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

Not a baby any more....

Good Morning!

How delightful it is to be sitting here, eating breakfast, surrounded by such beautiful sunshine as we've seen the last few days! Oh glorious Spring!! I was in a way happy mood at work yesterday, like crazy happy. Imagine psychotic laughing episodes, crazy dancing between the pathology machines and ants in my pants so I lacked the ability to sit quietly at my desk and work. That was almost me. {giggles}. I put it down to the warm, sunny weather. And the fact that I have tomorrow off work to go to the Stitches and Craft Show at Rosehill with Mum. Woot {doing the "running man" dance}.

I have had a lot of fun scrappin lately. I am so inspired when I have fresh new pics to scrap!! Aug 1 I headed over to Fliss's to spend some quality chat time with her and armed with my camera to get some pics of Cooper who I hadn't really seen for probably 6 weeks or so?! What a bad Aunty! Alicia came over after the Gym (or the G. Y. M. as Will's Dad calls it cos he (humourously) thinks each of the letters stands for something, not it being the shortened version of Gymnasium! LOL!!!) and she brought armfuls of Coffees and Chelsea Bun (YUM!!) so we sat in the sunshine and chatted while Cooper played around us. Oh what relaxing fun! I have had so much fun scrapping these new pics of Cooper but it made me realise he's not a baby any more! He's so tall now, with a real boyish grin and man he just doesn't stop playing and running and chasing birds etc. Wow. I bought this first Cherry Arte "gears" looking paper when C was just a baby, I can't believe he's now old enough for me to scrap with it! C looks so much like his Daddy in this pic :) The OLD on this page is the red disco ball paper (the last of it... YAY!!), the starry fozz felt, the Heidi Swapp letters, stitching rub on and the little date sticker. Don't you love the car journal spot?! I bought it in a packet of bits and bobs from Memories2Remember at the Stitches and Craft last year, it's so cute!

And the second page is C having a "go" at Mummy's Hot Choc cup! Fliss washed it out for him and put his water in it cos he kept trying to grab ours while we drank. His face was the cutest when he squeezed the cup and the lid popped off! he figured it was way easier to drink without the lid on then! I love this Orange PP, I've had it for about 18mths, waiting for the perfect LO! I'm so happy to have used it for such cute pics of Cooper! The OLD on this page are the AC thickers- these were the first I ever got!, the gold star studs, the circle stickers (way way OLD!), the "discover" and "good times" rub ons and the rub on border. The newest thing is the red grid sticky tape I got in Japan, they have the coolest tapes!

Well, better go finish getting ready for work. I hope my happy mood sticks with me throughout the week! Come on Spring!!

:) C

P.S. Hopefully I'll have some delicious goodies to share after the Stitches and Craft show tomorrow! {clapping hands with glee!}

Yay for Saturday!

Anyone want to go out for breakfast with me? I feel like pancakes, actually I always feel like pancakes, so any old excuse would do. Meet you at The Little Rock Cafe in 40 mins!! They serve breakfast til midday... gotta love that! I just tried to make a new recipe for pancakes that has oats, cinnamon and applesauce in it... lets just say I now have a soggy mess on my plate that I just can't eat. It didn't work out at all!! Hmm... not sure why I keep having cooking failures lately. I'll blame the stove. Stupid stove.

Ok, so here are some pages I've finished lately!

Check out Will contorting himself to sleep on the bus between Mt Fuji and Missima! Who knows how he could have slept like that?! I wanted the papers to be bright and neon-y against a black background, which reminds me so much of Tokyo at night!! The OLD on this page are the MM "Are we there yet?" rub-on, the felt flower and black dots and the purple PP. Not really a lot of old stuff, but the papers were already really busy so I didn't want to pack out the page. Can you see the 4 little Japanese character stamps down the left side of the pic on the blue spotty paper. How cute are they?!! I have to say, the signs paper is one of my faves too, you know I love graphic images. And the journal spot is by Yvette, of course!

And then here's Will and I enjoying a new Nick's Diner that just opened at Macquarie Centre, it was awesome! There aren't many restuarants at Mac Centre so it sucked if you wanted to eat and see a movie cos you'd end up eating Maccas! But Nick's makes awesome burgers and the restuarant has always been packed out when we pass it, and you can see why! Mine was a NY burger with bacon, cheese, herb aioli and a delicious juicy beef patty that tasted like real beef! Will had a double stack of 2 patties with bacon, cheese, herb aioli and can you believe it.... he couldn't finish it!! That is about the first meal I have ever seen Will not finish! Amazing! The OLD on this page are the Live it Up rub-on, fozz felt, disco ball lace paper, the white circle and flower at the top and the bracket which I pressed roughly into my SU Real Red stamping pad and it turned out great!

Happy Saturday!!

:) C

Do the Yum Cha Cha...

I'm going to Yum Cha this morning at Rhode's Phoenix with Alicia and Will. Its great to have Will come along and decipher all the weird foods for us, although he can be a bad Asian sometimes cos he doesn't know what things are! I'm like "How can you not know, you're Asian so this is your food?!" {throwing hands up in air}. I feel it's like going to a Sizzler buffet and me not knowing what everything is! I guess, in his defence, the foods at Yum Cha are always enclosed in dumpling or noodle {wink}! Looking forward to it though. I once ate a chicken toe at Yum Cha in the city, I wouldn't eat the whole chicken foot and so just nibbled on a toe. I'm not a huge fan of chicken skin, so I'm not going back for more!

I've been on a bit of a scrapping roll lately, well more like I've gotten into a nice comfy groove :) I've done a couple of pages every week lately, and I'm pleased to say I have reached my goal of 1 page per week for the year (52 pages total) with the page I finished Friday night! WOOT {party confetti falls from the roof and a band begins to play "it's the final countdown"}. This page isn't the final page though, it's one I did last week and haven't posted yet!
I am happy to say the only new stuff on this page are the American Crafts thickers (can't get enough of them!), pretty much everything else is OLD (meaning older than 18 months)!! YAY!! The butterfly comes from an American Crafts box that I only have 2 items left in, I totally can't believe it. I think only once before have I finished an entire packet of Scrappin stuff without selling the remainder on ebay! What an awesome effort! I find I am scrappin a whole lot of everyday pics at the moment, like this one of me just chilling out on a Saturday morning. It's mainly because I don't do anything interesting cos Will works 6 days a week and he see's his family Sunday, and we're saving money for the wedding, so I'm stuck with everyday (non)events! I guess in 10 years time when I have a gaggle of children and no time on my hands to even pee in peace (Mum used to say that when we would annoy her through the toilet door... "Can't I even pee in peace?!") I'll look back at these pages and wish I had soaked it up. Now I wish to do something instead!

:) C