {punching air}!! For this first card I also used the SU set Blooming With Happiness and the Hampton Art clear set Forever Wedding with Groovy Guava and Creamy Caramel. I love the bride and groom words and I managed to perfectly position them where I wanted them in relation to the double heart stamp. Success!!

Another one of my fave SU sets for wedding cards is the retired Happiness Always set. I had this rectangular 3D tag which is already dry embossed with leaves on it. "What on earth am I going to do with that?" I thought! Well I fiddled with some bits and pieces on my desk, finally adhering it to a scalloped rectangle I had cut with my Cuttlebug and Nestabilites dies and then embellished it with Prima flowers and some bling in the centres. I was so happy with how it turned out!! The ribbon is actually blue with brown and cream stripes so it goes a bit better IRL than here in the pic (trust me {wink!})

Then of course the Wordsworth stick people had to make an appearance cos i love this wedding set! I stamped the striped BG paper with my Autumn Leaves Flourish stamp, then embellished some of the ends of the swirls with tiny bling jewels. So cute!! The frame with the butterflies is off the same 3D sticker sheet as the other 3D embellishments on the other 2 cards, so happy to have used up that whole sheet!!

I hope you all have a great Sunday also, hoping we can get a car park in the city ok and I don't get too worn out!

:) C

Scrappin!

Share time!!

Here are some pages I finished recently, happy days! I have done 47 pages for the year which for me is a great effort!! My personal goal is to do 52 for the year (1 page per week!) so to have already done 47 pages means I have totally KICKED BUTT!! Woot {cheering and doing star jumps!}

One thing I have done a lot of lately is take pics on my phone while shopping and text them to Alicia for a second opinion! I call it "Shop by Phone". I'm sure I'm not the only one who does it, but it does get some funny looks when I'm seemingly admiring myself in the mirror and taking "model" pics!! It works too, sometimes I get a "nah, I think you could do better" but with all 3 of these items (puffer vest, turqoise knit and hot navy dress!) they got the thumbs up and so were added to my wardrobe! I love having a new phone with a great camera in it! It makes shopping on my own a lot more fun!! The OLD on this page is the photography themed stickers along the top, the PP (yes, you had that years ago) and the lace cardstock, hurray for using old stuff.

And then another page from our fantastic trip to Hawaii last year! Yeah, I'm still scrappin those pics... slowly!! Will and I both abosolutely loved Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co Restaurant, being of the "delicious, big servings, hearty meal" loving variety of people (to quote Will: "I don't do etiquette eating") It was our first night in HI and it was brilliant. I love themed restaurants too and this one was quite cool :) It introduced Will to great American food also! I had a lot of pics to include on this page, but I think the PP really worked well with so many pics. The OLD on this page is the PP, I've had that so long!!, and the chipboard letters are forever old too. I did a page a few years ago and spelt Fave "FAV", well I thought it looked ok at the time but Yvette ribbed me about it a bit (yes you did, don't say you didn't!!) so I spelt it with an E this time, and yeah, it looks better! {wink!}

:) C

P.S. Three posts in one day? Unheard of!!

Taylored Expressions Challenge #74

I was so happy today to actually have some time and inspiration to sit down and do one of Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenges!! I always want to do the challenges but never get around to it, but after soaking up the sun at the park watching the local soccer match I was filled with inspiration and so got to work! This card is for TE Challenge#74 It's just a simple card but I love the American Craft's BG paper and I glitzed up the image with my Spica glitter pens... it really shines and sparkles IRL. I love graphic images so this tree makes me smile :) I am going to make more of an effort to actually send the cards I make instead of hoarding them forever, I actually sent out a birthday card to a friend and an Anniversary Card to my parents {Happy 39th Anniversary for today Mum and Dad!!} this week, so I'm on a roll!

:) C

Project 365 Collage #20 & YAY for the Weekend!

Well, actually I have been off work sick the past 2 days, but Yay for the weekend anyway!!


