it's official.

Today it officially reached 40.9 degrees according to BOM. That officially made it the hottest day this week. I'm sure it was much hotter the further north you went. I was in Lincoln this morning and it was just lovely down there, but it sure smacked me in the face when I got out of the car back home just after lunch. And then it got hotter still.

Very fortunately, the local pool was able to open this afternoon. Due to one thing and another, it hasn't been able to open until now. So of course we made our way into town for a dip. Our community is very blessed to have a fantastic pool and surrounds for our enjoyment. The lawns are manicured and the water is just so clean and inviting. So I'm very thankful that we have this wonderful resource only 10 mins from home.

That has made us in the water 3 times in the last 4 days. I reckon the kids and I will develop scales and gills next. But it has been sooooo nice to cool off without any dramas.

his pride and joy

A friend of mine asked me to pop by one evening while he was on the header to shoot some pics of his pride and joy. As the kids and I came home from the beach on Monday night, there he was, in a paddock of wheat, the gate was open and the breeze was blowing the right way so I wouldn't be covered in grain dust. Oh, and I happened to have the camera in the car.

This is a couple of them.

Thanks mate for letting me post them here.

And just a quick one of me kicking back on the beach Monday night. Funnily enough I was in about the same spot there tonight too. It was heavenly. Another couple of families came over with us after school and we all had fish and chups (pronounced with a kiwi accent) for tea. Home by 8pm to a much more livable outside temp.

challenging

I have a challenging and exciting photo-shoot tomorrow (Tuesday).

A local business is starting up their own website and needs photography to promote their business.

I feel bloody nervous about this. I've trawled the www to give me some ideas of other like business sites. While I have a swag of ideas, putting them into practice will be my challenge. My expectation is high so I hope I dont disappoint myself let alone the clients.

I guess the business will be there the next day if I need to re-shoot any frames. At least I have that as a fall back.

I hope to be able to post a pic or two after the shoot, we'll see.

Stay cool tomorrow.

down under at long last

Having a disposable under water camera was such a hoot. I felt like a magnet with all the kids around.

Thanks to Tanya and Meredith for letting me post this LO with their children on it.

The journaling says it all

cheesy

Wasn't it warm today. Well it was here and will be for the rest of the week. Just a taste of things to come. I got up and shut the house down before sunrise this morning, so it was lovely and cool inside all day. No need for air con. YET. Once the stone work in my home heats up, it doesn't cool down so well at night time and so is a bit warmer inside then. And as tomorrow (Monday) is supposed to be warmer than today, I dare say the air con will get a bit of a run.

I've had a lousy niggly dry cough, that once it starts doesn't really stop until I fall asleep. It's so violent. It gets to the point that I feel like throwing up, and sleep is a very precious commodity that I dont get a lot of. I've been awake coughing until 3 or 4 in the morning before I am so puffed out I sleep.

As a result I been feeling like yesterday's dishwater. No energy or omphh at all. I should have taken the kids to the beach later this arvo as it would've been so lovely there. But I just couldn't be stuffed. Its just too hard and then I'll be hacking and spluttering on the beach. Believe me, its not nice to hear it. The doc has given me some sinus Ab's but they have made no bloody difference at all.

Any how, I've done a LO over the last couple of days. I just couldn't seem to find much energy for that either, and that's really not me at all.

ps. I've been allowed to post the pic of Mum from the 'little G ladies'photoshoot. Pop over to Tiff Firth Photography to see why I told her she was 'smokin!!' as soon as I took the shot.       Hot, Hot, Hot.

little G ladies

Mum and Mamaa were involved with this photo shoot too. I am trying to convince Mum to let me show one shot of her that I think is really special. ;-) 

You can view my Tiff Firth Photography Face book Page if you like.

have a great weekend!!

beach play

I cant show you this one. It has a couple of different families on it and one of them is not comfy having their kids on the world wide web. That's ok, that's why I rang to ask first.

Safe to say this one is a photo template style with about 9 pics on it, a shell, ribbon, hat pin and 4 layers of card or PP.

I liked it.

cheers
t

warning!!

Grrrr. Doesn't he look fierce. NOT. And he's clawed thru the page too.

light photo challenge

Over on the escape2create blog is a photo challenge called light. One can interpret its connotations as one likes.

So I went out in the late arvo today when the sun was closer to the horizon and took a number of pics. I like the sun in my sun flare shots, to me it gives the pic more pzazz. That's just my thoughts tho lol.

