Christmas Pages :)

Hi Y'all!
Well Mr Mojo appears to be on an extended holiday with me cos I've been creating up a storm lately! I hope he stays for good, cos it's doing wonders for my New Year's Resolution to reduce my patterned papers by 20%! I've already used (or partly used) over 15 papers already. Sweeeeeeeeet!
This first page is of my gorgeous niece Sienna and her first word (after dad dad and mum mum) which is "bir!" And you know how much I love birds (and owls especially) so I just love seeing her extend out her arm with it's tiny fingers pointed out at any bird she sees (real, printed or jewellry!) as she punches out the word... "bir!" with such enthusiasm {smiles}! Granny made Sienna's gorgeous Christmas dress with Christmas birds sitting on a wire and Felicity has a bird in a cage necklace which Sienna just loves! I had fun digging out a couple of Christmas themed birds for this page :)
The second Christmas page I did (which is no mean feat for me seeing as I never do Christmas pages and I have no idea why seeing as I have a pretty good collection of Christmas items!) is of Will and my first Christmas pic with Santa. And Peabody makes a show in there too! Isn't that snowman paper just sooooo cute! And the American Crafts journal spot I just adore! I did get to use up a couple of older Christmas items like the bottle cap (remember when they were popular- I was still working at Fantasia so that was at least 6 years ago!) and the MM metal stocking. I think it's even older {sigh} it's embarrassing when I think about just how old some of my stuff is! At least I'm finally using it right?! Right????? LOL! And who makes rub ons, like "i believe" here on this LO, in such a boring font? I have a hard time using them cos they're so boring! Luckily it fits the spot quite well here cos it blends in with the snowmen :)
Well I hope you've had a super week! Got any plans for the weekend? I'm having a Birthday Breakfast at Flower Power with my family on Sunday cos Will and I will be in Melbourne for my actual birthday (January 31st, don't forget! LOL!) Looking forward to it!
:) C

Pre- Wedding Pages

Looking back through my archive of Scrapbooking Pages for this year I realised I hadn't posted these 2 pages from my High Tea Kitchen Tea! What an oversight. I guess in the excitement of Wedding lead-up, then Wedding, Honeymoon, my nephew Xander being born, learning how to live together and doing fun stuff as a married couple, it's been a busy few months and I've been scrapping and posting other pages! Anywho, here it is now :) One of my work friends Dennis took the pics for me and I just love them! I made the ribbon rose by punching a circle from cardstock, covering it with double sided tape (coming to think of it, I should have probably just punched a circle from double sided sticky paper to begin with!) and then I worked from the outside sticking, then folding the ribbon at almost a right angle and sticking, then if it needed some more tape I stuck that on top of the ribbon, close to the centre so it would be hidden. Once I got to the middle I snipped and stuck the pearl on for a flower centre! I was uber happy with how it turned out, seeing as I "winged it" and kinda made it up as I went along! It matches my hot pink heels really well! {smiles}.
This second page is from the same day and is Nenna giving Mummy giant smiles! She is such a sweet little thing! Dennis did a great job capturing the full-mouth-open-happy-eyes smile, I love this pic! This was the first day I really saw Nenna smile so big and really interact with Mummy. She is such a sweetie! I thought the pink lace paper really matched in with her sweet pink and white dress and pink headband! So cute!
I am home sick again today, my third day in a row! I tell you, when I get sick I don't like doing it by halves! I have tonsilitis and the Doctor thinks I may also have glandular fever, I'm waiting for the blood test results before I can take antibiotics cos apparently they interact with viral glandular fever and cause a rash. Who knew?! But if it's bacterial glandular fever than I can start taking them. I've gotta go back to the doctor today though, (third day in a row!) cos I forgot to get a doctor's certificate and work needs one. Don't you hate forgetting to ask for that?!! Grrrr!! On the plus side I have been able to sit calmly at my desk and make some cards these last few days, so AJ: I made more baby cards for the box, as requested!
:) C

Cuddles with Sienna!

I belted out this page quite quickly last week when I had a sudden burst of Mojo! I had fun choosing some bright colours and patterns to use on this page, not just baby pink! I love the sun paper, it's one of the very first papers I bought! It's Kangaroo and Joey and I am slowly slowly using through the 2 sheets I bought about 8 or 9 years ago! When I think about the scrappin stuff I bought when I used to work at Fantasia I have to remember that I quit working there about 5 years ago now, so that stuff is all already ages old! LOL! How time flies! I do have some new stuff on here too though, like the owl printed chipboard I got from Yvette for my birthday and the glittered chipboard button she made for me too! I love mixing it up with old stuff like the fuzzy felt flowers! How cute is Sienna, all bundled up like a tight little bean! I love getting to have cuddles with her {hugs!}

:) C

Who's in there??

Oh how cute is this pic of Fliss’s tummy with Sienna’s ultrasound pic! I loved it as soon as I saw it and new the kind of page I wanted to create with it! Great work Fliss, it's an awesome pic! I also found this cute little pic of Sienna in a gorgeous head band and went to town making this page. I love it when Fliss puts headbands on Sienna, she’s just gorgeous! I love the red and green colour scheme of this page, even though it’s not a Christmas page :) Yvette taught me red and green are ok to use outside of the festive season! The little pic of Sienna isn't near as red IRL as it is here, sorry it didn't photograph so well!

