a weekend of craft... totall bliss!

Happy Sweet Monday everyone. 

The sun is out and the birds are singing, yep its great to be alive.

Am I sounding a bit extra happy, thats because I am.  Having a weekend to myself was just what I needed.  I feel recharged and back on track.  I even started my day with a walk this morning.

I had such a wonderful weekend full of craft, craft, craft and more craft.  Seriously you can never have too much craft LOL.  I have lots to share this week even some quilting wahooooooo.

My first little project was a card using my new "Dear Lizzy" sweet goodness - now can I just say that this is probably my all time favourite line.  Love the colours, love the patterns but I so love the banners and mason jars.  Unscripted Sketches (my go to place for sketches) sketch  #149 (from last) was my inspiration jump off point.

Now of course I had to have a banner...

Now I am not much of a bling girl but this glitter paper from "Dear Lizzy" is just amazing... the glitter doesn't come off!!

and here is my finished project.  A simple, quick yet oh so fun card.
Unscripted Sketches new sketch #150 is up so go check it out.

Enjoy your week and I will be back tomorrow to share a layout.
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12 photo's on the 12th... March

You would think that after taking soooo many photos on my holiday, that the last thing I would want to do is take more photos.  Yes and No. 

I love taking photos and I love documenting our everyday so I decided to take on the challenge but kept it very small.  I actually only took 12 photos.  It turned out I was a bit tired of taking photos but I did it.  I used my iphone (we all know how much I love that thing) and I took instagram photos (cause I love them so much).

I stuck to a very easy grid style layout and I used "dear lizzy" paper from american crafts... and you know how insanely in love I am with the new "dear lizzy" line.  So here is my 12 Photos on the 12th...

If you want to get your hands on some of this sweetness, Tomorrow's Memories has lots of it but you better be quick they were walking out the door yesterday.  LOL most of it coming home with me!

Also check out Tomorrow's Memories Blog for your chance to win a great prize of Dear Lizzy goodness (I am not happy I can't enter boo hoo), all you have to do is like them on facebook.  It couldn't be easier.

On another note:  would you believe that I am home alone.  Well at least I will be by 4pm today.  HUGE HAPPY DANCE GOING ON HERE.  Don't get me wrong I totally love my family but every now and then a little "me" time is wanted and much deserved.  My Hubby and son have gone away for the weekend and my daughter is having a sleepover at her friends house tonight.   Wahooooooo can you here by shouting.  I am planning on doing heaps of crafting and can't wait to share it with you.

Have a great weekend and stay safe.
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Going off to continue my happy dance...

check out these handsome fellas...

I don't really like having my photo taken, not keen on it at all. But over the years I have realised that if I don't make a point of having photo's taken of me then it looks like I wasn't even there.

I remember sorting out photo's from one of our holidays a few years back and realised that I was not in one single photo.  If you didn't know any better you would have thought that I didn't go on the holiday.

The funny this is though the more you get in the photo's the more you get used to seeing yourself in them.

Its always nice though if you can find a really nice spot to have your photo taken, where the light is good, the background is good and of course one where you look okay...

How lucky was I to get my photo taken with these lovely fella's...

What a cool wall!  This is on a wall outside a surf shop in Dreamworld and behind me, written on the wall it says "stand here".  So anyone who know's me knows that I just had to go and "stand here" and have my photo taken.  I totally love the photo.  Just love it.

Also at Dreamworld we came across this poster and Josh immediately wanted his photo taken.  As I was about to take the photo he put his head through and said "hey I can be wanted in 3D".  I thought that was pretty clever.

This photo was so funny.  The feet are already there (her fee are no where near that big LOL) you just have to put your head and arms through.  Cool hey!

... and how lucky were my kids, they got to meet and have their photo taken with the hosts of a kids TV show here in Australia called "Toasted TV".  The show is actually filmed at Dreamworld so we were really lucky.

Thanks for putting up with more of my holiday photo's but these were just really cool and I wanted to share them. FYI these photo's were all taken on my iphone (yep still loving it).
Yah TGIF tomorrow, yippeeeeeee! the weekend is nearly here.

If you are coming to my Tea Party class tomorrow at Tomorrow's Memories I will see you then, can't wait to see you all and enjoy some tea and scones.  It's one of my favourite days in the Month.

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Memorabilia included...

