In This life.......

Inkurable stampers May challenge.....

is ribbons and lace!!

You can visit Inkurable Stampers Blog by clicking Right here!

I have made a card for a blogging buddy for her birthday for this challenge. (its going to be a little late ;0)

I have used a mixture of chipboard coloured with black stazon ink.
Heidi Grace clears stamp from the "Sweetest Bug Icons" set that have been coloured using tombow markers and blended with a water brush.
The blue lace i found at the lifeline shop in it original wrapping that had a price in pounds on it!! So i guess its old!! Love the colour. Some assorted ribbons held together with staples a bit of kaiser bling and a hand doodled border to finish.

A :0)

why I haven't been around................

In point form!!!
Our annual Trivia night fundraiser at school. The theme "Medievil"...

AMAZING amount of work to transform the school for the night...



i enjoyed working on some chalk art for the drinks menu, something i would love to be able to afford one day - to take part in a course to learn how to do it properly.



Also on my list was to make 200 of the little cakes you can see here, to make the desserts for the night. We cater to 180 seated guests - 30 tables of 6 people, this year we were a little short with 27 tables sold.
Needless to say many hours put into this night - awesome result - over $6500 raised, down a little on last year but still fantastic - a very DEDICATED group of people to work with ;0)

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Creatively i had layouts due on the Fiskars blog....



for BOM prompts (book of me)
This was the lyrics to the song we danced to for our wedding waltz.



And this one about my favourite tunes right now, loved the big coloured music notes, oil pastels give such vibrant colours...





and this one about our childhood holiday haunts, which just happens to be where i also met my hubby when i was 15 years old-mum and dad still have their caravan down there.

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Our budding baker/pastry chef has finished his 3 months probation and been signed up for his apprenticeship "officially". He is enjoying it and even wakes up BEFORE his 3.20am alarm call. (thank god, finally!!)

When the bakers hat goes on at home you know he means business!!!..



shepherds pie for dinner, made from scratch AND potato on top beautifully piped!



devoured in 5 minutes flat.

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Our baby turned 9



and this is the contraption she begged to have for her birthday. A scooter wing!! Each side goes in and out like wings flapping as she flies up the street. If i felt a little more flexible i might just hop on myself, my legs would just gorgeous ;0)



birthday cake, 1 of the 3 made!! school, party, home!! Over chocolate cake at the moment, wonder why, lol!!

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I took part in a "Local Literacy Legends" workshop day at school last week, celebrating "2009 the year of Creativity". You can read all about it here.

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Last weeks class at Paper Possibilities looked like this....





 

Great morning was had by all.

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So yep, like everyone I have been busy and blogging had to take a back seat.



Have a fantastic weekend.
A ;0)

A very, very delayed Anzac Post.........

Edited to say:  Life has been extremely frantic of late - blogging in every sense of the word has taken a back seat and hence the very big delay in this post!! I hesitated to share it but i will as they are photos from a very important day, no disrespect intended for the lateness..........hope you enjoy and i look forward to catching up with some blogging in the near future. hopping as well as sharing ;0) Ax

I had some photos published in the Cairns Post this week, in the Post Ed section, which is anything relevant with the education department. My friend Merryl asked if i would take photos of the Anzac Day Ceremony, which i was happy to do, so i thought i would share some with you. I was hesitant before as there were other kids in them, but they have been in the paper so  i guess its ok.

 

Merryls father in law is a collector of old stuff and was generous enough to let his son Doug (Merryls husband) bring this old army jeep out for the ceremony. These are our School Captians in it.

 

Anzac Bickies are a given on this day.

 

 

some of my favourites from the day....

 

Lest we forget...

Mothers day mini key ring album.

Waiting for the oldest 2 to come home, would really like to be snuggled up in bed with a magazine!! I have a table and a desk full of various projects at various stages but i am too tired to create. So thought i would share some photos on here instead while i sip my tea:0) and count the minutes.

A mothers day present to myself, lol!! I have been hanging on to this itty bitty tin for a couple of years so made it into a little mini key ring album thingy, looks like this...

 

 

 

 

 

Im loving these little photos at the moment just for a change. Office works prints them - great when you want to use lots on a layout, or in this case a perfect size to go in my tin!!

1 hour to go till the boys get home, now i am going to jump under the covers and snuggle up and have a read.

Happy weekend to you all, in particular all the mums for mothers day on Sunday.

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Annette

Vivian Bonder "Dig Deep" challenge # 1 *HONESTY*

I have been thinking about doing a Vivian Bonder  Online journal workshop for a while now, and while i haven't quite made it there yet, i thought i would have a go at a Dig Deep Challenge that Vivian has running over on her blog at the moment. 

As you have probably gathered the challenge is your take on "Honesty".......

  

this is what i started with, eventually they will all go back between the covers that i pulled them out of!! 

 

 

 

 

As i have mentioned before i have some old encyclopedia Britanicca's that i want to play around with for a few different projects. This being one of them.

I have pulled apart the inners, taken off the covers (which is what i want to play with next). I sewed about 10 or so pages together and used this as my base. I have then built up layers of paint, ink and masking tape. i hand drew "honesty" and coloured in with water colour pencils and oil pastels.

Some stray rubons and letter stickers and some gorgeous old lace that i found at the op shop were added as well as some black kindy glitz and staples to anchor. I must say i am fairly pleased with the outcome.

I'm looking forward to the next challenge and have enjoyed doing something for ME, it certainly gets the creative juices flowing and the old mind ticking over :0)

Hope you're having a happy day

annette :0)

JAMIKS THIS SATURDAY WE ARE MAKING THIS ...........

Finally i have finished and look forward to sharing a class with you this Saturday down at Jamiks Studio in Tully.

A set of 3 mini canvases that you can have as a freestanding frame on your table or with a bit of ribbon added you can make it into a piece of art to hang on your wall - the choice is yours.:0) You could even use them as front covers to a set of 3 mini albums!!

Included is a simple little concertina album under a flap that has 4 little photos measuring approx 3.5cms x 5cms as well as one on the middle canvas. I got these printed at Office Works in Cairns - DON'T PANIC if you haven't got photos of this size, you can simply add them later if you do want to get them printed or you can crop some down to a similar size.

We will be doing a wee bit of stamping, cutting, doodling the odd border, making our own flower embelishments and adding dimension with uppey tape. As we are using double sided papers, you may wish to mix them up to suit yourself, plenty of room for creative individuality if you wish in this class. (is that a word, lol!!?)I have updated the what to bring to class page, You can check it out here. 

You can ring Karyn to make bookings on 40680808.

Look forward to seeing you :0)

Annette 

National Scrapbooking Day

For those of you who are scrapbookers....

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY TO YOU!!

Do you remember when you did your first layout?

Well over on the Fiskars ANZ Blog we are sharing layouts and stories about how scrapping started for us. Be sure to pop on over and have a look and read what the other ambassadors have blogged about and to check out some of their first layouts.

My passion with paper started with cardmaking before scrapbooking and so i have shared my first ever card i made, lol!!

My god its ugly!!! I thought it was just beautiful, okay no laughing here it is..... 

And my first ever scrapbooking layout, a little 6x6 layout, not quite as bad as the card!!

 

I will just say that i am relatively happy with where i am with my cardmaking and scrapbooking now!!

Have a great weekend all.

Annette :0)