I am way behind with lots of postings at the moment (I think I will never catch up on the Project 365 collages at this rate!) but I haven't forgotten about you, my tiny handful of readers! And also I wanted to give a giant HURRAH {blowing on a paper hooter and waving arms crazily} cos I reached 2500 visits!! THANK YOU FOR DROPPING BY OVER THE PAST YEAR AND MAKING MY BLOG FUN!! So have a seat, relax and share a Blue Hawaii with me :) YUM! P.s. We're going to Hawaii in 2010 for my Mum's *significant (not going to say how many, for her own protection)* birthday! Should be awesomeness!! Yvette, you HAVE to come... it wont be the same without you there... pLEASE!!

Ok, so I'll start with another Project 365 collage:

Hmm... this is getting a bit long ago now, but I think I remember whats going on! This is how I usually spend my Saturday morning, in some comfy clothes eating breakfast at my computer and blogging (hence, that is exactly what I have done this morning!!); my makeup trial at the photographer that we decided we didn't like; reading the second Twilight book (I read all 4 books in just over 1.5 weeks, wow, they really suck you in!); I have been trawling etsy looking for wedding ideas and I saw some really cool stickers and Yvette suggested we could make our own in photoshop- so thats what I did! This is the rehersal one (you'll notice I put it as a button on my blog cos I like how it turned out! Less than 9 months to go! {smiles}; card making; on to the third Twilight book now!; drove Mum back home to Wollongong cos I felt I needed to get out of Sydney and for once I got to stay in the "big bed", not my childhood 2x6 foot antique bed; I bought my Wedding Dress!! The very first one I tried on- So so so beautiful!!; LOOK WHO's BACK!! MR PUFFY!! I hadn't seen him for AGES and he popped by to see me on this day. Mr Puffy usually visits me when a change is on the way... (no, I'm not supersitious, I just think he is delivered to me to say Hello!) so I'm guessing this time it is cos I'm going to be Mrs Lam soon enough. Missed you Mr Puffy!

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION UPDATE!!
Well, I am just over 6 months into my New Years Resolution to reduce my Patterned Papers and scraps by 20% by the end of the year, and I have to say I think I'm actually doing quite well! In fact, if I hadn't bought any papers at all this year I would have achieved it already!! But seeing as I am weak and can't possibly go a whole year without buying delicious, exciting, awesome pieces of printed paper, I have caved and bought 30 papers this year. Honestly, thats only just over 1 per week, I don't think that is so so bad, is it?! Well I only have to use up 27 more, without buying any additional papers, and I have conquered my Resolution fair and square!! What do you think? Can I do it?!! I hope so!!

Wow, at risk of having you drop dead from boredom from reading this long, long, wordy post I will stop now, but might come back later to post some of my recent creative exploits!!

:)C

School Reunion.. It was just like we left Yesterday!!

Hi y'all, I'm back from my GHS Class of '99 Reunion and man I had THE BEST TIME!! It was so fantastic to see everyone again, most people i hadn't seen for 8 years or more, and once we got together it was like we'd only left school yesterday!! It was such a great day, I can't say that enough, and I was so glad I went!! I recommend to everyone to go to your reunion, even if you haven't seen anyone for 10 years and are not sure if you have anything to talk about- it's not like that at all, it's just a really awesome get together and reminisce!! There were some people I saw who I remembered instantly even though I hadn't seen them for 10 years and I actually cared about what they were doing now! Amazing!! I loved it! And I did have the BEST year group at school, by the end of year 12 the different "groups" had melted away and we were all friends, and I think that really reflected 10years later when we got around and chatted to everyone! It was held at the Grafton Races, and after the race day was finished we moved on to the Clocktower Pub until they kicked us out at closing time. I needed another day with everyone, I didn't get a chance to chat with everyone I wanted to!! I thought I would include some before and after pics so you can see how little most of my friends have changed!! Some of these people I have been at School with since Kindergarten! Wow, it was so much fun :)

I spent my overtime hours at work last night trying to convince Will that we should move back to Grafton so that our kids can have the same kind of great friends that I had growing up, and be part of a safe and friendly community. That idea got Poo Poo-ed. Not happy :( I really miss the country!!

