Happy Oz Day!

The boys and I have had a nice relaxing day.... went down to the markets this morning and bought some new fuchsias, then we visited mcdonalds and got an icecream and a coffee for me!
And then home and we've been watching movies all afternoon, while I've been tweaking my storage...

I now have a lovely ink shelf....




It worked really well. This was a wooden CD tower. I removed the black plastic strips that held the cd's and put it on it's side. Holds the larger ink pads perfectly.
I made the small boxes and they hold embossing powders, glitter and inking tools.
An old spice rack holds the colourwashes and glimmer mists.

And this is the whole top of my shelving units...



And with that I've been tweaking the embellishment storage and now it's all neat and tidy and labelled!



So with all of that, I've decided that my clip it up really doesn't work for me. Especially as Charlie Brown likes to play with anything hanging on it!
So I have it up for sale... a Base unit and tip tier, heaps of clips and dividers and some pouches.

So if you're interested, or know of anyone who is, just leave me a message and I will contact you.

And of course I have a couple of pics to share....

Charlie Brown who was going to go away with dh for work...



And my baby boy in his regal pose!

I didn't forget...

yeh... well... maybe just a little bit.....lol

but I did take a pic yesterday...



It was actually taken for the chookscraps photography challenge... and is off my little visitors that I can never get rid off!

And I had one more challenge to finish... the card...




It was based on a sketch and I made mine a trifold card.

and because it's cold wet and raining (and has been for the last 2 days) I didn't take a pic today... oh well...

Hot!

Tis very hot here today... and of course I spent most of the day cleaning out DS2's room...

but now all the rubbish has gone gone gone!!!!

And I got one layout done today for the chooks challenges...

So here are the ones I have done...

Challenge 1: handmade flower, ruffles, red embie and a journalling block.



Challenge 2: 2 words or less in the title, Reference to yourself, at least 1 tag and two main colours...



And Challenge 3 was a sketch...



Now I think I might go sit outside for a while and see if I can cool down... way too hot!

Yeh...

don't talk about the last few days....

home work kids yeh yeh yeh.... looking forward to a couple of days off work in a week!

But I did take some pics to share....

Remember the vegie garden we planted out not long ago...? We're starting to harvest the fruits of our labours....



Lots of tomatoes and strawberries and I pick carrots as we need them! Still lots to come including sweet corn!

And Wednesday night I gave DS1 a job to do... he had to cook dinner, so this is what he came up with...



not bad for a 14 year old! He did good!

And tonight I picked this little baby butternut...



and it is a baby too... just big enough for us.

Tonight I've been scrapping. Chookscraps is running a cybercrop, so if you're looking for something to do head on over and have a look.
I'll share my layouts tomorrow night!

No pic

for yesterday.... I was too busy doing nothing... lol

But here is today's pic...



This is my Hoya in flower... pretty.

But I did get a layout done.
Another one for the Chookscraps challenges....



And I made a thank you card for monthly challenge at Websters Pages.




I'm so not a card maker but I had fun making this one.

Relaxing...

that's what I've been doing today... well that and scrapping!

I've managed 3 layouts... all challenges for Chook Scraps...
The first one was a bit of a struggle, but by the third one I was in the groove!





three challenges down, three to go... oh and the sketch!

And today's photo...



The spider's are taking up residence in the vegie garden!

Introducing...

JAWS!!!!

Yes, DS3's crazy crab. And why Jaws... well so far his sunk his claws into the shopkeeper (reduced her to tears!) and DS3... and that was his first day.... lol
therefore the appropriate name would be JAWS!

And today's pic....

I've been working hard last night and today working on 2 sets of drawers. This one is a bookend one.

And here's the full set complete....


Can you guess what paper's I'm using...???

Websters of course... and have you seen their new ranges... oh yum yum!!!!

and on the home front, dh is all better, fil is getting better and the girls have been visiting and I've twisted my ankle...

there'll been some rest one day... not sure when but!

woohoo...

Today I finally managed to scrap...

This nice little layout using the sketch challenge over at Chook Scraps!


A nice easy layout to get back into scrapping!

and my photo of the day... well I was sitting scrapping when I remembered it, so thought I would share a pic of one of my little knick knacks in my window shelf...

This is my little Witchypoo.... sitting above my laptop!

Don't ask...

what happened yesterday....

Leave it to be said that when I said the year was only up from last week count me wrong...
We're waiting on #3 now...

But at this time everyone is ok....

and today's pic is my baby boys....



For those of you who don't know, Charlie Brown is at the top, a 13 month old tonkinese (chief mischief maker!)
and Gryfn is at bottom, 12 month old Maine Coon (my baby boy!) and the innocent one!
Charlie is pretty much fully grown, but Gryfn still has growing to do... yes he's going to be a big boy!

and on the Queensland floods... my heart and thoughts go out to all affected. Makes my troubles a lot less somehow...

Ta da.......

My new studio (I prefer the name studio...lol).....



There's still some fine tuning to do, but this is it basically...

ok...some details...



