I am a Scrapbooking Tutor!!

It's very exciting to say that! Last night I had my first Crop/Class over at Absolutely Crafty. I had 4 very lovely ladies there and I had so much fun! I was a bit nervous to begin with but the nerves dissapeared and I really enjoyed myself.

Gay the owner of the store gave me some beautiful Making Memories papers and a packet of ribbons and fibres from the Flutter Range to work with and I made 5 LOs with them.
These are some of the products I got to play with ....


And this is what I made with it ....

Bad Blogger!!

Forgive me Father for I have Sinned ... it's been 8 days since I last blogged ...

Well today is the day of Riley's 2nd school visit at Pukekohe Hill School.


School visits are from 8.45am until 12.30pm. Last week Riley had a HUGE day. He went to school assembly shortly after I left. He got a bit overwhelmed by that and cried, the teacher took him for a little walk to settle him down. He also got to go Swimming in the school pool! He was very happy when I picked him up and his teacher, Mrs Masters, said he had a great day. Fingers crossed for another one today.

The only crafting I have done lately is for my first class over at Absolutely Crafty. I have completed 3 LOs and have another 2 planned. I'll share them all with you after my class :)

Apart from that life has been quiet. I am searching for a job. Money is tight and Jase and I have plans of owning our own home. To do that we need a second wage. Sadly with Riley heading off to school it makes things a little awkward. Firstly we can't afford before/after/school holiday care, and I personally would prefer to not have to use those services. So I need a job in school hours (9am-3pm) and preferably with the school holidays off. Sadly not many people are that flexible! And understandably so! But I am working on a few different options. Fingers crossed one of them works out soon.

Injuries ....

My daughter is a walking disaster. She has had more accidents than I like to admit, ones that leave nice bumps, grazes and bruises!! She has had by far more accidents than her brother although he had the worst. Well last night running around nudey before the shower Abbey managed to fall in the playroom and cut her chin. Not a major injury but left a lovely cut!


I have so many photos of Abbey's wounds I have decided I am going to make an 'Abbey's Injuries' Mini album ... I will have to make it so I can add pages to it of course!
Any suggestions or ideas are most welcome as I have no idea where to begin! I was thinking of starting by covering the cover in bandages!!
What a tough cookie of a baby girl I have!!

Fun Filled Family Saturday

Well my boring Saturday ended up been a great one :)
Jase ended up staying home today and we decided to head over to the Pukekohe AMP Show. We packed up a picnic lunch, lots of snacks and bottles of water and headed on over. There were rides and Animals all over the place. The kids had a blast! We saw sheep, donkeys, horses, cows and alpacas!! We got to let the kids go on a couple rides and then on the way home we went through McDonalds and got ourselves a 60c icecream (still dissapointed they have raised the price on those!) Here are some of my favourite pics from the show ....







While bringing in washing from out the back this afternoon, I noticed quite a few perfect spiderwebs hanging from the trees and fence. I decided the kids and I would catch a Spider Web. If you have never done this before this is what you must do ...

#1--> Find a perfect spider web which is suspended between something ie so nothing is behind it
#2--> spray the web all over with a mist of water, or find your web in the morning when it is dewy still
#3--> carefully place a piece of black paper behind the spiderweb and gently pull it forward so the web gets stuck onto the paper
#4--> sprinkle glitter or flour all over the paper and then shake the excess off and you end up with something like this ...


You could experiment with white paper and different coloured glitters but I really like the black and white look :)
Well that's it for me .. off to blob with an ice cold coke infront of American Idol!!

TGIF

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY! >>> That means not having to walk Riley to daycare tomorrow morning ... not having to walk and get him in the mid-day heat and that is awesome!! Sadly hubby is working this weekend so no big weekend plans.

I am however looking forward to catching up on my shows with My Sky tonight ... my most favourite being Ace Of Cakes have you seen this show? I LOVE IT!
I have two dreams, they could possibly both happen but they involve having money ...
Dream #1 ... owning my own Scrapbooking Shop
Dream #2 ... running a party planner business

I want to learn how to make amazing cakes like they do at Charm City Cakes. That would ROCK!

Speaking of Parties and Cakes ... Riley will be 5 next month! OMG I know! Where have the last 5 years gone?? When Riley was in my tum tum Jase and I talked about birthdays and how we were going to be horribly mean and not throw a party for our children every year, only the special ones so 1-5-10-13-16-21. Which means this is Rileys first Birthday party since his 1st (hehe) I LOVE hosting parties and I try go all out (those who have been to our Annual Halloween Parties know what I'm talking about look HERE HERE HERE and HERE) Riley has chosen a Robot theme .. I am excited! Its a challenge but gonna be OH So FUN! I have been madly researching EVERYTHING Robot Party related!
So watch this space for LOTS of roboty goodness coming soon!!!

Woo Hoo Wednesday

Today I went to meet a lovely lady called Gay at Absolutely Crafty. She has agreed to let me take classes at her store!!! I am soooo excited! She gave me some gorgeous papers and matching embellies to work out my class with. I'm nervous and excited and all jelly lol!!

So a BIG WOO HOO to me today!!

Little Girls Stuff ....

I am by far a Girly Girl .. anyone who knows me knows that, so it's incredibly stange how girly girl my dear Abbey is! She LOVES the colour pink, she choses skirts to wear over anything else, she loves having clips and hairbands in her hair and just recently she has discovered jewelery. I don't wear any apart from my Wedding and Engagement rings. She had a couple of bead bracelets and princess rings in her box which came from who knows where and this week she started wearing them ... alot. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with her bracelet (which she has been wearing since she was born)been at the jewellers. We took it in to get some charms attached. Anyway I digress ... Yesterday after dropping Riley off at Daycare Abbey and I sat on the floor in my craft room and made jewelery. We made a big necklace and several bracelets. She LOVED them. She wore them ALL day. After her bath she put her necklace on, I suggested it might not be very safe to wear while she was sleeping so we hung it on her dresser. Later that night when Jase and I tucked the kids in before we went to bed we discovered Abbey had ALL her bracelets on and had fallen asleep on top of her jewelery box! Too cute! This morning she came out wearing everything again.



What a gem I have for a daughter :)

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!!