Leppards and Red Coats....

Phew.. what a day... I've been out and done all the grocery shopping for everyone so there is not a worry about what they are going to eat next week while I'm away.. I've written a list + instructions + recipes = Organization so that Matt can just come home from work and just check the list, chuck the stuff for dinner together and not have to stress... The cupboards are nice and stocked... and i even bought the kids sox today so there is not morning stressing about who has what sox or worse still.. NONE.

Perhaps you may think that is a little extreme... though you dont know the sox monsters in our house... they are needing to be put onto a strict diet, i swear... When pairs come out to the wash, they are returned in pairs, though its those socks that get swooped up and gobbled before they get to me that is the concern. At the moment, I could equip atleast one prep/1 school class with sox for making sock puppets.. if not one for each hand...
Besides... a super duper bargain found in Target. I swear the people that mark the items in target are just either stupid or lazy... $5.50 a twin pack of sox = 86c, $7.95 twin packs = 86c, $7.99 three packs = 2.86. If you do the math... that is rediculously cheap for cushioned sole sport crop sox.. Who could resist a bargain... I just wish i could find one again like my 5c a 40 pack of 6x4 photo paper that i found there last year... Like i said... Lazy or just plain stupid! (fyi - i will never have to buy photo paper AGAIN!!) ... I {HEART} Bargains!! :D

Anyway.. once i finished there, i went and treated myself to a haircut before heading to another shopping center where i found my next bargain of the day.. $169 red woolen jacket slashed to $39. Nothing wrong with it.. just one of the many bargains i have ben lucky to pick up at this years end of finacial year sales.
Bargains = savings = One happy mama.

Sooooo... just when i thought my day had been fantastic since i had found a red jacket that i liked... and at an awesome price, when i went to pick Matt up this afternoon he asks me what i think of def leppard. Well.... for me... its a part of my teen years that im not willing to let go of.... and if he truely knows me, he knows that! :D Anyway... the reason he asked was because on the 3rd sept (i think he said) we are going to the Rod Laver Arena to see them in CONCERT!!!!! They have just released an new album... which we have... which is awesome... If you love them.. check out "Songs from the sparkle Lounge"!
I didnt even know they were coming to Melbourne...
but... guess what!? I do now and we are getting the tickets as soon as they go on sale tomorrow...
can you say DEF LEPARD!?

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The dream begins in 4 Sleeps!!!!

A little overdue Share..

Remember the class that I was talking about a few weeks ago that I was teaching? With the plans of that and totally flaking into sleep mode afterwards I forgot to upload a photo of it to share... better late than never.. right?
Arent the colours just divine!? I {HEART} Teresa Collins Papers at the moment. I'm planning a play with her other ranges, very very soon!

I filled the album with all sorts of photos.. from fathers day to mothers day, the childrens first photos through to our wedding anniversary photos... and one very special page has photos of my dad. The first photos i have actually scrapped of him.. Everything in this album brings a special smile to my face with the memories that the photo invokes... The rings are big enough that i can add more pages later if i want to add "memories"...
Ive seen one of the albums that was completed in my class and it looks wonderful.. i get to see a few more next week when i catch up with a few of the girls that were in my class in person while im in Newcastle training. I look forward to it..

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The dream is about to begin.... in Only 5 sleeps!!

A little Apple-Candy

It looks like my desk has been the single victim in a very huge hurricane right at the moment.. there is crap everywhere... and not an inch of my desk is recognisable as a work space... so... what is new right!? ~L~

Well... this is...& the reason for my cyclonic desk state .. (amongst the fact that im trying frantically to organise some stuff to go away with me and tie up the last bits of some things im working on for Scrap Apple... its a layout that I have created for the girls at Scrap Apple although, I am just so excited to have scrapped something that I could not help but share it with y'all.. especially Cathy, the gorgeous girl next to me in this photo.. Im thrilled with how it turned out.. its simple.. though.. i dont think that matters.. hope Cath likes it too.







This is a previous layout that i did a little while ago for the girls...(this pic is a little crappy, though i will endevour to take another picture and re-upload it soon.. Anyway.. It has been showcased this week on the home page of the site... Needless to say, my princess was so thrilled to see herself on the computer screen in someones "SHOP!" Isn't she beautiful? I cant believe that she is 7 now.. and growing up so so quick...





I made this album for her birthday memories from last year and has become one of her most treausred items. While it stays safe in Mammas scrap room on a shelf, she can be found often, tucked up in my plump creme chair looking over the pages and touching all the "touchy feely" i added just for her since she loves to touch stuff to her skin to feel the different textures.

Freaky for some...

Friday the 13th seems to be surrounded by superstitions... you know the kind... dont walk under ladders, avoid black cats crossing your path... etc etc... though ive been a long time believer that friday the 13th is a lucky day.
Miranda was due on Friday the 13th and while the nursing staff were a little concerned that i would be upset with the news, i was thrilled with the prospect of having a little "good luck" baby. Miranda though, had entirely a different view on when her birthday should be and made her way into the world ten days after.

