A quick page .......

Good Morning Everyone!

Just wanted to quickly put up a page of Tay that I did on the weekend, while I have 2 seconds to spare!

This photo was taken at my step-brother's wedding in QLD in April and I just love it! I have used more of the June Bug range which I just LOVE. I really thought I would have liked the Lemonade range more but I was so drawn to June Bug which surprised me to be honest! I couldn't go past the bright, happy, rich colours! I have just bought the Eskimo Kisses collection as well so can't wait to get into that! All from Scrapsidaisy of course!

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday's - I can't believe they go back to school on Monday - I need more time with them! I love having them home and hate it when they have to go back ... I can't wait for the Chrissy Holiday's which are only 8 1/2 weeks away!!!! ARGH!!!! Not really organized for that just yet!!!!!!!

Hope to pop on again soon with more layouts, thanks to anyone still dropping in here!

Love Hel xo

Still learning ...

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that the below 2 posts are supposed to be around the other way!!! LOL still learning how to work out this blog stuff!!!!!

H xo

But wait ... there's more!!!!!!

Still not sure how to get more than 4 pictures to post at a time so here is another creation ... I made this for my new niece ... inspired by a Christmas creation Jules made at the shop! Iv'e just converted it to a baby plaque instead! I bought the frame from Scrapsidaisy, along with the gorgeous stamps I have used as well.

I hope everyone is well, I will try take photo's very soon of my other things from the weekend!

Cheers, Helen xo

Card Crazy!

Hi there!

I'm so excited! I spent the weekend scrapping! Haven't had a HUGE scrap for AGES and I LOVED it!!! I haven't taken photo's of everything I did just yet but here are a few things I've made ......

The card below is actually Mum and Jeff's Wedding Invitation that I made for their wedding in August ... just hadn't got around to taking a photo just yet! The colours are much better in real life too, shimmer cream card stock with white lace ... and white rose printed vellum inside with all the wedding details!

My Step-Sister had a baby girl last Monday so the next 2 cards are for them ... one for our niece Jazmyn for becoming a big sister, and the other for the baby!

Each year the kids send my Nan, their Great Grandmother, a thank you card for their Birthday presents ... this is this years TY card!

MIss Immi turns 7!

It is so scary to think how fast our babies grow up, but they seem to do that right before our eyes.

Our 'baby' of the family, Imogen, turned 7 yesterday and it only feels like yesterday that she was a tiny baby. I miss having her at home and knowing that she will grow up before we know it, yet at the same time I love watching her grow and learn more and more.

We had a 'friends' party on Sunday afternoon at the local PCYC. Immi LOVES the Kindy Gym parties they do - this is the 3rd year running she has had her party there and I'm thinking I might just book her in for next year now!

They do a terrific job with all the kids teaching them the basics of gymnastics and having a go on a lot of the equipment. The kids love it and get a lot out of it - keeps them going for 2 hours!

I asked Immi what cake she would like and she decided on a Dolly Cake! Without wanting to spend the almost $40 on a Dally Varden cake tin, I ended up making a Dolly Ice Cream cake using a mixing bowl from home! Immi was impressed and happy with the end result! She fancies herself a little bit of a princess!

The gorgeous candles I got from Scrapsidaisy! Just love them and haven't seen anything like them around anywhere else.

On the scrapping front I have been doing some bits and pieces but haven't organized myself to take photo's yet! I will try get onto that in the next few days!

I don't know that many people would still be around looking at my blog (I'm very slack I know!) but if anyone does, thanks for dropping in!

Love Hel xo

Almost the end of ... April!!!

Hello there to anyone who might still be around!!! (Donna?? LOL)

Once again it is AGES between posts .... and once again no excuse other than 'life'!

I hope everyone had a nice Easter (!) - it feels like forever ago, I can't believe it has come and gone and now Anzac Day is here. I always get so emotional on Anzac Day watching the Parade. Do you know the McDonald's ad. where the girls serves the Returned Soldier a coffee and he says 'thank you' and she turns around and says 'no, thank YOU' ??? Well even that gets me bawling on Anzac Day ... we have so mucn to be grateful and thankful for - I hope my children realize this and rememeber this for the future. Our life could be so different today if it wasn't for all the brave men and women who went to fight hard for us ......

