Christmas Card Workshop Postponed

Good morning. The Christmas card workshop has been postponed til Thursday 31st July! This will allow me to show everyone the mini catalogue that starts August 1st too. If you would like to attend please email me at hels42@bigpond.com and I'll send you my address that way!
Thanks.

I'm Home!

Hello, I'm back from Bali and need a holiday to recover! It was great fun, we went bike riding through picturesque country side, went to a cooking school called Bumbu Bali to learn about the Indonesian food and culture. Of course there was heaps of shopping, drinking and talking and laughing! I had quite a nasty bout of bali belly, not helped by Pauls fantastic cooked breakkie on Sunday morning!!! ust couldn't say no. All good now and I'm busy unpacking stamping orders and about to make some wedding invitations for some customers. So life goes on....

Bali Here I come!

Can't believe its finally tomorrow Annette, Carol and myself head to Bali for our big trip! Its been a big build up. The case is packed, the dogsitter organised, passport, ticket etc all sorted. Phew. Apart from that I just sat my theory exam for the Immunisation certificate and passed.
I've had quite a few parties recently and have one booked for the day after I get home....I'm really enjoying them.
Here is a card I made today for Colby to take to his friend Finn's birthday party tomorrow. I've just realised that the water probably should be up the other way!!lol. Oops.

And here is a pic of the cake I made for Colby's 7th birthday.

Bye for now. See you in a week.

I'm BACK!!

Sorry everyone. Its been a frantic few weeks, with workshops and madly making my 30 swaps, 18 birthday invitations as its Colby's birthday today - 7!! 16 children came and it was fun! Poor Colby is sick and went and put himself to bed....He's awake now, his temp having come down from 39 degrees.
Now I only have 7 more sleeps til we fly to Bali!! I am so looking forward to it now that Colby has had his party.
I'm going to try and post some photos tomorrow sometime.

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!