Bits and Pieces

Well, the dogs turned 2 on the 22nd March so we had a big birthday bash for them :) I havent bothered editting the photos yet.. i'll fix up the evil yellow eyes and low light when I go to scrap them LOL

I cooked them a tasty meal of premium mince from the supermarket mixed with vegetables and a side serving of mashed potatoes. The meat was tasty, I could have eaten it for my dinner! It was all human food anyway.



Onlsow was a bit scared of the sparkler and tried to make a run for it :) Belle just sat there waiting for us to tell her to eat.. they are trained not to eat until they are told :) And when I aid EAT they both scoffed it down in no time!!!



hehehe

Then on Saturday we had to take them to vet to get their needles and a general check up. Last year Onslow was around 45kg and belle maybe 41 or 40 or something. This time we put Belle on the scales and she weighed in at 45.2kg which sounded about right as they were still growing this time last year. Onlsow on the other hand nearly broke the scales at 57kg!!!!! LOL Ok so he is bigger than Belle, and has always been very "barrel-like" in shape.. so I thought he might be pushing the 50 mark.. but 57kg?! We did it 3 times just to make sure :)

Anyway so Onslow, whilst weighing so much was not obese, or even fat.. the vet called him "a bit chubby". But because of his hip problems that he already has, and the fact that this breed needs to be kept thin anyway, he has to go on a diet :) Which means he's earnt a new nickname of "Chub". He only needs to loose 5kg so its not much. I just find it hilarious that he even weighed so much :) No wonder I couldnt move my legs when he layed over them the other night! hahaha

So not much else happened this weekend.. house work, grocery shopping, vet, voting.. oh a trip to Leichardt to see a German movie...and we had the most delicious white chocolate hot chocolate mmmmmm sooooo tasty!

So, how's things?

Its been ages since I blogged! I have been scrapping heaps so I will put my pretty layouts throughout the post.. im sure its going to end up fairly long! LOL Click on my gallery link to see all the credits :)


Anyway nothing overly exciting has been happening in recent weeks. Although I did decide I wanted a tattoo.. well, i decided that a long time ago but now i've actually drawn up a few designs and taken them into the place to see how "do-able" it was. I have saved up all my cheques from the magazines and need to spend them on something! LOL Speaking of which, keep an eye out in Scrapbooking memories.. namely vol 8 number 11 and volume 8 number 12...I have more than just layouts in those 2 ;)

I was told by work that my car is ready to be changed over, which means I willl have a nice, shiny new car in the coming months!! I'm waiting to hear if I am allowed to get a rav4 :)

I cant wait for Easter. We are going to Mudgee with some friends for 3 days. Going to take our bikes and do some riding, and of course going on a wine tour and stocking up our wine supplies ;) Actually, im just looking fwd to the break from work more than anything :)

Travis and I are learning French. We just enrolled in a Community College course at the last minute, and its weird cos its held at my old high school! LOL Its strange being back there! Anyway Im finding it pretty easy as its so similar to Italian. I kind of sit there bored as the teacher needs to explain things like verb conjugations, masculine and feminine articles etc etc... im sitting there thinking, just hurry up and get to some vocab!! LOL But im enjoying it and we will enrol in the next level as well... gotta try and learn as much as we can before we go in October :) Travis is doing really well with his German lessons.. he's going 2 nights a week at the goethe institute which seems soooo much better than the community college ones he was doing last year.

Travis's mum gave me a very old photo of her sister at school.. the pic was pretty bad with rips, creases and old yellow sticky tape stains, and I managed to restore it :) I had never done anything like that before and was pretty pleased with my effort! I dont have it here but I will post b4 and after pics tonight (or whenever! LOL)

The dogs are doing well. Belle went through a stage of not eating her biscuits.. which was annoying as dry biscuits make up the majority of their meals! LOL So we now get them those dog food roll thingos.. chicken and pasta style stuff. so Belle gets mainly that and just a few bikkies and she is back to hoovering the food down :) The only downside of that is her teeth are getting dirty as she has never been interested in
bones either! I took her to the local vet (their REAL vet is Dr. Rob Zammit from burkes backyard fame... but he is a 40 minute drive away!) and she said there was nothing wrong with her teeth, and told me i needed to pay $400 to get them cleaned as soon as possible. Well... I dont think so! I got a toothbrush and some toothpaste (doggy toothpaste!) from mum and its working a treat! We are doing Onslow as well. He's much better at tolerating it, except because he is so greedy he tries to actually suck the toothbrush off my finger and eat it - the toothpaste is beef flavour so he thinks my finger is food.

