1 day till 2009

well wow didn't that year just wiz by!! We had a lovely Christmas day at my sisters, lots of food and sun...loved it, I haven't got anything finished that i can show just yet but heres a peek and a few Chrissy photos.The guys floundering at port waikato.

Id like to thank you for your messages and wish you a awesome new year
Hugs from me to you :)

The christmas crazys

Hi, how are you all getting on with your Christmas plans? I have just started doing mine!! i know, I'm a little slow of the mark. I collected
the wedding album and all the stuff i put aside so I'm all set to go there,
hmmm priority's lol . Went and did some shopping today so i guess
thats a start. Hope you all have a awesome holiday, I'm not going away
so will be around the boards getting inspiration :)

online class:stories in hand

Well i couldn't find a 6x6 album suitable for this class so i made my own,

I am still putting it together slowly, been doing other things as well.The

class was great, lots of other info as well. If you've done this class with

Jessica i would love to here how you are getting on either using your

book or putting it all together.

Drum roll .,.,.,.,,.,.. Winner is

Hi all, sorry im a little late posting the winner, I loved reading your blogs

AND THE WINNER IS ......... Mrs Frizz , please send me

your post details and i will get this away ASAP

Only 2 working weeks left for me till im on holiday and i am sooooo

looking forward to that. Have a great day and injoy the awsome weather

Thanks for joining in

Fun fun fun

LOL im haveing so much fun makeing christmas things at the moment,

now most of you have probably already done this, but incase your like me and hadent thought about it,this wee box is a recycled chrisse card,how cool is that.

All you do is get an old used card, cut it in half down the crease,the front will become the top and the back will become the bottom of the box, crease 1 inch in from edge of card on all 4 sides ,to make the courner folds see picture above .

To make the bottom do the same as above but make it a tiny bit smaller,

not to much or your lid will be losse. Have fun :)

Christmas goodie bags

That Christmas felling is starting to kick in at last, i have been busy making goodie bags, the one above is my all time favourite,each year
i buy abut 20 of these cute mini kit bags from the $2 shop, they cost
$1 each, then i decorate them (im loving the bells i got this year) and
add treats, I send these overseas ,and to a few special friends here
in New Zealand, I add things like NZ made products for over seas such as
some of our delicious moisturisers, Rotourua mud soap,kiwi fruit face cream etc, for my NZ friends i add things i either know they like for eg:
I have done one with lip gloss and nail polishes in it and another has
a voucher and lose chockys in it. They are easy to post or deliver and theres no limit as to what gos in them,also were shearing a little bit of Kiwi with the rest of the world .
Hope your all in joying this super weather we have today. TFL

Edited: I have just reloaded this post as the last one had a link to a porn site :( grrr I think i will have to use the moderate posts thing from now on as it takes ages to re post and if anyone has left me a nice post that gets deleted to .

ATC Christmas card

I did a class at SBS, i loved the idea of a ATC on a card so went for a play.

This is my first attempt at ATC and can see a lot of cool uses for these apart from trading. TFL

Give away [just because i can]

Hi all, well only a few more weeks to go and it Christmas, i have to say i am REALLY looking forward to some time of work, i have some serious scrapping to do. 2 albums to start and my stories in hand book to finish,

and lots of photos to scrap. I seam to have developed the blues this month

so thought id shear some happiness lol just leave a post with a link to your blog and go into the draw for this glorious kit, if you don't have a blog just leave a link to one on your favourite layouts where ever it may be.Theres lots of different goodies to try.So spread the word,I will do a random draw on the 7th of december

Dare 58 - T-Shirt Inspiration

This dare was to get inspiration from the T.Shirt above, i have used,paint,glitter,bling,stamps,overlay,stickers,grunge board and

lace what a fun layout to do. Go to http://nzdares.blogspot.com/

and have some fun with this one, great for boy layouts,its not often

you get something this cool for boys/guys .I would have done my son but

i found this old photo of me and Yvonne, and thought the clothing fitted well with this theme. TFL

SrappinPatch sketch

I had fun scraping these photos, i really need to do more multi photo layouts!

