The drought has finally broken

I got the most generous bunch of goodies from Janine at Scrapbook Station on Saturday. It was a welcome to the Design Team Pack. So much beautiful paper to drool over, and some lovely little embellishments too......

With such an array of gorgeous product and, well I think she sent along some mojo with the pack, cause I have finally scrapped!!!!!!!!!! Yay it felt so good. lol. Here it is........ Sorry had to remove it..see post aboveThis is my beautiful niece and as the title says, she looks so similar to my babies that she could be one of mine. lol. I took these photos when she was 10 days old. Not much else happening here so just a short post.

see ya

Ahh kids.....

.......can always make you smile. On Tuesdays we always talk about kinder with Ethan in the hopes that he will be eager and ready the next day, so this afternoon when I said ' you have kinder tomorrow' to him, he wanted to find his bag straight away, which we did. I then got a little side tracked chatting with the lovely Max, which was a pleasure thanks Max, anyway Ethan was still happily busy with his bag. After our chat I quickly hung out some more washing and we rushed out the door to pick the kids up from school, but Ethan insisted on bringing his bag with us, telling me all the while he had my shoes and his shoes etc. I just said yeah OK good, not really listening to him in the rush but not wanting to discourage him from bringing it either. When I got home, I took a look in the bag to see what he thought was so important for him to pack in it. Well he had his sun hat and shoes which is always good at kinder but he also thought it was important to have a pair of my high healed slides, two sets of keys (one to a suit case and the other to an electric scooter) and about 6 party hats, which was his latest treasured purchase from Spotlight.

Isn't that the most useful bunch of stuff you have ever seen. lol. Bet all of that would have come in so handy at kinder?!?!?! lol. Ohhh aren't they the most marvelous little things, kids. They have such a way about them...... Totally gorgeous and lovable.

Ohh Yay Lydell!!!!! I'm so looking forward to meeting you at the GC, will change your link soon. Thanks for the vibes Janine, I think I got some as I have actually got a few layouts forming in my head!!!!! yay. I have been looking at the new releases from the mags this month too, and might actually do some scrapping on Thursday.

Will be an honor to be in the Bling bandits with you Robyn, looking so forward to it.

happy days everyone...........

It's all about me.........

Yep Wednesday's from now on is all about me ;-) I'm no longer going to be worried about what I will do on my own, I will use this time to concentrate on ME!!!!!!. I will celebrate this time instead of dreading it. This coming Wednesday I'm going to the pool and gym. I love swimming and for so many years it has been too hard to get in some swimming time for myself, with always having little one's to watch at the pool. I'm so petrified of water and the kids drowning that I watch them like a hawk and don't relax the entire time we go to the pool. So there has been no way I would take the chance of going for a dip myself. Last Wednesday night I joined Weight Watchers, time to get my weight in control again. Now although I'm not going to put the pressure on myself by posting my weight and goals etc here, It is part of my long term plan for myself this year.

I still haven't scrapped anything!!!!!! This is very frustrating as I have always found scrapping to be relaxing and fun and very much for me, so I miss it. But I'm not going to put pressure on myself to do it, when I get the urge I will, until then I might finish off the dolls I started at Christmas time, for something different. I did get the Tarisota kit this week, boy is it beautiful. I just loved all the ribbons and fabrics and I really can't wait to get into it, but until then I have put the box away, still all together as a kit and when I'm ready I will pull it down and look through it again and hopefully lots of inspiration will flow and away I will run with it.

Thanks so much RobynW for putting a name to the post;-) I was wondering who you were and thank you for posting I just love getting these little messages. ISC has been instrumental in so many things scrapping wise for me, but it has also been the catalyst to my meeting so many wonderful people and forming wonderful friendships I would otherwise have missed out on. I look forward to meeting you at ISC Gold Coast. (although I do think we may have met at Sydney) Anyone else who would like to leave a message if you are going to the Gold Coast I would love to hear form you.

Anyway that's enough from me, off to read some of your blogs,

bye ;-))))

Trish

It didn't go so well

At Kinder this morning. Ethan cried, Mum cried, totally hopeless I am. I deliberately made myself a hair appointment for this morning, so I would have to leave him and I couldn't be a sook and stay with him. After last week going so well I thought he might be good again and all would be well, but no it was horrible. There were a couple of other littlies upset as well. The lovely Lea ' the pre-school assistant' said it is always the second week they cry. Next week I think a manicure and facial is in order. I was given a gift certificate from my lovely friend Kim, when the 'Masters' magazine came out for a 1hr manicure so I will have to use it soon. Hope he isn't as upset as today though.

I haven't done any scrapping at all since Kim's class. I have had lots of product come and am expecting some more soon, but nothing is motivating me. CK arrived on Monday and even this didn't stir me. I did get some PP from SM yesterday for a challenge, It's very nice and I will have to do something with it real soon but I just don't know what, yet.

