Jaimeson's Under The Sea 2nd Birthday Party!!

Hi y'all!
Sorry, its been forever since I posted on my blog! I mentally post on here lots, it's just it doesn't physically come to fruition! Please excuse my slackness!!

To make up for it, here is a whole bunch of pics from Jaimeson's "Under The Sea" 2nd Birthday Party from last weekend! Can you believe my baby is 2???? No, me neither! He's a true little man now!

The Lam Fam.

So we had lots of Under The Sea Decor, like a string of "balloon bubbles", the Bunting I made in Under The Sea prints, and Felicity made paper jellyfish and plastic plate fish! How cool are they? Plus we had spotty table cloths, clam plates and blue and green cups/serviettes/cutlery.

We also had plenty of Under The Sea Type foods....

Like Shark Fruit Salad.

Deep Sea Treasure (trail mix, made with fish shaped biscuits, pretzels, "pearls" which were yoghurt covered sultanas, mini Chips Ahoy biscuits, nutri grain and a few chocolate coins thrown in there too!)

Clams (Whoopie Pies!)

Seashells (Cream horns & mini cream clams made by Mum!)

Crocodile Bread with Seaweed Dip (Spinach & Bacon dip) & Felicity made Sea Urchins (chocolate spiders) but I didn't get a pic of them :(

We played Under The Sea games, like popping the balloon "bubbles" with a dart and each balloon had a prize inside! Here is Papa teaching Jaimeson!
We also had plastic fishing-rod fishing, duck scoop, Mum made a "buried treasure" hunt in a tub filled with sand & bean bag toss. I think the kids had a great time!

Then it was Cake Time! I made Jaimeson a Fishy cake, using a round tin and a loaf pan cut to make a tail and 2 fins! Then I scaled the fish with M&Ms! It looked awesome! {chest puffing out with pride!}

And it looked so sweet with just 2 candles on it!

Jaimeson loved it! Though he ate all the M&Ms & icing off it and gave me back the cake bit! LOL!

So we had an awesome party! Thank you everyone for making his 2nd birthday so special!

:) C

Special cards for Special People

 Hi y'all!
I haven't posted any cards for a while! So here are a few of the recent cards I've made, for some very special people!
This first one was for my niece Venice when she was born! For some reason I didn't take a pic of the card after I stamped her name under the "Welcome" stamp. I had made a girl card and a boy card, waiting to see what flavour baby Alicia would have! And when Venice was born I personalised this card for her {smiles}. I LOVE the new hexagon embossing folder from Stampin Up, I love how it creates such an interesting layer on the card! And I nearly wore out my Martha Steward Doily Edge punch while punching through the grey cardstock, I think I might need a backup one of those! But I don't want to pay the $25 I saw it for at the most recent craft show. Boy I wish we had Michaels the craft shop over here in Australia, everything is so cheap in the USA!
This second card was for my nephew Cooper for his 5th Birthday which was a Construction Party! I knew that Road-print Washi Tape would come in handy for BOy Cards! How cool does that truck look driving along it? And I just love the Stampin Up set of big trucks, they are so cool! I used another Stampin Up embossing folder in the background layer of this card- the Woodgrain one. Another one of my faves! You know I love anything woodland-ish, so this is perfect for me. And then I found the screw-top brads in my collection and thought they were awesome to add to a Construction card! Was I right or was I right {tongue in cheek!}

This third card I made for Dad's birthday :) Dad is, and has always been, an enthusiastic and awesome photographer, so I knew the Amy Tangerine camera stamp would make a great birthday card for him! The yellow star cut-out card was actually still sitting on my desk after I made another card with the actual star I punched out, and when I chucked it on top of the other layers of this card I was like "Bing!" {Light bulb going on above head} "That looks so cool!" LOL! Do you every have those moments in card making? Where something accidentally happens and it turns out to make the best card? Yeah me neither {looking sheepish!}.

And this last card was for my sister Yvette's 40th Birthday! I do love Hot Air Balloons and seeing as Yvette was going on a Hot Air Balloon ride for her birthday, I knew I had to use this set (by Stampin Up!) I stamped it with Versamark ink and embossed with some aqua coloured Zing embossing powder I picked up at Spotlight. It's the bomb! The colour is sooooo rich and it created a lovely thick layer which looked so good! They make the Zing powder in about a million colours too, so I'm gonna have to go back and get some more (then force myself to do more embossing cos it's something I don't do often enough, yet it looks so good!) I hand drew on the little baskets under the balloons cos I didn't trust myself to line the stamp up right, and I was so pleased with the embossing result I didn't want to ruin it! Can you tell they're hand drawn?
So I hope you guys all enjoyed your welcome/birthday cards!
And I hope you're having a great week too!
:) C

Project Life, Week 7.

Hi y'all!
Here is week 7 of my Project Life!

