Cooper's 5th Birthday Construction Party!

Hello!
Here are some pics from my nephew Cooper's recent 5th Birthday Construction Party. It was an AWESOME party and a big {high five} to my sister Felicity for all her hard work party planning and hosting! The decor was awesome, the food was yummy and the games and giant dirt pile were such a hit!!
Here is the food table...

Awesome dump truck dumping twisties!

And a bulldozer moving pretzel "logs"!

Check out the FANTASTIC cake! I can't believe how awesome this cake is! (Not that I can't imagine you making such an awesome cake, but I just clap my hands with glee when I see it, it makes me so happy!) See the little Lego man? Cooper put him there while Felicity was out of the room, then told Felicity "I've put a Lego man on the cake Mum, to make it look better" and she was imagining this pirate lego man placed front and centre, not quite fitting in with the theme, and instead she came out to find a construction man, picking away at the side of the cake. Perfect, Cooper!!

Playing "Pin the Witches Hat on the Construction Site!"

The giant dirt pile!

Happy Family Cake Time!

And our very own YMCA'er! LOL!
What a cool, awesome, fun, fantastic party Felicity! Great work {belly bump!}
:) C

More Jaimeson pages :)

Hi y'all!
Are you enjoying your weekend so far? Jai and I escaped the constant driving rain by spending a few hours at Merrylands Stockland Shopping Centre! For some reason I feel way more at home in those little Shopping Centres than at big ones like Parramatta! And it's new too, so it's a nice centre to just wander around (though Alicia tells me she's seen Police everytime she's been there, and once they were even arresting someone! Just the local riff-raff!) Anyways... we had an awesome morning, shopping up a storm! I bought clothes for Jaimeson and myself at BigW, Jewellery at Lovisa, Birthday Presents at Typo, Summer PJ's at Sussan, Lego Duplo at Target....and it was ALL on sale! Woot woot {hooters going off in the background}! The perfect time to go shopping! Plus I got some cool Japanese Food Picks and lunch stuff at Daiso, that place is seriously cool!
So here are some more scrap pages I did last year.

This was just the sweetest little story! We were sitting in the Backyard when Jaimeson brought me my first ever gift- a leaf. He insisted I have it! So I kept it and I did a Layout about it, cos I'm that kind of Mum. {giggles!} I stuck it on the layout with a good covering of wide clear packing tape, so hopefully it will slow it's degredation process so it lasts a few years in the album!
Fun stuff: the leaf! I HAD to include it {smiles}; the speech bubble with a heart in it, which is a Stampin Up stamp; the shaped BG paper I've had for YEARS so I'm happy to have used it and not be hoarding it any longer (you know I have a serious problem).
And the second layout is my fave pic from Jai's first birthday party. What a big chubby happy face he has! We had a Circus Theme Party and it was wonderful!! So much fun to decorate and bake for! We love themed parties in our family!
Fun stuff: I glittered some old faded thickers with red glitter, and I love how they turned out! I bought the tickets on etsy, stamped them, and we used them as tokens to redeem for prizes at the party. I had some leftover so they'll be fun to scrap with, for a while yet (I have quite a few left over!)
Hope you've had time to be crafty this weekend so far!
I've gotta do some hard core baking tomorrow, cos I"m on morning tea at playgroup on Tuesday, and I'm having Alicia and Felicity, and their girls, over for lunch and tea on Monday! Wish you could come too Yvette! I'm so looking forward to getting to dust off lots of my Op Shop crockery finds! Deciding what to use will be the hardest part!
:) C

Project Life, Week 4!

Hi y'all!
Woot Woot, it's Friday night!! What are you up to? I'm sewing more fabric owls again tonight I think. I haven't sewn much lately at all, so it's nice to get the machine out again and use up some of my fabric stash!
I finally got the last tiny pic printed for my Week 4 LO for Project Life, so here it is!

It was our Beach HOliday week at Minnie Water with friends. Look at how happy Willy is with his massive Bream!

I picked up a map in my old home town with the idea of using it in this square pocket of the page protector. I love it in there! And that pic of Jai crouching down, naked, in the sand, is my favourite!
Week 4 of 2013 was also a big week because my niece Venice was born! I had to give her her own Insert page!

It's a cool folded-over page protector with her birth details on the front.

Here it is opening up...

This is it on the inside. Check out the sweet pic of Jaimeson giving Venice a kiss!

