HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

sit has been a busy day for me today! The kids and I have done some baking and I have done some crafting.
I made the kids a Valentines themed lunch which they devoured!


Here is what we baked for Daddy for Valentines Day ...



Chocolate Chip Cookies with pink icing and silver balls, Red Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Icing Sugar. Jase has been at work all day today so hopefully he enjoys his surprise when he gets home!

I did a LO for the TM Scrappers challenge today the challenge was ... Create a single or double page layout with the theme BIG IS BETTER. you can interpret that any way you like. for example big photos, big embellishments, papers with big patterns on them. big titles etc. let your imagination run wild ... I have been wanting to scrap these pics of Riley for a while and this was the perfect opportunity!


This was the very first time he had let us get his face painted ... I was upset I didn't have my camera with me because it was a little smudged by the time I got to take some photos. But he was a really cool tiger!

I also did another LO which I didn't do specifcally for the challenge but used it for anyway! ...


This was Abbey eating her first solid food her Big Helper brother was very serious about giving it to her, she sure did love it though.

Hope everyone else had a HAPPY VALENTINES xoxoxox

Valentines ....

Well so much for posting everyday!!
It has been hot and I have been incredibly unmotivated!! I have a few things to show you though ...

Over at TM Scrappers I put out a Valentines Day Challenge. The challenge was to take a photo that represented Love and make a card or LO with it.
Here is my photo ...


I took many many photos to get the kids hands in the right spot! And it was early in the morning so the kids had their PJs on still!! But I'm glad I did it so early because by mid morning it was raining so no shadows!!
Here is the Valentine's Card I Made with the pic on ...


Yesterday I got a box in the mail from my wonderful friend Jennie!! Oh hurray!! it was very exciting! I'll take some pics later on to show you the goodies that were in the box!
And that is all I have!

Happy Valentines Week

This Sunday is Valentines Day. I am hoping to make some cards with my kids to send to their friends and maybe make some treats to pop in the cards too ... Watch this space for what we end up doing!!

Fun Filled Sunday

Today is Jase's birthday ... I spent most of Friday making his birthday cake. He is a HUGE Tennesse Titians fan and since the superbowl is on tomorrow I thought I'd link it in to his birthday ...
I found a picture of the titans football helmet and printed it out as big as I could. I used that for the template for the shape of the cake, as well as the titans logo. I found a recipe for fondant icing and made the logo out of that, the rest of the cake was iced with butter cream icing. Here are the pics ...






Today for Jase's birthday we decided to do something fun for the day. We packed up the picnic bag and headed out to Parakai Springs Aquatic Park. The kids had a blast! Jase and I enjoyed ourselves too! Here a a couple of my fav pics of the day ...






*Red the Crap UPDATE*
Red the Crab has been found in a few different places over the last few days ... In my underwear drawer, on the top of the coke bottle in the fridge, hanging off my bedside lamp and now he is missing again!! I will try to remember to take a photo when I find him next!

I haven't done any crafting for a while (unless you count the birthday cake) but I do plan to make up for that this week! I have lots of things planned!! So .... Watch this Space!

Introducing Red the Crab

I have no idea where Red came from ... but he was found on the floor one day and My DH thought it was incredibly funny when he joked about me having crabs! Well I thought I'd get one up on him and I hid Red inside DH's jar of anti-chafing cream ... since then it has become a game to hide Red the crab, this has been going on for a few days now, Red has been put under pillows, on dinner plates, hung up on coat hangers, on toothbrushes and last place my DH put him in was my bottle of coke. I managed to get Red out of the bottle and I have hid him under the TV remote control



So I thought I'd update you on Red's Adventures as he has them!! Lets see how long DH takes to find Red tonight and where will he end up next???

Thankful Thursday

I have decided that I am going to try blog everyday ... it may not be interesting lol but I'm gonna try!
Today I am thankful for my amazing husband. He has made so may sacrifices for me. He works hard because he knows I would rather be at home, and he never complains. I love him more than anything. He understands, supports and replenishes my scrapbook obsession. He is a wonderful father to our children, he's funny and I couldn't ask for a better husband. So that's what I'm thankful for today.

Now onto the craft .....

Another TM Scrappers Challenge LO. The challenge was to create a single page layout using one or more fabrics which must have either hand or machine sewing on layout as well.

Well my sewing machine had me swearing as it wasn't zigzagging for me and I ended up hand stitching on this LO.
Before we moved Riley's class planted sunflower seeds. He had two growing when he left and we bought them with us, we had also planted some at home a few weeks before. So when we moved we planted them all in our new garden. When they finally flowered they were amazing! Riley was very proud of his sunflower garden. We only just pulled the sunflowers out this morning.



The fabric for this LO came from a yard sale in America!! Jason did alot af yard saling while he was over there and he found this enormous bag of quilting scraps. I trained him well, he got it and there were alot of lovely bits of fabric in there.
This LO I used a sketch from Page Maps

WooHoo Wednesday

It is Wednesday, every 2nd Wednesday is payday WOOHOO and that's today. I have spent the morning doing chores and grocery shopping (which I love!!)
My friend Jennie submitted a LO for up2scrap and it has been shortlisted WOOHOO, we are really hoping that both our LOs get in and we can be in the same magazine together!!

Anyway down to crafting business .......



The photos are from our friend Sarah's daughter, Paige's Birthday party back in 2008! Sarah is a volunteer firefighter at the Manly Firestation and they had Paiges birthday there. It was a dress-up party so I got on the phone to my Mum and she sewed Riley up a Firefighter costume. All the kids got to go on a drive around the block in the firetruck! So much fun!!

This is a LO I did for the TM Scrappers challenge that Jennie, Kristine and I run ... The challenge was to pre-pick a old item that has sat at the bottom of a draw for ages! and using your item make a one or two page LO with 4 different papers and it must also include some ribbon.
This is the item I chose ...



Jase bought these stickers back from the states with him in July 09 so they have been sitting there a while.
Since we moved to Pukekohe I haven't spent any money of scrapping supplies, and I am overwhelmed by the fact that I have made so many things and not needed to buy new stuff. I am on a Scrap My Crap mission! I love this blog and I have decided that I want to try go without spending for another 3 months! Lets see if I can do it!!

Busy Beaver

I have been soooooo busy crafting it's awesome!
My big news is I have had 2 Los put on the shortlist for the only NZ Scrapping magazine Up2Scrap. I won't find out until the end of March if they will definately be published but I'm pretty stoked to be put on the shortlist to begin with!

Fiskateers are having a HUGE 5 day online crop at the moment ... only having dial-up internet has it's major disadvantages! But I have participated as much as possible anyway!

So here are a couple of LOs I have done since I last posted :)





And thanks so much to Jennie who made me the wonderful plaque which is my new banner, when it arrives in a box I will be attaching it to my craft room door :)

Stuff ...

As promised here are a few pics of Scrapping and crafting I have worked on ... Oh and not to forget my new CRAFT ROOM!!!







These are three canvases, a clock for my Craft Room and a Halloween House

My Favourite LOs lately ....







I have also decided to be brave and submit a couple LOs to Up2Scrap again so fingers crossed there

And here is my very well used Craft Room ...

I'm BAAACCCCCCKKKKK

We finally have the internet again!! WOOHOO!!! Sad thing is it's only dial-up so things are in slow motion hehe! I have so many crafts to share and will try to put some pictures up later on ...

So glad to be back online!