Computer Problems

Good afternoon. Sorry about the delay in posting but my computer has been doing some weird things. Anyway, its letting me post today so that's all I care about...

Its been a great week! Lots of beautiful weather.

Here are some pictures from my bike ride last week! Yes, Deb and I did the 20km trip in 40 minutes each way. We were happy with that. I was so energised after it but did have a little rest on the lounge in the later afternoon. I came home and cleaned out the front patio area. Went quite mad cleaning up!

Isn't this just a spectacular view? This is John's Creek, around the 7km mark from Wickham where we stopped for a quick break.

We are planning another ride on Monday but may end up walking depending on the wind.

Last week I also had my water colour workshop. Then I finished off my swaps - the theme being animals. Can't wait to see all the others!!

This card uses the ladybird from Garden Whimsy, stamped in real red and then stamped off to look like like movement. You can't see but the antenae all have dazzling diamonds on them too!! The word phrase is "Happy" from the set Life Definitions. The colours are green galore and real red and tempting turquoise. There is also some natural twine too. I cased this from splitcoast stampers.

These cards were also cased from SCS but had yellow buttons. You can't beat red, white and blue for a nautical theme though! The stamp set is Boatloads of Love. This is a great set and I know I'll be using it again soon. I've also used my paper piercing mat as I am trying to practice getting things right the first time!! I've watercoloured using the wc paper with the crayons, also used the word, window, brads and brilliant blue and whisper white cardstock.

That's it for now. Every Tuesday (computer willing) I am going to try and update my blog with pics! Thanks for looking and have a great long weekend everyone.

I'm BACK!

Well, its been a slow process but I'm all better. Thanks to everyone for their messages! I've been madly making up for lost time as I didn't finish my swaps but am nearly there. Last night was my watercolour workshop. It was a bit quiet but I actually got to make another card myself. It was nice to have 2 new ladies come along too - Danya and Christie! The only 2 that came, and Kari dropped in to say hi too. I'm going to take some photos of the cards that I've done tonight and hopefully post them for you to see.
But now, I'm off to mow the lawn and hang out the washing!! Sunday I'm riding my bike from Wickham to Point Sampson with Debbie and Carol, some friends from work. Now I can't get out of it as others are going. Its 10km one way, not sure if I'll be able to ride back once I stop!!!
Chow.

Hello!

Woe is me!

Hi everyone. Well its been a crazy but good week. I had my first demo since November last year! Thanks Danya and Lorraine. It was nice to get into it again and look forward to doing some more soon.
I hurt my upper back near my shoulder late yesterday and am in so much pain. I couldn't even face scrapping this morning...I did go down to say hi and drop off some stuff.
Next week is my watercolour workshop. Of course I will be demonstrating watercolouring and have a new stamp set to play with. So come along Thursday 22nd May at 730pm to have a go.
I'm off to have more pain killers, maybe I'll read a scrapping mag too!

I've been tagged!

Thanks Makeesha for tagging me!! Her link is www.makeeshabyl.com.au

So what I have to do is tell you 7 things about myself, some weird apparently!! Then list seven people who have to do the same thing, I leave a comment on their blog so they know they've been tagged.
1. I don't have a real sister but lots of very close gf's who are so important to me. My good friend Kari gave me a Mothers Day present today - a foldable basket. Thanks Kari!
2. I used to be a qualified veterinary nurse, am a midwife but am a school nurse now - which I love! Today is International Nurses Day by the way!!
3. I have two very lovely kids.
4. If I don't get enough sleep I'm incredibly grumpy!
5. I want to live my life with no regrets and try and remember that this is not a dress rehearsal!
6. I dream of moving somewhere cheaper to live but can't leave Karratha just yet!!
7. My favourite thing to do is take my kids for a bike ride. (when they are asleep my favourite thing to do is scrapbook, make cards and sleep!!)

I'm going to cheat and post my tags websites separately as I have things to do!

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day everyone

Hope you all have had a great day. Here are some photos of a scrapping with your stamps workshop that I did a few weeks back now. The Princess one is by a first time scrapper! I've been busy scrapping heaps of photos, well into my card swaps now and just sent an email out about my next card workshop! Phew, must find time to hang out that washing sometime!

Scrapping

Well now that I've recovered from the frenzy of making stuff for the Mothers Day market I did a little bit of scrapping last night and possibly some more tomorrow night too. Sigh if only I didn't have to work! LOL.
My next big challenge is to get cracking on the card swap for the Stamparoos, when I have to make 22 samples of a card featuring animals. I have an idea in mind (thank you for www.splitcoaststampers.com) and must do that soon.
No other news to report at this stage. Will be posting some photos of the card swap from last week very soon. 2 more people are sending in their swaps and we are finished.

Market Day

Market Day

These are rescue bags that I made using Angela
Moss convention swap idea. Instead of lollies, I had ferro rochers, bath salts, nail file and a tea bag. They sold really well. I used the stamp set Garden Whimsy and Life Definitions for these.
The opposite phote is of my stall and all the stuff I took.

My favourite cards using the Garden Whimsy set again, two step stamping and chalks over the flowers and stems. You can't see from the pic but it has some of the new textured paper too. Love that paper. Then of course my favourite stamp set ever SCRIBBLE THIS. This is a similar card to my convention swap. I'm never selling this set, even after it retires! I took a couple of orders for magnetised shopping lists which I will get onto tonight! Have a great day, I'm off to get my car..

Mothers Day Market

Since I went to convention and saw the demo on watercolour, I've been colouring everything in the Fun and Fast Notes on watercolour paper and creating lots of little cards. So much fun.
I'm having a stall this Saturday at the Karratha Arts and Learning Centre and I've been busy making cards, bags, picture frames, notepads and lots of other stuff!
Personally its been a tough week with fatigue, hormones and just life's everyday challenges getting to me. Last night some of the Stampin'Up! demos came over and we made swaps for our very first card swap together. It was fun, and we will take it in turns to host the monthly swap and set the challenge.
Karen gave me the link to this really fun site. Haven't had too much of a chance to play yet but have a look and see what you think...http://www.scraptitude.com/colorcombo/