Engagement Party Awesomeness

Wow, thanks to all our Family and Friends for making our Engagement Party the most fun ever!! It went off like a firecracker and we had SO MUCH FUN!!! The fairy lights, Chinese lanterns, candles, red tea light holders, candelabras and Moroccan Lanterns made the backyard at Hotel d'Lam just so beautiful! It twinkled just how I wanted!! All the family pitched in to make delicious food (of which there was tonnes!! and tonnes left over for dinners for the next month!!) and it was great to catch up with family and our friends and celebrate! It feels quite real now :) not just a small engagement but a big event everyone knows about! Lol! Not that they didn't know before, but it seems more cemented now. Get what I mean? Prob not. {chuckles}. Thanks Yvette for making the journey up to Sydney too, it was so great to have all the Kingmans all together!

It was a bit weird for me to not have my camera, cos I'm so used to it being permanently attached to my hand, so I had to rely on other people's cameras for the pics! Luckily I have great photographers in the family and so they managed to capture these cool pics and more!! I would need a post about 1km long to include all the pics so I've collaged them for you... I hope you can still see them all and see what a fab night we had!!

:) C

A Letter

Dear Little Blog,

Hello! It has been such a long time, I realise I have been so neglectful. If you were my child DOCS would have already come and taken you off me. Thank goodness you're just my own little corner of cyberspace!

I am super excited to be picking Yvette up tonight, in readiness for Will and my Engagement party tomorrow! I have to leave in just over 1/2 hr so don't let me get too distracted. I am even more looking foward to it cos we are going to Pancakes on the Rocks for dinner/dessert after I pick her up! And tomorrow we are going for breakfast with our other peeps (sisters) and then gonna get some cupcakes from my fave Cupcakes on Pitt to bring home for morning tea. Do you think we can fit it all in? I can't eat too much cos of all the delicious food I want to eat at our Engagement party! Wills Dad is a Chef (or Chief as he calls it) and is making us lots of yummy Asian dishes plus we have Beef and Pork on a Spit, and Will's uncle who owns a BBQ shop is giving us a flat-out Crispy Skin Pig (for good luck) and 4 ducks (to symbolise children). Super!! Plus Dad is making Sausage scrolls, Mum is making Pavlovas and we're getting a delish Tiramisu cake from the awesome Macedonian Place at Chullora. Hurrah!!

I think I have Tennis Elbow. My Elbow feels like it needs a good grease and oil change. Does that sound like Tennis Elbow? How do you get rid of it? Maybe I should go on a long and relaxing holiday!! Sounds good to me. It's a little owie.

I'm still looking for a flatmate... {sigh}. I can't wait for 7 more months time when Will and I get married and I'll never have to search for a flatmate again. Wooppeeee!!!!

Oh, I'm getting a free Wolfmother concert at the Moment!! AWESOME!! They are actually playing at the Uni near my house in Brownville, and the wind is blowing in the right direction and the window is open so I can hear them! Oh, he is sooooo good that main guy (including his awesome 'fro!) his voice is so clear and high for a guy. They are playing White Unicorn which is one of my fave songs of theirs. How happy am I?!! "...... we could live together!!......." ah yes. Would you like to be my flatmate Wolfmother?

Life has been fully hectik this week, including a Fedex Drama, which I wont go into too much, but which still hasn't ended... At least my parcel finally got cleared into USA and is almost in the state it's supposed to be in. A note of warning: never try to send anything important via Fedex, it's likely to sit in Alaska for a precious 24hrs waiting to clear customs! My stuff could be off by now people!!!!!!

Well Bloggy, I'll come back again soon, I promise not to neglect you forever!!

:) C

3D sticker mayhem..

Last week I went totally nuts trying to use up some of my massive stash of 3D stickers. I grabbed all the boy papers out of my stash, grabbed the boy 3D stickers from my massive box and set to work (with Midsomer Murders on Tivo- love that show! Dt. Barnaby is so dry..) So these are the ones I came up with....

Yesterday I was shopping in the Reject Shop and they had heaps of 3D stickers, which normally I would have jumped at and grabbed til my arms were overflowing, but I am sooooo trying to get into using up my stash so I had to stop myself. Proud? I was :) I much prefer the fun of stamping and it'll be good to use up what I've got! I was totally in the groove this night and ended up making 6 cards! I love when I've got something good on the TV and the ideas are flowing and everything just comes together so easily. It happens now and then for me, and I just love being able to create a whole bunch of things at once! It was like I had created my own card kits cos I had gotten out paper, card, ribbon, rub ons and stickers that all co-ordinated together and it all just came together! I am proud to say that I used up 2 full sheets and now the lid actually clips down properly on the 3D sticker storage box!! Lol! These chipboard 3D stickers took up quite a bit of room! In fact now I'm blogging about them it has made me a bit inspired to go and do the same thing for girl cards! I think I might!! So what have I got on Tivo to watch now... Inspector Poirot? He's so up himself.... Hmm.... Law & Order UK? Yeah, I think the young policeman is hot too, you're quite right. NCIS? oh I have Ocean's 13, how can you pass up on Brad Pitt?!

:) C

AWOL?!

Hi, I really am still around! For some reason I have been super tired after work each night and so have just been vegging out on the lounge. I can't even be bothered to turn on the computer some nights! Whoa!! But rest assured, I'm here. And I"m still thinking about you, I just haven't gotten to post anything.

The bummer about slothing on the lounge is that I haven't really been creating anything this week! I'll have to dig out through my old pics and find a page I haven't posted yet... hmmm....

