Comp page

Hi y'all.

How is it already Monday? Oh man, I had to force myself out of bed this morning!!

Yesterday I decided it was time I did a competition page, I like the challenge of doing a page to someone else's design so I headed over to Anna's Craft Cupboard and checked out their monthly LO comp. Here's the page I came up with! I realised that I have hardly any LO's from Hawaii, even though I took hundreds of pics! It was such a wonderful trip, just Willy and I, and so I decided it needed to be scrapped more! I did stick to my old habit of using up OLD items as well as NEW ones. So on this page the OLD is both the white and pink lace cardstocks, the rub on under the journal block, the orange chipboard flower and the 2 pink wooden flowers. That gorgeous pink and black paper is by Heidi Swapp and I've been wanting to use it for ages! So glad I finally got to! I didn't embellish too much cos I already think the page is a bit overpowering! Kinda like a flamingo threw up over here.... LOL! But in the end I think it conveys the happy, tropical, fun time we were having in such a beautiful place! Wish me luck, first prize is a $35 voucher! I could do with some new stuff :)

:)C

Project 365 Collage #24

I'd better share another Project 365 collage before the month is out!

The car clock says 7:57 and I'm on may way to work?! What?!!! Lol, starting early; a training day at work; having breakfast with my peeps; bacon and maple muffins (thumbs down, I think they were too doughy and not tasty enough, probably would have been heaps better drowned in maple syrup, but not when you're diabetic!); Yum Cha at Rhodes with Alicia and Willy, delish!; Will displays his delicious dinner; birthday dinner for Alicia, hanging out and watching her Foxtel with Mum and Dad; "End of Swine Season" morning tea with my work friends (note the multi-culturalism!! From left: Indian, Chinese, Lebanese, Fijian-Indian; Aussie (OMG!!), Iraqi, Lebanese and Chinese-Singaporian... and then Me of course!!; and doing well with my New Year's Resolution, I've now only got to use 10 papers without buying any more and I"m done!!!!

Hope you're having a good Saturday!

Man I've had a busy day, I started at the local Coffee Shop for breakfast with some catalogues, then on to Birkenhead point (undergoing reno's at the moment, so don't head there if you can help it!) where I staked out in Spotty for a while checkin out their Martha Stewart stuff. Man it's expensive!! Probably the best value is the ribbons ($8/10m) and the glitter ($13/45g) but see those blue and brown ribbon boxes at the bottom- so nice... and $45!!! WHAT?! The rub ons and stickers were equally as expensive, about $8-$16 for 2 sheets. I reckon that's a rip off!! The sheet of jewels you can see bottom right were $13 for one sheet!! Do they not realise you can get a pack of Kaisercraft jewels for $2? Hmm... Also, the border punches were $35, although I saw them at the craft show for about the same. I think I'll stick to online shopping! OR at least saving my money for our honeymoon (hopefully to the USA!) where I'll drag poor Willy around to the craft shops. Love ya Willy!! So after that I headed to Lane Cove to a great Deli, but didn't end up buying anything, then to Dan Murphy's then to Eastwood looking for lunch, then to Grocery Shopping and finally home!! Whoa!!

:) C

Jap Scrap!

Hurrah, I'm getting on with my Japanese Scrapping!!

I'm loving using bright colours to match with the brightness of my Tokyo pics (Kyoto pics are

much more historic and subdued!) Something Japan is full of (and you probably already have

worked this out!) is vending machines! They are on EVERY street, including in residential zones! It's like you never have to go to the shop, just step out your door and vend yourself a coke and go back in to watch TV. Amazing! On Mt Kachi Kachi there was even a hot food vending machine (I was perplexed as to whether the food sits inside cooking forever- hello Clostridium!- or if it's snap cooked when you vend?! We never found out cos I wasn't brave enough to try it!) The machines were so handy cos we walked so much and were always parched! The toy vending machines were fun too, they dispensed toys in big capsule balls or they even dispensed character stationary! The OLD on this page is the number lace cardstock, the orange lettering stickers, PP and the arrow rub on :)

