A new challenge at Frosted Designs....

A word challenge: "family"  How gorgeous is this Webster's page!! Lullaby Lane. I couldn't wait  to use it! and these letters from a kit I got ages ago.  I am so on a scrapbook 'diet' at the moment and really happy to use what I already have!

I haven't done a LO for a while now and my MOJO had gone missing....I used the sketch from

Frosted Designs this week and voila!

if you look closely, I have followed it!

Last week was so hectic I forgot to post the fabulous challenge from Frosted Designs with the delicious digi stamps given to us by The Cutting cafe

I filled the jar with marshmallows.  The recipient thought it was hilarious! Last year I filled a jar with malteasers and called it Reindeer Poo!

Ask me what I want for Christmas.......

and I will tell you SPARE TIME! This time of year is really so very busy for me! I have all good intentions of pre-planning and organizing things along a time line! I plan to have all my work things done re: certificates, lollies, bookings & deposits.  I plan to have all (well most) of my Christmas shopping done and wrapped (er it is 16th December and I haven't done one thing!) I plan to bake and make lots of yummy things with a Christmas theme. I plan to have my house spotless and my tree brimming with the gorgeous decorations that my kids have made over the years, that I cannot bear to part with (even though they look deformed). I plan to make my Christmas cards (each with a special unique design) and maybe even a matching envelope! and send a loving note inside detailing what we have been up to this year. BUT...... again, a week to go and I am even MORE behind than other years!  Today I went to a funeral of a young girl of 25 and I watched her broken hearted parents leave the church utterly destroyed and I thought so what if I haven't got my tree up and Christmas cards done or my house is messy and I haven't done my baking or wrapped anything.  I came home and hugged my children (well two of them, the other two were working) and played basketball outside and just gave them good old fashioned time and thanked God that I have them and that I will be celebrating Christmas (in my messy house) with them and my family. xx

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

WOO HOO Bev!! congratulations!!!!  I will PM you to get your postal address and send you bundle of goodies ASAP!!!! enjoy!!!

I would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who visited and left comments!! It was a huge buzz to read them!

I have been super busy this week but I promise to visit everyone who joined in the Frosted Designs BLOG HOP and leave some love!!!

I can't wait to see what you all created!!

If you are here for the FROSTED DESIGNS blog hop {scroll down}

I have a lot of incidentals (that sounds nice doesn't it!) that I have to buy for! And I LOVE getting a bottle of wine or Champagne myself! so that is what I have done this year! bought alcohol! to jazz it up a little I have copied an idea from my craft friend Sue and put my own little spin on it of course!!!! easy peasy! and I have about 8 people done & dusted!!!!

Very hectic around here at the moment will all the end of year swimming/testing stuff! Patrick has OD'ed on the lolly bags! They are on holidays now and Mark has put them to work in the garden..... First they spent an hour looking for gardening gloves.... and then they had to use my rubber gloves and I only had one pair so they then spent an hour arguing who was going to wear them! If I had been there (instead of their father!) I would have told them to have one each!

Well I don't think they are going to be landscape gardeners! They did actually do a good job and didn't complain too much! I had to get the camera as proof (and that they were wearing PINK gloves!) lol
They were so exhausted after their hour of gardening that they played PS3 while they recovered!

And Christie is busy supporting her EBAY addiction, working three jobs during her Uni break.  She got a job the other day as a GRID girl at Sandown Races!

The other picture I has is very blurry and I will try and get another one! But in true Grid girl fashion, the dress was VERY short and looked great on ( oh to be 20!)

Finally got (or should I say the penny has dropped) good with my camera.  I just took a couple of my beautiful roses ( it has been raining that much her at the moment) they must really like it!! LOL I am not a green thumb!

Okey dokey! better get back to it!!!

hop hop hop!

Welcome to  Frosted Designs  FIRST EVER Blog hop!  You should have arrived here from JONI'S blog 

Well HELLO! and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a ball so far and most importantly be in the running to win some awesome prizes!

Our Challenge this week is GLITTER on your card, Layout or project!!

with all the festive celebrations going on that shouldn't be too hard at all!!!!

As with all hops, there will be some opportunities to win some FABULOUS prizes!!!