Its their 2nd birthday tomorrow :) We have the party hats and sparklers ready and I have to go and buy some special birthday food for them (last year was sausages, mashed potato and gravy) and a cake for travis and i to eat LOL. We arent normal. But they look so cute in their party hats!

Here are some dodgy pics from last years birthday celebrations!

I have never laughed so hard!!

Last night we went and saw Little Britain live. it was HILARIOUS. I absolutely LOVE the TV show, and in the lead up to the live show, I was trying not to expect too much.. just in case it didnt live up to my expectations.
I spent the entire hour and a half laughing so hard. I had tears running down my face and cramps in my stomach! Very very funny stuff :)

Anyway we went out to Spanish for dinner before the show. People who know me, know that im not a big sea food fan. Normal fish fillets I can handle, as well as calamari rings and the odd prawn if peeled and cooked in garlic LOL
well, i decided to be adventurous and we got a chicken and seafood paella to share. It had big shells and little shells.... {which i discovered were Mussels and pipis}, and prawns, calamari rings and bits of fish. I was a bit scared of the shelled stuff.. fortunately the pipis are so small that I just hid them in the rice and ate them without knowing LOL The mussles took a lot of effort for me to try one, but when I did I couldnt stop! I really liked them.

Anyway we decided we are going to Germany to experience Oktoberfest this year! I cant wait!!! Travis has been doing his German lessons in preparation and we may head over to France, possibly Switzerland, maybe stop by Belgium as well... we will play it by ear :) Very exciting though!!!

So since we decided that, I have been busy scrapping our Italy photos!!! I took about 800 of them.. And I have done.. a total of 5 layouts! LOL

Well here are my most recent ones:

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So there's not many layouts done, but I think its all coming along nicely :)

hmm... what else? oh I have had a few more layouts picked up for publication. Which is good :) I didnt sub for ages cos i am too lazy to do it regularly LOL Then the ones I sent off a few months back started appearing in the mags and that was enough to get me to sub again :) So I picked a handful of my faves and SM have picked up a couple so thats good news! One of course had to be of Travis acting like a goose! But if he cant be normal in photos he just has to deal with the mags publishing him making stupid faces ;)

Okey dokey im heading off now :) Better get some work done!

Catch ya later alligator!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to my neice, Madeline!!!!! She turns 9 today :) I forgot that school went back so its too late to ring now :) Typical.
Anyway just want to wish Mads a very happy birthday...I hope the giant knot came out of your hair easy last week!!! hahhahaa

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Monday Randomness

Well, it was the Australia Day long weekend and we had such a busy but fun weekend :)
First, on Friday (Australia Day) we went out with some friends for a BBQ and an afternoon of lawn bowls up at their local bowling club. It was so much fun! We had an entire green to ourselves where we just ran amok drinking and soaking up some sun (with sunscreen on, of course!)

Then on Saturday we headed out to Mosman where we had arranged to go on a boat dive. So we jumped on the boat around 10:00am, took us 10 minutes to go out to the North Head. Got geared up, jumped in the perfectly calm waters and went for about 50 minutes. Towards the end of the dive we noticed a bit of surge and it was a bit rough as we stopped at 5m for 3minutes to do our safety stop. When we surfaced OMG the water was so choppy with huuuge swells! LOL we jumped back into the boat, and it seriously took us 40 minutes to get back. we had to go sooo slow cos we were in a tiny speed boat with 6 full sets of scuba gear and one very choppy ocean :) It was so much fun!!! I loved it!