Then I cracked out another Japanese Scrap page, woo hoo! Man I am killing that AC arrow paper, I've used it on at least 3 Japanese LO's now! This is one of Will's impromptu pics of me on the street in Akihabara. Last time I was in the US I spent all the time behind the camera and hardly got in any pics at all, there is only 1 or 2 of me in NY and they're not that scrapworthy! That's why this pic means so much to me, cos here I am, in front of those cool Jap signs, the only non-asian on the street, with a big bag of shopping and my vended coke zero, in the middle of Tokyo. I am really there!! Now, if only I can teach Will how to not cut my feet off in the pic too :) How do you like the new Kaisercraft Loire Valley range (the bird die cut circle at bottom left)? I think it suits Japanese pages quite well! The OLD on this page is the black textured paper, the rub ons and all those Alphabet rub ons! Yay to be using them up again!

:) C

Project 365 Collage #23

Oh Wednesday.... after you, it's all downhill to the weekend! I am going out again for another friend's birthday Saturday night, but other than that I have no plans! Yay!
Oops, I haven't posted a Project 365 update in some time!! This one is pics from the end of July!! Hop to it then:

Saturday I spent at the park in the sun with a Coffee and Real Living Magazine watching the local boys play soccer, so relaxing esp cos I was sick!; Aroma Festival with Willy; hehehe, making food faces from dinner! It is Island Potato eyes, corn cob nose and cob loaf mouth!; some cool brooch finds on Etsy, I gave the 80s chick to Alicia for her birthday; ah, my Celebrity Crush- Jason Statham; Will bought me flowers for our 3 months engagement anniversary {sweet!} and cos I was sick :); I love this baby boy card, love using "other" colours rather than baby blue and white!; Burger Date at Nick's Diner; My new TIVO!! It's so awesome, I use it all the time! It makes night's without Willy so much more interesting!!

:) C

P.s. I'll probably post more of them soon cos I"m so far behind!!

Ebay and Some Scrappin..

Hello!

Are you a fan of my nestabilities dies? YOu know, the Scalloped rectangles I'm always using on cards? We'll I've got an extra set and I'm selling them now on ebay, so if you're interested head over and have a look! At the moment they are only 99c so you could bag a real bargain! The matching plain edge rectangle dies are in a separate auction, check them out too. They can be used with lots of die cut machines like the Cuttlebug (which I use) the Ellison Big Shot, Spellbinder's Wizard etc. I love them and I've had heaps of fun using my set. I want to buy all the different shapes now!!

I searched my blog the other day, looking for the post of this page: I couldn't find it, so I'm posting it again. Sorry if you've already seen it!! I'm kinda sure I did post it at some stage... oh well! Can you believe I'm 27? Nope, me neither! We went to a delicious cafe at Balmain called Bar Contessa for Sunday lunch and hung out chatting for a couple of hours! Check out all my awesome birthday presents! It's tradition for me to lay out all my presents on my bed and take a pic (I remember typing that before, so this page must be posted somewhere?!) It's a really good reminder of when I got what! I wanted to show you the bag that Mum made me, remember the other day at the show I said we ran into the lady who designed and printed the fabric?! Yeah, she was thrilled to see the bag!! I love my top too, shhhhh it's just from BigW, man they have some nice clothes these days! And it cost me only $10 so you can't complain about that!!

:) C

Twas a fun day had by all (two of us)..

Thanks for coming over Fliss!! I had so much fun :) All the crap is still set up on my table though... I think I should pack that up sometime!

Here are our creations for the day... I'll start with Fliss's cards cos she beat me. (Yes, it's an informal comp to see who makes the most whenever we get together! Thanks Dad for the competitive spirit!) I'll point out that I did make lunch at the end, so I may have been at a slight disadvantage time wise! Lol! She made these beautiful Boy cards with Stampin Up PPs and Pumpkin pie/Bashful Blue cardstock (not sure what that green one is.. what a bad SU demo!!)I love that she has adopted my "make one, make two" mantra, it's the best!!

And then she went on to make these 2 sweet-as Girl cards with the deer from SU Forest Friends on Pretty in Pink card, oh it is the most adorable deer!! The BG PP is one of her faves so she made the images small so you'd still be able to see the PP. They are beautiful cards Felicity! Great work!! I'm so glad you got 5 made, that will plump up your supplies a bit!

