School holiday sleepover

We are well and truly into the swing of the school holidays. Its been fun and very relaxing. On Friday night my mum had the kids for a sleepover so colin and I got to go out for dinner and have a bit of us time, very nice.
On Saturday Colin took Josh to the movies for some daddy/son time and I took Alex and her friend to the movies to see Hannah Montana. Even I enjoyed the movie, it was nice.
On Saturday night Josh had a his friend Tristan over for a sleep over and Alex had her friend Abbey sleep over. The kids had so much fun and the spa got a real workout. I guess thats the advantage of a spa over a pool, you can use it in winter. The boys got in first at about 4.30 in the afternoon. The girls wanted to play outside for a bit but the boys kept wetting them with the water pistols so the girls gave up and got in too.

It was so much fun watching them play and laugh and laugh some more. After the spa we had spag bog for dinner (everybody eats that so it was a safe bet) and then we had a Michael Jackson disco hour (Josh was desperate for one) including disco lights and very loud music. The kids danced, sang and tried the odd moon walk. Very funny for watch.

We had a big cook up on sunday morning with pancakes, bacon, eggs and more pancakes. The kids loved it but it wasn't long before they wanted to get back into the spa.

Once all the kid had been picked up we headed off for some family time at the Chocolate Factory for afternoon tea. Yes Josh was in his element... chocolate all around him.

Hope you are all enjoying your school holidays.

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You and that hoodie

Wanted to share this LO with you that I did last night. It is using the new Fancy Pants and American Crafts papers and alpa stickers. You know I just love American Crafts. This is another one of those everyday stories. I took Alex shopping a few weeks back to get a new outfit for her school disco. She, however was more interested in getting a "hoodie". But not just any "hoodie", it had to be big, way too big. I struggled with the too big thing (back in my day we wanted everything tighter... but thats another story) but what do you do. So we got the outfit for the disco and a "hoodie", size 16 and she loves it.

Now if I could just get her to take it off, I could wash it. The things we mothers have to do.

Maybe your kids have a favourite outfit or something they think is way cool. Please scrap it before the memory fades or they move onto something else thats in and cool LOL.

Have a great day

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Thanks Max & Audrey

Just wanted to say a big thankyou for the class night at Tomorrow's Memories. Again it was fabulous and the project again was just stunning. Can't get enough of these ladies right now, I love their style and they always make classes oh so fun. Again thanks, it was fab.
Have a great day everyone
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Thanks for the Memories Michael

Since the sad news of the death of Michael Jackson we have been playing and listening to not much else except Michael Jackson. My kids love him and Josh who is only 6, his favourite song is Black or White and sings it in his bedroom loud, very loud while doing all the actions. There has gotta be something about an artist if they can inspire generation after generation, he got me and now my kids.
When I first heard about the death of Michael Jackson I cried, silly you might think seeing as I never knew him personally, but you see if left me with fabulous memories that will be with me for ever. For the past week I kept saying I must get the Thriller album out of the shed and make sure its okay. Well today I finally moved all the junk and found the box of all my old records. Yes records. Good old fashion LP's. Along with my records I found my very first record player that I got just before I turned 10. Wow, the memories sure came flooding back. I dusted it off, plugged it in and to my surprise and my kids, it worked. I was so thrilled and even more thrilled when my Michael Jackson singles and Thriller LP worked. I wish I took a photo of my kids when they first heard his music on a record player, it was priceless.

I used to lock myself away in my room day after day, playing my music loud until my parents yelled to turn it down. I would turn it down then wait a few moments and then ever so slowly start turning it up bit by bit. I would sing my lungs out with my trusty hair brush and my microphone. As I am writing this I have tears welling up in my eyes. These are prescious memories for me and Michael Jackson was definately a part of that.

