Holiday Cards

Hi y'all!
Are you being blown away by this wind?? We're bunkered down in our bedroom, all 3 of us sick now! At least it's cosy inside! Hold on to your hats if you're outside today!! We were so lucky to have such wonderful weather on our holidays, cos as soon as we got home it was freezing and rainy and now gale force winds! So lucky we didn't have that kind of weather on our holiday!
I took some card stuff away with us when we went on our Road Trip Beach Holiday, and am happy to say that I didn't even take everything I own, like I usually do! {patting self on back} If you know me, you'll know when I go anywhere to make cards I take at least 4 bags. I have no idea how to pack light! I managed to limit myself to 2 bags of craft stuff, which did me quite nicely! Felicity and I planned on making cards sometime at Darlington Park, though we didn't get to {frowny}. Time just flew past, as it always does when you're on holidays! And with 3 kids under 4 the two of us barely had a moment to sit still, let alone stamp! I wish we could have been just slightly more organised (and less tired!) I'll know for next time, just to grab any available moment! I had managed to pull out the stuff on 2 days at Yamba and do some stamping on the playing-card sized table (honestly, it belonged in Alice in Wonderland) in the half dark (cos Jai was sleeping.) I happily came away with 9 cards over the 2 short sessions, which is a good effort! I didn't take any jewels or paper flowers away with me, so technically I finished the cards here at home, but I'm still claiming them as holiday cards! Ok, I went a little Owl mad and made a few owl cards with this giant Maya Road Owl. He hasn't seen ink in quite a while so that's a plus to have him out and inked up {high five!} I hand cut the patterned paper "branch" for the top two cards cos I didn't have any plain card scraps with me. I think they look pretty good! Then I thought I'd do a bit of a "funky" orange and blue owl card which I actually really like! It's quite a cool colour combo! I might have to make more in this combo. I love that blue- it's Baja Breeze and is totally one of my fave Stampin Up colours. I'm so pleased they made it a core colour (it started out as an "In Colour" which retire every 2 years). Baja Breeze and Certainly Celery seem to be my most versatile colours. I use them heaps! And to finish I made a more subdued owl card in browns and pinks, always a winning combo!
So I'll post the other cards another day cos Jai is due to wake up and I want to post this before he does!
:) C
And here is a holiday snap of us at Whiting Beach at Yamba! We had a wonderful time and it was Jai's first swim at the beach!!

WJWW Week 14

My poor little bubby is so sick! He's got a bad cough, blocked yet runny nose, red watery eyes & a fever :( poor bubba!!
This arvo he is dosed up with nasal spray, baby vicks on his chest & soles of his feet (apparently it works!!), he's propped up in bed & he's sleeping really well. Hooray!! He's been coughing so much that he vomits, poor fella! I copped it yesterday, Will copped it last night! I hope e gets better soon!
Here he is today, it was hard to get a nice pic cos he looks so sick!



Kiss Bodysuit: Kmart (from Aunty Fliss!)
Trakkies: BigW
Puppy slippers: Op Shop ;)
Owls: Skip Hop

Oh Yvette, underneath Jai is the grey/yellow crochet rug I bought from Auburn Hospital Auxilliary! Love it!

:) C


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Huh?

You know when there's a pic that just makes you crack up everytime you see it? Well for me, it was this pic of Jaimeson from when he was 9 days old. There was something in that sweet squinty look that just made me smile as soon as I took the pic! I love his furrowed brow and his mouth open along with the squint that makes me imagine he's just saying "Huh? How can Mum be taking another pic of me? Isn't she sick of it yet?" LOL!
The blue block background paper I have had since I worked at Fantasia (and I finished there in 2004 when I got my Pathology job, so you can imagine how long I've had that paper for!)
See the yellow scalloped border under the blue star strip? Well, check out where that came from! Yep, packaging! {score!} I am a hoarder (as you know) but I finally finished a sheet of something! And it was these Sassafras stickers, but the packaging had this cool geometric pattern on the background, and I'm a sucker for geometric, so I punched out circles anywhere I could fit them. The little circles/half circles had been hanging around on my desk for about a week and I used them on this page! Hurrah!! {sumo body slam!} I am cheering cos they look cooooool, plus I finished the stickers, used up the packaging around the stickers and put the empty sheet in the bin with my own little hands and it's gone! YAY! Which is a good thing, cos I may have bought more sheets of stickers to replace it, at Yamba in a nice Scrappin shop there {slapping back of hand!}
:) C

