Hey everyone!

Well i can’t believe that it is Tuesday! So here I am saying….Scrap it Saturday, on a Tuesday!

We are home safe and sound from Brisbane, which was a wonderful break away. I spent the weekend recovering from that cold, and of course spending time catching up with the kids. Yesterday was their last day of school holidays so it was nice to just chill out with them before they headed back today.  So whilst it is a little late, it was a case of family comes first this weekend, which I know you all understand! Funny thing is that I actually had this page all completed even before I went to Brisbane!

So I showed you last week that picture of my dear friend and Upline Ngaire, and here is the completed page for you all!

Here I have used a Basic black cardstock for the base. I have then added 4 1 inch strips of the Pink Flamingo DSP from Stampin’Up, which I think reflected the Blue in Ngaire’s dress, and the red flower in my hair well. I punched out 8 1 inch circles, and then placed half of them on the edge of the DSP, along with a large Rhinestone brad for effect. The greeting is from the new, Great friend stamp set (upcoming mini catty) which I have punched out with my designer label punch, and mounted with a Silver Designer label Hodgepodge hardware.

Okay so since it is Tuesday again…..they come around fast! i thought I would show you my next Take a pic for this week in the one post.

Still working on my Convention photos, that I loved, here is the one of me, with the poster board, just to confirm I was at Convention, and not galavanting around some other place! Great, and wonderful Memories!

 Till next time!

 Hello!

Thanks for the Happy Birthday wishes for Malakai! We had a lovely day all together. He is enthralled with his new reacing car set…….something Rod really wanted to get him, although i do think it is something that HE wanted too! LOL

I thought this post was done last night, but found that it didn’t publish, so thought I would start from scratch again. So anyway, it is Tuesday, and time again for Take a pic Tuesday!

Recently I have been working on some of my favourite photos from the Stampin’Up Convention, and today I am sharing a photo of me with my dear friend, and most talented Upline Ngaire Anderson. Many of you all know that Ngaire is also the Stampin’Up Demonstrator of the Year for two years running! Ngaire has the best sense of humour and ability to eat, eat and eat some more and not gain a gram…..(so totally jelous!!!) LOL! We always have a blast together, and I am so blessed to have her in my life. I met Ngaire, 8 years ago, and she is the one who introduced me to stamping…..YES, I know! And so I have her to thank for getting me into the hobby that allows me to be creative, and share my skills as well.

I look forward to sharing this photos Scrapbooked for my Photo Journal on Saturday!

Take care,

 Hi again,

It feels so good to be catching up on here! I would love to have the Make it Monday for you, but my energy levels are not quite up to that yet…….but next week I promise! I still have over 300 emails to go through, and am determined get that In-box cleaned up. So if you have emailed me in the past week, I apologize that I haven’t gotten back to you just yet….Hopefully today!

Now for this weeks Take a pic Tuesday, I have another Convention photo for you! This is another sweet dear, and special friend of mine, that I have met through Stampin’Up! Amanda works for Stampin’Up head office in Sydney, and we hit it off straight away, I think because we have the same sense of humour and both love to talk! Amanda also met up with my brother whilst he was in London, and she was travelling, and even got to meet his girlfriend before I did! Anyway another reason, I have picked this photo for today, is because it is Amanda’s BIRTHDAY today! Happy birthday gorgeous Amanda…….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!…….(oh to be 23 again! )

I look forward to showing you this page scrapped on Saturday!

Have a goodie!

 Hey everyone!

Thanks for the lovely comments about my headaches! I woke up feeling wonderful this morning and rather giddy because I didn’t have a headache and my ear was fine……! YAY! It is still lingering though, that nasty headache, so I have booked to see the chiro, and hopefully it is just my neck that is out a little and causing all the fuss.

Anyway, yesterday I put a status update on my Facebook saying I had exciting news to share tomorrow…….it has literally driven everyone mad not knowing what it is. LOL! And well it is evening now and I still haven’t spilt the beans!

