Living my dream

SCKC notification and update

Hi everyone!

How is your year going? The reason I ask is that well, the last time we talked about SCKC was at the beginning of the year.

Well, guess what....SCKC is coming up again and I'm getting in early. Before all the Xmas rush.

We need your pages for the TWO camps that now occur in NZ. One in Dunedin and another in Wellington.

It means we need more pages than ever before.

Can you help?

If so here's some information about the pages we need that might help.....

Book pages are still 6x6" in size.

Photos are going to be slightly smaller. They will be 3.5x5". So be aware of this when making the pages that there is room for the photos to fit in. These photos are so important and need to be the feature in each childs album.

Can you please adhere any decorations around the edges of the page, so if need be the photos can slip underneath them.

The camps are designed to be positive and affirming for the children and as such our pages also need to reflect this. All wording, pictures etc need to be positive and uplifting i.e no skull/crossbones, words such as 'silly' etc. But great sentiments like 'friends' or 'fun' are perfect. You guys are good at this. You know what to do!

Feel free to send them to me as you do them. Otherwise closer to the time, I'll be able to give you an address to send directly to.

You guys have absolutely made a huge difference for children in harms way here in NZ. THANK YOU so much. I hope you'd like to help again this year....

Trina

Playing around with some Websters

Websters are having a challenge this July to use their bloomers, so I decided to give it a go.

Poor wee Sarah is sick, and so I created this LO.

Winner and LO share

Thanks for leaving comments on my post over the weekend. We have a winner.....

Andrea, with this comment:

Beautiful and inspiring work as usual, I am defininately a horder of papers and embellishments (especially flowers) but if you haven't got it you can't use it!!!! I'm sure it will all come in handy one day!

Thanks for your lovely comment Andrea. Please flick me an email with your address and I'll get a little something off to you asap.

And just because, I created this LO. I'm still not sure it's finished. But I'm tired of it sitting on my desk doing nothing, time to put it away. So thought I'd share....

 You can see I've used a Prima vine and Papers. Black and white cardstock. A ton of different glimmermist colours to splatter on the page and of course a Cheery Lynn doilie die.

The photo has been tweaked so that most of it is in black and white. However I have left the sprinkles coloured. I think it adds interest and a bit of fun to it.

I also used some of the new Prima tiny alphas in white. Then coloured them with Tim Holtz distress ink to match in with the sprinkle theme.

Have a great day!

School holiday update

So we're in the second week of the school holidays, and I must say coping quite well. We haven't had toooooo many fights. We've been keeping busy, but also having down time at home. It's been a good mix.

On Thurs we had my sisters girls come and stay the night, then the following day. My kids had been wanting this to happen for aggggeeeeesssss but I just hadn't been up to it. It was good to finally feel a little more energetic, so we went for it. And we had a lovely day on Friday. We went to see Kung Fu Panda 2. And after seeing Cars 2 I was a little apprehensive, but it was GREAT!

However the funniest part of going to see it was when we couldn't get out of the car park after. For some reason, just as we were leaving the machines stopped working. So there we were stuck at the front of the line of people all waiting to get out. Luckily the police station is just across the way and they were there in minutes helping out. Also luckily for us, we had a couple of men with tools in their vans to help take the barriers down. As the council still weren't there after 25 mins!!! And they are literally a 3min walk away! Not impressed.

But it made for interesting conversations for the kids. And we had a good long game of 'I Spy'.

The weekend was normal weekend type stuff. Although we did go to another movie....African Cats. If your children are into animals. Then this is a great movie. I'm sure I've seen it before. Maybe as a TV series? Because I know I've seen these animals before, but in a much longer version. But it was still interesting.

Best thing for us is that I've been to the Masai Mara (where the film is shot), so before we went I got out my African album and we had a look at all the different animals I saw and places I went. It was fun to share this with them.

