Dreams & Other Realities

For Weddings and a Valentine's Day...

2012-02-01T12:43:00.001+11:00

Loved this gorgeous colour palette from The Colour Room combined with sketch inspiration from Mojo Monday - this week we're looking through the round window!

Had fun making red felt roses using My Favorite Things Minature Rolled Roses - just need to remember to roll from the outside of the diecut to the inside - doesn't work quite as well in reverse ;) I also used the Lifestyle Craft Floral Rose and Swiss Dots embossing folders - the ribbon across the centre makes hiding the overlap in the embossing easy! I love this couple stamp - stamped once in black ink on white cardstock and a second time in white StazOn ink on black cardstock, then hand cut the suit and top hat and added the coloured bow-tie and matching flowers to tie the colour scheme together. I adhered two sheets from Making Memories notepaper together to create the scalloped edge. This is the first time I have made a round card - folded an A4 piece of cardstock in half and cut an almost complete circle using my Fiskars circle cutter - too easy!

Many thanks for dropping by - much appreciated :)

PS. Having some technical issues today so sorry for the multiple listings / missing links in Mojo Monday

A CASE of Rainbows...

2012-01-31T15:11:00.002+11:00

This card was going a WHOLE different direction when I started it - but I kinda like where it ended up anyway! LOVE this card from the CASE Study this week so I borrowed the stripes and the colour combo to create my card, using this gorgeous stamp from Inkadinkadoo. Thanks for stopping by :)

Play Hard, Have Fun...

2012-01-27T09:29:00.001+11:00

Had fun creating this little robot for this weeks Cards for Men Challenge Boys and Their Toys. Stamped the various body part images onto Fancy Pants Rough & Tough papers using Stampendous Spot's Botz. Based the card layout on this great sketch from Deconstructing Jen - just rotated the sketch clockwise to fit the robot image.

Hope you have a great weekend playing hard and having fun! :)

Have Ewe Herd the News...

2012-01-26T10:05:00.000+11:00

Happy Australia Day!!!

I must admit this black & white theme at CAS-ual Fridays had me challenged! Then I started thinking, what else is black & white (besides penguins!) and I thought of newspapers and sheep.

I used October Afternoon sheep (ewe) stamp over a Prima newspaper stamp, and hand cut the sheep then pop-dotted the herd for added dimension. The original October Afternoon sentiment stamp reads "Have you herd the news" but I couldn't resist masking the "you" and changing it to "ewe". It just appeals to my sense of humour LOL!

And it's perfect for Australia Day too :)

A Case of Inspiration...

2012-01-25T09:02:00.002+11:00

Loving the colours and patterns in this weeks CASE study challenge, and the use of the corner punch - just needed that extra bit of inspiration from this weeks Mojo Monday to bring it all together! Papers are a mix from Cosmo Cricket Honey Bunch and Mambi, together with paper and die cuts from MME Out & About. Pop dotted some of the die cuts for added dimension - and look Ma - no stamping!

Wishing you the Sweetest Things...

2012-01-23T11:31:00.000+11:00

Even though purple is definitely not up there with my favourite colours, when I saw this months inspiration photo from Scrapbook Boutique, I knew it was perfect for my MFT "Wishing you the Sweetest Things" sentiment. I loved the lattice icing, repeated in the papers from Kaisercraft and Penny Black, and the cute icing roses replicated using Prima flowers. Cardstock is textured cordinations, finished off with a cute butterfly hand cut from Kaisercraft papers. Perfectly suited to this months gorgeous inspiration sketch from SFYTT at I (heart) to Stamp.

Many thanks for dropping by - and Happy Chinese New Year to you too!

A Little Hummingbirdy Told Me...

