Day Two

A little bit of scrapping to share. These are a few of the layouts I've done for work over the past 2 weeks. The photo in the first layout is by Clair Bremner. She took some fabulous photos of all of us in June. I'm really looking forward to doing more layouts with her work.

Day One

I'm seeking inspiration and motivation, mainly in my daily life but also in terms of artsy fartsy scrapbooking/quilting life too. I think it's the time of year that seems to sap all my energy and creativity. It's freezing here, it's wet, I've had a cold for over a week and it's starting to annoy me! I have a million ideas in my head for things I want to do but I lack the motivation to actually get things done. Things fall out of my linen cupboard and hit me on the head every time I open the door, but have I cleaned out the cupboard and reorganised things? No. I have hundreds of dollars of scrapbooking materials here and a notebook full of ideas and plans but have I sat down and completed anything that wasn't work related lately? No. I have all the fabric for Jemima's quilt here, washed, ironed and ready to go, but as you can guess, I haven't started it yet. I've had the fabric since January!!!!!!

So, this little blog challenge I've issued myself is an attempt to break out of the cycle.

I've also decided to start Jemima's quilt on thursday while the kids are kinder/occassional care and hopefully have the top finished by the end of the day so that I can then start quilting it while I watch telly at night.

I've booked in for this workshop in the hopes of giving me the inspiration I need.

The linen cupboard will probably just have to wait. I'm very good at procrastinating.

Blogathon

I really need to kickstart myself back into Blogging again and by that I mean blogging regularly and much more often. I often 'write' posts in my head but they never quite make it onscreen and I need to change that. It's funny how I pop into other people's blogs every few days and get disappointed when I don't see something new, and yet I neglect my own blog.

So I am issuing myself a challenge. For then next 30 days I will make a blog entry every day. It might only be some scrapping to share or a snippet of daily life, but there will be something new on this blog every day starting tomorrow.

Now ... off to think about tomorrow's post.

For Auntie Jan ( and Ella )

Jemima decided this morning that she wanted to have piggy tails in her hair ... just like Ella. It was an effort to get it done, but we did it. It will be easier in a couple of months when her hair is a bit longer. She's thrilled with her new hairdo, especially after having it the same way for 18 months while it grew.

Looking at her with her hair up like this makes me sad that she's growing up so fast. She's almost 3, and looks like such a little girl. *sigh*.

Sorry I've been a slack blogger, lots going on here. Will be back soon with a proper update. Promise.

Retreat! Retreat!

A weekend of pure bliss and now I'm home. The Scrapbook Scene had our first Retreat this weekend and it was sensational. It started at 2pm on friday and ended at 5pm today. We stayed at The Country Place in Kalorama up in the Dandenong Ranges which is only 20 minutes from my house which was even nicer. The food was absolutely amazing and the company of 34 other scrapaholics like myself was just what the doctor ordered. It was lovely to be able to just work on whatever we wanted to and leave it set up all over the table (and the floor) and not have to keep packing it away. I managed to finish 11 layouts and I'm pretty happy with most of them. I loved being able to use all the things in my stash without having to think about classes for the shop or design team projects. I had a list of all the elements I wanted to incorporate into layouts, grungeboard, felt, chipboard, stitching etc. I manged to do most of them in one form or the other. I can't wait for the next one.

Anyway... here are the projects from the weekend ...

Juggling

Do you ever feel like you're constantly juggling? I feel that way at the moment, and I'm not very good at juggling. All the balls seem to be smacking me in the head. Between home, kids, the shop, kinder, relief teaching and the myriad of other little bits and pieces, it's making my head spin. I wish I could be one of these super-women who can manage to do it all and still come out looking like a million dollars at the end of the day. I'm just bogged down in the never ending cycle of washing and tidying. It's Groundhog Day! I think I need a super multi vitamin. *sigh*

Oh well...self pitying post over.

A game

I saw this on Penni's blog and looked like fun. I did cheat a little bit though...I went beyond the first page of images. It was fun looking at the different images that came up by typing in one word.

The concept:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name