Monday, March 27, 2006

Swirls



well I have discovered swirls, someone posted about this tutorial. Now I know how to make pretty doodle swirly things, and I love it. I fixed up the doodling on my W is for Walrus layout and made a new layout aswell...

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The boys have a site

I have always had a website with photos of the boys set up, but ever since the person who was hosting the site didn't renew their account I just never go around to setting up another site. Finally I kicked myself in the bum and decided to do it. I set up a .mac account, its nothing special but it is doing the job. The other option would be to upgrade my website so it had php enabled but I can't afford to do that, at the moment I am paying $0 for hosting to make a grand total of $24.95US a year spent on my site, if I upgraded it would be an extra $95US a year and even though thats not heaps, it would mean it would cut into my very precious scrapping money LMAO.

Anyway to the point here is a link to the boys new site - http://web.mac.com/macdonaldkids/

Friday, March 24, 2006

The finish line is in sight



I only have two more layouts to do for my A-Z album and it is finished, wow, thought it would never happen lol. I am about to go and put the photos for the last two in at k-mart and will work on them over the week end. Meanwhile here are two more layouts for the album...

Monday, March 20, 2006

Tag thingy magigy

What scrapbook lines/products etc do you dislike?
oh my, ummmm, oh I know, I don't really like fibres, I have never been able to work those out LMAO, oh and stamps that are pictures I just can't make them look good LMAO


What is the hardest thing you ever had to scrap?
my T is for Turtles layout, the week before I did it we had found a turtle with its back legs cut off and Shannon asked me if I could "make it alive again". Such a sweet thing for him to say but made me so close to tears...


What technique do you use more than anything else?
painting painting paints, half my clothes have paint stains, my desk and cutting mat are covered in paint, and if I am scrapping I have to come inside to wash my hands atleast 3 times LMAO.


What is the smallest scrap of paper you save?
I have some that would be about 3cmx3cm


Have you ever had any scrapping related injuries?
cutting myself with the knife (actually just did it again about an hour ago) and hitting my fingers with the hammer when setting eyelets


Finish this sentence, "If I wasn't a scrapbooker/stamper, I would spend my money on..." Nothing, before I scrapped I never spent money on me. Sad I know...


Give your best storage or organizational idea
I use Aust. Post boxes that I get swaps and stuff in, I will decorate them to make them prettier, I sometimes will use shoe boxes too

You just won a week long scrapbooking cruise for 5. Who is going with you?
hmmmm
nope, sorry that question is too bloody hard, I would need the whole cruise ship booked out LMAO

When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell? And if you are not yet pubbed, who will be the first person you share the news with?
I have never been published, I would probably tell Garry and then blab about it at the Boxx and here...


Tagging anyone reading this (HAHAHA bet you didn't see that coming)...

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Rohan's Birthday



its a bit late but here are some photos from Rohan's birthday (the first one was taken on his birthday when we were in Sydney and the second one was taken the following Saturday at Garry's mum's house.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Scrap Scrap Scrapping


Well I finally scrapped, its for my Creative Team stuff at Kirky's Kreations. The papers were printed onto plain printer paper, and the writting and "doodles" were added to the photo in Photoshop before printing. The kit used is a new one called Bubbles of Lurve, the font is Comicate and the brushes are by Magic Box.

Also in the good new department I lost another 2kg so now since New Years I have lost 7kg YAY its the first time in over a year I have been under 80kg, I definatly don't want to go over it again, it scares me to think that according to the BMI thingy I was 1 number away from being officially obese, hopefully I will be able to keep it up...

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Well I am back

Well a fair bit to write about I guess, I'll just start from the begining (I'll go day by day)

Sunday - Woke up bright and early and left the house by 7.20am (ment to leave at 7, but some people like to be late). It was pooring and quite cold so we were all wearing not quite summer clothes which I was rather glad of as we got completely saturated between the car and the doors to the airport. Shannon grabbed the window seat first which ment Rohan whinged the whole way about not being able to see out the window, but other then that they were both fairly well behaved.

Monday - Went shopping for Rohan and Dad's pressents from my family. The boys bother got a few things, and I got some bras. Nothing much else happened.

Tuesday - Dad's birthday, didn't do much through out the day, did play that stupid Sing Star game with Mandy (my sister), but my Nana (mum's mum) came over for dinner, had a yummy roast pork (I never get roast pork lol), and a yummy mousse cake thing for dessert. Mandy that it would be funny to get those candles that relight themselves after you blow them out, both the boys thought it was hillarious having to blow them out over and over. Nana gave Rohan some of those medieval little people, he really loves the dragons, he has two of them now.

Wednesday - Rohan's birthday, my little guy turned 3, I can't believe how fast it all happens. He got a little people aeroplane and firetruck which he loved. We went to this kids play land thing, lots of kids making lots of noise and half decent coffee, headed home for lunch that off to Miranda where Rohan got the rest of the animal packs for the little people alphabet zoo, now all he needs is the train and he will have all the animals. We had McDonald's for dinner and a Freddo Frog icecream cake which Rohan didn't end up eating (Shannon asked from seconds lol).

Thursday - I was woken up by Rohan at 4am when he had started up the stairs and decided halfway he couldn't keep going, but he couldn't get back down. He was coughing and had a really bad temp, he ended up getting into bed with me and slept till 8.30 (really 9.30 seeing as there is the hour time difference in Sydney). He didn't eat any breakfast, but I managed to get him to eat some chips at the airport while waiting for our plane. Got on the plane (Rohan got the window seat this time), Rohan was being grumpy still and coughing a bit, and kept putting the window blind down which was annoying Shannon because he wanted to look out. Shannon kept wanting to talk to the flight attendents, and eventually one of them said if they behaved they might be able to see the pilot when we landed. Rohan sat on my lap and rested and eventually we landed, waited for everyone to get off and then the boys got to go up and see the pilot, I wish I had have had my camera but I had packed it away. Anyway we got home, Rohan proceded to throw up the chips all over the floor, and wouldn't eat dinner, got alot worse during the night and we were this close to taking him to the hospital but decided to just wait till morning and see the doctor.

Friday - Took Shannon to pre-school (he was ment to go Wednesday and Thursday too but obviously couldn't), then Rohan up the the dr where after sitting the the waiting room for about 15 minutes we went in and I was asked if that was Rohan coughing, when I said yes I was informed he had croup. So we got a 'script for some steroids and was sent home.

Anyway nothing much has happened since then, Rohan is getting better but still coughing, his nose started running today but I guess thats just all the nasties getting out. Hopefully he will be all better by Thursday so he can go back to Kindy, he really hates missing it.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Photo Shoot


I rigged up my own little photo shoot today with the boys, I got two chairs and drapped a sheet over them and got them to sit down. Rohan wasn't overly interested so every shot of him came out blurry, but I got some crackers from Shannon, man he is such a silly bugger hahaha.

Unfortunatly the batteries in my camera ran out so I had to cut the session short, but I definatly want to do it again, was lots of fun, and I am going to get the tripod out next time so I don't have to lean at a horrible angle to the coffee table lol.

I won't be around until atleast Thursday as we head off to Sydney nice and early tomorrow morning, not looking forward to the early wake up call (we are leaving the house at 7) but maybe I will get lucky and the boys will have a sleep on the flight down...ok I know I know, I am going crazy hahaha.

Anyway till next time...