Can I just say ....

WWOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I can just jump out of my own body with joy!  I got on the scales this morning and am officially a 60's weight girl, does it matter that it is 0.1kg under 70?  NOPE, I just loved seeing the first number as a 6!  That was my ultimate goal to reach the 60's weight wise before my big 30th!!  So here is hoping I can keep it there for 5 more days!  Still some kg to go to get to my goal weight, only 3kg away form my pre-baby weight.  Love you Jenny Craig!!!
Okay proud moment over and done hehe :) 

A few things to share :)

It's been a while!  I'm madly trying to catch up some things and have just pushed scrapping out of my list for a short while!   I am busy organising my party!  Have chinese lanterns, have my cocktails sorted - three pink ones hehe, everyone is bringing a dish, so I will only have to organise the chocolate fountain goodies and the mini donuts and pizza scrolls.

I wanted to share this group photo from our recent retreat with Scrapboutique!!  Can you spot my cheesy grin?? hehe

I also did up some super cute little christmas cards with the Scrapz.biz Ticklez kit for November.  The Bauble is actually an acetate journaling page out of the Making Memories journaling booklets.  I just cut it to shape like a bauble, outlined it with a silver pen and topped it off with a ribbon, so super duper quick!  The letter stickers are by Paper Trunk, their new Benny stickers, man alive I'm loving loving those!!!  And I just handwrote the christmas with a white pen.

The next little card, using more of that same acetate journaling sheet, topped off with handcut trees from the MM christmas range. A few ribbon stars and some pearl brads and more silver pen work, more gorgeous Paper Trunk Benny alpha stickers and whala!

And lasly more journalling page bits and pieces and this gorgeous yummy handmade flower that my gorgeous friend Liz taught me at the retreat!  Quick easy and looks super effective!

Lastly, a layout I did at the retreat!  Gorgeous little Lily when you she was only a week old, so cute and tiny!  Using some websters pages, bazzill and a MM journaling page.  Again more Paper Trunk Benny Alphas!  Told you I love them, I think they are like $3.95 a sheet (I think) honestly request them at your LSS if they aren't there, the font is just super fun and the size is just perfect, they come in a range of colours too!!

Those red flowers are very simply a scalloped circle and then I cut in at each scallop.  I use the nestabilities which you can buy from Stamp and Scrapbook madness, together with the Swiss dot embossing folder, also from Stamp and Scrapbook Madness.  They also have printblock albums back in stock!  There is a new yummmo brown!  But the American Craft albums aren't much more exxy as they already come with 10 refills, loads of those came in recently too!

My family have a bit more drama going on atm, so if you are a prayer please keep us all in your prayers, it all seems a bit never ending and sometimes it feels like it could be much easier to just give up than keeping on pushing on!  But I now know I have the strength to deal with all these things life seems to chuck our way, and for that I'm thankful!  Here is one super gorgeous little prayer that our church sent out in their last newsletter!  So sweet!

Dear God:

Please untie the knots

that are in my mind,

my heart and my life.

Remove the have nots,

the can nots and the do nots

that I have in my mind.

Erase the will nots,

may nots,

might nots that may find

a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,

would nots and

should nots that obstruct my life

And most of all,

Dear God,

I ask that you remove from my mind,

my heart and my life,

All of the ‘am nots’

that I have allowed to hold me back,

Especially the thought

that I am not good enough.

AMEN

Author known to God

Love to you all!!!  I better get back to it hey ;)

Another Christmas Layout!

Another layout from my guest DT gig at Scrapz.biz this month!!  This is my second layout from their Tickelz kit and still have more and more and more goodies left!!  Loving the little fun things like the pins and little maya material flowers, and that prima thingo is pretty noice too!!

Here is the link to their kit if you haven't checked it out yet you should!!

I went away to a scrap retreat this weekend past!!  Will share more on that later, I'm STILL trying to recover from the lack of sleep lol!!

Have a good week everyone!!

Getting in the mood for Xmas!!!

Close to Christmas last year, pregnant with Lily-Belle here :)

I couldn't resist getting all hyped up and excited for Xmas when Heike from Scrapz.biz sent me one mega gorgeous and scrummy Xmas themed Ticklez kit!!  This kit is full of little treasures!!  Lovely papers!  That music note paper is all glittery, so gorgeous!! LOVE those little Maya Road material blosooms!  I will be doing one project a week for her this month!  Thanks Heike for giving me a chance to have fun with your fabulous kits!!

If you love christmas!!  You will NEED this kit, such AWESOME value for only $39.95, go and check them out here!!

