Final post for February! Although I did miss the last couple of days. Thanks to Gypsy for the challenge!

So the Month Long Cyber crop starts at ScrapChat tomorrow. Come on over and check it out!

Short and sweet.
Night have a great weekend!

A couple of Layouts

I took part in the Cyber Crop at Stamp Shak over the weekend. I managed to get all 4 challenges done! I am not all that happy with the final product, I had trouble getting into a groove. I will show them anyway.

I know I said I would get to Julies tag but I will leave that to tomorrow (need to have something to blog about). Gypsys challenge of blogging everyday for the month of Feb is almost over. I only missed a couple of days so I am happy with that.

Saturday Chatter

Hi All

It was pretty hot here in Brissie today we reached 39 degrees! It has been a mild summer so I felt every degree!

Jacob had cricket this morning, the poor boys were absolutely melting in the heat. Jacob took a wicket, he was so happy.

This arvo we came home and put the air conditioner on, I scrapped and watch a DVD with Jacob. We then visited my sister and stayed for a yummy roast dinner, thanks Shona!

I have finished 3 challenges so far for the Stamp Shak Cyber crop. One more to go! It is supposed to be pretty hot tomorrow as well so sounds like a scrap day to me. Will post the pics tomorrow night.

Here a couple of LO's I completed this week. Thanks to Thomas for the use of his camera and sending them to me. Also I think I got my inspiration for these LO's form Scrapmanda and Chelle when I was with them at Scrapbooks etc crop a few weeks ago, thanks ladies!

Water Boy Oliver

This is my mum at about age 17!

I have also been tagged by Julie. I will get to that tomorrow night!

And lastly GO Mariners in the soccer final tomorrowW

Cyber Crops!

I have two this weekend.

Chelle has some great challenges over at Stampshak. Cant wait to get started.

Cyberscraps is also on this weekend.

Not sure how much I will get done. It is supposed to be pretty hot here in Brissie so scrapping in the air con does sound good.

Have a great weekend.

DT Share Again

Just a quick share, here are 2 cards I have made for A Passion for Craft. The supplies are from the latest Japanese paper and card kits.

I also finished 3 layouts last night but the photo I took are awful. My camera has definetely died. I will borrow my sisters camera and take new ones.

DT Layout

Just thought I would share a LO that Lynnie asked me to do for her latest competition at A Passion for Craft. I normally only make cards for the shop so I was really happy when she asked me to do this. I have also made some cards using the gorgeous Japanese papers, I sent them to her tonight so I wont post them here just yet.

Make sure you check out the comp it is a sketch challenge and you have the chance to win a shop voucher!

The photo are of my gorgeous nephew Oliver!

Thanks for visiting!

Shave for a Cure

I am going Bald!

Lyn over at A Passion for Craft is going to hold a Crop for a Cure night in April.
I have pledged that if $500 is raised I will shave my head. I think I am aiming low as I am sure we will raise much more than that. I will post some more news about this in the coming days.

I finished a LO for the shop tonight too but I will wait until Lynnies sees it before I post it here.

Thats it for tonight feeling a bit tired might go off to bed.

Goodnight.

Lamenting the Loss!

QLD ROAR lost the semi-final tonight. I was a great game and went in to overtime. They had a great season so I look forward to next year.

Go the Mariners for next weeks final!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lynnie over at A Passion for Craft announced tonight a Sketch Challenge competition. There is plenty of time to get entries in so pop on over to the store and check it out. There is also a few more days left for her first competition as well so get your entries in now!

Now on the shop front it is filling fast, you can now find Brand New Paper Inklings Rubons which look great, inks, speciality brads and heaps more.

Blog Visitors

A week or so ago I added the FEEDJIT addon to this blog and I am stunned about the hits it gets from overseas. I have no idea how you find me but thanks for visiting. Please leave a comment!

Not much to report tonight, Jacob played his first ever crisket game today, he and the team did really well. So I am looking forward to next week, although I wish the game didnt take so long LOL.

Just a short one from me tonight, feeling a bit tired.

See you tomorrow!

Friday Chatter

Not much to report tonight. Jacob has cricket tomorrow as long as the weather holds out. He was so disappointed that it was rained out last week.

I will hopefully get some scrapping done this weekend so I have something to show you.

We will be going to my sisters on Sunday to hopefully watch the QLD Roar beat the Jets to make the A-league grand final. GO ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wayne is currenlty stuck in Mackay in the floods. He cant get back to work at this stage and couldnt fly out to come home today either. The airport is still closed! So it is a motel for him and waiting to see how it all settles down.

And I just found this - Tori Amos on Facebook.

Chat soon

Hugs

Photos from the Weekend

Here are a few photos from our weekend with Lynnie and family. Thanks to Lynnie for taking the photo after my camera died.

Need a list

Yep I have so much scrapping to catch up on I need to make a list.

