"every great journey starts with a simple step"

I'm back from a wonderful 3 days of retreating with the SnB girls - to say it was awesome would be an understatement - thanks Karen for another great retreat, can't wait for next years to roll around ..... :)

And to make it even better I actually scrapped - 8 LO's to be exact, unheard of for me and I now feel great and want to keep on creating, but as always there are more important things on the "to do" list!!!!!. But below are 2 of the LO's I finished, the first one is for a colour challenge over on the Savvy forum, just love how it turned out :)

and this one was also for a Savvy challenge, Kerryn's "me" challenge, used up some older Bo Bunny papers, Prima transparencies and Fancy Pants rubons, really love how the lime green and pink work together :)

I will share the others in due course, but for now I hope everyone has a great week.

"caring for other living creatures helps you care for yourself"

oh, that's bright white and a bit scary!!!!! but below is my entry into the November Scrap the Girls challenge (using white, orange, red and blue). Had fun with the glimmermist with this one, didn't turn out how I imagined in my mind, but oh, well, it's done!!!!!!! And if you haven't seen it Scrap the Girls are on the look out for new members for their Creative Team so check it out and send an entry in :) , more information can be found here http://scrap-the-girls.blogspot.com/ .

and I just love this next LO I finished off for a sketch challenge at Bons, used some Imaginisce and Cosmo papers, bookpaper, glimmermist and lots of other bits and pieces, really love how this one turned out :)
Hope everyone is coping in the heat, it's supposed to reach around the 40 mark here on Sunday, not looking forward to that at all, fingers crossed for an unexpected cool change :).

"fulfillment and joy come to those who make the most of what they've got"

Well, with only another 6 weeks to the Chrissy madhouse I've been busy sourcing, buying and hiding everyone's Chrissy gifts :). Still have heaps to do though, never seems to end!!!!!!! inbetween the usual sport stuff, after school stuff, paperwork, house stuff and more stuff!!!!!!. Tim and I celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, and yesterday saw us head out to the Hunter Valley wineries for a romantic lunch, Tim drove, I drank wine and some more wine and yep well - LOL was a great afternoon, but saw me in bed by about 7.00pm!!!!!! that'll teach me to drink in the middle of the day - LOL.

I've also been scrapping, inbetween everything else I've been doing, below is my interpretation of the SnB sketch challenge for this month - there is only this one challenge this month and get your entries in to win a huge $20 voucher - AWESOME!!!!!!!

Used up some of the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers, spotty Bazzil, Pink Paislee rubons, foam thickers, Kaiser pears all available in the SnB shop :).

The next LO was for the sketch challenge on the Scrapbook Savvy site - loved the clean cut lines to this sketch and used some of the gorgeous Fancy Pants papers, journalling notebook and stickers.
Thanks for popping by :) hope everyone has a great weekend.

"Spend and afternoon alone. Give yourself time to reflect"

and I have been scrapping :) and it's felt good too, but the house is paying for it - LOL!!!!! This first LO is one I completed at Peta's retreat and I have to say what a wonderful day it was, got to meet some gorgeous girls Sar, Marijana, Leesh, Deb, Ang, Barb, and of course to catch up with the "others" Kate, Michelle, Carol, Tash ......... lots of laughs had the best day.

so this one Summer = Brown is exactly how I remember life on the farm BROWN, DUSTY, lots of DIRT and flies!!!!!, glimmermisted nearly everything in sight and had loads of fun doing it :). Used the Jillibean soup Kraft paper, Maya Rd kraft journalling spot and chipboard tree and ricrac, Jenni Bowlin ticket, thickers and alpha stickers all available at SnB.

and this one was for the sketch challenge at the Scrapbooknbits cybercrop over last weekend, just love this photo of Drew inspecting his sand castles LOL, again some more glimmermist and some Fancy Pants papers and rubons and bits.

Hope everyone has a great Melbourne Cup day and hopefully someone will win something!!!!!!

Sale, sale, sale .......

Scrapbooknbits is turning 3 so come and celebrate and get some bargains on the way, 20% off store wide to help stretch your $$$$ further :).

"believe in yourself and your ability to succeed"

this Friday is another fun filled Cybercrop at Scrapbooknbits, pop in for some laughs, games, prizes and scrapping of course!!!!!!

"success will come to those who are the most persistent"

well eventually you would like to think that if you keep on trying then you will succeed, won't we!!!!!!!! I'm sure we do, it just takes longer than we hope :)

If you're looking for something fun this week visit the SnB forum and join in the fun and games that Karen has planned for this Friday night at 8.00pm - it's PICTURE NIGHT, I can only assume what it involves as it's still all a big secret, but come and find out it's bound to be a hoot.

and if you're up for a challenge and some awesome prizes then check out Bons up for offer is a 3 month subscription to one of the monthly kits, over $100 worth of prize up for grabs, can't be any easier or better than that :)

I've not been scrapping (story of my life at the moment) still recovering from a super busy school holiday, and now we're on the run down to Chrissy so onto the next level of busy!!!!!!!! Have a great week everyone.