Our Wedding Anniversary

Tomorrow Phil and I are celebrating our wedding anniversary. We have been together for 18 years (!) and tomorrow will be our 11th Wedding Anniversary! It is so hard to believe so many years have gone by ... time flies when you're having fun!!!

I made this quick card for him for tomorrow - it's a little 'girlie' but it's hard to make a romantic card in masculine colours so this will have to be ok! I'm sure he'll love it - he's always complaining that I make cards for everyone else and not for him!!!! So here is one just for him! I just need to do a bit of searching for a nice verse to print for the inside.

We won't actually have a lot of time together tomorrow so we're going to try and have breakfast out before the day begins! The kids are having a sleep-over tonight at Nanny and Poppy's as we are off to the school P&C dinner so I think we might be able to manage breaky out if it's just the 2 of us to get ready!! LOL

Other than that we will do something nice for dinner with the kids! We are trying to think of somewhere budget AND kid friendly - other than McDonald's!

Have had one of 'those' days today ... Immi fell off the bed last night (she was being one of those monkeys in that song and she was the one who fell off and bumped her head!) .... so it was decided that with a lump on her head and possible headache she would stay home. So, off to school I took the other 2 ... a girlfriend rang and suggested a quick coffee at Bent on Food after we dropped kids off ... well of course I could squeeze that in (!) and thought Immi might like a milkshake (well, she wasn't technically SICK after all) ... so off we went for our morning tea.

Getting in the car after coffee I realized that Phil had called my mobile SEVEN times ... hmmm a problem possibly and I didn't hear my mobile ... well there is Scarlet Fever AND Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease at the school ... so Taylah needs to be brought home as with her immune system she cannot be around any 'diseases' or virus' .... so off to the school I go to pick her up ... she's not impressed as this can mean WEEKS away from school for her. We then find out the sick children are in Immi's class. Fabulous. She's exposed. Fabulous, I did reading on Wednesday, I'm exposed. OK ... what this means for Tay for the moment we will wait and see.

Immi then decided she feels MUCH better and would like to go to school .... I decide she's already pre-exposed so it makes no difference so OK .. if she's asking she can go! Home we go to get her dressed (which is 10 minutes away, not around the corner) ... back to school she goes. OK ...

Then I decide to get petrol ... so excited as it's down to $1.24 ..... fill the car up and $77 later ... reach for my handbag ... it's not there. Good god I left it at home!!!!!!!

Go in and beg forgiveness from the lovely lady behind the counter ... leave all my details ... race home AGAIN ... grab said bag ... BACK to Wingham ... pay and leave red-faced .. then HOME with no more stops so as we don't jinx ourselves!!!!!!

So far so good the rest of the day has gone ok! So, after a quick trip up to the school to drop the kids off this morning in my house clothes and not a scrap of makeup on my face, I finally walked in the door at 12.15pm ...... you just have to love those sort of days!! LOL

So, hoping everyone has a fabulous weekend! Apart from our Anniversary we also have b'day parties to take 2 of the 3 cherubs to! One of those running around weekends I think!

Sorry for my above 'ranting'! It's just funny where the day sometimes takes you!

Enjoy your weekend, TFL

Love and hugs xo

Not a lot of scrapping going on!

Well the weeks are flying by and I feel like I'm running around in circles not getting much done at all, but finding the hours in the day just aren't enough! I'm sure we're all starting to feel like that with the countdown to Chrissy pretty much on now!

Haven't had a chance to do a lot of scrapping lately - am supposed to be doing paperwork for Phil! When I say supposed I really mean it and now the deadline is here and, well, I shouldn't be on this that's for sure! A downside to having your own business! All that paperwork!!! LOL

Anyway, it was recently World Teacher's Day so the girls went off to school with these quick cards and a beautiful notepad for each of their teacher's. I couldn't quiet convince Nick to do the same for his teacher! Must be too cool in Yr 6 to do something like that! LOL

Hope you're all having a good week - TFL

Hugs and kisses xoxoxo

Better Late Than Never!!!!!!!

