Finally a LO!

I haven't had much chance to do any actual scrapbooking lately, and when I have I haven't been able to share it .. yet! So finally I have a LO to share! Yay!!!



This photo is Riley's very first school portrait. I think he looks very handsome, but I am a tad biased!! I used My Minds Eye Lil' Robots range which I LOVE. It is soooo cute and totally Riley ... why I couldn't find ANYTHING as cool as this for Riley's Robot Birthday Party is super annoying! But at least I have plenty to use when I finally get around to scrapping those photos!!
Anyway ... the journalling reads "all your little cogs have been working overtime with your first school year! I am so proud at how amazingly well you do"

And that is all for now ... Until next post hehehe

Notice Board

I love my kids Art. In fact I love it so much I have a whole file cabinet full of the stuff, I have no idea what I am going to do with it all yet but I have it all safe for when I decide what to do! When new artwork comes home I display it on the fridge. This is all good and well if it's small, but as well as that I have 1000, 000 other things up on my fridge and things were getting a bit crazy. When I brushed against the fridge the other day and a heap of papers and magnets fell upon the floor I decided it was time to look for another art holding place.

This is about when I decided to make a noticeboard for each of my kids bedrooms for their art and anything else they wanted to pin up on it.

So far I have only finished Riley's and I am going to share it here with you. Once Abbey's is made I will share here later!



I had an old cork board sitting around home so decided to use that. Riley came to Spotlight with me and chose the fabric he wanted. I made sure I measured my board before hand and got slightly more fabric than the board was big.

I hand-sewed the rocket and stars onto the corner of the fabric first. I made them with felt, beads and sequins. I then carefully took the cork board frame off the cork and stretched the fabric around the board and using a gun stapler attached the fabric on the back. I then put the frame back around and glued the wooden letters onto the top of the frame. I used Kaisercraft wooden letters which I painted yellow then after the paint was dry stenciled the blue stars on.




Riley LOVES his noticeboard and it hangs proudly above his bed. I can't wait until school starts so I can start pinning some stuff up on it!! Abbeys will be different again, haven't quite decided what I will do with hers yet but I will share when I do!

January Challenges at Better Scrapbooking

Check out the challenges at Better Scrapbooking this month. You have until the end of January to enter the following challenges;


January Layout Challenge:
Your Summer Holidays. Create a layout of something you did over your Summer Holidays.

January Photo Challenge:
Fun in the Sun. Take a photo of you having fun in the "sun".

January Project Challenge:
Alter Something. Find something you can change the look of and alter it with your scrapbooking supplies. Let your imagination and creativity take flight with this challenge.

January Card Challenge:
Use Markers - Use them to colour your stamps, write a title or create a border. Lets see what you do with your Markers.

Thanks fellow DT member Karen Barlow for posting these up!

Flashback Friday

Remember these little guys?



I LOVED them when I was a kid. When Jason and I saw the DVDs at The Warehouse a couple years back we HAD to get them. I have tons of my old Smurfs from when I was a kid so once the kids started watching the DVDs I pulled out my Smurfs. They love them, especially Abbey. I think it's a girl thing, playing with little people!! Here she is playing with my old Smurfs




I have seen that they are selling Smurfs again, I would love to add to my collection! I LOVE the little Smurf Houses I've seen!!

So do you still have any of your old toys and do your kids play with them?? If so let me know I would LOVE to see photos!

Girly Stuff

This morning Riley went to a school friends house so I decided to spend some girly time with Abbey. First thing we did was make Pink cupcakes
After Jason died we received a few boxes of grocery items, one of the things we got was this muffin mix.



So we followed the instructions on the package and then added a little red food colouring to make the cupcakes pink! We were planning to ice them but didn't get a chance to today .. maybe tomorrow!






Then we set about making some hair things we got from the Warehouse, hair ties and headbands. We rummaged through Mummy's scrapbooking flowers and butterflies and heated up the hot glue gun.



Abbey decided what went where and helped me carefully put them on. Sadly she wouldn't model them for me .. but I am hoping she might let me get some tomorrow!





(sorry about the crap photos night time again!!)

As for promising to show you what I did last night .. well I had a second thought and realised I can't really reveal them until after Saturday ....
But ...
I can show you what I made for Abbeys little doll as another kind of sneak peek!





Now I found the instructions for this NO SEW! Tutu HERE I just did a teeny version for the doll.