And then here are my 3 measly cards! I wanted to use up the Butterfly and Ladybug from my AC set- the only 2 left in the box- and I am so proud to say... the box is empty and in the bin! WOO HOO!! Also I used my new Basic Grey clear stamps from the show together with "be Cool" sentiment which I've had for a while now. I love that combo!! Lol. The BG stamps were $9 Yvette, it's a small set though, so prob not the same ones you saw! I hope not anyway, cos $27 is a total rip off!

Lunch was delish too! The pizza was so filling and yummy :) We ate it all! I am so stuffed now! Going out for tea with my work friends for "Two Birthdays and an Engagement" (think: 4 weddings and a funeral!) to Restaurant 3one7 at Parra. I'm going to roll home I think!!

Thanks for a great day of Relaxing tea, cardmaking and lunch Felicity, I had so much fun and it was great to entertain you at my place for once!!

:) C

Anyone else want to drop by?!

Hello!

I am super excited this morning (hence it's 8:35 and I've been up for over 40 mins!) cos my sis Felicity is coming over for stamping play! Would you like to come too? I set up the table last night, it is covered in stamps, ink, punches, brads, ribbons, cutters, stamp 'n write markers etc! I'll put on a movie and we're gonna have some fun fun fun!

I have also bought a pizza base for lunch and I'm about to go roast some sweet potato, eggplant and capsicum to go on it with the fetta, chicken, basil, semi dried tomatoes and mozzarella I already have. Sound ok? :)

Yvette, we're saving you a seat! You know if you leave now you can still make it for lunch!

:) C

P.s. Alicia is in the US right now for work and I have asked her to look for this Martha Stewart spider web punch... I hope she can find it for me! I think it is WAY cool! If she does I'll be making her (now annual) Halloween Party invites with it! We have already been discussing what to dress up as, I've got one piece of my outfit already (heheheh!) and a piece of jewellery to go with it too. I know it's not til Oct, but I'm excited already!

Funky Cards for Funky girlz...

Yay, it's Friday!! Happy days {dancing}. Only 8hrs of the working week to go... oh I can't wait! Got a couple of things on this weekend, a birthday dinner, Tupperware party, Lawn Bowls for another friend's birthday... so should be fun :)

I had the thought to make some "funky" cards, suitable for funky little Misses or teens, cos I've had this ipod paper for ages and hadn't used it yet! When I bought the Prima Owl stamp at the show on Weds I knew I wanted to use it with this paper for some funky chick cards! The Owl is so cute! She has an eye patch that has a tiny Skull and Cross Bones on it!! Lol!! I traced around her with my normal black pen to make her outline stand out more. The grungy Happy Birthday and round star "celebrate" stamps are from a Studio G acrylic packet I got at the show also. The cool fibre I got on a roll from Yvette years ago and have finally broken it out. I really like it! I think you'll see it more and more now, I don't know why I haven't used it before?! Probably cos it was buried on my super neat {wink!} desk! And true to my style I made another one the same, only with different colours and a different PP for the artisan shape. Do you like them?

And then, cos I had the negative of the spotty PP where I had cut out the Artisan shape with my nestabilites die, I was inspired to make another card, this time using my new Stampin Up "Forest Friends" set from the Spring Mini. Oh this set is just so darn cute! I hope to get lots of use out of it!! There are 4 images- deer, tree, rabbit and owl; they are pretty small images though, but I'm sure I'll work out some cute ways of using them! I glittered up some of the tree's leaves and traced around the artisan shape with my glitter jellyroll too. Oh so cute! I might have to keep this one in my personal stash cos I have an idea of who to give it too {shhhhh}.

Have a good end to the week! I hope your Friday isn't too much hard work! (I hope mine isn't too!)

:)C

Stitch Me and Craft Me Up!

Hi Blogglets!

Mum and I had a terrific day together at the Stitches and Craft Show (missed you Yvette!!) Wow, I am still smiling from the day of funness :) It started off with a delicious breakfast at Little Rock Cafe at Baulkham Hills with Mum, Dad, Felicity and Cooper- we basked in the sun, drank coffee and feasted on Bacon and Eggs with Hash Browns, Sausages and grilled tomato {licking lips!} It was such a leisurely morning! Cooper was such a good boy, sitting in his high chair, munching on Fruit Toast. It was so cute when the waitress cleared all our plates and was walking away with them, Cooper held out his fist full of Fruit Toast crust for her to take away too! We laughed and laughed which set him off into a wide mouth laugh with scrunched up eyes. Oh so cute!