WJWW Week 13

Hello!
We are back from Holidays {sigh.... dreaming of ice creams by the pool as the rain pours down outside now we're back home!} We had a super dooper time relaxing with old friends in Grafton, on our own as a little family in Yamba and with my extended family at Darlington Park (near Woolgoolga). It was so lovely to catch up with everyone! I'll post more about the holiday soon...
I didn't get the chance to log on to the internet in our second week of holidays, so here is the What Jai Wore Weekly pic for last week.Shirt: Mothercare
Boardies: Mothercare
Random stripey sock laying on the bed: Gap Kids
Elephant: Tiny Love

I love those boardies so much, I had to buy them cos they reminded me so much of a Hurley pair that Will bought the first time we went to Hawaii. They have palm trees all along the bottom too! Love them!
:) C

WJWW Week 12

Hehe, I'm cheating a little.... I am typing this before we go on hols and am setting it to post while we're away! Sneaky! So it's not exactly what Jai wore this Wednesday, but I'm sure its not far off, cos it's pretty holiday-ish! {smiles}
I'm sure I'm thinking of you while I bask in the sunshine of a beach on the NSW North Coast! LOL!
T-Shirt: Sprout
Trackies: Mothercare
Pirates (Tom & Tess): Made by Mummy!

:) C

WJWW Week 11

Hi y'all!
I am taking a break from packing for our Holidays which start this Saturday! Yay! Everyone around here is in need of a holiday so we're really looking forward to it!
Here is Jai, trying on some Summer clothes to take with us! Its so cute seeing him with arms! He's always had long sleeves on & I just love seeing his chubby arms and thighs!

Bodysuit: Target
Shorts: Big W (are they long shorts, or short longs? LOL!)
Booties: Granny
Owl: Skip Hop (hence we called him Skip)

:) C

Our Father's Day Outing

Hi y'all!
Hope you had a great Father's Day with your Husbands/Dads/Grandfathers/Fathers-In-Laws etc! Will finally decided what he wanted to do for Father's Day and that was to go to Bobbin Head for some fishing & a picnic. I'd never been to Bobbin Head and as he said it was near Turramurra I thought it wasn't tooooo far from where we used to live in Brownville. But after we'd been driving for 40 mins I was like "Where IS this place?" and grabbed the UBD only to discover Bobbin Head is north of North Turramurra and is actually part of the Hawkesbury River! Whoa! It was a bit of a drive from our place after all, but it was a beautiful setting for a picnic so I can't complain!
We started the day with Maple Smoked Bacon (Thank You Costco.. YUM!) & Scrambled Eggs (Will's fave) followed by cuddle time & present opening. Jaimeson chose Will a super sweet Mug printed with 3 pics of the 2 of them together, he got Will's watch Battery fixed (so Daddy will always be home on time for playtime!) and got him some clip-on LED book lights (so Daddy doesn't have to give up reading a book at night when Jai's sleeping). What a good present-chooser Jai is! I was bummed cos I also did a photo book for Will especially for Father's Day, ordered it a week and a bit before and it's still not here now! Argh! {slapping forehead!} I should have finished it earlier... oh well. I hope it comes before DP!
How do you like Jai's bodysuit? It's only 000 and I've been holding out from packing it away so he could wear it on Father's day! It was sooooo small but he squished in it for the day. Such a cutie! {hearts rising from head}
So when we arrived at Bobbin Head it was packed with picnic-ers and fishermen. We squeezed our car in an illegal park (hehe) and grabbed a section of grass near the bank for Will to fish at. Jai and I played on the picnic rug and went for a walk while Willy did some fishing. I took Jai for a walk over to the Marina and saw there were heaps of people throwing bread into the water for the fish to eat. And there must have been HUNDREDS of Bream eating the bread! No wonder Will didn't get any bites! LOL! Poor Willy! Well, he says its about the experience, not about actually catching the fish! {patting Will's back cos he's so humble}! LOL!
All that picnic-ing wore my boys out cos when we got home in the afternoon they both went to bed and slept for hours!
And thankfully Willy is easy to please and I made him his fave dinner which was the super easy Spaghetti Bolognese! Yum!
So that was our Father's Day! Hope you had a great one too!
:) C

