2 in two days woo hoo!

My biggest baby was 19 on Monday 29th June. Christie went out with all her friends clubbing on the Sunday night in the city and they had all left before I had returned from Sydney (plane was delayed) She woke up not too early,thank goodness as it was the first day of school holidays! But in saying that we WERE going overseas the next day and there was lots to do!!! I dragged her out of bed and shoved her presents in her lap....There were no surprises really as I had bought her the WHOLE range of Rip Curl Tahiti luggage! which she chose and organised the purchase over the net a couple of months ago! she also got the usual 1 kilo of pistachios and 2 family block peppermint (her fav) chocolate. She went out for lunch with Tom and we had a family dinner of Chinese. She got lots of money which she was happy about! (spending moola)

Molly had a feeling something was up and we were going to leave her I think! She crawled into Christie's new carry on bag!

The boys just love Tom (more than Christie I think) they all wanted to be in a photo with Tom and at the last minute Aden pushed Christie out of the way. It was funny....

Sorry about the photos... I am still playing around with my camera. Bear with me. When I have some time (!!!?!!!) I am going to enrol in a photography course. It is on my bucket list! Still looking for my 4GB card and after looking at my photos I noticed one that I was looking for in particular wasn't downloaded. I looks like the computer has missed blocks of 38 and 22 photos. I think the SD card may be corrupt and the puta is showing some photos as a torn in half icon. I might go to BIG W and print the whole lot..........1978 photos @ 19 hmmmm $375.82 well maybe not! seeing as 400 of them were parasailing and the hotdog!

Well here goes....

I have a bit of time tonight (well I don't really! but I am so over bookwork and the pool that I am making time to post...lucky you! LOL) I will start at the beginning (for my mum's sake) and that was the Paddy boy came home safely from Canberra! I just love that I have bred little scrappers! Here are a few of the artistic beauties my last born brought me for his album! Do you not just love the lines and the creativeness of these pics and how about that last one of him wistfully looking out the bus window! pure magic!!!!

THEN came my FANTASTIC AWESOME 3AS retreat in Sydney! My lovely friend Naomi (who was going to fly with me but due to work commitments had to take a later flight) ended up MISSING her flight :( Christie took me to the airport and when we got to the check in I was 7kg overweight! (I mean really! WHO is overweight GOING anywhere!!!!) Christie asked the attendant if I could take a few things out and proceeded to open my case and took out all my thickers (you scrappers will know what I am talking about) and HEY PRESTO underweight! I mean those foam suckers are heavy you know!!! (I CAN HEAR YOU LAUGHING FROM HERE DEB!) anyway I got to Sydney airport and I was really nervous and apprehensive about meeting these girls. Sure I have talked to them online and they are all really friendly but I was scared (yeah really) Then I saw the beautiful Deb, smiling and she looked exactly like her avatar, sitting with some other angels, Gail, Mel, Col, Kylie we were using the cafe as a meeting spot. After meeting Heike and Judy we headed off to the retreat.

We weren't allowed to get to our rooms until 5ish so we decided on an early dinner. When we got back Naomi finally arrived, after PAYING for another flight and a bus ride she was surprisingly calm! we got ready to go to the chapel (the room the retreat was held in!) I recognized everyone straight away! It was like catching up with old friends! The classes were brilliant!! such a TALENTED design team! We started off with an acrylic album of 'me' using Theresa Collins papers by DEB MULLINS. This was a brilliantly put together album and I would love to show you BUT I have shoved everything in a room and Naomi has some of my things that I haven't picked up yet :( I will show everything in a later post I promise) after we prepared our shadowbox by the gorgeous MEL FORBES got down and dirty for this one and I was really happy how mine turned out (all the while thinking 'how the hell was I going to get this home!) I think my shadowbox is at Nai's house (I'll get it this weekend Nai!) after that Nai and I were exhausted and decided to call it a night! I know! I left a retreat at a decent hour!! (12.30am) what the hell!