Craige's working away so won't be home tonight, so it's a very easy dinner for us, don't know what yet!!! But it will be real easy lol. I feel at the moment as if I have endless days of nothing in front of me. I don't know why, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm feeling lost. I knew Ethan going to Kinder would do this to me, but I still 'feel' it and don't quite know what to do. I need a plan!!!! I always feel better if I have a plan, I may not get to the end of the plan or change direction in the middle but I still feel much better in myself if I think I'm working towards something. Thinking cap on for me tonight, time to plan something for myself.

Thanks to everyone who has posted on my blog, there have been quite a few new posters recently, so to those new and old, thank you very much, it's is very nice to receive these nice little notes from you all.

and if you haven't noticed there is a new little item on the side where you can see some of my layouts if you wish, just click on it. I have been a little cheeky as some of these are to be published soon, but they are just some of my favorites. TFL.

See ya
Trish

Kim Archers Class

Well I did Kim's class last night, great instructions and got the layout finished in the time including journaling. But did miss the interaction you get out of a face to face class. I love the chatting and socializing as much as the learning I think. It is a really good way of getting to learn more techniques and getting the layout done though. It's a great idea and I wish Kim well in this venture.

Here is my version of the layout

Ethan went really well at kinder on Wednesday, he said good-bye to me and gave me a kiss and wasn't worried when I left. What a relief that was. Hope next week is a good!!!. He must have been so busy at Kinder because he was so worn out after lunch he fell asleep. I left him at the table eating a Nuttela Sandwich and when I came back he was asleep on the lounge chair!!!

Life gets so busy when the kids go to school and they start all the sport and things and I also went to the Pre-school committee meeting and I took on the secretary roll this year. I have done this before and know I can handle it. Less and less scrapping time, oh well I will find myself some time I hope. Tonight we are going out to diner for my sisters birthday, yum looking forward to it. I love going out for dinner.

And the best thing of all this week!!!!!!! Today I booked our flights to the Gold Coast for ISC!!!!! Yay ISC's are the best thing I just love them!!!!!. Woo Hoo can't wait!!!!! 3 months to go.

Just for fun.......

I did this layout. I felt like doing something a little different, try out a couple of new goodies I got and be a little crazy and mix up a few things. It was cool just to do and not worry about the finished result too much. I used some very old snopshots from our wedding reception many moons ago, they aren't fantastic, bit blurry and of course the colors were all over the shop so I turned them black and white. All in all I had fun and that's what doing this layout was all about. So any way here it is.



I'm so lucky I'm doing a class with Kim Archer on Thursday night. The layout looks so good and I've already got a photo picked out for it. I'm going to pick the other goodies I want to use on it tomorrow. I'm so looking forward to it!!!!! Should be loads of fun. I love doing classes, it's so nice to get a layout done in a couple of hours and not to have to think about it too much but just enjoy doing it.

catch ya!!!
Trish

Life's good

Well all is well here, we are onto our second week for this term, which for us Victorians is only 6 weeks long. I have been not well with a headache for most of this weekend, so have only just kept up with the house cleaning the washing and ironing.

It was really nice catching up with Kim and Marie on Friday, they came for a visit and chat. Also my sister Tara was here with her beautiful little girls. It's Tara's 30th birthday this coming weekend so I have a little trip to make this week to get her prezzie. I have been playing around with a double layout for a couple of days and it's coming together nicely, not rushing it, just enjoying playing with some products and very old photos from our wedding 12 years ago.

After being disappointed about the DT requirements changing at SW and not being able to continue with them............

I have been asked to join another stores DT!!!!!!!!! Wooo Hoooo I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!! I will be starting with them in March. So watch here for announcements soon. I'm really hopeful that this will be enjoyable for me as the girls there, I already know a few of them, are so very nice.

That's all for now I must get off to bed to start the week off fresh
Trish

Tagged

Marie has tagged me. Now this is not an ordinary tag there are some rules. It goes like this:Remove the blog name in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add yourself to the bottom slot.

Charleigh
Samantha
Kathie
Marie
Trish

Here are the questions:

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was doing My VCE for the second time. I decided I wanted a different career so I went back to High School as a Mature age student to get my VCE in Maths/Science field intead of Arts/Design.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Same thing as now, SAHM

Five snacks that you enjoy:

Chocolate, Sweet Chilli Philli dip, Cakes, Muffins

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics :

Don't know

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

Pay off all our outstanding bills
Renovate and Landscape our home
lots of Travel
Invest some for the kids
Buy things I have always wanted

Five bad habits:

Not doing enough exercise
Spending too long on the computer
Silly impulse buying
Don't drink enough water
A little wasteful

Five things you like doing:

Scrapbooking
chatting
being with friends
reading
private quiet time

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again:

Tight stretch jeans
Uncomfortable shoes
Instant tea


Five favourite toys:

Camera
Computer
Scrapping stuff
Sewing machine
TV

5 People I am tagging:

Janine
Lisa
Steph
Daphney
Chris

Have fun girls
Trish