The magic of a scrappers journey...

It will be the end of an era soon, Paper Heaven, the shop where my scrapbooking journey began, will be closing its doors on 30th November. I've spent many a long hour enjoying scrapping and friendship there, and it will be missed.

I am always thankful for the opportunities presented through embarking upon my scrapping journey. With this in mind, I fell in love with the blog entry by Margot Potter today, and as I couldn't put it better myself, here it is...

"I don't believe in luck, but I do believe in magic. I think luck is something people invented so they'd stop taking responsibility for their lives, it's much easier to tell ourselves that happy people are lucky than it is to accept that life is about choices. There is preparation and there is opportunity, luck is an illusion. Life is all about perspective. Every moment we can choose sorrow or we can choose joy. I believe that in each of us is an endless well of joy. You can keep tapping it over and over again and you will never run out. The glass is neither half full nor half empty, because the universe gives free refills.
Seriously.
Why are you even worried about the glass?
The more we focus on what we don't have and we didn't get, the less we are able see the abundance that is always there for us. At any moment we are free to erase the past and reinvent ourselves. We're only a victim if we choose to be. I choose joy. When we choose joy, the magic happens.
Life is not about the money or the stuff or the awards or the accolades, though all of those things are nice and it's okay to enjoy them fully. Life is all about the love we share and just like joy there's an endless supply.
I am thankful that somewhere along the way I realized that I was the captain of my own ship. I realized that I could take the wheel. I could choose to be sad about the things that happened in the past or I could focus on the moment. Every moment is an opportunity for joy and for grace and for love.
Be in the moment, it is all you have.
Embrace joy"

Thank you for being part of the journey :)

Kaisercraft Advent Clendar MM style...

.I couldn't wait to make my Kaisercraft Advent Calendar.
I went for more traditional colours using Making Memories Mistletoe range, together with one of my favourite photos of my kiddies from Christmas last year.
I love the Scrap FX wordlet and Christmas trees too.
I found the easiest way to cover the boxes was to make up a template - which could also be used as a box by itself. The whole process took a while, but it was worth it :)
If you drop by Scraptacular, you can see it IRL

Caught the Glimmer Mist Cuttle-bug :)

I had a fabulous day yesterday, demonstrating the Cuttlebug, Nestabilities and Glimmer Mist at Scraptacular, met some lovely customers and had a great time catching up with the rest of the Design Team. It was great to have an excuse to play with my supplies!!! These are some of the samples I made for and during the demonstration - I think the dove and wreath card is my favourite - and so easy :)

Can't believe my "baby" turned 8 last week - where did that time go!?!?! Here' he is with his best mate "encouraging" him to hurry and decide what to wish for when blows out his candle.


Hope you hada a great week-end too :)

Scraptacular sale & demo this weekend!!!

If you are looking for some scrapping inspiration this weekend, why not drop by and join me at the Scraptacular Sale and Demonstration weekend. The Sale is on Saturday 9:30am til 5pm and Sunday is Sale and Demo day 11am til 4pm with product demonstrations featuring:
Cricut Machine,
Cricut Expression,
Cuttlebug,
Nestabilities,
Pink MM Slice Machine,
Crop A Dile and
Glimmermist.
If you get the chance I'd love to see you. Hope you can join us for some early Christmas Cheer - drinks & nibblies supplied.

Halloween mini-album

Had a very creative weekend (and hot!!!) with painting our house and creating this halloween mini-album as a thank-you for the hosts of the first ever Halloween party my DS attended.

Inspired by this weeks Colour Combo challenge of purple intergue, moonlit beige, harvest pumpkin and toasted walnut...

Indian Summer approaching...

I just LOVE the colours of Basic Greys recent
"Indian Summer" range and I have a double page multi-photo layout at Scraptacular coming up soon.
I think we might be heading for an Indian Summer soon too if the weather from Monday was anything to go by!

We enjoyed an extended weekend at Daylesford / Hepburn Springs - arrived a few hours late courtesy of our car breaking down - nothing like an adventure to begin a holiday with :)
We had a fantastic time, visited Lavendula Lavender farm, the botanical gardens and tower lookout, the Convent Gallery and "Bad Habits" cafe, and enjoyed a walk around Daylesford Lake. Plenty to keep the kids entertained :)

Happy halloween...

We spent the morning carving our dracula look-alike pumpkin (note to self - apple corers are a pumpkin carvers best friend!).

DS had been "counting" the days to his very first Halloween party. I had to laugh when HE insisted we change his hair colour to black (hair spray of course ;) All the kids looked gorgeous in their "spooky" outfits :)