Family Portraits

We had some family pics taken a couple of weeks ago - they took loads (don't they always?) but these are my faves. I didn't buy the while collection, but how cold I not get this black and white?? Sorry the colour and lighting aren't the best; but my scanner is appalling!

I've also been working on a 'One little Word' challenge through My Scrapbook Nook (thanks Erica for the awesome inspiration) as a faithbook to re-focus me in times of need. Once it's finished, I'll share it... I'm finding it hugely therapeutic right now. Thanks as always for stopping by; hopefully one day I'll actually post something worth checking out! :D

Layout Share - from me this time :)

I managed to get two of the CIS cybercrop layouts done this past weekend, so though I'd share them. Monochromatic scares me; don't know why, but it never seems to look quite right when I do it. However, I'm really happy with how this turned out. Both of these LO's were inspired by the awesome Rachel Hall's 'MUAH' LO (check it out here) 'Tahlia' was inspired by the design, and Jordy & me was inspired by the colours. Thanks for sharing your amazing talent Rachel.
I've also made a bit of a start on our holiday pics, so I have a few LO's to share. The first LO was for Wendy's sketch on the CIS Sketch Blog Check it out if you get a chance.



Thanks for stopping by - hopefully I'll have some more to show you soon.

Layout Share - from Dane

Dane sat and scrapped with me - a monochromatic layout for the CIS cybercrop. He was so meticulous, Jolene stipulated that only one colour could be used, except in the stickers, so he wouldn't even write in any colour but blue. He was a little concerned about the other colours in the photos, but I managed to convince him that was okay. I've included a close-up of his journalling cos it's just so sweet.

This was quite a challenge for me; to let him do a page in one of my albums, not his album, but a page for our holiday album... without interferring. I guess this is going to be one more of the beautiful things about scrapping, that I can share with my kids and they can contribute something worthwhile to our family albums. I'm sure they'll be all the more special to him for it.

Please leave loads of comments, he gets such a thrill out of people saying nice things about his pages.

My gorgeous hornbag friend Shelly (do you think that is a good intro or what Shel?) has finally started blogging. So please jump over to her blog and have a look if you get the chance - remember how great you felt every time someone left a comment when you first started blogging and share the love girlies.

In my life - today is pirate day at school for Dane, and family portrait day at Lydia's creche, so we're off this afternoon to get our photo taken. Dane's been bribed with a sleepover if he smiles nicely for a few pics hehehe... the things we do, hey? Lydia's still crook and has now added NOT SLEEPING to her symptoms... I am exhausted and cranky and all things horrid at the moment. Just desperately need more than two hours sleep a night. Hope the doc has some answers soon.

For now, I'm leaving it at that - will post pirate pics tonight or tomorrow when I have a little more energy.

More pics... and.....

Well firstly here are a few more pics from our Holiday. This first is one of my absolute faves EVER of Lydia. Love that grin. Not quite sure when my baby became a little girl; apparently she's bypassed the whole toddler stage... well, judging from this pic, anyway! It was taken on the upstairs balcony at the house in Brunswick Heads.

These next pics are of Dane enjoying the pool at the resort - how cool is that waterslide??

And finally, some BIG news. We have a new vehicle parked in our driveway! This morning we brought home a 2003 Daewoo Nubira sedan! woohoo!!!!!! It has under 50,000 kms on it and we are so excited! Finally both of our cars are in good condition and wont be requiring huge $$ being spent on them every month just to keep them running. Not the best pic, but here it is.

Photos from our holiday

I've been promising to upload a few pics from our holidays; so here are the first couple. I'm having some trouble uploading, so I might load up some more tomorrow. The files are all huge, so they need a fair bit of editing to compress them down enough

These pics were taken at Byron Bay - Lydia at the beach (not getting wet hehehehe) and Dane and Andrew looking out across the ocean from Australia's (almost) eastern most point.

One of about a million from Brunswick Heads - Dane had such a wonderful time kite flying on the beach.

These two were taken at Movie World - the kids had the most AMAZING time here. Dane was so so so excited about going on the Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster (a ride which, as it turns out, scared the living DAYLIGHTS out of him) and Lydia just wanted to do everything. She was shattered every time we had to tell her she was too little.

I'll have upload pics from the resort tomorrow - my camera is flat and all the pics are on that :(

I've been tagged.

So Karen has tagged me to come up with 7 random things about myself... so here goes...

1. I don't consider myself a good mum. I'm not particularly patient, and quite frankly a lot of kids activities bore me brainless. I wish this wasn't the case, but there it is.
2. I love school. (omg NERD!) I do. I love to learn, I love to share in knowledge, I love to debate... love it all... cept exams YUCK!
3. I eat WAY too much. I just can't seem to stop myself snacking. Like, all day. BAD BAD BAD.
4. I am incredibly opinionated. Sometimes a little arrogant I suppose, but I really feel that people need to consider how what they do affects others a bit more. This includes smokers, parents who couldn't care less about their kids, dangerous drivers... you get the idea.
5. I love the wind in my face - that complete feeling of freedom that comes from riding a horse or standing on the top of a hill with your eyes closed and your arms spread wide, embracing life.
6. I have a shocking inability to say NO. I don't even want to. I want to help EVERYONE. I burn out pretty often.
7. I love pretty things. Hilarious, cos I'm about as rough as they get. I want to live in a pretty home, with pretty things and be a girly girl. I'm not, but I want to be.

Don't know if that actually tells you any more about me; but there you go.

I'm now tagging Fleurie and Manon.... sorry girls hehehehe