Busy, Busy, Busy..........

I'm so into scrapping!!!!! And loving it!!!! We have our local workshop for Scrapping Angels this Saturday and it's Anne's Deluxe kit and the projects she has done are just awesome!!!! Love them all. And as usual there is so much left over in our kits, I have even done another layout for those who are attending our local workshop to complete if they wish. It will be another fantastic day of scrapping.!!

I have finished my Big W demos for Fiskars but coming up next week/end I will be at the Melbourne Stitches and Craft Fair and then after that the Spotlight Demos and Make and Takes begin. I will be in Shepparton and Albury for these.

I have also got a couple of projects to do for Scrapbooking Memories over the next few weeks, as I said I'm busy busy busy!!!! LOL.
And as of next Monday morning you will See me on board doing the Pencil Lines sketches again for a few weeks while Anne is away. Woo Hoo it has been a while since I have done any of these, but I'm inspired and rearing to go!!!!

The kids have the day off tomorrow so we are heading to the stores in search of the perfect Fathers day prezzie. Then Katelyn is off to the park for a friends Birthday Party, the weather is beautiful for a day in the Park too, it has warmed up so much already you can feel spring in the air. It might be nice to spend some time there with the other kiddies as well.

Ok better get back to it, nearly time to pick Ethan up from Kinder.

Fiskars Demos

Well you never know quite what to expect at these type of things and last weekend in Bendigo wasn't fabulous. But this weekend in Sheparton has been awesome. I have been made very welcome by the manager and staff at Big W. Today I even go to scrap a little bit for their fundraising effort.

They recently had Alisha, the winner of Big Brother in the store and they got her to sign a couple of magazine pages of her recent photo shoot. These are being put into a frame with some photos they took of her in store, we go to pretty up the frame matt a little with a few of the great Heidi Grace range of papers. When they are all finished, they have 4 of them, they are going to raffle them off and send the funds to their chosen charity.!!!! How cool is that!!!! Great idea of theirs I think, and what an awesome break for me I got to do something out of the ordinary at a Fiskars demonstration and it was very popular with those interested in the demo's. We had a great day it was fun and interesting!!!!

The stock they have at these demos has been greatly reduced, which is so cool for those lucky enough to come into the stores and grab themselves a bargain. All the tools are walking out the door, I had to stock up the shelves at the end of today and I still have 2 days to go. So if your in the Sheparton area over the next 2 days head on in and pick up yourself a great bargain.

Creative Buzz

I'm in one totally!!!! I have been scrapping madly since our crop on the weekend and loving it!!! I'm in the ZONE !!! I've done 2 singles and one double layout and planned about six more, which didn't get done at the crop. It's been a long time since I've got that buzz out of creating, don't get me wrong I have stilled loved scrapping but over the last few months it has all been for 'work' and it didn't hold the same excitement. These last few days have all been for me!!! I finished one up last night and then went on and planned another 2 after that, so in total I have about eight more to go on with from here. They re all in little packs with papers and embellishments ready for me to scrap. Here's an image of the creative mess I have in my lounge where I set up after the crop on Saturday. The kids had friends over so I didn't use my usual 'space' in the rumpus room lol.



But sadly for me, not so much for the family who are sick of it being in the lounge room, it all has to be packed away today as tomorrow I'm heading to Bendigo to demonstrate for Fiskars at the BigW store. I will be at the store from 11am on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, till 7pm Thursday and 5pm the other days. So for any of you out there who wish to come down and see the Fiskars tools and products in action head to BigW this weekend and I'll do my best to inspire you.

Friday night the Fiskars Ambassadors have been asked to a Dinner with Nancy from Cloud 9 in Melbourne. I love to meet such inspirational people in the Scrapping Industry, those that have the passion and drive to create fantastic products for us to use are the most amazing!!! Well I'm not sure how I will swing being In Bendigo, Home and Melbourne all in the same day but it would be a wonderful dinner with a fantastic woman, as well as the rest of the awesome Fiskars team. I'll leave you with a layout I did on Saturday using some Cloud 9 papers, they are from the wedding range, I love the glittery embossed look to some of these papers.



This photo is the one Anita took of me when I was at the Scrapping Angels Retreat in the UK which I love, it's not very often I can say I love a photo of me but I do this one, and the journaling was so apt for how I am. Always living my life to the fullest and dreaming of the next big thing that I would like to come my way.

Oh my goodness it's late in the week to remind you all to go to the
Pencil Lines to check out and do the next sketch too, but any way if you haven't already, go have a look now, the team is sensational and the guest this week, Nisa Fiin, is simply fantastic, check out all those places she creates for!!! Unreal. I'm working on my next Pencil Lines sketches, they are one of the packs I have ready for myself to do soon. Can't wait actually to be on board for a while again, it's such an awesome sketch site with an incredibly varied and inspirational team.

Craft Fair

We had a great weekend at Wagga Craft Alive. Met lots of wonderful ladies and had so much interest in our up coming Scrapping Angels Retreat that we had to reprint our Information sheets twice!!!! The Craft Alive's are so much fun to do, the atmosphere among the eager shoppers is so enthusiastic, it's such a thrill to meet and talk scrapping with so many other's with the same passion. We sold out of many of our Deluxe Kits there and have had to come home and update the website, so we are adding many individual products into the additional products category, because we have some stock left over from the shows. So check out the deluxe kit's left and grab yourself some other products as well.

I had a lovely delivery yesterday from the UK. A short while after I went over to tutor at the Scrapping Angels UK retreat, Anna did an interview of me forScrapbook Inspirations Magazine. My copy arrived in the mail yesterday!!!! What a thrill it was to read it, and others in the UK must think so too, because I have gotten emails asking me when i will be tutoring over there again. That's a nice feeling!!!! I loved my trip to the UK and it would be wonderful to go again. Here's a little look at the page.....

On to other updates.... the new Pencil Lines sketch is up for this week. An outstanding effort by the design team again and the guest designer is a star. Head over to check them out.

I'm full of inspiration this week and intend to spend lots of time scrapping, We have a crop coming up this Saturday so I'm busting to spend an entire day doing my own thing. I have lots of layouts planned and photos printed ready to go. I also have a product challenge to do for Scrapbooking Memories, so lots of creating in store this week for this chicky!!!! Yay it has been a while since I have had spare time to scrap for ME!!! and been excited to get into it. Well enough talking about it I'm off to do it.