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Candy!!

2012-02-08T23:14:00.001+11:00

Hey head over to Cassie’s blog - http://cassiesscraps.blogspot.com.au/. There are two awesome giveaways to be had!!

Stencils 101

2011-12-13T01:07:00.001+11:00

WOW! Ok I really really suck at using stencils, and now I know all the reasons why, and so can you. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer has a FREE class on them, it has heaps of videos and tips. Visit her blog http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/ and click on classes. Then scroll down to Stencils 101 and follow her instructions to get access.
I made myself tags so I know what to do and what NOT to do. I used chalkboard spray as my ‘spray’ and even when I sprayed fairly close, it didn’t bleed under the tag as much as I thought it should have, so I’ll be doing some using glimmermist and homemade glimmermist, just in case there is a difference. I also have another couple of ways I want to try out – inkpad direct, chalks and something I’ve forgotten haha.
Thanks again Julie! Was an awesome class :)

First tag is using Goosebumps spray (FUN!)

Btw get too and DO this class, I think it is only up til the end of 2011 :(

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-12T22:43:00.001+11:00

Well I fell behind on the 12 tags. This is Day 10. We had Michael’s work Christmas party on Sunday, so wasn’t able to get that day done and only just got day 11 done tonight just before Tim put up day 12.
I couldn’t find my fragments for day 10’s piece and I couldn’t find my shrinkee’s for day 11 LOL. Good thing though, for day 12 I just got a box of the tissue paper in the mail on Sunday LOL. Funny too, as I used it as the background for tag 10, which I made BEFORE Tim put up his ‘using it as a background’– Great minds and all that!!

Here is day 11’s.

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-10T17:58:00.001+11:00

Day 9

Here we are at day 9, only 3 days to go :( I’ve enjoyed challenging myself everyday. I’m going to have to find new challenges :D

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-09T18:16:00.001+11:00

Day 8

Well I’m a few minutes late getting this one up. Michael came home and I got busy. Had actually gotten this done last night, so was more just slack getting the photo done.
I meant to add a holly and berries to the blokes hat, might add it later :)

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-08T17:48:00.001+11:00

Day 7

Well uploaded and more than 10 Minutes to spare…. Pretty good
I really liked Tim’s tag today. I couldn’t do most of what he did as I didn’t have the same gear. Instead of the glassine paper, I stamped a flower/flourish image on PP then crumpled it up. I ran the inkpad over the paper and painted Tattered Angels GlimmerGlam over it. Added some flowers, pearls and some fibres. Topped it with a distressed ‘peace’ :)

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-07T18:00:00.001+11:00

Day 6

Uploaded with about 1 min to spare.. I think I’m getting worse :P
I like the background of my piece today. I didn’t use daubers, just used some regular acrylic ink. I had to apply it twice to stop the silver coming through.

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-06T17:56:00.001+11:00

Day 5

It is really hard to see the detail on this piece, the main part is acetate, so it’s really hard to take a good photo of it.
I like todays technique, I had done it before, but done it on smaller pieces. When it came to blotting and rubbing the archival ink off it was harder as it had started to dry a little and the alcohol ink made it sticky. It’s a little more grungy than it should be, but I like it :)
Made it on to the blog with 2 mins to spare today, because I spent 25 mins looking for my camera LOL!

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-05T17:56:00.001+11:00

Day 4

Finished with 13 minutes to spare today LOL. My best friend rang me this arvo and we chatted away merrily for 45 minutes. When I hung up I remembered I had to get cracking on my tag :O
I followed Tim’s instructions on my bauble with the stains- then crackle paint. Once it had dried and I added the stains on top I had all the crackle lifting off as I tried to wipe it.. Not sure what I did wrong so I added a top coat of glossy accents over the top.

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-04T17:59:00.001+11:00

Day 3.

Here we are at Day 3 and I am posting in the last minutes of the day LOL! I was at a 12 hour crop yesterday so that cut into a good chunk of ‘Timmy time’. Here is my piece for today. It’s fairly basic, which is good as time was running short.
Thanks for stopping by.

12 Tags of Christmas

2011-12-02T22:16:00.001+11:00

Day 2

Wow, I can hardly believe it. I’ve already done day 2. I didn’t have any of the resist paper that Tim had, so I made my own :). I stamped some green spotted paper with Music from Dark Room Door. I then stamped it with a boarder stamp also from DRD. I embossed that image. I rubbed over it with the distress stains then stamped the two Christmas images from Kaisercraft. I added a ‘on the edge’ diecut then added some trim and a diecut from Kaisercraft. Woot. 2/2 :)

12 tags of Christmas

2011-12-02T17:56:00.001+11:00

Day 1

I am stoked that I actually finished Day 1, on Day 1, with 7 mins to spare LOL!
Here is my interpretation of Tim’s tag, and his techniques. I embossed the background and just inked over it. For the bird I followed Tim’s ‘embossing – embossing’. I made scrunched flowers using the distressed flower die. My leaves are from the Autumn leaves die. The inking of the background paper/leaves/flowers was using the ‘baking paper technique’ (Distress inks on baking paper-glass-craft mat-whatever and then spritzing water over it and putting your paper on that)
I’ve not added a tie to the top, I am going to stick them down to a mini book

Time Flies?

