Stamp Giveaway

April Release - Four Stamp Give Away!

Pink Gem Designs are giving away these four delicious stamps, all you have to do is go look here to find out what you have to do to be in the running to win.Gotta be in to win I always say.

ONLY 8 DAYS UNTIL WE GO ON HOLIDAYS - and counting.........................
We are really in need iof this holiday. There seems to have been an extraordinary amount of stress building from all corners at the moment. Oh well, it won't be long and we can get away from it all and relax.
I haven't done anything creative this week - not through not wanting to but simply being too tired to, but Tyler actually did a really nice LO this morning with my help - in between getting the housework done.
Today marks exactly 1 year since we visited Taronga Zoo in Sydney on our holidays last year, and purely by coincidence, she chose this photo to scrap.
She did a great job, I thought.

Not much else to add so I'l go now and try to catch up on everything I've missed out on over the past couple of days.
See you all next week.

Here it is Sunday again and time to update my blog. I've decided to try to make Sunday morning my update time each week. That way I won't fall behind like I did last year.
This week has been a really busy week for all of us and we are counting down the days until our holidays. Rick has been on nights again this week, so that in itself makes it a hard week for everybody, and I've had a few changes to my regular roster so it has been busy for me too.
On Friday, Bryce told us that he has been chosen for the final tryouts for the school indoor cricket team. We are so proud of him because he's never done anything quite like that before, and it'll be the first time representing the school if he is chosen this week. We all have our fingers crossed for him.
I haven't really done much creatively this week. Only completed last weeks card challenge which came from a sketch.

I used papers left over from Tyler's mini album to make this with some little pearls added to finish it off.
Yesterday afternoon, we decided to go for a drive to get out of the house. We went down to Coolangatta to find out where the long term parking facility is where we'll be leaving the car on Easter Sunday morning when we fly to Melbourne. From there, we drove back north along the Gold Coast Highway just taking in the sights and reminiscing from our teenage years when we were both at boarding school on the GC. There are so many 'attractions' that just don't exist anymore. One place I have never been to, but driven over a lot, was Tullebudgera Creek, so we stopped there to get out and stretch our legs. The beach there and the water was just magical - still, clean water with the surf about 1km downstream. I went down to put my feet in the water, and, of course, the kids had to do the same. Needless to say, Bryce went in up to his knees, and Tyler just ACCIDENTALLY happened to get wet right up to the hip line. "It was an accident Mummy, I didn't realize I was that far in". No swimmers, no towel and no dry clothes. When we left there to drive up to Southport, we got her to take her long pants off so that we could wring them out by hand and then secure them in the window to dry while we were driving.

Then we drove all the up to the top end of the "Glitter Strip" where we called into a small Fisherman's Co-Op and bought some fish and chips for an early dinner. We took them down to the Southport Seaway and spread the picnic rug on the ground to have our dinner while watching the boats coming along the waterway.
After dinner we went for a walk along the Southport Sand Pumping Jetty. It is a huge jetty and it was extremely windy and very cool out there. The surf was raging under us and the fishermen were in abundance on the jetty trying to catch that elusive large fish. We didn't see any while we were out there. It was a nice way to walk off dinner before coming back home.
What a lovely way to spend an afternoon.

Here's a Great Give-Away

I've only just recently discovered this Blog. I read it every day because Bev is so inspirational. She is a genius when it comes to card making. She is currently giving away 2 awesome new stamps along with numerous other yummy items. Have a look here:
http://bevscrafts.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-candy-time-for-whiff-of-joy.html
Go on....... have a look, you will be very impressed.

Tyler's Creation

Tyler has been creating too. She loves to want to get in and do her own layouts whenever I sit down to do any scrapping.
This is a layout she did using a few different techniques that she's seen me using. She's even inked right around the edges of the page.

Finally,One For Me

Late last year I discovered the most beautiful, feminine patterned papers so I bought a few sheets in the complete range, along with some of the matching accessories in the range as well. Because it was all about fairies and princesses, I decided to make a mini album specifically for Tyler. Everyone I know kept telling me how easy and how much fun it was to make a mini album, so I decided that is what I was going to do. Well, because it was my first one, it was a big challenge, but it was an on-going project. I finally finished it last week - and here it is. What do you think?


This is on the back of the Princess Tag.

Off The Page

I don't do many OTP's, but this is one I did for another forum, online:

It is a wooden Recipe Box.