After breakfast Mum and I set off to beat our way through the crowds of Old Dears at Rosehill, looking for a bargain and some new inspiration! Overall opinion of the show: Small! There are so many less stalls than in previous years, but this year they did have one fabulous addition. The very top floor is called the "Incubator" and is like a fete with stalls selling pre-made things like hair bobbles, bags, stuffed toys, children's clothes (if you've been to the Mathilda Markets before some of those stalls were here). Mostly the items were made of beautiful hand printed fabrics, japanese fabrics or natural cotton or wool felt. A beautiful set of classy stalls that was wonderful to wander through! Remember the bag Mum made me for my birthday this year? The lady who designed and printed the fabric had a stall there and was so happy to see me with my bag (note: always take something handmade to the show, e.g. handmade bag, handknitted scarf.. it makes you seem more serious and legitimate!)

So what do you think of my goodies?? Yes, you can make out the CraftSchmaft Sock Owl pattern. WOO HOO!!! So happy to get that one! Yvette sent me a link to her webpage the other day and I was oohing and aahing at their absolute cuteness, and when I saw her stall... and then spied the pattern for $15, I was in heaven! I even bought a tiny pair of baby socks to have a go with on the way home from the show!

Be proud of me... I only bought 5 patterned papers! How awesome is that?! Discounting the 2 papers I used last night, I still only have to use up 15 papers before New Year's to have met my resolution! Yay me! I was inspired by the mountain of yellow papers Yvette bought from 2peas and so got 2 yellow ones of my own! Considering I LOVE yellow clothing (and have a yellow car), I am surprised I have no yellow papers! The hand printed fabric is for Mum for her birthday, she said it reminded her of Ruessillon (*spelling?!) in France where they went last year. I'm ok to blog about her birthday present cos she never reads my blog anyway (you know it's true Mum- having AJ read the blog is not the same thing- you can't read my blog telepathically through your twin!) The fabric is handprinted by Ink and Spindle in Melb. So pretty! I love those Oct Afternoon journalling spots too, I will never have enough journalling spots I thinK!

Then cos I think I'll never have enough stamps either, I bought some more. Check out the tiny owl at the top left! Yep, haven't gotten over owls yet. and this one is a total rip off of the AC owl paper. Have you seen it? The studio G sets were 3 for $10 and I just loved the one at the bottom with the row houses! I'm planning on making some cards tonight, I'm feeling inspired!! I also loved the Kooky "I love your face" stamp, I had to buy it. How often do you get ridiculous stamps like that one? Like, never! I also loved the sweet BG summer stamps, I'm in a summery mood! The pink owl at the bottom is wearing an eye patch with a skull and crossbones on it! Hahahaha, hillarious.

There wasn't much new, ingenious products at the show. I'm putting this down to the financial crisis. Only cos there's nothing else to blame. If there was a plague of Scrapbook-eating monkeys on bicycles I'd blame them instead, but I haven't seen them around lately. But I did come across these (I think "new", let me know if I'm wrong) products from Kaisercraft (go Oz!) that come in these awesome thick plastic zip-lock sleeves that clip into a ring binder. How cool are they! I bought the red/black/blue rub-ons for pages of Japan, the Paradise rub-ons for pages of Hawaii and the pink/aqua ones cos I thought they were super cute! I also got some co-ordinating journalling blocks (more!) and lettering stickers. I think their packaging is totally awesome. I hope they bring out more lines in this series, I'll buy it! Esp cos each packet was only $4, and in the journal spots and lettering stickers packets you got more than one sheet. Bargain!!

Anywho, it was an awesome day :) Thanks Mum (and Dad, for lending me Mum for the day)!! I'm looking forward to using all my new stuff!

:) C

Not a baby any more....

Good Morning!