And this is the back, fully folded out, with the bit that normally shows on the front, folded back.
I don't want to have too many inserts in my album so it's not too bulky, but Venice definitely deserves a pretty pink insert to announce her arrival! How kind of her to give me somthing sweet to include in Project Life! {giggles}
:)C

A Valentine for my Valentine

Hi y'all!
I hope you had a romantic Valentine's Day!
I whipped up a little something special for Willy on Wednesday night (nothing like the last minute!) after I was inspired by the challenge over at the Scrapbook Boutique Blog. The inspiration pic was a plate of 9 mini cupcakes and I instantly thought of an idea of how I could translate that into a Valentine's Card for Willy! I have so many "love" themed stamps, but I rarely pull them out and use them, so this was the perfect opportunity.
So this is what I came up with:

I cut nine 1-inch squares from different patterned papers and stamped on some (the flamingos, hearts on strings, Feb 14 and the tree of hearts are all from Stampin Up) and then I just used some patterned paper scraps I have in my stash for the other squares. I corner rounded only 2 corners on each square and stuck them down into a "leaf" sorta pattern. I mounted it on real red card with a layer of white and basic grey. I was THRILLED with how it turned out!! {High Five!} I love it when my hands produce pretty much the picture that is in my mind! LOL!
I also made Willy a jar of Gummy Worms with a tag on the jar that says "Hooked on you". Perfect for my Fisherman! Thanks go out to Alicia for emailing on that idea to me from Pinterest! Boy I love Pinterest!

So here is my Valentine with his Valentines!!

He was a little disappointed that he didn't have anything for me and I said that was ok, just to send me a pic of him and Jai while I was at work. Well at Midday he called me at work and told me to go up to reception, and there he was with a bunch of roses, a beautiful card and some chocolate for me! {hearts rising from head!} How sweet of him to drive the 25 mins to work to bring me the roses, when he had to turn around and come back again at 4pm anyway! What a sweetie {smoochies!}
Happy Friday!
:) C

More little boy pages!

Going back through my folder of pages from last year and I realised just how many I hadn't posted! What a slacker!

I love this pic of Jai and I! Isn't he just so happy! And he has his ever-pointing finger out in this pic too! So sad, he doesn't do that anymore!
Fun stuff on this page: the BG paper is actually an acetate sheet, so it's see through! the tree is printed on the paper and I stuck the little deer sticker on the sheet too. {love!}, I also love the strips of washi underneath the journal card and the bird stickers. I love that overall this feels like a happy page, cos that's how I feel when I'm with Jaimeson {tears of pride welling up in eyes}.

And as well as a cute, happy face, Jaimeson has the cutest smoochy lips! LOL! I snapped these pics while he cruised around the house on his bike, giving smoochies to everyone he saw! So cute!
Fun stuff: the red spotty paper is actually tissue paper that I scrunched up as I stuck it down, its a cool effect IRL!; the alphabet strip of paper is actually the tear-away strip from the bottom of a 12x12, the one that advertises who made the paper & has the barcode etc. Sometimes they print on the reverse side and I always keep them in a pile on my desk. They come in handy when I need just a little something more for a page!, love the little turtle rub-on at the top of the page too, so sweet!

And this 3rd page is all about Jaimeson and his teeth! I wanted to keep a record on a Scrapbook page about when he got each of his 4 main teeth (I do keep it on a calendar too, ok, the truth is I had all these little teeth stickers I bought in Japan and wanted to use them! {Giggles!})
Fun stuff: I love that Geometric Leaf BG paper, reminds me of Orla Kiely; yay for using the little tooth stickers! {hehe}; and the journal spots are by my talented sister Yvette Adams. It's a simple page, this one, but I really like it! Plus Jai has very cheeky faces so I giggle when I see him!
:) C

Little boy pages!

Hi y'all!
Just looking back through some of my pages from last year, looking for some to post, and reminiscing about how small my little boy used to be! And now he's a big, independent, funny, cheeky, loving, playful, giggly little guy! How time flies {whoosh! Past the window flies a clock}
Look how tiny he was here!! He was nearly 8 weeks old in these pics, and quite a smily little guy! He's alwasys smiled, I caught his first smile on camera at 5 days old! Don't believe them when they say babies don't smile til 6 weeks. And Jaimeson hasn't stopped smiling since. LOL! He is such a happy little guy. I did a "No Paparazzi" page on Cooper about 4 years ago, so it's funny to do one for my own little boy now! Fun stuff on this page: love the yellow chevron BG paper, and the strip of teal woodgrain paper, love the yellow, grey, teal colour combo too!

