I've decided to start a new blog over here....this one was getting a bit old...I no longer ONLY scrap and I wanted to do something different to show the different things I'm working on at any time....
I hope you'll follow me over there!
Yep, thinking about scrapping again. My mother stole the pedal for her sewing machine I borrowed - how rude lol - so now I have nothing to do. I showed a friend a few LO's today and thought about maybe possibly maybe doing a few more. Will see how I feel this weekend. I sort of have mojo, so it *could* happen I guess.
Off to have a look at a few galleries.
See ya.
Right now it is so hard for me to scrap...finding the time whilst working 5.5 days per week is just about impossible. I decided today that I'm going to pack all my scrapping supplies into the cupboard (still easily accessible) and set up my sewing machine and associated supplies and start sewing some christmas/birthday gifts for later in the year....if you know of any great sewing websites, let me know!
The weather here today is so weird. It started raining last night, I woke up to sunshine this morning and decided to go shopping. So I finished shopping, go out to the car and its wet...I've just gotten home and I have SIDEWAYS RAIN!!!
We have a patio out front, which is about 3 metres wide - and the windows are wet. And as I type this, the sun has just come out.
Weird weather...
Yep, I fell off the face of the earth!
Seriously though, alot has been happening - some good, some bad.
Here it is in point form:
* New job!
I have a new job...its ALOT closer to home (like 5 mins instead of 35 mins) and I'll be working with the same age kids as I was. I finished up today, and already miss *my* kids...they really are soooo sweet. One of them gave me a cake, a hand scribbled card and a kiss and said "Love you and miss you Dee"...oh how I love him...brought tears to my eyes. I'll definitely go back to those kids for visits. Or, if I hate my new job, I'll go back and bang the doors down until they let me back in!
* PT and physio
Still doing lots of training to strengthen my knee. Physio says he can feel the difference and he's happy with the progress. I haven't been to the gym in awhile, but go back tomorrow. I'll be doing a weigh in and measure, so fingers crossed its paying off.
* Study
Ok, so I'm not studying .... YET. I've applied for a position to the diploma in childcare, as its currently offered for free to existing childcare workers. I'd only have to pay for course materials, so its a pretty good opportunity.
* Car hunting
Yep, we're going through the buying process again! I don't really like my little car - I feel unsafe in it. After having a pretty horrendous experience with a car accident in a bigger car, I don't want to be stuck in a little car. So we're going to buy a big bad-ass four wheel drive....ok, so not that big lol. But it will need a big bad-ass bullbar *lol* just so people don't get any ideas about any more head on collisions with me :D. We want to do alot more camping in areas that aren't so populated. With a 4wd we can head off road and find little camp grounds out in the boonies that not many people know about....
* Cooking
Stews, soups, biscuits, muffins, scones....you name it I've made it! I've been hit by the cooking bug...I've made alot of slow cooker meals lately and they are soooo delish in this cooler weather. They are definitely my comfort food - luckily they're full of vegies! Can't really say that about all the fattening sugary foods I've been baking though...hmmm....
*Knitting
I'm in the process of teaching Beth to knit. I'm not having much luck - anyone know of an easy way of explaining it to a 7 year old who has the attention span of a gnat??? So Beth is knitting a sparkly hot pink scarf, and I'm making one in shades of caramel, off white and chocolate...mmm...chocolate.....
* Adam
He's all good. Was pretty sick last week so was home all week, but he's fine now. He's trying to get me on the motorbike and, well, it just aint gonna happen. He's borrowed a helmet for me (which fits perfectly) and now he's nagging and nagging for me to get on. Truth is, I hate the idea of having absolutely no control. That, and the fact I was injured all over in a car accident...what on earth would I be like if we had a bike accident??? Pfft, nope he can have his motorbike all to himself.
*Beth
Is fabulous...such a gorgeous, caring little darling. Drives me absolutely bonkers with the incessant chatter - my mum says I was the same. I wouldn't have her any other way though...shes just so sweet. Every night when Adam was sick, she made him a card and wrapped a little something in paper for a present and left it on his pillow. His favourite gift was a button she'd found. Sweet. She's doing well at school, and her reading has improved dramatically in the last 2 weeks. She's definitely more inclined towards maths, like her dad. She loves doing the activities in her book, rubbing them out and doing them again and again and again and........................
Anyway, I think thats about it...I haven't really been scrapping much. The mojo kinda took a hike. I did a few layouts and a dozen or so cards to stockpile last weekend, but nothing is photographed as yet. I'm sure I'll get to it one day....
Hope all my buddies are doing well!
This one is my envy LO for the comp over at wicked princesses...the LO needed to be green and black and be about something we envy.
More layouts coming soon...I need to photograph them first...
I joined a comp over at Wicked Princesses - a 7 deadly sins kinda thing, where each week we're set a different challenge.
This weeks challenge was vanity....had to create a layout that was purple monochromatic, had the title "all about me" and have bling. This is what I came up with. I didn't use a regular purple, as its a hard colour for me to scrap, so I went a more plum shade instead.
For extra points, we could do a card, which was purple and had the sentiment "celebrate you"