The main prize at FROSTED DESIGNS (where you should have started from)

have a look at all that YUMMY GOODNESS!!!

OKEY DOKEY...you want to win..... here are the details....

As you {hop} in order each BLOG will give you a WORD and together they will make a sentence. EMAIL the correct sentence to danica4us@yahoo.com  

ALSO: be a FROSTED DESIGNS follower and enter your GLITTER project!

TOO EASY!!!

This Fabulous challenge will start from today (3rd December) and FINISH

THURSDAY DECEMBER 9th  at noon {central time}

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HERE IS MY PROJECT

I have painted a Kaiser wooden photo frame in metallic silver and glittered the "2010" I have used a sizzix die for the Christmas trees and punched the snowflakes.  It is so sparkly and I am STILL vacuuming the glitter LOL!

I also have some BLOG CANDY

Kaiser Rub ons, Prima Flowers, Kaiser pearls, 3 Kaiser Mini Clear stamps, pearl butterfly,wooden heart and some assorted flowers mmmmmm nice!

INTERNATIONAL WELCOME TOO!!!

to win

leave a COMMENT letting me know you visited and for a second chance! become a FOLLOWER!!!

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MY WORD IS  KWANZAA

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Ok! I hope you have enjoyed yourself so far and now {hop} on over to

CASSIE'S blog

for some delicious Glittery goodness!

Please check back next FRIDAY 10th to see if you have won!!!!



It is time for a....

at The Pink Elephant #89 and the beautiful colours (getting close to Christmas) are RED BLUE & GREEN!

I was given some gorgeous digis to play with from TIFFANY DOODLES



go and see what the gorgeous DT have come up with and join in!

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If anyone knows why blogger will only let me add one photo pls tell me how to fix it!!!! I have to completely leave the post and go back and edit to add another pic! ARRRGGGGG driving me crazy!

I can tell December just isn't going to be my month.......

keep the date free!!!!

Frosted Design are having a BLOG HOP!!

Some exciting goodies to win and you got to be in it to win it!!

Third time lucky.......

I have been having a few problems with my computer and I am in the process of fixing it! I have also been incredibly busy with my business and kiddies! Aden had his Year 12 graduation last week and we were so proud to see him receive a medal and award for outstanding achievement in Furnishing.  What started out as light relief and a break from the Chem/Physics/Maths he discovered he has quite a talent and love of creating from scratch! (wonder where he gets that from!?)  I have a feeling this will be a life long hobby.  I will share some photos when his cabinet comes home.  We are so very unbelievably proud of him! I really admire the determination, focus and attitude he has shown over the past 2 years and regardless of whatever mark/score he receives, I know he will always be a success in life.



Giving Thanks at The Pink Elephant

I am sorry for this late post, but I have actually typed this out a dozen times (oh well maybe NOT a dozen) but a LOT! and I cannot actually seem to publish it!!! My other post was HUGE and lost it all! And at a time where I am just too busy for this NOT HAPPY JAN!!! (Aussie saying for O/S readers!!! LOL)
So here we go again..........fingers crossed everyone!
The Pink Elephant are having a "giving thanks" week and although I didn't get around to a LO :( I did get a card done!  I do have so much to be thankful for <3

I am saying my Hail Mary as I am about to push the publish button! wish me luck and If it works I will be back later tonight to finish the rest.......

BLOGGER is giving me a HARD time!

I have done three posts now...GRRRRR updates with all the goings on here and getting very frustrated!!!
going to see if this posts and I WILL be back!!! ;)

TPE card challenge #88

sponsored by....

I was lucky enough to play with these super gorgeous digi's!

I am actually really happy with this one! My copic use is getting sooooo much better! lol  My friend, Sue keeps telling me practice makes perfect! and she is right!

Go an have a look at what the talented DT have come up with HERE

Exams are all over the shop here! so far so good (but I haven't got reports yet!) Lachlan text me after his English exam yesterday and said.....WOW! Reading the book really helped!

I couldn't help but laugh! duh! Scary thing is that he is year 9 oh well better late than never! and also...what the heck has he been doing before this.....?

Where has this year gone?!!!!!!