Okay so the big news is the that my brother Bryn (who I always talk about) and Kate from Maryland USA, got engaged on the weekend!!! WHOO HOOO! It is all very exciting, and since he is my only brother and Kate is an only child, it is all very exciting to invite her into the family. I had a little part to play with it all, and was the only one that knew he was going to ask her. I ended up being the ring designer…..and arranging it all with the jewller, whist Bryn was stuck out at sea on the Barge he was commissioned to work on! Talk about a lot of pressure!!! But I am happy to say he loved it, and so did Kate which is what really matters.

Talk about being romantic though……! He took her out a few days earlier to buy her a new dress,…then on the day had booked her a massage, then when they left to go for dinner at a 5 star elite restaurant, there was a Limo to take them there. But that isnt all! He had arranged a horse and carriage to take them around Charleston, and then asked her in Washington park…..talk about sweet and romantic, which I have to say I didn’t know Bryn was like that! LOL!.

And kate being who she is just about died of shock and was having a good cry from it all. But most importantly she said YES! They phoned me straight away which was so sweet, and Kate was talking 100 miles a minutes, and just beside herself with excitement and still in shock!

Don’t you just love a happy story? Anyway that has just made my week, and I smile each time I think about it. Not having ever had a sister, I am so blessed with the sister-in-law that i will have! Of course I am dying to see photos, and that ring on her finger (thankfully it fit perfectly!) but I don’t have to wait too long as they will be arriving back in Perth on Monday……Can’t wait!

I couldn’t announce it on Facebook just yet because I have been waiting for them to be able to phone everyone, and well when they haven’t put it on their own status (which I thought they would have) I kinda don’t want to be the one to spill the beans on their behalf because we do share the same friends and family!

Now to just save lots and lots of Moolah to take all 6 of us over to the States for the wedding! Oh how am I going to resist all those Reese’s peanut butter cups, shopping at Michaels, and visiting all my stamping friends I now have…..I am going to have to resist more Copics and start saving BIG TIME, …..LOL!

Okay so what I have come her for really….. this weeks Take a pic Tuesday! I plan on doing a few of my favourite Convention photos in the next few weeks, as I never get round to doing them, and well it is a special part of the year that I would love to have in my Photo journal for 2009.

So going through all my pictures……that everyone so kindly sent me ( I think I have about 3,000 now! LOL) I have picked this one first!

This is my gorgeous, loving, caring, funny, very talented, dependable, with amazing hair, photographer, with fabulous fashion sense, always supportive, and beautiful friend Monique (aka…. monnie moo)  

Monnie has come to Convention with me the past two years, and we have always had a blast! She is also my excersize partner in crime, who really gets to see me with bed hair, a grupmy face..cuz it is toooo cold, hot and sweaty days, or just plain still too tired to talk mood sometdays, but each day at 5:45am we get together, and she is always smiling and always positive…….AND she doesn’t get angry when I accidentily forget to set the alarm and leave her standing at the end of my driveway! Now wouldn’t you call that a fabulous friend??!! Well that she is, and I feel very very blessed to have Monnie in my life, and well this photo is a great reminder, of what a wonderful friendship we share!

So I look forward to scrapping this page for you all on Saturday!

Have a good night!

 Hi ho everyone..

I have seen the end of Tuesday already, and boy I think this week is gonna be gone in a blink on an eye….again! Have to say it is a good thing we are all well as it is that time of year for colds and flus.

So here we are again….Take a pic Tuesday! Tonight I have a photo of Tiarne, and that will be the last of my kids for now. So I am going to have to finally get those Convention photos printed, and start working on them now….what fun !

WOW when I look at this photo, and am amazed at how fast Tiarne is growing up! She now loves to have her hair straightened, wear shoes with heels, and of course begs to play with my makeup, which is definitely out of bounds for now!

I look forward to showing you the scrap page on Saturday!

Take care!