July 2006

FREAK TOOTH
Well Bronte had her freak tooth pulled today, aaaah such a sad day for all of us… Freak tooth has become part of our family, it has been given a special place in our hearts and now it’s gone. And not without a fight either, unfortunately, freak tooth had gum growing around it as well as a nodule of gum growing inside, so there was lots of tugging and pulling. Bronte was very brave even though it obviously hurt more than any of us anticiapted including Dr Jenny. But after lots of “oooowing and aaaahing” freak tooth left the building! Mad Mum was in there taking photo’s of said extraction so look out for a layout soon on a blog near you (or just this one).

Well I can tell you that the hours for this new job are taking it’s toll, I miss my time alone, but at the same time I love my job, so I guess there is a payoff for everything.

I am off to Melbourne on Monday for a business meeting for my new job and I am nervous as hell! All the people there already know each other and despite my boisterous facade, I am not great with new people, but I am sure I will be fine 10 minutes in (fingers crossed).

Went out for a last minute dinner tonight for my cousins birthday. A quick meal but I do love spending time with him and the rest of my extended family. Makes me lament the lack of camping weather right now…. ah I guess it gives us something to look forward to.

House news, oh man we have a lot of work ahead of us, really don’t know where to start and how to pay for it… must figure it out…

A little layout on a game I played with my gorgeous Bronte Grace, what a scream I have with her….
Here is the journaling :The other day we had a game of ‘Don’t Blink’. It turned into a side splitting and absolutely hilarious 10 minutes! You tried everything in your power not to blink and you just could not do it. Even when you held your eyes open with your thumbs, in some weird attempt to keep your eyes open, it just made you look like a scary character from a b-grade horror movie. Apparently, you thought if you could hold your mouth in the right position that it might help, but this was to no avail either. The game didn’t last too long because we kept laughing so much and I discovered it is very hard not to blink when you are practically wetting yourself with mirth. After a while Quinn also joined the game which made the situation even worse. By the end of the ‘don’t blink’ session we all had to use tissues to recover and I had to make a quick dash to the toilet before I had an accident. These are the moments that I treasure as your Mum. I hope these are the things you remember when you reminisce about your childhood.

Pirates Of The Caribbean 2
Went and saw it last night with a bunch of school Mum’s, dinner 1st then the movie. Got home about 12.30am so a little tired today. The movie was a little silly at times, but Johnny Depp is brilliant in his part as is Orlando Bloom. Johnny Depp is so lovable and despite some holes in the plot, it’s an enjoyable romp. (all the movie critics cliches in this post!) LOL

Photo Shoot
Then after a late night was off to a local park at 8.45 to take some pics for a work friend of her kidlets. Unfortunately, her little man was a little sad, so we may have to do it again. Haven’t had a chance to get them off the camera yet, but will do that later on. Hopefully they look OK!

Charmed Life
There wasn’t any movies that particularly interested Suzy and I for our regular Friday movie date, and as we saw POTC2 last night, we opted for a day of Scrabble and 500 with her Mum at home where we pigged out and just enjoyed each others company. I LOVE MY LIFE!

ANZAC DAY

This is a layout I did on a pic I took at the dawn service on Anzac Day this year. It is very plain, but I am glad I recorded the memory. It was very special and touching to be there for us. If you click on the pic you may be able to read the journaling.

MAC Challenge
This layout was done for a challenge at MAC digiscrap. We all scrapped the same pic, and the results were so diverse and amazing, it was great to see how different our layouts can be.

We have a big few days coming up, sadly, LOL, I am such a recluse now days, but it will be fun to catch up with friends, old and new, over the weekend.
Tomorrow is netball, and then some camping friends over for lunch, Bronte is off to a friends for a play tomorrow afternoon, and then other friends over for dinner tomorrow night. And then Quinn and Bronte have a party from 10-1 Sunday and another 2 sets of friends for lunch on Sunday.
It has been so long since we entertained, I wonder what we are going to cook everyone. LOL Help, we are out of practice!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!

Since I was offline for a month I didn’t get to mention that I got an advance copy of the Digital Scrapbooking Mag. I have a total of 5 layouts published and a tutorial that I wrote on one of my Best and Brightest entries, “Dream Come True”. But the most exciting bit was on the inside cover where I am noted as a “CONTRUBTING EDITOR”, can you believe it? Little old me! What a buzz! Anyway, if you are interested, it’s out now, there is a PDF version available for us distance challenged Aussie at Digital Scrapbooking Magazine (click here).

