Project Life, Weeks 33 & 34

Hi Y'all!
And yet another post, I'm on a roll!
Catching up with posting my Project Life 2013 pages, so here are some more!
Week 33, LHS:
The week includes a list of Jaimeson's favourite books at the time, which is awesome to look back on, cos he has different faves now! That's another awesome reason to love PL, it's a diary of my year, without having kept a silly diary (I get like 2 pages into the year and never write in a diary again, yet I managed a whole year of PL!) There is also an Op Shop Adventure, Granny & Papa calling in on our playgroup and some texted pics from Will of Jaimeson at swimming, cos he has lessons on a Wednesday when I'm at work. I love including the pics Will texts to me, cos it's showing life from his perspective too!
Week 33, RHS: Something we all have to do, every year.... Tax Time! I snuck a pic of our accountant while he was crunching the numbers. Hehe! Then we always celebrate not owing extra tax by going out to lunch in the city afterwards. {High Five!}
My growing baby bump; another texted selfie shot from Will for the album; hanging out with cousins, watering their garden & yum cha with Ye Ye. Yum!
I also want to include more of the pretty filler cards I seem to hoard in my stash, like this "hello there!" card by Echo Park. Me likey!
Week 34, LHS.
Top left pic is one of my favourites of Jaimeson, oh he's a gorgeous boy! And that was my favourite whale applique jumper that hes sadly grown out of. Can't wait to do some more shopping for gorgeous clothes in Hawaii in 3.5 weeks! YAY!! (Did I mention we're going to Hawaii? Yep, all 4 of us, for 10 days. I am so so excited!)
Other pics this week: playgroup, coffee date with my boys & a photo bomb by Willy!; growing baby bump; putting in my maternity leave form at work! {belly bump!}I hand sewed the red heart onto the turtle card, I love how it turned out!; lunch date with my boys at New Star Kebabs in Auburn. Yum, kebabily good!
Week 34, RHS
Jaimeson's newest quirk- sleeping with his blanket pulled up over his head!, playing hide & seek in our washing basket!; Jaimeson's first check up at the dentist! He did so well, was calm and did what the dentist asked, such a good boy!; is your sugar sprinkle collection as big as mine? I hope so, I love them and I love having a wide range of gorgeous coloured sugar yummies to decorate my cupcakes and cakes! A couple of food shots: Mini loaves and Pyrex in action! And a typical Sunday in our lives, Church in the morning, followed by grocery shopping.
That's our life! Hope you've enjoyed another fortnight of it!
:) C

New cards!

Lookie here! I'm posting twice in one month {gasp!} Don't fall of your chair! {giggles!}
Since having Flinders, and since Jaimeson gave up his day sleep (I nearly said since Will gave up his day sleep.... hahahaha! He wishes he got a day sleep!) I have had to be more efficient with my time, and do what I can when I can. Lately I have been getting to have some creative time once the boys have gone to sleep at night, so that means after 8pm. But after being up once overnight for a feed, then having my day start at 6 or 6:30am, means my creative juices aren't flowing so well by that time of night! I have mainly been doing Project Life, cos it's like a double page spread of little projects. My poor little card box is feeling very neglected! I can almost fit a closed fist in the box now, and usually they are jammed so tight in I can hardly fit any more!
So these last 2 weeks I've been trying to channel my nightly, drained brain's last ounces of creativity into some cards, and I'm happy to say it's been working quite well! Also, Will kindly distracted both the boys for an hour and a half on Sunday, so I got to have some crafting time {hugs Willy!}.
I just realized there's a bit of pink here, maybe that's to balance all the boy stuff that's going on in my life at the moment. LOL!
Baby Cards. Can't get enough of them. Can't make enough of them! It seems people are always having babies {tongue in cheek!} and these cards are always running thin in my card box.
I am still loving bunting banners, it's such a sweet way to show off a few patterned papers on one card, use up all your scraps, and get a bit of sewing on a card too! The gorgeous elephant is from Stampin Up & so is the sentiment.
Then I went ahead and made the same card in a different colour-way. Yeah for time management! Two cards are quicker than one! And it's not like people get together for a chat and are comparing my creativity, like "Oh look, she made us the same card, only in different colours!" LOL! As if!
Then I had this leftover piece of printed scalloped paper after I made an envelope using my new WRMK Envelope Punch Board (love it!) {hugging punch board quietly in the corner}, so I decided to try to use it in a clever way. I came up with this cool Blimp card, do you like it? I love it! I stuck the giant scallop paper over the top of some hot pink tiled paper I've had for, oh, about 400 years. Seriously. It's ancient. But I loved it, cos it's bright, funky & geometric. Just my kinda thing! Yay to have finally stopped hoarding it, and getting it out to use it! I put the pink & purple pearls around the scallop and it reminds me of the rivets on a submarine window, so maybe that suits a blimp too!
And then I had another weird shaped bit of paper leftover, so threw together this sweet whale Birthday Card which is my favourite card of the year so far! Plus the fact that I managed to tie the best bow I've ever tied with that pink ribbon. High Five {slap!} I love that whale, he's just gorgeous. Another Stampin Up set!
After a quick look through my Card Box I realised I needed more Thank You cards too, so here's one to add to the box. I love this paper, which came from a beautiful paper pad from Aldi of all places! Dad would be proud, he loves Aldi! I embossed the "Thanks" with a gorgeous American Crafts ZING glittery embossing powder. I think the pattern on the paper,looks a bit Scandinavian, is it the little birdies? Sweet anyway.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my latest card creations, and the fact that I've blogged again! LOL!