While today, friday the 13th found me sick in bed for the day with an aweful tummy flu that ive had for a few days, spending most of my day asleep, i got woken up at 3pm today to the most wonderful surprise.

I had been waiting on the posty as he was meant to be delivering a "card" for me... though when i snuck out to the mail box in my jammas at noon when he arrived and saw that there was no card i settled to the fact that it must not be arriving today..

So, you cam imagine my surprise when the doorbell rang and the courier guy was at the door with a pink and purple package for me!!!!

Happy mail!!! The best kind too as it came from my Bestie!!!

"just a card...." pfffft... Cathy, you dont do anything in halves and there is never a "just" when your involved. I know you didnt say just, though what else would i think when you said "oh, there is a card in the mail for you!"..
You spoil me.. you made my misserable, sickly day wonderful...
thank you!!

Soo.... for all those of you that are superstitious, hope that you are avoiding the ladders and cats... while, those of you that are like me and see the day as a lucky day.... HAPPY FRIDAY 13th!!!!

:D

News of the century

I come to you today, high up on cloud number nine. The air is fresh up here and there is not sign of bleakness or storms anywhere in sight. While all of you are nicely grounded, I dance on my cloud, hoarse in the throat from screaming and sore in the face from the permanent smile that has affixed itself.

I think a few posts back i mentioned that I had some stuff going on that i could not talk about.. well.. it was not that i couldn't, it was that i wouldn't, in case i jinxed myself..

well.. today, its official.... i cant jinx myself... and I'm just so deliriously happy...

As some would know, Ive had a dream for a very long time now to become a nurse in either the medical field or an associated field. I have looked into veterinary science, medical and dental.. and all three have their ups and downs... my recent realisation that I'm allergic to cats has made it difficult to follow the veterinary side of things and my inability to function around vomit has always been a concern for working with the ailing... SO... that leaves Dental.
I have just been offered a wonderful full time position and opportunity which i would be stupid to refuse, working for one of the leading companies in Australia, & training as one of their dental nurses... I will be leaving my family behind while i head off to start my training in a few weeks time... and then, returning to Melbourne where i will be working full time while studying at RMIT to become fully qualified.

The world is my oyster... and... this is proof that if you dream big enough and dream long enough, anything can be yours!

:)

PS: I will update y'all on my weekends class and give you some blog candy to look at soon... today though.. im celebrating as you can imagine...

Quote of the Day

Our dreams today
are the hope
for tomorrow
~Adele Basheer~

This is a quote that was sent to me yesterday as a RAK.. Although i dont know who the RAKer is, the could not have been more intuitive.
I was having a conversation only the other night with a lady who has become a very dear friend of mine in a very short amount of time. We were talking about our dreams, hopes and hang-ups. Anyway, i recieved a little offline note from her in MSN the other day telling me thank-you for giving her the kick that she needed to follow her own dreams.

The Note that came with the book yesterday reads:
"Thank you for your inspiration."

How uncanny is it that i have touched someone else.. and they picked something so unique though coincidental to things pertaining to such deep conversations.

Im rambling a bit.. i know.. though, you are probably thinking.. "Duh you stupid cow, do you think perhaps it was HER!?"... hahaha.. no.. its not.. i thanked her for it and she had not sent it..

To who ever you are... and you are the only one who knows who you are...
Thank you so very much for touching me so deeply.

xxx

yes I'm breathing...

I have recieved a few emails in the last few days asking weather I am okay and one to the extent of actually asking me if i still had a pulse.
I really didnt realise that it had been so long since i checked in here. Man... time does fly, huh!?

Well... i finished the albums (by Kaiser) for The Brisbane Papercrafts Festival and they are probably now packed up safe and sound and waiting to be unpacked again at the convention.


I had so much fun doing these albums and the feed back from those who have seen them in real life has been amazing. Thank you for your confidence in me and the credit that you have given. :)

Anyway... I will give you a peek of them... Lou... you get to see them VERY SOON.. i know you have been hanging for the chance.

These albums will be on display all weekend at the Scrap Apple stand and I believe that the girls are very prepared with lots of these in their raw state for purchase on the day. :)
As I may have mentioned here (im not too sure), I have been working on a few projects in the time that I have been absent from this poor neglected blog. One of those is the class that i will be teaching this weekend at Allcrafts 4 you. This class is sold out. If further places are opened up, I will post about it here. Keep an eye out if your interested.

The other thing I have been doing is some extensive planning to get classes, run from my home up and running. I am hoping to have these available also for people that would love to do one of my classes though because of time restraints, commitments of distance, are unable to attend a live class.
If you are interested in knowing more about these classes, please drop me a note here and I will get some extra info out to you.
The above albums will be available as classes hopefully in the not to distant future. :)

There are a few other things that I have been working towards, though right at this moment, they are top secret so Im just gonna let you wonder as to what they are. ;)