first layout is of Ellas 2nd birthday - which was back in September last year,

'Holiday' is of our first family holiday together as a family of 5, the photos were taken a couple of years ago,

'that aint no kissy face' is of Ella, she has a blue mouth from eating a blue candycane!

'Time flies' is of another old photo of Ella - makes me clucky looking at baby photos!

and yet another old photo! 'time flies' a photo of Bethany, Jacob and tiny baby Ella!

these layouts here were created a while ago (sometime within the last couple of months!)
'beautiful' is yet another layout of Ella - the only willing person in this family to pose for a picture!

'Bethanys teddy' is a layout about (surprisingly enough) Bethanys beloved teddy, she loves her teddy!

'follow your bliss' is of Jacob, the photos were taken of him last Christmas,

'love your life is of Bethany, one of my fav layouts I have done for a while,

last up is another one of Bethany 'little miss serious' and its the opposite of my previous layout - one of my not so fav!! I tried to do a couple of things which didnt turn out very well!

first layout up is 'sweet' cute pictures of the girls showing some sisterly love with each other!

next up is of Ella titled 'the world always looks brighter from behind a smile.

'just smile' is a layout of Ella and myself, and yes that is a couple of paper doilies I have used!

last one is of Jacob and I taken a few days before Christmas 2008 titled 'friends forever my boy and I.

girl layouts

Here are a few more girly layouts I have completed over the past month or so, first up is of Bethany and I titled 'thats no fairy face', Bethany has started pulling faces now whenever her photo is being taken, and in this photo she was wearing her fairy costume.

Next is of Ella titled 'a snapshot' just a lovely photo I took of Ella.

Another one of Ella titled 'smile', shes the opposite of Bethany when her photo is being taken, she quite happily smiles!

Next up is of Bethany and Ella titled 'forever my little girls' I love this photo of them both!

Last one is another of Ella titled 'look at your face' just a photo of her with chocolate on her face - not that exciting!

I have become very addicted to a nintendo wii game that Mark gave me for Christmas - Animal Crossing, I visit my town at least a couple of times during the day and spend my time fishing and going into the city, I will soon be able to pay off my mortgage and hope to upgrade my house, it does also make me feel young to still be able to play the nintendo!!

I really should update more often....

I have alot to catch up on since the last time I wrote (1.12.08) so here are a few things that have happened.

Christmas was a fantastic day again albeit an early start with Jake trying to get up at 3.45 am!!

Ella is now in a big bed, she calls it her Upsy Daisy bed - she loves In the Night Garden!!

Mark painted our bedroom and ripped up the carpet and layed a floating floor down, with help from Andy, they did a very good job!

We had a New Years party here with a couple of other families, 7 kids were here and they all stayed up till midnight! including our girls! when everyone went home Bethany cried for about 5mins upset that the party was over and everyone had gone home!! they were very, very tired!!

Mark and I also had our birthdays on the 14th and 15th of Dec, we didnt do much as we had his Christmas work dinner on that weekend.

I finished off my December daily journal, I will post again with some pictures soon - before this year is out!

retreat layouts

here are some of my layouts that I completed at the retreat - which will soon be one month ago - time has flown!

First up is 'me & you' a picture of Ella and I taken earlier on in the year,

Next 'its funny to be a bit silly sometimes' (the title is very similiar to a previous one of Jacob and I but I was stuck for a title!)

'Its your birthday today' is of Bethany taken on her third birthday back in July,

'you make my heart sing' is of Bethany again, I love this photo of her taken when we were away in October,


last one is simply titled 'I love her' Ella is quite challenging at times but theres no denying that I simply love her!

The Christmas tree went up yesterday and Mark totally surprised me by going of to buy some lights to hang up outside! I have been asking each year if he could put up some Christmas lights, and this year he finally gave in - they look really nice dangling from the roof gutters!

I am doing the December Daily journal that Ali Edwards is doing I finished of the finishing touches to mine last night, and I am really looking forward to completing this over the coming month, I will post some pictures of it soon.

Hi again!

Apologies for another long break in my blogging world!
I have had a busy month, we had the scrap of faith retreat a couple of weeks ago, I flew up to Qld with Ali and Ingeborg on Thursday and we came home the following Monday, quite sleep deprived but it was all worth it! it was a great weekend getting to meet all the lovely ladies who I have gotten to know over the past couple of years, the weekend was filled with lots of laughter, fun and a little scrapping! I managed to do about 6 layouts which I still need to photograph!

So hear are some older ones, and I hope I haven't put these up yet,
first one is of Jacob and I with a long title 'I hope we keep this kind of silliness with each other, because sometimes we just like to take photos of ourselves'

Next 'all I wanted was a nice photo of us' is of Mark and I, I was hoping for a nice photo but of course Mark had another face in mind!

'enjoy your life' is of Bethany, I used a KI Memories transperant sheet thingy,

Next is 'Make me smile', a photo of Ella having one of her toddler moments,

last photo is of Bethany and Ella taken last week sometime, just a cute photo!

Unfortunately both the girls have the cold/flu so the past couple of nights I have been constantly up and down throughout the night, mainly with Ella, so at the moment I feel very tired, I am very grateful that Mark has gone into work late so he has been getting Jake ready for school and taken him just so I can have an extra lie in - what a sweetie!

I have also fallen into the Facebook trap! I have found some lost old friends out there - some still not sure if I still need to keep them as old lost friends! lol!

