Its a big week..

Hi y'all!
Yep, its a big week this week. Guess who's birthday it is tomorrow {questioning look}?..... Not to blow my own horn or anything, but.... MINE! And it's a big one. 3-0. OMG. Today is my last day in my 20's! {sobbing!} LOL! Nah, it'll be ok. Really, it will. It will, wont it?
Do you want a quick recap of some moments of my 20s?
Here goes!
I graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science (Microbiology). And started work in Pathology where I met Willy.I went to Disneyland 3 times and Disneyworld once!I went on this ridiculous Rollercoaster at Knott's Berry Farm, 3 times. I LOVE adrenaline!
I went to NZ and did the Canyon Swing and Paragliding off the top of Bob's Peak in Queenstown. (yes, those pics are me!)
I went to Hawaii twice, once with just Willy and once with Mum, Dad, Alicia, Xander, my Godparents and Willy!I visited Japan (loved it!)
Will and I got engaged on the top of Mt Fuji in Japan!
Then we got married :)And honeymooned in America. We went to LA, Vegas (been there 3 times), NY (been twice), Washington DC, Grand Canyon (been twice) and Disneyland (of course!)
Then I fell pregnant. Look at that tummy (and fat face!) When we were married I was 28 and I never thought that I'd have a baby by 30!I gave birth to the gorgeous little man, Jaimeson! A very uncomplicated labour and birth, just gas, no epidural. Hooray!
Wow! I guess I did do a lot in my 20s! I am so grateful for a supportive, loving husband and gorgeous son, my fantastic loving and caring family and my humourous and fun friends! I am very blessed! I guess turning 30 wont be so bad after all, if it's even a part as much fun as my 20s were, then it will be alright!
:) C

Hi!! I'm back!!

September seemed to be my Blog-iday (Blog Holiday!!) cos I was just so mountainously busy, and then pooped after our Engagement party so it ended with only 6 posts for September!! Also, I was so tired I hadn't really created much either... but that's gonna change cos the Mojo is back, it's a new month and I can feel the creative juices flowing!! {hurrah!}

So here's a page I did a few weeks ago. Looking back through my album from last year I realised I had hardly scrapped any pics from Will and my trip to Hawaii, and it seemed that we mustn't have enjoyed it cos there were only a few pages scrapped! So I have set about to scrap more of the pics to show what an awesome time we had. I can't wait to go back again next year!! Of course the challenge is always that I have a million pics and I need to find a way to incorporate them all on a single LO so making collages of tiny pics seems to work the best! So these are some of my fave pics from our 2 days at Hanauma bay. The OLD on this page is the title rub on, the bracket rub on, the friendship tab, the stickers, journal rub ons and the glitter I used on the flourish stamp stamped with my new Martha Stewart glue pad (yes Y, it seems to work!!) The BG paper is one of the first I ever bought and I just LOVED it, I'm so glad to have it out of the paper keeper and in my album now, and it conveys how happy, bright and sunny our trip was!!

:) C

AWOL?!

Hi, I really am still around! For some reason I have been super tired after work each night and so have just been vegging out on the lounge. I can't even be bothered to turn on the computer some nights! Whoa!! But rest assured, I'm here. And I"m still thinking about you, I just haven't gotten to post anything.

The bummer about slothing on the lounge is that I haven't really been creating anything this week! I'll have to dig out through my old pics and find a page I haven't posted yet... hmmm....

Oh this page is only from last week, so thats not too old at all! Probably one of my fave meals of the day to eat out is Breakfast!! (Followed by dinner, dessert and then lunch comes in last, unless it's one of those long, lazy lunches where they let you sit and chat and drink coffee and graze for 2 hours :)!) Well, American's know how to make a gooooooood breakfast and so when I spotted Denny's in Hawaii I dragged Will along! Will ate steak and eggs (trust him to find the steak on a menu- he always eats steak if he sees it!) and I ate the 3 meat breakfast with pancakes. Yep, everything in that right hand pic is my breakfast! Oh it was sooooo good! I had a ham steak, sausages, crispy bacon, hash brown, 2 poached eggs and 2 pancakes! At least we didn't have to worry about eating lunch that day! The OLD on this page is the BG paper (it's double sided and I had actually bought it for the other side which was a rough pink with yellow and white dots, but this side turned out to be the winner for me!), the lettering stickers (I was amazed I still had all the letters to write that title!) the "Happy" punch out, the DENNY'S lettering rub ons, the stitching and flourish rub ons and the lace cardstock. WOW!! I actually really like this page, I know that probably sounds weird, but it is only a page about breakfast, yet I really like it!