2011-12-02T00:43:00.001+11:00

WOW.. March is the last time I blogged.. that’s ages ago lol. Hmm a lot has happened and at the same time, not much haha. Haven’t dieted in a while. Really enjoyed the CSIRO diet, didn’t loose heaps of weight, though I wasn’t exercising etc, so I guess it’s to be expected. It was pretty easy to stick to and I will go back ‘on’ it. Really it is more of a lifestyle change than a real diet.
Went up to Qld for a couple of weeks. Had an alright time. I went up to Bundy for one of my best and oldest friends 30th, unfortunately her father in law passed away and she ended up having to go to Brissy so we only saw each other once.

Haven’t scrapped lots this year. Have been rather slack on the swaps too.. Hopefully 2012 will be a better scrappy year :)

The garden has been going along really well. Have got all of our spring/summer stuff on the go atm. My favourite time of the year- food wise :)

Have crop for a cause this weekend. Lots of stuff to make and chatting to do. Tim Holtz has his 12 tags of Christmas again this year so am planning to join in. - which is why I ventured over to my blog LOL!

Week 3 Day 4

2011-03-25T23:32:00.001+11:00

Tonight we had a beef vindaloo and the mint yoghurt, had a salad to accompany it. The curry was lovely and flavoursome, but it was really hot, I think the chilli I picked might have been a bit spicey.. that or I should have seeded it lol.. lesson learnt :)

Week 3 Day 3

2011-03-24T23:28:00.000+11:00

A basic salad and oven cooked chicken. Unfortunately the chicken was tougher than old boots, and it wasn’t how I cooked it (was lovely and moist, just tough) returned the uncooked portion to Coles and got a full refund AND products to the value of the cost.. so we chose steak LOL.

Week 3 Day 2

2011-03-23T22:25:00.000+11:00

I made the lemon cous cous from book 2 and had one of the ‘rubs’ from book one. Was really yummy!

Week 3 Day 1

2011-03-22T23:44:00.000+11:00

A nice and simple chicken stir-fry with lots of veggies. I’m really getting into the whole stir-fry thing.. I love sesame oil..
Today was the start of a new week, which means weigh day. I lost 1.6kg this week.. Whoot!

Week 2 Day 7

2011-03-21T22:18:00.000+11:00

Open sandwich with rocket, chicken meat and my home grown alfalfas.

I had white fish on a bed of stir-fried zucchini and beans. There were 3 different types of zucchini and those and the beans were from my back yard.

Week 2 Day 6

2011-03-20T23:10:00.000+11:00

I really don’t like apples, so I’ll do anything to ‘hide’ them in food lol. Here is a really yummy sandwich that was, apple, cheese, plum sauce, sun flower seeds and something else.. lol sounds bad but it was really yum.

Tea was steak with fried onion and capsicum. Had a big salad, fresh beans and beetroot from my garden.

Week 2 Day 5

2011-03-19T23:06:00.000+11:00

I made the spinach and pumpkin frittata today for lunch.. It nearly killed me putting in the effort. The cold is getting worse and standing and cooking was a silly thing to do, but I wanted to make this so bad lol. It’s 2 serves of veg, 1 of protein, fat and dairy. The whole thing makes 4 serves which is perfect for the next couple of days.. and I can freeze some.
Was really nice! Next time though I’m adding 1/2 as much spinach and will add corn and zucchini instead.

Week 2 Day 4

2011-03-18T23:03:00.000+11:00

I cooked up a double batch of the Stroganoff and will have that on Sat night as Michael will be away metal detecting. It will save me cooking for just me.
Have come down with a cold, so didn’t want to go to the effort of preparing veggies, so used frozen instead.

Week 2 Day 3

2011-03-17T23:05:00.000+11:00

Today a bright fresh yummy day
Lunch was to be left over Tandoori Chicken, salad, and bread and butter, but I skipped my bread, and had a half serve instead, so I could have Apple Crumble in the evening. I didn’t over cook the chicken at lunch, plus it had marinated overnight, so was much yummier than the evenings meal.

This is steamed salmon, with Thai sauce and stir fried veggies… OMG! It was divine, delicious, spectacular, stupendous, fantastic, phenomenal.. best fish ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apple Crumble, same as last night, but this time I added the custard then took the photo

Week 2 Day 2

2011-03-16T23:47:00.000+11:00

Today was salmon and salad.

One complaint I have about the CSIRO’s Wellbeing Diet, is that I am using book 2 and it refers to a few recipes that were given in book 1. I don’t think that’s right. Luckily I was able to get book 1 out of the library. Tandoori Chicken with steamed broccoli and brussel sprouts. I didn’t feel like only those two, so I also steamed cabbage and pumpkin. Both are on the free list so a-ok.

I saved a fruit, fat, and bread unit so that I could make the apple crumble from the recipe book from the CSIRO (it’s a separate book). Was great! I also had a serve of low-fat custard with it. Who said this was DIET food?

