Braedon on Study Ladder

Braedon is quite into Study Ladder at the moment, set up by the school for the kids to log into and do maths work, exercises set by the teacher of the class. I just had to take some pics of  him at my laptop concentrating

CALICO Ghost Town Layout

This layout is one of a set I am working on of our US holiday last year... OH Dear I can't believe I haven't scrapped those pics and now I have this UK trip this year to do too.  Oh well. I will get there I'm sure. 

Calico Ghost Town was a wonderful place in California  and was  developed in 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. I have lots of pics of Calico so chose to do a double layout which is something I don't do that much.  
I used some old corrugated cardboard and mostly products from stash.
Letters from Crafty Secrets Vintage Booklet Boys,
Cherry Arte Chipboard Morroco
Kraft Cardstock

Bents Basin and the kiddies

Some pics Aimee took at Bents Basin this weekend. Just a spot of fishing, not that they would catch anything in Bents Basin  - its just really a swimming hole.  A big swimming hole that is and quite a nice spot.
I remember it quite well, going there with a group of kids when we were teenagers. We thought we could all swim across the Basin. hmmm Ok if your a strong swimmer, Not ME,  I nearly didn't make it and even now I remember how I felt struggling to get to the other side.   But I did make it across and I'm here to tell the story.. I haven't been back since.....

So this pic is of Kody and I think Aimee had the camera set on colour replace which can replace the main colour with another colour so she ended up with purple looking water. Looks quite effective.

Kody and Mason

Our Savalloy

Well it's not really Savalloy but Savannah, she just gets called Savalloy for some reason or another.  She is the bossy one of the four chihuahua's... I bought them collars with Bandana's on them, look rather cute don't they.

 

New Blog! New Look!

Well this is my new blog for just family, house and life in general stuff.  Of course that's not to say there won't be any scrappin on here, of course will post all my layouts and other work I do.

Layout - Let Your Light Shine Through

 Love these photos of Braedon taken last year when he was in a real co-operative mood with the camera.

Can you believe I used the rest of my  Daily Grind Papers. Plus lots of other products in this layout, all of which I have tried to list below.  This layout has been sitting on my desk for about 3 weeks.  I just wanted to finish it before we left on our trip.  I love the MME Diecuts and thought they would go very nicely with the pictures of Braedon - the circle diecut I thought was appropriate and stamped the arrow pointing to "sitting", which is very unusual for Braedon.

I still plan to do atleast one challenge before we leave, will see how we go. lol  - I haven't even finished packing yet.

Anyway here is the list of products.....

Cosmo Cricket 8 x 8  Daily Grind Papers

HOTP Hearts and flowers Rubons

Cherry Art Chipboard Shapes Morrocco

Mini Manilla Folders

A to Z Scraplets Chipboard Corner

HOTP Swirl Brads

Red Ric Rac

Hessian 

Tim holtz Memo Pins

My minds Eye Laundry Line Coastal Diecut and Flirty Diecut

Carolee's Creations Random Cardstock Stickers

Open Mesh Trim Apple

Artesian Diecut

From my stash

Heidi Swapp Gel Flower
Pebbles ink I Kandee Twist Ties

Green Brad
Lifes Journey Clearly yours alphas

HOTP Stamps (little row of stars)

     

Finally some scrapping

How did that happen p - slip of the finger and the post was posted without any content.

So here are some of my latest layout -Braedon at the beach, I love the hues in the photos caused by the light on the sand.  I found some old hessian in my stash, I must have about 2 mtrs of it.  We must have collected the biggets bucket of tiny shells which I also used.  I'm just waiting on a sea charm to arrive in the post to finish it off .

Again I used a lot of my scrap papers a bit of Basic Grey, Kaisercraft.

The diecut on the left is here in the store. I also used my fav white American Craft Thickers

Who is this gorgeous girl...

Tia is growing up so fast.  I cant believe she is almost 8 months and is crawling and standing up on her own.  She is a real sweety. Grandad is playing with the punchy toy thingamajig that Breaedon got in a showbag.
Later the punchy toy thingamajig got chewed by a small Chihuahua dog, which one was the culprit, we will never know.

