:0( My Little Man is Sick...

How do I know he is sick? Aside from the fact that he is vomitting every couple of hours and not eating a thing -always a good sign :0p) -
- He is quiet, and if you knew my gregarious talk at a mile a minute son, you'd know that is soooo not him.

-He is still, my full of action race-around boy is actually happy to flop on his bed/the lounge and not move.... Poor little guy, I know he is VERY sick because hardly anything keeps him down for long, and he has been like this since about 5.00 yesterday afternoon....

On a brighter note, one of the reasons I have been MIA from blogging is that I went on a school camp - which was fun, just very VERY tiring, because as a teacher you are on duty for 24 hours every single day....

On the second day we were very lucky to go to Whitehaven Beach and Hamilton Island. How lucky are the kids in Mackay?? When I was a kid, we only ever took our school camps to Little Yabba Creek at Kenilworth, the best we got was to swim in - the freezing by the way - creek.

These kids get the Whitsundays!! Mind you, they couldn't swim, with all the safety forms to fill out, to take them swimming too would be a nightmare - and as for swimming in a creek, you'd better make darn certain there were no crocodiles, would be a bit difficult to explain to parents.....

Anyways, here are some photos, this is the beautiful Whitehaven Beach - one of the top 5 listed as the most beautiful beach in the world.... It's very easy to see why, it is just so pristine....

This is the chapel on Hamilton Island - very popular for weddings.....

This is the view from one of the resorts - not a bad life eh?

A view of the marina on Hamo - pick a multi million dollar yacht, any yacht......LOL!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope to get some scrappy goodness up in the next couple of days.

Cheers!!

Studio Calico at Addicted To Craft

The Design Team Girls at Addicted to Craft have been sent some STUNNING papers from Studio Calico - I got to play with the Anthology range.

This manufacturer is awesome - I love the papers, the Fabric Rips, the journalling cards, stickers.... well, the whole lot, really - I am planning on getting myself some of their new range Documentary VERY soon.

Did I mention the colours are gorgeous? OK, enough cyber drooling from me - this is what I did with the goodies Luisa sent me.

I really went to town with the Fabric Rips on this layout - I layered them under the photo to give dimensione, and I also used them to make these lollipop flowers - kept is all together by stitching and adding the button.

Go and check out what the other DT girls did here.

Scrap The Boys

Finally got July's Scrap the Boys challenge done - the challenge was to use a portrait of your boy and detail their likes/dislikes/quirks on the layout.

This is what I came up with - lately I have been trying to use some older papers I have - this is the WRMK teenage angst range - a great grungy range, but it also include some brights for a splash of colour!! I also used some epoxy stickers from the Prima Youth range - I told you I was trying to use up older stash!! LOL!

Pity I didn't get it done quick enough to play along - oh well, there is always next month - LOL!
Thanks for looking!!!!

Lollipops!

I bought this lollipop at the Mackay Show, and I've had it hidden away until Connor finished with all the other goodies he got at the show. Needless to say, he was totally blown away with this lollipop. He said "Oh Mummy, this is the biggest lollipop I've ever seen!!!!"

I have also been having more of a play with the Fancy Pants Like Father Like Son Range - available at ScrapbooknBits
Here is a close up - had lots of fun using Glimmermist, Perfect Pearls, and Distress Ink and Stamps to create this tag and customise the element I cut out from the Like Father Like Son "Cards" paper.

Here is the layout - photos are of my cheeky little ratbag posing with a pair of his Dad's sunnies - such a little poser!!


Here is a layout done with the STUNNING Basic Grey Oliver Range - love love love this range - all the elements are available at ScrapbooknBits

Here's a close up - my new favourite bling is the Twinklets Diamond Dust - it does really thick, chunky glitter - and you can make those gorgeous sugared flowers with it - YUMMO!!!
I used it on the tree - it gave a really good covering, and made it look like the tree was covered with snow - a really nice effect!

SIA Layouts

As part of the Addicted to Craft Design Team, I was honoured to produce 3 layouts to be part of the shop's display at SIA.

Luisa sent us the gorgeous packs, and we were left to create to our heart's content!

Finally I can share what I came up with:

This is using the gorgeous October Afternoon Report Card paper - This is the best paper for school photos - a gorgeous mix of bright colours, old-style elements and old "reader" style papers.

Have you seen this range? It is relatively new, but it is STUNNING - this is the Anthology range from Studio Calico. I just love the woodgrain paper - isn't it just divine?? There are also some gorgeous fabric rips - just rib the fabric to use as borders etc.

This layout was done by Black Market Paper Society - it just screamed vintage to me -so I scrapped my Granny and Grandfather's wedding day. So simple, no fancy trimming, just a sign of the times, I s'pose - it would have been during 2nd World War, I think......

Scrappy Catch Up

Hi Folks,
Well now that we are back from holidays, got a bit more organised, and have our fridge fiasco on the way to being sorted -long story, but it involves a rather smelly end to out lovely holiday, :0(
I figured it was time for some shares of what I did to relax and wind down from the driving I did.
These photos I took about a year ago at Bargara Beach, near Bundaberg - he just loves that park, with its huuuuuge turtle to climb in out and around.
I used some fancy Pants Rough and Tough - just trying to use up some of my older stuff, I have soooo much stash atm, its just taking over my scrap area atm!!!
One of the things I used was a transparency over the page - I really liked how this turned out!!


With this layout I used some Fancy Pants Like Father Like Son Range - available now at ScrapbooknBits.

Also used some Tattered Angels Glimmer Screens, and Coffee Glimmermist to colour the chipboard elements.

I scrapped this layout with one of my favourite photos - I used 7 Gypsies paper, and some 7 Gypsies Ephemera, also some gorgeous Webster's flower ribbon - which I used to make the flowers.

This is a close up of the flower, I just wound it around itself to form the flower - kinda looks like a posy of roses.....

The leaves are those Ir-Resist-Able chips from Tattered Angels - also available at ScrapbooknBits

I just sprayed them with Coffee Glimmermist, and also dabbed a bit of Tim Hotz Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters.

Yesterday I got back some layouts I did for SIA - so I'll be back tomorrow to share them!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog:0)

Holiday in the Snow

As promised, here are some pictures of our time in the snow - we had the best day, it was wonderful to spend time together as a family, just having fun.

I can't wait to scrap these pictures - finally some credible winter photos to scrap!! LOL Where we live, we don't really get much of a winter - haha!

These photos were taken at Blue Cow - we caught the ski tube to Perisher - OMG the most expensive train ride EVER Haha! We were please we did though, because Blue Cow was definately the prettiest, and had the most snow for us to "play" with!

Such a magical place for us North Queenslanders.....

'Course, Connor wasn't happy until we built a snow man, so here is my first ever, rather pathetic, attempt at a snow man!!

I lost count of the snowfights and snowballs that were hurled through the day - hehe!

Here's a couple of "just 'cos" photos - can't wait to scrap them!!!!

Thanks for popping by my blog, I'll be back later in the week with some scrappy shares, I have been scraping - took my gear with my of course, just need that scrapping fix!!