Week 2 Day 1

2011-03-15T21:54:00.001+11:00

Start of week 2. With the big blowout reception, birthday cake and 1 extra piece of bread, I managed to loose 1kg. Not bad..!
Here is my lunch, was a tin of salmon, various salad items and 40g of Avocado.

Tea tonight was supposed to be a meat in a broth type thing.. It didn’t appeal to me, and as I have been a little ‘off’ today (sore throat) I didn’t want to go shopping for the various things I need for this week. So I used everything from my fridge and some porterhouse steak. The stir-fry is similar to last nights, but I added chilli and garlic as well.

For a late snack I had this shake/smoothie, I had a fruit and a dairy unit left, so I made this, fruit unit half half with banana and mixed berries and dairy was 1/2 yoghurt and 1/2 milk. YUM!

Week 1 Day 7

2011-03-14T22:18:00.001+11:00

Well here we are at the end of week 1. Have to say it’s been really easy. Foods a little more work than I usually do, but it’s really yummy and therefore worth the extra effort.
Tonight’s tea was two lamb meat patties, mixed brown and white rice, stir-fry veggies and natural yoghurt. Such a strange combo of foods… but all worked so well together lol. I’ve been borrowing the CSIRO’s Total Wellbeing Diet books from the library, but I think I might have to buy them.. Very handy!

Week 1 Day 6

2011-03-13T22:01:00.001+11:00

Ah back to the full diet lol. Last night was great, but I noticed when I woke up I was actually kind of hungry, which makes NO sense as we were all stuffed full of wonderful yummy delights.. When I’ve been waking on the diet, I’ve been able to eat, but haven’t actually felt hungry as such.
Here’s tonight’s tea, it’s fish and a warm salad, asparagus, 2 colours of capsicum, pumpkin and tomato.

Week 1 Day 5

2011-03-13T21:42:00.000+11:00

Well yesterday was day 5 and we had a wedding to go to, so I tried to cut as much out of my day as I could so that I could enjoy my blow-out.
For lunch I cooked up a mix of veggies and my protein portion. In hindsight I should have skipped my protein… Live and learn lol.

I forgot to photograph the other glorious food from the wedding, but I managed to remember the dessert ;) It was beautiful. I ate too much all night, but as I don’t really drink, least I missed the calories/kj there.

Week 1 Day 4

2011-03-11T23:58:00.000+11:00

Day 4 on the CSIRO’s total wellbeing diet. It’s going quiet well, I don’t get hungry and certainly get lots of variety, with out it being ‘over the top’. I photographed lunch, which was a turkey and cranberry sandwich with salad, I didn’t add the avocado as I that didn’t appeal to me.

Dinner was polenta 'crumbed’ chops with fetta & zucchini(it actually had onions and tomato in it, but that’s the name of it lol). I also added beans it. I included a salad with tea so I could have the avo from lunch lol.

Week 1 Day 3

2011-03-10T23:57:00.000+11:00

Well I had a busy day today. My great friend Tracey rang me up and came over to my house to collect her table from Scrapping the other night. She surprised me with cake, belated, for my birthday and also for Holly’s birthday. So we went over to Holly’s and shared the cake joy :)

I had a small portion of the cake (which was a delicious Jam, Cream Sponge cake). For eating the cake I traded in 1 bread, 1 dairy, 3 fat and 1/2 a fruit serve. I thought I could do with out the extra sugar from the fruit lol not that the jam counted for 1/2 a serve of fruit :)
Later I had an appointment then Michael and I had to go shopping (again right?). This time it was a wedding present, pants for said wedding and a tie. I got myself a couple of kitchen goodies while out and about
Anyhow tea was supposed to be fish and salad, but when I got home I discovered that the fish (which the boy chose) was FROZEN so I ‘stole’ steak that is an up and coming meal and we had that instead lol. Here is my meal.

Week 1 day 2

2011-03-09T23:11:00.000+11:00

Well day 2 was a busy day. Went over to the shops here and then in the evening also went and did our grocery shopping for the rest of the week. Oh and went to the library lol. With all that I still managed to cook a roast meal.. that was delish
For breakfast I traded in my cereal for bread and also my milk and fruit serve I turned into a banana milkshake. I added vegemite and tomatoes to my toast. Both ‘free’ items.

Moving on to lunch I had what felt like the most piggy sandwich.. I had 100g of ham, lettuce, puree apples and 'Spanish’ onion slices. I accidently forgot my butter, but the sanga was a ripper!

Delicious dinner, before going to the shops and library, I prepared my chicken maryland and also the veggies. When I came home all I had to do was put it all in the oven and make the quick salad.. Was a yummy and filling meal!

I managed 3 photos today, mostly because everything looked so good lol. There was more food (can you believe it??) consumed in the day as snacks, but I am only looking to take at least 1 photo. All other snacks were on the plan

Week 1 Day 1

2011-03-08T23:55:00.001+11:00

I’m doing the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, so I thought I’d try and take a photo of at least 1 meal a day.. Food recognition or something lol.
This is supposed to be beef kababs with currant couscous, harissa and salad, but we were out late today, so it’s steak, currant couscous, harissa and salad. Was a lovely meal!! Very filling

Super cute blog candy!