Anyway then on Sunday we did some housework, I did my aerobics, Travis went for a cycle, then we headed to Travis's sisters house for a late lunch and then came home :) So it was a jam-packed weekend, but at the same time it was relaxing and fun :)

A few changes to my CT blinkies on the left happened late last week. I said godbye to Faith and Michelle and hello to Kellie Martin and Summer Simmons :) I applied for Summers team last time and didnt make it.. so it was a case of 2nd time lucky!!

Anyway here are some layouts.. one using Kellies new Sea Breeze mini kit, and one using Summers Southern Drawl paper pack :)


Credits here



Credits here

Funny how taking half an hour extra with my layouts has changed how I scrap. Pre-EHD days I used to just use what was in the kit cos I was too lazy to go through all my DVD's to find stuff...just slap it al together and think yeah it's good enough. NOW with everything easily accessible, all my kit previews printed and sitting next to me, I can see what I have and I find it so much easier. And I dont stop until I am 100% happy... because I have too many printed layouts that I just HATE cos I didnt take that extra time to make it better :) So Im loving my layouts now :)

Anyway I moved office on Thursday (LOL last week must have been a week for changes!) because the girl who left before Christmas had a better office than me.. its bigger, quieter, out of the way and it has TWO WINDOWS! my old office was smack bang in the middle of main walkway, had the printer at the door and the kitchen opposite it, and no windows. So there was always noise and people walking past. I love this new one :) I can check my forums and not be disturbed! hahhaha

oooh we have a dairy Farm right near us at home, and on Thursday night I was driving past to pick Travis up from the station and I noticed about 10 cars stopped by the side of the road, and all these people milling around.. so I slowed down to have a stickey beak and there was a cow about to give birth! As I was driving back with Travis, I slowed down again, just in time to see the little calf pop out and drop to the ground :) I have never ever seen that happen in the 2 years we have been there.. certainly never seen everyone mill around the fence.

Anyway then on saturday we were coming back from diving, and there were people there AGAIN and another cow has just had a baby!! We didnt see this one come out though, by the time we got there the baby was curled up on the hay and the mother was cleaning it :)

So they must have moved all the pregnant cows because there were a few more in that paddock that looked very very fat!!

Busted Custard!!

We have an old doona covering the lounge cos the dogs like sitting up there watching TV with us. Anyway its old, and we dont care about it. They worked out early on that they can open the buttons and pull a nice, white fluffy blanket out from inside. Well, theres about 3/4 of it left LOL The rest has been eaten.

Anyway they usually do this when I leave them for 10 minutes to get travis from the station. by the time they hear us getting home they abandon the scene.

Today it was really hot.
I went outside to pick up their poos and to put the bins outside cos it was bin night.
I came back inside and went to the lounge.. and snuck up on this:


hehhee I dont care about the doona inside either.. I won it at bingo about 8 years ago! LOL Once its completely gone its gone, they can just have the cover.

Oh well, at least they provide me with an endless suplly of cute pics to scrap!! LOL Just like these ones of Onslow:


Click right here to see the proper list of credits. I used a template by Deb Fisher. You may wanna click on her name (linked above) to pop by her blog and scroll down a bit :P

Anyway not much else has been happening... went scuba diving yesterday. Both today and yesterday have been hovering around the 40 degree C mark.. soooo hot!!! well, we dont really feel it cos of the air conditioning inside ;) But I remember when we first moved in, there was no a/c and the small split system stopped working after one week. oooh that was so bad! I was spraying myself with water bottles all day and having cold showers every hour. yuck!

Oh well... I think thats about it... going to sit on the lounge and watch the rest of the cricket with a glass of wine and some crackers! LOL

Henna Head

I first heard about using Henna to colour hair about 4 years ago and was doing it every 6 or 8 weeks for about 2 years running. My hair had nice shiny red highlights and was so soft and silky :)

I got lazy because it is an all-day production and pretty messy so I stopped.
Until yesterday when I just sick of my fuzzy hair!

Anyway its pretty fun and really good for your hair. Dont try it on light hair or grey hair though... unless you want it to turn bright orange!! It works best on dark hair. Oh and you cant use it on hair which has been coloured cos it apparently has some pretty weird reactions!