BTW, I am doing so well on my New Year's Resolution that i only have to use up 5 papers to have reached my goal!! SO PROUD!!

:) C

Comp page

Hi y'all.

How is it already Monday? Oh man, I had to force myself out of bed this morning!!

Yesterday I decided it was time I did a competition page, I like the challenge of doing a page to someone else's design so I headed over to Anna's Craft Cupboard and checked out their monthly LO comp. Here's the page I came up with! I realised that I have hardly any LO's from Hawaii, even though I took hundreds of pics! It was such a wonderful trip, just Willy and I, and so I decided it needed to be scrapped more! I did stick to my old habit of using up OLD items as well as NEW ones. So on this page the OLD is both the white and pink lace cardstocks, the rub on under the journal block, the orange chipboard flower and the 2 pink wooden flowers. That gorgeous pink and black paper is by Heidi Swapp and I've been wanting to use it for ages! So glad I finally got to! I didn't embellish too much cos I already think the page is a bit overpowering! Kinda like a flamingo threw up over here.... LOL! But in the end I think it conveys the happy, tropical, fun time we were having in such a beautiful place! Wish me luck, first prize is a $35 voucher! I could do with some new stuff :)

:)C

Scrappin!

Share time!!

Here are some pages I finished recently, happy days! I have done 47 pages for the year which for me is a great effort!! My personal goal is to do 52 for the year (1 page per week!) so to have already done 47 pages means I have totally KICKED BUTT!! Woot {cheering and doing star jumps!}

One thing I have done a lot of lately is take pics on my phone while shopping and text them to Alicia for a second opinion! I call it "Shop by Phone". I'm sure I'm not the only one who does it, but it does get some funny looks when I'm seemingly admiring myself in the mirror and taking "model" pics!! It works too, sometimes I get a "nah, I think you could do better" but with all 3 of these items (puffer vest, turqoise knit and hot navy dress!) they got the thumbs up and so were added to my wardrobe! I love having a new phone with a great camera in it! It makes shopping on my own a lot more fun!! The OLD on this page is the photography themed stickers along the top, the PP (yes, you had that years ago) and the lace cardstock, hurray for using old stuff.

And then another page from our fantastic trip to Hawaii last year! Yeah, I'm still scrappin those pics... slowly!! Will and I both abosolutely loved Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co Restaurant, being of the "delicious, big servings, hearty meal" loving variety of people (to quote Will: "I don't do etiquette eating") It was our first night in HI and it was brilliant. I love themed restaurants too and this one was quite cool :) It introduced Will to great American food also! I had a lot of pics to include on this page, but I think the PP really worked well with so many pics. The OLD on this page is the PP, I've had that so long!!, and the chipboard letters are forever old too. I did a page a few years ago and spelt Fave "FAV", well I thought it looked ok at the time but Yvette ribbed me about it a bit (yes you did, don't say you didn't!!) so I spelt it with an E this time, and yeah, it looks better! {wink!}

:) C

P.S. Three posts in one day? Unheard of!!

Bloggiversary!!

Oh My Gosh, it's my Bloggiversary tomorrow!!

I knew it was coming up soon, and when I just checked, I realise Tomorrow is the Big Day!!

Wow, a whole year has gone by, thanks for dropping past and saying hello over the past year, it's been fun!

I wasn't really into blogs until Yvette convinced me it would be a great way to share all my exploits and craftings with the family, and I have totally enjoyed it over the past year!! I hope you have enjoyed keeping up with me and all the things I have been up to this past 12 months :) So a special Thanks to Yvette and her never-failing checking and commenting on my blog :) I do it for you!

I can't wait to continue to blog for the next 12 months, and share not only my crafting stuff and travel stuff but some wedding stuff too, how exciting!!

Love and Kisses to everyone who visits and takes some interest in my silly day to day stuff!! You're all troopers! Love Youse All!

:) C

P.s. I have included some fun pics of Hawaii seeing as we went before I started blogging last year and I love these pics! They depict the fun and happy side of Will and I!

Foot Happy!

Hi y'all!!

Sorry, it has been a quite week on the posting front!! I have only done one page in a whole week and I haven't even photographed it yet! Slacker!!

