Scrappin my boy

Oh how I love Jaimeson! And the fact that he gives me lots to scrap about!
Here are two I have done of him recently (well, last year to tell you the truth. That's only like 2 months ago, can I call that recent {giggles}).
This first one is using a gorgeous pic of my boy from our trip to Darlington Park last year. Look how round his head is! He was a real little nugget there, he's getting so long in his body now {sigh}. My boy is growing up!
I have a thing for moustaches at the moment. Not especially IRL, (though Tom Selleck is a natural wonder!) but as an image/icon on things. That's why I love Typo so much. Have you ever been into a Typo store? Have someone else hold your wallet when you go in, or you'll end up buying the whole shop! I {heart} it! I bought a cool moustache stamp recently, self inking, and only $3. That didn't break the bank! The rest of the stuff there though, oooohhh I'd like so much stuff, if only it was half the price! And they have heaps of cool moustache stuff. But anyway... I love this moustache guy on the top right of this page. I bought the whole packet from BigW cos this guy spoke to me! Luckily the other die cuts in the pack were also usable! LOL! I actually did some handstitching on this page too {smacking hands against cheeks, aghast!} My red bakers twine was already threaded with a needle and sitting on my desk. Therein lies my usual problem with handstitching- laziness {sits feet up on desk}. I can never be bothered! But I did it, and I'm proud. 3 little "X" stitches, that's all it took for me to be proud. LOL! I stitched over some ancient Mulberry paper I had lurking in the piles on my desk. I love it!
And this second page is of our swimming lessons! Well, water confidence lessons anyway. And Jaimeson just loved it! He's such a whizz in the pool, so relaxed, loves to splash his hands and kick his feet. My good boy! {clapping hands} I love the bikini stickers on this page. I have had them, (ashamedly), for about 8 years. Or maybe more {smacking hand}. BUt I used some, so be happy for me {patting back!} It's a 12 inch strip of them though, so I've still got a few bikinis left! LOL! The cute bunny sticky tape I got in a Korean shop in Melbourne last year, I {heart} printed tapes! I've got a lot, and I'm not hoarding them either. Hooray {cheer squad dancing in the background!}
:) C

Boardies

I have wanted to do a Scrap page on Willy and his enormous collection of board shorts. I mean, this guy could single-handedly keep Quiksilver in business. And it helps that he wears board shorts & a T-Shirt all throughout Winter too {shivering at the memory}. Does he not have an internal Temperature guage? Clearly its broken!
So a few years ago when I was in Hawaii with Will the first time, I bought this cool paper which is covered in board shorts. I thought "awesome, I'll do a page on Willy & his boardies collection!" That was Feb 2008. Clearly I work at a snail's pace. So I was frustrated at looking at this paper in my stash and not using it, so I did a page on Jaimeson and Willy on Jai's first ever trip to the beach. I figured it was a worthy subject for this paper that I've been hanging on to for years {slapping cheek for being such a hoarder} and I'm sure Jai will end up with as many pairs of boardies as Willy does! I mean, he already has had 4 pairs and he's only 6 months old!
:) C
P.S. The big green chipboard circle that the boat sticker is on... it was the last of a packet. "Oh Yeah"!!! for using something up!! {high five!}

Tiny Holiday Feet

Hi y'all!
Are you sweltering? It's steamy here {peeling sticky legs off plastic chair}. I do enjoy summer though, despite the sweat! Jaimeson is getting used to it too I think, we'd both like a swim in a pool right now {dreaming of taking a dip in a sun-soaked tropical pool with a Mai Tai in one hand. LOL!}
Well, if I can't be at the beach, at least I can scrap about it!
It has become tradition for me to take a pic of our feet whilst on holidays. You might remember I even had some foot pics on the Gypsy Feet blog
Well, I haven't stopped taking foot pics, and was even more excited to have Jai's little feet to take pics of while on our Beach Holiday too! Look at his sweet chubby little leg in there too! I have been hoarding those cute little Doodlebug tag stickers forever {someone slap me} so Hooray for using them! And I like the "pop" the yellow strip of paper gives to my aqua background. So summery!
Time for an icecream I think!
:) C
Here's my little man from the other day. Such a happy boy! Sorry for the grainy pic, but I take most of my pics of Jai on my iphone, so they don't always turn out the greatest. But I do capture the best spontaneous faces via iphone! Don't you just want to smoosh your lips onto those cheeks? I do! Pity he's sleeping right now... {wink!}