The thing I love is that you can add so much stuff to it to get different colours.
Yesterday I used red Henna powder, added a very VERY generous amount of Paprika (makes it go redder), I infused a teabag with the water before adding it (I think thats for a golden highlight?) and a dash of olive oil for a conditioning treatment. I slapped it on my freshly shampooed (but NOT conditioned) hair. Wrapped my head in plastic and washed it out 6 hours later. This stuff can be left on for 24 hours if you want.
This is the result:


this one went a bit orange!
I got the best dark red colour when I added red wine to the mix, but I cant stand the thought of "wasting" a good glass of red!! LOL

Anyway what else have I been up to?

We had a quiet new year as we just landed in the country on the 30th. Stayed home and wated the crackers on TV LOL
Then it was my birthday on the 2nd, which was spent at the 5th ashes test in Sydney. For someone who isnt all that interested in cricket, the day went by sooo fast! I actually enjoyed it :) Except I could hear the ball get hit, but never saw WHERE it went, so I would look to the left, and someone was catching it over to the right LOL I think I missed all 4 wickets on the day!

Got some great bday presents. Travis got me 2 External hard Drives, so I have spent the past 2 days copying all my backed up kits on DVD to the EHD, extracting, sorting, renaming, organising previews.. but its going to make looking for things so much easier!

I was at the shops at 7:00 doing my grocery shopping today, went to the butcher and remembered to take the bag with me this time! LOL Last time I had the trolley at the butcher, I paid for all my meat (4 weeks worth of lamb, pork, veal and sausages!) andtook off. Got home, unpacked the groceries, realised there was no meat so I had to ring up the butcher to see if it was still there!! hahaha They had put it in the fridge for me :)

Anyway I cleaned up the house, packed away the Christmas decorations and rearraged all the stuff on the cupboards, cleaned the house and now im going to scrap :)

Here are a few recent layouts I have done since coming back...
Credits for each can be found HERE



And this is my first layout for the Amazing Digiscrapping Race



OMG I am in the computer room, the dogs are asleep in the dining area, about 6m away from me. In amongst the snoring, I hear a loud fart and chuckle to myself cos that always makes me laugh... Before I had these two, I had never heard dogs make farting noises.
Anyway about a minute later it has wafted into the computer room and is seriously making me gag. UGH its PUTRID... gotta go get the air freshener... bye bye!!!

We're Back!

Its so nice to be home!! no matter how long or short I spend away from home, its always so nice to get back :) We were in Rome for 2 weeks, and it was great! I met some uncles and aunties for the first time, enjoyed the cold winter Christmas atmosphere and ate so much food and drank too much espresso coffee! LOL But we saw all the sites we set out to see, plus a whole lot more :)

We took about 800 photos in 2 weeks. Lots of self portraits so I dont have to photoshop us to look like we were sitting together this time!


First three days we spent by ourselves. Stayed in a nice hostel and with the help of our Roma map we set out and explored the city each day.


Saw the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Vatican, Sisteen Chappel, Roman Forum / Pallatine Hill, Spanish steps and all that in those first 3 days.


I have so many photos of paintings from the museum leading into the Sisteen chappel.. its just ridiculous! I got so excited in there and just went beserk. They were all so beautiful though :)


We would leave the hostel after breakfast around 8:00 and generally not get back there until well after 12:00am. So we had the most solid sleeps!! My poor feet were so so so sore though, and my lower back also started having issues... but walking the streets was so much fun. Especially at night as the city was decorated so beautifully with christmas lights.


We hung out at the Spanish Steps all night on the weekend before Christmas as they had all music and Spanish dancers and the street was closed to traffic.


Speaking of traffic, we had fun crossing the streets :) The first day we were there, we arrived at a pedestrian crossing (I use the term losely!) and watched what the "locals" do... well, they just wait until there was a gap in the traffic and then go for it. Even when you are on the crossing you have to be careful as cars just do not stop... scooters and motorbikes just go hooning around you, and cars as well. So funny!

But even still I just loved the streets.. the side streets with little traffic, cobblestone streets, beautiful buildings and deliciously smelling shops!