Ok
1 A Passion for Craft Competition entry
2 Feb Challenges at Scrapchat
3 Feb Challenges at StampShak
4 Catch up on Weekly Photo for 52 Week Challenge
5 Finish Patrciasmum Birthday Challenge
6 Finish my CJ for Scrapchat
7 Bubblefrogs photo LO

Phew I think that is it!

Also dont foget to hop over to A Passion for Craft, Lyn has just added some absolutely gorgeous Handmade Japanese papers. I have seen these in real life and they are divine!

Proud Day

Sorry

"Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment.
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.

And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.
We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation. For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written. We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians.

A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again. A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity. A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed. A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility.

A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia."

Weekend Run down!

Well Jacob and I had a great weekend. I would love to show you some pictures but after several incidents of dropsies over the last few months my camera has decided it no longer wants to work.

Friday -
I met up with my good friend Lynnie to look at new products for her online store (A Passion for Craft). The papers are absolutely gorgeous and should be up on her site in the next few days!

Then we went to the Q-League Semi Final at Suncorp Stadium with most of my family and my Lynnie and her bunch. It was a great night, the atmosphere was awesome and the score line was even better 2-Nil to the QLD ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday - Jacob was due to have his first game of cricket for the season but due to the recent rain the feild was too wet and the game was cancelled. So instead we went to Dreamworld with Lynnie and family. We had a fantastic day, all of the kids got on really well together it was great to see. Lynnies DH is a bit of a dare devil and goes on most of the rides, he went on the Tower of Terror with me, I am glad I did as it was incredible! He was not able to convince me to go on the Giant Drop though! Jacob was really brave he went on the Moto Coaster (motorbycle roller coaster) the Tower of Terror which he declared was 'Mad Fun'. We were completely exhausted when we got home.

Sunday - we were going to meet Lynnies family again and go to Whitewater World but Jacob was really tired and sore from the day before. So him and I spent the day watching Star teck Voyager DVD's and lounging around.

Talk soon!

Um

This blogging everyday is a bit hard. I lead a boring life LOL!

My friend Lynnie and family arrive tomorrow so I need to do a bit of cleaning tonight, not too much though thank goodness.

I am looking forward to the Soccer - Go QLD ROAR

Random Photos

Just a couple to share

Rose from MIL garden at Christmas

DS of course

Self portait of me and DS

And another one of DS



Until tomorrow

Goodnight!

A Passion for Craft

I recieved my first order for A Passion for Craft today. I was so excited when I got home! I bought some of the Paper Inklings Paer. It is gorgeous, I can wait to use it. Here is just some of the papers I got today.

The offers in store at the moment are

• Spend $30.00 or more,(excluding postage) and you will receive 20% off your first order.
• Competition for February is an OTP project where you can win a voucher to spend in store.
• RAFFLE!! For every $30.00 (excluding postage) you spend you receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win your choice of one these Scrapbooking Paper packs.Packs contain the new Basic Grey Two Scoops papers Rub-ons Ribbon and some Embellishments.

So it is the perfect time to visit.

Monday Night Chatter

Well Jacob had a great 1st week back at school, he has a new teacher this year who he really likes. He has also decided he wants to be involved in school sports, so this term he starts Cricket. The first game is this weekend. He is really looking forward to it. He also had soem exciting news last week, one of his friends from a previous school started at Canterbury this year. There was only one snag in the great week and that is Jacobs formal school hat seems to have magically disappeared, we have looked everywhere. So he is hatless until stock arrives at the uniform shop as they dont have his size.

Gypsyangel has set a challenge at Scrapchat to all us bloggers, to blog every day and make a comment on someone elses blog daily as well. I am starting a few days late due to some technical issues with my PC but all appears to be well now. So I will see how I go!

This coming Friday night my good friend Lynnie and family are coming to stay, we are off to the QLD Roar Soccer Semi Final Game, the rest of my family are going as well. Cant wait! Go THE ROAR

I think that is about it, so I will see you tomorrow!

Cheers


Talk tomorrow!

Whats Going On at ScrapChat

Heaps that's what!

Come and join in the fun. Here is some of what is going on at the moment Scrapchat -

Monthly Competition sponsored by A Passion for Craft
- Monthly LO and Card Challenges to get the creative juices flowing
- Number of Posts competition
- Sunday Powerscraps with Miss Cropalot
- Photo Challenges
And heaps more!

And in March and Month long Cyber Crop, with prizes to be won from forum sponsors
A Passion for Craft
The Stampshak
Scrapbook N Bits
Patriciasmum
So come on in and enjoy the fun!

Ok a quick share as well, I went to a crop with ScrapManda, Chelle and Sara at LSS and completed 3 LO's and stated the 4th. Thanks to Manda and Chelle for your inspiration!

Aunt Mel (my sister) with nephew Oskar

My Nana, still try to discover her age

Jacob and his first encounter with Food! It was love at first sight!

Talk soon!