Well, these challenges are from WEEKS ago over at the Scrapsidaisy Forum ... but I have been able to get to them eventually!!!!!! Haven't had a lot of spare scrapping time lately ... there always seems to be one thing or another on .... but hopefully this weekend will be a little quieter than the last few and I might get some things done that I have scrapped in my head!!! LOL

Challenge #14

This first page is of Immi at the school Book Week Parade. The poor little thing she had been very unwell for 2 weeks and had lost a LOT of weight (she doesn't have a lot of weight on her so any loss is noticible poor thing!) .... anyway, we ventured back to school for the Parade as it was her first ever being in Kindy this year! She had a ball and was very much a Royal Princess in every way!!!!

This second page is challenge number 15 (I think) and is of Phil, Nick and Uncle Andrew at a Newcastle Knights home game against South Sydney ... we (Knights) totally flogged them!!!!!! Is that even correct 'footy-speak'???!!!

Hope everyone is having a great week ... thanks for looking!

Hugs and kisses, Helen xo

Tory's Day ....

We recently had the weekend in Coffs Harbour where we officially became 'God-Parents' or 'Guardians' to our gorgeous God-Daughter Victoria Anne (Tory). Tory is the baby sister of our other God-Daughter Alexandra (Ally) and these gorgeous girls belong to our Best Friends, Donna and Marty.

I had planned on making a book for everyone to sign on the day but Leisa had these fabulous tins at Scrapsidaisy so I decided to do something with one of them ....

This is what I came up with ... I thought it was so pretty with the pink and butterflies - they were COVERED in glitter as well which you can't really see from the photo's ....

I then cut out little tags and had them on a ring and I got everyone to sign a tag with a little wish for Tory for her life ahead of her ....

The inside of the lid ......

This is the 5 of us with Tory .... how CUTE is she!!!!!!!!

And a RARE family photo! Donna and Marty also had a professional photographer on the day so I am really excited about getting some shots from him as well ... we haven't had a proper family photo for YEARS ... great thinking of them to do that!

I have done a couple of pages recently but haven't had a chance to photograph them yet so I will get to that this weekend hopefully!

Enjoy the weekend ahead ... TFL ... Me xo

I can't believe it ... I SCRAPPED!!!!!!!

Oh wow!!! This never happens to me and yet this weekend, it did! I actually got time to scrap, not just one, but TWO pages .... AND a card!!!!!!!! The card below is for Copycat Cards challenge of the week .... to include an arrow. Nick received a gift in the post from his Great-Grandmother so I thought it would be nice for him to send a nice thank you card.

This page I did for the latest challenge Jules has put up for us over at the Scrapsidaisy forum. They are just a couple of photo's from our family weekend in Sydney a few weeks ago.

And last but not least is a quick LO I did of some flowers that hubby recently sent me. The kids had been home for 2 weeks solid with that horrible bug that was going around, as well as a dose of the flu, and he was away the whole time! So I came home from a Dr's appointment one day to find these flowers waiting for me to let me know he was thinking of me and to cheer me up!!!!!

Hope all is well in everyone else's pocket of the world!

Thanks for looking!!!

Love and friendship .... Me xo

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

I hope the Dad of your house is having a really great day!!! Our day started out with the Daddy of the house being pampered with breaky etc ... only to end up with more work being done on the never-ending renovations ... of course the weather is good today so we 'may as well get stuck into it' ... so there went all the idea's of really letting him put his feet up!!!! At the moment the kitchen lino is being ripped up to make way for the tiling ... which will come at a MUCH MUCH later date ...

Anyway, I made these clocks ... one for Phil from the kids, and also one for my Dad. Phil just LOVES his - haven't seen Dad yet so he'll get his later on ...

This end of the year is our busy Birthday end of the year! Nick is 12 this Wednesday which is just so scary that my baby is that grown up! We found out on Friday he has been able to get into the High School all his friends will be going to which is great because it's out-of-area for us so we had to apply. He's been so worried about it and so was able to have a much happier weekend! Anyway, he had a few mates over yesterday and off to the movies they went before coming home and creating havoc here!!!! Gorgeous Leisa has given me Wed night off so we'll have a family dinner that night. Although it's of his choice so who knows what we'll end up having!