Monday came and went yesterday. Sarah had netball for the morning (and what a cold wet morning to have it!!!) and then Matt and Daniel tried out Taekwondo. I've gotta say seeing them do this was amazing. And I think will be very good for my strong willed children. They are keen to keep going during the term, so we might have a talk about that after they have their second day tomorrow.

In between all the 'stuff' they are doing, we're just hanging at home. It's been nice. Given them and me to have a chance to have some down time.

Me, I've been keeping quiet. I'm still coming to terms with learning how to deal with the tiredness and keeping it at bay. So far I'm doing well in listening to my body and taking down time when needed.

Hope the school hols are treating you well.

T

PS: I'll be back later with a LO share and the winner from my rak in the weekend.

Joint LO - final?

Ok, here it is. Title on. Everything stuck down.

What do you think? Is it a train wreck or passable? LOL.

I used lots of pieces from lots of comments about this one. Putting one big word as the main part of the title (Mandy), 'being Dan' (Nancy), Title running down side of photo (Teryl).

You can see every part really was someone's contribution, not only for the title, but throughout the whole LO.

Dunno about you guys, but I thought it was fun. Sure it's not what I would have done if I'd done it myself, but it worked.

THANKS for playing along everyone!

Whose gonna do the next one????? Huh????

Joint LO part 4

Here's an update on where 'our' LO is at....

I've added stitching around the circles (real, not faux!), I've added leaves and vine pieces to some of the clusters. Plus a couple of banners as per your suggestions.

I think we're almost done. Title time (if I could think of one).Ssssoooooooo.....

Perhaps you can help with a title and where it should go....????

To help with this, here's what the journaling says:

We’re camping.

You, your siblings and your cousins are happily playing in the park.

But you can’t help yourself. You like to have your photo taken.

You come over to make sure your photo IS taken.

And you be yourself.

Delightful. Cheeky. Fun loving.

Anything else????

Joint LO part 3

So I've been chipping away at the LO. And went for the clusters of flowers that I think Megan and Mrs Frizz mentioned.....

The journaling hasn't been stuck down yet. It's there to show you how much there is (although I do quite like it there).

It's starting to look more done, but not finished yet.

There's definitely more that needs to be added. Wink.

Let me know what.....

More Prima, and a giveaway

Yesterday Prima was showcasing masks and resistables on their blog. I had a couple of LO's using these items.....

I am totally in love with this mask. It comes in both the positive and negative....ie you can either have the bricks masked or the lines between the bricks. I have used it often already!

In this close up you can see a little bit of the mask down at the bottom, but also some of the antique mirrors, and another resistable.

This close up shows the new teeny tiny alphas that Prima have brought out. Gosh they are divine! They can make titles (like I have here) and/or journaling. Take a look at the blog for more samples to look at. The DT have once again rocked Prima!

Also shown was one of my favourite LO's for this CHA....

Take a look at that little birds nest. Isn't it the cutest? Ok, it was a little bulky, but I don't mind a bit of dimension on my pages! Grin.

Here's some close up's...

You can see some of the Prima resist canvas. I love how you spray  on some glimmermist (or similar) and it gives you a wonderful pattern.

Prima have brought out some stunning products again this CHA. I feel so priviledged to be able to work with them. I've heard products will be out in August, so keep an eye on your LSS.

Ok, and the giveaway I was talking about.....

Take a look at this article. Interesting huh?! I recon based on that I've got enough product to last me at least 10 years. Probably more. Seriously. So as per the article, I recon I can share some of it. So leave me a comment. And I'll draw a name at the end of the weekend.

PS: Am working on the next stage of our joint LO. Back later today with another photo....

Joint LO part two

You can see I've gone with Debbies 'move the photo off centre', Teryl's 'blue circles', Danice and a couple of others who suggested a 'mask' under the photo and Mandy's 'yellow' (I was really hoping someone would add some yellow!).

Ok, ok, so a couple more than one. But that's ok.

