We're Rollin' Well for March.....

Well it is now the 8th March and I am currently up to date with my "self challenge" for March (1 LO per day....). I have kinda cheated cause I did a couple yesterday, but that will make up for not being able to do any during the week with me starting 4-day working week and of course Charlotte's birthday coming up on Tuesday..... So while I am on fire, lets see what I have to show off....

This one was a scraplift from Miss Emma. I loved the way she did the ribbons on her LO so i used this idea in my own. It isnt exactly the same as she only used 2 photos, I have 3, but the concept is the same... especially the ribbons.



This next one is one of my own, but is for the Color Combos which for this week is this:



And here is my LO... I am hoping I managed to get the colours right. Its hard sometimes being on the computer, whether the real life colours are the same....



The last LO is the Blind Challenge from Scrap Therapy which was done on 25th Feb. I missed it, but printed the instructions and have finally managed to do it. The papers used were from the month challenge kit at Scrapbooking Delights, but again I missed that deadline so just used it as I pleased....



I am going to try and head over to Sarah's today for some more scrapping, but not sure if I will get a chance. Because I am working tomorrow, I want to get the majority of Charlotte's party stuff done today before going to a bowling party for my niece's birthday.... boy it never ends does it... busy busy busy. I am still not feeling 100% either so its gonna take longer for me to do the stuff i need to do.....

I will leave you with a couple of pics from yesterday. I could hear Charlotte playing her guitar in the other room, and when I went in to see what she was doing this is what I found.....



Just like her Daddy does... she was sitting on his guitar stool, and pretended to sing into the microphone (she was singing, the microphone just wasnt on...) How gorgeous is this kid.

Well, I'm off to hopefully finish another LO before the end of the day... in between everything else I have to do that is....

Until then, Hope you are all well, and enjoy your new week.

Leesh xxoo

Lurgies are still hanging around....

Well I still pretty much feel like crap, but getting there... Got some "good drugs" on Thursday at the Chemist. The Pharmacist only looked me up and down twice so I guess thats a good sign that he doesnt think I am going to go home and use the Demazin to make even better "drugs"... I wouldnt even know where to start!!!

Attempted to go to work yesterday only to be sent home by my boss after she said IU looked awful (should I take that as a compliment?) So, since I have been home, I have managed more LO's. One I am not allowed to show until after Sunday as its for the Mystical Amazing Race 6 week Challenge. I am happy with how it turned out in the end... I just hope I am not the first the be eliminated, but I know there are sssoooo many more talented scrappers out there than me so.. lets just see where it takes me.

I felt a little bit guilty scrapping while I was home sick .. but what the heck... its done now.

So these ones I CAN show off... the first one is of my gorgeous Georgia and I from Coopers 3rd Birthday at Small Frys. Sarah gave me the photo and I have finally gotten around the scrapping something (or someone) other than Charlotte again... Its a good change. I actually mucked up to start with cause we also went to Small Frys for Georgia's 1st birthday and so the initial journalling was all about her 1st birthday oops!! Not to worry, fixed up in the end, so now here it is. I have used the March Puzzle Sketch for this one.



This next one is actually using the left over photos from the Mystical Amazing Race LO. I got some little pics printed at Big W, thinking I would use them, but in the end the LO didnt allow for them. So, instead of wasting them, I ended up with another LO. This one was my take on PageMaps March 2009.



And this last pic is a show off pic. Charlotte was doing some letters at school the other day and they used these little foam letters. I found some the other day in Big W so I bought her a packet so we could do some letter matching at home. I wrote the words, and spread out some of the letters on the table and she had to find the matching letter and then stuck them on her page. I am very proud of her... she is doing so well considering she only 3 next week. This was all done by herself.



Well fingers crossed I dont get eliminated this week for Mystical, but we will know on Monday morning I guess.... I will be able to show the LO off then too.

Til next time

Leesh xxxoo

Wednesday Lurgies....