How delightful it is to be sitting here, eating breakfast, surrounded by such beautiful sunshine as we've seen the last few days! Oh glorious Spring!! I was in a way happy mood at work yesterday, like crazy happy. Imagine psychotic laughing episodes, crazy dancing between the pathology machines and ants in my pants so I lacked the ability to sit quietly at my desk and work. That was almost me. {giggles}. I put it down to the warm, sunny weather. And the fact that I have tomorrow off work to go to the Stitches and Craft Show at Rosehill with Mum. Woot {doing the "running man" dance}.

I have had a lot of fun scrappin lately. I am so inspired when I have fresh new pics to scrap!! Aug 1 I headed over to Fliss's to spend some quality chat time with her and armed with my camera to get some pics of Cooper who I hadn't really seen for probably 6 weeks or so?! What a bad Aunty! Alicia came over after the Gym (or the G. Y. M. as Will's Dad calls it cos he (humourously) thinks each of the letters stands for something, not it being the shortened version of Gymnasium! LOL!!!) and she brought armfuls of Coffees and Chelsea Bun (YUM!!) so we sat in the sunshine and chatted while Cooper played around us. Oh what relaxing fun! I have had so much fun scrapping these new pics of Cooper but it made me realise he's not a baby any more! He's so tall now, with a real boyish grin and man he just doesn't stop playing and running and chasing birds etc. Wow. I bought this first Cherry Arte "gears" looking paper when C was just a baby, I can't believe he's now old enough for me to scrap with it! C looks so much like his Daddy in this pic :) The OLD on this page is the red disco ball paper (the last of it... YAY!!), the starry fozz felt, the Heidi Swapp letters, stitching rub on and the little date sticker. Don't you love the car journal spot?! I bought it in a packet of bits and bobs from Memories2Remember at the Stitches and Craft last year, it's so cute!

And the second page is C having a "go" at Mummy's Hot Choc cup! Fliss washed it out for him and put his water in it cos he kept trying to grab ours while we drank. His face was the cutest when he squeezed the cup and the lid popped off! he figured it was way easier to drink without the lid on then! I love this Orange PP, I've had it for about 18mths, waiting for the perfect LO! I'm so happy to have used it for such cute pics of Cooper! The OLD on this page are the AC thickers- these were the first I ever got!, the gold star studs, the circle stickers (way way OLD!), the "discover" and "good times" rub ons and the rub on border. The newest thing is the red grid sticky tape I got in Japan, they have the coolest tapes!

Well, better go finish getting ready for work. I hope my happy mood sticks with me throughout the week! Come on Spring!!

:) C

P.S. Hopefully I'll have some delicious goodies to share after the Stitches and Craft show tomorrow! {clapping hands with glee!}

Be gone from my stash!!

Remember all those years ago when Basic Grey first came out? I scrambled to get mountains of their amazing rough looking and texture looking papers in all the muted and earthy colours. They were the first of their kind, something a bit different to the regular papers I'd seen in pastel colours and covered in tiny patterns... I had to have these Basic Grey ones! It only took me a few months to realise I actually didn't like the papers very much, they didn't really suit my style. I'd bought heaps though! I'm happy to say that now, a few years later, I have almost finished the whole lot! I know most of you probably used them or got rid of them years ago, but I'm a little slow off the mark, ok! And I didn't want to fool myself by just using the white side either! LOL!! I'm down to only about 3 BG papers now... YAY!!!! All the pages I do with the BG papers I don't really like either, but this one has turned out ok actually. Maybe cos I covered most of the paper in the red KI disco ball lace cardstock!!

After I was home sick and alone for 3 days back in Aug I begged Will to take me into the city for the Aroma Coffee Festival. We spent 2hrs wandering around the rocks, sampling some great (and average) coffees from around the world and I got the world's best slab of Rocky Road... man it was SO GOOD!! The OLD on this page is the BG PP, the lace cardstock, the chipboard letters, the lettering stickers, the rub ons, the white chipboard piece, the paisley tab and the white circle punch out.. Ok so I guess it would have been easier to just say the only new things are the journal spot and mushroom paper... actually the mushroom paper I got in Hawaii so I guess it's over 18mths old which makes it OLD! Lol!! Yeah, I'm powering through the stash now (not really cos the stash is large!)