A my son, Aden has just finished his VCE exams, I can't help but shake my head and wonder where the HECK did this year go! I have concluded that I must be OLD now as when I was younger, the years dragged by! lol  2 kids down (through secondary school) and two to go! we are half way there and I have come through relatively unscathed ( It IS all about me don't you know!!!) Christie has finished her second year of uni, she is working three jobs now to support her EBAY clothes addiction! Lachlan & Patrick are doing their best to master COD (PS3 game) and my Mark is really settling in to semi retirement!

On the scrapping front, I have been a busy little bee...... The Pink Elephant have a gorgeous COLOUR challenge this week....RED, BLUE & YELLOW  I completed my LO and realized I didn't have any Yellow!! so I threw in some little punched hearts voila! Little Christie in the bath and dad going a little overboard with the bubbles! (on purpose I suspect!)

anyway, have a look what the team have produced and join in!

WOO HOO it is all happening at

Frosted Designs! there is a new DT with new weekly challenges, a sketch DT and weekly projects and tutorials. Along with that there are great prizes each week just by joining in!

This week's challenge is using a LARGE photo.  You know the ones you get from school, footy, ballet and the family ones that just don't make it into a frame......  I must admit, I never scrap the profesional ones. ( I do, however, scan, reduce and make mini books shhhh.)
Anyway, remember my trip to Queensland? When we arrived, our apartment wasn't ready so we went for a coffee and the boys bought a soccer ball (they were having withdrawals from basketball & footy I think) and we headed off to the beach.  I got some great shots of both the boys and this particular one of Paddy I just love! I remember thinking of the title below when I checked my camera!

if you join in this week, you could win a fabulous prize generously donated by Purple Pumpkin Crafts some groovy looking buttons and handmade embellishments AND she is an Aussie!

Ok stay tuned I do have heaps to show over the next couple of weeks! as of today there is 49 days left till Christmas.........

TPE #87

at The Pink Elephant 

RED, BLUE & YELLOW

and the sponsor this week is

Claudia from DCRU  will randomly draw a lucky participant to win an OCTOBER AFTERNOON 8x8 paper pad Seaside Collection.

Anyway.....here is mine!  My copic colouring is getting better.........

see ya :)

Okey Dokey!

we are off and running at Frosted Designs !!!!! Every Friday, we will have a

FABULOUS FRIDAY CHALLENGE.

This challenge is to encourage you to use up the supplies you already have in creative ways!! You are going to be seeing more projects from the DT along with the layouts and cards you have become used to! You are also going to be seeing more prizes and more variety with the prizes!! We will slowly move from monthly prizes to biweekly prizes to eventually offering weekly prizes!! WOO HOO!

On Sundays, you are going to learn new tips and techniques from the design team and how to apply them to your cards, layouts and projects!! These tutorials are going to be called SHOW ME SUNDAYS and they start this weekend! Be sure to check back for our first Show Me Sunday!

Now... here is something WE are soooooo excited about!! We are going to be adding a
SKETCH CHALLENGE!! Designers Diana and Debbie have been busy creating some new and fresh sketches that you will only find on Frosted Designs!! Look for the first SKETCH ALONG TUESDAY post in this upcoming week!! These sketches will be biweekly and will have their own prize...
all YOU have to do is participate!!

Hope you are as excited about the new changes as we are!! Finally, it is time to announce this week's challenge....


We are challenging you to use our theme... Holiday Treats! This can be anything that has to do with a Holiday Treat! You can share your favorite recipe, you can show us your favorite food/treat gifts, there is also gift wrap.... or you can even do a LO about your favorite holiday treat!! The possibilities are endless... which our design team has demonstrated this week! go and check it out here
Now.......the challenge!


We are challenging you to use our theme... Holiday Treats! This can be anything that has to do with a Holiday Treat! You can share your favorite recipe, you can show us your favorite food/treat gifts, there is also gift wrap.... or you can even do a LO about your favorite holiday treat!! The possibilities are endless... which the design team has demonstrated this week!
We are being sponsored by Purple Panda Designs! Here is some information straight from the owner!

Hi! I'm Kayla and I'm 16 years old. I have been drawing since I was little. All the stamps you see are hand drawn by me. I draw for fun and sell my stamps for a little money while I am still in school. I just started my store at http://www.shophandmade.com/. All of my stamps can be seen on my blog at http://purplepandad.blogspot.com/ which has a link directly to the store. I hope you enjoy my stamps!


