Vivaz Hen's Night Pics!

Oh we had so much fun dancin, shakin it and busting a move to the fresh latin beats at Vivaz on Saturday night for my Hen's Party! I commented to Mum that we must have some Latin blood in us cos I do like to shake my booty! I was excited to get to wear my uber-cool Sequin dress Alicia bought me in London which I also wore to my work Christmas party last year. I'd have to say First Prize for best looking Hen... me! {shining up ego} LOL!! No, but honestly, if you're going to take off your high heels at 8:30pm and dance in bare feet the rest of the night.. you're just slack! I asked Will if his sisters had a good time and he said "yeah, they said your dancing was 'fierce'". OMG I thought, is that good or bad... then I realised just how old I am when I have to ask for an explanation from some early 20'ers. What the?! When did I forget how to speak like a young person? Apparently 'fierce' is good. {phew!} I did have to dance on stage with the other Hens (there were 9 Hens all together at Vivaz!) but got a free drink out of it, so it's not all bad! LOL! I was so pleased that Will's sisters, Vincent's GF and his cousins (the twins I lovingly have dubbed the "Veronicas". They are apparently not identical but I can only tell who's who when they're together!) all wanted to come to my Hen's! They are regular clubbers so they were up for a dance too which was awesome!

I had such a great time, both at Vivaz and for the rest of the Hen's Weekend. Thank YOu Alicia for organising it! I LOVED it!

Now, on to the wedding!!

:)C

Cuddles with Sienna!

I belted out this page quite quickly last week when I had a sudden burst of Mojo! I had fun choosing some bright colours and patterns to use on this page, not just baby pink! I love the sun paper, it's one of the very first papers I bought! It's Kangaroo and Joey and I am slowly slowly using through the 2 sheets I bought about 8 or 9 years ago! When I think about the scrappin stuff I bought when I used to work at Fantasia I have to remember that I quit working there about 5 years ago now, so that stuff is all already ages old! LOL! How time flies! I do have some new stuff on here too though, like the owl printed chipboard I got from Yvette for my birthday and the glittered chipboard button she made for me too! I love mixing it up with old stuff like the fuzzy felt flowers! How cute is Sienna, all bundled up like a tight little bean! I love getting to have cuddles with her {hugs!}

:) C

Hen's Weekend!

Wow, what an awesome, and tiring!, Hen’s Weekend I had! I love getting to spend time with Mum and my sisters, and it doesn’t happen often enough, so it seemed like the perfect thing to do for my Hen’s Weekend! We started out by meeting up at Bondi Junction Westfields. Have you been there? It’s like the snazziest Westfield ever, it’s so luxurious with beautiful shops and a David Jones Food Hall where we ended up eating lunch. Mostly we just spent our time eating… oh and talking. Lots of that too! At Bondi we had fabulous cakes to begin our day! I haven’t had mudcake for ages and I got the guy to heat it up and all the ganache became liquid and melted over and into the mudcake {drool!!} it was SOOOOO good! We got the Bridesmaid’s earrings at DJ too which is another fabulous thing to have ticked off the last short list of things to do before the wedding (can you believe it is only 2 WEEKS AWAY now?! What the?! How fast has that come up???) Felicity dressed Sienna in the gorgeous little asian dress I bought her and she looked like the perfect little Angel! Everyone said “awe…” when they saw her, just gorgeous!
We took time out to have a Spa Pedicure at Professionail, man that place was awesome {waving a tiny Professionail flag!) Those little asian girls really know how to work your feet! I admire them, if I had to deal with feet all day I’d probably vomit. But then they’d probably think the same about having to deal with blood all day, so we’re even! It was luxurious to be primped and pampered! All of our painted piggies look awesome now too! I keep looking down at my cherry red nails and smiling! They are so pretty!
After shopping for a bit we headed back to our room at The Rocks to have more snacks and get ready for my Hen’s Night at Vivaz! For some reason I didn’t end up with any pics of us getting ready or of the actual night on my camera so you’ll have to hold off until I get emailed some off the rest of the fam! Just be sure that we looked HOT and had a great night!
Then this morning we had breakfast at the Rocks and had a leisurely wander through The Rocks Markets chatting and enjoying each other’s company! More cakes followed and I snapped this super cute pic of Nenna chewing her finger, as she had done a lot this weekend. I was so happy that Fliss could come in and spend so much time with us and bring Sienna along too! Lastly we had a quick walk around Circular Quay before taking Mum and Yvette back to their transport home. So sad!
Thank you so much girls for making my Hen’s Weekend so special! I can’t believe it is less than 2 weeks til I’ll be Mrs Lam! Mum kept saying “my baby!” and can’t believe I’m getting married. Well Mum, I feel like I’m about 17 sometimes too, I can’t believe we’ll be married either! It’s exciting!
:) C

P.S. Do you remember that water police TV series called Water Rats and how they used to always have the Harbour Bridge in the background of every scene? We always have a laugh about that, and i think this pic is quite a homage to that joke! Look! The Bridge!!