Yesterday Will and I had fun doing our Gift Registry at Myer. It was like Christmas! They give you a scanner and you go to town scanning whatever you think you might like for your engagment/wedding and it adds it to a list which then your family and friends can access. This is pretty good for Will and I cos I have been living out of home for 10 years and already have some stuff that will be moving on with me, but I've got a lot of hand me down stuff from when I lived with my sisters that wont be coming along and needs replacing! Plus, it will be nice to have new stuff for Will and I to start our lives together {swooning}. Now, family, if you're wondering why there are 2 sets of Royal Doulton glasses at $150 per pair on the list it's not cos we are la-di-dah fancy, high maintenance people with expensive taste (as if!) but they had a deal on that if you listed $250 worth of Royal Doulton stuff they gave you a free set of Champagne Flutes worth $150! That's right, guests don't even have to buy the stuff off the list, it just has to be on the list, so we listed these 2 sets of glasses and I came away yesterday with the most beautiful, heavy, high quality Royal Doulton Champagne Glasses for FREE!!! {Happy dance!} We managed to list about 50 things, but Myer is inbetween Stocktake and Christmas stock so there isn't that much interesting stuff to choose from. So, family, keep your eyes peeled for more stuff to be added to the list soon (when Myer get more stock in!) Also, does anyone have any tips on what sort of things to put on a Gift Registry? And should you have more things in the $10-50, $50-100 or over $100 range? How much do ppl want to spend on a wedding present (or engagement present for that matter...)

You can get a copy of our list from Myer, our Registration number is 614271.

:) C

Results are in!

Hi Y'all!!

The results are in for the City 2 Surf! I am proud to say we finished the 14km in a little under 2.5hrs (average pace of 10:41 mins per km) and I came 50954 out of 62700!! Lol! Hey, that means I still beat 18% of racers! Hehe. The results page is really very good cos it tells you more facts like that I beat 26% of female racers and 18% of girls aged 25-29! Woot {cheering!} But you know, it wasn't about winning (otherwise we might have actually tried to run a little!) but it was about getting out into the community, with a bunch of friends and trying something that is personally challenging. Yay!! We did it! The funniest thing is they take pics and video of you as you finish the race... you can check out our's HERE. But they did catch Will and I having a quick smooch as we crossed the finish line, which was both embarrasing and hillarious! Remind me next year to do something about my ugly oversized Corporate T-Shirt and the fact that it makes me look ridiculously FAT! Hmm... oh no, I said Next Year! Does that mean I'll do it again!? What a sucker! There are 8 pics of me finishing, compared to some of my other friends who only have 3! What can I say, you gotta smile and still look like you're enjoying it after 2.5hrs and 14km of hills and gatorade!

:) C

P.s. the top pic is all the people who turned up from just our dept at work! We passed more along the way from Cyto and Histo depts... and cheered as we zoomed past them with our powerwalk!! Hehehe!

Japanese girls.

Hello!

Wow, I haven't posted since Monday, what a slacker! I've been falling asleep early on the lounge every night, I feel good for the extra sleep but I haven't been getting anything done!

I made these cards last week cos I always had plans for this Paisley paper to end up on cards so I decided to finally make that happen as part of trying to use up more papers for my New Year's Resolution. The paper itself is quite busy with a big pattern, so I didn't want to cover up too much of the paper, it was the feature after all! So I decided to make them minimalist cards so you could still enjoy the BG PP. I hope they don't come off as too boring!

I love the "Hello dear friend" speach bubble on the second card, it's just so cute! I was able to position it pretty well behind the little Jap girl on a scallop oval I punched with my giga Marvy punch. Where would I be without those punches? I dunno!!

Then not to be too same-same I made another card but with my Bella stamps. Poor bella's haven't seen too much ink lately. Probably cos I have more stamps than any sane person should, so I can't get around and use them all, all the time!! I steered away from the turquoise for this one and back to pink and brown (which I seem to always stick to- I should try to break that mold!) I uncovered the "Lets do lunch" stamp which is from a Stampendous set I got years ago where you stamp each part of the girl separately to make a whole body. You can change up her dress, arms, legs, etc... It sounds awesome in theory, IRL it is totally HARD and annoying to try to line everything up and it takes AGES to stamp even one image! I have only used them once, then given up. But at least now I have used one of the sentiments again! And it goes really well with this image :) Hmmm... sounds like something I should get up to tomorrow- shopping and lunch out! {wink!}

:) C

Flash and Dash...