Anyway we soon met up with my Aunty, uncle and cousin. My cousin was out here a few monthsback, but my aunty and uncle I had never met before. We stayed with them for about 10 days and spent Christmas day with them.

We went on an expedition to Pompei.. that was an adventure and a half! A 2 hour train trip to Naples, which we bought at the travel agent the day before. The agent booked us for the 23rd and we asked (and went on) the 22nd... Only realised when a lady had the exact same seats as us! LOL But the train had already left the station so she was allocated naother seat and we still got to go, Phew! We also missed our train from Naples to pompei and had to wait another hour. But then once in Pompei, we spent ages walking around. I never realised it was so big! I was under the impression it was just one street! But its huuuge. all kinds of things to see in there.


I was amazed at the frescos which were still so vivid and clear after almost 2,000 years. The body casts had me feeling a bit weird though.


We spent so long looking around that we almost got locked in. Literally. We were smack bang in the middle of the whole village, and we came across a guard. "What are you doing here, we are closed". uh-oh! We said we were getting out at a certain entrance cos we had to catch a train back, so he said ok, but run because the gates are about to be locked. So we sprinted!! My cousin was all scared of spending a night with "Roman ghosts" and was in a bit of a panick. Travis and I found it hilarious, especially when we got to dead end, had to climb a fence and then had a 1.5 meter drop off a wall. LOL We made it out in time though.

Stupid comment of the day went to me, when I asked Travis why dont they DNA test them to identify them. (I saw a bone of a toe poking out). Travis told me it was a stupid question and I still needed explaining. Eventually he said "And what will they compare the DNA TO.. I doubt they had records 2,000 years ago" hahaha Point taken!

We went to a football match, Lazio and Inter. It was fun but soooooo cold and the seats were filthy!


We also went on a day trip to Tivoli. Went into this old, huge mansion which had a billion awesome fountains in the surrounding gardens.. I wont ever need to see another fountain again!


Travis as usual had to be a pest and ruin my shots...


I ate way too much food over there. We went to a restaurant on Christmas day which had a set menu... it was our breakfast, lunch AND dinner for the day! we had cold meat platter each, followed by cheeses. next was some minestrone soup and bread. Then out came a bowl of ravioli. Then canelloni. Then fettucine. By this time I was getting full, and thought 3 bowls of pasta would be the end of the meal. NOPE! out came a huge plate consisting of one giant T-bone steak, a piece of veal and one lamb shank. Then we had Tiramisu. Then Panettone, coffee and grappa for those who wanted it. Talk about stuffed! The lunch spanned a few hours and there was a nice gap in between plates so I did actually manage to eat it all.

Whenever we were out we grabbed a gelato, much to my cousins astonishment. "Its WINTER! you must have bionic stomaches, its too cold for ice cream". LOL


So yeah we had lots of adventures, I have a whole diary filled with funny stories and a 2 gig memory card which was almost filled up :) Keep an eye out for some of the stupid photos and funny adventures to be scrapped soon!!

Thanks for reading, or just looking at the pics :)

Im still alive!

LOL What a busy busy couple of months this has been!!!!

Novemeber was a blur cos I was madly trying to get 6 calendars done.. each calendar had to have one page scrapped for each month.. making it a total of 72 pages. In typical ME fashion I left them all till the last minute... BUT i got them done, got them bound at office works and every one seemed impressed :) The office works ladies were asking where I got my stuff from... couldnt be bothered explaining so I said oh you get them on the internet. She goes "Where, what shop"? LOL I said oh everywhere.. just look for digital scrapbooking stuff. i had to wait nearly 45 minutes in my lunch break and I hadnt had lunch.. didnt wish to get into that right then and there! LOL

We had our Christmas family do on Sunday as Trav and I are going on holidays tomorrow woo hoo!! Got some lovely pressies off my family and I cooked up a treat of lasagne (with home made noodles of course!) and potato bake.. Travis did stuffed capsicums and everyone was stuffed full by the end LOL

I have been on a creative streak this past weekend! wanna see?




