HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD !!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Dad!



He is clever, humble, proud, wise, patient, and all the other wonderful things that make him such a wonderful Dad & Pop!

CRAZY, CRAZY!!!

That is the best way to describe life at the moment ... but i'm not complaining ... i'm exhausted (or maybe i should say WE are all exhausted), but not complaining!

My new office is all but finished and it looks fantastic ... huge HUGE HUGE thanks & appreciation to my family - to my DH & Dad to have spent every waking hour building, painting etc etc; to my Mum for being the backstop and providing an endless supply of meals, babysitting etc whilst we were all so pre-occupied, to my little man (Blake) for being such a wonderful patient little person whilst being 'dragged from pillar to post' for the past two weeks and to my sister for the time she is about to spend getting my computer systems & bookkeeping systems up & running for me ... i realise every day that i am blessed and never take for granted having such a wonderful supportive family!

On the scrapbooking front .....

This weekend is the MEGA SCRAP DAY BREAST CANCER FUNDRAISER being hosted by SCRAPBOOKnBITS ... really looking forward to a day of scrapbooking and meeting new people. It's not too late to join us ... contact/email Karen at SnB!
There is also the 'Advent Calendar Christmas Card' workshop ... a different spin on Christmas Cards to send to family & friends ...



More scrapbooking ....

Have you seen the gorgeous new 'vintage paper lace' at SnB ...



ONLINE VINTAGE LACE LAYOUT WORKSHOP ... Next Wednesday evening (31st Oct). The workshop is FREE, kit can be purchased for $14 (this includes postage) click HERE for more details

I feel like i have rambled and squashed all this info in at once ... but it will probably be another week before i get a chance to blog again so i have to make the most of my opportunity!! LOL!

Have a great week everyone,

JULIE x

DOUBLE JINX

This week i have double jinxed myself ... but it was good jinxing!!

1) Jury Duty - after waiting for instructions for 2 days it was decided that the panel i had been nominated for was not required .... YEE HAH!
2) Pulication submission - although i was prepared for another rejection, i did send in a LO to be considered ... and ... i got a POSITIVE reply!! Another YEE HAH!

Now it just proves that thinking aloud on my blog can be beneficial ....

Dear Blog, i really wish i could win lotto ....

keep your fingers crossed for me !!! LOL!!

JULIE :O)

RANDOM RANTINGS !!

One week of the school holidays gone already ... we love school holidays!

DH is off work this week, so i'm sure there will be lots of boy activities going on ... fishing etc. plus a few 'sleep overs' planned with some of Blake's buddies coming to stay and we're off to the drive-in for the night. With all this planned, i guess the next week will fly by [sigh]!

This weekend has been fairly non-eventful (which is such a nice change in our lives). DH was on dogwatch this weekend, DS was in 'chill out' mode watching a few dvd's and spent time out with some friends today .... and i got some much loved 'me time' for some scrapping!!

I was going to try my luck at submitting for publication consideration; however, rejection is depressing so i will share with you lovely people instead! LOL!

Do these photos look familiar?? Love being able to do LO's using lovely bright colours ... even got out the old mm foam stamps (boy, haven't used them in ages)!


Bit of an 'in house' joke with this title. DH has always been a skiier up until last year when he decided to learn to snowboard. This year for Father's Day he got a new snowboard ... so now he has attitude !



I have almost finished another LO for SCRAPBOOKnBITS which features the gorgeous new VINTAGE PAPER LACE ... mmmm very noice! Have a look HERE

Well, tommorrow is the big "Jury Duty" day .... keep your fingers crossed for me that they decide i am not really a great upstanding citizen and therefore don't require my services ... one can only hope!!

Have a great week everyone!

Keep Smiling :O)

JULIE x

A PINCH & A PUNCH ...

FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH!!!

Can you believe it is October???? Another year is flashing before our eyes ... in fact it has been exactly 12 months this weekend that we left for our one month holiday around Victoria, Great Ocean Road, Broken Hill etc last year - oh how i wish we were on our way again!!!

Anyway, the last week has gone fast too ... great to finish another term of school and start the school holidays ... i loooove school holiday! Love the break from routine, uniforms, lunches, homework etc etc.

Friday night i attended a fundraiser scrapbooking night at Lisarow Public School - this was organised by the lovely Alex (whom i met at the SCRAPBOOKnBITS Scrapbooking Retreat earlier this year. Alex runs a business with gorgeous and unique homewares, gifts & things ... there is even a 'spring sale' coming up ... have a peak HERE !!

Here is the one & only LO i completed at the scrapbooking night ... (a bit too much chatting i think!!)



I am slowly but surely getting through all my photos taken prior to scrapbooking which aren't really great photos in a 'scrapbooking sense'; however, i wouldn't part with them for the world ... what do they say ... "you just have to make the best of a bad situation"!! LOL!

Saturday i worked all day - no excitement to report there! Just the usual ongoing saga of keeping the day to day business flowing and trying to get my new office happening ... at this stage, the finalisation date has been set for 17th October ... fingers crossed!

Sunday ... beautiful Sunday! The weather here was just gorgeous so we had a day out in the boat (with a group of friends and some of their friends with their boats etc). We went over to the sand islands near Pelican and set ourselves up for the day (caught up with other people we knew too - very popular place!) It was so nice to relax, have a chat, a few drinks, a lovely lunch; and the kids had a wonderful time swimming, building sand castles, kicking a ball around etc!




We headed home at about 6pm, a quick shower and then all re-gathered again to watch the NRL grand final. Didn't really care who won ('cause we are Newcastle Knights supporters) but a good excuse to socialise!!

Today was a major "wind down" day ... got lots of washing done, cleaned out mine & DH wardrobes (lord knows that is only scratching the surface - intending to go through the whole house), then had an afternoon nap - this is soooo not me to sleep during the day, but i feel great for it!!

Well, here's the start of another busy week, looking forward to doing some 'school holiday activities' as well as juggling the office; but very unsure about next week's activities cause i have been summonsed for jury duty !!! eeeeek! I would be really grateful for any comments from anyone that has done this before - feeling a little nervous!!

Have a great week everyone.

JULIE x