Check YOU out......

Check out how great my mum looks. Well I think she looks great. She is my inspiration . She has lost over 20kgs in the last 4 months. How great is that.........

Mum and Dad came up this weekend to see the girls and to spend some time here with us. Makayla is getting way better with them. She is one of those children that doesn't let anyone near her. But she is really starting to understand who they are.

Long awaited pages

Well finally I have finished a few more pages. Some very basic and simple but that's all I really thought they needed. I have recently received my new Cricut Storybook cartridge from America and I LOVE IT. I didn't get the Graphically Speaking but when I saw a girlfriends I just HAD to have it. You know what I mean......

So I am hoping that it will be here in the next week. But big thanks to Lorelle who let me use her Graphically Speaking cartridge to have a play.

I used the Graphically Speaking cartridge to cut out this collage of 3's. So many ways to use this feature. I can't wait to get my cartridge.

I started this layout a couple of Friday nights ago when a few of us friends get together. I just realised that I haven't finished this one. I still need to journal on it. I have many of pages just like this one (nearly finished that is).

This layout was from the challenge pack that we got at the I Scrap Therefore I Am Sunday Scrap last week. Helen did a great job in organising the packs. Thanks again Helen for the packs. And thanks again to Cassie and Petrina for yet another great day. xxxxx

Back......

Well I am back from BrisVagas and all is going to be OK with my hand. Well that is what I am telling myself. A little positive thinking doesn't go astray I say. After being injected with cortisone my hand was numb for about 45 minutes and then the real pain set in. I believe if I had of chewed my hand off I would have been in less pain. I would have rathered go through 10 child births in one day than the pain the doctor inflicted upon me. But hopefully what he has done will fix me up.
Other wise apparently it is then off to the theatre room with upto 12 months recovery. Yeah I know, not an option. Thank goodness when I woke on Wednesday I was feeling a lot better but I still have the pain which is slowly disappearing. Well I think it is.
Stay tuned as I have some pages that I have been working on. One of them was from the Sunday scrap using Helen Ross's challenge pack.
I also did a class with Lorelle tonight. So I will have those pages to show once I find some photos to put on them.

Sick of being SICK......

Well I'm sick AGAIN...... Probably because I haven't been eating enough chocolate lately. LOL. It has been a while since my last post. Have been busy studying and playing with Makayla. I just love this age where they are learning and just wanting to play, play and more play. She is pretty much toilet trained. We just have to work on the number 2's.

Makayla's communication skills are getting very good. She loves Dora at the moment and she often tells me "Mummy you love Dora too". And her delightful daddy has taught her to say "What a rip off". Trust the men to teach the children all the educational phrases.

Kirsty is doing really great also. Unfortunately she is growing up and all too quickly. In about 6 years she will be learning to drive a car. Oh where did the years go. It saddens me that she is nearly all grown up.

It must be time to have more babies.

I have had some time lately to do some scrapbooking. This one is the August challenge at This n That Scrap Shack. Not sure if I will enter it as I haven't really used all the gear in the pack.

Well I'm off to Brisbane AGAIN on Monday. I have a specialist appointment to see a Doctor about my hand. Looks like they might need to operate. I am saying this as if you tell people one thing sometimes it doesn't happen. So I am hoping that they will be able to fix it with out an operation.

New Tool

I picked up a parcel this morning and in it was a new punch I ordered from Custom Crops.

The punch embosses at the same time it punches. I have yet to master corners but have been punching card as well as paper.

One more week.....

Yes one more week of holidays for us. Hopefully Kirsty and I will do a bit of play and also maybe a little bit of revision. Though I am sure the revision part she would like me to forget.

We have just had a week in Brisbane with my family. It is always great to go down for a visit but always great to come home. Especially when you leave your husband for a week.

I am sure Cameron had a very quiet week with out the noise of the children.

Apart from being sick for the first part of the holidays and getting food poisioning at the end, the week was OK.

We did some visiting and shopping (towards the end of the week) and we also spent a day at Dreamworld. We went with my Sister Maree, Brother David and the children Ashleigh and Rachel. We had a great day and as it was David's birthday, it was an extra special day. Well Ashleigh and David managed to talk Maree and I into going on the Tower of Terror. How I do not know... Well below is the photo that was taken shortly after we took off. OH MY GOODNESS. Are probably the only words printable that I could say. There were soooooo many colourful words that I did say on the 27 second ride. The ride was going 157kilometres and I am sure that it got to this speed within seconds of taking off.

And I would go again. It was FABULOUS......... Check out the expressions of some of the others. LOL.

Till next post.
XXXXXXX

Did I do that....

Well I should have had my mother take photos of me sewing this as I don't believe I made it either. I decided that I wanted to make Lyn (Cameron's mum) a quilt for her 60th Birthday. And in the spirit of the West gene I left it to the last minute. Well I always say that my mum works best under pressure and maybe I have inherited a bit of this too as I managed to make my very first quilt in just one and a half days. Yep that's right this quilt was made by me and in only a short time. I know I can't believe it either.... LOL

Now I am hooked and want to start another quilt. I am now thinking of ways to decorate Kirsty's room. It is very addictive that's for sure.