Mini Album

I've almost finished my Mini Album, ' My Favourite Things"
Its full of all the things I've collected over the years, Toy Prams I adore!



A small collection of tiny wee cups!
Material I ADORE!
Vintage Buttons, you have seen those!
Childrens Chairs, I love the curves, and the distressed look.







I've used alot of Heidi Swapp embelishments, and my Favourite Melissa Frances Papers.
I've created my own pages in this album and its size is 7inc by 61/2.
My Pink bucket, I adore PINK!

And two tags, one of my enamel Jugs,stunning green with spots! and Bronte down the beach

reflecting the blue I adore,

HOT!

Hi Everyone!
Here is my latest, gee I never ever thought I'd use that bright Green cardstock, but sometimes it pays to get stuff like thats out of your stash, just incase it is just the right thing for your layout!
I really love theses photos of Jack, He actually was not eating anything hot, but I needed to do an " inspired by" challenge for Zig Zag next month, so I used the little Urban Lilly Chipboard and worked around that.
I will try and do a few more layouts of Jack, Bronte seems to feature alot in my work and I guess its because Jack is a school during the week and the photo opportunities are not there.
Zig Zag Cyber Crop is on tonight 7.30EST hope you can pop by, we will be having a game of Bingo, so you need to pop over to the site sometime before it starts, and make your selection.
Hope everyone is well, and do leave a comment I love to hear from you all!

French Chic

Scraptacular has announced their next competition " French Counrty ".' they describe it as being : rich colours, small flowers and busy prints - Here is my entry,
I found I was suprised at the description, because for such a long time I've thought of "French Country" as being "French Provincial" alot of white washed textures and small amounts of colour.
Anyway guys I've uploaded my entry here to show you all, and see what you think?
Hope you have all had a fantastic weekend, the weather was so nice, such a delight to see the sun!

Button Button who's got the Button?

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I had a bit of a revelation late Monday night, I have been making tiny little clothes and popping them in a frame, they are adorable. I thought maybe if I could source some Vintage creamy cloured frames, from Opp shops I might just be able to sell them on e-bay. On Friday I finally went opp shop shopping, to the few tiny little Church ones we have locally. Now I do like button, but only Vintage Buttons, I have been disappointed of late, that there are very few availiabe, when I do come across one or two they are in a pack of 10000 and selling for $5.00 I cannot justify spending $5.00 on a thousand buttons only to be able to use two or three.
Well it must have been my lucky day,as the little opp shop upstairs from a Church Wilson Street Brighton, had a bowl of the most beautiful buttons I'd EVER seen!, Get this $.20 cents a spoon full.
I could have kissed the old ladies, aren't they just the most amazing, beautiful colors and shapes??? I'm talking about the ones on the right hand page.
The others on the left are not that old at all.
This is a double page from an album I've created, to keep photos and things that I LOVE!
Its an album full of inspiration for me, its a place for me to stop and admire and hopefully encourage me to create.
As for the Frames, unlucky there as I only found three ones that weren't really what I was after, I will do them up and maybe admire them for a while.
Once they are stale to me I will pop them on e-bay and lets just see if I cant make a little bit of money???
Thanks again guys, for popping buy and leaving your comments.
Catcha ya soon!

Your Time Starts Now............

Your Time Starts Now:

My earliest memory is.....seeing bossy, pushy girls at kinder running for the only 3 prams there were to play with.

At school I........was lost.

My first relationship was........with our cats, I adored them and thought they did me too!

I don't like talking about.........my addiction to Zuccini.

I wish I'd never worn..........Sock stocking to work, you could see though my skirt at the bulge they created on my legs.

My mother always told me.......Beware of pasta made with Zuccini.

My Father always told me........" Man will make the world right again".

I wish I had................an old powder blue VW Beetle.

I wish I hadn't..........discovered the joys of Zuccini pasta!

My most humiliating moment was...........asking Tim Freeman to sign my chest!!!

My happiest moment was..................finding I was accepted to ZIGZAG Design Team.