:) C

High School Musical, oops I mean Reunion!

I cannot believe I am old enought to be having a High School Reunion! It feels like I'm only about 22! Didn't I only just leave School? Apparently not, cos this Sunday is my Reunion back in my home town of Grafton. We are having 2 marquee's on the finish line at the Races, so I've got my frock {shudder at that word}, my fascinator and my fancy heels! I hope the rain stays away :) I wouldn't want my lipstick red satin heels to be ruined!
So here is a pic of my whole English Class with our teacher, Mr Tatham, on our last day (hence the Mufti Day Attire- we did have a uniform, I did go to a public school!!) Man we look like a rag-tag bunch. Only half the people remembered how to smile for the camera... can you pick me out?! LOL!! I see some faces here who are going to be at the Reunion. I'm so excited to see people and catch up on whats been happening the last 10 years! (Wow, that sounds so weird to say).
I fly up tomorrow morning and back on Monday. Will is scared cos it's only a small plane, he keeps saying "It's not gonna crash right? Cos you gott come back and Marry Me!" LOl!! Wish me luck!
:) C

Pages from Ages... ago.

Ah.. the sweet smell of a Craisin/Coconut slice while I blog, there is nothing to warm the cockles of my heart more than that. Except if Will was snoozing on the lounge behind me too, I love to see him napping, his innocent sleeping face is so cute! Anywho...

Some more pages from my binge back in early June. I was so inspired after our trip to Japan, and very excited to scrap our Engagement! I just love the pic in this first one, it's so special to me! That is the exact spot where Will got down on one knee and asked me to Marry him {sigh at the beautiful memory}. I also love the Toilet People rub on on the right side. They are part of my love of Graphic Images. I thought the bright colours of the papers really complemented the brightness of our clothes. The OLD on this page is the pink heart lace cardstock bottom right and the red and pink stickers and circle die cut at top right. I'm zooming through some old stuff with this page! The NEW is the Scallop printed deco tape I got at Tokyu Hands in Japan {heart that store!}

And for the second page I pulled out the awesome Artisan shape from a die-cut sheet and then found a piece of fully patterned paper I thought wouldn't go with it, threw them together and stuck them down with the pic before I could change my mind. And I quite like it! I LOVE the hand pointing at my ring!! Hahaha, I jumped for joy when I found it among my collection! The OLD on this page is the journal spot and the True Love MM rub-on (old,old,old,old,old!) I love the simplicity of the page with the busy-ness of the paper! And those lettering stickers are so beautiful (although a bit hard to see here).

I met with Cathy Crawley tonight, who is our prospective Wedding Photographer. Wow, she is such a lovely lady and her albums are so beautiful! I would love her to photograph our wedding :) She is at the top of our Photography budget, but after seeing her work, and knowing it will be the part of our Wedding that will be enjoyed for years to come, I know it's worth it. Better go email her now to book the date for us. I wanted to confirm with Will it was ok, and of course he just said "Yeah, if you like it, do it! You want money?!" Lol. How much you got? {wink}

:) C

Project 365 Collage #19

Another Project 365 post! A somewhat ordinary 9 days (except for the Wedding Expo!)

My Bridesmaid's cards (see earlier post); dinner at a Laos Restaurant at Canley Heights with my work friends, the funny thing is 3 of my friends there were asian and 1 was Persian and there was a Chinese couple talking about us and I, the only Whitie at the table, was the only one who could understand them! Lol. Will was at work so missed it!; Cutie Owl card; Wedding Expo at Luna Park with Alicia and Felicity; how evenly lined up are all the junk mail in the letter box?!; into bed early (see 10:31pm!); Will showing his usual charming face; checking out the Wedding set-up at The Epping Club- our chosen reception venue; Cards I made for Fliss's Stampin Up party.

So that's it!

Back to work day today was not too bad.. in fact it was exceptional for a Monday. Hurrah {throwing hands up in air}, I hope the week continues this way!!

:)C

Sunday Sweetness.