Introducting our brood of chihuahua's

Thought would post a pic or two of our brood of chihuahua's and some of the new puppies - We are trying to register as a breeder as all these dogs have papers.  Every time I submit our kennel names they are rejected as they are too close to other business names.  If anyone have some suggestions please comment as I have run out of names. 

 In order of age - this is Moet - long coat,  he gets called Modge  for short, he likes napping in handbags. You can see here he is trying to get comfy in my red bag. Moet is a real gentleman - well most of the time.  He is very playful and loves to play fetch with his fav toys.

Next is Sienna - the one that had puppies - riding in style here on top of Mason's pram.   Sienna is a short coat.  A quiet very shy one - doesn't like loud noise and  is a real scaredy cat.

Next is Savannah  - she is also a short coat - both Sienna and Savannah trying to have a nap-  one thing about the dog beds they never stay round upright for long, they always get squashed.  Savannah is playful to, a little naughty and well doesn't listen much to what you say.

Lastly we have holly a long haired cutie - naughty and mischievous - will keep up the other two Moet and Savannah and gives Moet a run for his money when it comes to fetch the toy.  She snatches it off him and makes out she got it.

    Lastly the puppies - no names yet

 

Some pics of Mason

Cute Mason at 3 months old. 

Music Sheet Paper

An interesting finding today -  an old book full of music sheet paper, perfectly aged and yellow for scrapbooking layouts.  A real bargain. Will use it in some of the store kits.

Some old family memorabilia

Staying at my Aunts today and she has passed on  all her old wedding cards - must be about 60 years -will post one every day until their all up.  Pllus during the war she was sent to Canada so I have all her tags and registration cards

This cute wedding gift card opens on both sides.

My First Digi Layout

I actually had a play with some digital elements this morning and this it was I came up with. Not so happy with the bottom of the layout but well it is my first after all.....

This is a free download from little dreamer designs

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Scraproom Makeover

Apart from eating yummy chocolate this weekend we have also been busy paint out my scrap storage room.
My room where we store all the scrap products is quite a large room but wth raw brick work which looks like this.

We are paintng it white so it will look something like this.  Bear in mind we need to do a second coat. But it makes it look so much brigher looking.

This room is filled with all my scrapping stuff, a treadmill, a freezer and the kids accumulated toys over the last 5 years.  Plus this the biggest table you ever did see.  Will post this table tomorrow.  Here is just a few pics from my scrap stuff.

More pics of Mason

A bit of bike riding

Fun in the park this afternoon - Breaedon badgering to go to the park and take his bike.  So off we went.  It was a bit hot though, we should have waited until a bit later in the day.  Still they had a good time. What is it about boys and dirt piles. Mix that with a bike and you have cool jumps 

Purple Day

The kids had purple day at school today - dressed in purple shirts and had their hair sprayed - managed to catch a few pics of both of them.. Braedon not too shy this morning.

Braedon now camera shy

Braedon just doesn't like co-operating as much as he used to when it comes down to having his photo taken - gone are the days where he would just smile nicely for the camera. Atleast I got one reasonable pic.

Kody's bunny ears

I think Kody looks really Impressed with these bunny ears on his head. Maybe he is being prepared for the Easter bunny

BT first day back

Braedon hitting first class this year lolled happy to go back to school

Pancakes at the rocks

Just a pic or two of Ian and I at the Rocks the other day - we had pancakes for breakfast. Very nice, should have taken a photo of my stack which I only ate half of...

Used Lemons

Well, these are pics I took the other night in Darling Harbour, at a place,,,ahh can't remember the name of it. But we had a few Margarita's, I just love the look of the lemon close up. What spoils it, is the straw sticking out of it.

Pics of Braedon

Like the colours in Braedon's new T-shirt. So I took a few pics of him wearing it... Telling him to try and look natural.

Hmmm.................Talk about bunging it on

New Layout

Thought I would share a layout of Aimee, Josh and the kids, done today. Plus a few closes up. The tag I made at KA@H retreat. Some bits used from my stash. Not sure about the black lettering.
PS The ribbon looks very crooked - but it's not - must be my camera...

Fancy Pants Sweet Pea 'Noah'
Cosmo Cricket 'The Daily Grind'
Fancy Pants Sweet Pea Titles and Die Cuts
Pink Crystal Brad
Ric Rac Pink
Bird Brads