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

The Fantastic Mr Fox

Well today we went and saw this movie and I thought it was absolutely wonderful. A little different from your usual animation. I thought it was very clever and Braedon enjoyed it.

Read all about it here and here .

One of my earlier posts, I mentioned a New Years Resolution of finishing off unfinished projects in between new ones.

After the family layout, I finished off a KA&Home Retreat Project, 'little book of texture', that I have worked on bit by bit over the last month to finish. I sort of changed it a little and added extra pages - in all 8 pages.

First page a fav pic of Aimee age 7 - on canvas

The reverse side - a few details

Corrugated cardboard page - Aimee 6 weeks

The reverse corrugated page - Aimee at 3 months - I used textured paste here also and stamped an image in both corners.

A transparent page - Aimee at 8 weeks

A transparent page covered with fabric - Aimee at 4 months

Another transparent page - Aimee at 6 months

The revers of the transparent page - Aimee at 8 months

Cardstock page - Aimee at 10 months, Xmas Dec 1988

The reversed cardstock page Aimee at 15 months -

there is a page that opens here with another pic.

Another cardstock page - Aimee 1st birthday - you can see I added some Rob and Bob Mod thingys on a keyring and joined to the ring.

Cardstock again - Aimee aged 2

Cardstock covered with pp -Aimee aged 3 - I made the little outfit back in my sewing days....

Plain Cardstock - Aimee aged 4 at Pre-School

Cardstock covered with pp - Aimee aged 5 with our Cavalier King Charles Tinker

The last page with a tag in a zippered pocket with a tag. I added Aimee's

birth bracelot to the tag.

Family Layout

I thought it was about time I did a family layout, even though Aimee and Kody (right) live away from home now. This photo was taken when we all lived together as one family.....
Pink Paislee Amber Road papers were perfect for the photo.

Making New Years' resolutions... like in my earlier post -I'm still thinking but I found an article which provides 10 tips on achieving those resolutions...

Prof Wiseman's 10 secrets of success when making New Year resolutions:

1) Make only one resolution; your chances of success are greater when you channel energy into changing just one aspect of your behaviour.

2) Don't wait until New Year's Eve to think about your resolution and instead devote some time a few days before to reflect upon what you really want to achieve.

3) Avoid previous resolutions; deciding to re-visit a past resolution sets you up for frustration and disappointment.

4) Don't run with the crowd and go with the usual resolutions. Instead think about what you really want out of life.

5) Break your goal into a series of steps, focusing on creating sub-goals that are concrete, measurable, and time-based.

6) Tell your friends and family about your goals, thus increasing the fear of failure and eliciting support.

7) Regularly remind yourself of the benefits associated with achieving your goals by creating a checklist of how life would be better once you obtain your aim.

8) Give yourself a small reward whenever you achieve a sub-goal, thus maintaining motivation and a sense of progress.

9) Make your plans and progress concrete by keeping a hand-written journal, completing a computer spreadsheet or covering a notice board with graphs or pictures.

10) Expect to revert to your old habits from time to time. Treat any failure as a temporary set-back rather than a reason to give up altogether.

You can read the full post here

New Years Resolution

I think I'm in that mode where I don't really know what my New Year's resolutions are...

I'm still thinking about priorities. Trying to figure them out. Some I do know are.

• Try and keep hubby healthy.
• Enjoy life and be happy - focus on important stuff.
• Cherish time with BT, teach him the important stuff -
• Spend time with my grandchildren (3rd one due Feb )
  
  
• On the scrappin front...Will particpate in Craft a Live regional scrapbooking exhibitions just NSw and ACT
  
• Finish off all unfinished projects in between scrapping new layouts. So today I finished off a mini album . Something I started a while back. Random pics of Braedon as a toddler. He was so gorgeous.... still is I mean,,, take a look.

Firstly a different take on the paper bag album which is what I made - unfortunately no pics of the album under construction, but its as simple as..


I used three paper bags.

Fold them in half - so the bottom half folds up to the top. Undo your fold and placed double sided tape down each side (left and right). Refold the bag up. Fold the bag in half now from left to right. Now you have a number of pockets in your album to place tags, other photos or other bits and pieces. If you album is going to be lumpy and bumpy you will need to bind the pages on top of one another.

I filled the pockets with the journalling on different tags. one tag are his fav things at age 2. The other tags are really just stories about the things he used to do.

Caution...If its not going to be lumpy bumpy you can fit the pages inside each other. Decide before you start making your album or your pages may be in the wrong order.

Lesson learnt...... ummhhh the hard way... mine was toooo lumpy

Front cover

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

Page 8

Page 9

Page 10

Page 11

More antique shopping

A visit to the antique markets on Sunday (can't believe it was three days ago already) and I picked up this cute Limoges antique brooch. I collect Limoges hand painted plates and now seem to have ventured into the brooch area.