The next day we finished our shadowboxes and started on Heike's card case and cards. Just gorgeous too. I loved how mine turned out and again......I will show! we also had a virtual class by Melleny it was beautiful also although I didn't even get to start that one. I started to get blurred vision so I went for a nana nap for a couple of hours. After dinner we started on our challenge with a pack supplied and let me tell you EVERYTHING we did, every class had EVERYTHING supplied! It was the most generous goody bag! Our table was sooo much fun, Lorraine, Sue, Tracey & Kylie already we a firm facebook friends! All in all, I had a superb time and I met some people I KNOW I will be friends with for a long time!

This is our fantastic table! Tracey, Nai Me Sue Kylie & Loraine at the bottom. I NEED to go on a retreat with Sue (Lady far right) MAN that lady has some STUFF! I would just bring my trimmer and tape and I would be SET!

Nai me and Mel. She is just awesome! What a funny gorgeous girl! Love what she does LOVED spending time with her and Loved our little drink at the airport! wished it was longer!

Jo, myself Nai & Rosy They are the owners of 3AS

The absolutely gorgeous Heike! Wow, I couldn't wait to meet her! This woman is incredible! I am in total awe of her and what she can achieve being the mother of 7 children and always seems so calm! really supportive and friendly to everyone on the forum, All her work is just beautiful and ALWAYS being picked up by some mag! and Deb (maroon scarf) what a beautiful lady I am so happy I got to meet her! We laughed most of the weekend (mostly due to my 7 kilos of thickers) I can't wait to meet her again!

Ellen me & Donna. and below the super talented Nat! My goodness, this girl could write her name on a piece of paper and I would be in awe! I just love how she puts it together! so effortlessly, the colours the photos and I was really happy to meet her in person!

and here she is being a sooky la la because she didn't win the scavenger hunt! (sorry Nat!)

I am surprised I didn't take more photos! For the plane trip home I carried my 15 kilos of paper I DIDN'T use!!! and was just under!!!!

I have misplaced 4GB memory card of my Thai holiday so I will try get back with all the details soon!

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I have so much to tell and show! Just got back last night from 2 glorious weeks in Bangkok and Phuket. We had an absolutely brilliant time and I will share....soon. The 3AS retreat was fantastic! They were sooooo generous with their goody bag!! Met all the ladies I "talk" to and they were just beautiful too! My table were funny as! will share about that too......soon. I really NEED to get some work done, the phone has been ringing its bum off since 8 this morning :( back to work eh!

My little fella is off to Canberra for a week with his school. It will be a little quieter around here and not because he makes a lot of noise......just with one less it is different. I hope he has a fantastic time and comes home safely!

We went to Ballarat this weekend with some gorgeous friends in a beautiful house for a basketball tournament. The boys all did so well! Winning some of their games and both Aden & Lachlan's team getting to the grand finals both winning in absolute thrillers and both my boys were awarded the MVP trophies at the end. Patrick was picked to play in an Interleague football side at Werribee. He had a great time, even though his side were smashed in both games.

I had fun playing with my camera on sports mode for these indoor shots. Still Not as good as I'd hoped but I go to enough basketball games that I am sure that I will get the elusive shot one day!

Really proud of these boys! They try so hard, they are such team players and they live and breathe ANY type of sport. As a mother, my heart just bursts seeing them enjoy themselves, and watching their drive and determination and giving their all in everything they do.

see ya :)

My Last LO for Wicked Princesses

Bit sad this is over, I have thoroughly enjoyed this competition. When it first started, I thought how the hell are they going to incorporate the seven sins into challenges? and then I thought "how the HELL and I going to DO a LO on them!" I am pretty happy with most of them. This last one was LUST with the criteria (which I read properly this time!) blue & white, 3 shades of blue, chipboard elements. We are thinking about downsizing our 4WD as Christie is driving and NEVER comes with us anymore, Aden will have his licence soon. So it makes sense to get a little 5 seater. I would like an Audi (I would really like any SMALL car truth be told) but I wanted my LO to have a prestigious car coz a Ford Focus didn't quite have the same ring to it lol!
This is the bonus card with the LOVE theme with 2 chip embs.

Had a bit of time when I finished, so I made these two as well. I just love the Melissa Frances rub ons! they are perfect for cards.

And take two with the Italy card from a previous post! I was really unhappy with my measuring on the other card... I had to do it again (and I am so NOT a perfectionist!) anyway I am happy with the second one. Thanks Sue!

see ya :)