Fancy Pants "Wishful Thinking"

Available at Anna's Craft Cupboard - I love this range - so much so I have a piece of paper on my desk that is just too pretty to cut up, which NEVER happens to me - but I WILL use it so watch this space!

Kaszazz cards

I had these cards published in the last Scrapbooking Memories but they were accidently credited to Jodi Dolbel - no biggie, but SBM were so good about it and definitely made up for it with an awesome parcel in the mail!

Another My Little Shoebox LO

Products available at Anna's Craft Cupboard

My Little Shoebox

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Ok - just a heads up - I've come to the conclusion that theres a bunch of stuff that I don't think ever gets to my blog so I'm just going to randomly upload things as I find them - so forewarned is fore-armed so feel free to tune out anytime soon.....lol
This is my latest step by step which is up on the Anna's Craft blog. I'm usually not a fan of brights but for some reason I love this Cosmo Cricket range "DeLovely", so I added it to my wishlist for my DT pack Anna's and I got lucky!

Bloody Masterchef...

I blame YOU, MASTERCHEF, for all the carrot peelings across my kitchen table and itty bitty bits of cut up fruit everywhere. My 2 youngest kids (4 & 7) have been 'playing' Masterchef this afternoon - arranging concoctions of things on plates and naming themselves after the contestants on the show - although of course my Claire is always the one named Claire...
And speaking of my Claire - I think she fell in love with one of the next door neighbour boys today simply by something he said. He was over at our house playing 'boy' things and Claire and her little friend asked them if they would be the judges for Masterchef, kind of expecting them to not be into it. Then he said "Have you got pieces of paper so we can write our scores down?" and the look on her face...well, I can just imagine in her head she was going "Oh.My.God...I'm going to marry you".
But you're still not forgiven Masterchef......

Using divided page protectors

A couple of months ago I had an article in Scrapbooking Memories about using divided page protectors and here are the LO's. There was one more LO which focussed more on using mini-albums in the pockets but I can't find it in my file so maybe I never took one? Anyhoo - here they are








(You can buy these page protectors at Annas CRaft by the way...)

She wasn't crying wolf...lol

My darling daughter Madison always carries on like a pork chop (where DID that saying come from??) whenever anything happens to her - honestly there are times when I think her arm must've been ripped off and I go outside and she's stepped in water or something insignificant- she is just one of those kids where you cannot truly guage her pain by the sound she is making as there is no varying degrees of it! (the other 2 kids, on the other hand are completelyt normal in these matters)
So last week I picked her up from the local youth centre (yes, I can go to these things now cos I LIVE IN TOWN - lol) and she was complaining about her sore foot - and I thought she was just whingeing cos she was walking on gravel but when she really had tears streaming down her face I actually believed her.
And one of her toes was looking a bit red and wonky - and the next morning she woke up with this bruise - so I took her to the doc (then the hospital, then the doc, then back the hospital - but we wont' go there...)and she's broken her middle toe - and just for the record, it wasn't the wonky red one!lol



So she's now lapping up the sympathy - and I said to her "Who do you take after?" and she very solemnly said "My father..." lmao - if you knew him you'd know this is completely true - he is highly talented at hurting himself on stuff that you wouldn't think is dangerous - and often on couches which is what Mads broke her toe on.

Step by Step

TO check out instructions on how to make these really quick cards check out Anna's CRaft Cupboard blog HERE

July Sketch at Anna's Craft

Upload your LO using this sketch to the Anna's Craft gallery by the end of the month to go in the draw to win a $40 voucher including free post! (and if I was able to win I would spend the whole lot of those new little Basic Grey tab stickers and things - have you seen them? They are SO cute!!
Check them out HERE and HERE - and there's more choices - thats just a couple....)
Anyhoo - where was I? oh yeah, the sketch.....

Just uploading some stuff

Sorry if these have been up before - but I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of stuff I haven't uploaded so am doing a few posts now...
These were both for design team features in Scrapbooking Memories - one for Anna's Craft and one for Kaisercraft

Kaisercraft "Hey Birdie" and "Le Chateau"

And as a contrast to my last post - I found these 2 ranges easy to work with - Le Chateau is gorgeous and I LOVE the new wood flourishes that Kaiser have brought out this time around!



And remember that the entire collections are available at Anna's Craft Cupboard.

Kaisercraft "Konstrukt" and "Jungle Bug"

I'm putting these 2 in the same post as for some reason I did have a hard time with paper collections - I think it was that I didn't have the right photos - or something....

Latest LO's

Ok - I had a bit of a scrapping hiatus whilst moving and then while unpacking - but my DT pack from Anna's Craft was just so gorgeous I thought I'd *better* go do some scrapping - tough life huh??
So here's just a few using OCtober AFternoon Thrift Shop papers and journalling cards, some Jillibean Soup - CHicken Noodle and some Jillibean alphabet stickers.

