to posting some of the pages I Scrapped in Canberra with Yvette... what a slacker I am!
been waiting to use it on a dirty page like this! It's from the Grafton Collection of Scenic Route. {Heart} cos it's named after my actual home town in Northern NSW. True Story! I know cos Yvette emailed and asked them. Hehe! The brown dirty BG paper is from Kaisercraft. Yvette inspired me on this page cos she told me to use up all that number lace paper to get it out of my stash! Great tip, but I did sneak a little bit from out of underneath one pic so I have a tiny tiny piece left. It's so hard for me to use up stuff! LOL! But I'm going to put it on a card and use it totally up, which makes me feel very liberated (do you know the feeling? When you end up with empty packets of embellishments, or say goodbye to the last scrap of a particular paper in your stash? It feels so good!) It's just that that paper was expensive so I couldn't use it all on one page! Such a tight ass. LOL!
some scrapping late in the year, even though I didn't blog it at the time, here is a page to show it! Sorry bout the dodgy pic! It is about Cooper having a go "In my shoes" with Granny. I remember loving to wear Mum's red platform 70s High Heels from the dress up box when I was a child. Does Mum still have them? I wish she did :) Cooper loved holding Granny's hands and trying out my pink patent flatties! Look at those cute tiny sausage feet!
myself away from my Christmas Present Wrapping- as much as I love wrapping presents, the idea of hanging out with family, and the fact that it was going to be both Cooper and Sienna's first day at the beach, won hands down! Luckily I have had many years of contortionism when it comes to climbing into a packed car (both with our Tarago and it's forrest of Palms Dad would buy plus 6 people's worth of luggage; and my last trip to the USA and our 6 people and luggage in the Suburban and me sitting way in the back) cos I had to climb over Cooper already strapped in his car seat and slot myself into the middle empty seat in the Land Rover between the 2 baby seats! {insert Soulcalibur computer game voice: "Charlotte... WIN!"} So I was sitting 
beside this sleeping angel, and a very happy, chatty Cooper as we headed to Manly. Alicia met us there and we had fun chatting and playing with Cooper and some sand toys and nursing a very sweet sleeping Sienna! I snapped heaps of gorgeous pics, they are all on my SLR at Fliss's though, so you'll have to do with these 2 from my little point and shoot camera.. Sienna looking angelic in her Car seat and Cooper enjoying some of Mummy's Royal Copenhagen ice cream (no 50c Maccas cone here!) I love the look on his face, it's like "What is this magical cold stuff, it's awesome!" See the tiny pink sock poking out of the peanut sling too? So cute!
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!
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!
use up this paper- as seen by the fact we broke up 2.5yrs ago!! Lol!!) The OLD on this page is the paper (of course) and the photographic stickers which I've had for absolutely ages!! Years!!! Oh yeah, and the Basic Grey stickers... everyone has had them at some point! Oh, how cute is Cooper!! Gorgeous boy!
and sing along to video hits together! Plus I did the mega effort of 8 scrapbooking pages!! Woo Hoo {blowing on hooter!!} that surpassed my goal of 7 pages so happy me!! {happy dance}. I have wanted to blog all week, but blogger was down and I've been working back cos it has been fully hectic {bro} at work with the stupid Swine Flu!! Apparently everyone in Australia was in Mexico in the last 2 weeks... why wasn't I invited?!! Don't believe the news when they tell you they have tested 90 people in Australia, I had 30 samples sitting in my fridge ready to go off for testing today... I think they may be underestimating!! Anywho... thats off topic... back to my wonderful weekend! It was super!!
thing Will and I have been doing at the moment, just crazyness but I wanted to document it anyway! And so I just used a random pic from recently, I like this pic {smiles}. I made a pact that I was going to use something OLD on every page, so that I can get through all my supplies! The Pebbles Inc words in top right corner and KI memories circle they're on are deemed OLD!! and the "adore" rub on I've had for a couple of years too {LOL!} So this one fits the bill. Yes, feel free to laugh at my "OLD" stuff, you probably had it ages ago. Or if you're just like me, you still have it {wink!! Its ok really, I wont tell anyone :) I'm sure even Yvette has some old stuff lying around...although I don't really remember seeing any!}.
believe he can even walk, let alone run :) I love the wind in his hair {heart!} so cute! I was inspired by Yvette on this one, to cut out the circle shapes on the edge of the cardstock... that is way cool! I used up heaps of scraps here too, I didn't have to cut any of those papers, they came out of my scraps stash just like that... awesome!! The OLD on this page is the white "full of joy" rub-on by Making Memories. Yes, we all had them, and I still have a lot of them!! Plus the small square wooden piece that C's initials are on is also way OLD. Woot {cheering for using up old stuff!!}.
