Hawaii Pages

Hello!
It's been a pretty good week on the crafting front for me. Mr Mojo has stayed all week, I hope he's moved in for good! I am highly motivated by my New Year's Resolution to decrease my PP supply by 20%, it makes me want to scrap and start using through some of my supplies! I still find I want to buy more and more but I've come up with a theoretical shopping technique that works really well. And in fact, Alicia mentioned the same sort of theoretical shopping technique to me yesterday in regards to clothes shopping, and I thought I was the only one who used it! Ok, this is it: Go online to your fave shopping site e.g. 2Peas, cruise around the site with a cuppa in one hand and a yummy biscuit, fill up your shopping cart with all the beautiful things you see and must have, get hugely inspired by all the products and ideas and once your cuppa is done, close your cart without buying it all, head off to your craft room and use all the similar products you no doubt have in your stash and have forgotten about or weren't inspired to use, and voila! You've saved money and used up your own stash! Trust me, it works. I constantly fill up my 2peas cart, shuffle stuff around, add and remove items and only buy when they have a totally awesome sale. I recommend it!
So I've been getting stuck in to my Hawaii pics in scrappin this week. Sorry the pics are so crap, I took them at night under my lamp and they didn't turn out so well! I hope you can still get the gist of it. We had such a super awesome holiday in Hawaii and I want to reflect just how relaxing and fun it was through my pages! I hope you get an idea of how much we enjoyed ourselves {grins}. I would go back every year if I could!
These pages use up some old papers I had in my stash for ages! YAY! The funky flower one on the top page is a Kangaroo and Joey paper I've had for over 7 years I'd say! So nice to use up that one ;) And the brushed blue BG on the second page is probably at least that old! The parrot rub-on I bought especially for Hawaii pages, its so cool!
I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! It's time for me to have some lunch and get back to my scrappin I think!
:) C

Holiday Scrapping!

OOhh, it's so gloomy and rainy here today. What happened to "Summer's on it's way!" I think it got lost!
It is a good day, however, for sitting at my desk and doing some scrapping! I haven't been overly creative lately, it seems I sit at my desk and just watch TV from there, rather than actually doing anything creative! {sigh}. I didn't think I'd be this tired so early in my pregnancy, I thought it came later when you were big and heavy! Not sure if its worse cos I work nights.... anywho, enough whinging! I did manage to do this page of Will and I enjoying our virgin Pina Colada's in Hawaii! I thought, seeing as I couldn't have alcohol in my drink I was going to enjoy it out of a pineapple instead! I loved it!! It was so much fun to grasp that giant fruit with 2 hands and take a sip! I did joke that I ate so much pineapple on our holiday that Peabody was going to never want to eat pineapple ever again! {giggles} Either that or it's all Peabody will want to eat! I bought this pineapple paper on our honeymoon, specifically with Hawaiian pages in mind! Isn't it so cute :)
And cos I haven't posted in a while, here is another page (bonus!) that I did of our Applebees meal on our Honeymoon. Yes, all I seem to do is scrapbook pages about food! I can't help it, I love taking pics of my meals when I'm overseas! Especially in America, cos their food is so massive and delicious! Check out all the food you get on your plate for $20! Bargain {wink}. I did take a bunch of food pics in Hawaii too, so I'm sure you'll be seeing more food pages!
Hope you're having a good monday! I'm off to (hopefully, if the TV doesn't distract me too much) do some more scrappin!
:) C

Some Hawaii Booty!