2011-01-04T13:33:00.001+11:00

You have to check this out. The stamp and diecuts are so cute!

http://bizzybecsstore.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-blog-candy-time.html

Best Blog Candy Ever!

2011-01-04T13:29:00.001+11:00

You have to check it out to believe it

http://taylordconcepts.blogspot.com/2010/12/most-wonderful-time-of-year.html

210/1000

2010-11-13T16:42:00.001+11:00

I have a bunch of inchies to take photos of, but there is just about no way I will get to 1000 by the end of the year LOL. Probably not even by my birthday in Feb ahah. Will continue to try however haha.
Here is my Halloween Inchie :)

206-209/1000

2010-09-13T23:13:00.000+10:00

These are the 4 seasons. It’s for an upcoming Inchie Swap through ATCs4U.

199-205/1000

2010-09-12T17:10:00.000+10:00

193-198/1000

2010-09-11T14:08:00.000+10:00

188-192/1000

2010-09-06T16:59:00.000+10:00

182-187/1000

2010-09-05T16:58:00.000+10:00

Busy Busy

2010-09-04T17:20:00.001+10:00

Wow where do the months go? Last post for inchies was at the start of July. I never realised when I decided to take photos of each individual inchie it was going to amount to over 1000 photos LOL. So I must admit I’ve been a little slack picking up the camera. My ‘4 a day’ plan for inchies fell away too LOL. I’ve still got about 20 inchies to take photos of, but at this rate I’m going to have to step up to 6 inchies a day if I want to get to 1k by the end of the year.

August was a fun month.
Start of the month I went to C4AC with my local girls. We had a great day, with some scrapping achieved, but mostly talking :D
Went up to Brissy to surprise my best mate for her 30th birthday. It was so awesome, the look on her face still makes me smile to myself. We had a lot of fun and managed to stay out of mischief… We must be growing up?? LOL.
After I came back from Qld I stayed 1 night at home then was up to mum’s house for a 1/2 a week and then to our retreat at Cave Hill Creek.
All in all August was a spectacular month.

176-181/1000

2010-09-04T16:54:00.001+10:00

170-175/1000

2010-09-04T16:52:00.001+10:00

Super love the ‘possibilite’ one!

164-169/1000

2010-09-04T16:51:00.001+10:00

158-163/1000

2010-09-04T16:49:00.001+10:00

152-157/1000

2010-09-04T16:46:00.001+10:00

Here are 4 nudes I did for a swap and two others. I have been so slack posting my images, I never stopped to think that 1k inchies also ment over 1k photos!!

Handmade Paper Flowers!!

2010-07-14T19:56:00.000+10:00

Mum and I made some awesome handmade paper flowers today. We watched a tutorial on Youtube and decided to make some. They are just lovely! You can watch my very first vid on them if you like.

Make sure you go and watch the demo by MyScrapWorld if you want to make them.
Click to check them out in full sized glory ;)

146-151/1000

2010-07-03T11:16:00.000+10:00

140-145/1000

2010-07-02T17:09:00.000+10:00

134-139/1000

2010-07-01T13:06:00.000+10:00

128-133/1000

2010-06-30T05:03:00.000+10:00

122-127/1000

2010-06-29T10:00:00.000+10:00

I have been making inchies, but haven’t gotten around to posting them.. I think I am well and truly behind again LOL Ah well lucky it’s all in fun ;)

116-121/1000

2010-06-10T12:50:00.000+10:00

Here is the last lot that I have to share with you today :) I am not sure how many I am behind, but I think I’ve caught up a little LOL!

110-115/1000

2010-06-10T11:47:00.000+10:00

101-109/1000

2010-06-10T10:55:00.000+10:00

The two lots of flowers have flowersoft on them so they are dimensional :)

91-100/1000 WHOOT!

2010-06-10T10:33:00.000+10:00

Well here we are 100 made, only 900 to go lol (actually not, because I am about to post more that I’ve done :D ) Btw, the girl looking at the butterfly on her finger, has 1 piece of bling as an earring, but the ‘wool’ stuff isn’t on the inchie, it just made it into the shot somehow LOL.

Missing no 90(!)/1000

2010-06-10T09:27:00.000+10:00

I some how missed adding this one the other day, I had put it in my folder and all, so had to track back and figure out which inchie was in the folder but not on the blog.. I hope I don’t make this error at inchie 990 ;)

79-89/1000

2010-06-06T16:16:00.001+10:00

Here is the last of the inchies I have to share today. Time to get cracking again.. think I am still about 40 behind LOL!

67-78/1000

2010-06-06T16:10:00.001+10:00

Some of these were made at the retreat, most in this lot were done at home.

54-66/1000

2010-06-06T16:07:00.001+10:00

Here are some more inchies. I made these at my retreat.

Nice!!