2012-01-18T11:14:00.000+11:00

Just LOVE the colours in Kaisercrafts Hummingbird Collectables - couldn't resist a play with the pink and yellow die cuts for this weeks CR84FN Colour Challenge. Most of the die-cuts were used straight from the pack. I reduced the size of the sentiment by using my circle punch, and converted the double tab die cut into a circle using a smaller circle punch. Embossed the background using Couture Creations Swiss Dots folder and pop dotted the bird and branch, and the white swiss dot background. I love an easy card - especially one as cute as this LOL!

Of Friends and Snowflakes...

2012-01-16T18:39:00.002+11:00

I LOVE that Challenges make you think outside the square - or in this case, inside the square LOL! I have teamed up this gorgeous colour palette from Colour Throwdown Challenge with this divine sketch from Sketch Saturday.

I couldn't resist bringing this little Inkadinkado snowman out one more time! This time I teamed him up with a sentiment from My Favourite Things Flopsy Snowflake. The background is dry embossed using the Cuttlebug Snowflakes folder, and the white swiss dots hand cut following the Buzz and Bloom wonky scallop border - I love how it looks like snow piled up on the roof :)

I have used Spellbinders Floral Doily Motive behind the snowman. I had fun testing out my new Christmas present - a circle cutter from Fiskars - makes cutting circles a breeze!

Many thanks for stopping by - much appreciated :)

Thinking of You with Opals...

2012-01-15T17:20:00.001+11:00

Saw these gorgeous colours over at The Play Date Cafe and knew I had to play along. Burgundy, gold and plum, remind me of royalty. I had a play with my Opals embossing powder from Pipe Dream Ink - the Banksia is a brilliant gold colour. I have heat embossed three layers on top of one another - adding more dry powder as you heat each layer, until you are left with a pool of colour, into which I stamped a Basic Grey swirl stamp for about 10 seconds. The result is a gorgeous 3D swirled impression which I have used as the background for my negative die-cut butterfly - inspired by the card at Case Study Challenge. I have pop dotted the butterfly doily and the gold embossed sentiment for depth.

With all those scallops, I couldn't resist entering into this weeks CAS-ual Friday Highs and Lows Challenge too!

Hope you are having a creative weekend too :)

Thanks Snow Much...

2012-01-12T11:59:00.008+11:00

Had fun playing along with the Creative Card Crew Snow Day Challenge, inspired by the snowflakes and colours from the Ribbon Carousel Challenge and this gorgeous sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

Even though we don't get snow in this part of the world - I couldn't resist this gorgeous snowman from Inkadinkado. He is stamped with Timber Brown StazOn onto teal Basic Grey paper, coloured in and his hat and scarf are pop dotted on for depth. The clear snow flake is from Heidi Swapp, and the teal ribbon was just calling to me from my stash! Background is dry embossed with Cuttlebugs Snowflakes folder then rubbed over the top with Versamark seafoam ink, and heat embossed all over using Dazzle ink and clear embossing powder. Cardstock base is Espresso Bazill.

Thanks SNOW much for stopping by :)

Constructing cards...

2012-01-10T16:56:00.000+11:00

Some cards origins are more obvious than others! Believe it or not, this card was inspired by this weeks sketch at Deconstructing Jen - the sketch was rotated 90 degrees clockwise, and in the process the stars became embossed in the blue background. Anyway, I LOVE this colour combo by CR84FN and couldn't resist playing along. Sentiment was stamped and embossed with seafoam white - a favourite as it really pops on strong colour backgrounds.

"Count Your Rainbows...

2012-01-10T14:54:00.003+11:00

... not your thunderstorms", the perfect sentiment for this card and wise words from a 12 year old!

I could not go past using a rainbow for this weeks gorgeous sketch from Skipping Stones Design. Rainbow is made from strips of cardstock, adhered to white cardstock then pop dotted to create a bit of depth, I stamped each of the rainbow letters by inking them using Steadler thin markers.

I love that when I took the photo you can just make out the reflection of the rainbow colours on the floor - and choosing to ignore the bit of dust LOL!

Hope your year is full of rainbows :)

Cafe Mojo...