I've got a little story to tell you, go make a cup of tea and come back when it's done..... Got your tea? Ok. Well....
Friday night I was parking my car in the garage underneath my apartment block at 6:30pm and I was thinking how empty it was, cos it was very quiet and most of the cars were missing. I backed my car in my spot, turned the engine off and saw out of the corner of my eye a man who I fleeting thought was naked nip past the open garage door next to mine. I thought "oh, this poor guy, someone has stolen his clothes and is trying to sneak back to the apartments without being seen". Only the man had other ideas. I was still sitting in my car, gathering my bags and when I looked up the man was standing right in front of my car exposing himself to me. ?!! I wasn't shocked actually, and I gave the man my best "you have got to be kidding me" face, with undertones of "pffftt" and "loser!" The man stood there for a full 30 seconds with me trapped in my car as he jiggled his manly bits around! The thought did cross my mind as to whether I could reach my camera which was in my handbag, and I even looked back down at my bags in the hope that he'd lose interest and walk away, but when I looked back up he was still there!! By now I was thinking "come on man, I just want to get out of the car and go inside!!" and finally he ran away. I got a pretty good look at him, although he had his jumper pulled up over his mouth and nose, so I decided to call the police and report it. So then my desciption matched a man they have had 7 other reports about in the last 2-3 months so they came over and took a signed statement from me! WOW!! It was a busy Friday night in the city and they still bothered to come around cos I'd been flashed. What nice policemen! I was saying to them "didn't he have anything better to do on a friday night than go around flashing people?" when I realised here I was at 7pm on a Friday night in my pyjamas with the police sitting in my living room! Still, I don't go round flashing people!
Until the next exciting episode of "A day in my life!"....
:) C

As you read this, I am hurting!!

I've set this to remotely post on Sunday while I am taking part in this little leg breaker:

Yep, Will and I, and about 15 of our work friends, will be wearing the Double Helix of our work logo in the City 2 Surf! It's 14km of pure hell for non-marathoners like us. We're doing it for a bit of fun and hopefully we don't die of exhaustion (or lack of heart) along the way! I have never done anything like this before, but Will has already done it twice so he'll be looking after me! It's good though, cos it's one of those things I never ever thought I would do in my life, so if I hate it at least I can cross it off my life list and never mention it again. But maybe I'll surprise myself and love it and come back for more next year!! Wish us luck!

While talking about things to cross off the list, here's an update for my New Year's Resolution to reduce my patterned papers by 20%. I am only 18 sheets away from my goal! AWESOME!! How good am I?! {applause breaks out in the background}. Now, I plan on using another 8 before the Stitches and Craft Show which I'm going to with Mum in a week and a half. Cos no doubt I'll buy a couple more there so I'll have to work hard at using up more oldies!!

Enjoy your Sunday, hope you're not in as much pain as me!

:)C

Yay for Saturday!

Anyone want to go out for breakfast with me? I feel like pancakes, actually I always feel like pancakes, so any old excuse would do. Meet you at The Little Rock Cafe in 40 mins!! They serve breakfast til midday... gotta love that! I just tried to make a new recipe for pancakes that has oats, cinnamon and applesauce in it... lets just say I now have a soggy mess on my plate that I just can't eat. It didn't work out at all!! Hmm... not sure why I keep having cooking failures lately. I'll blame the stove. Stupid stove.

Ok, so here are some pages I've finished lately!

Check out Will contorting himself to sleep on the bus between Mt Fuji and Missima! Who knows how he could have slept like that?! I wanted the papers to be bright and neon-y against a black background, which reminds me so much of Tokyo at night!! The OLD on this page are the MM "Are we there yet?" rub-on, the felt flower and black dots and the purple PP. Not really a lot of old stuff, but the papers were already really busy so I didn't want to pack out the page. Can you see the 4 little Japanese character stamps down the left side of the pic on the blue spotty paper. How cute are they?!! I have to say, the signs paper is one of my faves too, you know I love graphic images. And the journal spot is by Yvette, of course!