2010-05-31T18:49:00.001+10:00

Check out this nice bit of blog candy over at Stampinstuff http://stampinstuff.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-candy.html
I’ll be back later to share details of my retreat, laid up in bed at the moment, because I got a nasty cold on the last day :(

49-53/1000

2010-05-28T13:10:00.001+10:00

Here at some more inchies :) I should be packing, but I’m procrastinating ;)

43-48/1000 and retreat!

2010-05-27T16:40:00.001+10:00

Well I should be packing for the retreat, but I am procrastinating something chronic lol I’ve even moved my fish into another tank in another room, a job I’ve been going to do for weeks. I am so excited about the retreat, just hate the packing part lol, worst still in a few days I have to pack everything up again to come home :o( Here are some inchies, this will be the last post (I think) until I am home from the retreat! Have a great weekend!

35-42/1000

2010-05-26T16:05:00.000+10:00

So I’m officially way behind in my challenge, but hey, I expected that LOL. There’s lots of time to make it up and lots of time to get further behind bahah!
I really like a few in this lot. I think the heart is my fav, and I am most impressed with it because it was hand drawn.

27-34/1000

2010-05-25T19:00:00.001+10:00

Here is another 8 Inchies for my challenge.
It’s hard to see but the little girl on the second row has glass glitter on one side of her and mica on the other side. They yellow inchie on the third row is a flower with two buttons on it.

19-26/1000

2010-05-20T22:54:00.001+10:00

Yay more inchies! I got productive last night. I made 8 inchies and 2 ATC’s. If you want to see the ATC’s they are here, well one is, the other will be posted tomorrow ;)

10-18/1000

2010-05-20T16:44:00.000+10:00

Here are my next series of Inchies. Off to the retreat soon.. I hope I catch up lol, I seem to be behind ;P

Renewed faith

2010-05-20T09:06:00.000+10:00

I have to say I am glad we went back to Hillston, even though it was for Darren’s funeral. It was lovely to see how the town had supported his family. When we got to town there we got our room and went to get Chinese. When we got to the counter there was a sign saying “Heidi’s freezer is full, please no more food, a tab has been organised at Milne’s (butchers)” When we got out to her place she told us how people had brought over heaps of supplies, one fellow even came out just to chop her wood, another brought a load of wood. The P and C, CWA and CFA all did the catering for the funeral and didn’t charge for it. It reminded me just how awesome a small town is. Fair enough they mightn’t have credit card facilities at 99% of the businesses, but they sure know how to support each other.

When we left Hillston, I was so angry and even bitter at how we were treated at Cowl Cowl, with what Russel and Jim did, over time I’d really begun to hate Hillston as well. This has renewed my faith in that little town.

8&9/1000

2010-05-13T09:02:00.000+10:00

Here are my latest two Inchies. The Drama queen one actually has a queen image underneath the stamp text but you can’t really see her unfortunately. The apple is another hand drawn attempt lol.

Inchies 4-7/1000

2010-05-12T14:32:00.001+10:00

Here are another 4 Inchies. I made my first ever Zentangle. My mother has been hassling me for weeks to make one. She does them on ATC’s, so I thought I’d start small lol. I’m not one for hand drawing, but I think I kind of like it.

Pre {self inflicted} challenge inchies and challenge inchies 1-3/1000

2010-05-10T20:46:00.001+10:00


These 4 are for the “It’s a Man’s World” swap on Swap-bot.



These are 3 of 4 for an open theme on swap-bot.

As I started them after my challenge these are the first 3 of my 1k :) only 997 to go. lol

Sad :’(

2010-05-10T13:31:00.001+10:00

We got some sad news today that Darren a mate from the farm passed away last week. Darren was a top bloke, he was always willing to help and one to do the right thing. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
Rest In Peace ‘Big Fella’

Stumped?

2010-05-09T21:20:00.001+10:00

So I’ve taken up the challenge of 1000 Inchies..(yes I am nuts). Since taking up the challenge(when ever my last post here was) I have achieved about 2/3 of one lol and it’s one that will be swapped out, so I am making 5 like it.
Going to get cracking on these swaps as I have to make 4 for an open theme and 4 for a male theme. Will get out the camera tonight and take photos.
Hopefully by the next post I’ll be more than 2/3 of 1/1000

Long time no blog…

2010-05-03T15:33:00.001+10:00

wow it’s been a while since I’ve blogged here. I have been making ATC’s every week for the challenge blog, though I have been running behind. Sometimes I just don’t know where the time goes!

I’ve been in a few inchies swaps. I haven’t taken photos of a lot of my swaps, so I’ll have to find the bags and take some. I did a undersea swap and I have got photos of those. It was lots of fun! I can’t wait to see what others came up with.

Off to a retreat on the last weekend of the month with my mates. We are really excited about it! Went to a crop a week ago. My friend Kylie won a pink Cricut Expressions!! Awesome eh? She’s so kind, she’s lent it to me until the retreat to have a play :) Already cut a few things and I’ve only had it a day hahah!
I am really hooked on inchies. I am going to try doing 1k of them before the years end…. LOL That is crazy talk! It’s only 4 a day.. going to try. Some will be for swaps, but I will only be counting the 1 that I keep, not the 5 etc that I make :) Gunna be one hell of a challenge! I shall try and post my progress often!