With a bit of PS magic this is one of those shots. It's a figure 8 wire twitch used to 'tie' two lengths of fencing wire together.

I like it.

#2

Creative juice can hit at the damnedest times. LOL. I put this photo and PP on my desk last night about 11.30p and just shuffled a bit. Before I knew it, the clock was saying 1.30am and I had a LO done.

Loosely based on 'Trick or Treat' by Bailey, a digi LO at Designer Digitals.

water play

scrapathon LO no 9.

those natty little jenni bowlin alphas stickers sure came in handy that night.

These kidlets are my niece and nephew.

sa museum

scrapathon LO no8

I think I must have been pulling this one together very very late that night at the scrapathon. While it doesn't overly please me, its done.

PS. the lion's tail twitched every now and then which had Annie captivated. Very blurry photos as you aren't allowed to use the camera flash in the museum. Long before the days when I knew how to fiddle the settings on the camera to capture a much better shot in low light. oh well, better crappy pics than none at all I say.

wall clock

I have been working on a wall clock for Annie's bedroom for the last couple of days. She knows nothing about it, so when she sees it tomorrow on the kitchen table it will be a total surprise. I can just hear the squeal now lol.

***edited to add*** her little eyes popped, and she squeezed me the biggest hug. after another good look at it she said, "Its fantastic Mum". My heart just melted!  awww.

I will be doing one for Sean not too far away. A few lessons learnt by this one.

I also had a go at 'no flash' low light photography. The clock was sitting on my kitchen benchtop under fluro lighting at 11pm. I'm pretty chuffed how well the photo turned out. (imagine me on a ladder standing on the top rung above the LO. I used a fast prime lens (no zoom) so I have to move me to fill the viewfinder with the clock.)

I need to tweak a couple more LOs from the Scrapathon before I am happy posting them here. I think they must have been the late late night ones. (insert roll eyes)

Good luck for the 'Cup'

t

Shhhhh'sssss

What beautiful light we had for this shoot. The photograph below was very nearly the last one fired off at 7.45pm. Just breath taking.

Thank you for having us (me and the kids), for playing along with me and basically forgetting the camera was even there. That's when the best shots happen.

Enjoy your sneaky peeky.

More photos from this session at Tiff Firth Photography on FaceBook

princess for a day

Karkoo Scrap a thon LO no 7.

I borrowed Karen's square punch for this one. Thanks chick. While I was punching out several PP I really had no idea what I was going to do with it. I already had the backing PP and the overlay in mind, but nothing else until I thought of quilting those squares together. So a bit of careful ( for me that means lifting the foot off the sewing control a fair bit as I usually go flat out) stitching, a lot of loose threads to tidy up and using that Prima bloom to finish it off.  Journaling says 'Every little girl deserves to be a princess for at least one day'

I would really like to mention something that really stood out to me from the Karkoo weekend. I have spoken to some others that were there too and it really struck them the same way.

Good ol fashion TRUST.

We were very lucky to have had 5 retailers at the scrapathon. After each retailer decided to retire for the night, their 'shop' was left unattended. Of course they took the money etc as one should, but all the products and goodies were left as it until they came back next morning.

The docket book was left on the table in most cases and anything that was purchased was duly written in on that person's page. I know this for a fact, as I kept a bit of a beady eye on that. Not that it was needed. AT ALL. So I would really really like to say a very big heartfelt thank you to the retailers for trusting us mere scrappers who kept at it all night, and to all the scrappers who did the right thing by the retailers. After all, wouldn't it be just so fantastic if this could be a regular thing. Without the variety of each business we just wouldn't have the choices to scrap with.


Sean had a night in hospital last night (once again). Another round of asthma brought on by a cold. I am so very very glad that we live 10 mins away from needing it, esp driving him in at 4.30am and hearing him suffer all the way. That really pulls at my heart. So I really understand the tyranny of distance and what it could mean if you couldn't get there quick enough. Thank you for all the well wishes and support from my Face Book friends.

I'm in the middle of processing a photo shoot atm besides catching up from last night sleep deprivation so no scrapping for a little while. sigh

primping parlour

Scrap-a-thon LO no. 6

I was a bit stuck on this one before the Karkoo weekend. I just couldn't imagine the end result, so it sat on my desk at home, teasing me. It wasn't until one of the girls on the table with me (I'm not sure who it was, sorry, so please fess up) suggested I find some lippy and give it a  big mwah.