Well better go, I better wish my sister Emily a very Happy Birthday for Nov 25th and also Karen, hope you both have a great day, this is the time of year when it flies straight past!

Hindmarsh Island holiday pictures

We all had a great family holiday! we came home yesterday well rested.

The house we stayed in was really nice and quiet, there was a forest behind us and a vacant block of land next to us so we were pretty secluded, thats Bethany climbing on the rocks there with Ella on Marks shoulders in the background.

We quickly realised we had very frequent visitors which we fed at their demand! there were a couple of magpies and 3 ducks that stayed around until they were fed! the kids loved that especially Bethany! thats Ella and Bethany feeding the ducks, I took that picture on the last morning we were there, it wasnt even 7am yet and those ducks kept quaking and walking around the outside of the house so me being the mother duck I am I got up and we fed them!

We visited Urrimbirra wildlife park, I think that was the highlight of our holiday! we had a great time there with the kids plus there were only a few other people visiting! thats Jake with a couple of emus behind him.

Bethany loved feeding the Kangaroos, apart from this Kangaroo who was a bit impatient with Bethanys hand feeding, so he grabbed the Kangaroo food bag from her and tried to feed himself - there were quite a few tears from Bethany then! We saw crocodiles, snakes, Koalas - heaps of wildlife animals!

Here is Ella, Mark took this as we were leaving the park, we think she didnt want to walk through the bird cage again!

We didnt do too much else, took a couple of drives but we mainly just relaxed, which is what should happen on a holiday!!

another month gone...

sorry about that! these days just seem to fly by!

A few weeks ago we celebrated baby Ellas 2nd birthday! and boy is she a feisty little thing! thats her in the first layout here titled adorable, she looks like a sweet little toddler but really shes a little miss bossy! I have given myself a little break for a few weeks by not taking her to the shops anymore - she really is a handful! she is starting to be rather unkind to her big sister at times and I have to deal with Bethany complaining about Ella hitting or pushing her around, so I am hoping she will grow out of this! she must get this attitude from her father as anyone who knows me knows just what a placid girl I am!

Next layout is another one of Ella titled 'Lifes a beach' this is one I did for Pencillines, in the school holidays I took the kids to the beach for a bit, we only live a few minutes away from there but we hardly ever visit the beach, so one nice afternoon I took them for a bit of a play.

next one 'Hes my funny dude' is of Jacob and I, I did this for another sketch site but I never got around to posting it in.

'she doesnt get that frown from me' is of Ella and myself, she has a real big frown in this photo, I know my Mum would say that she definately has my frown but I think its another thing she got from her Father!

Last up is an old photo of Bethany 'shes a day dreamer', I did some hand stencilling on this one.

Well thats a handful of layouts, I do seem to be getting my mojo back again, I just need some fresh photos and everyone seems to be less willing to be photographed! we are going on a family holiday on Monday for a few days to Hindmarsh Island, down by Victor Harbour, which we are really looking forward to, then in another few weeks I will be in Queensland on the Scrap of Faith retreat, which I am really looking forward to aswell!

Friday catch up

Back again!! this past week hasn't been too good as I came down with this dreadful flu again - I cant believe how many times I have had this over the last couple of months, I still have a lingering annoying cough as well as the start of my hayfever season, anyway here are a few 'oldish' layouts, I seem to have gone off scrapping a bit, I cant really afford to tho as I have so much stuff to use! lol! so hopefully I can crawl out of this scrapping rut I am in!

First layout 'I love my sister is a gorgeous photo I took of Bethany and Ella, full title reads 'can you tell I love my sister'

next 'she is growing ever so quickly' is of Bethany,

last one is of Ella and her bouncy hair titled 'love those curls' I love her hair at the moment, it bounces as she toddles along!

Here is a photo of the girls I took last week, Bethany was rather keen for me to take a picture with Ella, who was more interested in eating her sandwich!

I'm hoping I haven't posted any of these layouts yet! apologies if I have! I will be back soonish with some recent ones!

I know I have been .....

MIA for a long time now! procrastination is a big problem for me sometimes!

I will start of first with a few of my recent layouts, first up 'look mum' is of Ella, the full title reads 'look mum I just ate your flavoured lip balm!', the picture shows Ellas lips covered with one of my lip balms - which she destroyed!!

Next 'sweet baby' is a sketch taken from pencil lines
a baby photo of Ella.

'As good as it gets' is a family shot of Mark and the kids - for some reason I thought I would be able to take a nice family photo where everyone would smile and look at the camera! (dont know what I was thinking) - the sub title reads this is as good as it gets (photowise).

4th up is another one of Ella 'lil miss sweet cheeks', she does have the cutest chubbiest sweet cheeks! I used the new Scenic Route papers.

Last up is Jacob 'you are a wally', whenever I try to take photos of him he pulls a face at the last minute, it is seriously hard to take a decent photo of him!

The last time I blogged I said about how we were all getting better again after the colds and flu, well since then we have all had it again, with the girls and I getting it for the 3rd time, so I am so looking forward to warmer weather and sunshine.

Marks work had an award night a couple of weeks ago, the Steel Industry Awards, his company was one of the sponsors of someone who had won, so for me it really meant a really nice cooked meal, free drinks and the chance to buy and wear a new dress!! plus Jacob was excited when I told him it was hosted by Cosi who was a winner on one of The Biggest Loser shows, well thats probably the only exciting thing that has happened to me lately!

I WILL be back soon - within a week - I promise!!!