Then in 2 weeks we have our baby of the house turning 6 .... sob sob!!! She's having a GYM party this year with a heap of her Kindy friends so I made invites this week. They are SUPER basic but I put a sparkly butterfly on each one and they looked so pretty all lined up drying away .. I had to take a photo ... doesn't really show how pretty they are though ... I'm sure all the boys just loved them!!! LOL ... Immi said there was glitter EVERYWHERE when they opened them! The Mum's would be loving me!!!!!

I know I've been a very bad blogger recently and I'm not sure if anyone other than Donna looks here anymore, but I will try to be better from now on!!!! LOL yeah sure!!!!!!!

I haven't been able to do a LOT of scrapping lately with quiet a few trips to Sydney for Taylah for Dr appointments but it was so good to do Immi's invites, invites for Donna and creating the clocks that I'm busting to get into it again! I have more photo's than I know what to do with so I'll have to get into them!

Better go help the Daddy of the house!!!!! Love and Hugs xo

Loooong weekend ....

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend ... despite the weather! We are 2 children down for the weekend so it's a quiet house here for us!!!!!!!

This is a quick card I threw together for a good friend wh recently had a b'day. I love the Sasafrass range of papers and have used them quiet a bit.

Enjoy the weekend and TLF ... Love Me xo

Just a quick LO .....

I really love this photo of Immi with our baby God-Daughter. Immi just loved having a little one in the house to play with for a week while they stayed with us ... being the baby in our family and the baby out of most of our friends, she hasn't had a lot of time with little ones and thought Victoria was her own little doll to play with! The noteworthy flowers and die-cuts made it a really easy and quick LO to put together!

It's Raining, It's Pouring ....

Wow ... this weather is amazing ... it's been raining all morning and not looking like it is going to let up at all ... I hope it's not wet for the long weekend ... I haven't even looked at the weather forecast ... do I really want to???

These are just a couple of 'quick' cards I threw together recently ... I just loved this Winnie the Pooh verse from the Dreamstreet collection ...

Hope everyone has a fabulous long weekend ... and stays dry!

TFL ... Hel xo

Over at the Scrapsidaisy Forum Jules set another LO challenge and this is what I came up with for week 6 ... I'm only 2 weeks behind now!!!!!!! You can't really tell in this photo but I've cut out matching circles and raised them on the PP ... not sure about my hand-writing ... I always have 'issues' with it! But I love these photo's of Tay and Immi at Old Bar ... Tay was wearing an old pair of my sunnies which were waaaaayyy too big for her but she loves them! Once of those occasions where the girls were actually getting along ... which is happening much more frequently these days!

Hope whoever is still looking here is well ... I'm not enjoying this colder weather we've suddenly got after such gorgeous sunny days! Ah well it is winter and we've been spoilt with the gorgeous weather really.

TFL ... Love Hel xo

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!

Well, I hope all the Mum's I know had a fabulous day on Sunday for Mother's Day. I really did have a great day ... I think one of the best yet! The kids had made all sorts of goodies for me at school which were the best presents out of the mountain of gifts I got from them! Nothing beats what they have made themselves! That said though, I have yet to receive Nick's because he keeps leaving it at school! Oh well ... he's a boy and I guess this is what they do!!!!!!! Here are a couple of goodies I made the Grandparents this year ... Phil's Mum, my Mum and my Nan.

Like a lot of people, I always give the Grandparents photo's of the kids for Mother's Day and Xmas ... this year our school photo's were back in time to give out so I made this hanger for my Nan .....

The card and wall hanger I made for Mum. This is using one of the fabulous kits from Scrapsidaisy that Jules has created and kitted up to buy. Only $15 for the kit which includes everything except the stamps and adhesives ... great value that's for sure!

Enjoy the weekend ...

I made this Handbag and card for my friend Shirley who lives in NZ ... it was her B'day recently and she loves bits and pieces so I've put some little notepads inside it for her as well ... I had it to make for her b'day last year and didn't get around to it so this year I made sure I got it done!!!!!!!

This was a little gift for our God-Daughter, Victoria ... it's one of the Making Memories Kits and I think it came up really well ... I had a bag of goodies for Donna and she loved this ... it turned out really sweet ... I would love to do another one of their kits another time ... I think they have a 'HOME' one as well which I would love to do ... could be a good idea for a rainy weekend like this one!