Hello Mojo! Where did you spring from?

Who knew I had a tiny spark of Mojo building inside me? This week I managed 4 pages! What?!! I know!! {grinning!} that's about a record for me in non-wedding times! I'm not going to dis it, I'm going to stick with it as long as possible! Maybe I'm spurred on by the excitement of (hopefully) visiting a couple of scrapbooking stores in the US and buying lots of new supplies! I want to use up some of my old supplies so I can legitimise new purchases to myself. LOL!! I love this paper, I got it off my Ex's Grandparents (I thought it was sweet that they bought me some scrapping stuff!) but seeing as that was a long time ago it's time to use it! It reminds me of all of Mum's fine china cups and saucers she carried back from England (I'll never forget how chock-a-block your suitcase was Mum, and that no cups were broken!) I knew I wanted to use this pic of Mum and I from my Frocks & Fascinators High Tea and include the words from her card. It was a long card and I didn't get time to read it on the day, when I finally got to a week later it brought a tear to my eye! I loved cooking with Mum when I was growing up, or at least sitting on the bench telling her about my day while she prepared dinner. That brings back many memories for me. I can even feel the texture of the laminate bench tops and the feel of the T-bar on my back (and trying not to knock the phone or the fruit basket off the T-bar when I lent back against it!) I loved baking Chocolate Peanut biscuits and quick mix chocolate cake. Mum tells a story of when I would make jam drops with her and she had to go along and make the jam hole bigger cos my tiny thumb hardly made a print at all! I hope one day I can share special kitchen times with my own children. I was so proud when Mum wrote that I have tought her things. I thought she knew everything in the kitchen!

:) C

More Circle Circus Cards..

Here are the other sample cards I made with Circle Circus (new fave set!) I cased these ones off Splitcoast stampers too, don't be mad at me. Sometimes other people have awesome cards you can steal the design of, ahem {cough}, I mean borrow the design off {wink!} This first card was the one I demo'd at Nat's party, though for a change we didn't go for technique, but I let the ladies go nuts with choosing their own colours. We had some great combos and designs! Don't stress over your ink pads though, in a room full of new stampers and enthusiastic colourers, you will end up with some old olive ink in your pretty in pink ink pad. It's bound to happen. And it did. Did I mention before that I love the versatility of this set? How awesome is this baby card? Especially in these colours if you're not sure the sex of the little one. I LOVE this card. I can't remember who I cased it off on Splitcoast, but they are a champion. THE champion of the Circle Circus community I reckon! {heart!} Its stamped in Close to Cocoa, So Saffron and Apricol Appeal. Just gorgeous. And the 3rd card happened to come from my own head after all. What a miracle, with all the wedding stuff that's jammed in there, I actually managed to make a card from my own ideas! Oh my gosh {gasp!} LOL! I like this Taken with Teal, Summer Sun and Chocolate Chip combo. It's cool!

Got my Wedding Hair and Makeup trial tomorrow, and Alicia and I are shopping for Bridesmaid's jewellry!! Should be fun!

:) C

Circle Circus of FUN!!

I demo’d a Stampin Up Party on Saturday at Fliss’s friend Nat’s place. It was a busy party with 7 people, but it was fun! Nat has a gorgeous house at Chatswood, which was nice to hang out in for the arvo too :)
We made cards from one of my new FAVE SU sets…. Circle Circus {swoon!}. I only had my attention drawn to this set in the catalogue by Nat at a previous party and I really liked it cos I love graphic patterns and straight away began thinking of card ideas with it! I knew I had to get it to demo it at an SU party for her (and to have some fun with for myself too!) Unfortunately the Wedding seems to have sucked away all my original ideas so I had to case some ideas off Splitcoast! There are heaps of gorgeous ideas there for each Stampin Up set and other brands too, if you’ve never visited you are totally missing out!! So these cards are straight from there, just with a little tweaking here and there to make them my own {wink}. Once I started making samples I realised just how versatile this set is. I made some gorgeous guy cards, a baby card, girl card, Christmas card, and I want to MAKE MORE!! If only I had time {sigh} too much Wedding run around and overtime at work! Gotta spend some time at home tomorrow and try to get my creative juices flowing again!! LOL!
When I brought out the "Wonderful Husband" card all the ladies in the room had a laugh! LOL! Well, I hope to have a Wonderful Husband to give it too, I'm sure Will will live up to the expectation {wink!}

I'll post my other cool Circle Circus cards soon!