A Silly Page

You know when you look at a pic and it just makes you laugh? That happens to me a lot, especially when I put Jaimeson in silly hats like this one! It's his "Bruno Mars" hat, as it's come to be known between Will and I {giggles}! You know Bruno Mars? The singer? Here he is Mum, cos I know you wont know him! Hehehe! Do you think he'd really catch a grenade for ya'? Lol!
Check out the M&M's background paper I used on this page. Why oh why would I have bought a paper with M&Ms on it {shaking head in disbelief}? I know, I was caught up in the M&Ms moment! It was my first trip to America in 2004 & I was surprised (and a little confused) about just how much Americans love M&M branded stuff! They make everything with those sweet delicious little chocolates on it. In Vegas & NY there are even big shops called "M&M World" where they sell jewellery, clocks, statues, shirts, toys, dinnerware, everything with the M&M characters on it! Its so weird. So I bought a 12x12 paper with M&Ms on it. And haven't used it for 7 years! Come on! Its totally time that was out of my stash! So I used it on this funny LO of Jai in his Bruno Mars hat. I watered it down a little with the plain green square in the middle of the BG which I think helped out a bit! Hooray for using it {massive high five!} And of course, there is always the Bruno Mars/M&M connection. Mars manufactures M&Ms right? LOL {slapping hand on forehead cos of bad joke}
The "hat" dictionary entry came from a Children's illustrated dictionary I got in Coffs while we were on holidays. I love that it says "Mother wheres a hat when she goes to town". LOL! Vintage!
:) C
And here is a quick pic of my sweet boy when we visited Granny and Papa's 2 weeks ago. Love that cute face!

Yamba Holiday Pages

Hi Y'all!
Well I've started my Scrappin of our recent Road Trip/Beach Holiday/Family Reunion! There were sooo many gorgeous photos of Jaimeson, it was hard to know where to start! So I started at the beginning (I've never been a chronological scrapper, so this was new for me!) I love how bright and sunny the photos are, so I had to use bright and sunny products from my stash to go with it!
Can you tell I made the "Y" of "Yamba" from another letter? I think it was a "P". It's not too bad is it?! LOL! I hardly have any letters left in that packet, I have to get creative and use them all up! I love that big sun sticker, which is from Echo Park. I have some beautiful Echo Park summer products, yay, now I have the pics to use them with! And that wave border sticker? Yep, had it for centuries. I think it was in the Crusades, thats how old it is.
When we went to Yamba it was Jaimeson's first swim at the beach! The water was FREEZING (it was mid-September) and he kept squeeling "Ra!...Ra!....Ra!" {giggles!} It was so cute! Its ok, we didn't keep him in long and torture him! We just dipped his legs in and swooshed him about in the water. He did get used to it too and stopped squeeling. Either that, or his legs went numb so he couldn't feel anymore. LOL!
Both these background papers I've had for ages too, so score for using them {belly bump!} And the white squiggly border on this second page was a really washed out colour that I couldn't imagine using, so I turned it over and used the crisp white side instead! Up here's for thinking! {tapping head}
Hope your week is off to a good start!
:) C

Our Beach Holiday Road Trip 2011!