Well, Charlotte and I are home from work and school (daycare) today cause we both have a bit of the "lurgies". It isnt too bad, but I think a day of relaxation in our pj's will be a good idea. Ben went off early this morning to his first day of his Undermanagers Course. He was gone when Charlotte woke up so she asked where he was. I told her he had gone to school..... she just laughed and said "Daddy doesnt go to school!". I told her it was work school and that was enough convincing....

So, here we are on day 4 of the month and I have achieved 2 LO's which for me is really good. I am aiming for 1 LO each day. Lets see how i go. I know things are going to pop up during the week where I wont actually get to do the 1, but if i try and then catch up the weekends... Might be achievable (I think).

Here is LO # 1 for March. Its Georgia's Christening from 2007. Once again Ben and I were Godparents, but in this photo, the family has grown slightly from Coopers with the addition of Charlotte and Georgia. Its funny to compare them cause they were taken under the same window....

The LO idea was taken from an old Pagemaps once again... I do like them very much. It gives me a starting point and then I just finish it how I feel at the time.



This next one is Inspired Blueprints #11 which is the first sketch for March. I like how this turned out... actually I like most of my IB sketch LO's....



And this next LO is Charlotte's. She usually cuts paper up and sticks stuff down, but this time she chose a photo.... I let her have the glue, flowers, some scraps and the kidy glitz. She also added her own stickers as you will see at the bottom, they are her new barbie stickers she conned me into buying her at the shops the other day!!!



I will leave you with a photo from yesterday. I had to go and pick my lil Sis up from work in Wollongong, and since Charlotte hadnt had a day sleep, I didnt want to take her as I knew she would fall asleep in the car and that would be her for the night... no dinner, bath etc. SO. I left her with Ben while he was finishing off mowing the lawn. When I got home, they were both in the shed... and this is what Charlotte looked like



And this is only the pic of her face and hands... I didnt photograph her clothes cause they were in the soaking bucket real quick!!! I asked her how she got so dirty and she told me "the shed made me dirty". Yes well, I can see what her and Ben are going to get up to when they have their "daddy days". Best be buying the bulk container of Napisan!!!

Well I am off to watch playschool with Charlotte (her demands). Hopefully I will have more to show off soon. I do actually have 2 half done LO's but am waiting on my order from Mystical so I can finish them off....was in desperate need of flowers, thanks Sar for pointing me in the right direction.

Leesh xxoo

Made it in Just in time....

I decided at the last minute to do the colour challenge over at Mystical... It was Green, Grey, Pink and White/Cream. I knew I had plenty of Pink, was just the other colours I would struggle with. Well here is what I managed to get done in time at 10.00pm Feb 28......Just before the blackout. Well this wouldnt be such a big deal cause I have a laptop which of course can be used without power BUT, the internet didnt work without power!! So lucky Sara over at Mystical let me submit this morning. Thanks Sara.

It's very "pretty".

Thanks also to Miss Emma who gave me the idea of the big branch with the flower at the top. This girl is amazing, She has had a number of LO's accepted to mags and she is just on fire at the tender age of 13. I showed Ben her blog and he didnt know it was hers.... but thought the LO's were fantastic.

Anyway, here is LO # 11 for the month of Feb 09.

Lots to Share....

Well, this is what I consider lots for me!!!

I just spent the last half hour going through my LO's working out dates of the photos from the external hard-drive. For some reason, I didnt put the dates with the photos when they were first printed like I normally do? It may have had something to do with the hassles I had with Rabbit Photo. I finally got my prints and I just wanted to get in and use them. Oh well, its not that big a deal. It just means I can actually start putting them away in my new Print Blocks ring binder album I bought from Scrapbooking Delights last weekend.

First up is a photo of Charlotte who has just discovered Kindy Glitz. She was amused for hours which is good for me cause I got other stuff done.



Next up is tag which was made at Linda's Stampin Up Deomonstration coducted by Vanessa Webb. We had a good night, just would have been nice to get a bit more scrapping done though... Oh well never mind!!! The tag is quite cute i thought.



And this is the card we also made at the demonstration. I think it turned out nicely also and I ended up ordering the stamps we used......