Sneak Peeks of Frilly Frufru's

This is what I have been working on tonight and due to the hideous light in the house at night and the hideous appearance of the model (me) I will disclose ALL in the morning when my Model (Abbey or perhaps Riley too!) and better light appears!!

Until then here are a couple of teeny little sneak peeks!

Paper City

This morning Kate showed me the coolest idea I just HAD to give it a go! She found it over at Made By Joel



I printed out two copies of each print out onto yellow cardstock I cut down to an A4 size. I used yellow because I didn't have any of THIS


The kids then spent a good hour or so colouring all the little people and buildings! I ended up having to make them stop to eat lunch! These would look great all sparkly and glittery coloured with THESE




After they had coloured them all to their liking I cut and folded to make the little town which they then spend a good part of the afternoon playing with! Too darn cute!

The Boredom Box

It's school holidays .. and while so far the kids have been pretty good there is still the odd occassion where you ask what they want to do and get the standard answer of "I don't know". So I decided to do something about that!! I came up with The Boredom Box idea. Now how it works is you give the box a big shake and the kids pick out a chip. On each of the 50 chips that are in the box is an activity that the kids can do. Things like bike riding, puzzles, blocks, trampoline, movies etc etc. On the top of the box is a spinner. Now depending on what they pull out of the box they might have to spin the arrow on the spinner e.g. they pull the ice cream chip out of the box. On the Spinner it says HOME GMA YOU OUT so if the arrow lands on GMA we go have ice cream with Grandma, or OUT we go have ice cream somewhere out etc.



I used poker chips a wooden treasure chest box and lots of Mod Podge for this project! And I am totally stoked at how it turned out!!






Now I know Riley is just dying to try this one out tomorrow!!!

New Year & a Re-Vamp

For some un-known reason to me last night I decided I wanted to change my craft room around. It's actually not a room as such it's an area, it should be where the dining table is, a normal person would have put their dining table in here, but I am not all that normal and HAVE to have my Craft Space, and my Craft stash has by far out-grown the box in the cupboard. Anyway .... after the kids went to bed I put my muscles into action and started heaving furniture around and got stuck in a corner and woke up with several bruises this morning! I have done this once before at night when we lived in Pukekohe, you can read about it HERE. But at least then I had Jason to help me move the furniture around! At 12.30am I tattled off to bed with the most major pieces of furniture moved and the place looking semi done. I heard Riley say when he got up this morning "Holy" which is what he says when something amazes or surprises him at the moment, word of the moment I guess lol. I spent the rest of my child free time during the day sorting and tidying and putting away. And now just over 24 hours after I started my Craft Space is done .. and I LOVE it!! So here are the Pics

BEFORE .. and rather messy I might say! You can also see more pictures HERE




DURING .. when I was thinking OMG and was trapped in a corner for a while and had to climb under the table to get to the light switch when it started getting dark!!!





The way I left it when I went to bed this morning!






AFTER .. it looks sooooo good!!!! I Love it!





As I was re-arranging and tidying I also did a HUGE clear out, made a list of all my UFOs and my goal is to get them ALL finished! So now I'm off to start one hmmmm which shall I do!!!?????

Flashback Friday

I have decided that from now on I am going to do a Flashback Friday on my blog ... Showing some cool stuff from back in the "good ol' days" Might be a YouTube clip, a photo who knows ....

Today I am going to share a photo and a song .. well it's kinda a song!



Who is this Handsome young man??? Ohhhh that's right my husband!! I'm sitting here watching the best of Glee and realising how different school is here in NZ to America. I believe this was Jason's Year Book photo 1996? I love the idea of the year book, something that never happened at my High School. I am lucky enough to have a couple of Jason's year books, but not only that but he has the coolest High School ring, and a cup with ALL the names of the Graduating class of 1996. Makes me wish that there was more cool stuff like that associated with High School here. Times may have changed and more cool stuff may be coming out, it has been a wee while since I was at High School. But knowing how different things are between the two countries makes me appreciate all that Jason gave up to be here with me in NZ. Thanks babe xxx



Who remembers this?? I had forgotten about this until my friend on FaceBook posted it and oh my I used to like it back then, but now I LOVE it more!! It has a whole different meaning!! It is bloody brilliant!

So I hope you enjoyed my little bit of a flashback for Friday ..oh and I guess I should say Happy New Year! See you in the next one!