This one isn't really finished - it just needs something else but mainly it needs journalling which I have to find out - so that may be my 'extra' thing added. All I know really is that this my Grandad dropping my Mum off at boarding school - I think it's at Kobeelya in Katanning but I'm not sure. Mum want away to boarding school at 8 years old and having an 8 year-old daughter myself, I can't imagine how hard it must have been for mum (and her brother and sisters) and also for Nana and Grandad to have to send them away when they were still babies really! (it was just a location thing - too far to go to school each day)

Kaisercraft Organza ribbon

Have used Kaisercraft Le Chateau papers and die-cuts, Kaisercraft "latte" pearl strips and Kaisercraft organza ribbon all available at Anna's CRaft Cupboard.

Step by Step

To check out step by step instructions for this LO have a look over on Anna's Craft blog HERE

All products available at Anna's store.

Aaandd ..... we're back

Ok - that was a while without internet!
We've finally moved and got my internet sorted - gee, moving is SO much fun isn't it??? (NOT!!). I've moved to a house about a quarter of the size of the station home so it's been interesting fitting everything in and figuring our what furniture we will need...but we're getting there!
The kids are loving being townies - walking and riding to school and catching up with friends - and I don't have to spend so long trying to organise everything between the days we are going to town.
And haven't scrapped for a while but am getting back into it now (thanks to the bosses that have given me a bit of leeway ;)!!).
Here's a mini-album using My Little Shoebox papers and die-cuts

Lily Bee "Lovely"

Papers, die-cuts and chipboard stickers all available now at Anna's Craft
[Oh - and meant to add - the "Childhood Memory" lo a few posts down also uses Bella Blvd "Man of the House" paper and a Lily Bee "Lovely" die-cut frame.]

Bella Blvd "Man of the House"

Papers, stickers and chipboard alphabet all available now at Anna's Craft.

Crate Paper

I got a gorgeous DT parcel of Crate Paper "Paper Doll" from Karen SCrappin Kupboard the other day and managed a couple of LO's at my crop day today.


And on personal news, I actually think the house in town will be ours by NEXT WEEK!!
Yep, townies we will be but we are looking forward to it.
With my husband having to find work off station due to the droughts we've had here over the past years, he has since found a job he loves at the Ag School which he's had for 2 years now. That has been 2 years of him driving to town and the kids going to school in town - a total of nearly 200kms everyday on a normal day. It's eventually got too big a cost so we are moving to town - and life is going to be SO much easier! And our fuel bill will actually pay off the house....lol. (4.5 weeks ago I paid a $1400 fuel bill and we;ve already run out - just to give you a clue of how much we spend in fuel).
Oh - and just as a kicker, we have a new mine starting up in Morawa - so we got to buy a house in the mining boom when everyone decided to put ridiculously high prices on their houses!! It's that bloody Murphy - I tell ya! So after 6 months of trying we FINALLY have a house - oh my god, you wouldn't believe the relief.....lol.
ANyway - bored you enough - thanks for dropping by ;).

Childhood Memory

It wasn't until I went to my cousin's house on Christmas Day that I realised how much this fence and view is a big part of my childhood. My Dad and his brother farmed next door to each other, which meant my cousins and 'us kids' grew up next door (although rural people will know that 'next door' is actually 15kms away!LOL). As we always had to go past their gate to go home, Mum would always drop in for a coffee and between that and many many MANY overnight stays I felt like I half lived in this house. And it wasn't until I went back there that I just felt "Oh, there it is..." so many memories in that view.
It was a pretty special day to think of us as kids playing here - and now we were all sitting on the new back deck having a beer at sunset watching all our own kids play together even though we are now all strung all over Australia (but also still farming next door to each other) - very special indeed.....
So that's why I scrapped a photo of a fence....in case you were too polite to ask - lol...

Fancy Pants Roadshow

In my latest DT pack from Anna's Craft Cupboard I got a bunch of these gorgeous Fancy Pants Roadshow papers and matching stickers.
Now blogger doesn't let me see the pics as I upload anymore so I can't tell which is which til I post - but the "Karina & Amelie" lo is scraplifted from Amanda Hall. It doesn't look much like hers in the end - lol - but I got the frame idea from her LO HERE.


Have also used some Webster's Bloomer Trim and some Dear Lizzy stickers.

Kaiser stuff

Bit of a contrast here - one soft and sweet and one brighter than I normally do!LOL
Here's the "Tea at Elsie's" Kaiser range using their Floral Tags


And this is using one of the Kaiser magazine sketches with a mix of Pennyroyale and Devonshire papers.

You think I'd think up good blog post titles by now wouldn't you??

Here's just a couple of random Lo's -
This one I did last week and is very 'normal' but it was about my Grandad who passed away last year after a very full life so I wanted it to be very straight forward, with just the photos (both old and new) and his quick life story.

This one I did a little while ago but just forgot to upload it - have used Jillibean Soup "Egg Drop Soup" papers.

May sketch at Anna's Craft

Here is this months sketch, designed by Wendy Smith - I love this one. Create a lo using this sketch and upload to Anna's gallery by the end of May to go in the draw to won a $40 voucher including free post!

Good luck.