My "Babies" Birthday Today.....

Where has the time gone, 24 years ago Michael was born at 8.45pm. The Dr warned me that he had an awards ceremony to go to that night and didn't want to have to leave to deliver my baby, so if I could please either hold on or not bother until the next day it would be good.......Well

he missed the Pre-Dinner drinks but he did come to deliver Mike in his Tux, and his hair was all spiky and he smelled good .... mmmmm the things you remember aye! Chris wasn't so lucky as John had been in the garden when he got the call Chris was coming so he arrived in his singlet, rugby shorts and gumboots and smelled like compost! and Young Miss Emz well he came straight from his practice so he had to be dressed reasonably well and I cant remember what he smelled like (lol)

Anyway Mike is 24 today, he is living in the Gold Coast with his awesome Girlfriend Sherie and they are coming home next weekend for a very quick trip (we are allocated Sunday afternoon, but not too much of Sunday afternoon as it might break into the drinking time and catching up with Mates time!!!) Nevertheless I am looking forward to a hug and seeing him in real not just nicking photos off facebook and scrapping them.

Here is a layout I have previously done this is using 7 Gypsies paper and lots of wee roses and of course some Prima, they were off to a race meeting here on Melbourne Cup day and looked wonderful all dressed up

Thanks for looking and have a great week

My Poor Little Blog.....

I promise not to ignore you again....................but I have to go and do some luxing, wash some clothes and have a general tidy up after what has been a week from hell!. Everything was planned and put into organised days of what was going to happen last week as I had scrap classes to cut and pack for, kits that had to be finished and Layouts that had to be uploaded and then out of the blue we get a call, to be told that Trev's Dad's Wife (not Trev's Mum) had collapsed at the doors of Dunedin Hospital (while visiting) with Pulmonary Embolism we sat with her for 3 days and nights and she finally slipped away on Thursday morning at 5.30am so then we had to help organise the funeral and because we live in Dunedin and they live in Bluff (Southland) there was a huge amount of travel involved and a lot of very late nights! so all the plans I have set in motion for last week very quickly went out the window.... She was only 58! So little blog I will be back soon and I hopefully will have some goodies to share with everyone

March Sketch Challenge at Scrappin Patch

It's My turn this month for the sketch challenge over at

Scrappin Patch how about popping over there

http://scrappinpatch.co.nz/ for a wee look find out what

you have to do and then enter, there is a great

prize at the end of the month for the Winner.

Here is my take on the challenge, I have used some

very special photos of my wonderful Dad who has

now been gone for 5 years and there's not

a day that goes by that I don't think about him .

I had a bit of an unconventional childhood,

but boy did we have some fun!

and heres a close up of the Tim Holtz Bird on a bit of Prima Branch

thanks for looking and I hope you have an awesome weekend

Take Care

Pencil Lines Sketch

I had a dilemma.......
will I...... won't I...... well maybe...... then why not?
and So I did..........
the dilemma was whether or not to enter the
Pencil Lines DT callout, either way it was another
opportunity to create a layout

so here is the sketch that had to be used

and this is what I came up with.......

Goodies used of course are Prima, Tim Holtz, Graphic 45, Dusty Attic etc

all these are available over at http://scrappinpatch.co.nz

Thanks for looking...

Inspiration for Scrappin Patch....

I was sent a package with lots of different bitz and pieces from Scrappin Patch to use for some inspiration and included in it was some Hambly Screenprint - Couture sheet, along with some MME papers and tags, and some cute wee Chipboard dress forms (which I covered) The rest I added so of course there had to be some Prima and some of Tims goodies!

What do you think....

The alphas I used are Basic Grey - Elbow chipboard letters and are awesome as they are a good size. The metal pieces hanging from the tag in the top corner are from a necklace I found at Equip Jewellery Store, these are exceptional value at $5 on sale and there is always so many pieces that can be used off each one

Thanks for Looking

February Cards......Romance

This Year some Friends I scrap with on a regular basis have started a card swap, some of the topics are relatively easy and then there the other ones....like this one! The topic was of course
since it is February love - Romance - Valentines etc

This is 2 of the cards I have made (we have to make 6 - or more if you choose to) I chose to use the Graphic 45 - Once Upon a Springtime Collection - Woodland Fantasy and some Glitz Design - Love Nest Block along with Basic Grey - Nook and Pantry - Beaters and some Stickles to high light some of the colours in the Fairy papers.
HINT:- if you use a Stickles such as Crystal or Star Dust or Icicle then the colours from underneath will *Pop*

Anyway what do you think of these 2 cuties:-






These Papers that I used are available over at Scrappin Patch for only $1.90 a sheet and that is exceptional value for the Graphic 45 papers as so much can be created with them.
Go check it out, here is some links.....
http://scrappinpatch.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?cPath=916_1162&products_id=14060
http://scrappinpatch.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?cPath=579_883&products_id=8293

I know I will be buying heaps more....

Thanks for visiting Me, hope you all have a wonderful weekend
Toodles xx

Some Very Exciting News.......................

I won.............the competition to be Magistical Memories March Guest Designer.
I am very excited that my layout about Mike and Me has been chosen and I get to be a little creative for the month of March.
Just hoping I can do the position justice and come up with something really special
but you will have to wait and see, and watch this space. But in the meantime pop over to
Magistical Memories and have a wee look at some of their chipboard goodies, they are amazing
Annelie is a DT Member for them and produces some amazing work using their goodies.
I am looking forward to hearing from Tina regarding the list of goodies to use and then get started on the projects........................
Have a Wonderful Weekend, I know I will be!
Toodles xx