My favourite song was Don't Stop Till You Get Enough but my most favourite memory of Michael Jackson was at one of my High School Socials. We had this new guy start at our school, he was a spunk, and oh so cool. Every girl in the school wanted to be with him. Hell you were happy if he just looked in your direction. Your heart would go a flutter and you would go tingly all over. His name was Valentine. For some reason he liked out group and hung out with us every so often (I think because although we thought he was just WOW, we also liked him as a friend and we were all happy with just being a friend and nothing more). He was the coolest dancer and he moved to Michael Jackson, like WOW. Every girl wanted to dance with him and he usually made sure he saved a dance for every girl. When it was my turn we got to dance to Rock with You. It was slow and he held me ever so tightly but caringly. We danced and danced and I just felt like the luckiest girl around.

So from me to you Michael, thankyou for the memories. RIP.

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an ordinary moment

Last week I was reading Ali Edwards' blog and she talked about right now, the stuff that is happening right now, the ordinary but some how extraordinary. I had been cleaning and stopped for a cuppa. While enjoying my cuppa in what I thought was going to be a quiet moment, was shattered by Alex and her loud, very loud music along with her loud, very loud singing. My first reaction was to yell "turn that down", but then I was instantly transported back in time to when I was about 11 (same as Alex), with my hair brush in hand (my microphone), my record player on loud (yes no CDs or ipods back then) and me singing and dancing to my fans, my audience (they being my teddy bear, by barbie and a few other stuffed animals) screaming my name for more. I laughed out loud and new that I could not let this moment pass without documenting.I took a photo of Alex's closed bedroom door because somehow this was the important bit. You see all I could see was the door and all I could hear was the music and her singing and I just had to imagine the rest, but I knew this moment would be important one day.

It was only just recently that I managed to get 6" x 12" page protectors that I had been waiting for for ages and just couldn't wait to scrap this moment a different way than the norm because this was no ordinary moment.

And to my delight when I called into Tomorrow's Memories yesterday some yummy new American Crafts stuff had come in and it had my name all over it. So I got these journalling stickers and transparent accents and they were just perfect for this page.

Once I had printed the photo out and put it back into the printer and typed all the names of the songs that Alex was singing and dancing to. I did each one in a different text box so that I could move them around a little. I printed it onto the photo, right over the door because thats where the sound was coming from.

I so enjoyed doing this layout and Ali was right. Was seems like an ordinary moment now definately is no ordinary moment later.

Have a great Sunday and maybe take a photo of right now and document the extraordinary ordinary.

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WizzFizz Happy

Yahoooooooo! its the holidays. Don't you just love waking up to the start of school holidays, no lunches to make, no uniforms to iron, no early mornings, no homework and no after school activities. Yahoooooooo! Oh sorry I said that already.
Although someone needs to tell my kids because at 6.30 this morning Josh decided it was a good time to get up. My question is though, why can't they wake up and leave the rest of us alone.

Anyway we are off this morning to see Ice Age 3 and tonight we are having takeaway ( I am sure the first of many over the next two weeks) and a Wii night. Should be heaps of fun.
And here is the layout that I promised using more of the yummy JBS papers I got from Tomorrow's Memories.

The title I actually hand drew and then sewed onto the layout. It was kind of fun to play a little and do something that I haven't done before. What do you think. The stars were left overs from a page I did months ago. I found them when looking for something else (love it when that happens) found it on my Clip-it-up - did I mention that I love that thing as well.

Enjoy the school holidays and please share some of the things that you will be getting up to. It will be fun to hear what you are all up to.

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Another JBS project

Well as promised here is the other card that I wanted to share with you all. I am just loving these papers so much and was so happy when Tomorrow's Memories gave me these particular papers to play with. This read pattern paper would have to be my most favourite but I am loving the name, date, place tags as well.

Hope you have a great day and remember "do something creative everyday".

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Just a note: I have always wanted to get a tattoo but besides the pain they would inflict on me I have never really found a design that I liked... until now. Now I just have to get past the pain thing and we are on. Oh yeah and my Mother. I maybe in my forties but thats not going to stop her telling me off if I get one. Thats a huge thing Ineed to way up pain and my mother or a very cool tattoo.