Got to watch Pirates Of The Carribean last night, such a treat to watch a DVD in the middle of the week, but I am going to see the 2nd one on Thursday so I had to see the 1st one. Anyway I have always loved Johnny Depp and he is on my list for sure ;)

The layout below is on my special gorgeous Bronte Grace, oh I can hardly explain what a great, wonderful, fun kid she is, you really need to know her to understand how delightful she truly is… except of course when she is not being delightful! LOL I am really happy with this layout, hope you gals like it too! (Click for a larger view) Not sure if you can read the journaling, if you can’t and you want to, let me know and I’ll publish tomorrow).

Since I have recently had a huge run of Quinn layouts, I thought I’d better catch up with a some more Bronte ones, so here is another, all about how she (tries) to rule the roost! LOL

Signing off, have a great night everyone! :)

HOUSE PICS
I haven’t taken manu pics in the house but here are a couple that I tried to do magazine style and failed miserably! LOL (Karen, you need to come over and give me lessons….help!)
This is our new dining table, looking toward the kitchen, to our sleek black splash back (say that fact 3 times). The second is the cutout in our wall between the dining room and what should be the formal lounge (not sure what we are doing in that room yet, we’ll see….)

LYN’S CARD

Below is a birthday card I made for my good friend Lyn’s 40th. Unfortunately we haven’t spent much time together in recent times, due to my new hours and getting ready to move into our new home etc etc, but hopefully that will change soon. Anyway, she said she really liked, which made me happy. I really think birthday cards are harder than layouts! You want to say so much, coz there is only 1 a year!

A MOTLEY CREW

Lyn’s party was a dress up party, this is my auntie Gill (Heidi), my cousin Suzy (Zena, Princess Warrior) and her husband Lincoln (Mr Squiggle), Brian (Sara-Maree) and lil ol me (Elvis (the later years LOL)). We had a great night and there were lots of amazing outfits, lots of fun had by all. Also a bit too much Karaoke, NOT by me (I couldn’t never be that drunk LOL). Lincoln made the entire Mr Squiggle outfit by himself, in fact he makes all his fancy dress outfits. The last fancy dress party we went to together he went as a playboy bunny, complete with fishnet stockings and a boned, featherlined teddy, false eyelashes and wig, yes he enjoys it a little bit tooo much! So much so, that I did a family documentary on it, interviewing all the family and making a DVD for him as a Kris Kringle present a couple years back, complete with credits and bloopers…..hmmmm that really does belong on the net!

MACdigi Girls

I really need to say a special hello and thanks to my MAC digi girls. What a great bunch you are. While I was on my enforced hiatus (waiting for my broadband to be connected), they managed to rack up almost 3000 messages. I really did consider doing a mass delete, but my inquisitive side got the better of me and I read each and every one. I am so glad I did! They missed me yayayay! I came across quite few that said so! Also special thanks to the girls that sent me a present, a card, some texts and a couple of calls. I really am blessed to know you guys.

Signing off…….

…I did a quick entry, don’t you think?
HOUSE AND PIGS…
Hmmmm so much has been happening but I don’t really know where to start.
Obviously we moved into our new home, it’s kinda weird, even though it still feels new, it’s like we have been here for ages. We still haven’t finished unpacking, and the front and back yards are just a mess. We spent the weekend trying to clean it up a bit. I have decided builders are such pigs. Honestly, the crap we found was disgusting, juice bottles, Coke bottles, plastic, even tiles, which I think the tilers just tossed out the bathroom window when they broke one. Wouldn’t it be easy just to have a box and then carry it out when done? Apparently not.
Anyway, apart from that, all is good. We are in the thorws of gettings quotes for window coverings at the moment, man, did I underbudget for that. The quote came back at almost $16000 ouch! Needless to say, we are just going to get the bedrooms and bathrooms done. The rest will have to wait until the tattslotto fairy visits us! Luckily, we have no neighbours at the moment.
Ummm what else…
LION KING
Oh yeah, we went to the Lion King, we took the girls, and it was great fun, in fact I enjoyed it more being there with them than I would have otherwise. The only thing that spoilt it was that Quinn was quite unwell and during the 2nd half she just got worse and worse and as soon as it finished, she burst into to tears. She had a terrible fever and I felt bad for her, but she still remembers it as a fun day so that is good.
DRAMA QUEEN
Also the day we moved into our new home, Quinn was in a production at school, the layout below is made up of photos I took of her dressed for the part, which was based on Oliver, at home. I know the pics don’t show the outfit, but I love them just the same. She was dancing around the room, it was a perfect moment to scrap. Is she a cutie or what? (Is this the same girl that got banned for the movies just last week LOL). Anyway, despite her occassional bad behaviour these pics are a true representation of her (usually) happy go lucky personality.

Ok I’ll have to do another post, it won’t let me post anymore pics… there must be a size limit????