I hope you've had a good week! I just got sick today :( It's been going around my work and some (inconsiderate) people feel the need to stand right at my shoulder and talk down to me while I sit at my desk and collect all their germs in my face! ARGH!! So the 3 razor blades that have set up shop in my throat have not gone unnoticed today. Even the 2hr nap I had this arvo did NOTHING! D'oh! I've taken Anti histamine, Lemsip, Strepsil and echinacea (not all at once). Still waiting for some relief {sigh..sniff..sneeze...ow}.

Yay for Friday tomorrow!

:) C

Pink!!

Another Sienna page! Well, she is so darn cute :) Totally brand new in this pic! And it's fun to break out my baby girl stuff (seeing the last baby girl I had to scrap was Tassy and that was many years ago now!) So I guess that why so much of my baby girl stash is OLD!! Like this Kangaroo and Joey BG paper (with the baby face). Are they even around any more? I don't think so. I also broke out my jar of pink and purple eyelets for this page and happily banged away, probably to the Neighbours' exasperation, while watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (yes I was late, but I couldn't NOT watch that movie, I watch it every Christmas!). I forgot how theraputic banging eyelets in is, now I know why men do DIY.

So the OLD on this page is the 2 BG papers, the pink lace paper, the eyelets, the lace paper strip and the tab. I found the crochet flower in my stash so who knows how long I've had that. I have about 5pkts of them so now I've found them I think I'll use them on every LO! LOL!!

Hope you're having an awesome weekend!

:) C

First Christmas Page!

Awe, what a cutie! Here is my First Christmas page, and it's Sienna's First Christmas too! Oh she is just the cutest in her red and white headband! I never end up scrapping any Christmas pages cos the pics are always so full-on and the pages end up even more fuller on! But this pic is just so beautiful and serene. I love it Fliss, great work! The OLD on this page is the Christmas tags, the 3D Snowman and tree stickers, snowflake brad & rub on. It was fun digging through my stash to find some cute Christmas things! Sometimes I forget what I've got {heheh, time to clean out!} Don't you love the gift PP?! It's so cute! And the red spotty is one of my current faves. They're both Kaisercraft. They've got some great papers out!
Hope you're having a great week!
:) C

First Page of 2010!

Hi y'all!

Just a quickie today (and to point out I've changed my blog banner, cos it's a new year! Can you believe we are 11 days in already? Will and I will get married in just under 3 months now! WOW!! It is flying by. I can't wait {making an excited face!}.)

I hadn't scrapped anything of Sienna until 2 wks ago, what a slack Auntie! But once I broke out my beautiful soft pink papers and pretty embellishments I was inspired! I have had this PP for ever and it is just so beautiful, I didn't know how I was going to use it and still be able to see the beauitful floral pattern but I think it worked well with this big pic of Baby Sienna! The paper reminds me of Grandmas and so when Sienna was born and her middle name is after my Grandma, I thought it was fitting! I have had the glittery "baby girl" since before Cooper was born, so it's nice to have a baby girl to use it for! The OLD on this page is the lettering rub ons, the lace paper, PPs, ribbon, lace and felt flower :)

Have a great week!

:) C

A little spontanaity..

I love a litte spontinaity, when you don't really have anything planned for the weekend and it just happens? That's what it was like for me this weekend! After lunch yesterday I got a call from Fliss who was after some "hired goons" as Matt called it, to come along to the beach and hang out with them. Well, I managed to tear 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!
Thanks for a fun day Felicity!!
:) C
P.S. Did you notice my new Christmas Banner? How awesome does that Christmas dinner look? I'm looking forward to another one Mum!!

Welcome Sienna!!

GREAT NEWS!!

Well, there will be no Baby Shower for Felicity today! I am so proud to announce I am the Auntie of a brand new, tiny baby girl named Sienna Grace, born Friday 6/11. Congratulations Fliss and Matt!! Fliss had her in record time, making it to the hospital only 40 mins before Sienna was born, and after being through the McDonalds drive through on the way to hospital cos Matt was hungry! {laughing and clutching at tummy}. Typical guy.

Mum and Bub are both very well and I have loved visiting the hospital these last 2 days. Fliss will be out this arvo so I'm debating whether to call in again today! It's hard to resist!! Sienna is so light and compact, being only 2.76kg born so she's easy to sit and cuddle for hours! She has a much darker fuzz on top than Cooper did, but she has his mouth, and just looking back on pics of Cooper when he was just born, they are so much alike!!

Here are 2 of the 3 proud Aunties (wish you were here Yvette!), Mummy and Granny all so proud and happy to have another girl in the fold! I'm so happy to be able to buy gorgeous little girly dresses and ballet shoes and pink frilly things and scrapbook in pink again!

Cooper has been a great big brother so far too, checking out Sienna and giving her kisses! So sweet!

Congratulations again Fliss and Matt, we are so proud of you!!

:)C