The randomly chosen winner will receive their choice of 3 stamps from Kayla's store!! Go check them out!! You are going to want to win this prize!

anyway... A very dear friend of mine lost a loved one last week and this card is for her!

thanks for stopping by...    :)

Time for a colour challenge....

at The Pink Elephant

ORANGE & BROWN

Little by little I am getting my Phuket album going and getting my challenges done at the same time! WOO HOO!  I love this photo of Christie about to go parasailing in Phuket! You can't tell from the pic but she was TERRIFIED!! I love the bright orange parachute! works really well for this weeks colour challenge. Go and check what the DT have come up with! just gorgeous.

see ya :)

Some exciting news.......

check HERE

Cannot wait to get started!

what a massive weekend!

I went on a retreat with my LSS Scraphaven and had a great time.  I managed to complete 3 LO's before I had to race off to my cousins wedding! It was a bit of a military manoeuvre so I could maximise my time there.  I had Christie dropping Mark to me and Aden picking him up. I caught up with cousins and rellos I haven't seen in ages, so it was great. Anyway I had a massive headache on the Sunday, so I didn't get anything done :( I did start a Kaiser advent box (pretty happy about doing a OTP!)
anyway here are two, one will follow (later)

sorry for the dodgy photo of this one........looks a lot brighter IRL!

see ya :)



Time for a colour challenge!

BROWN & ORANGE!

The Pink Elephant sponsor this week is Kathy Martin creator of Digital Doodles! Her doodles are sold exclusively through Two Peas in a bucket. They are gorgeous and so easy to work with! Take it from me I am a "newbie" at digi !!! go and check them out here

A random participant will be chosen to win one of Kathy's digital doodles digital stamp set! either

'Halloween' or 'Thankful'

or       

here is my card! once I sorted out my printer problems!!! I was all set to go!  Many thanks to my friend Sharon who is a digital mastermind! I have learnt SO MUCH from her! thanks Sharon!!

Go and check out what the card DT have created! here

see ya :)

A new challenge & some news!

The Pink Elephant scrapbook challenge this week is dress up !  I knew exactly which photo I was going to use! My Aden loved using Christie's fairy dress outfit when she wasn't wearing it! I knew when I took the picture I will be going on his 21st photo board!

Lori and the girls at The Pink Elephant have asked me to join their card team! So exciting! I love their cards and they are all so talented, hope I can keep up! anyway a new card challenge will be up Monday so come over and check it out!

:)

Officially broke now!

September is our busiest month as all the boys birthdays are 10 days apart! the first was Patrick who turned 13! He celebrated with a party and netted lots of  $$$$!
Lachlan was next and turned 15!  he actually didn't want to do anything or have a party so we had a quiet night with the family and watched the footy!

10 days later Aden turned 18!! the poor kid spent the day in lectures in the city!  He didn't really want to do anything either, so we met him in the city and had dinner with the family and then he went to the casino! He was desperately hoping the security guards would ask him for ID (which they did so it made his night!) he spent quite a while losing his dough, but had such a good time!

We arranged to have a cake at the restaurant and then had another cake when we got home.

In the meantime, Christie flew to Perth to compete in the Australian Uni Games playing basketball.  Her team, which won the gold medal at the Southern Uni games, unfortunately lost the bronze medal game in Perth :(
the team had a ball and partied hard!

Then......one week later and it was MY birthday!! see what I mean! I am soooo broke and then when I was shopping in Coles the other day they had a whole aisle with CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS! I mean seriously!
I had a great day and night (just not cooking constitutes a great day!) lol

 

Christie and Aden went out to celebrate a friends 21st so I didn't get my full family photo! but as you will see how hard it is for me to get a decent photo! I am lucky I suppose, that they actually don't mind having their photo taken! I have friends that get so frustrated when their children won't smile at all!

Aden competed in his last ever school athletics!

and I actually managed to fit some craft in! well not too much but a few cards for friends birthdays!

 (MORE BIRTHDAYS!!!)

I have actually done some scrapping but not able to show just yet!

I am going on a retreat this weekend, so hopefully I shall scrap up a storm!

see ya :)