And while you are there, pop over to here to read my quick little interview questions with her!

DESKTOP CALENDARS - $12.95 plus $2.95 postage to anywhere in Australia!

I did have a few requests to have an option to buy some of my etsy stuff in AUS dollars, so here is the first one, the desktop calendar with my floral photos.  Just click the buy now button to pay via paypal OR click on the contact me button on the top just under the logo to send me an email for direct deposit details!

How is everyone's weekend going?  Doing anything interesting?

I'm off to work tomorrow :)  Should be a busy day as I'm teaching a class plus there will be a kids party there too!!

Have a good sunday!

Grab a gorgeous kit!

I had SO much fun playing with the gorgeous November Monthly kit from Stamp and Scrapbook Madness! It is excellent value too, over $40 in value for only $35. I got these 4 layouts done but still have plenty of bits and pieces that I'm planning to use for some cards!!

Hop over to Stamp and Scrapbook Madness to grab a kit while they are still there!!

I had a another sleep in this morning till 9:30!!!  Man alive I love having my Mummy here!!!!!  Am off in a little while to get my hair cut wooohoooooo!  Nothing major, just a trim and shape up :)

Hugs

YAY! My Mommy is staying with me this week!!

I am sooooo excited to have my Mommy dearest staying with me this week!  My Dad is off to a bootcamp for the week (much to his disgust, his boss thought he was treating him to something special haha).  So I have the pleasure of having my Mommy's company and help!  So I can get a few jobs done around here that desperately needs some TLC.  Today I'm cleaning my house from top to bottom, doing washing and then off to the gym later tonight!

Tomorrow is swimming and then hopefully a MUCH needed haircut!  I have sooooo much to do!  Hopefully I can get a few crossed off my list by the end of the week!

My party planning is coming along nicely, less than a month till the big old 30 argh!  I have lanterns ordered and they are in the post on their way from China :)  5 hot pink ones and 5 light pink ones wooohoo!  I have some icicle lights to put up.  I have some hot pink plastic cocktail glasses, the invitations are made, just need to go in the post!  And then I'm going to look into what nibblies to have and what cocktails to serve :)  So excited!  I am inviting 30 guests for my big 30 :)  Pretty cool huh - purely by accident, my Mom asked me last night how many people are coming and she picked up on the fact that the 30 guests matches my years hehe.  Alot of those will be kiddies though :)

Some scrapping to share!  My latest creation for Addicted to Craft using Maya road black sheer albums and some Rouge de Garange papers, very bright very fun and very happy papers!  So I made a 'happy faces' book for me to look through when I'm down to cheer me up hehe :)

Also don't forget their 12 weeks of christmas competition they have on, if you enter you could win a guest dt spot with them!

I better get off my bottom and start doing some of those things on my list hey ;)
Have a good week everyone!

@ 6 months

@ 6 months of age!!

How the heck did that happen, boy they grow quick don't they??  I don't even remember the tiny squishy baby anymore.  Instead I have one ULTRA wiggly little bubby.

* Lily is weighing around 7 kg at the moment
* She learnt to roll over (AT LAST - katie could roll over at 3 months already)
* She is on solid food and loving it!  She is getting about 2-3 solid feeds a day
* She is mostly wearing size 0 clothes
* She is LOVING any toy or anything that looks like it could be a toy.  So much so that while you are walking with her on your hip she will throw her body to the side in order to try and reach something as we pass by it!!
* Still loads of squeel noises, so cute!  She loves 'blowing raspberries' while her dummy is in her mouth, and then the thing flies out of her mouth at full force lol.
* She has had a pretty good month health wise.
* I'm busy weaning her in prep for my retreat weekend away - she is loving her bottle now, but didn't start out that way!
* She is still in my room - ssssshhhhhhhhh!  I know she should be out, but she kinda keeps me company in there at night.
* She won't be too far off crawling, she can get around pretty well already, just by rotating on her belly to reach toys.  She is doing 'pushups' on her tippy toes and sometimes realizes she actually needs to put her needs down, but then she does the rocking forwards backwards thing, soo soooooon my life will reach a new level of busyness.
* She was a finalist for a pumpkin patch competition (didn't win though boohoooo lol)
* She is a really content and happy munckin
* I love how easy she is to have in the car, most of the time she just pops off to sleep by herself, sooooo sweet!!!
* She is pretty much having 3 naps now, one in the morning, one afternoon, one early night time.
* Going to bed around 9-10ish, another feed around 4-5am and then more sleep till around 8. A few wakeups in between though.

Have a happy weekend everyone!!!