Now im way too lazy to type out credits, so if ya wanna know who designed what, go to My Gallery @ DST to check it out.
hehehe i love the snow one :) I really enjoy those graphic, minimalist kind of layouts but I never actually DO them cos when I gt a kit I get so excited and have to try and squish everything on the page. So im trying to cut back and have uncluttered pages. Lets see how long this little fad will last!!!

Owie my head hurts. Last night, Onslow and belle were fighting over my lap as I was sitting on the floor in the lounge room. Anyway, as usual Onslow won just cos he's bigger and fatter and barges poor skinny Belle out of the way. but he wasnt content with owning my lap, he put his hands on my shoulders and pushes me to the floor so he can lay on my chest.. which is all well and good, but I had the TV cabinet behind me, and as I was pushed, I whacked my temple on the CORNER of the cupboard!!! Right in that soft, tender spot on the side of my head. Must be bruised cos if I try and yawn, my mouth cant open all the way cos my temple bit stretches and gets quite sore LOL

Oh we went to the Berner Buddies Picnic day in november!!! Took the dogs to Centennial Park and they got to run around with about 30 other berners.. gate crash everyones picnics and tried to steal their sandwiches haha. But seeing as everyone has Berners who all seem to be the same, no one cared. We had a few ring-ins come and sit in our laps and try and steal our food too LOL We will definitely try and go to more of these.

Anyway Im off work now until the 2nd week of January! woo hoo for that! Im so excited for our trip :) I get sad and miss the dogs though.. Poor things being left behind. Although they have both my parents and travis's parents come and play with them and stay with them overnight... I still feel sorry for them!
When we came back from NZ all their obedience was out the window!! We left mum and dad with very well behaved dogs who listened.. and came back to out of control beasts who refused to even sit!! LOL Took them about a day to know the pushovers were gone!!

Oh well I will be back in January!!! Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas.. I hope we get some snow (I doubt it.. its not a very cold winter in Rome this year by what the weather channel tells us! LOL) and take care!!! Dont get too full on Christmas day! LOL

byeeeeeeee :D

Just call me Bond

hhahahhaha
On Friday night I was home playing with my Wacom enjoying the peace cos Travis was staying back after work having a few drinks.
He rang at 10:00pm saying he was on the train which gets in at 11:00pm. No worries.

I basically had my PJs on and went out the door barefoot... lights left on, dogs inside with free reign over the whole house... you know.. typical things when you only go out for 5 minutes.

So, Im waiting at the station.
Train pulls in.
People get off.
Travis ISNT one of them!
I ring his mobile... no answer.

Great! I was so cranky! He had fallen asleep and his phone was on silent!

As much as I wanted to go home and let him find his own way back, I couldnt because its just so quiet once you start getting further up! No trains coming back down, no taxis, no buses.....

After 3 stops up the mountain I found it amusing. I pictured myself as a James Bond type character chasing after a train... by the fourth stop the train was ahead of me... I was approaching the 5th stop and my mobile rang:

uh... Hi Lis..... um.... Im at Warrimoo station... I fell asleep..... Are you nearby?!

ROTFL

Do ya like?

ahh a fresh new banner :)

Today has been a pretty good day! I knocked over a few presents in my lunch break... 4 people for Christmas and my sisters birthday present coming up at the end of November.

Then I came back to work late, hot and starving, and when I got to my desk...

MY WACOM TABLET WAS THERE!

woo hoo :) So i forgot about my hunger, ripped all the packaging and bubbled wrap off it and then just stared and started drooling :D
Then I bundled it in the cupboard with all my shopping boxes and went about my afternoon.

THEN I got home and OMG I nearly died of shock... I *finally* receieved a commissioning letter for a layout which SM accepted waaaaaaay back in January this year!!!! LOL I had well and truely given up hope that would ever see the light of day, but now it will be in vol 8 issue 9 of SM! woo hoo :)

Anyway I got home, did my aerobics, and Travis rang to ask permission to stay back at work to have a few drinks. Of course! It gives me the night all by myself to play with my tablet LOL. He just rang and asked if he can stay another hour and get the 11:00 train home. As if he needs to ask?! Im happy :) Booted the dogs outside after a big session of pats and kisses and I have the house aaaallllll to myself :)

ahhhh perfect!