Last night I started looking at all the photo's that I took of our holiday and started to sort them out and get some of them printed.  With so many photo's I figure its going to take awhile to get them into an album so I am taking my time and enjoying the process.  At this stage I intend to put all the photo's that I want to print into my PL album, however I will revisit this idea once I get an idea of how many photo's I end up with.

I was inspired by this layout, I love how it included memorabilia.  I always keep all the ticket stubs, boarding passes etc but never seem to do anything with them so I was determined to use them this time.

 When I started the layout I couldn't find our boarding passes, I searched and searched but couldn't find them.  As soon as I finished the layout guess what I found.  I really didn't have anywhere to add them to the layout... Determined to include them I decided to cut a slip in my layout (wide enough to put the boarding passes into), I added a piece that I cut off the post card journalling tag just under the slit to define the pocket opening.

 on the back of the layout I stuck a piece of white cardstock over the passes so that couldn't fall out and that way it kept them protected.  Basically I created a pocket.

Behind the photo I have included our luggage receipt and bag slips.  So happy that I have included all this memorabilia and its all safe, neat and tidy.

I never get tired of looking at photo's that were taken our of a plane window, it instantly puts me in holiday mode and whats not to like about that.

... A very close friend of mine received some bad news about her little niece today, they have found a tumor on her kidney and is facing a very tough battle.  When you say your prayers tonight please send a extra one their way.

Stay safe and well
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Just add numbers...

There is no escaping reality, as soon as the holiday is over its time for reality to start and for routine to get back into full swing.

As you know we got back from holidays on Saturday night and after a good nights sleep it was time to get back into daily life on Sunday.  You know the usual, unpacking, washing, ironing etc ...

and a birthday party to go to.  Yes my Son had a party to go to Sunday afternoon and that meant I needed a birthday card and as usual I had no boy cards in my stash so I had to make a card.

Seriously this was the last thing I wanted to do but it couldn't be avoided.

So this is what I came up with.

 I had to keep the desgin simple purely for the time factor.  I don't know about you but I find male cards quite hard to do.  My son is not so little anymore so I find that "cute" cards don't really make the cut anymore and so they need to be a bit more "with it" and a little less embarrasing... according to my son anyway.

 

I stuck with kraft cardstock (my favourite) and added just a hint of red and blue.  I used my cuttlebug to cut out random numbers from kraft cardstock and blue cardstock.  And of course I couldn't resist adding a little banner.

All in all I was quite happy with the end result given the small amount of time that I had.  Now if I was a clever girl I would remake this card several times ready for the next birthday.  Nah! that would take all the pressure away and whats the fun in that.

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Hello March...

(Photo taken 1 March 2012 - at the airport waiting to board the plain)

Hello March...

hello holiday (so need this)...

hello Queensland (I have never been here before)...

hello fun...

hello adventure...

hello to hanging out as a family...

hello to enjoying a holiday with my Mum & Dad...

hello to taking heaps of photo's...

hello to amazing wildlife...

hello to scary roller coaster rides (I am a bit of a chicken when it comes to these)...

hello to routine (not looking forward to this)...

hello to the start of netball training...

hello to only 4 weeks left to school holidays - yay!!!

hello to celebrating my Mums birthday...

hello to saving money, well try anyway...

hello to the change in the weather - okay maybe not its still way too warm here...

hello to trying new recipes...

hello to exercise - starting again...

hello to eating less (well I have just been holiday be kind)...

hello to new experiences...

hello March...

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1,326 photo's...

1326 photo's (this doesn't include my daughters photo's)...

699 taken on my iphone (love this thing even more now)...
17 photo's (theme park photo booths)...
610 taken on my SLR...

... and we had the best time ever.  It was so nice to hang out together and do heaps of fun stuff.  Probably the nicest thing was sharing the holiday with my parents... OMG my 70+ year old Dad came on the Scooby Doo Roller Coaster with us (he said he would never do it again by the way) how super cool is that.

Anyway we are still unpacking and catching up on some much needed sleep but I just wanted to pop in, say hello (missed you guys) and to share a few quick pics.

 Movie World - Scooby Doo

 Movie World - Stunt Driver Show

 Sea World - pirate ships a (just so that you know I got totally drenched)

 Soldier Crabs - Victoria Point

 Australia Zoo - feeding time

Australia Zoo - photo shoot

Sea World - Dolphins.

We did so many wonderful things and experienced so much it was hard to pick just a few to share.

I will share some more but for now its back to reality...

washing, washing and more washing.

Thanks for stopping by

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