And I was planning on giving it to my sister for her birthday, until just now..... I found Charlotte starting her craft time.... by doing some cutting..... Straight through the side of the card!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH well I guess I need to make a new one now. (I didnt take another photo, I was too devestated, while Charlotte spent some time in "timeout")

This next LO is one I did this morning at a lovely quiet scrap day at Sarah's place. It was a sketch from Feb 2009 Pagemaps... I have just realised as I submit this post though, the question mark (?) has fallen off. It has since been put back on the finish off the question of "What's with that Face?" Its another photo of Charlotte from 2007, and since I scrap in (sort of) date order, I am slowly catching up he he!! I hear you laugh!!!!



This one is of Charlotte when she fell asleep standing up on the lounge. She is just like her Father... can fall asleep just about anywhere!!

This is another Pagemaps Sketch, but I am not sure which one it was. All I know is that it was an older one. AND, I have submitted this without looking at it properly... I didnt journal in the journal block. I didnt have a date last night when I scrapped it, so I left the journalling also. I have since journalled it oops sorry!



And this last one is a LO I completed the other night. Its Stuck Sketch #69, so a little late, but its OK.... I just needed some assistance with this one!! Its a photo of my little sister Shonae (Left) and my neice Brittany-Jo (right) at Windang Beach in 2007. Every time I tried to get a photo of them, they did the stupid "MySpace Face" and I was so over it by the end of the day. This was the best I could get... I kept asking them not to do the MySpace Face!!



So, that's about it for me for today. I had to leave Sarah's to come home and cook dinner before Ben goes back to night shift, but I will try and get at least one more LO done tonight. I managed to reach my goal of 10 12x12 LO's for the month, so I am happy with that, but over 10 would be even better.....

Bye for now.

Leesh xxoo

Weekend is over....

Well its the beginning of another week... how fast do the weekends go.....

Saturday we went looking at cars and found a few possibles, but we need to go back without our little monkey so we can actually drive some to make a decision.

Saturday night I stayed in and made up some more of Charlotte's birthday invitations. I managed to make up 12 of them but i have to get some more cards to do a couple more (cause the list has gotten a little longer!!). I will be able to do the middle section once we have confirmed the venue, cause i thought it might be easier NOT to have it at home this year... less clean up!!!

So on the scrapping front, I have 1 LO and some embellishment swaps to show. This is the first time i have done both of these so hope they are ok....

Here is the LO, Its the Feb Roadmaps Sketch:




And here is Februarys swap for White with 1... It was orange (in case you didnt know)

I wasnt sure how big, or in what detail so this time i cheated a little bit and cut them on my Cricut from the Storybook Cartridge... Thanks Loz!!

I have signed up for the Mystical 6 week Around the World Challenge which starts next week so I am excited about that one... something different for me.

Oh well, best be off. Hopefully will be able to do some more tonight while Ben is out... BUT my aim is to be able to scrap in my room before then??? Is this possible? I will take a pic when its sorted out.....

Alicia

I've Been Nagging Again.....

Well I thought I best be posting my latest LO's since I was nagging again at Sarah.... But then again, I havent done half as many as she has so not as much to show.
Well last night, Charlotte had her little friend Keeley sleeping over while Keeley's parents went to a 60th birthday party, which meant I stayed home and didnt go to Cross Stitch Night (it ended up being cancelled anyway) OR Crop Night. Instead I had a nice quiet night in with Ben and managed 1 LO while we listened to the girls upstairs giggling until 10.30pm.... hence they were both rather tired today!!!!
So here is my LO from last night. Its #10 for Inspired Blueprints. I do like this one... The flowers in the bottom corner are actually stamps from Stampin Up and then i cut them out... quite cute if you ask me....



This is the invitation for Charlotte's 3rd Birthday..... (I am still in denial you know)....

And this is the one and only card I have made for 2009... and it was done at a Stampin Up workshop from last week....



Got some more great news today from my dear Sarah.... she has applied and been accepted (which is no real surprise really) to White with 1 design team. I just wish I had the time she had, but working just seems to get in the way.... but no work, means no $$ for scrap supplies, so there has to be a compromise somewhere.....

Well better get back to it.... I have another 12 or so invites to do..... sigh!!!

Alicia