Stuff about Stuff

2010-03-06T16:50:00.001+11:00

Car Accident/Insurance

Well I am really happy, mum got a call from the insurance agency and it looks like the lady’s insurance will pay out $3,400. The assessor actually looked at the car as a whole, not just the paint job, which honestly surprised us. We were expecting them to be stingy and go the low end of her market value, even though her car was in excellent working condition. One good thing, in August/Sept while mum was O/s she wanted us to go and get it repainted for her, but the cost was quiet high, so we didn’t.. Good thing too or a few months later it would have been a waste!!

Local Scrapping

Have been having a lot of scrapping with some of my local scrap-a-holics lol. It’s really great to scrap with others, I never achieve much, but I have a good time none the less. I got sick of carrying my stuff around in plastic bags, so I bought myself a tote. It was $62.50 from my LSS, it was down from $125 ;)

Retreat

I am going on a local retreat. It’s held just out of Bacchus Marsh and is at the end of May. I am really excited. Kylie let me know about it, but quiet a few from our scrappy circle will be going. So it will be great!

ATC Challenge Blog

The girls have been doing so well keeping up. We’ve already given away a few prizes. Some more will be coming up soon. Week 26 is our big give away (you have to have done 26/26 ATC’s but if you haven’t been with us since the start that’s ok, you just need to get them all done by week 26.)

The way the year’s flying I’d best think of something for week 52 lol.

Inchies and ATC swaps

There’s another inchie swap on the group. Theme is Nature. I can’t wait to see what the girls come up with!! Signups are open until the 7th of March.
There is also a Wings ATC Swap, signups close on the 10th of March.

Inchies

2010-02-28T01:49:00.001+11:00

Hello everyone! Hope you all are well. Sore here, but doing well. Mum has gone home today, Michael had to drive her home. He’ll be picking her up next weekend so she can look at cars (for those that don’t know we were in a car accident that wrote off mum’s car when a lady ran up our behind)
Haven’t done much in the way of craft this week. Had a great weekend last weekend in Qld for my birthday. My best mate gave me a $50 to her local scrapping store, so I bought some great stuff :) Thanks again Shannon!!

Here are some of my inchies. There is the black and white swap, time swap and the Edgar Allen Poe swap. The heart is the “Tell-Tale Heart” inchie opened :) Click to see larger.

Ahh the relief

2010-02-08T21:20:00.001+11:00

We just got home with a brand spanking new laptop for me. My other one is still in the shop, and using the dinosaur has been driving me and Michael nuts… NOT to mention the fact that SOMEONE (Evil eye at Michael) got a virus on it, so it’s even worse than it was lol.

No photos of anything to share, just the great news that I’m free of the Dinosaur :)

Inchie Madness!

2010-02-05T18:11:00.000+11:00

My friend Tammy got me interested in Inchies around September last year. I’ve been in 3 swaps and am waiting on the 4th to come home. I’ve just joined Tammy’s “Word/s” inchies swap. I felt like doing more and I have a heap of international stamps to use up from when I was into swapping ATC’s internationally. So I joined up a few Swapbot swaps. I have more to do, but here are the inchies I’ve done in the last few days. Click for a better look :) Would love to hear what you think!

Abc swaps

2010-01-07T15:53:00.000+11:00

Today’s letter is K – Knickerbockers

Abc Swaps

2010-01-06T15:51:00.001+11:00

Today’s letter is J – Jackrabbit

Abc... Swaps

2010-01-05T15:47:00.000+11:00

Today’s letter is I - Imagination

Abc Swap

2010-01-04T15:49:00.000+11:00

Todays letter is H - Holly

3 ATC’s and a Card

2010-01-03T15:37:00.000+11:00

The top card, the man’s world was my first attempt at a local swap I am in, the theme Boy.. I didn’t really like this one, well I just didn’t think it was really boy, more man. So I did the “Harry Potter ain’t got nothing on me” and was MUCH more happy!!!! The button fairy atc is for Australian ATC swaps. The Thank You card is for my Aunt who gave me a lovely bowl and plate as a very late engagement present.. Still the first we ever got LOL!!

Christmas Presents…

2010-01-02T09:10:00.000+11:00

I made some button fairies for presents. I made one to go in Helen’s Secret Santa pack, I made one for Shannon and one for Stacey as a ‘tide you over’ Christmas present (I haven’t finished their actual presents.. LOL) Here are the button fairies..

Weekly ATC Diary

2010-01-01T19:10:00.001+11:00

I have created a challenge blog as part of a yahoo group (ATCs4U). Everyone, including non members, are welcome to participate, if you blog your achievement and put a comment in on the Diary blog, I will be sure to add your picture and your blog link. Here is the blog

Busy Creating!!