2012-01-08T12:46:00.001+11:00

Loved this great colour combo from The Playdate Cafe this week, juniper, mint and vanilla - makes me hungry just thinking about it! Mojo Monday has been flooded with inspiration this week too - not surprising with this gorgeous sketch. Tried out my stamp with Teal StazOn ink, and had a play with lace and bling and textured with patterns and layering instead of embossing - tempting me back to scrapping ;)

Good friends moving interstate today, and as I keep telling DS, our friends will always remain in our hearts :)

PS. Woo hoo, just found out I received a "Cream in our Coffee" for this weeks challenge :)

Freshly Made...with Chipboard

2012-01-07T09:34:00.002+11:00

Now Christmas has passed it seems Valentines day is the next best celebration! This card combines a very versatile sketch from Freshly Made with CAS-ual Fridays Chipboard Challenge (I used Cosmo Cricket Blackboard flower frame and chipboard silver alpha) and this sophisticated colour combo from the Colour Throwdown Challenge. I have cut the heart shape to reveal the red behind it, and added an extra hint of red with Kaisercraft pearls in the centre of the flowers.

Hope you are enjoying a relaxing weekend too :)

New Year, New Start...

2012-01-01T15:51:00.000+11:00

Wishing all of you the very best of health and happiness for this New Year. I am very glad to have 2011 behind me and am looking forward to the challenges of the year ahead!

I didn't get a chance to load this little guy up yesterday, so here is to a bright start to this New Year, with colour inspiration from Scrapbook Boutique, and sketch inspiration from Skipping Stones Design :)

Holiday Happiness...

2011-12-30T14:19:00.001+11:00

One of the best things about being on holidays is that I get to play... with my family and with my stash LOL!

I couldn't resist these gorgeous colours from The Paper Players - brilliant for Christmas, and for Valentines Day! Combined with this weeks sketch from Deconstructing Jen - couldn't resist turning those scallops into hearts :) I used Coture Creations Key to my Heart embossing folder for the main heart, and Heidi Swapp All my love sentiment with Pipe Dream Ink embossing powder in Banksia.

Hope you have time to play too :)

Up for a Colour Challenge...

2011-12-29T17:04:00.002+11:00

Loved, loved, loved the colour palette at The Colour Room this week, I used their sketch as inspiration too - and it meets the inspiration at Colour Q!! Just love that magenta. Christmas baubles are stamped with silver tinsel and the My Favourite Things sentiment is stamped in white seafoam - looks just like fresh snow :)

With thanks...

2011-12-27T12:30:00.002+11:00

Now that Christmas dinner is packed away and I have my craft room back, just in time to be inspired by the colours of Christmas at the Play Date Cafe, this gorgeous sketch from Skipping Stones Design and CAS-ual Fridays brown paper and string!!!

I stamped the background swirl with watermark ink and clear embossing powder to create this thank you card - had fun playing with twine from MME to create the butterfly trail. Gorgeous colours from the PDC to create a non-Christmas card too!

Hope you had a thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing Christmas - we did!!! Really looking forward to a crafty 2012 too :)

We lost the whole of December...

2011-12-23T14:35:00.001+11:00

DD was watching Five Children and It when I overheard the line "a while ago we lost the whole of October", that's how I feel about December! Not sure where it disappeared to, but it did.

I can't believe my first baby is no longer at primary school (and amazed at how handy scrapbooking supplies are for decorating for graduation!)

Now just putting the final touches to our renos in time for Christmas.

Here's to a safe and Merry Christmas to all and looking forward to a healthy and happy New Year!!!

My Favourite Things...

2011-12-02T23:19:00.002+11:00

Spied the sweetest card over on Karen Girons website today, using one of the latest release stamp sets from My Favourite Things. Great Pearls of Wisdom :)

My Gradads favourite quote was from Saint Francis of Assisi...
"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

Do you have a favourite?