My desk now overlooks the lounge room, straight to the tv so no more twisting my neck to watch tv!
I have my tool caddy on my left (I am left handed!) and then there's another shallower desk under the window to hold the laptop and my cutter. But I can move the cutter out of the way and plug in the printer or the knk depending on what I want to do. It's all within reach.
The shelves in the window recess (the window looks into the garage so no view) still need finishing... basically it's my inspiration wall so it holds my knick knacks and some photos and will hold some things I want to make.
Also on the corner of my desk is my lucky bamboo that I got for Christmas!
The drawers on the small desk hold my camera, spare glues/tapes, the important lollies (lol) and my back up cds...

Ok... onto the shelves...



These still need tweaking...
The shelf on the right holds...
OTP stuff including mini albums, etc (bottom 2 shelves) paints, tools, punches and chipboard and the top shelf has my photo boxes. I still really need to tweak the top 2 shelves here, as I need to work out storage for the larger ink pads which are on the top shelf atm.

and the shelf on the left holds everything else....

Papers on the bottom shelf, inc scraps and 6x6 pads and the files on the bottom contain the family history details, and my sketch books.
The next shelf from the bottom hold (from left) stamps and rubons in the cases and the boxes hold journal bloks, acrylic shapes, felt and wide ribbon, and vinyl for the knk.
The next shelf holds my ribbons, and small embellishments with 3d roses in the glass jars.
And the top shelf holds all of my alphas...

And sitting on the top of the shelves are my kc drawers holding my loose chipboard alphas and shapes, with my jars of flowers on that. I want another set of the drawers to hold the tim holtz metal hardware I have. The spice rack holds all of my glimmer mists and colourwashes (yes I need to alter it!) and the white square bowls hold all of my versacube and dewdrop inks.
And I've pulled ut my clip it up which holds rubons and stickers.

So who wants to come play?

Bunnings..

are not my favourite people atm...

What should have been a very simple job has turned into a mission...
Saw 5 pieces of timber in half, then glue and screw it all together...well that's what it should have happened but of course the timber was not cut properly and what should have all been 1200x450 was 1200 all through to 1210 and half of it was 445 instead of 450...
so dh had to trim them all to the same size..

therefore this is what my shelves look like...



and not all nicely finished and loaded up with all my scrapping supplies like they should be!

and it's started....

the scraproom makeover that is....



This is some of the stuff I've moved out to rearrange.... I'm getting dh to make me another set of shelves to match the ones I've got and moving out the set of drawers. I've set up a new side desk to hold the laptop and my cutter, and there's space to put the printer or the knk depending on what I want to do.


And I know I didn't put up a pic last night, but I did take one....

Yes bad Charlie Brown on my scrapbooking shelves... acting all innocent!!!

I was busy last night reading Angels and Demons... now just to watch the movie!

It's raining....

it's pouring....

and thank God for that after a very muggy 41C day!
And of course the rain bucketed down just as we were leaving work....

The roses were looking gorgeous this morning, but the heat has burnt all that were open. But I love the smell of rain after a hot day and I'm certain the garden is loving the water....




and dh is better and finally home so all is good... now I just need some sleep!

Tired...

I wonder why....
At least dh is getting better and should be home in the next couple of days.

and my pic for today... my beautiful boy!

I want a refund....

On my New Year!!!!!

3 days in... dh is in hospital, DS1 lost it with his brothers and could't cope and of course Aunt Flo is visiting....

So this is my thoughts on 2011 so far....



It's all gotta be uphill from here doesn't it????


ps... if you want to know... it's one of my christmas gnomes from the boys...

A rainbow...

of colours...


This is what happens when at the end of each year the leftover pencils from school get put into a tub and never sorted... today it got sorted.
Needless to say I'm not buying any new pencils for school this year... lol

And last night I scrapped... one of the sketch challenges for Chook Scraps!

Happy New Year

Well it's another new year... this one hasn't started overly well with dh being quite sick and spending a few days in hospital. So it was a very quiet night for us last night.
But I hope everyone had a lovely night and the year is going to be a bright wonderful year for all of us!

So being a new year, I've decided I need to work on some goals... I will be back with these another day as I am still working on them...
But one I am going to do and I will need you all to kick my butt if I don't, is to update my blog regularly and to help me do that I'm going to share a photo a day...
So here is today's....

A nice clean, spotless boy's room.... this is what I've spent all day doing removing all the rubbish that he hordes and rearranging the room. And I've got a pinky promise from him that it's going to stay that way! Especially as Mum found his DS that was lost for 2 weeks.... !
But we will see how it all goes...

and even though I haven't had time to scrapbook yet (it's going to happen! after I finish backing up the computer...) I have taken pics of the cover I made for my christmas present... my kobo e-reader...


This has been made using an old diary cover I had and covering the front with Websters Pages, and I've used a soft foam on the inside to protect the Kobo.
The Kobo is held in with black velcro strips so I can remove it from the cover if I like. And the closure is a hinge made of grungeboard and a tim holtz hitch fastener.
The little pocket/envelope on the front is to hold SD cards that hold books. The kobo will read them, so it's a good way to keep a library!
Much cheaper than the covers I've seen online for $45-50.... and definately much more stylish!!!!