Hi Y'all!
I thought you might be interested in a quick post showing my shopping Booty from Hawaii!! I have to post twice cos there are 2 categories of shopping, but here is the first pic. He he, there's a lot of stuff! I filled up my suitcase and the extra bag Will had taken with him (I gave my extra bag to Mum to pack in to! We came well prepared with extra bags- we've been to the US before and know how much shopping we like to do!)
What can you see in the pic? The Pumpkin Pecan waffle mix from Williams-Sonoma? Yes, you can get that back into the country! Just remember to declare everything and let customs decide. We didn't lose anything, not even the wooden pineapple shaped bowl! Can you see the taco? It's a zip purse. LOL!! Hillarious! I bought the Bare Minerals makeup kit at Sephora for $63, the exact same kit at Myer is $180. Can you believe it???? The pink folder at the front is a recipe folder for sweet recipes like cakes, biscuits etc. It has plastic sleeves that hold the small recipe cards and I bought some extra Christmas themed recipe cards so I could easily identify my Christmas bakes in the folder! Cool idea hey! I got plenty of sprinkles for cupcakes in different themes (Christmas, Autumn Leaves, pearls etc), I got lots of clothes, though there was all winter items in the shops so it was hard to get excited when we are coming into summer! And I did get a little bit of scrapbooking/stamping stuff, though the store was not that great- it was a lot like an old scrapbooking store in Australia. {sigh} but I still managed to spend $100. LOL!
Well, we had a great time! Wish we could go back now!
:) C

ALOOOOOOHHHHHAAAAA!

Aloha {said as I hula across the room}!
We're back from Hawaii! We had a super awesome time, it was fun to be away with (some of) my immediate family-sorry to Yvette and Felicity who couldn't come :(. Just looking through the pics and it seems all we did was swim, shop, eat... repeat. LOL! It was great :) And it was good also cos Will and I had only been there 2.5yrs ago, so it was like we'd never left! For Mum and Dad though, it had been over 20 years!! Quite a bit had changed in their eyes. Dad said it seemed a lot busier now and I said maybe it really wasn't it's just that when we had visited 20 years ago they had a family of 3 teenage girls and one primary school age girl at home and life itself was probably really busy, it wasn't that Hawaii was less busy! But now they are retired and it's just Mum and Dad at home Hawaii does seem a lot busier! Logical? LOL!
We stayed at Waikiki, swam at Waikiki Beach, shopped at the beautiful Ala Moana Centre for hours at a time, snorkled amongst schools of fish at Hanauma Bay, enjoyed the show at the Paradise Cove Luau, searched for a bargain at the Waikele Factory outlets, experienced the excitement of Waikiki at night through the International Marketplace, floated and danced the night away on the Ali'i Kai Dinner Buffet Cruise boat, squeezed ourselves on to the Waikiki Trolley, caught a couple of waves on an Outrigger Canoe, drank drinks out of pineapples, got some culture at the Iolani Palace and ate a whole bunch of awesome American and Hawaiian Foods! YAY! Once again, lucky I wasn't born in America or I'd be a fatty fatty fat fat! Ohhh, ribs! And fries come with everything! And portion size, Oh my! I also got to indulge in my favourite treat- Cinnabon. YUM! I did lots and lots of shopping too, whoever said you don't go to Hawaii to go shopping? Of course you do! America is so cheap, especially with our fabulous exchange rate at the moment too! We needed the extra bag we'd packed (hooray for Hawaiian Airlines- 2 bags of 32kg each person! YAY!) to bring all our purchases back. Hehehe!
Bummer though, it's back to work today {sigh} and Will got called in tonight so we must be busy. At least that means time will go fast! I hope I don't fall asleep at my desk though!!
:) C
P.S. Enjoy some more pics of our trip!

Worst month of posting ever!

hello!
Yep, October has turned out to be the worst month of posting ever! Well, I did post less in April this year but thats cos we got married then went overseas for 3 weeks, so I can be excused there! Well, lucky us are going overseas again, YAY! Very shortly we will be sipping Mai Tai's and hula dancing in beautiful Hawaii! {cheering!!} Remember we visited there 2.5 years ago? Well, everytime I have been telling people we are going back they say "Hawaii Again?" Come on! It's been like totally forever! I mean look how short my hair is!
Mum and Dad are already soaking up the sun on the big island and will meet up with us on Oahu. I am so super excited! I have so much shopping planned (I have only packed 10kg of luggage- I can bring back 2 bags of 32kg each! YAY!), we are going on a dinner cruise and a luau and have pinpointed lots of delicious restaurants to visit and some of our faves to revisit! I am so ready for some relaxing on the beach and swimming with the fishes too! (Not in the mafia way {giggles}).
So needless to say I'm sure I will be better at posting all the news when we get back {wink!} seeing as there will be so much to share!
:) C