We've had a very busy few months. The kids happily started back to school - Nick is doing so well in Yr 7, Tay is loving Yr 5 and we are finding Immi to be very happy in Yr 1. So far so good with all the kids!

We've had 2 wedding's this year - my step-bother was married in QLD and then 3 weeks later a very dear friend was married in the Hunter Valley Garden's. OMG so gorgeous there - a perfect setting for a wedding or something special.

I've been on a 'girlie' holiday to Tassie for a special friend's 40th birthday! Talk about FUN!!! It was great! We saw a lot, learnt a lot, ate a lot, drank only a little (LOL) and had a fabulous time!

Phil has not been so great with 2 trips to hospital recently! One visit was while we were in QLD for Justin & Lisa's wedding and the other time was only a couple of weeks ago on a Wed night ... talk about giving us a scare!!! It's a really drastic way to get attention!!! LOL ... he's been to one specialist and is off to see another in Newcastle in the near future - he'll be fine though I'm sure!

We are in the middle of MAJOR renovations now so that seems to be taking any spare time that we have. It's such a huge job but will be more than worth it in the end!

So, now we are on school holiday's, or at the tail-end of them, and I'm finding there are not enough days to do all that we want to do! We have had 3 days camping which was fantastic. Luckily we didn't get the really horrible weather the coast got otherwise it might not have been so much fun! The kids had a really great time and we enjoyed kicking back with our friends and doing 'nothing'. Phil is not used to taking 'time out' so it took him a while to get into the chill-out mode!!!!!

Not a lot of time for me to scrap lately other than a few cards here and there, but I recently had Immi and her great buddy Clare in for a kids class while I was at work one day. Here are a few photo's of them concentrating really hard on their creations!!!!! And one at the end of the finished product ... which they designed all themselves!!!! LOL

Immi (L) and Clare (R)

Immi

The final product! They were very proud!

Thanks heaps for looking and I will try really hard to be back on here again soon!

Love and hugs, Hel xo

Reflecting ....

It is so hard to believe the last few days of complete devestation and heartache that the entire country has seen with the Bushfires in Victoria. It is something that we could never imagine in our wildest nightmares and yet so many people are living it.

It has been incredible though to see how we as a country have totally pulled together to support the victims the the fires. It makes me so proud to call myself an Australian ... to know that we are all there wanting to help any way we can and sending love and kindness to those affected by this tragedy.

For myself I know it has made me hug my children a little tighter at night and makes me so thankful for all that I have. It could easily happen to any one of us. I know I am telling the people I love and care about that I love them and appreciate them.

Leisa at Scrapsidaisy has come up with the most amazing idea of doing bundles of handmade cards to send to Victoria. Have a look at the scrapsidaisy blog for more details http://www.scrapsidaisy.typepad.com/ I am going to do what I can to help ... it is a good feeling to know that I can physically do something to help out.

I have been VERY slack at blogging for a while and I have had the blogging 'police' onto me!! LOL Kristy and Leisa!!!!

So, I don't have photo's of a lot of recent creations but I do have photo's of Christmas presents for Tay's teacher last year!!! Is that super-slack of me to only be posting them now??!!! LOL yes it is! Anyway, the 2 posts below this are of the presents I made for Mrs O'Conner. I haven't yet worked out how to do a HEAP of photo's on one post and it would only let me do 4 at a time, thus the reason for seperate posts!

Thanks for looking anyone who is still around!!!!!!! I will try and be back sooner next time!

Hoping you are all safe and well .... love Hel xo

Gifts .....

Last year we were lucky enough for Taylah to have Mrs O'Conner as her Yr 4 teacher. Mrs O'Conner showed Taylah so much kindness throughout the year and often went the extra mile for Tay's particular health requirements. I wanted to do something really special for such a special and caring teacher so I decided to make her some gifts that (hopefully) she could treasure for years to come.

I made a little desk calendar for school ... I love the verse on it (even though it says 'he' it means the same thing!!!!)

More for Mrs O'Conner ....

Late last year I went to another fabulous class at SCRAPSIDAISY being taught by the very talented Kim Archer. We made gorgeous little Christmas decoration and I decided that one of these would make a fantastic gift for Mrs O'Conner. This is the one I made for her and just a few of the pages throughout it ... I left spaces where she could add her own photo's of her family if she felt like it, or maybe write something special in it.