Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Obessed by a green eyed boy...

Ok, as some of you may know, I'm always a little behind the trends lol. A couple of years ago I bought the first two books of the Harry Potter series for Stewart, and had a read of them myself too. Thought they were quite good for a children's books too.. anyway, after running out of books to read in the house, I picked them up again a couple of weeks ago. Then had to go out and buy the third one....

Now after just about finishing book four, I can officially say that I'm hooked! I can't put the thing down! The house is a total mess, and I feel like I'm starting to neglect my laptop too. I'm going to have to get the fifth copy today as I've only got about 50 pages left, and that is not going to last me through tonight.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad that I've left it this long to join in on the Harry Craze.. as now I'll be ready for the 7th book due out July 21, with out having that long agonising wait! Now I just need to slow my reading down to time it properly.... lol ;)

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Forgot

to say a couple of things ( I know it doesn't seem possible from the length of that last post ;) ) I really need to keep up to date with this thing so I remember to get everything in!


First off I need to send a HUGE thank you out to Mollie (aka readstoomuch) at Designer Digitals. I was getting desperate to get my hands on a copy of the new digital scrapboooking magazine, and as I hadn't had any success dealing with the distributor of it, and not finding it anywhere here in Oz, I went to the forums and put a call out for any info on an online shop that was selling it.. Anyway, Mollie was super kind enough to offer to send me a copy. I'm not a big forum participator, just never finding the time to keep up with all the different treads, but this has shown me what a wonderful resource they really are, and that the digi community is just a wonderful group of people :). I received my magazine this week, and I'm really happy with it.. just love seeing all the digi layouts in it.. and some familiar names too :D. Jane your layout is just stunning (but then I love all your work :) )!! and reading about some fellow digi's.. not too mention Anna's Anna Layout!! Anyway I could go on, and I've just flicked through it!
Another thing that I wanted to share was my drooling over this

I am so loving the iMacs and really want to get the 24" one. I'm really having colour issues with my laptop (it's really blue) and I can't adjust it, so before printing I have to transfer all my files to the desktop, which is way to slow to actually work on. I love my laptop dearly, but this colour problem is really starting to get to me (especially now I'm shooting in the RAW), and feel that I should update my desktop and mainly work on that soo.... I'm looking at the Mac, being able to run windows on it as well, and being able to use my programs just makes it that much more attractive.

I also forgot to mention that it was FIL's birthday on Tuesday, so we had a special cake for him on Sunday... and I got some photos without the candle reflections!! I remembered to take the filter off! Thanks Mel :D!

Mum, Juileanne and I also went shopping at Knox City on Wednesday, and spent forever in Pumpkin Patch.. mum spent up BIG! and got some nice stuff for Julieanne (boy does that girl get spoilt!)

Finally, had to share I got this published in the current Scrapbooking Memories Mag.. have to say that it's one of my favorite LO's. Not sure what happened to my Sk8ter Boy Lo though, it was supposed to appear in the same mag... lol, look at me complaining about getting published.. just be grateful girl!! Ok, I think that's it... no doubt I'll remember something once I publish this ;). And just ignore the graininess of the photos.. I forgot to change my ISO! Doh.

Have a great day everyone.

Friday, April 13, 2007

A challenge.....

Well for me anyway... turns out that I got tagged by the very talented Miss Sue (thanks Sue ;P), for the Be Original Blog Project... I really don't think that I've got any original ideas for this but here is the run down.. .once again a copy and paste (sorry :) ), this one from Mohit Singhania's blog, where this all started.

In a new blog post, list and write about 5 to 10 methods you use to create original posts. It has to be a method you use regularly. These should be the best, quickest and easiest to apply methods.
At the start of your post, tell your audience (briefly or at length) what you are doing with the "Be Original" Project and put a
link and/or a trackback to this post, for the purpose of giving them the full rules and for me to compile the master list of all participants that I’ll link to in a future post.
Be sure to also put a link/trackback to the blogger who tagged you for "Be Original" in order to let your readers follow the conversation around and to spread the link love.
Sharing your "Be Original" methods with your own audience, will also share them with the blogger who tagged you and the bloggers you tagged, as well as their whole audience!
Pick as many bloggers as you want and “tag” them to take part in the fun. You will be helping their exposure by linking to their site from your blog, and they will return the favor by having a link to your site in their initial post. After all, that is how a meme works (a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.)

So here we go:

1. I basically just write about what has been happening in my life.. well the stuff that I can remember anyway ;).

2. Try to keep a record of some day to day things, as something to look back on.

3. Post photos, and the details of them.

4. Post scrap pages and the details and products used on them.

5. post the occasional helpful link, or idea (not that this happens very often ;) ).

Ok, I hope that I did it right, if not apologies to all involved. As for the tagging bit.. as regular readers would know, I've never been into the whole tagging others thing, so consider yourself tagged if you want ok, if not your not.. I know I know, I'm a party pooper, but that's just the way I am (as Wayne is more than happy to point out) ;P .

Ok, onto other things. I hope that everyone had a happy Easter.. bad blogger that I am I totally forgot to wish it for you all in my last post lol. We ended up going to Barwon heads Friday morning, dropping our stuff of at the house we were staying at, and then heading to Queenscliff for the seafood festival, raising money for the Good Friday Appeal. Had some nice fish and chips, even though I got in the line for the wrong one, and it turned out to be the longest line too.. oh well.



Afterwards, we went for a walk along the main st, and boy do they have some nice little clothing shops there.. I saw some lovey cardis. I just LOVE my cardigans ;).. does that make me a dag? (nah, just trendy right?!?) A photo of my 2 dags...


Then we went back to the house, to have this



ugly isn't it? tasted ok though....

