good morning!

well, the first week back at school has finished, even if it was only three days.

Kirsty has had a great first week at high school.. She seems to have grown up overnight! here she is in her formal school uniform for the first day

and here is Kirst and Mandy....ah they do love each other lol

I haven't had a chance to do any scrapping this week, I have finally cleaned my scrap desk... it was an absolute mess. I have done alot of reorganisation and hopefully this will make it easier to keep it tidy... now I have to sort out the rest of the room.... I have a cupboard full of scrap/card making mags that go back about 6 years.... I am finally going to get rid of them! Craig has bought the trailer home so that I can start filling it! And then I am going to start on the rest of the house..... it is time to declutter! I am a bit of a hoarder.... and my girls aren't any better! But that is definitely a job to do while they are at school!

Have a great day everyone mwah!

A new start :)

This all started from Kerryn's 'All About Me'  Scrapbook Savvy Challenge for this month.
I would like you to think about where you would like your journey to head this year, what things you would like to achieve and what things require some serious changes. I do not want you to set goals, this is not a contract, it is a page you will use throughout the year to reflect upon or help to put things back into perspective.

I spent many hours laying awake at night trying to work out what I would do my page on. I ended up doing mine on 'To be happy in 2010' To me that summed up all of the other things that I could have done my LO on.

I know that Kerryn said not to set goals... but for me I have too to achieve what I want out of 2010
My goals for 2010 are :
To be more organised, (time management is not my strong point....) more organised in the house, garden, paying bills, grocery shopping and the list just goes on...

To spend more time with my girls I always seem to be too busy for them, they are growing up so quicky..it wont be long and they wont want to spend time with their old mother

More time for what I love to do I am always complaining that I dont have time to scrap....but what am I doing instead???

To loose weight and to be healthier I am the heaviest I have ever been, even while pregnant with both my girls I started at WW before Christmas and was going great, going on holidays put a stop to that. I have managed to drop the weight that I put on while away...
To tell the truth...I have been using my depression over the last two years as a bit of a crutch....an excuse in my own mind for all of the above

I used to be soooo Anal about things! I think I thought that I was too worried about what everyone thought about me and after my last break down I adopted the "I dont give a S#^t about what anyone thought" attitude.
As of today I am turning over a new leaf.... i have adopted some organisation techniques (thanks Sar xx) Which I am hoping that will make the rest of my goals fall into place.
And thanks Kerryn for your great challenge! It was just what I needed to give me a jump start mwah!

the A - Z about ME something to share

I found this on Tina's blog and I thought that I would share too!

A - Age: 38 (Just!)

B - Bed size: Queen
C - Chore you hate: washing and ironing
D - Dog's name: Sandy
E - Essential start your day item: strong coffee
F - Favorite color: red
G - Gold or Silver: Gold
H - Height: 158cm
I - Instruments you play(ed): Piano, flute
J - Job title: Stay at Home Mum
K - Kid(s): Kirsten and Amanda
M - Mum's name: Nancy
N - Nicknames: don/dondon
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: a few!
P - Pet Peeve: ignorant people!
Q - Quote from a movie: I'll have what she's having."
- FEMALE DINER (Estelle Reiner) in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: Brother - Kevin, Sister - Susan and a sister - Donna (long story!)
T - Time you wake up: 5.00-6.00am
U- Underwear: none ATM!
V - Vegetable you dislike: squash
W - Ways you drink your coffee: black and strong!
X-rays you've had: teeth, chest, wrist and hand
Y - Yummy food you make: Indian!
Z - Zoo favourite:  I have only been to one- Toronga
 
have a great day everyone mwah!

more scrapping!

yep the mojo is definately back!  I have some more LO to share!

This is a LO that I did for the Scrapbook Savvy January Sketch Challenge

I did this LO for Scrapbook Savvy's All about me challenge

This is for the Scrapbook Savvy's 54321 Challege

Yesterday we had a scrappy day! My neice called to ask if she could come over and scrapbook with me, what could I say lol! Amanda had a friend over as well, so the five of us made a bit of a mess on the dining room table!

anyway, best go and clean it up!

mum and dad are arriving today! they have been off travelling since September, so it will be great to see them!

have a great day mwah!

Home Again!

wow! I cant believe how quick our four week holiday went! We had a fab time meeting new and old friends! I also managed to have a few scrappy days... I met up with the Savvy Boss lady aka my Kinda cousin Sar and Sara from the Savvy DT!

here we are in Sar's unit. Thanks for taking our photo Daniel!

I did this LO for the 'Scrap the Girls' Blog.  I used the 'She's Savvy" January kit for this. You can get this from here Scrapbook Savvy

This one is a 'just because' it took me around 4 hours to get this one done!  By the time I had finally finished my MOJO had returned! woo hoo!

I have been madly scrapping since I got home.... hence the washing isnt finished....lol

Currently the January Cybercrop is on at Scrapbook Savvy and for the first time I have even completed and uploaded some of the challenges!

Sara's Colour Challenge which is beach inspired... we had to use 'yellow, blue, Aqua / Turquoise and white

this is for Kerryn's Challenge.. we had to use a Page Maps sketch... this would have to be my all time fav sketch web site!

This one is for Kayla Renee's Blind Scrap at Savvy! I love this LO!

I had Better go...the washing machine is beeping and I if I want to scrap this afternoon I had better get all of my jobs done this morning!

have a great day mwah!