Perfect. Now all I needed was a lipstick, a mirror, and to find out if embossing powder would stick to its wax to seal it.

I have one lipstick to my name, and amazingly it was the perfect colour. So with Leonie's mirror, I slapped on some lippy. I felt like a complete knob. 1. Using a mirror in public to obstinately apply the lipstick and 2,  wearing lipstick in the first place (so not my scene).

and yes, clear heat embossing powder stuck to it beautifully so I could heat seal it.

Journaling says 'Uncle Giles did not, Uncle Ian tolerated and Dad actually enjoyed having their makeovers done.'

sa museum

Scrap-a-thon LO no. 5.

This originally had fake stitching drawn on it. The PP has a dotty pattern around the edge so I could pierce the holes with a regular space in between each one.

But it looked crap.

So when I brought it home, I needed to find something to sew on it to hide the fake stitch. So that's the reason for the twine.

It wasn't until I had finished it all that I thought that it would fit the E2C twine challenge.

Had a photo shoot today down south a bit. Lots of different scenes and a fair bit of playing around with the kid-lets I fired the final shot at 7.45pm. The light was just beautiful. So I will be processing those shots over the weekend.

officially 2

Scrap-a-thon LO 4. the green and red work really well here. and it all came out of my scrap folder. I do really enjoy getting in there and having a good fossick. You never know what surprises you might find.... and save a dollar or two.
;-)

on the farm 2009 calender shoot

Scrap-a-thon LO number 3.

This was my first go at using template clipping mask way back in January this year, (thanks Sandra). I'm pretty happy with the end result. That prima bloom and raffia finishes it beautifully (in my mind that is lol)

                                                      

oh and if anyone finds that clear Dymo embossing tape (9mm) its getting as rare as hen's teeth. If you spot it anywhere, could you please grab as many as you can for me. 10 would be fantastic. cheers and thanks heaps.

Meet the F's

lots of personality with these two tin lids. And it really shows thru the lens. Thanks guys and enjoy your sneak peak.

A few more photos for you to check out over at Tiff Firth Photography on FaceBook

CPC photos

Yay. all done, labeled, enveloped and ready to be delivered to the CPC Wednesday. The children should be bringing them home tomorrow night. Mum's, please be sure to check their bags if you have ordered one.

cousins

ahh sorry friends. I cant show you this one from the Scrap-a-thon weekend.

A bit of paint, some corduroy buttons, sewing, and Hessian.
I liked it!! So did Sharryn at Scrapbooking Memories.
;o)

scrap-a-thon wrap up.

Well I got to Karkoo at 12.30pm Saturday, brought in my stash (I use a sack-truck (trolley) to bring in my tubs and bits. Chatted a fair bit, shopped a bit, and scrapped a lot.

In fact I scrapped, and scrapped, and scrapped. I didn't even have time to go to bed. The juices were overfloweth so I did not dare stop. Not that I wanted to for that matter. I sustained myself on scotch. LOVE that stuff.

Sandra was up early and very kindly took this shot of me watching the sunrise. (Yes Karen, this is what I call a Dawn Buster). I have never scrapped all night before so I really wanted this shot as it means a lot to me.

And the scrapping mojo didn't end there. I scrapped and scrapped some more. Not a wink of sleep.

The Scrap a thon ended at 1pm Sunday and I headed home to catch up with the family and had a snooze for an hour before we headed out for tea.

I felt pretty good actually, but apparently I was blinking a bit slowly lol.

And I am really glad my bladder decided it was time to get up during the night. I checked on the retreat blog and golly gosh the 2010 E2C retreat registrations were open. So of course I emailed thru my registration there and then. Just as well. By 8.30am they had 40 bookings and by 1pm a post on the blog said it was all booked out and a waiting list had started.

I wont post all my LOs in one hit and overwhelm you. As I have 3 photo-shoots this week, there will be precious little scrapping done, so I'll stagger them out, just to tease you a bit (wink)

Oh and just to top off an already fantastic weekend, I found an acceptance for a LO from Creative Keepsakes this morning. Man, that magazine is one tough egg to get into. So that is just cream on the cake.

so stinkin' adorable

My favourtie from the Scrap-a-thon

e2c retreat

REGO open for short time only and limited spaces available.

Escape2Create 2010

Bring it on.