Hi Y'all,

I have been on a sugar-bender this weekend. You might think "Yeah, I do that occassionally" but I haven't done it in 2.5yrs, since I was diagnosed with Diabetes, cos you can imagine it is probably the worst possible thing for me! But something snapped inside me this weekend and I couldn't help myself {sigh}. Yesterday I went to Parramatta Westfield and I was suckered in by the smell of Kernels popcorn. Oh my heart! The beats picked up when I smelt that warm, sweet, corny, caramel smell and I automatically diverted there like a mouse on a cheese trail!! I got a tiny grab bag (I diverted from my old fave Creamy Creamy Caramel) of a Caramel and Butterscotch combo.... I can't even remember what it was called, just that my one track mind could think of nothing more than getting that corn into my mouth!! That wasn't all, I had already had a Lemon Merangue cupcake for morning tea from Cupcakes on Pitt and bought a Peanut Butter one for later too! Then this morning I went out for brunch with Willy to Zenja Cafe at the old Arnott's factory, North Strathfield, and I had Ricotta Pancakes with Caramelised Banana. And now I have a mound of dough rising near the heater cos I am trying out a recipe I found online for Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls (you know the American chain that I raved about in a previous post?) WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!!! I better have a sensible week this week with lots of exercise and healthy eating to compromise! Although my Pancreas may not think that is much of a compromise. Do you think 2.5yrs without a sugar binge was a good effort?! I'll try to make it another 2.5 years til the next one!!

Will and I did go see Ice Age 3 last night and his Bro got us into Gold Class with popcorn and a Pepsi Max for $6 each. Ha! Bargain!! It was a funny movie, so cute! I love a good laugh, and there were some people in the audience who were outright "gafawwing" at some of the jokes! Lol. There was only one other couple in Gold Class, it was 2 men who talked constantly at normal volume for the whole movie. What?! Whats the point of paying $30 each to talk through the movie? I suggested to Will that they were drug dealers doing a deal somewhere inconspicuous where they could talk freely for 90 mins and not worry about being spotted. You never know! They annoyed me though! Luckily we hadn't really paid for our seats or I would have complained about them!! Or yelled at them to shut up (I would never really do that, but I fantasised about doing it during the movie!)

:) C

Long Awaited Scrappin!

Happy Saturday!
Did you know I have done a number of scrap pages since we got back from Japan and yet haven't posted one?! How slack am I {slapping self on butt}.

So here are a couple to keep your appetite whetted for the weekend :)
This is actually a self-taken pic (I don't think you can really tell!) and I love the rough texture of the old brick wall. It's at the lighthouse at Wollongong, they have this old bunker underneath and Will and I took some pics there back at Easter time. I wanted to do a page that is as much about the journalling as the picture (for once!- Journalling is usually the last thing I do and has to fit in around the rest of the page!) I chose to use different patterns in co-ordinating colours and have a word and it's meaning to me on each one. I cut them with my Nestabilities Label 1 die in different sizes and wrote on them in my SU Stampin Write Markers. I love this Scenic Route paper, the colour is so beautiful! Some of the paper pieces I used up are way old but were some of my fave ones I was hoarding- it's great to have them out of the stash and onto a page now.
I loved this pic of Will when I took it, he's so innocent and child-like in this pic! I can imagine what he would have looked like as a little boy :) just the same {heart melting with sweetness}. And I hope this face carries over into our Children also! This pic was taken on the Mt Kachi Kachi Ropeway the morning of our engagement (when I didn't know today was the day, and he was feeling a little scared I think!) and it turned out to be the first holiday pic I scrapped. YOu know when you see a pic and a whole page instantly jumps out at you and forms in your head without any effort! That's this page :) The OLD on this page is the "Truly Madly Deeply" rub on, the American Crafts chipboard shapes and the bird rub-on. They aren't really that old compared to other stuff in my stash, but they are by no means new either! Be happy for me, I'm working through my stash! The American Crafts thickers on this page are my favourite font too- it's called daiquiri and i LOVE them! I have them in white also cos I liked them so much {wink!} The black spotty AC patterned paper is great for boy pages too, I'm always on the look out for cool guy papers!
I think we're going to the movies tonight to see Ice Age 3. Will's bro works at Reading Cinemas and usually gives us free popcorn and drink when we go there and he's working. Sweet! Last time though he trumped it all by sending us to Gold Class for free with free popcorn and cokes! All with his Manager's permission too! And the manager told us to come back anytime and if they weren't busy we could go in Gold Class again! I wont pin my hopes on it for a Saturday night though, free popcorn would be nice enough for me!
:)C

Bridesmaid Invitation

Good Morning!