And then here's Will and I enjoying a new Nick's Diner that just opened at Macquarie Centre, it was awesome! There aren't many restuarants at Mac Centre so it sucked if you wanted to eat and see a movie cos you'd end up eating Maccas! But Nick's makes awesome burgers and the restuarant has always been packed out when we pass it, and you can see why! Mine was a NY burger with bacon, cheese, herb aioli and a delicious juicy beef patty that tasted like real beef! Will had a double stack of 2 patties with bacon, cheese, herb aioli and can you believe it.... he couldn't finish it!! That is about the first meal I have ever seen Will not finish! Amazing! The OLD on this page are the Live it Up rub-on, fozz felt, disco ball lace paper, the white circle and flower at the top and the bracket which I pressed roughly into my SU Real Red stamping pad and it turned out great!

Happy Saturday!!

:) C

I'm not Lion, it's some boy cards!

Hi Y'all!

How's your week? I'm so glad it's Thursday, that means it's Thursday night shopping and eating out night! Will and I work opposite shifts at work, but Thurs night I meet him and some of my other work friends at the local shopping centre food court for a quick dinner in their tea break. It's the only time in the week I get to eat Fast Food, so I look forward to it! Yay for Thursday! But the City 2 Surf is on this Sunday, so I'd better not go too overboard or I wont even make 1 of the 14km run (or Walk, as it will be for us!!)

I hadn't gotten around to posting these cards up from when I went on a boy card-making bender a few weeks ago. I dug out the Hero Arts baby boy set Fliss bought me for my birthday and went crazy with the lion. Man he is just so cute!! I stamped him in SU Pacific Point, which I have to say is one of my new fave colours. The blue is so wonderfully intense! I love blue and green paired together for boy cards (you may have worked this out already!) and cos I'm a hoarder, I'm always keeping the tiny PP scraps, which works out well here cos I stamped on one scrap and tucked the other under the main image. I loike it!

And I made another one in the same colour palette but with different PP's and ribbon. I love the simple "It's a boy" sentiment, the font is really streamlined but funky- it and the stars are by KI Memories. Oh yeah, another reason why I love the lion is for his plaid mane. How cute is that?!

Have a good rest of your week... it's the downhill slide to the weekend now!

:) C

Do the Yum Cha Cha...

I'm going to Yum Cha this morning at Rhode's Phoenix with Alicia and Will. Its great to have Will come along and decipher all the weird foods for us, although he can be a bad Asian sometimes cos he doesn't know what things are! I'm like "How can you not know, you're Asian so this is your food?!" {throwing hands up in air}. I feel it's like going to a Sizzler buffet and me not knowing what everything is! I guess, in his defence, the foods at Yum Cha are always enclosed in dumpling or noodle {wink}! Looking forward to it though. I once ate a chicken toe at Yum Cha in the city, I wouldn't eat the whole chicken foot and so just nibbled on a toe. I'm not a huge fan of chicken skin, so I'm not going back for more!

I've been on a bit of a scrapping roll lately, well more like I've gotten into a nice comfy groove :) I've done a couple of pages every week lately, and I'm pleased to say I have reached my goal of 1 page per week for the year (52 pages total) with the page I finished Friday night! WOOT {party confetti falls from the roof and a band begins to play "it's the final countdown"}. This page isn't the final page though, it's one I did last week and haven't posted yet!
I am happy to say the only new stuff on this page are the American Crafts thickers (can't get enough of them!), pretty much everything else is OLD (meaning older than 18 months)!! YAY!! The butterfly comes from an American Crafts box that I only have 2 items left in, I totally can't believe it. I think only once before have I finished an entire packet of Scrappin stuff without selling the remainder on ebay! What an awesome effort! I find I am scrappin a whole lot of everyday pics at the moment, like this one of me just chilling out on a Saturday morning. It's mainly because I don't do anything interesting cos Will works 6 days a week and he see's his family Sunday, and we're saving money for the wedding, so I'm stuck with everyday (non)events! I guess in 10 years time when I have a gaggle of children and no time on my hands to even pee in peace (Mum used to say that when we would annoy her through the toilet door... "Can't I even pee in peace?!") I'll look back at these pages and wish I had soaked it up. Now I wish to do something instead!

:) C