And the bed!! Have to say that it was the softest bed I've ever slept in, I like a hard one though, so we did have some issues getting to sleep, although by Sunday night, I think that I must have gotten used to it lol.

Saturday, the local fair was on at the school. so we walked down the road to that. Julieanne got to see the baby animals



And I procrastinated on buying a cardigan (see another one ;).. which I didn't get in the end lol.. I'm shocking at spending money. Well shocking unless it's like a computer or camera or something lol.

Easter Sunday, we had the Easter hunt (well after I'd attempted to sneak into Julieanne's room to place her present from the Easter bunny: a dancing chicken that sings the chicken song).. I don't think that we went to overboard with the chocolates this year.. thankfully ;)



Wayne's parents drove down and they surprised us at the beach while we were there (I thought she sounded all suspicious on the phone!) We then walked home, Wayne, Micheal (dh brother) and I stopping off to have a look at an auction on the way home, boy was it expensive!

In the afternoon Wayne and I wanted to go for a walk to have a look at this run down house that was selling for over 1 million, but it ended up that most of the clan came with us. We then went and had a look at the surf beach and the gorgeous golf course there.

The afternoon was spent at the house, with everyone outside.. the boys playing table tennis, and the girls having a story read to them by grandma.. I did get some good shots of them.


Then before dinner snuck back to the beach to attempt to get some shots.. wasn't very happy with my results though

and the clubhouse

We left Monday morning as Stewart needed to be at work by 3 (in the end he didn't end up working lol), and I must say that it is always nice to come back home too.

Wednesday was 2 years since Wayne's grandad passed away. I still can't believe that he's gone, he was such a healthy person, and his mum and grandma lived to about 100.. so we were expecting him to go on forever, but it wasn't so. He had a heart attack, and complications.... I don't think that we really know what he died of in the end :(. Anyway we had a family get together at Wayne's parents and it was good to see some of the other family. I did feel a little sad that Julieanne wasn't there. She was having a sleepover at mums, and I thought that she would have liked it better there anyway.

Here's Wayne being his usual self

And I have to say that he generally is the life of the party.... even when he doesn't want to be, but if he's not it's always "why are you in a bad mood?" lol, he's not, he just wants some quiet time! But you can't please some people ;)

And finally here is something that I did for Wayne's mum.. I'm not real impressed with it, it was a rushed early morning thing, but I wanted to do something....

credits: painted circle splatz brush - Anna Aspnes. Roughed up tool kit - Rhonna Farrer. Blended Autumn papers - Denise Docherty. Autumn Glory texture - Nancie Rowe Janitz. Monoblendz Grafix papers - Anna Aspnes. Fonts 28 days later.

Well, that was a post and a half.. sorry for the rambling ;), but I need to get it all down so I'll remember it hehe.

Oh I almost forgot. Julieanne and I went to Chadstone today to see Happily Never After.. it was ok, but I think that I'm starting to expect to much from these kids films. I blame Shrek for that! Can't wait until June when the new one comes out!!

TFL and TTFN

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

A Tooth and some other stuff...

Well not really much other stuff ;).




Julieanne's first loose tooth finally came out today, after much wiggling. I'm surprised how well she went with the whole thing.. she is now extremely anxious to put it under her pillow tonight lol.. hmmm.. wonder what the tooth fairy will bring?

I'm glad that I actually managed to get this LO done before it fell out...


Journaling: It’s the first that is going to fall out.. it’s been wobbly for over 2 weeks now, so I’ve started to get used to the idea of you losing those precious little teeth.. I still don’t like it, but I’m slowly starting to accept that you are losing all of that babyness... it has come around so fast, and I really don’t want to see the end of it, but I know that you are going to make a beautiful girl with “big” teeth and big dreams.I will never forget this gorgeous grin of yours, though, showing all those precious baby teeth. 31 March 2007.
Credits:Monoblendz Graphix papers - Anna Aspnes. Ledger Frames No.2 - Katie Pertiet. Roughed up tool kit - Rhonna Farrer.
Fonts: Cooper Black, 2peas Journaling dingbats, 2peas Harlequin, 2peas Field Marshall.

We had a fairly quiet weekend.. Wayne had to work on one of the trucks as it's been making a funny noise, so he did that on Saturday. Then Sunday the lawns got done.. lol, that is a full days work around here.. well it should be, somehow I got stuck doing one section today ;). It seems that even the small amount of rain we had (we had 7ml last week when an hour away had about 40!) did wonders to the grass...

Also had a bit of a shock on Sunday on our way home from dropping Stewart off. The car we were following failed to stop at a shocking intersection... he went straight through, but there was a car coming along the other road.. she slammed straight into him, as she really had no other choice in the 100km zone.. anyway they were all so lucky, if either of them had of been going a little faster it would have been a pretty serious crash. As it was she only hit the back passenger panel, and spun the car around... I shudder to think what would have happened if she had of hit the front of the car... nobody was hurt, which was a blessing. We were the first there, so Wayne got out to see if everyone was ok, I don't know what he would have done if anyone was seriously hurt... he's a bit of a fainter with blood ;). Anyway he called 000, and the emergency services arrived a while later (I was actually surprised how long it took!). So that was the excitment of the weekend.. it does make you think of how dangerous the roads are! All is takes is someone not to give way... ::shudder:: :(

We have also deiced where we are going over Easter. We were going to go to Seaspray, and then that changed to Inverloch when that was booked, then Inverloch was booked so we got a house in Barwon Heads. It will be nice to get away :). Now just need to clean attempt to get the dust of my camera....... not holding high hopes ;)

Anyway, I can hear Wayne coming in the drive so will leave it at that.

TTFN