Oh this page is only from last week, so thats not too old at all! Probably one of my fave meals of the day to eat out is Breakfast!! (Followed by dinner, dessert and then lunch comes in last, unless it's one of those long, lazy lunches where they let you sit and chat and drink coffee and graze for 2 hours :)!) Well, American's know how to make a gooooooood breakfast and so when I spotted Denny's in Hawaii I dragged Will along! Will ate steak and eggs (trust him to find the steak on a menu- he always eats steak if he sees it!) and I ate the 3 meat breakfast with pancakes. Yep, everything in that right hand pic is my breakfast! Oh it was sooooo good! I had a ham steak, sausages, crispy bacon, hash brown, 2 poached eggs and 2 pancakes! At least we didn't have to worry about eating lunch that day! The OLD on this page is the BG paper (it's double sided and I had actually bought it for the other side which was a rough pink with yellow and white dots, but this side turned out to be the winner for me!), the lettering stickers (I was amazed I still had all the letters to write that title!) the "Happy" punch out, the DENNY'S lettering rub ons, the stitching and flourish rub ons and the lace cardstock. WOW!! I actually really like this page, I know that probably sounds weird, but it is only a page about breakfast, yet I really like it!

BTW, I am doing so well on my New Year's Resolution that i only have to use up 5 papers to have reached my goal!! SO PROUD!!

:) C

Some more Jap Scrap..

Happy Saturday!! Yeah, I made the most of it.. getting up early, 2 loads of washing then heading off to Golf Mart to get Dad a Father's Day pres. I walked into what, at first, seemed like a tiny shop but once inside I realised it stretched way out the back and there was a whole new world of man-ish toys I had never imagined! I must have had the same look on my face that Men always had when they walked into the Scrapbooking shop I worked at years ago, cos the worker came straight up to me, I had a quick description of what I wanted, he found it for me and I bought it, all in the matter of about 3 mins. Rather quick and painless!! Just how it should be :) It had taken me longer to drive along the previous block of Parramatta Road than it took me in Golf Mart!! I rewarded my good work with a Sticky Date Cupcake from Cupcakes on Pitt at Parra :) A new flavour for me, and I have to say it was delicious!

So I've done some more pages from Japan lately... the first is of the totally AMAZING shoes that were everywhere in Tokyo. We both got a new pair, Will out of necessity cos for some reason he had brought 2 pairs of uncomfy shoes with him, and me cos they were TOO COOL to pass up! YOu may have seen them in previous Japan LO's? Mine are awesome Pink and Yellow Nikes, my first ever pair of Nikes! Is it sad that I got to 27 before owning a pair? Uh... maybe!! But now I have them, I love them!! I had an aweful time trying to find a shoe big enough to fit my giant white-girl hoofer, at first I tried every Vans they had in the shop cos I love Vans, but none were big enough! Then when I spied the coolness that was the Nikes and they had them in my size I did a happy dance! The OLD on this page is the 3 BG papers (yonkers old!), the pink and green fozz felt flowers, the slide shape, date spot and the purple felt flowers. I love those 3 AC Thickers fonts together, they look so cool!!

Then on a totally different side of the (colour) coin I did this page about some cute food in Shibuya. Will and I had these weird Bean paste (or something like it) balls left over from one of our meals and Will drew a face on his, so I drew a face on mine, only it went a little wonky like a moustache. Then he put the Mushroom on the head and I found the Chilli and adorned his eye, then we put capsicum and some cabbage on the other one... and they turned into "The Lady and the Pirate". How cute are they?!!! Oh we were laughing and laughing so much {chuckling}. The OLD on this page is the Chatterbox daisy BG paper (forever old!), the tag, unique rub-on, stitching rub-on lace stickers, red swirl and letter rub ons. I love this page cos I laugh when I think about that pic!!

:) C

Bumpin' Along to the End of the Week!

Hooray that it's friday tomorrow... YYYYAAAYYYY!! But man, how the weeks are flying by these days. It is only 2 weeks til our engagement party, that time has so flown.. come back!! There are only 7 months left of me being a Kingman & I'm gonna miss my name :( But I'll become a Lam, so thats quite nice too (I'm happy it's not a scary unprenouncable Asian name like "Ng", I don't think I'd cope with that! Or something Indonesian like "Supaporn" and yes, I have seen that name come through work a few times and have imagined how much that poor person must get ridiculed at school!). I'm looking forward to the day we can have some Lil' Lams of our own too. LOL!!

Talking about Lil' Lams... I finally got to scrap some pics of Felicity's emerging bump {sweet!} She only just seemed to pop out, and with only 9wks to go she's looking so fab!! I have been saving this so sweet PP for ages and it went perfectly with Fliss's pretty top! I also used the last one of my blue MM half artisan shapes from the notebook which I had been "saving" for a special page. And I felt this was special enough to break it out! (I'm such a duschbag sometimes, hoarding all my stuff!) The cream paper under the pics is a Chatterbox one I got from Yvette, it's embossed in silver foil and is SOOOO pretty! Bummer it didn't come out in the pic. The OLD on this page is the pink fozz felt flowers, the heart felt cut out, the heart sticker, blue tab and the rub ons. Thanks Yvette for giving me the idea to punch out the AC owl paper, cos I had no idea how I was going to use those cute as owls on a LO cos the paper is SO busy with them!

I hope you've all had a super week so far, I'm so looking forward to the working week ending!!

:) C