And this second sweet page about Jai "Catching Flies" as he sleeps. In our family it's called "Catching Flies" if you sleep with your mouth open. Papa is known for it, I do it, and now Jai does it too. LOL! And look at those sweet little hands, just gorgeous {heart melting}
Fun stuff: getting to use up a bunch of eyelets on the title (only about 4000 to go! Slowly slowly! LOL!), the Amy Tangerine paper pinwheel thing, and how cute is the background paper? I love that there is a bear pinned up on the washing line!
Happy Monday!
We're going on an Op Shop Safari today, to Penrith! Cos Will has no Overtime at work and suggested it! What a man, that husband of mine is. He knows how to keep me happy. LOL! Hope to find good stuff!
:) C

Project Life, Week 3!

Hi y'all!
I see that I have been a bit slack with my posting this week! I guess I"ll have to make up for it with a Project Life post!
Here is week 3:

LHS:
Costco
Coffee
Dinner & Breakfast
A dress that nearly went to the Op Shop Bag and ended up being a hit!










RHS:
Jai's current Faves
My Captain Adorable
Sharing a Milkshake with Mummy while shopping, just like Mummy used to do with Granny
At the Park
Making my first Pavlova(s)

It has been fun doing PL! I find I have too many pics and not enough writing! So I've scaled down the pics this week & left 2 pockets for writing, which was good. I don't want to leave the stories out!
How has your week been?
:) C

Time for some cards!

Hi Y'all!
I haven't posted many of my cards on here lately, so here some are for you!
I needed more lady Birthday Cards in my cardbox, cos they must have been my best-sellers lately, they were pretty scarce in the box!

 Found this packet of pretty blue Stampin Up printed papers that I had lots amongst my stash! I am so happy to have found them, they make lovely cards for all those people who don't like pink!

Still nice and soft, with pretty blue and kraft flowers. And the gorgeous Stampin Up Butterfly Wings die cut that I use in my Cuttlebug machine.

I love Deers! Do you? Aren't they so cute! I had this little strip of AC deer paper hanging out in my stash so built the card around that. Do you start with little offcuts like me? I find that I end up a bit more creative when I have an unusual small piece to start with, rather than staring at a big 12x12 sheet. Then I have to come up with all the ideas, when I start with a small piece, they ideas just seem to flow! The note paper piece was also a leftover scrap from my stash, I love it on this card! The sentiment is from a retired Stampin Up set called "Happy Everything". (Can you tell I had pulled out a big stack of SU stamps to use, cos I'd neglected them for too long!!)

Then I dug out some nice bright Stampin Up papers and made these 2 gems! Remember, when you're making one card, you may as well go ahead and make another one at the same time, it saves you time later!

And I already had someone in mind for this one, so there is now only one left in my cardbox. I love the bright colours, the orange and the pink are so unusual together, but I love them! ANd the doily stamp is gorgeous too! The flower and doily are both from the retired Stampin Up set "True Friend". I hadn't thought that doily looked like a doily til I used it on these cards, I love it now! Isn't it cool how you can look at an old set in a totally new way when a new trend comes along!
Have you been creating this weekend?
:) C

Sweet little boy!

Good Morning!
Here are some pages I did of our gorgeous little fella last year. Boy he's grown up from these pics!

The first page is his very first Baby Cino when he and I dropped in on Willy at work. Look at that big chocolatey Warthog face! Tassy made the Warthog face famous, then Cooper used to do a pretty mean Warthog too! Even with the extra chocolate ring between his eyebrows, from the top of the cup! {giggles!} And now it's Jai Boy's turn!
Fun stuff on this page: the bat halloween paper that I just loved but seeing as we don't celebrate Halloween I've been waiting for some fun pics to use with it!; love that flocked neon green PP & chevrons, I love chevrons!

This second page is my absolute favourite pic of Jaimeson. He's so innocent with those big eyes! I just want to give him a big old smoochy right now! Wait, I'll be back in a sec......
Ok, I'm back! Will took this pic on his phone and sent it to me at work, I nearly died from swooning, what a sweet little face!
Fun stuff on this page: love that elephant BG paper!; I was inspired to do some stitching by Amy Tangerine, I {heart} her scrapbooking! Just gorgeous. The heart is quite obvious here in the pic, but in real life it's a bit harder to see which is a bit of a bummer, but I did enjoy stitching on the LO and I'll do it again for sure! Another good use for my stash of DMC threads!
Have you been scrapping?
Happy Friday!
:) C