:) C

Where are you Charlotte?

I am lost in a SEA, no.. a veritable BLACK HOLE of internet inability. I have finally gotten Will on the case of getting us decent internet for when he moves in. Cos heaven knows the modern man (or boy) cannot do without FB, MSN, itunes etc and he'd never survive with wireless! Finally you will stop hearing my whinging on why I never post. IT"S COS WIRELESS IS FOR THE BIRDS!!! ARGH!!
I did this page the other day of a cute pic I came across of Cooper taking a grab at my camera! He loves to see the pic in the viewer on the back of the camera and usually wants to look before you've even snapped a pic! This day I managed to be a little quicker than his hand and got this pic before he got to me!! He is soooo inquisitive. He loves mobiles too. Even when he was tiny he would wander up to you and check your pockets for phones! That is just the cutest memory :)
This PP is by Scenic Route and is named after the very street I grew up in (right street, right town and everything!) Carr St :) How cool is that!
Yes Yvette, I finally used it, about 1yr after we got it right? OR longer?!!
:)C

Happy 3rd Anniversary Willy!

Yes, on this day 3yrs ago Will and I joined our lips in a short and rather awkward kiss. It was a good start cos I knew it could only get better! LOL!! This is the first pic of us as a couple, hehehe, taken on a dodgy mobile phone, in a dodgy nightclub under a less dodgy pub at Epping. Ah, the memories! You know what the first thing I think of is when I see this pic? "Ew, Will is wearing a Giordano shirt! SO ASIAN!!" Yes, he is banned from Giordano clothes now LOL!! I know, its probably mean, but there is more than one shop in the world to buy your clothes at and it seems he didn't know that before we met!

Today we went to Bondi Beach for lunch to celebrate our 3 years together and we had some fun snapping new pics on Will's iphone. Hasn't mobile phone camera technology come a long way since 2007! I love Will's Coffee "Hitler" moustache. It's ridiculous! LOL!! And look- he's even wearing a button up shirt, and he bought me flowers, a present and paid for lunch. What a sweetie! He does look a bit scared i his facial expression though! I don't think he's quite worked out how to do a natural pose! Here is my posing effort- looks a bit like a Nescafe ad! Hahaha. We had a delicious lunch and then adjurned to Westfield Bondi for a shop before work. It was so good to have some time together cos Will works ridiculous hours at work and my mind seems to be taken up with wedding stuff all the time! Only 4.5 wks til Wedding!!

:) C

My Owl Barn's Anthropologie Necklace Giveaway!

My Owl Barn's Anthropologie Necklace Giveaway!: "Use your imagination ;)"
WOW!! Yvette sent me the link to a whole site of Owl Stuff! It's Owl heaven for me! YOu know I have a little tiny {love} for owls :) {wink} Well it started off tiny, and then has grown to epic proportions with owl clothes, owl jewellry, owl bowls and egg cups (thanks to Fliss!), it's nice to see I"m not alone in my love of Owls!
My Owl Barn is giving away a Necklace from Anthropologie, fingers crossed for me!! LOL!!
:) C

Who's in there??

Oh how cute is this pic of Fliss’s tummy with Sienna’s ultrasound pic! I loved it as soon as I saw it and new the kind of page I wanted to create with it! Great work Fliss, it's an awesome pic! I also found this cute little pic of Sienna in a gorgeous head band and went to town making this page. I love it when Fliss puts headbands on Sienna, she’s just gorgeous! I love the red and green colour scheme of this page, even though it’s not a Christmas page :) Yvette taught me red and green are ok to use outside of the festive season! The little pic of Sienna isn't near as red IRL as it is here, sorry it didn't photograph so well!

I hope you've had a good week! I just got sick today :( It's been going around my work and some (inconsiderate) people feel the need to stand right at my shoulder and talk down to me while I sit at my desk and collect all their germs in my face! ARGH!! So the 3 razor blades that have set up shop in my throat have not gone unnoticed today. Even the 2hr nap I had this arvo did NOTHING! D'oh! I've taken Anti histamine, Lemsip, Strepsil and echinacea (not all at once). Still waiting for some relief {sigh..sniff..sneeze...ow}.

Yay for Friday tomorrow!

:) C