My post on the weekend's Scrapathon and some of the LO's to come later on Monday with luck.

the "Ps'

Even before I got to this family's home, it was going to a great shoot. Mr N was very very keen apparently and was asking Mum ALL day, what time will she (me) get there. He really was counting down the minutes.

As soon as I got there he took me for a ride on their 4 wheeler motorbike (complete with helmets) to have a look around the farm yard for prop ideas, lighting etc. He gave a very detailed inventory of all their machinery, its history, and its use. No wonder Mum reckon he's the 2IC.

Mr P has some very noice photography gear that I had a drool over and I have to admit, I was a bit nervous shooting photos for this family as he's such a good photographer himself. However and thank goodness, Mr P was very relaxed and ready with an easy smile, so I was put to ease. LOL. Normally the people having their shoot done for them are the nervous ones and I'm relaxed, so this was really switching the tables around.

After a lot of laughing, hamming it up for the camera and getting some really good shots in the bag, it was a wrap.

Thanks a bunch guys. Sean and I had a ball!!!!!!!!

More pics @ Tiff Firth Photography on FaceBook

cousins

I really miss not having my scanner, printer and 'puter at my elbow when I'm scrapping out and about. I really dont like my handwriting on LO's as I feel as if it spoils the look of what I am trying to do. They feel less clean or sloppy I guess. I know my handwriting would be appreciated down the track, but I just cant make myself do it. So I have to make do with letter stickers, dymo and the like.

Long thread idea inspired by Janice (thanks for letting me flick thru your work the other day) I have slotted a couple of other little ideas away for later.

I'm lucky enough to have Kym home this weekend to happily have the kids while I go on a 24hr scrap a thon with about 35 other like minded ladies. Cant wait. Car is mostly packed (only cause I was out last night scrapping), photos sorted, drinks chilling, nibbles purchased and the purse cashed up. It will be no doubt a sleep deprived day/night filled with lots of chat, laughter, a couple of cold ones, and a tad of scrapping done. And the best thing.....I am not on the organizing side of it. It feels so different being on the 'other side of the table'. Much more relaxed about it and just looking forward to the 'ta da' moment when I walk in, not knowing anything of what goes on behind the scenes.

Bring it on I say!!!

Thomas & Friends-Live on Stage.

Sean and I flew to Adelaide this morning to catch the Thomas & Friends Live on Stage show.

Paige picked us up from the airport and chauffeured us around to HarbourTown for a bit of a looksie. While we were there, Sean started becoming rather lethargic and not himself. When Paige dropped us off at the Entertainment Center the poor little bloke was a bit crook. At least he waited to be out of Paige's car before he let rip. Paige gave us one of those spew bags (a ring with a plastic sleeve) that you get in hospitals to take in with us, just in case. Just as well, as he did use it just the once. After that he was so much brighter and really got into the show.

The engines were really good and much bigger than I thought they would be. As no flash photography only was allowed, I tried out some different settings on the camera that I have never used before. And they worked out really really well. The only light used for the photos was the stage lights, so I am just a little bit chuffed how bright they looked.

Paige picked us up after the show and took us back to the airport and saw us off (that pic is still on my phone and I haven't got around to getting it of it yet lol).

Huge hugs and thanks to you Paige. You made a great day, bloody fantastic, esp with that natty little spew bag. And we just cant wait for next week to come around when you'll be over our way for a bit and spending some time with us.

Mwah  (blow kiss from Sean)

Miss E

I had a most wonderful shoot on Thursday with Miss E and her Mum and Dad. She was very patient with us, considering she just had her needles the day before.
Thanks guys and enjoy your sneak peek.

Isn't she an angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots more pics at Tiff Firth Photography

so sweet

I reckon pulling together this LO must be a PW (personal worst) ;o) as far as being timely with it. With one thing and another it took me I think nearly 8 days to get it together. And there's not much on it, go figure??!! Life is full and busy. Just the way I like it.

can we fix it.

One from last night's scrapping at the Sheoak Craft Cottage.



gotta love the dangley tools.

thank you.

I have had the most amazing last couple of weeks as far as publications go. It still feels just as exciting now as it did when I saw my first one in a glossy magazine.

In this months Scrapbook Creations (Vol 8, No. 8) I have this one....

And in this months Scrapbooking Memories (vol 10, no.9)I have three
this one,
this one,
and this one.