The Paper Players on a CAS-ual Friday...

2011-11-24T17:03:00.002+11:00

Loved the classic colours at The Paper Players this week... gorgeous navy teamed with white and silver, together with a very elegant sketch at CAS-ual Friday.

I used a sharp blade to cut around my angel outline (adapted from one I found on-line at Pink Paper Peppermints), leaving just a couple of millimetres gap for folding the image forward to make a 3D card. Pop dots for the white angel image to give added depth, and my favourite silver tinsel embossing powder with Hero Arts sentiment stamp.

Think I might try another version with textured embossed cardstock next... and here it is!

Hope you are enjoying your Thursday too :)

Thank whoo... TCR & Tuesday Morning Sketches

2011-11-21T00:12:00.002+11:00

I just LOVE the colour palette this week at The Colour Room, coupled with this great sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. I created this cute Thank whoo... thank you card by combining punched cardstock and some great patterned paper by Rose Moka. Stamped my owl image using Snow white embossing powder & embossing pen for the text.

Thank whoo for stopping by - hope you enjoy your Monday too :)

Throwdown a Challenge... (or two)

2011-11-20T11:39:00.004+11:00

Colours from this weeks Colour Throwdown Challenge reminded me of Pooh Bear, add to this the spots and dots challenge at Scrapbook Boutique - led to lots of circles here!

Couldn't wait to play with this little bear & robin set by Gillian Roberts, coloured in with Derwent Watercolour pencils and added text from My Favourite Things "Sending You a Little Christmas" set. Vanilla cardstock embossed using Couture Creations "Swiss Dots" embossing folder, and red and dark grey cardstock cut using Spellbinders "Lacy Circles". The paper I have used is an old line from Scenic Route, but a similar effect could be achieved by stamping.

Being a newbie to card making I'm still experimenting - LOTS! I find that I prefer to stamp my outlined images in Stone Grey StazOn ink - what do you use?

Taking the time...

2011-11-16T13:15:00.000+11:00

When there is so much going on in life, it is really a privilege to be able to take the time to create a little something. So here is my little something for today:

As you can see, todays little something was inspired by the colours at The Paper Players, and the sketch at Mojo Monday.

Hope you can take the time to create a little something today too :)

Time for another Play Date...

2011-11-14T17:49:00.003+11:00

DD and her friend and I had put a lot of effort into our stall at the school market, and it looked great. Fantastic weather meant there were great crowds outside - not so many ventured inside though, but we still made enough to cover costs - will be selling excess at another local school market and probably also on Etsy.

Had fun with this weeks colours at the Play Date Cafe... who doesn't love a splash of orange!!
Stamped the happy couple twice - once in black on white cardstock, and once in white on black cardstock, cut around the black cardstock to create the black suit, shoes & top hat, then added the bouquet of flowers to tie in the colours. Managed to tie the knot so it reads "tie the knot" too!

Hope you are enjoying your Monday!

Loving Light...

2011-11-06T10:45:00.006+11:00

Had the opportunity to join Danielle Quarmby in her Loving Light photography session yesterday - great fun and a fantastic day weather-wise.

Discovered that going from Auto to Manual selection is harder than anticipated, and I really need to practice my focusing skills!!! Perhaps because I love capturing "moments" I find I need to be able to focus instantly rather than mucking around adjusting for the "perfect" photo - I just like to embrace the imperfection of life :)

These my favourites for the day. I don't have the time to play around with my images in photo editing software, so I have just added an auto adjust colour from microsoft editing software to enhance the colours of these.

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday :)

Time for a Play Date...

2011-11-05T11:24:00.003+11:00

About 60 cards done so far - what can I say, I am a slow scrapper, and not surprisingly a slow card-maker too LOL.

Got some inspiration from this weeks Play Date Cafe colour palette #106 featuring pink, yellow & grey to create this card...

The card was first stamped, heat embossed and dry embossed before I added the cute Tim Holtz flower.