This is my take on the scrappinpatch sketch which you can see here http://scrappinpatch.blogspot.com/ thanks for visiting my blog.

Dare #57 is one for the birds

Had a play with glitter on this layout, edged the top piece of lace and the flower, the bird i stamped on. Take a look at NZ Dares here http://nzdares.blogspot.com/TFL

Mini album 08

I did this mini album for my mum, thought id shear it just to prove i did get some things done

at the retreat lol

Sketchbook retreat survivor

The Sketchbook Retreat was awesome, when i say survivor its because i didn't sleep allot lol Cherie and i stayed up till around 3am Friday night and then up about 8am , Saturday night we ended upalmost doing an al-nighter Here we were in a big hall just the 2 of us having the time of our life,I haven't laughed so much in ages I think we have the same silly sense of humour anyway we finallythought we best get some sleep about 5.30 ish am.Fay and Nicks classes were great,especially loved Nicks as the papers were right up my ally, The foodwas delicious the people were great . Oh Saturday night Halloween party (dress up) was cool, lots ofus dressed for the night and lots of photos were taken,our very own Kelly made us all tomb stones for theback of our chairs and made EVERY one a little Halloween bag with a chocky in it thanks Kelly your the bomb all her hard work urned our group a prize pack.I will be doing a few layouts with some of the photos over the next week you might find some interesting tit bits on them i have one nearly ready to load thanks to Lisa's nifty little photo printerso it will be up tonight I'm hoping, might have to have a we nap first.Megan did an outstanding job setting this all up and i will defiantly be in for the next one

Ready or not

Im of to scrap camp..... husband " you taking that"! me "yessssssss" husband !!!!!" hmmf
should i hook up the trailer" !!!!
Any one would think i am taking to much with me? MEN they just don't get it, i just might need
something in that lot hehehe
Any how i am really excited about the whole thing, and will post all about it when i get back.
Have a great weekend

Mini Album

I have been sorting out what i am going to do at the sketch book retreat, i have done the cover and inside page of a mini album I'm going to do for mum, so that's 1 thing, i also wont to finish a mini album i started ages ago but will have to get all the bits and pieces together for it.

I am really looking forward to the retreat as iv never been to one before NOTE TO SELF:

don't forget beding lol

Paper Pesto sketch

I did this layout using a paper pesto sketch, and some of the products i got in my last kit from them.

Ouch

Today i was packing some stuff at work and had to cut down a box as it was to big ,I have a lovely sharp Stanly knife for these jobs, the knife hit a join and slipped cutting me across the wrist,
lucky for me it missed the tendon and artery, it bleed like hell,so we stuffed a rag on it and of to A+E i went, 3 stitches and a tetanus shot later i was back at work.....sooooo the lesson here is
don't cut towards yourself lol Lucky its my left hand side so i can still scrap my heart out

NZ Dare 56

This challenge is to scrap about some one missing from your scrapbook, this is my aunt

Phyllis and uncle Mike, (twins) I was lucky enough to get hold of a picture of them together.

I am loving the Items i received in my last paper pesto kit, If you know of any good outlets for old style (Heritage) items suitable for scrapbooking i would love to know.

Thanks for looking and please do leave a comment i love to read your feed back .

Ready To Fly-Heritage

I am really getting into my old photos lately, i love doing heritage layouts, i cut the flowers out of a piece of basic grey paper and the bird out of fabric, I will add dates later as i need to talk to mum about when these were taken. Thanks for visiting :)

October sketch SBBD & NZ Dare 56

This sketch was perfect for my heritage album,the photo here was black and white originally,

on the back is a list of what each persons hair colour is and the colours they were wearing, then

colour was added to the photo,I wonted to portray the love they felt but keep with the old look

so went for the very pail blue,such a beautiful photo but such a sad story.