Friday Funny

Today is a perfect day - clear blue sky, warm sun - the type of day that begs you to come out and play :) A happy kind of day...

But not for Xena cat! As Sparky and I returned from our walk we could hear a dog barking and then we could see a Jack Russell pup jumping up at the base of the tree outside our house. High in the branches yowling up a storm was poor old Xena. I managed to catch the pup and phoned his owner, only to discover that young Loki lived around the corner. I took him home and locked him in the courtyard with a bowl of water - he was sad to see me go - I think he fancied some more adventure!

But back to the cat - still up the tree - still crying. I tried calling her down but she wouldn't budge. I went inside to have a think and saw out the window as she inched down to a lower fork. Unfortunately she was still too high for me to reach and we don't own a ladder. As I pondered my options the postie stopped to offer moral support :) While we chatted the cat tried to rearrange herself and fell out of the tree - luckily for her the postie was a lively lad and we caught her! She's now hiding under Angus' bed...

Enough of that! I have news. Drumroll please...

I am now a proud member of the SOUL design team :) How exciting! And SOUL has a cybercrop this weekend - I'd love you to join me -check out the challenges they're crackers :)

And now some scrapping shares:


This one was for the WP blind scrap - I love these BoBunny papers - so bright and fun (I got them from SOUL).

This one is about Angus going on his first Sport & Rec camp - five days of swimming, archery, new friends and fun! But not really any photos. I took this one when we picked him up. Got to laugh, the camp's logo is a cow :)


My girl loves to read - a passion and hobby worth celebrating!

In other news our garden has had a facelift - amazing what a bit of mulch and some rain can do. Angus was delighted with what he deemed to be the perfect Australian backyard and even took a photo.So, what makes it perfect? See those cricket stumps? And the dog chewing a bone? Those are the elements that combine to make an 11 year old's Aussie dream ;)

To celebrate we played some backyard cricket - hampered by the dog stealing the ball - we had a great time till I hit two balls over the fence and one onto the roof and Zoë hit two over the fence. Angus couldn't believe there were no balls left to play with - he accused us of deliberately spooning the ball - as if we even knew what that meant! We decided it was time to retire for drinks :)

TFSB!

Brand new babies

Yesterday Zoë and Angus' new cousins were born - twins - we've been waiting for such a long time since we first saw their little ultrasound pics. Shame they're in Japan and it might be even longer before we actually get to meet them.

So, introducing Hayato Carlson (pronounced Hyatto) weighing in at a healthy 2512 gms.


And his little sister Mio (Me-o) Selena - a tiny a 2048gms.


Born at 35 weeks both babies are doing well, Mio will stay in the humidity crib for about week but Hayato is already out of his. Mum is recovering nicely and Dad is filming madly!

TFSB :)

Vintage

When Rob's mum came to visit in January she brought, with her, a huge packet of old photos. With the photos of her childhood in mind I ordered the wp vintage kit. Armed with Krissy's vintage LO tips, today I created this...


TFSB :)

Things that make me happy...

...Fridays, friends, cycling downhill (mind you the climbing up the hill is always a killer!), happy mail... Sometimes it's important to stop and remind yourself of what is good about life before the other grim, grey stuff overwhelms you.

Talking about happy mail I got a stack of new flowers from Krissy - I'm guessing most of you know she is the creator of myvintageblossoms but if you didn't make sure you check them out - beautiful! I can't wait to create with them :) Your your new colours and styles are awesome Krissy!

I also received a packet of stamped images from the Scrapability swap and two more lovely wicked raks :) A big thanks to all the girls involved.

Today is CIS sketch day - here's my effort. I used the kit I won at SOUL (thanks Julie) and I thought the paper suited my monsters big and small!! I couldn't quite bring myself to create an OTT patriotic number lol.


Here's my entry for the Challenge Heaven themed challenge - another doodling disaster - will I ever learn??


I'm hoping (and planning) to spend a lot of time at the wicked cc this weekend. Have a good one whatever you're doing. TFSB :)

Cyber cropping

To check out all the action visit the wickedest forum of them all :)

...hope to see you there!