Wishing you a beautiful day too...

Trick or treat...

2011-11-01T17:50:00.001+11:00

Hope you enjoyed your Halloween too :)

A ColourQ Courtier

2011-10-18T14:47:00.002+11:00

First week playing at ColourQ and my card was awarded this...

Here are some of my latest...

Enjoy :)

Colour and Kaisercraft...

2011-10-16T08:57:00.004+11:00

Decided if I am to have a stall at the upcoming Twilight Markets, I needed to get cracking. With a pocketful of inspiration from ColourQ...

I decided to go with Happy Birthday rather than Halloween theme for these colours as we don't really celebrate Halloween here. Here is the first of my cards...

Loving this range by Kasiercraft :) Hoping to have more to show you soon!

From this... to this

2011-10-13T19:17:00.003+11:00

Having fun rediscovering the joys of Classic Photo Artmaster (and the not so joys of having Windows decide it did not want to support this particular program), and downloaded some new free fonts only my computer to change my photo, taken at the recent Tesslar Tulip Festival from this...

to this...

and this...

in a few (relatively) easy steps.

Enjoy :)

One Crafty Giraffe

2011-10-07T11:52:00.001+11:00

DD and a couple of her friends spent a few hours yesterday at a learn to sew class - and had a blast. So much so that when she came home after class she wanted to get started on a new project straight away. She is already well on her way to completing this cute stuffed giraffe - even plaited its tail!
She's putting her Mums crafting efforts to shame LOL!

Sometimes less is more...

2011-10-03T13:43:00.003+11:00

Why is it that it seems the less you do, the less you do - which is not always a bad thing as you can see from our recent trip to Fiji. Sometimes less is more.

Hope you are enjoying your life too :)

One with white...

2011-01-31T23:40:00.006+11:00

Blue Genes - Can you tell we share the same jeans gene ?!?

Note to self - photos of layouts taken at night do not work.
Next note to self - start scrapping earlier and you won't have to take photos of layouts at night and then re-shoot the morning after LOL.

Decided last minute to try the January White With 1 challenge - although mine ended up more One with White, featuring navy blue and a banner, and a gorgeous photo of our family taken by Claire at See Be Art.

I love the Leeann Pearce designed beach huts - perfect for this layout at the photo was taken in front of our local beach huts, and I loved recycling my old jeans pocket.

On the home front, getting ready for back to school, had SLOW holidays this year, and loving it, can't believe they will be over so soon!! Glad I was able to spend some time sorting through my stash & sent a huge box of goodies to Chelle in Queensland to forward on to crafters who lost theirs in the recent floods.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Wow what a year so far...

2011-01-22T10:39:00.001+11:00

Spent the last couple of weeks crossing my fingers as both my Dad & brother are in Queensland - luckily the waters stopped at my brothers back steps, and only his shed & chook house saw any damage. Dad's property was safe too. Heart and thoughts go out to all those who did not fare so well. Collecting up some of my excess supplies to send to flood affected scrappers up north.

Honoured to have been chosen as this weeks featured member over at Colour Combo Challenge. Here's my layout inspired by this weeks colours and a challenge to create a scene with clouds - had fun playing with the paints and glimmermist & realised I'm definitely a BRIGHT scrapper LOL!

Happy New Year...

2011-01-01T18:49:00.001+11:00

Spent the last evening of 2010 at the family fireworks in town - first time we've ventured in with kiddies. Caught the train there and back - gotta love free public transport!! Really enjoyed it though DH wanted to know why it was Guy Sebastian singing and not somebody else... like Pearl Jam for instance LOL!

Hope you had a stunning New Year and are looking forward to an amazing 2011 too!!

They call me Bond...

2010-12-26T18:50:00.003+11:00

They call me... BOND

Loved the colours in last weeks inspiration from Colour Combo Challenge, just took a while to do the layout with preparation for Christmas ;) Inspired by all the circles, lines and textures.