Now don't panic. This is only step 1. My LO's always look a bit dodge until nearly at the end. Do yours?

Anyway.... time for another idea (or two). Fire em at me.

Let the fun (craziness?) begin..

Okaydokay!!!

Let's give this joint LO a go.....

Here is the start of one. Nothing is stuck down. It can be moved, or left where it is, and things added. I have journaling to go with this LO.

Up to you now. What next?

Leave a comment with your idea on what to do. I'll choose one. Do it. Then take another photo upload here and so on and so on until it's finished.

Go....

Layout help / fun?????

Ok, so you guys heard me say I was a little mojo challenged in my scrapbooking yesterday right? So I wondered if we could do something about it, and have some fun along the way.....

What if I started my LO and then I could take a photo and show it to you here and you then you could tell me what to do in the comments.

I'd then choose one of the options, do it, take another photo and you guys then tell me the next step, etc etc until we think it's done.

I really don't know if it will work, and/or will end up looking terrible! Grin. But it could be fun finding out.

What do you think? Too hard? Too much work? Or just something fun to while away a few days?

Anyone else having the same problem?

Since the school holidays started, I've been vacumming twice or more a day! Oh . my . goodness! I mean I knew they were messy little things, but this bad???? I think I need to focus on table manners again! Grin.

So, what a beautiful day today was! We went to see Andy at work, and had lunch at a wonderful Japanese place. Andy, Dan and I would go there I dunno maybe once a term? And he felt so proud to say things like....Dad do you want your usual? OR We come here all the time. I think it was one thing he felt was his and he could share it with his big bro and sis. Loved that he felt that way.

Thankfully M&S loved it too. We're thinking we might have to take them to Daikoku one night. To have them see the incredible 'floor show' that goes with the food would be really cool.

Can you tell I'm procrastinating. I would like to do some scrapbooking, but after months of working hard on the Prima Book, SENZ and then CHA, I'm feeling a little scrapped out. Never thought I'd say that! Anyone wanna send their mojo my way????

Ok, will go read a little instead me thinks. Grin.

Have a good one.

Oh, oh, oh! and CHA starts shortly. First day coming up. CAN'T WAIT to see all the booths, and goodness. Share links with me if you find some good ones!!!

Cheery Lynn

If you follow my blog, you know how much I adore the Cheery Lynn dies. Yes, the doilie ones! But did you know they have a ton of others? I've recently spotted a couple that I "MUST HAVE".....

CLD Garden Gate

CLD Victorian Picket Fence

CLD Grass border.

I can't wait to get my hands on these ones!!!! If you also like the look of them, have a chat to your LSS and make sure they get them in!

Just recently I was featured on their "Customer Celebrities" section of their website. I felt very priviledged to be included. You can check it out here....

As you can see they have some amazing dies, and right now are having a DT call too. If you love them as much as I do, why not give it a go?

Good luck....

Day one down

The school holidays are here in NZ. Two weeks for us to shake up the schedule. Try some fun new things, egg each other on, relax. My children are still at that stage where two weeks can be a loooooonnnngggg time. But they and I also enjoy the change it gives us.

In fact I've gotta admit I was a little worried last week about how my tired body would cope. So I rang a travel agent to see if we could take a wee trip to Fiji. But at such short notice it was going to cost an arm and a leg, so I decided to give that a miss. Grin. Instead we went off to the Henderson wave pool this morning. If you're in Auckland and haven't been. Then go. It was FUN! The kids loved not only the pools (and there were several), but also the waves, and the hydroslide.

And I think it was cheap too. It cost me $6.70, the kids $4.something and $2 each for the hydroslide. I think all up it was $23 something for as long as we wanted! It's also good for either kind of weather. Gotta be good!

So apart from the fighting this afternoon, it was a good start to the holidays.

Bring on tomorrow and a day at home.

What a lovely way to spend the day

What a lucky cat!

Lucky, lucky, lucky....