A SCRAPBOOKER'S CHILD ...

You may recall (from a couple of posts ago) it was my son's birthday and he received (in his world) the ultimate presents .... Star Wars Lego !!!
Well, over the past weeks in our house we "eat, sleep & breath" Star Wars Lego!

Blake has built the kits he got for his birthday, and more kits he purchased with some of his birthday money.

We have Star Wars battles, characters, sound effects etc. etc. (you get my drift)!

On Sunday Night (whilst DH was on nightwork), i scrapped whilst Blake occupied himself with his Lego .... then, he had a great idea ........

"Mum, will you take some photos of me & my Lego and do a page (LO) for me" ??!



So here are the pics from our "photo shoot" !! don't you just love the 'setup scene' with the little orange man surrendering .... How Cute !! :)














and ... soon i will share with you our Star Wars Lego Layout!!

Keep Smiling :)
JULIE x

GOODBYE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

Well, there's another round of daylight savings finished. I am always disappointed to see Daylight Savings end; however, i must say, today seems to have lasted such a long time ... that is a real bonus for a Sunday!
I can't believe the freaky weather patterns at the moment. Yesterday we were near melting and had the air conditioner on until night time; today it has poured and we're into long sleeves !@#??! Crazy !!!
To make matters worse, the soccer season unofficially started today with trial games ... oh goody ... soccer in the pouring rain ... grrrh!
I just don't see the sense in kids running around in the pouring rain, parents trying to stay dry under umbrellas, a fair chance of getting sick with a cold etc etc. Very annoying. I don't know why they don't just split the points between the teams and hope for better weather next week! There you go ... i have just solved the problems of the world with wet weather and children's sport !! LOL!
You want to know the silliest thing of all ... it is only us parents that stress about 'cause i think the kids actually get a bit of a buzz out of it!!

Well, other than trying to stay dry at soccer, i have had a very non-eventful "chill out" weekend and oh boy it feels good!

Loved having some spare time to scrap. Here is another LO to share. Loving those American Craft papers at the moment!





... and another ...





and i do have another .... but .... i have found a publication comp that I am half considering entering ( i have never bothered with any of this sort of thing before ) so i'll have a bit of a think about it .......

I think i'll have a rest from my scrapbooking for today ... now time for some reading and hopefully an early night !

Have a great week everyone.

JULIE x

A week of Ups & Downs ...

I enjoying playing on my blog, but time passes so quickly and i never get to update as often as i would like too.
Another usually busy week ... busy at home, busy at school, busy busy at work; but all is good until some sad news yesterday ...
My husband's cousin & his wife were awaiting the birth of their baby girl (had already found out the baby's sex) in approx 3 months time. We spent last Saturday night with them at a family doo and as well as our chatting about her less than easy pregnancy, her very swollen feet & ankles and looking so exhausted was obvious. She was telling us that doctors were monitoring closely due to symptoms of pre-eclampsia.
On Thursday, her symptoms became quite serious and she was hospitalised for treatment; however, on Thursday night everything went "pear shaped" and this ended with an emergency caeser (sp?).
Sadly, their little Lara Jane was without oxygen for approx 17 mins and whilst they were able to resucitate her and keep her stabilised with a life support machine, her short little life ended at 1pm yesterday.
Events like this make you step off that busy roller coaster ride called life, even if just for a moment, and realise how lucky we are for all the good things.

On a different note, this weekend is planned to be totally non-eventful ... i am trying hard to not have to "do this, be there, get that" .... so .... this means some spare time for scrapbooking !!!!

I finished this LO of our family day out on Blake's 3rd Birthday ... sooo cute, feels like such a long time ago .. sigh !!





More to come ....

Have a great weekend everyone.

JULIE C x

PROUD

WARNING ... LONG POST AHEAD!!

The last few days in our family life have been filled with "proud" events!

On Friday, our school held a liturgy as part of their celebrations for 'Catholic Education Week'. As usual, the liturgy was lovely and the participation of the children makes it very special.



My little man was so excited to taking part in the special readings. He was so proud and so serious .... we were very proud too. He done a great job!!

Today were up at 5am and gone by 6am .... it has been a huge day.

REWIND .... A few months ago DH decided to set a personal goal of training to get fit and enter the 'Spark & Helmore Triathlon' in Newcastle (which raises money for the Hunter Medical Research Institute).

So, as planned, he has been training (swimming, jogging and riding his bike) for the big event.





