I'm Back!

Well, it is drawing near the end of the semester so I have a smidge more free time!

Last week end I went to a retreat in Mackay. My sisters came along too, and I met lots of new people. There were 36 people at the retreat, so it was busy. Michelle, Sandra and Thea all ran great classes on making clay embies, OTP item and quilling. It was great to learn new skills, I especially enjoyed the clay class. Very inspiring! Thanks ladies!

Only about 4 and a half weeks until the kids finish school for the year! This year has raced past soooooo quickly! Megan will be in Yr 6 and Ben in Yr 4 next year. It is hard to comprehend how fast they grow up sometimes! Ben is loving swimming at the moment! Megan is enjoying it, but is looking forward to hopefully doing dancing lessons next year. We'll have to see about that yet, as it is over in Emerald.

I am still here.........

......... despite not doing much blogging lately! I apologise for not being in blog land much recently. The work load associated with my uni studies and prac placements is huge, and keeping me away from much scrapping or blogging, but I promise I'll check in here and post whenever I can.

I hope everyone is well and happy!

Birthday Boy

My son Ben turned 8 this month. Eight years ago his expected date of birth was 17 August, but he decided to be here a few days sooner on 14 August. We haven't been able to slow him down ever since!!!!! He was born at 1.20pm in Longreach Hospital weighing 7lb15ozs.

We had to go over to Moranbah on his birthday, so he had the choice of lunch! Of course he chose Red Rooster! Ben is a strapping young lad, fit and healthy!

He wanted a Cup of Popcorn cake for his birthday this year. It turned out to be pretty easy to make, and the kids loved the coloured popcorn that was on it.

My baby is growing up!

Nearly the end of the Month

It is nearly the end of August, which means in a couple of days the new sketch will be up at Crafty Sketches. It is a beautiful sketch! Looking forward to seeing your beautiful entries!

A New Month for Inspiration

Hi ladies. Well, it is now August (Wow!! Where is the year going?) so that means a new sketch challenge is up at Crafty Sketches.

I designed this month's sketch, and aimed to keep it versatile to cater for everyone's individual styles. We would love to see your beautiful entries. So, why not check out Crafty Sketches for the new sketch and also to find out the new way of entering the monthly sketch challenges.

Here is the sketch:

and here is my Creative Team inspirational layout:

Go to Crafty Sketches and check out all of the Creative Team's beautiful layouts! We would love to see yours!

My Last DT Kit for Scrap With V

After 12 months on the wonderful design team for Scrap With V, I have decided not to continue on my DT committments due to study committments. So 31 July will be my last day on the team!!!! It will be a very sad day for me, but I will definitely be hanging around in the forum and participating in the cybercrops. Ness and all of the ladies there are very special friends!! Thank you so much Ness, other DT girls and forum members for your support and team work over the last 12 months! I feel very honoured to be part of Scrap With V.

Here are some sneak peeks for my last DT kit which will be available in the shop from Sunday 1 August. I loved working with the products in the kit, and was able to create 3 layouts - great value for money.

What a great Cybercrop!!!

Wow!!! I loved the July Cybercrop for Scrap with V!!!! Great challenges!!! I managed to do all of the challenges except for one (Taryn's mystery class but I am definitely going to do it!!!), and Megan and Ben completed the awesome kids challenges.

This is Megan's layout and card:

Ben's layout and card:

My layout for the sketch challenge I set:

My layout for the DT only challenge:

My layout for Lindy's challenge:

My layout for Tarrah's inspiration challenge:

My card for the card challenge set by Debbie:

Belinda set an ATC challenge, so this is my first ever ATC:

It was a great Cybercrop, it is always wonderful to get the inspiration from everyone else's gorgeous work!