The journalling reads... "This little guinea pig was only about a week old in this photo (taken on our WA farmstay), he crawled up DDs sleeve and no matter how much we tried to gently shake him out, he would not budge, so we nick-named him BOND - shaken, but not stirred. I love how DD bonds with all creatures great & small too :)"

Hope you & yours had a fantastic Christmas too - I know we did!!!

Have you been naughty or nice...

2010-12-23T17:44:00.000+11:00

Thought I'd try and do an Aussie Christmas photo with my two elves down by the beach, but the big elf decided to be naughty by refusing to wear her attractive head attire AND and trying and steal the little elfs hat LOL!

Chriastmas tree oh christmas tree...

2010-12-20T11:19:00.001+11:00

Finally got to putting up our Christmas tree on the weekend, which is fantastic news, because it means our lounge room is almost habitable again!!! Putting the finishing touches on the cabinet we purchased on eBay to convert it to our TV cabinet, and the new fireplace, just in time for Santa to make his way down the chimney!!!

Sold our old single antique bed in DS room to make way for another eBay purchase of a loft bed. Was going to sand this little gem off the slats of his old bed, but couldn't bring myself to do it. "I did it when I was really little, so I could remember how to get out of my bedroom" he explained...

Toddler rules...

2010-12-09T13:51:00.002+11:00

"Toddler rules..." don't they always LOL!

It's been a while since my subject was a toddler, but I LOVE the little tongue poke whilst clutching his precious collection of treasures found on the beach. Ever since I saw "The 7 Rules of the Toddler" on Emily Falconbridges blog I knew that's how I'd scrap this photo - just taken a while to do it!!! Inspired by this week at the Color Room to finally add the finishing touches :)
Just in case you can't read them, here are the rules:

If I like it, it’s mine
If it’s in my hands it’s mine
If I can take it from you, it’s mine.
If I had it before, it’s mine
If it’s mine it must never appear to be yours, in any way
If I’m doing or building something, all of the pieces are mine
If it looks like mine, it is MINE!

Share...

2010-12-08T16:36:00.000+11:00

"Share..."

"The greatest moments in life were made to share..."

Of course, life is not always this caring & sharing, but we can live in hope... LOL!

Inspired by the baubles to combine this weeks Colour Combo Challenge Colours into this months Stuck? Sketch. Lots of bling - gold ink, diamonte flower centres, pearls and sparkly alpha.

Cherish...

2010-11-29T12:56:00.000+11:00

I've always LOVEd Louise Nelson's work, so using the palette from this weeks Colour Combo challenge (inspired to use something from my garden) and based on Get Picky's Sketch 2 (which I just realised has already closed LOL!) I managed this... and I LOVE it - so quick to do too :)

I love "two bees"...

2010-11-25T14:04:00.002+11:00

I really love "two bees" in Lavendula

Wow - two posts in one day LOL!

Stumbled across the newly re-launched "white with 1 (WW1)" site and it was just the motivation I needed to complete a layout I had started for "Get Picky's" Sketch #1 last month. The yellow in this months WW1 really makes the lavender photos pop! Saw the technique to create textured clouds using cuttlebug swirls on someone's blog recently - just can't remember who - but thanks for the idea!!!

Memories like this... priceless

2010-11-25T09:46:00.002+11:00

Memories like this... priceless

Not quite sure what it is with my pages lately, start off heading in one direction and keep ending up in a whole different city - sometimes even a different country LOL! This is a boy page - not that you'd guess it with all these flowers going on!!!

Loved the colours at Color Combo Challenge this week. Couldn't wait to dust off my cuttlebug and used the damask folder on cor'dinations cardstock as the background - then promptly covered it with flowers! Bird and branches rub-ons from Jenni Bowlin are on damask paper too.

Given what happened last week, shared moments like these are more precious than ever :)

i am...

2010-11-18T16:31:00.001+11:00

i am...