The last 9 days: My awesome clothes bargains from Target; finally getting some scrappin time in after OT Friday night- I scrapped in my pyjamas till 12:30, it was wonderful!; dinner at Alicia's and cuddles from Cooper. (He's "Hooray-ing" BTW!); all day breakfast (it was 2:30pm) with Willy at George St, Strathfield- Zenja cafe- it was delicious!; Will and I on our only relaxing week night together, totally captivated by the TV (except Will pauses to shove a jatz in his mouth!); scrappin late at night at my desk with my Ott Lite- I love the "natural daylight" of that lamp; my work-of-art fridge! I think it's time it had a make over and some new pics so take this as the "before" pic; late night shopping Thurs night; the new SU catalogue!! Woo Hoo!!
Just a couple of quick pics of Cooper at a baby animal farm they had a the Mathilda markets. 
The Mathilda markets are markets of handmade baby and kids stuff like appliqued onesies, soft toys, jewellry, hair stuff, beautiful clothes etc. Can you believe it, out of the 3 of us I was the only one to buy anything! I got a kit for a gorgeous little babushka doll that hopefully I will get time to sit down and make sometime soon! They had so many beautiful clothes, but they were very expensive. 
The onesies were like $20 or $30!! Felicity, Alicia and I had fun walking around the markets and Cooper enjoyed the baby animals outside! Although in the top picture he was just about to try to eye-gouge the calf! And he did try to grab the tail of the piglet too, but he was so cute to watch!
:) C
P.s. Do you like his little Hawaiian shirt?! I got it at the International Marketplace in Waikiki. So gorgeous! I like how Mummy colour-coordinated too :)
thereby bringing me back into the positives for my NYR!! I am now officially 2 papers into my goal of using 54 papers by Dec 31. Hoorah!! Yvette, the animals paper on this page was one of the 6 new ones I bought the other day. It is actually embossed and has some clear glazed bits. So pretty!! I had to have it and the colours were so sweet for this pic of Cooper and Felicity :) I am going to make cards with the left over bits so it will end up paying for itself (it better cos it cost $2.50... RIP OFF!! But I am the sucker who bought it.)
is now!! I loved this Sandylion paper when I saw it (in Grafton of all places!) and could imagine some pics of Little Man Cooper on it! I am so happy to have used it now, I needed something other than just baby blue for his pages :) Recognise the green artisan shape bit? I recut around the negative left behind from the journalling spot on Will's Hero page (see previous post), I think it looks pretty cool! There aren't any interesting techniques on this page other than that, but I like it anyway. The paper and the pictures are enough excitment for me!
inspiration vibes via email {high five} and I sat down at my desk and made this page in about 40mins!
imagine Fliss and Matt without him now. He's such a cutie!!
I caught Willy sweating outside in the 40ºC heat cos he was overwhelmed by the amount of children inside in the air-con! Doesn't C look like such a little man in this outfit {heart melting!}, Will and I got him the tiny Vans shoes when we were in Hawaii last year, they are gorgeous! I love his button up shirt and little jeans... he has the most gorgeous clothes!!
biscuits then made a CD of Cooper pics to play on the TV at his party. I was so tired when I finally got to bed at 2am but it was worth it cos the Cupcakes were a big hit and it was so cute to see all the pics of him growing up over the last year! I didn't come home with any cupcakes which was a bit of a bummer cos they were totally delicious. I find cupcakes in this size 
(and I mean they are MINI- you can hold them with 2 fingers) are so fluffy, just like tiny little clouds! Yum!!!
home from work last night at 10:30pm though!! I love this gorgeous Sandylion paper- now that's a company that has been around for Donkey's Years! But I did only buy this paper last Oct, so it's not one I've been hanging on to since Dinsosaurs walked the earth! Thank goodness. Isn't Cooper just sooooo sweet! He's totally conked out here on Felicity's shoulder cos he was teething and having a hard time of it. I loved that he was just calmly sitting on Felicity's lap when he spontaneously broke out in a massive frowny and cried! Everyone was like "Ooohh!! Poor little Cooper!!", you just knew he was in pain and he was trying to be a good boy but couldn't hold it in any longer!! Such a cutie. I love his little rubber band wrists too {giggles}.
It's sad to see him grow out of these cute little outfits I love seeing him in! I know he has heaps more gorgeous clothes to look forward to, but he's getting big so fast! 