:) C

Project Life, Weeks 30, 31 & 32

Hi y'all!
Long time no see! Totally my fault, I haven't been posting in soooo long! So sorry about that {eyes looking down towards floor}, I know that makes me a bad friend! I hope you can forgive me. I hope to post more often, but then I think I always say that. How bout I try to make it a reality this time? {cheeky smile!} Come on, check back again soon & there will be another post. I might even try to post on a regular basis! What'd that? LOL!
Lets do some Project Life catch up shall we? Care to see what I was doing in July last year?! Hehe, that was a while ago! We are up to checking out week 30 of 2013:
Wk 30, LHS
Hahaha, look how short Jaimeson's hair is in that top right pic! Such a little fella with short short hair!
And that bottom left pic was Jaimeson trying to "unlock" my pregnant tummy with a key! Isn't that the sweetest!
And I love the pic of all my work food laid out on the bench, its gonna be awesome to look back on it and wonder what I used to take to work to eat, I don't think my sandwich tastes have changed that much since High School though!

Week 30, RHS:
Mmmm churros. Who doesn't love churros?? If you've never had them, seriously, you're missing out. Delicious crispy donutty sticks dipped in melted chocolate. {Drool!} Let me just pick my tongue up off the floor. YUMMO!! We are lucky to have a Coco Cubano at Parramatta, it's fantastic. If you're ever near one, try the Dark Chocolate Mocha, oh. so. good. {double Drool!}
There is Jaimeson playing with the gorgeous Vintage Fisher Price house we got for $1 at the Chester Hill Community Garage Sale. He loves it, and so do I! And that was the beginning of our awesome Vintage Fisher Price Little People town, dubbed North Lamville Valley Heights Town. LOL! You know that place up in the Blue Mountains called Valley Heights? It always annoys me, cos how can you be both the Valley and the Heights. Worst town name ever. Anyways, now our Fisher Price town is a little ode to it! LOL!
This week it was also Elmer's 40th Birthday party, and check out Lentil/Flinder's growing bump in my pretty white floral maternity maxi! I do love having a bump!
On to Week 31: LHS
Brunch out at a café is one of my fave things to do, don't you love it? I love bacon & eggs & pancakes and delicious coffee, and someone else cleaning up {wink!} Espresso Organica at Concord is so awesome for breakfast, they do a mean Eggs Benedict, but being pregnant I had to opt for the Bacon & Egg roll instead. It was LOADED with deliciousness, Loved it!
There is our little family of 3 pulling faces again. Now we're a family of 4, we still love the selfie! How are we gonna fit 12 kids in the pic? Hhahahahahahahaha! I joke! We will not be having that many! Maybe 11. {collapses on the floor at the thought}.
Week 31: RHS
Playdate over at our friends Alex and Samira's house. Alex is a kid still, even at 28, so he had no probs entertaining Jaimeson!
Check out Jaimeson's face in that middle left pic! He really hates it when Tai Poor (Great Grandma) touches his food! I don't blame him, she's a compulsive toucher, she moves anything she stands near, even if it's only 5mm. She just has to touch it all! And she ain't the cleanest fork in the drawer either, which Jaimeson has obviously picked up on, cos he pulls this face when she comes near his food! It's sooo funny!
How about another week?
Week 32: LHS
Yum Cha with Benny. Isn't Jaimeson such a cutie, feeding his little horse some dumplings. So sweet! Have you been to Yum Cha? Yum Cha is to Asians, what a baked dinner is to the whities. It's a celebratory meal, or the family get-together meal. Some months we have been 3 or 4 times! You do tend to get sick of it after a while, but we haven't been for a while now, so it's time I marked it on the calendar again and we got some delicious Steamed Pork Buns, flat rice noodle with beef & Egg Tarts into us!
Oh yeah, after Yum Cha this week we walked up to the new Westfield cos they had the "Make your own Magnum" stand, where you paid $7 (totally worth it) and could customize your Magnum with add on nuts, honeycomb, coconut, biscuit pieces, rose petals (!) etc then have it drizzled in chocolate of your choice too. Man it was sooooooo yum! {more drooling..} Does it seem like my PL is full of food to you? Yep, me too!

Week 32: RHS
Check it out, there is Lentil!! Look at sweet little Flynn, relaxing inside my tummy! Wow, to think that was about 6 months ago now, it goes so quick!
Hey, it's a coupon dinner date too! Now night time dates don't happen too often around here, as you can imagine! Mexican is my favourite food too, and this awesome restaurant at Glebe- Baja Cantina, is soooo YUM!
Did you know there is a Williams-Sonoma at Bondi Junction? Love it! It's my favourite homewares shop in the USA & I love visiting there when we're on holidays. I was chuffed to know there was one opening in BJ, so Jai and I took a trip there while Will was doing the City2Surf. Doesn't the world seem like a smaller place now these overseas chains are in Australia too? Though, the prices are still a bit higher than in the US!
Talking about the US: Guess what, 4 weeks til we go to Hawaii!! YEAH {fist pumping the air}. I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo very excited! We are gonna swim in the ocean, snorkel, laze by the pool, drink cocktails, shop, shop and a little more shopping, eat yummy food and chill out and relax as our little family of 4. I love our special holidaying time together, so I am sooo excited!

I hope you enjoyed catching up some weeks of my PL album for 2013! More to come!
:) C
(this one's for you AJ, thanks for the reminder to blog!)