... lovin' the colour palette at The Colour Room!!! Believe it or not this was based on this weeks sketch as well, I rotated it clockwise and shifted the journalling tag down - these things never quite turn out the way you planned lol! Loving the new Prima flowers & sprays too ;)
Journalling is an excerpt from a poem my DD wrote at school earlier this year.

You are the reason you make me smile...

2010-11-17T13:49:00.000+11:00

You are the reason you make me smile

Yay I finally got another Color Combo layout done - first one since they "relaunched" the site with Inspiration Boards instead of just colours. Had so much fun with the texture & layered details in this one, and lots of doilies and curves inspired by the rug.

Can you tell I treated myself to two new punches - first scraping purchase in months :)

Life is bliss... taste it!

2010-11-10T18:24:00.001+11:00

Life is bliss... taste it!

TCR#31


Take 2!!

Joined in the Top 50 Scrapbooking "Life as we know it" Challenges this week. Challenge 1 is based on a quote from Mother Teresa, which in part is "Life is bliss... taste it!". I had the perfect photo - one of my current favourites of my two kiddies sharing an ice-cream. Other criteria for the challenge were at least one flower, ribbon or lace and an embellishment cluster - got them covered!

Not wanting to waste an opportunity I combined this challenge with this weeks inspiration from The Colour Room... so yummy you could taste it LOL!

Had another play with my layout and enlarged the photo to balance with the embellishments better & added a pink frame to ground the layout.

Two by Sea...

2010-11-04T13:23:00.001+11:00

Two by Sea

Colour palette #30

Love the inspiration this week in the colour room, was hoping to do another but maybe later - busy painting & party preparations this week :)

Photos from our recent trip to WA - even in the midst of winter these two love nothing more than playing by the sea.

Don't fall off your perch...

2010-10-29T10:47:00.003+11:00

LOL!!! Yep I've finally blogged again!

So many times I've picked out my papers and photos ready to scrap lately, and that's as far as I've got - but the house renos are going well :) It's taken so long that we are back to re-do the rooms we started on - so we have a sparkly new study / sunroom, the lounge room is next then it's time for the dining / craft room to get its makeover - can't wait.

Here's what I came up with for this weeks palette in The Colour Room - just managed to squeeze in some blue along with tonnes of pink & green. I can't believe my #1 is almost as tall as me now - time flies (when you're renovating!!!)

Just realised in the time I've been away blogger has gone and removed the easy option for adding photos direct - so hopefully this works!!! YAY I just have to "compose" myself before I can "edit"!!

Don't know if you've gone back to Colour Combos site lately - I love some of the colour combos but can't seem to find suitable photos to match their "inspiration". Keep hoping I will be able to again soon :)

Oh and before I forget...
I had to laugh when DS was packing for camp, fitting a LOT of gear into a LITTLE bag, his comment..."It's like trying to stuff an elephant into a thimble!!!"

Do I like Cocaine...

2010-09-09T10:05:00.005+10:00

A little voice piped up from behind me as we were driving to swimming lessons. "Why is that lady asking if he likes cocaine???"

The first question that popped into my head was - how does he know about cocaine?!? He's not even into double digits yet!!!

The second was, this song is NOT about cocaine, so why does he think it is?!? I scanned my brain for the lyrics and realised the words are actually "And when she asks, Do I look OK?" but he would not be convinced that he wasn't singing "And when she asks, Do I like cocaine?"

Just like my friends kiddy was convinced that James Rayne sings "Don't eat your breakfast" instead of "Don't be so reckless" LOL

In case you are wondering I managed to delete my blog before I realised I could just password protect it if I wanted to drop off the radar. So I'm back for now anyways.

Inspired by this weeks offerings at "The Color Room" and some of the 600 odd photos I took while we visited WA with my brother and his family. Glad we decided not to go skiing in New Zealand instead - and glad all my in-laws in Christchurch are no longer shaking in their boots.