This Busy Life

Life is so busy at the moment. Something going on most of the time...no wonder I am exhausted! Anyway here is a summary of the last couple of weeks....

The Labour day long weekend coincided with the Stitches and Craft show at the convention centre. A bit of a disappointing show as far as scrapbooking went, but fun to work at! Which I did with the lovely Tam on the Sunday. It was plenty busy too. The time flew past, a bit of a baptism of fire for Tam I think! But she handled it all beautifully!

We received our "packs" as guest design team members for The Crafters Workshop. I have to say they were challenging papers. Not the sort of thing I would have normally chosen to use, but I am happy with the results. You can see them here.

This weekend just passed had us celebrating Mothers Day. The girls went out for a High Tea and it was great! I have already created a page from the day.




Other than major plumbing issues...everything has being pottering along as usual.

Thanks for stopping by!

I've been tagged!

Yes, I have been tagged by the lovely Michelle! So about the "tagging" process, I now need to list 7 interesting facts/habbits about myself and then name 7 people to "tag". That will be the hardest part I think! Oh well, here goes nothing...... 1. I was going to be an astronaut when I left school. I even got myself a Physics degree and halfway to a Space and Mechanical engineering degree....but then I fell in love and the rest is history! 2. Apparently I am a very bad sick...that is I am a bit of a whinger when I am sick! I don't like being sick and I certainly let everyone know about it! 3. It took me a while to build up enough confidence to learn to drive. I was in a few car accidents in my time and this put me off for quite a while.... 4. I am going to start a photography course this year, very soon with any luck. Because this is my other great passion. 5. After finishing all my science study, and after I got married, I went and studied maths, and even used it as a data analyst with Suncorp. I know what you are thinking..this girl is a nerd! 6. I always knew that I wanted to have children, and now I have three! Sometimes I wonder if I had known then what I know now if I would have done things differently! 7. I have had two photos selected and displayed in the Museum of Brisbane for the last two Lord Mayors Photography competitions. Now to pick some others Alicia and Nikala. I would delve some more but the tagging is well and truly taking over!!!

Well, see what happens when the Scrapbook City site is back up and running again??!! I have not posted on here for almost a month! Wow, a month flies by really quickly.

The kids are getting ready to go back to school (tomorrow) after Easter holidays. Andrew has started his new job (last week), and soon it will be me and Liam by ourselves for most of the week. What an adjustment that will be! I certainly got used to Andrew being home most of the time!

I have had plenty of DT things going on for Scrapbook City, and I have enjoyed being back in the swing of scrapping again. Seemed that I was too busy with other things for the shop for a while there to do anything else! Here are some of my LO's:



This one is from Alicia's April sketch challenge. I just love the photos of Liam! The paper is just gorgeous too. It is from the We R Memory Keepers new precious metal range. I think this will be in store this week.

The City is Back

Just a quick note to let you know we are all very excited because the Scrapbook City site is slowly returning to normal! The message board is back up and running and the gallery is on its way too! Yay!

Quick One

Just a quick note tonight, I really need to get into bed! Spent most of today at the Paper Crafts Festival working on the Scrapbook City stand with Sara. We did have a fun time! But, I am sure that Kerri said it would be pretty quiet! I guess lucky for them it was a bit busier than that! The time flew past! I was very tempted to buy more things on my way out...but I resisted! Knowing I could go back to the shop and pick up some of the goregous new things there! I did shop on Saturday with friends Deb and Jo and spent enough! I am feeling inspired to create too (just read Sara's blog!), but it will have to wait til tomorrow, sleep is more important right now. The girls took along the houses we had decorated (mine is pictured below) and it was really cool how much interest there was in them! I feel almost famous now! Anyway, off to bed the screen is starting to get blury! Thanks for dropping by!

Need to Vent

I am starting to think that all the idiots were out and about today....especially those in cars....Well I suppose I had better explain....It started this morning, I was backing out of a carpark after dropping in to a local ATM, and someone behind in another carpark just started to reverse out without looking behind at all! If they had they would have seen that I was HALF WAY OUT! Lucky I was looking otherwise we would have hit....This idiot continued all the way out without looking behind at all. The passenger, his wife I am guessing saw me but looked blankly at me when I started yelling that he didn't look at all behind him and that I was already halfway out when he started to reverse...AGHHHHHHH.....Then I had to follow behind him and his erratic driving til the next set of lights....I guess at least his other bad driving put my mind my at rest knowing he probably does this sort of thing to everyone...... small consolation though. I have never been angry enough to want to get out and abuse someone until today.....Lucky for them I am in control of myself and I didn't (probably lucky for me too, last thing I want is a police record for road rage or something). I feel somewhat better for venting here. But there were more idiots out there after that, everywhere...one of those days I guess. On a better note, Andrew comes home from Sydney tomorrow and he doesn't have to go back! YAY!!!!! I am so relieved that he doesn't have to go away again.

This is another recent DT layout. I have used some of the great new Scenic Route papers.

This is one of my more recent projects for Scrapbook City. It is a cute little paper mache house that I have covered in the new Basic Grey Pheobe papers.

Well, this is Niamh, on her birthday! Now she is 8! They grow up all too quickly!

This is Liam doing his "cheese" for the camera! He is really funny, when he is sick of photos being taken he tells me "no more see Liam" !!! Such a cutie!

Just love this one of Erin. It was taken on her birthday. I just had to convert it to B&W and give it a grungy border!