At home I cook..........Zuccini Pasta!

My last meal would be.........Zuccini Pasta, what else is there.

I'm very bad at ..........Spelling.

When I was a child I wanted to.........grow up!.

The book that changed my life is............The Beginning, by Chaim Potok

Its not fashionable, but.......I love 1980 music!

Friends say.........How much more Zuccini pasta can you eat??

The hardest thing I've ever done was ............finding the courage to ride The Big Dipper at Luna Park with my son.

If I wasn't me, I'd like to be.........a VW Beetle.

If I were a car I'd be a......... VW Beetle, because i'm slow and steady, and I've got lots of cuves.Beep Beep!
I often wonder................did archeologists make a mistake about T-Rex having those stupid looking small arm's???

Scraptacular Cyber Crop

Hi there, so tired today, last night I attended my Local Scrapbooking Shop, 1st ever on line Crop.
It was held in the chat room, there were three challenges set for the night,
Trivia and Bingo.
Bingo was fantastic, I was just one off from winning, and I think the prize was Heidi Swapp stuff, damm, I love all her stuff, anyway, cant always win now, can I???
This was the Sketch Challenge, I'm happy with it, the photos open to reveal journalling, and I'm just obsessing at the moment about sewing material on my layouts, I just adore the effect!
Thanks for looking guys!
I love that you take time to pop by and share with me.
Catch Ya tomorrow!

The morning after

Oh I'm soooo Famous the radio sations are calling me!!!!!!
7.15 this morning, I get a call from 774 ABC ,
Peter Rosethorn wants to talk to me about last night!
I was 1/2 asleep again, but I was much more composed and did not giggle so much.
I was very proud of myself.
He was there last night also, and we had a nice chat.

Boy, what a night.
I left home at 6pm giving myself an hour to get the the Rod Laver Arena, park the car and find John.
7.45pm I was still on Punt Road, with what it seemed everyone else in the world.
I did hear on the car radio, that the Rod Laver Arena and The Tennis Centre's carparks were full, and it would be advisable for anyone going to the concert to try and park at the MCG.
Yeah right, I've driven to the MCG once before in my life! and it was bloody tough going.
Anyway to cut a long story short, we were late and missed the 1st couple of acts.
considering the queue was so long to get into the car park, John and I decided we could give the rush at the end of the concert a miss and we left about I and 1/2 hour before it finished.
I don't think we missed much as it really was all about Countdown and Molly Meldrum droning on and on about his ability to "pick big hits" and the continuous pathetic jokes about him being Camp or Gay were old.
The best part was "Hush" pyrotechnics were awesome! and they sounded exactly the same as they did years ago, they did, "Bonie Maronie" and ' Glad all over".
It was Fantastic!
Red did a lovely Cameo, and talked about the stars that have passed Shirley ,Ted , Bon and the like, it was touching and funny.
Stephen Cummins did " Who listens to the radio" it was awful, but that may have been just me, as others thought it was good.
Leo Sayer was terrific also, and sounded like he did in the 1970s, very charming.
Could have given " Shutuppa your Face" nobody rocked to that!
Chantoozies were just old skinny sad women.
Goanna were sad also.
Enough from me
Have a great weekend everyone.

Just a Girl.

I enjoyed doing this layout, it came from my Design Team Pack and I was requested to do two layouts from it.
The papers are not ones that I would buy myself and I thought I would struggle to work with it.
But this layout came easily and I'm happy with the result.
Unfortunatly these layouts were not picked to go into ZigZags Newsletter,
which was a blow to me, as I did get them in on time and I had put a great deal of work into them.

Girls Stuff
3 Bugs in a Rug layout: Alison Ellis Design and Heidi Swapp.
I love this one.
Bronte loves her Babies.
She has two Baby Born and often they go where ever she goes.
On this day in front of the telly in her little white rocking chair,
I saw, and captured her beautiful profile as she fussed over her babies.
The Profile cards came with the Design Team pack and were a lot of fun to complete, adding her little quirks and stuff.
Thanks for looking Guys!