I feel so very lucky that I have had any accepted at all, but three in one mag is just humbling. If you have a look at the sketches insert, you'll find a couple of my LO's sketched in there. And on the contents page there is a little pic of 'I adore you'

So I just would like to say a very heartfelt thank you for all the well wishes and congrats from my dear friends. Feeling the love!!!

Ironically while this is all happening I haven't been scrapping much at all. The photography business is motoring along, I spent more time with the kids in the school holidays, and I'm still getting over the blasted knee op (falling off the crutches so did not help the recovery lol). But I did have a couple of scrap nights out this week and pulled together a couple. I think I can feel the scrap itch returning.

And just a quick heads up on the Rabbit situation in Lincoln. Retravision have bought the kiosks from Rabbit and are currently installing them. They should be ready with the new Wet/Dry developing machine to start photo printing by this Wednesday (Oct 21sr). Yehaaa. This is a big big relief, let me tell you.

I had a yarn with Hayley (formerly of Rabbit and now with Retravision) about the quality and longevity of the new process. She has looked into it long and hard' she has looked at prints done with the two different machines, and she cant tell the difference.

So I will be down to see her at Retravision in Liverpool St at the new Fuji Lab!!!! I hope they have online ordering where I can order from home and pick up at a convenient time to me. I guess I'll be finding that out when I get in there.

I am waiting with 'great' anticipation for a courier parcel with my new baby in it. Yep, I lashed out and ordered a Canon 380EXii Speedlight. Can't bloody wait to get that in my hot little hands. And also a thanks to Jill W who very kindly offered me the use of hers after a photo session last week. She knew mine was coming and thought I might like to have a play with hers while I was waiting. So while I had my 'lol studio lol' set up, I tried out a few ideas. Lots of scope with this baby!!! So thanks to you Jill for your very kind consideration and trust. mwah.

I have finished proccing the shots from last weekends combined 40th and I have a rural photo session booked in for tomorrow. It'll be a lot of fun!!

Have a great weekend.
t

pssssst.....I'm taking Sean across to Adelaide on Tuesday for Thomas the Tank Engine Live on Stage performace at 1pm. Anyone else going to this session?????????????????

Milly??

Remember Milly, Annie's guinea pig.

Yesterday I learnt how to sex guinea pigs and we discovered that Milly has a willy.

So now we have Max.
lol. I think s(he) now has an identity crisis!!

P&Px40 squared.

LOL at the title of this post. Its supposed to mean P & P (which are two people) x40 squared (they both are turning 40 and I don't know the keyboard symbol for the mathematical square.)

I was asked to be the 'Paparazzi' for the night.

Needless to say what happened at the party stays at the party, BUT, I can show you these few select shots.

The 'killer heels' P wore most of the night. These looked seriously sexy!!!

Vodka Jellies. Va Va Voom. Lotsa vodka in these babies!!!!


Plenty of these sugar laden treats to hype the kids up. They all worked!!

The most chocolaty cake I think I have ever tasted

Thanks guys for asking me along. You both had the most amazing night !!

hardware.

Man. I'm in love.

I was very very kindly allowed to play with these babies on Saturday night. I so want a speed light now. Its so superior to the in camera flash. Now, just to justify one...... hmmmmm.... I just about could......... (giggle, happy dance). I need to google and start pricing.....





This lens has a large aperture. Perfect for my situation of low light on Saturday night. Have been googling this baby too.......

Heartfelt thanks to 'T' for trusting me with your equipment, and for very generously offering it to me in the first place. You are very, very kind.

the 'A' man

This shoot was all about him.

He's a happy little man and was wonderful during the shoot. Smiles galore. He's such a joy.

There's not a lot of photos of him on his own as he's a roller. Put him down for a sec and look out, he's rolled away. So funny.

thanks guys and enjoy your sneak peek!!

lots more over on Tiff Firth Photography. Became a fan!! wink

road test.

well after having a number of weeks off after my knee op, I did a photo shoot today to see if it was ready to start back in the swing of things.

Yeeehhhaaaaaa.

All went well. Its a bit sore tonight but no surprise there, so I'm ready to start taking bookings again. I'm about to start processing that shoot, so pics will be posted in a day or two.

The kids and I had a busy craft arvo doing things for the Cummins Show and I've entered a few LO's for the scrapping section and a number of photos in the photography section.

