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.