This Is What Holidays Are Made Of

*Meals in the slow cooker so I don’t have to rush around, at dinner time, and can enjoy TIME

*Spending time together and happy to do so

*Playing, lots and lots of playing

*Getting to do things that you can’t do when your at school. Like nail polished finger nails and some nail art

*Spending loads of time outside because the weather is just PERFECT!
*Sitting and enjoying the sunshine

That is just some of what holidays are made of :) :)
And here is something I just had to share
Elizabeth made this note holder for Dave’s Father’s Day present
It had to be pink, because of Dave’s allergy to pink ;)
But I happen to think this is the most gorgeous peg dog I have ever seen :)

I took full advantage of the girls being home and the sunshine today
Took a few photos and am hoping to get a little scrappy soon :)

It’s Monday

And it was really nice not to have to leap out of bed to get people ready for school and work
Oh holiday time I love you!
Today we did a little preparation for holiday goodness
A little supermarket shopping
Purchasing some cross stitch kits for some little hands
Renting some DVDs
and borrowing loads of books from the library



I think these might last till next week so we can have another trip to get some more :)
We also took the girls to the bike track
Packed up the car with kids and bikes and off we went
Sadly, when we got there, the back of the car wouldn’t open
So there was no bike riding
Just walking
But that was fine because there was a brand new exercise area to check out
 

before heading back to the playground for some more fun

 

 

and some more happy snaps :)

I TOTALLY love this one

So tomorrow we have added, to our holiday list, a visit from the locksmith lol
If he can’t fix the car door then it will be a trip to our mechanic :) Joy :)
Will leave you with a page I made for Banana Frog
For the colour focus challenge
This month’s inspiration is

(image obtained from the book 'The New School of Information Society')

this is the page I made

used the Build A Bloom set for the journaling lines,

Budmo Jiggler for the embossed title

and Sentimental Style for the brackety shape under the date/year.

 

Head over to the Banana Frog blog to see more goodness :)

Dad’s Day

Spent some of the day with this chap



My Pa, My Dad, My Father :)
Also known as Poppy, Pop, Da Pop Star…
I took this photo a few weeks ago
Today has been cold and rainy
But we had a lovely time while we had lunch together
I think this lovely man had a nice day too (photo taken at the same time as Dads)



He received some chocolates, best Dad certificates, a couple of screwdrivers, a foot imprint in fired clay
and a crème brulee kit  (hint hint Mister Dessert Maker Man)

And because it is Fathers Day here and Dads do so much
I thought I would share this page that I made a while back for Karen’s Scrappin’ Kupboard

Used up some older chipboard letters, making them unified with some paint

And the journaling :)

Oh Oh OH! I was just browsing over at the 2Peas blog
and almost jumped for glee when I saw this
V. cool!!
I never know about stuff like this till after it’s gone so it was nice to spy it :) :)

Hello Spring

I think I saw spring peeking through the winter skies??

My favourite season is spring
I love the new growth that spring brings
I love that the signs of spring mean summer is coming soon
I love that spring brings change and new life
Today is the first day of our school holidays
Today isn’t really feeling like spring
Today it is cold
Today it is raining
Today it is dreary and overcast
Today we spend inside
I’d like to say enjoying it but the kids are tired, ratty and in need of this break from school
Winter feelings!
So I’m hoping the spring feelings come back again soon
and we can get out and enjoy all that spring has to offer :)

Smooches Of You

Yesterday marked 14 years since Dave and I had our first kiss
Since we became boyfriend/girlfriend…
He is away for work, due back any moment now, so I thought I would use the new Kraft It Up challenge
and create this page 

 

love the colours in the challenge and had to add a little banner :)
Pieces used are from Studio Calico’s Footpath Add On kit, from August
Close up of the journaling :)

Last weekend the girls were at Mum and Dad’s for the night
On the way to pick them up Dave and I went to browse a local market
We spied this and snaffled if up for $10, with the stool!!

and I was a little excited by the purchase
AND the fact it has a blackboard inside it!
Having read a recent post of Miss Mel’s , about obtaining a chalk pen, I purchased a few yesterday and had fun :)

 

the girls requested a weather update for when they got up this morning

 

and I left another little message for when they got home this afternoon :)

Still have to figure out a way of getting all the chalk off so you can’t see the older writing
Seems good old elbow grease doesn’t even work well!!

One day left of school, then the term is over and we have 2 weeks of school holidays
YAY to that!!!!

A Packet Of Nuts

contains nuts. Right?
Not hard to tell what packet of nuts this one fell out of :)



Tonight she is at her formal dinner for Guides
The theme was Halloween dress
She just had to have a lab coat so she could go as a mad scientist
She just had to call herself Dr Da-Feetis
No clue why
Nuts I say Nuts!!

Thought I might share with you a page I made for Karen’s Scrappin’ Kupboard a few months ago
Of Elizabeth, from when I went with her class to the Botanical Gardens
To see all the Autumn leaves



A little machine stitching

and a rolled flower made from a strip of calico

Fun :)
Spied the first blossoms on our fruit trees yesterday.
On one of our 4 nectarine trees
Bring on Spring I say
Oh hang on that’s right… Spring is only 2 days away!!
:)

What’s His Name?

Funny story
Well I hope you think it’s funny!
I hope this isn’t a “You had to be there” stories
And that you will see the humour in it too :)
When we were away recently, on our road trip,
we visited the local Farmer’s Market
As we were walking in there were two older ladies walking out
One kept looking at Dave and as she walked past she said “Hello Matthew, how are you?”
Dave politely said “Hi, good thanks”
This page is made to remember that story
as well as a quick mention of the other names he has been called of late :)
Like Gary at soccer
and even my Mum called him Joe the other day…
So the girls have had fun calling him Matthew, Gary, Gazza, Matt… you get the picture :)



some journaling :)



I used bits from the August Studio Calico kit(s)
In one kit was a “packed by Andrew” card, a PERFECT addition to the page :)

Love me a cut-in-half Such Sweet Tierney chipboard button :)

 

I don’t play favourites…
I love the other half too :)

 

The weekend has been spent decluttering, reorganising and redecorating
Totally inspired by the new-to-us sideboard cabinet we received from Dave’s Mum last week
It had been given to her by her Grandparents
So we are quite thankful to have it and… well.. I like it in it’s new home :)

I bought, from Spotlight, a grey table runner to go across the top
and some red plastic place mat to go under the lamps
The lamps we have had a while now, won at a soccer dinner auction a couple of years ago
the letters I also bought from one of my favourite shops Typo
It’s a mainland store but there is a small section of products found in Hobart in the Cotton On shop

Looks mighty fine in real life, better than this photo, even if I do say so myself :)

What A Day

That’s all…
And speaking of Day
Here is a page I made for Banana Frog, about Pink Day (which happened back in May)|

 

You can read more about the page on the Banana Frog blog

the journaling :)

the buttons are from Such Sweet Tierney

and I made the rolled flower out of the pattern paper and the pom pom trim is from a QTea kit

and as promised photos of todays Vegetable Day

We had a chilli

a potato, with eyes

a pumpkin

and a carrot

she was upset because she wanted to not be a carrot by this time and would have rathered to just dress up
she changed her mind and her mood not long after :) 

So glad it is now the weekend
So hoping for a sleep in, of sorts tomorrow
So looking forward to the school holidays
One week to go, yay :)