I am still really enjoying doing it, and have managed to stay up to date with the layouts! Woot! We are up to Week 16 for this year already! I'd better catch up with my posts then!
I like using all my different shaped Page Protectors, and this week I used a totally new shape, that has a big 6x12 inch middle part with 3x3 inch squares above and below, which are perfect for Instagram pics!
I used some every-day pics this week, like the one of our Bedroom to show Jai's cot at the end of our bed, and the one of Jaimeson running toward me when I get home from work at night! I love his happy greetings! He calls "Mumma!" and runs down the hall at me! It's nice to be able to include these simple every-day events, as well as big things like shopping with Alicia and a rare dinner and a movie date-night for Will & I!
Have you been doing Project Life too?
Have a great weekend!
:) C

Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary!

Hi y'all!
Wednesday last week marked our 3rd Wedding Anniversary! Boy has that time flown!

Happy Anniversary Willy!!
So, as per our little tradition, we headed into the city for lunch and a little shop around.
We caught the train in, which is always fun for Jaimeson (he's train OBSESSED!)

 

This is his "I can see the train coming!" face.
This year we had lunch at Nick's Bar and Grill at King St Wharf, cos our usual fave "I'm Angus" was being renovated. They're both in the Entertainment Book, so it's awesome value!

Did I mention I love Ribs?
And Onion Rings? YUMMO!

Will loves Ribs more, apparently! Look at the size of that rack!!
Then we went to ride the Monorail from the Aquarium stop, all the way around the Loop to the city centre.

Did you know the Monorail is shutting?? I had only heard rumours, but I asked the station attendant and it shuts on June 30! How sad is that?! It's always been a fun thing to ride, with a nice view above the city streets, and now it's getting taken away. I am sad!

We might make another special trip to the city before the end of June just to ride the Mono again, cos Jai really loved it.
We had a wonderful day out in the city, and we were especially stuffed after lunch!

So, Happy 3rd Anniversary Willy! What a fun and busy 3 years it's been! I Love You!
:) C

Project Life, Week 6

Hi y'all!

We had a lovely weekend in Canberra sharing my awesome sister Yvette's 40th Birthday with her! I still can't believe my sister is 40! Isn't that my parent's age?!! We had a lovely fine dining lunch at Pod Food, then Turkish for dinner on Saturday night and an awesome brunch on Sunday morning with baked french toast casserole, bacon, eggs, mushies, croissants and more. I feel like I ATE ATE ATE all weekend, but I loved it!

Time for some more Project Life pages! We're up to Week 6 on the blog, I better get cracking with the posts, cos in real life we're up to about Week 14!
I made a "Favourites" card for each of the 3 of us, and I inserted them into PL when I didn't have many pics for the week. So this week my card got inserted. I included current faves on the card, like food/drink/tv shows/song/what I'm reading etc. It will be fun to look back at in a few years, or even few months! I did them in early January so by the time Feb came around for my card to be inserted, I'd finished the book that I'd written on the card, and I'm in to other TV shows. LOL! Things change so quickly!
I also included a week in review down the edge of the right hand page this week. It was convenient cos the page protector I chose for this week has this awesome long skinny strip down the side! I'm SURE I have a "Week in Review" sticker/stamp somewhere, but do you think I could find it??? I left a spot at the top of the skinny strip for it anyway, cos I was sure if I didn't leave a spot, as soon as I finished the page I would find the sticker and be annoyed that I didn't leave room for it! LOL!
Week 6 was exciting cos it was Cooper's Construction Birthday Party, Chinese NY dinner with Will's family and Will, Jai and I went out for lunch to "Essen" in the city for Schnitzels (YUM!). I love documenting our lives week by week! I will so love to look back and see what we've been up to!
Hope you have a great week! Are you doing anything exciting this week?
:) C

The Royal Easter Show!

Hi y'all!
I realised it's the last day of the Easter Show, and I haven't even posted our show pics yet!! So here is our day at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, in pictures :)

 Everyone so happy to be at the show. Jaimeson was happy cos we just caught a train to get there, and Will was happy cos he got a free newspaper as soon as we walked in. My boys are easy to please!

First stop: the animals! Baby Chicks were a winner.

Especially cos you could hold a basket full of them!

Pigs also got a Highly Commended from Jaimeson.Those little pigglets look so delicious! {giggles!}

I'll take this farmer and his piggies home, thanks!

But the winner for the day for Jaimeson was definitely the Baby Crocodile. We went back twice so he could pat him more! He loved him! If you ask him what he saw at the show Jai always immediately says "Nap Nap!" and claps his hands together in the "Snap Snap" motion!

Least favourite animal was definitely the goats in the Farmyard Nursery.

Yep, that's pure, downright, unashamed, unhappiness at the proximity of that goat!

We did make up for his unhappiness with a bit of passport stamp collecting. And my big boy was just big enough to carry over his passport and hand it up to be stamped all on his own. What a cutie!

My fave is always the Woodchop. I love Woodchop!

And then, soon after, the little trooper was asleep!
What a big day it was at the show! But we had an awesome time! Next year we might even go on some rides! LOL!
:) C

Jaimeson's Baptism

 Hi y'all!
Last Sunday we had Jaimeson's Baptism! Yep, it's taken us a little while to get around to it, seeing as he is nearly 2! But we finally organised a date for the Baptism and a BBQ lunch at home afterwards, and it was last Sunday. And we all had lots of fun!