Well I have actually snapped mostly out of my Melancholy mood, you will be happy to know! I have had 2 excellent days at work without too much drama or stress and it has done wonders for my mental state... WOOT {Cheering and blowing on paper hooters :)} so hopefully it will extend to today and into the weekend. Finger's crossed!

You know how Will and I are getting married in April (lol, I wont let you forget!), well it is about time to choose our bridal party! Mine was easy to pic- I have 3 sisters, therefore I have 3 bridesmaids... no competition! Will chose his guys pretty easily too, so we're all set with people now! I wanted to make a card to ask my girls and knew instantly I wanted to use the Bridalpartybellas from Stamping Bella. I had to "un-ink out" one of the bridesmaids cos there were actually 5 girls in the stamp! I whipped the idea up in about 5 mins sitting at my desk at work one day, came home and made them the same night!

They are long cards- I cut an A4 sheet into 3rds length wise, measured how much room the stamp would need then folded the right side over itself to make the gate-fold so that you could still see the stamp. I cut the PP to fit the folded piece, stuck it down then punched the edge with my Fiskars threading water punch. I also punched a hole with the SU double slot punch to thread the ribbon through and hold the card shut. Then I coloured the girls (one with brown hair for Fliss and the other 3 blonde), mounted the whole card on a piece of Rose Red cardstock and then sat down to think of some journalling. I had fun trying to come up with ideas of what I wanted from my bridesmaids! And yes, I'm sure I'll need all of the tasks at some point or another in the next 9 months!!

I loved how the cards turned out and so did the girls! You'll be happy to know they all said yes :) so now it's full steam ahead for wedding planning!

Yay for the weekend tomorrow!

:)C

Do brown cards reflect my Melancholy mood?

Hi Y'all!

For some reason yesterday and today I have been quite melancholy. I'm not sure why. Monday I felt I couldn't even snap out of it! Luckily I have great friends at work who make my days fun :) so the feeling almost went away. Then today it was sneaking back in the edges again. What is this all about? If you know me, you know I am a happy person! I dunno... I've been working too hard at work lately and I have found it not a fun place to be (apart from break times with my friends) and now that I work day shift I miss the sunlight and being able to go shopping in the day time like when I worked nights. Hmm... hope I do snap out of it, it's really annoying to be sad! So anywho, the 4 cards I've made lately have incorporated brown... so I'm thinking that's a reflection of my mood! Willy did pick me up quite a bit by buying me Ribs and Pancakes for dinner Monday night. The path to my happiness is paved with food, so it would seem {sigh}.

This paper has been in the front of my stash for ages and I don't like it, but I thought it would actually look good as House warming cards! I think it turned out pretty good actually. I paired my See D's Home Sweet Home stamps with my new Trendy Trees stamps from Stampin Up which I just love. How cute are those little trees?!

Then I made some wedding cards using some of my 3D stickers. You know me by now right? Well, you know that I have a box full of the 3D stickers from my obsession with them in the past (thankfully it has petered off in the past 2 years, cos otherwise I could open my own shop with the number I have right now! In fact, I don't think I have bought any at all this year! Woo Hoo!) Well I don't have many wedding stamps so I thought it would be cool to use up some of the 3D stickers and get some more wedding cards in my box. How do you like these? I used SU designer series Berry Bliss paper from last year's catalogue paired with some little scraps from my stash to make these 2 cards. There is a bit of glitz you can't see so well in the pics but a card isn't complete without ribbon and glitz!

:) C