I would really like to thank the parents of the children in the photos that I have entered as I needed to ask permission before I could enter them. After all, its only polite. So a big thank you. Without you my choice of pics would be very limited.

The weather forecast looks good, so a good show should be had by all.

Good luck to all those who have entered!!

drive time.

I've had the most kick back week this week.



I don't recall when I last sat down to watch the giggle box (except for the weather and Spicks & Specks) for I don't know how long.


It feels nice to sit and do nothing for a bit but I struggle to sit still. I'm a natural wriggle wort. I get bored easy and need distraction, so watching the box and doing nothing is really out of my comfort zone. But I persisted.


I've organised a few things for this weekends Show at Cummins, and gathering ideas for shooting Plugger and Peta's combined 40th at Coffins this Saturday night. This should be a hoooooot of a night. As I'm the 'offical' (lol) photographer for them I need to be a good girl (wink). Ideas are flowing forth, and I'll elaborate in a later post.....


I've only managed one LO this week so far, that's how slack I've been,



and I'll head on down to Lincoln tomorrow night to show the girls how to 'build a vine' and scrap for me.

Have a great rest of the week.

fireworks

I was lucky enough last night to be in 'an undisclosed location' *wink wink* to shoot fireworks. The most perfect night. It wasn't that cold and the air was so clear. And not a breath of a breeze.

I laid back on my picnic blanket and snapped away. Bliss

There are a few more if you want a look at Tiff Firth Photography.

Hope you had a cracker of a weekend!!!!!! lol

;oD

boys only

I do so enjoy printing directly onto card stock or papers. Especially onto Kraft Card. A bit of a grungy one for the boys in my life. awwwww.

Journaling says 'their concentration was wonderful to watch from afar. I am so proud to have witnessed a 'Father and Son' moment 7.2.08

Had the post op check up today. Unbeknown to me or the surgeon before getting into my knee, I have a large chunk of it missing. I did have key hole surgery years ago on the same knee for what I was told was growth spurs that had broken off and locked up my knee. Now I know it was actually the top part of the leg bone ( I didn't catch which one it was)that had crunched up. I think it looks like a lower leg bone....???? So this time around was the meniscus tear that was shaved off and a bit of a clean up of that other jaggered bit. Sounds very ewwww, I know. From what I gather it will give me bother later on down the track, so I'll worry about it then, not now.

I'm on one crutch and off all together as soon as I can. Cant bloody wait. Driving for any more than 30mins at this stage is bloody torture.

I ended up not going to Lincoln last night for scrapping which for me is a big deal. The knee was just burning and there was no way I could drive myself. sigh..... next week girls.... I'll do the 'build a vine' then. I PROMISE.

I also want to give a big shout out to Kylie S who has her photo of her children on this months ABB calander. its so Awwwww. I spied it yesterday in our local insurance office being the first day of October. Congrats chick!!!!

do you ever have one of those days...

.... when you are so darn proud of your kids that you could just burst with pride.


the back story.... Teagan stayed over last night to give the kids some company. Lets face it, being stuck at home with a gammy legged Mum is so not fun. So Teagan came to stay. And thank goodness she did.


I had a crappy day yesterday with my knee, that ended up needing xrays today. But during the night I was crook. After about 3am I managed to get some sleep. I woke up about 8am, helped the kids with their breakfasts and asked Miss T if she would very much mind if I went back to bed for a quick nap. I was really feeling like a washed out dishrag. After talking with her Mum about today's plans and getting the ok for Teagan watching the kids, I had a little snooze.


I woke up human. I felt so much better. At least the tummy had settled. The kids made me a get well message made from daises on the front lawn. I damn near cried.




So after profuse thank yous to Teagan when we dropped her off, we made our way to Lincoln.


the story... Annie and Sean were wonderful. They carried this, they carted that. They both asked what could they do to help... all day. Pleases and thank yous were aplenty. There were no arguments or getting upset at each other. They just knew to be kind to each other, and to me.


To top off my day, I lost my mobile. It fell out of my handbag somewhere while lurching around on crutches. After making a number of calls to my phone and where we had been from Leonie's business (Scrapworkz- thanks so much Leonie), without luck, I started to backtrack where we had walked. While in Toyworld the lady there rang my phone again and a fella answered it. He had found it in Macca's carpark and was waiting for someone to ring it to claim it. My faith in good kind souls has been reassured. When I caught up with him I found out that he is only a young bloke and am so grateful to him for being honest.