I hope you have a great weekend ... I know I just wrote it was a rainy weekend but now of course the sun is out .... give it 5 minutes and it will be gone again! Crazy isn't it!

I'm off to play at the shop today ... oops of course I mean WORK Leisa!!!!! ha ha ha .... I think Jules and I have the bestest job and 'boss' in the world!!!!

Better go get ready ... Love Hel xo

My Scrap Space!!!!!!

My scrap space I've made in the entertainment room out the back of our house!!!!!!!! It looks a little messy in the photo but it's not too bad really! There are a lot of boxes under the tables but most of these are actually boxes of photo's (under the table that is under the window) I've brought in so I can get to things easily! They will be sorted eventually .... one day!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so NICE to have my own spot though and to not be packing things up every 5 minutes!!!!! The kids have been great and haven't been into everything ... they have their own box of stuff under the table and that's all they use .... luckily Tay knows how to use most things of mine anyway so she can always help Immi when they are making their 'creations'!!!!!!!!!

Is Anyone Still Out There????

Hi!

Oh wow ... it has been SO looooong since I've been on my blog I almost forgot my sign in details!!!! That's a little bit sad!!!!!! i don't even know if anyone is still visiting my quiet little blog ...

Anyway ... I thought I'd write a quick HELLO ... and I do have to confess, thank you Jules (!!!!!!!!) that NO, my scrap area didin't happen the weekend that I thought it was going to ..... got very sidetracked ... so sidetracked that is that I only got my scrap area set up ..... YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a little sad really ... but such an indication of our crazy life at the moment! Yesterday was my first real full day at home in over 4 weeks ... and even then I had to go to the school to pick up my daughter early ... never mind these things happen!!!!!

So... as it is late at the moment, I won't take any photo's for now ... I will do some snapping away tomorrow and post my scrap space during the day sometime.

So ... thank you Jules for dobbing me in!!!!!!!!! Lol !!!!!!! Ah, it's all good really!!!!!

Hope you're all good and off to a good start for the school holiday's!!!!!!

Love and Friendship xoxoxo

A New Scrap Spot for me ....

Good Morning!!!

Well, nothing to post picture wise this morning ... I have some new creations here but have been too slack to take photo's ... so I'm just saying HI for the moment and sharing the very exciting news that I am going to be spending the day sorting out my new scrap spot in the house!!!! DH has bought me a table and I have a corner of our entertainment room all picked out ... I'm home alone this morning so I can't wait to get into it ... if I could just get rid of everyone quickly!!!!!!! I'm very over having to unpack everything and then put it away because I've had nowhere to leave it out!!!!!! I am oh-so-excited and doing a little happy dance as I type!!!!

Anyway, hope you're good ... I've been checking out the Scrapsidaisy Forum recently ... those girls are too much fun ... have a look http://scrapsidaisy.12.forumer.com/ it's good for a giggle and to pick up some great tips and ideas too!!!!!

I will post something soon ... hopefully I'll be able to create some goodies today as well!!!!!!!

Keep safe .... xoxoxo

Off to Kindy!!!!!!!!!!

Our baby is growing up!!!!!!! Immi went off to her first day at Kindy yesterday ... and loved every minute of it! Was busting to get back there today!!!! Let's see how we're going in about a weeks time though! Mummy coped really well and didn't have the flood of tears that Daddy was waiting for!!!!!!!! Here is a photo of her before we went to school and one with big brother Nick, and big sister Tay .... I just can't believe it!!!!!!

I've also posted 2 pages which I did earlier this week ... I've only done one page since about May last year, and that was back in November, so I was getting a little worried about what was happening to me!!!! But I'm really happy with these 2 pages and am working on another one now so I feel like it's going to be ok!!!!!! I think I've been doing lots of cards and off-the-page stuff and had forgotten a little bit about pages!!!!!! I really enjoyed doing them again and have now got a huge stock pile of photo's that I can't wait to scrap soon!!!!

Thanks for looking anyone that has still been visiting my very sad and neglected blog!!!!!!! Maybe now with the kids back to school and also Immi there as well I might be able to find some more scrapping and blogging time!!!!!!! Bye for now! xoxo