Emma's party invitations are all finished and ready to be handed out! Now I just have to get my butt into gear and organized the actually party!!!!
Other news in our house- Emma lost her second tooth this afternoon- she was so excited. Oh I hope the tooth fairy doesn't forget to come- LOL!!
Hmmm, it is really hot and sticky here today- not in the mood to do much scrapping. Oh well, maybe later on when it is a little cooler!
BFN!
Janine xxx
Just a quick post- I have finished my LO for this week's Scrapapple challenge. This week we had to scrap a single page LO, using only one photo and concentrating of the photography. I love this photo of my girls at Sea World. We stood and watched the sharks (and other marine life) for ages. It was very relaxing!
I have also finished designing my tags for the Scrapboxx retreat- now I just have to make all 70 of them!!! Tonight I'm going to a DT/staff crop at Steph's Scrapbooking so I will take all my tag stuff and hopefully get a few done!
That's all for now- got to fly!
Live Janine xxx
I know it is Friday but I feel like I'm still back about Wednesday!!! Gosh this week has gone fast and I haven't done half the things that I was planning to do!
Update my blog was on my list- grrr, I wrote a huge entry before and 'wham, whizzo' - it disappeared- grrrr.
So here is this week's happenings in point form!
* Sarah is now going to swimming training with the school. That means three mornings a week I have to have her at the pool just before 7.30. It just happens to be the same three days that I work so THANK YOU to Kim who takes her from the pool back to school for me!
*Sarah has been accepted into the school's dancing programme so from this week onwards I have to have her at school just before 8am on Thursday morning. Oh I'm so not a morning person!
*I didn't make it through to the final round of the Chookscraps Survivor challenge- never mind, life is like that. Full credit to the three ladies who have gone into the final round. Their work has been amazing and I can't wait to see what they product for the final round!
*I haven't yet completed this week's challenge over at Scrapapple. I have until tomorrow night so I had better get a move on!! I have printed my photo so I have made a start- just!!! LOL
*Kim and I went shopping (scrap shopping!) on Thursday and I now have all my supplies to make my 70 tags for the Scrapboxx retreat. That is coming around really fast- only two weeks to go.
*Between now and the retreat, Emma will turn seven! I have bought the supplies to made her invitations as we are going to have a small party for her next weekend.
Gosh I had better get busy- so much to do and so little time!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Janine xxx
This card, which I gave to DH (LATE- whoops!!) was made out of my left over bits and pieces!
STOP the world, I want to get off!!!!!LOL!!!
Yay- I have made it to the next round of the Chookscraps Survivor competition and I'm now down to the last four!!! I have to complete an OTP project by Saturday. It must be based on Valentine's Day and be mainly red and pink. It is NOT allowed to be a canvas and must be a gift for someone- hmmmm, I shouldn't be here, I should be scrapping!!!
Look at the cute blinkie Chookscraps sent me!
I also only have until Saturday to complete Scrapapple's week 4 challenge. That is a monogram- like a free standing one! Boy will I be busy!
So- have a great Valentine's Day everyone- woo hooo my hubby remember and bought me a card and choccies! I'm off to scrap!!
Love Janine xxx
P.s.- Did anyone notice that my blog now has caught up and says February 2007! Good blogger!
Well, here is my LO for the next round of the Chookscrap's Survivor competition. If you had asked me this morning how I was going with it I would have just given you a seriously panicked look!!! However tonight, I have finished it, I'm unstressed about it AND I'm happy with it! What's going on I hear you say-????
Let me fill you in....
This morning I knew that this LO was due but I also knew that both the girls had games of t-ball to go to and both had an acrobatics class to attend so my scrapbooking would have to fit in and around their active social life!!!!
After t-ball, I madly ran around like a chook with her head cut off, doing loads of washing, cleaning up, feeding kids etc but just as I was about to shoot out the door to acrobatics with the girls, I got a phone call from my friend Kim. She had just witnessed a car accident and she would be late for acro, could I please let her girls know- yes, not worries! The car in front of her had pulled out right into the path of another car, causing that car to roll. Luckily no none was seriously hurt in this accident.
However that phone call got me thinking.....
What if the car that had pulled out had of been Kim's or she had been the car that had been hit- how quickly life can change.
When I got home from acrobatics, I spent TIME with my girls. TIME tickling them, laughing with them and playing with them- and if my LO didn't get finished- well so be it!
I decided that I wouldn't start my LO until Adam got home and when I did start it, it fell in to place so easily AND I actually like it!! LOL!!!
Maybe it was a higher force telling me to focus on the important things and worry less about the non important things- I don't really know. All I know is that I'm very happy that I have a happy, healthy family and that the safety of my friends (and their families) is really important to me. Kim- I'm so pleased that it it wasn't you in that accident IYKWIM-
Please, everyone safe and take care and remember to focus on the big things in your life , not the little, unimportant things!
Love Janine xxxx
For anyone that knows me- I don't wear red, I don't dress my girls in red, I don't scrap in red- I don't dislike the colour but it is just not my colour! So imagine my horror when this week's challenge in the 8 week challenge over at Scrapapple was all about the colour red!!! We had to photograph something from our house that was red, scrap a single page LO in predominately red and we were not allow to include photos of people! Despite the lack of red in my house- I have finished my LO and uploaded already!!!!- it is not due until Saturday!!! Wooooo hooooooo!!!!!
Here is my RED LO! Thanks Kim for the lend of the red paint!!! 
Have a great day everyone!!!
Love Janine xxx
I am through to the next round of the Chookscraps Survivor competition! The comp started with 55 participants and now I'm in the final 6- woooo hoooo. We get our next challenge tomorrow!!
How cute are these little Aussie Vegemite's??
After a very nice but hot weekend, I had to go back to work on Monday. Both Monday are Tuesday were 'Student Free Days'. I have now met my school's new principal and he seems very nice and very dedicated towards the education of the students at my school! Both days were really busy but they usually are so it was nothing out of the ordinary! My Mum looked after the girls on Monday and spoilt them rotten as usual. On Tuesday both girls went to Sarah's friend Grace's house. Grace has a pool so you can guess what the girls did for 99.9% of their time there!!!
Wednesday was the first day of school for my girls. It was also the first day the kids in my class came too so Adam took Sarah and Emma in the morning.
I did manage to snap a few shots of them before they left! I was able to pick them up from school and both of them talked non stop about how wonderful their day had been. Emma is totally in love with her teacher and hangs on every word she says! Sarah has two teachers and thinks both of them are great- wooo hooo we are off to a great start to this school year.
I scrapped on Thursday (my only day off this week!) and completed my next challenge for the Chookscraps Survivor competition. Our criteria was to complete a LO about Christmas, use the colours blue/silver or purple/silver and have at least 100 words of visible journalling. Here is mine.
I actually wanted the heart to be bigger but didn't have enough silver ribbon- doh! It is hard to see but the large silver letters, I have painted silver and then painted with a glitter glaze so they are actually glittery!
Friday I was back at work however I had no children-yay! I did prep work all day so that was a bonus!
Tonight Sarah had her first game of basketball for this year- yay, they won (just!)
I'm home now and I'm hoping I might get some scrapping done tonight. The week two challenge for the Scrapapple 8 week challenge is due tomorrow night so I had better start that!
Have a great night everyone!
Janine xxx