Happy Father's Day Willy!!

HAPPY 1ST FATHER'S DAY TO WILLY!
Jaimeson loves his Daddy, and I love my Husband! We hope you have a super fantastic day!
I did this page of Willy and Jaimeson at Yvette's, aren't my boys so sweet! Look how tiny Jai's head is compared to Willy's (don't be too worried, Willy does have a massive noggin!) I love the phrase on that paper, so sweet! And it went perfectly with these pics. Awwwee... I want to smoochy those cheeks right now... oh and Jaimeson's too. LOL {giggles}
: ) C

Pages from our visit with Yvette

Hello!
Happy Friday! Yay! {TGIF music blaring in the background!} I still look forward to the weekend, even though I'm on Maternity Leave! It means Willy is home for dinner tomorrow night, and we've got all day Sunday to hang out. And what a special day Sunday will be for Willy, it's his first Father's Day! {high five!} I have been asking him all week what he would like to do, but seeing has he's been sick (with Influenza, the real one too, not just "flu") his brain has stopped working and he can't think of anything to do. LOL! Does anyone have any suggestions??
So I wanted to share a couple of pages that I finished at Yvette's! She is very encouraging and inspirational! I feel like I am always doing the same looking layout, only with different papers and embellishments, and she helped me to get inspired to use some different things (like the little strip of hession under the heart sticker on this first page) and to position the page elements a little differently. As well as telling me it didn't matter if I did the same LO all the time, cos that must be my "style"! I was pretty happy with that point of view. Sometimes I over analyse.... I'm not unhappy with my usual layouts so maybe I should just accept that that's my style and move on {building a bridge... and getting over it}. Look at my sweet little boy with his hand up to the camera saying hello! Too cute!
I've been waiting for the right pic to go with this super cute bird paper for ages! I didn't want to cover up too many of the sweet little birdies :) I think this pic does it justice, and then some. Hello Jaimeson! Oh, and see that yellow letter lace paper? That was the very last of the sheet! High five for finishing a packet {slap!} That rarely happens around here, but I'm proud to say it is happening more and more! Hooray {party hooters going off!} The book paper was a page from Little House on the Prairie (or Dunny In The Paddock as Dad used to call it! LOL!) that Yvette gave me. She gave me lots of cool non-traditional papers to use on my LOs and encouraged me to buy some vintage books to use too! Keep your eyes peeled for more book paper (oh, and see my old fave Japanese book paper on the first LO! I'm so glad I bought that book in Japan, it was only ¥100. Hahah! One Hundred Yen (like $1.40!)
Have a Happy Friday Night! Can't wait for 8pm, that's traditional Chips and Coke time in our family... wish I was hanging with my family tonight!
:) C

WJWW Week 10

Hi y'all!
It's time for What Jai Wore Wednesday! How the week flies by, before I know it we're up to another WJWW pic!
We had a nice quiet day at home on Wednesday, but Will didn't have Overtime, so Jai and I had the pleasure of his company all day until his night shift started! YAY! We played outside, washed the cars, ate lunch together :) What a nice family day. It doesn't happen too often around here! (Will commonly works a 6 day/58hr week {frowny!})

Bodysuit: Target
Meggings (Man Leggings): Bonds
Knitted socks: Granny
Sir Prance-A-Lot (the horse): Lamaze - Jaimeson's new fave toy!

So what did you wear on Wednesday??
:)C