A good cause

The other day my sister sent me a link to her friend's blog - nothing unusual there except that her friend is the father of the little girl who died in the Samoan Tsunami last year. Little Clea (pronounced Clay-ah) was just seven years old. In celebration of her short life her family have arranged for a library to built in the Samoan village of Lalomanu. They've raised the money to build the library and are now taking donations of books. If you're interested you can check out the blog here

It's been raining cats and dogs here - great weather to be scrapping but not so hot to be taking pics of LOs. The sun came out briefly today before the skies opened up again. Here's what I've been up to.

This funky little ant lives on a neighbour's letterbox. He disappeared briefly and we thought he'd stolen and that made us really sad but, then he reappeared with new concrete boots (ok it was actually some type of supersonic glue). Next thing we knew he was sporting a Santa hat (the blurry pic is courtesy of Angus). Then for new year he had fabulous gold party hat.



This next one is a celebration of the lovely raks I received from some Wicked Princesses - thanks girls - happy mail is the best! The cs base is actually green not grey...

And this last one I discovered half finished but completely forgotten so I finished it off :) The pics and the papers were from the Girls Night In I attended last year.
TFSB :)

Grumpy

I've been a bit grumpy lately, for no particular reason, and I think it's effected my scrapping. But then yesterday I got a lovely RAK in the mail from Kate and I decided not to be grumpy any more! That and the fact one of my colleagues sent me an email addressed to 'dear grumpy' - too funny! I'm hoping my change in attitude will help my scrapping because it's sure to make my family and the worker bees happier :)

Here are a couple of recent LOs. Both are based on Scrapability Sketches.

I had a lot of fun with this one I used both shimmerz and paint - I was covered in yellow from my ankles to my armpits - how can that happen?? Looking at this LO now I seem to have dumped a lot of product on it -hmm! I love the Jenni Bowlin crepe paper ribbon - anyone else used it? Not sure it turned out quite as funky as I was hoping for though. Maybe a little less product placed strategically would have been a better approach lol.

This one was to punish Rob for being naughty when I wanted to take his photo on Australia Day. He just laughed though! There are no photos of me from that day because he only took one and it was horrible so I deleted it - I love being in charge of the camera (insert evil laugh here!!).

You can't really see it in the pic but the red doodled circles are filled with DM - I wanted to add some texture without crowding the page - I was pretty pleased with the result. I made myself doodle on this LO because I thought it might help me get over my ridiculous fear of doodling - baby steps people! A big thanks to Lana for sending me this gorgeous paper - who'd know it's a Christmas range?! Oh and what do you think about the lace trim? Is it way too girly for the naughty man-child? I liked the contrast but now? Not so sure...

Right the working week is over so I'm taking my new and improved attitude off to play with some product :) TFSB!

Scooter cat

My only question is why?

Here's my contribution to this week's edition of the CISter's sketch blog. Being terribly organised I didn't photograph it until about 9.30 last night but I figure everyone knows the BG Nook and Pantry colours ;)


Happy scrapping people :)

Not so Sparky

My little mate is sad today - he misses his peeps and can't believe I've sent them back to school and work. I took him for a walk and he perked up but he's now back on the lounge with his back to me!

Amazing how quickly routine kicks in again - it's only day 2 of the kids being back at school and the house has been restored to relative calm and order, I've also been able to get my work done without interruption so that means I've had time to scrap :)

SOUL has a cc on at the moment and there are heaps of challenges to choose from. So far I've done two but I'm hoping to get another one done before the cut off tonight.


The monster fern LO is also my first one for the 52 week challenge over at Scrapability - each week Bec is providing a creative prompt. It's not a competition, there aren't any prizes but it's going to be loads of fun - the first prompt was green, blue and orange plus buttons.

Thanks for all your lovely comments - I really appreciate you stopping by - have a good one!

Same, same but different

So, here we are in February already. Today is the last day of the Summer holidays and Angus has been driving me insane - he just won't leave Zoë alone and her anger management skills need a little work! He and I had a little chat and he is now pretending to be a door-to-door survey taker, complete with alternate Indian and South African accents - I've got to laugh (or I might just cry!).

So, a couple of scrappy shares - pics on both were taken on Australia Day. The first one was for the Scrap the Girls January challenge - Zoë striking a pose :)


This one is based on a sketch from Scrapability Sketches - I love the colour of the sky behind the kids.
I was very excited to see that my fabulous friend Julie made the STG creative team for 2010 - wtg Julie - so deserved - I love your stuff :)

TFSB!