2010-01-01T09:39:00.000+11:00

First off I would like to wish everyone a very belated Merry Christmas!!! Also a Happy New Year! Anyone got any good resolutions? I plan to keep dieting this year. 2008 Saw me start dieting in the August/September mark and in 2009 I continued until just after June/July when L&E kept mucking up orders, so at the hefty price they were charging I gave them the flick. I went back (tail between legs? lol) in late September to loose a few KG’s before my O/s trip.. but since then I haven’t dieted at all. I have put on about 4-5 kgs.. For Christmas Michael bought me a Wii and the Wii Fit and Balance Board (at my requst). I have been doing it every day and have been enjoying it! The last 2 days have been extremely hot (40 degrees Celsius) and I did 1 hour plus and then 30 mins yesterday. I can feel my muscles.. Little bit of pain, but not too bad. I wouldn’t call it a resolution, but getting healthier is still on my things to do ;)
OK now to crafting!!!! I followed Tim Holtz’s 12 tags of Christmas this year. I loved going everyday and seeing something new to inspire me! I decided to join in their competition. Here are my 12 tags. I hope that you like them!!

I have a bunch of new stuff to post and get organised. I hope you’ll check back often! Leave a comment too if you feel so inclined, love to see someone’s out there hahah!

How To : Butterfly ATC's

2009-12-30T12:36:00.000+11:00

This swap was for YSB, the theme was Butterfly. These are my ATC’s. I really like them they are bright and very shimmery in RL.

**Update**
I was asked how I made these so I thought I'd put the answer here so you can all share in it.

Firstly I stamped with Versamark.
I have a plastic paint pallet(from the reject store) that has Tim Holtz re-inkers in it also has perfect pearls in some of the colours and I just add water when I need to use the colour. So for the background, I rewet the colours I needed and on a piece of white cardstock did a real wet wash mixing the colours slightly.
Then while that was drying on white cardstock I stamped the butterfly in Versamark, then pounced on perfect pearls. (you can see a vid on how to do this on Tim Hotlz blog) misted it with water to set and then cut it out and added the bling.
Stamped the prase and then added the butterfly to the ATC.
Lots of fun!

Been a little slack

2009-12-05T12:23:00.001+11:00

Ok I’ve been a bit slack since getting home LOL I haven’t been to blog once, I think I outdid myself while away ;) Got home on the 16th of Nov, then went up to mum’s that weekend, ended up staying there until the Wednesday. She took me to Beauford so Michael could pick me up close to home. Was lovely catching up with her again! Had been so long since we’d seen each other, she left for her trip on the 19th of August.
Since I’ve been home I have done a little craft stuff. I made 3 cards for the Allcraftz 2nd Birthday.. Made my Wizard of Oz ATC’s and Christmas ATC’s for there too.. Made a couple of cards for a Paperstars swap.. Made a Zetti’ish card for a girl in America who ended up sending me 2 cards, because Michael hid her first one while I was away. So I thought it would be nice to make her a thankyou/apology. Hope you like looking!

Amost home time

2009-11-16T10:53:00.000+11:00

Well our flights from KL were pretty good.. Food was not however lol!
Flying home today from Brissy to Melb. Looking forward to getting back and getting my clothes washed properly LOL.. Bath tub washing just isn't cutting it :) Was going to do some here at Shannon's but forgot yesterday. Will be so good to see Michael again!! Mum too, we haven't seen each other since she started HER trip on 17th August.. Been a while :)

KL

2009-11-14T03:03:00.002+11:00

We arrived in KL yesterday, have had an awesome time here today and yesterday. Got to go to bed now, waking in 5 hours for our flights :(
Has been a great holiday! Hope to have photos up soon. No where at the hotel here to plug the camera in to.

2009-11-09T03:08:00.000+11:00

Well today we had huge plans.. And they kind of fell apart. We were going to go to the elephants, then museum, aquarium and then off to the 3 big stores in Phuket then the night markets.. BUT on the way to the elephants a motorcycle ran into us. He was ok thank god, but his bike didn't fare so well.
We got our lift to drop us just up from our hotel and we did a little shopping. We caught up with them later in the night and they ended up being at the police station for hours. It was the motorcycles fault, his brakes wouldn't work.
Ended up going back to the hotel, getting the elephant people to pick us up and we went and had the MOST AWESOME TIME riding the elephants. We also got to feed them and play with the gibbons :) Made it to the night markets, very busy, very hot but lots of fun :D Shopped lots!

Lazy day?

2009-11-07T23:18:00.000+11:00

This was my breakfast view.

Today was supposed to be my lazy day. We got pedicures and I went to the net. We walked back to the hotel and I separated from the girls it was 1ish. Was just going to go for a swim, but ended up going for a walk for 'postcards' was further than I recalled so after I got them I walked on to Juncelon shopping center (omg it was SO far in the heat!) got there around 3ish. Walked around and shopped for a 'little while'. Wasn't planning on being long as we were going to the night markets.... BUT I obviously got caught up because the next thing it was 7ish :O walked around for 10 mins til I got a cheap cab and scooted back to the hotel and 2 worried friends! We skipped the markets, doing them Sunday.