So busy!!!

wow I have actually had a life that DOESNT involve being on the computer!
Well, partly.

Last Tuesday we went to see PEARL JAM at the Acer Arena in Sydney. I was sooooooo excited. On tuesday night we had fairly ordinary seats.. all the way at the back up the top and the band was just a moving dot LOL BUT they played an awesome set of songs.. all my favourites one after the other. I dont go to concerts thinking oooh they HAVE to play such and such or I will be disappointed, but there was one I was dying to hear live that they didnt play in 2003 when we saw them. and I was so happy that they played it, on BOTH nights too!!

Anyway on Wednesday night, we were back there and we had FRONT ROW seats!!! I felt sooooo special when we got these special wrist bands :) It was all seated so they made sure that the people in the front row had the front row, and people in the 2nd row didnt jump over the chairs. There were a few people trying to, cos every 10 minutes a big security guard would charge behind us pushing them back into row 2 :P

Anyway I got some fantastic shots!!! I created this from my favourite snaps and its proudly displayed in the lounge room :)


Pretty cool!!!!

hmm what else??
Oh yeah we also went and saw U2 on Friday night :) I must admit I wasnt all that excited about this concert... I think becuase I like Pearl Jam better and was soooooo excited to them, and then even more excited with the front row-ness of the 2nd concert.. that it almost felt like U2 would be a let-down. Strange, I know ;) And of course it WASNT a let down! It was another awesome concert... fantastic lighting effects, a ginormous big screen and they played a great mix of songs.
Got pics of that too, but not on the computer yet :)

I got my overtime in my pay this week and I have more than enough for a wacom graphic tablet!! woo hoo. So i just ordered it and can NOT wait for it to arrive :) I went with the Graphire4, a 6x8 size :) I was going to spend the money when we go overseas, but the overtime was unexpected so I thought well, why not buy something unexpected to match?! I have wanted a tablet since I started scrapping almost one year ago so its high time I treated myself!!

I was originally going to save up my cheques from my published layouts, but as soon as i get them, I think well... its only $20 and go and buy $20 worth of scrap products! I think I have spent my next 3 cheques that I havent even received yet :P

Anyway I also got a couple of layouts done over the weekend :)
But blogger is being stubborn and wont let me upload.. which is a shame cos one of them is just hilarious!!! :P I scrapped myself acting like an idiot... again. hahahha

Oh well... will try again tomorrow!

byeeeeeeeee

Contest anyone???

Michelle Bradley has an awesome contest!!! All you need to do, is create a layout with her brand new (and oh so cute!) Christmas Cheer kit (also sold just by itself) and you can win all her kits for an ENTIRE YEAR!!!! .

AND There is ANOTHER contest she has going... a recipe one :) Use the Christmas Cheer kit to make a recipie card and the winner gets a gorgeous altered tin to house all the yummy recipes in, and all of Shelbys kits that she makes in 2007!!! AND everyone who enters gets a ZIP file with ALL the recipes anyway, so everyone wins!!!
Head over to the Shelby Design Shoppe Message Board for a more in depth description and to sign up.

HURRY!

In other news.. well there is no other news really... I have been roped into doing overtime for the entire week and I am exhausted. Getting in to work at 7:45am and not leaving until 7:00pm is rediculous. BUT paid overtime doesnt get offered much around here so I am making the most of it. If I work enough overtime I am going to treat myself with a wacom tablet! or maybe some new clothes... or some belly and nose jewellery.... or use it for spending mney in Rome.... so many options!! hahha

ok well ive got 20 more minutes here (ugh HURRY UP!) and then I get to go home.. Although I have energy now.. I found some left over Tiramisu from morning tea and gobbled down a huge slice! HA! so im functioning on that sugar / coffee hit ATM :)
Jamies Kitchen is on tonight! Its the only TV show on Free to air tele that I actually make time to watch. Apart from Berts Family Feud in the afternoons... he cracks me up!!

Ok goodnight everyone!!! :)