So Exciting!

It all started when I decided to get up early and start the days activities, coffee to start, and I fiddled with the radio in the kitchen.
Red Symonds is on the beakfast slot on ABC, 774, he was announcing give away tickets to the "Countdown spectacular"
I believe they are about $100.00 a ticket!!!
Yep, I bloody won!, can you believe it???
But get this, its scary! I was on hold, after my shower and suddenly, I was put through to Red!!!!!
Previously he was on about "channeling" dead Australian Rock Stars ,that had appeared on Countdown.
I took this to mean, I was to channel a rock star to increase my chances of winning.
Sitting on the bed with only a towel, I woke john, who had no idea what was happening,
"John what shall I say?"
"Who am I going to channel", " Bon scott?"
"What am I going to say?"
John suggested "My pants are still too tight!"
Well I went with that, Red laughed and said he would give me 9.5 out of 10!!!!
How about that?
anyway I believe I did quite alot of giggling and cant recall much of what was said, Red put me back to the producers and, Woo hoo, I've not only got two tickets for tonight's show but a CD , DVD and a book!!!
John and I have not been out for years and its going to be such a fun night I just cant believe it!
Huge thank you to my niece for offering to Babysit, thanks Hayley, I don't know what I'd do without you!

Here is the line up:The show will feature Sherbet, Hush, John Paul Young, Leo Sayer, James Reyne, Mondo Rock, Renee Geyer, Jon English, Chantoozies, Alex Smith (Moving Pictures), Choirboys, Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo), James Freud & Sean Kelly (Models), Swanee, Jo Jo Zep, Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men), Cheetah, Shane Howard (Goanna), Scott Carne (Kids In The Kitchen), Eurogliders, Dave Sterry (Real Life), Billy Miller (The Ferrets), Stephen Cummings (The Sports), Frankie J. Holden & Wilbur Wilde (OlÂ’ 55), Joe Dolce, Paul Norton and Wendy Stapleton (The Rocketts).
The night will be hosted by the original Countdown host Ian “Molly” Meldrum.

Report back to you tomorrow.

Tagged

I've been TAGGED

by the lovely Flurie

Rules:
List 5 weird things about yourself or your pets. Tag 5 friends and list them. Then, those people need to write on their blogs about 5 weird things, and state the rules, and tag 5 more people. Don't forget to let the people you tag know by posting a comment on their blog!

Umm now let me see, I will tag: Kellie, Charm, Beth, Viginia, and Simone



Weird Things about ME:
1/ I love the Proclaimers.
2/I don't understand Football and don't want too! { is that weird?}
3/ It's the things I say like: "Push the button Max" whenever I'm with someone whom is about to push a button, that came from a movie I saw as a child " The Great Race"
or
"It's for you its your Mother", that came from a television add for Chocolate Chip Cookies!
or " Fill you boots Man" I love that one and it means exactly what it says.
4/ I wont order Seafood or Meat at a restaurant, I just don't trust the chef .
{ or is that just being paranoid?}
5/When I sneeze I remember my Dad.

well.....

I've been playing around a bit, trying to figure out a way to make this blog a little more personal.
Today I've announced Zig Zags September Monthly Competition and uploaded my sample layout above.

I'm really looking forward to Zig Zag Nwsletter to come out, the Design team and I have been working hard to churn out some inspirational layoutS for everyone to enjoy.
I've been submitting my layout to the Mags, keeping my finger crossed and awaiting a reply............its a long wait when they don't want your layout.

No work today, but Tuesdays are always busy, today Jack has an appointment with the orthodontist to check his overbite and see if we cant get a plate of some description to push the top teeh back in line.
He is so excited about the prospect of leaving School early. What a funny boy!
We have been blessed and the sun is shining again today, guess I should be doing the washing, but that is simply too boring! HEHEHE!
So please you have popped by so see my blog, catch ya later!

Tonight...........

Red letter day, this is my 1st post to my very own Blog!
Hope this works.......