Phi Phi Tour

2009-11-06T19:49:00.017+11:00

Had an awesome time out on the speed boat we toured 7 islands but only stopped on 3 islands and snorkled of the boat at another location. It was great fun. I was sad to see all the damaged coral from the tsunami in 2005. There are so many broken and dead pieces. There were lots of fish however. Though I am sure before it would have been prettier. I would have liked to stop longer than we got to, but for A$103 I think we had a pretty full and fun day.

When we got home we went for a walk to the 'market' like shops and I bought lots of stuff. Can't say too much as some is presents, but I managed to spend 1500 baht (A$50) with ease LOL but feel I got good bargains :)
Haven't been able to shop for Michael yet as he measured his clothes before I left, but they just don't seem right.

Big day

2009-11-05T21:55:00.000+11:00

Been a big one here, been to the zoo, to the cobra show, been to the big budha, bought snacks. Managed to spend like $75. Only have 140 baht of the $200 I got changed in Aus left LOL
Off to Phi Phi tomoz.
Here are some pics of todays fun :)

Shopping!!

2009-11-04T20:38:00.001+11:00

Oh had such a good day so far (it's just after 4pm) have been swimming and shopping, had the first of our buffet breakies at our hotel. Ooh so yummy so much to choose from. It's awesome. I had fried rice and noodles, bacon and sausages, toast and err.. something else lol also 3 glasses of pineapple juice :D
Feeling so much better today, was over hot yesterday and didn't achieve alot, but had a good day none the less. Had a late swim too :)
Off for a massage soon, can't wait.
Bought myself a Louis Vuitton mini luggage bag, got it for 1000 Baht (about $32) SO STOCKED!

OK again apologies for the photos being everywhere. I hope you like my bag like I do :D

Arrival!

2009-11-03T23:06:00.000+11:00

Have arrived safe and sound in Phuket, has been a really long 24 + hours. Will try to get photos on tomorrow. Really warm here. Haven't shopped yet, but have already had a couple of feeds LOL!
Had pretty great flights though our one from Brissy to K.L was very bumpy!
Post some pics tomoz!

Play time

2009-11-02T02:16:00.000+11:00

Well I got to meet Linda and Robyn today. Had a great day! Did lots of playing with new products and experimenting. I definately need (NEED!! Not just want!) lots of new powders and pastes :) Hopefully when I come back from O/s I can still afford some.
Here are photos of us all scrapping/creating and the things we made. Unfortuately I am using this online blog editior and it is rather crap, so I apologise that all the pics are in crazy mode, it won't go any better!!!
Talk to you all from Thailand :)

Holidays begin..

2009-10-29T13:33:00.005+11:00

Left home on Saturday, had a pretty awesome flight. Was quiet bumpy getting in to Brisbane there was a storm brewing so lots of minor turbulence. Otherwise it was all good. The girls were ready waiting for me as we got held up on the run way for about 15 mins.

I so knew I was in Qld the minute I stepped off the plane, you can just feel the humidity.. heaven help me O/s haha! Didn't do much but lots and lots of chatting for the rest of Saturday.

On Sunday I caught up with Katie we went and had tea at the Malaya Hut. Was awesome! We both stuffed ourselves full!! Hoping to catch up with Katie again on Friday. Will be good!

Monday we went down to the bank in the city and got some Ringgits and Baht. Was very exciting!! So have a little here now to play with and learn which is which before we get on the streets lol.

On Tuesday we went to a few mates for a BBQ and lots of laughs! Was a great evening. Food, friends and laughs, who could ask for more??

This weekend I am catching up with Robyn and Linda from allcraftz, it's going to be a top meet up I just know it!! I can't wait to check out Robyn's works up close and personal.

Ok I think that's it! Getting exciting, we leave here Monday night.

Travel Time

2009-10-24T15:28:00.000+11:00

So today’s the day I fly up to Brisbane. I have all my clothes organised, got all my bits and bobs ready. I have some new clothes to take with me. I’ve put the photos here. (Mostly so my mum can check them out LOL).

I hope I haven’t forgotten anything.. Really all I need is my bank card and my passport, but still, you just know you’re going to forget something hahah.

I’ll be up in Brissy until the 31st Oct or 1st of Nov, then we fly out to Malaysia, arriving at some early hour. We then catch another flight to Thailand a couple of hours later. We are there until the 12th then we fly back to Malaysia stay two nights and leave and get back to Brisbane on the 14th of Nov. I stay in Brissy until the morning of the 16th and then I fly home :)

While I am away hope that I can update my blog often for all you that follow along. Hope you all get lots of scrapping done so I have heaps of inspiration for when I bring home TONS of photos that must get scrapped LOL

Girl Inchies

2009-10-24T09:51:00.000+11:00

Here are my lovely girl inchies for YSB, I made seven of the same, and seven that are almost the same, just with a different girl. 6 is all that was needed for the swap, but I make an extra for my mother :D
Thanks for looking!

Abc.. Swap

2009-10-23T11:38:00.000+11:00

Today’s letter is G - Girl.