As you can see in this photo he made it to the finish (completed the course in just over 1 hour) ...

He is was proud of himself as were his two biggest fans ... Blake & I!



I got some other great pics and hopefully will find the time to do some scrapbooking this week.

After all that excitement ... we made our way over to Energy Australia Stadium to see the Newcastle Knights & Bulldogs game. It has been years since i have been to a league game. DH is a mad knights supporter, DS has been brainwashed into being a mad knights supporter and I don't mind themeither! It was a great atmosphere, a very close game and the knights won by 1 point ... all in all it finished off a great day out.

Just one more thing ... through the week i lost a post (stupid blogger !!?!) and I can't be bothered retyping whatever the general conversation was but will share the LO i completed with the bright & beautiful American Craft papers from SCRAPBOOKnBITS.



I really like this range ... it is bold & bright which makes it easy to do simple layouts on a limited time budget! SnB has also just got in the biggest & bestest range of chipboard titles (approx 50 different titles) ... everything imaginable from boy titles, girl titles, easter, pets, ballet etc. etc. (if they are not showing on the website send Karen an email ... she's bound to have what you are looking for or at least something very close).

Have a great week everyone.

JULIE x

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK

I still haven't had a chance to redo the post i lost the other night; but more important post for now ....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DH ... MARK!!
16th March 2007




We got him a pair of crocs and the thing he wanted most ... surfing lessons !!
He has been talking for months about learning to surf ... so ... we brought him 4 x 2hr personal surfing lessons.

He was quite impressed with his present but i have to say ... i don't share his enthusiasm for the beach. I hate sand, and, wading around out there in the water makes you pretty good shark bait in my opinion!!! ... god forbid ... i hope he'll be safe!



Anyway ... once again ... Happy Birthday Mark xxx

JULIE :-)

STUPID BLOGGER

I have just sat and typed the longest bestest blog ... lots of pics ... yahdee yahdee yahdee ... and lost the lot!!!!

Can you hear that SCREEEEAAAMMMING ... yes, thats me!

Stupid Blogger ... SHIT, SHIT, SHIT !?*#!! (am i allowed to swear on this thing?)

Too tired to do it again ...

will try again tomorrow night!

JULIE :O(

ANOTHER WEEK GONE!

I can't believe how fast this year is flying ... but i guess we say that every year!!

Every week just feels like it rolls into one ... work, school, sport etc etc .... BUT ... i have finally found some time to scrap and actually finish some projects.

This week i completed a 'Mini Hanger Project' but can't share this with you yet 'cause it is one of the workshops with 'SCRAPBOOKnBITS' at the Craft Fair this weekend ... make sure to pop in and say "hi" if you get over there this weekend!

And ... talk about first time for everthing ... last night i completed by first on-line crop ( i have registered before but then something has cropped up and i haven't got to join in ). Kim Archer's 'ALWAYS' workshop was lots of fun and i have a completed LO to show for it!








Sorry that the pics are a bit dark ... i'm a bit "hit & miss' with my camera at the moment!

Anyway, back to scrapbooking ... hope to share some more LO's with you over the weekend.

PS: Is anyone out there going to KiwiScraps in April??

Have a great weekend.

JULIE x

MY BABY IS 10 !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE xx






This weekend has been filled with celebrations for Blake's birthday - 3rd March.

10 YEARS ... Wow, where has it gone. A decade ... double figures, where has my baby gone??

We have had little friends here all weekend end, sleepovers etc. Last night we went to the drive-in with a little group of his friends and today was a big bbq birthday at the park.

Blake is now enjoying a quite evening putting together some of his 'much wanted' Star Wars Lego kits that he received and I am planning on a rest (that is after tea is organised, uniforms ironed for the week, everything tidied and packed away from today's party and the house is order for the start of another busy week) ... mmm, now what was that about a little rest !#*?!




This is my very happy boy with a few of his new Lego additions!





Here is Blake's best buddy (and our almose adopted son!) ... Matt & Blake met at Pre-School and have been best buddies ever since. They are such beautiful little boys .. i hope this is one of those friendships that continues into adult life when they have wives, children of their own etc etc.




What a bunch!! Oh how wonderful the world is to be 10 and life full of fun, fun, fun!!

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Off to do some projects with some of the gorgeous new products at
'SCRAPBOOK n BITS' for "Craft Alive" coming next weekend.

Cheers,
JULIE x