Here is our little man, all dressed up in his finest Hawaiian shirt (which I even ironed for him {gasp!} Mum, you didn't even notice!), navy stripe linen pants and his cute little navy Boat shoes. With crisp white socks, of course {heart melting}

So first, a dunking. It was a fair bowl-full of water over the head by our new minister Fergus, but Jai didn't mind. He loves swimming after all. LOL! Jai did look up at us as if to say "Is this ok?" and Will and i must have been smiling sufficiently for him to think it was nothing to worry about!

Then a Blessing. Jaimeson is looking at the bowl as if to say "hmmm...will you and I be meeting again?" {giggles}

And he is now officially a member of St Dunstan's Anglican Church at Denistone East. Round of applause please! {clapping heard in the background}

Then it was back to our place for a BBQ lunch.

And cake.

Which was delicious. Yep!

I always think Jaimeson is quite a big boy, until I see him playing with his cousins and second cousins, and I realise he still is a little fella!

It was so nice to spend some time with my family too, especially my sisters, though it was a busy day and I could have done with a few more free minutes for a chat!

Here are all my siblings and all the grandchildren together with Granny and Papa for the first time since Venice was born. How exciting!

And here is Jaimeson's Godfather Ric, and his sister. So proud!
We had a fabulous day, thank you family for all coming along to support us and Jaimeson! We love you all!
:) C

Project Life Week 5!

Hi y'all!

Wow, its been a few weeks since I've posted, sorry bout that! I've found it a bit hard to get a moment on the computer, I've just stolen a moment now, while Jai is distracted watching Thomas, after his bath and before I feed him his dinner. It's a quick moment, so I'll be super speedy!
here is Week 5 of my Project Life for 2013. This was my birthday week, so there is also an insert for this week :)

 Left hand side. I used a drawing of Jaimeson's as the background for the title pocket, so cute!! Love the collage of my Birthday day, also this side is watching the floods in Grafton (my old home town) via Facebook and texts from my friends, and a dinner out with our old Work group of friends.

 Right hand side: At the park, and a visit to Alicia's while Yvette and Tassy were visiting. The first time all 6 grandkids were together, and Venice was only a week old!

 Front of the insert: My Coconut Rough birthday cake, and Jaimeson asking for "more" while the icing is spread all over his mouth! He loved it!

Insert back: at the park on my birthday and a pic of all my birthday presents together! I was very spoilt!

Have you been doing Project Life too? I'm loving it, and I've still managed to keep up to date, though I haven't printed last week's pics yet. This is probably the most I've been behind!
It's Jaimeson's Baptism on Sunday, that will make a fun entry into PL!
Happy Weekend!
:) C

Every day pages.

Hi y'all!
Still posting pages I finished last year, and it's already March! I say it all the time but... time is flying!! {Hands of the clock whizzing around}.

Here are some everyday pages of us hanging around.
I took this pic through the window at Mum and Dad's, cos Jaimeson was going OFF! Just laughing and having the best time up on Willy's shoulders!
Fun stuff: the chipboard arrow is pretty cool & I put a bit of patterned paper in the circle bit and stamped on it, call me genious (or not!); aren't the little boat stickers cute! They're from our local Korean shop.

And this second page is our weekly grocery shop. I'm so happy to have "ordinary" events in Jaimeson's album, as well as big events. And that's one reason why I am loving Project Lift too, cos it's all about every day events!
Fun stuff: the old Children's encyclopedia book paper on the top left, and i stamped around "grapes" cos they were in our trolley!; I also included a snippet of our shopping list, which will be fun to look back on, and wonder what we ate!; I've also been wanting to use that fruit & veg BG paper for ages, no more perfect theme than using it for a page on grocery shopping!
Hope you've got some fun plans for the weekend! We're going into the city tomorrow for Yum Cha for a friend's birthday, should be fun!
:) C

Create a Cake Cards!

Hi y'all!
How about some cards to share today?

Sometimes I actually squeal out loud when I'm looking through the Stampin Up Catalogue for the first time, and spot a stamp set I HAVE to have. When I saw "Create a Cake", I squealed! It was a little, high pitched, barely audible, noise, but it happened! It's such a cute set, and I knew I would have heaps of fun using it!
So recently, I sat down with some pretty pink papers and made some cards.

The stamp set consists of a base cake on a pedestal, another stamp has the top 2 cake layers on it (as one stamp) and then there are cake embellishments, like a row of bunting, a pinwheel and butterflies. So sweet!
For these first 2 cards I also embossed some paper using my cuttlebug and the fancy fan embossing folder from Stampin Up. I love those fans!

For these birthday cards, I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from SU's Perfectly Penned set as well. Aren't those pennants so pretty!

I think the set would also be perfect for Wedding cards, especially with the 3-layer cake!
Happy Friday! Hope you get some creating done this weekend!
:) C