Hi y'all!
Finally a post with pics from our Beach Holiday Road Trip Family Reunion Extravaganza holiday! If you're a reader of my sister Yvette's blog, you'll already have seen a bunch of pics that she's posted- go check them out to see more of our fun time if you haven't already!
Well Will, Jaimeson and I had an extra long holiday cos we went up a week early and stayed a few days with some old friends of mine in Grafton, then had a little family holiday of our own in Yamba for a couple of days before we met up with my extended family (35 in all!) at Darlington Park near Coffs Harbour.
Be prepared for the photo onslaught!Firstly when we stayed with my friends in Grafton (they're actually my ex-boyfriend's family, but hey, it's not weird at all cos I love them and they love me and we still get on great! {high five!} and Willy enjoys it too, good old Willy.) we got to meet little Sebastian for the first time, and they got to meet Jaimeson for the first time, which was cool! I even went to Mother's Group with Vicki and Sebastian which was great cos I never got a Mother's Group of my own {mental note to get onto that, it's not too late is it?} Look at Jaimeson checking Sebastian out! He's doing that in every pic I have of them together! Must be thinking "Wow, one day I'll be big like that too!" Plus visiting Grafton we got to eat lots of Hanks, which is awesome. Oh I'd love a Ned Kelly Pie & Fresh Cream eclair right now!Then we moved on to Yamba where Jaimeson had his first swim in the ocean! We went to Whiting Beach cos it's open to the channel, not the sea and the waves are only tiny. He squeeled "Ra! Ra! Ra!" when his feet dipped in the water cos it was so cold! I don't blame him, I wasn't up for a swim!Jaimeson and I did lots of walking around Yamba while Willy did some fishing. Yamba has really nice boutique shops, but man, some of those prices are Sydney prices! Willy did catch a big fish but it got away (no really!)
Onwards to DP it was, to catch up with my family. It was a bit harder to catch up with all the family with a little fella who still has 3 sleeps a day, so I spent a lot of time in our cabin catching up on Austar! Yay for Man v's Food and LA Ink! LOL!
In fact, I didn't make it down to the beach at DP with Jaimeson at all! We made it almost to the beach twice before we met the mob heading back to the pool so we just turned around and headed back with them.On one occasion I had met up with a bunch of our family returning from the beach and we were standing on the road talking when a snake fell out of a tree about 5m away from us! We heard a rustle then a thud and there was a small green snake on the side of the road. I swear if we had have been talking a couple of metres up the road it would have landed on Gareth's shoulders! {gasp!} It slithered off into the bush as we stood there with our mouths open! LOL!We did, however, make it to the beach at Red Rock with a bunch of our family and had another little swim and fish there! I love Red Rock, it has so many great family memories there for me. I even had my first birthday there (oh so many years ago now!)
It was such beautiful weather, we are so lucky that we didn't go this last week, it would have been dreadful!I took my obligatory "Holiday Feet" photo! Look at Jai's sweet little feet! And chubby leg!
It was also Jaimeson's first swim in a pool! The pools at DP are just gorgeous & the baby pool has an umbrella over it which is awesome. I bought this sweet blow up floatie for Jai with little leg holes in it and he just sat in there, arms out to the side holding on while I zoomed him around the baby pool. Too cute! He didn't smile much though, I think pools take a little getting used to! He warmed up to it after a little bit & was kicking his legs as we said "swim, swim!" (We'd been practicing that in the bath- he splashes everywhere!
And lastly we had a dress up awards night one night and the theme was "In, Under & Beside the Sea". There were some fabulous outfits (some faves of mine were Trav with his fishing headband light on as a "lighthouse" and Kirrilly in white & grey with wings as a "Sea Gull") and here we are:Will as a Jellyfish, me as a Sailor and Jaimeson as our very own Red Robster (an Asian Lobster) {giggles}. He was so intrigued by his "feelers" (pipe cleaners) and kept bobbing his head up to look at them which in turn would make the feelers and his googly eyes jiggle! It was so funny!
So it was a great holiday, as you can see! I hope it's not 4 years til the next one!
:) C

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!!