Weekend Stuff

On saturday night we took the kids to the pub for dinner and so we could try out the face-painter I've booked for Jemima's birthday party in November. While the food wasn't that great the kids had a great time and were thrilled with the face-painter, or in this case 'arm-painter'. One of the children who had a turn before Max and Jemima wanted a tattoo so my kids decided that's exactly what they wanted too. In the end it worked out well because they could keep their paintings on their arms until the morning as it was under their pyjama sleeves and wouldn't rub off all over their bedlinen. Luckily they were both happy to have it washed off in the morning.




It was AFL Grand Final weekend in Melbourne and the shop was very quiet on saturday afternoon. So quiet in fact that I closed the shop early and came home. On sunday we had a crop nicknamed 'Football Widow's Revenge'. While there were only 7 of us, we had a fabulous time giggling and laughing and scrapping up a storm. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful group of girls who love our shop and who like to come and have a good gasbag with us.

It was a brief but welcome distraction for me as my mind has been occupied with thoughts of one of my closest friends who had some very sad news on friday. It's not my news to share so I won't write about it publicly but I hope she knows how much she is loved and that her friends are here when she is ready to lean on us. She is always on my mind and in my heart.

These are the results of my sunday scrap session. Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Scrapbooking Sketches

Sometimes we all need a little bit of inspiration, or a starting point for our layouts. I came across this site this morning and it's fabulous! It lists loads of other sites that feature layout sketches. You really need to check it out. I've put a link in the sidebar as well.

Sketch Lover

Have fun!

Gadgetry

Oooh, I am SO getting one of these. We had a demo day at work yesterday and Charmaine from Bumblebee Crafts came with the prototype of this little machine. I'm not usually excited about scrapping gadgets, I get excited by paper ranges, but I have been lusting after one of these since Making Memories unveiled it in January. It was supposed to be released in July but they had a few teething problems with the first version so it went back to have some things modified before production began in earnest. They're due to hit the shelves by the end of October. After seeing this little machine in action in person, I've already put my order in. Yay for staff discount!

2 more

This one still needs a little something, not quite sure what yet.

Maybe some bling or another piece of something?

think think think

I love Scenic Route papers

Back later with another one...maybe

September 21st 1991

17 years ago we got married.

Been Scrappin'

Did some scrapping today while the kids were at their 'Kinders'. Nothing very exciting , I'm still waiting for that lightning bolt of genius to hit me. I think I need to wear a metal spikey thing on my head to try a encourage it a little bit more.

This is version 2. It's almost identical to the original but somehow still not quite the same.

I'll be bolting it to the wall!

A joke from Max

Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill?

To get to the bottom!