The phone is stuffed. The screen has shattered and it doesn't ring in or out. So at 4.50pm I ran into the insurance office in Lincoln to start that paperwork. They also rang on my behalf to Retravision to let them know I was on my way and not shut their door for the day to get a replacement phone.


Today has been humbling. My children have been so wonderful and I am SO proud to be their Mum. People who I don't even know have gone out of their way to be helpful. People I do know, and I call them my dear friends, have been supportive and caring.



Just to reassure, the xrays are precautionary. I had a fall while on the crutches a few days ago. There doesn't seem to be any major problems and my knee doesn't feel anywhere near as awful as yesterday.


And Sue, lol, I never thought to ask Grandpa to take me up on his bike and sidecar. Wouldn't that be a sight and a giggle. te he. Maryanne, thanks for all the comments (are you sure you don't have a trigger finger on that enter button lol). Thanks Kylie for your kind thoughts.


I might even to get to scrap a bit tonight and tomorrow. We'll see!!

I'm a bit worried...

***edited to add*** my Grandfather is my shining knight to my resuce.

I need to drive to Whyalla this Friday for a follow up on my knee.

I had a quick trip Green Patch late this arvo and I'm really not sure if I'll manage a 5 hour round trip by Friday. By the time we got back tonight (only gone for an hour or so) I had Annie run inside to get the crutches as I was totally locked up.

Kym is working flat out to catch up from taking a couple of days off last week to be with me then, so I'm looking for anyone who would like to share the drive in my bus and come shopping for the day.

My appt is at 2pm.

Let me know......

teamwork

Whenever we have a large implement on the farm for whatever purpose, it begs to be explored by a small boy and his Dad.

Journaling says 'as soon as you discovered that this lever made that bucket move, you were in boy heaven'

I had a bit of Kym influence with this one. After all he's in it too, (and it keeps him happy about my scrapping our family).

;oD

the fairies

When the Fairies visited Tunarama a couple of years ago we just had to go. So I was asked (!!!!??) by Annie. So we went. She knew all the dance moves (still does if truth be told).

The Fairy pics are from January 2008.
Have been going a bit nutty on blooms lately. And I lurve pearl glimmermist. Just so beautifully subtle. The cream and purple roses are foam ones I first heard of in Nat's blog, and can be found at Spotlight. They soak up purple paint really well.

Tumby Bay Holidays 2008 - Sean's

*****edited to reshoot the LO's. I was a bit disappointed with it so when a blast of sunlight shone thru the clouds I ripped outside to reshoot them*****
Another double. And guess what?? The next one I have started on is a double too lol!!

This one is for Sean's album.

The shells are wallies by Anna Griffin that I found on special a while ago in Spotlight. Perfect accent and colour for this LO.

shmee knee

this is me at 8am this morning.


At least the Mercurochrome was a hot pink so it matched my sock. lol

tumby bay summer holidays jan 08

So what do you do when you have a gammy leg that needs to be elevated all the time.

Scrap of course.
Cant hold this chick back for long.

So with a leg stuck out at 90 degrees on another chair, the heater going and music in the background I came up with this one last night. Yes, the same night I came home from hospital. I just cant sit and do nothing. I get really bored really quick.... but I would think that most of you would have gathered that by now lol.

Not much embellishing other than shells and my trusty Sharpie black pen as there is other 'collectibles' on there too.

love's abloomin

For our 8th Anniversary I bought him some flowers. He bought me some flowers. We have a large riot of colour on our kitchen table.

I lit candles just before he walked in from a cold day out in the elements. I had the fire roaring to warm his hands on.

We all went out for tea and when we pulled up in the car shed back at home it was really dark. He and I squeaky kissed and the kids had a loud 'ewwwwwww' reaction. It was gold!!

all's good.

Lots of thanks for the well wishes via phone, irl, FaceBook, blog and any other way for today.

I had a small knee op done in Whyalla and will be on crutches for a few days, no driving for a few days either. sigh. you might as well cut off my wings...

Visitors will be more than welcome... Feel Good ice coffee please lol..... (it would pay to ring me first so I can make myself a bit presentable, otherwise I might still be in my jimjams.)

te he.

Miss E, the pocket rocket

This little lady has so much life. She has personality to burn, and she certainly wont ever be shy. And the most cutest raspy voice I think I've heard in a child. Thanks guys and enjoy your sneak peek






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