Documenting the everyday... Thursday

Its so easy to get busy these days. We cram so much stuff in, quite often wondering if we will get it all done. At times its hard to stop, and listen. Sometimes I need to remind myself to slow down, stop, not rush and when you are listening to your little ones read, there is nothing else to do but slow down, stop and don't rush. It really is a time to... enjoy time, because when they are learning to read, you only get the one chance.
Today I reminded myself to stop and listen and cherish this wonderful piece of time.
Have a great Friday
love me :-)

Documenting the everyday... Wednesday

I had a conversation with my son that went something like this.
Josh - I like Wednesdays
Me - Why is that Josh
Josh - beacause... we get to go to the computer lab, its my news day, we listen to Michael Jacksons songs and all other exciting stuff.

This is just another reason why I like documenting the everyday, the little things that make us, us.
Hope you are having a great day
love me :-)

Documenting the everyday...

Many of you may have heard about Project 365. Its where you take one photo everyday to document and year in the life of you and your family. While I just love this idea to bits its, the project itself is probably a little to big for me. I still have not ruled out this project for next year, because I like the idea of documenting the everyday, the little bits that go on in the background, the things we will really want to know about in the future. So with that in mind I am giving myself a little challenge and hope that you will join me.

I am going to take a photo a day for the next five days (actually I started on Sunday but this is the first time I have had to blog about it) record it on my blog and when time permits do a layout about that photo.

Documenting the everday... Sunday

Thongs are my favourite thing to wear in Summer. I usually buy several every year in lots of different colours.

The first time I wear them for the summer I get a blister. Its kind of like a sign to me that summer has begun... new thongs and a blister

Documenting the everday... Monday

Today we got our first delivery of fruit and veg. Its a new business that has opened up to support local growers. In a fast paced world its so refreshing to be sitting down having a cuppa when the door bell rings and its your shopping LOL. gotta love that.

Documenting the everday... Tuesday

For the first time this year I have started a vegie patch. I have started very small, at the moment only tomatoes, cucumber, parsley and chives. Every few weeks I add something else. But every morning before we leave for school and work I water my little vegies. Although its just one more thing to add to my day, its kind of a nice way to start the day. I find it very relaxing to hand water. Weird I know but its just something I like to do.

I hope you will join me in this little challenge. Even if you don't want to scrap the photo it just something fun to do.

Have a great week everyone.

love me :-)

a perfect weekend!

Its not very often that you get to have the perfect weekend, but for us, this last weekend was just amazing. so relaxing and so much fun.
It started for me on Friday morning teaching my class "a cardmakers tea party". This class is always so much fun (it runs once a month), we have the nicest bunch of ladies that do classes at Tomorrow's Memories which just makes teaching all that more fun.
After the class my husband picked me up and we went off to the 4WD & Adventure show. Some of you may not think this is very exciting but for me it is. I love this stuff sooooo much, I just can't wait to get out there. We have been talking about getting kayaks for several years now and saw some affordable ones at the adventure show and just couldn't help ourselves, so we are now the proud owners of 2 kayaks. We met up with some friends there and after the show we went into Vic Park for some yummy pasta.
Saturday started with T-ball and although my little under 9's didn't win they played super well.
After T-ball we went back to the 4WD show to pick up the kayaks.
Saturday afternoon the in-laws came over for dinner. At was very relaxing and enjoyable.
Sunday morning we hit the river for some super huge fun. Kayaking. The kids just loved it and so did Colin and I. It was such a nice day and so great to hang out together.

Sunday afternoon my daughter got the opportunity for a horse riding lesson. She hasn't ridden in ages but by the time she got home you couldn't wipe the smile off her face. She wants to get back into again, so we have some thinking to do.

Sunday night colin & I relaxed in the spa before watching Australian Idol.

What a fantastic weekend. Loved it! Loved it! loved it!

Hope you had one too.

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Celebrate YOU!

Picked up some new stamps from Tomorrow's Memories yesterday "clear stamps" by Sullivans. Cool stamps at a very cool price. My set has 12 acrylic stamps at a cost of $7.70, now thats my kinda price for stamps. Anyway I was itching to use them so this is what I have come up with.

I had some hessian on my desk ready for my class on Friday at TM's and I thought it would look pretty cool on some white cotton fabric, and hand cut heart (from pink paislee paper of course) some stitching, a few buttons and my new stamps. I stamped the flower image using a versamark ink pad to give a water mark effect.

I am just so pleased at how the card turned out. Better than I thought. Gotta love that!

Hope you all had a great day and hope you christmas organisation is going as planned... mine is yet to get started, but I have come up with a little project that might help me. I am hoping to get it done sometime in the next week so I will share as soon as its finished... hopefully before christmas LOL

Have a great night.

love me :-)

December Daily

Here is the start of my December Daily. I have done these before, over the last couple of years but never seemed to finish them because I got too caught up in the embellishing thing and trying to make it perfect... what ever that is!
So this year I have brought it right down. Down to a simple, but elegant style and one where the words and photo's are the main focus. I am using kraft cardstock and the yummy new christmas range from Pink Paislee (as you know my favourite paper co.). I will keep the odd embellishment for after I add photos and journalling just in case I want to add something direct to the photo. Pages 1 & 2 are above.

Pages 3 & 4 were done using my slice machine and the Fa La La cartridge.

page five is also using the slice cartridge.

page 6 & 7, again with the slice and page seven is actually an acrylic page.

this is page 8. I have made this a double page because I know we have our christmas concert on this night and I wanted some extra room. I will add the page number later.

Page 10 is a 6 x 6 page protector which I cut down and stitched down the right hand side.

I am yet to do the cover, still thinking about how I want to decorate it. I want to keep it simple but sylish.

Hope to share more of the album over the next few days. If you haven't done a December Daily check out Ali Edwards's blog for the details. Its just a simple and fun way to document the lead up to christmas... which is fast approaching.

Hope you had a great day

love me :-)

Extra note:-

Still coming to terms with the fact that my daughter, Alex only has 5 1/2 weeks left of primary school. We had our orientation night last night and Alex is so excited. I am too, but anxious at the same time. Does it ever get easier for us parents? I didn't think so.

A book!!!

You may remember a few weeks ago I showed you this book that I bought for a class that I was doing with the amazing Elizabeth Kartchner. Well I have almost finished it but couldn't wait to share it with you. All I have left to do is some journalling and add some photo's but you should get the idea. Its a "book" about "mysteries of me", well a mini book really which you will see in a moment. This is probably by far one of the most fun projects I have ever done.

A little decoration on the front...

and a very cute mini album inside, how cute...

Its a little mini about me! We were given questions that we could choose from...

most of my pages were Prima packaging (which the lovely girls at Tomorrow's Memories gave me) and bits and pieces from my stash...

my slice came in very handy for the cover.

this little project was so cool I just had too share.

Hope you are all well.

love me :-)