Do you know the blog Gypsy Feet? It's a fun little blog where you can email a pic of your feet, or your dad/mum/child/friend's feet and a little blurb to go along with it, and they might choose to use it! If you saw my pics from Hawaii you will know I was obsessed with taking pics of my feet all over Hawaii, mostly in and under the beautiful cool clear water!! Well, I got an email yesterday to say that they finally used my pics I emailed in Feb!! WOW!!! My feet are famous :) Check out all my feet (and Will's too) here.

Catch you later!

:) C

Oh, take me back to Hawaii!!

I've had these photos kicking around on my desk for about a year now, waiting to be scrapped. I had no idea how I was going to put them all on a page together and have it not look too crowded and in the end I love how the page turned out :)

Isn't Hanauma Bay in Hawaii just gorgeous?!!! Oh we loved it so much. And loved having Will's Olympus camera that can go underwater, that was totally cool {hugs Willy!} We hired the masks cos otherwise it's impossible to see under the water- who knew! But seeing as Will can't swim too well and I can't breathe through a snorkel (why do I always get water instead of air?!) we forewent the snorkel, but having the mask was totally enough. Will mainly hung around the reef and I went out a bit further. At one point there was this fish, about 30cm long, that kept following me everywhere. It was starting to freak me out so I swam across 20m of open water and reached Will and said "I had to get away from over there cos there was this creepy fish following me" and he pointed behind me and said "That fish?" AARGGHH!!! It had followed me all the way over to Will! We laughed but I was kinda freaked out so we swam away and it stopped following me. Thank goodness, I was thinking it was going to drag me out to it's underwater lair and turn me into a mermaid and I would never be seen again.

I'm down to my last few sheets of the MM journalling spiral book :( I have loved using it on so many layouts, this shape and colour is my fave but I only have 1 sheet of it left {sobbing}. I love the giant size so I can write heaps when I want to. If anyone sees them anywhere for cheap let me know!!

I'm doing this market research thing tonight at Parra. They sent me a disposable camera and I am supposed to take 25 pics in 3 days. Mum said "Well, they picked the right person for that" but I've still got 15 pics left and I have to have them all taken by tonight! For some reason I have found it hard, and I think it's cos I love being able to see my digital pics straight away and I have no idea how these pics will turn out on a crappy disposable! We'll see :) At least they are paying me for the market research meeting- $80!! Woo hoo! I think I might have to get a Maccas Sundae on the way home {wink}.

:)C

The last of my Yvette-inspired pages.

Here it is, the final page I did with Yvette last weekend! This one is kinda using the Freestyle Patchwork technique that is in a current Kim Archer class (I just kinda copied Yvette as she did a page, hope thats ok!) This is a fantastic technique for using up all those scraps of your favourite papers (and you know I have a lot of scraps!!) So these papers by American Crafts and SEI are my faves at the moment (I love graphic designs) and I love the hot pink KI memories lace cardstock!. Wow, just looking at these pics makes my feet so itchy to go back!! I am a traveller by nature I think. It's all those trips from Grafton to Sydney when I was growing up! The journalling spot is by Yvette and you can find them at her etsy store, I just love them and the coloured ones are so cool!
Hope you had a good weekend! The Hen's night I went to was fun!
:)C

Hawaii... oh how I miss you.

Here's a little page I made of Will's first impressions of Hawaii. I was so happy that he was just as excited, happy and thrilled to be on holidays in Hawaii as I was! He was so patient with me as I shopped and shopped and shopped. Although he did enjoy shopping a bit too- being able to increase his massive boardshorts collection and finding that all our Aussie surf brands are only $20 for a shirt in Hawaii!! I think he almost came home with as big-a-bunch of new clothes as I did!

So there are a few new things on this page, but it didn't end up being as many as I had laid out on my desk! Oh well, there's no rush to use the new stuff, by my record it should take me about 5 years to get around to using some of it!!

The "lovin it" rub on is new- its Cosmo Cricket (think: fat free, sugar free {giggling}), the collection of stuff in the bottom left corner is mostly new too- the owl and the $ (cos Will's standing in front of Armarni- BTW Hawaii has the 3 different Armani stores, much to Will's excitement cos it means they must be rich over there... yes he did get one shirt!!) Also the rub on tape was new too, but it didn't like rubbing onto this smooth BG paper, I had to rough it up a little with an emery board.. there's a tip for you. The wiggly arrow came from Yvette (thanks!!), I pressed it into my Orange SU ink pad and it came out exactly the right colour. WOW!! The BG paper I got at Stitches and Craft, once again I am impressed with KaiserCraft, what a top Aussie Company, I love their stuff.

So Thursday... it's eating out night tonight... Mmmmm KFC. I better go for a run!

:) C