Twin Update

Well I visited the twins and took some new pics, so thought I'd update them for you to have a look at. No one else has ever put the two girls together and taken a pic, so of course I had to do that, and the pics are just so cute... I am gonna have fun scrapping these!

Okay - time to scrap; will try to remember to upload whatever I get finished this weekend on Monday.

Well the kids are healthy again (hooray) and I'm getting some studying and scrapping done this weekend (double hooray). I've an exam on Monday which I'm not excited about, but Simone and Shel are coming over tonight to crop with me; so I'll stress about the exam tomorrow... oh bad, bad student!

Ally's first cybercrop (CC) is on this weekend at Crafty Collages, and so far I've actually managed to complete a LO for it, so I'm pretty pleased with that. Actually I have three LO's to share today. The first is a LO I created for my lounge room. I've been playing with my new Stampin Up! stamps, and colouring in with chalks, so I've included a close up of the stamping as well.

The second is my LO for the Crafty Collages CC second challenge.

The last LO is my current fave; I'm really happy with how this turned out. I did this for one of Liz's awesome monthly challenges over at CIS. Make sureyou check these out; they're such great challenges and a great way to get your mojo flowing. This particular challenge involved altering your pic, so I painted the edges.

I'm sure I have loads more to post - it's been a while, but my brain is mush at the moment, so I'll leave it at that for now. ;) Thanks for visiting!

What a week!

OMG I am just exhausted!!! Lydia is FINALLY recovering from this nasty flu - after 3 trips to the ER and almost $300 spent on medical bills... she's still incredibly clingy and cranky, but she has energy, and she's eating again, so I s'pose I have to count my blessings, right?

I'm all set to do some cropping tonight - have spent the better half of this morning cleaning, and still have loads of housework to do, but once it's done I am so ready to scrap! Kaz has set a challenge over at CIS to do a LO titled 'Any Given Sunday' so I'm going to give that a go. It'll be interesting to see how many different LOs can be done to the same theme... if you get a chance, give it a shot.

I absolutely have to share a brand new online store and forum with you. Digicister Ally has set up her own site and it's all looking pretty fab! Make sure you pop over to her forum at http://craftycollages.com/forum/ and register before her cybercrop next weekend. She's already set up a monthly challenge and it's a beauty. The forum is a little quiet at the moment, but it's not going to get any more energetic until we all start registering, so jump on in! Cant wait to see y'all there!

Hope everyone is happy and healthy and that this gorgeous weather sticks around for a bit (It is a stunning day, light breeze, warm sun, just yum!)
love n hugs
Dee

A Good kid and a sick kid.

A HUGE congratulations to my little man who was awarded student of the week today at school. I am just so proud of him, he's really been making an effort. This is a pretty blurry pic, but check out how keen my little man is!

Lydia today isn't faring so well, poor bubba. her temperature was up around 41degrees last night and this morning, and a doctors visit has confirmed that she has the 'flu. When did that become such a scary word???? With children dying of the 'flu all over Australia this year I'm a tiny bit nervous, and will certainly be watching her diligently. Hope she recovers quickly, she's pretty miserable.

Okay that's it from me today.. c y'all soon.

Rockin' Girl Blogger

Well thanks Lizzy girl, I'm much chuffed to be named as a Rockin' Girl Blogger. hehehehe Very flattering.

I don't know how many people I'm supposed to pass this forward to, but if Karen Brierley (ooh did I spell that right???) or Rach Merrich happen past - then I'm nominating you guys as Rockin Girl Bloggers. Love both your blogs.

The CIS CC is on this weekend and once again Jolene has set some awesome challenges. I've still got to get to Challenge one - which is to use a 6 x 8 or larger pic on a page with 4 or more pps and some chipboard. But I have finished the other two; so here they are for anyone who wants to check em out. Challenge 2 is the first one - needed four or more pics no bigger than 2 x 3, paint (used for something OTHER than colouring embies) scrapped in a minimalistic LO. Challenge 3, the second LO, was a sketch challenge, but we needed to create out own oversized embie and use it too.. LOVE this sketch. These gorgeous papers are courtesy of Bizzy Becs - just adore the colours.

The final layout I want to show is my submission to the second round of Embellished IDOL. OMG OMG OMG I GOT THROUGH ROUND ONE!!!!!!! So excited about that. For round two we had to use one or two paint strips (which couldn't be cut into single colours), and scrap using only colours from those strips, (small amounts of black and white allowed) We also had to include a title and journalling. I tried to layer the flowers so that as they moved up the strips they got smaller and lighter. Hope it worked okay - I'll keep you posted, although I'd be pretty surprised if I got through this round, there are some AMAZING layouts once again in the gallery, and as the rounds continue it's only gonna get tougher!

New Babies

Not for me, but for my sister. Rebecca delivered by c-section yesterday two healthy little girls - Tahlia Ruby (6lbs 14ozs and Ebony-Rose 6lbs 9 ozs) Big babies for twins, especially as Bec has been on methadone for the duration of her pregnancy, which can apparently reduce infant size. This pic is Bec and her boyfriend Scott with the girls.

I've also finally uploaded my Embellished Idol LO (just in time) so thought I'd share that here. I had fun with this and am really praying that I get through to the next round, but with the standard of work uploaded in that gallery I do have strong doubts! You can check out the rest of the gallery here

Well off to visit babies! I'll post more pics when I've got them

I remembered to post more pics!!! How incredible is that? lol

okay - so Tahlia was going through some pretty shocking withdrawal today and wasn't really in a posing kind of mood, but Ebony was perfectly happy to sleep under the window and let her Aunty Dee snap away. (Isn't she a good girl?) I did get a couple of lovely pics of Tahlia sleeping on her Mummy - right where little babies should be I reckon. So the bub in white is Ebony-Rose, and Tahlia is the one with a bit of a rash on her face.