Tougher day today
we had tears for the first time today
poor kid
Hoping tomorrow isn’t as rough
Another page from my Tattered Angels design team submission
used some alpha stickers as a mask
love that photo, of that cheeky monkey
and the story behind the photo
seems such a long time ago
but it ain’t…
Day 5
She’s struggled a bit today
but she’s a champion
and distraction is helpful
and Littlest Pet Shop are the most helpful
washing them made her sing
drying them made her chatter
and seeing them sunbake
makes me smile
I made a few pages for the recent Tattered Angels design team call
Thought I’d share them with you, being that the team has now been picked and I like to share
The page is in honour of the gorgeous flowers I received for my Almost 40 days to 40 birthday
They are from my pal Rose (aka Rosie Posie)
I used a glimmer glass butterfly from the Tattered Angels Glimmer glass album as a mask
misted over it with some “Fully Purple” glimmer mist
added some flowers, that I purchased from D-lish Scraps
and gave my dymo a run with some pink tape
Elizabeth’s operation went well and so is her recovery
Today she’s started to have a little more pain and discomfort
but I think that the morning we had really didn’t help
Jessica was home today and we spent the morning at the doctor
and then the chemist, getting medicine for Jessica’s sinus infection
This afternoon we rested
Reading up on tonsillectomies I have read that day 4-6 are meant to be the most painful
So hoping she gets through the next few days as well as she has so far.
Scheduled blog post
Tonight I am in the hospital with Elizabeth
If you are my friend on Facebook you should be seeing updates on the op
and possibly updates on her recovery and my sleepless night
The Cocoa Daisy Fall crop challenges deadline is this weekend
I would have like to have completed more of the challenges
But this is my last one
It’s for Stephanie’s vintage challenge
love the layers
and I love this pattern paper, glad I found a use for it instead of ogling over it!
and glad I typed up the sentimental journaling
How do you add buttons that have an eye on the back??
Thought it’d tell you what I do
sometimes I cut the back off, so they sit flat,
Or this time I cut a slit in the paper
Stuck the eye through
Then, on the back, I stitched them together
so it looks like this on the back
easy!
How was your day?
Mine was a hospital filled one
More on that in a minute
When I uploaded the photos, that I wanted to blog with
I really wondered about what photo to share first
You see the first photo is the one people see first
it is the one that might draw you in
or turn you off
so I decided to go with this one
and left the ‘other one’ for last
this is my hybrid page for Tracy Martin Scrapbook Designs using her very cool Celebrate kit
perfect for photos from Dad’s “Surprise party”
as he hammed it up for the camera!
Right
The ‘other’ photo
Tomorrow we say goodbye to these
See those horrid tonsils??
Tomorrow they come out
This morning Elizabeth and I had her pre-admission appointment
She was given a lollipop, a stamp on each hand, a magazine and had the man at reception say what a well mannered girl she was
After her appointment we went shopping for some operation day supplies
A colour in book, some textas, a reading book and a new Littlest Pet Shop
She isn’t too fazed by the thought of tomorrow
I know this might change post op
I’m hoping everything goes smoothly
This afternoon I was back at the hospital
this time for an appointment for Megan
She’d had one on Monday
but was back today for a skin biopsy
today they took a 3mm cylinder shaped chunk
Megan was so brave
I am so proud of her
She now has a stitch on her palm
They took it from a spot where her skin has hardened
We go back in over a week for the results and hopefully moving on to the real reason we went there
To get some help
To arm Megan with information
Today I went with this little chicky on a class excursion
we went to the Woodbridge Marine Discovery Centre
and she loved it
Especially things like this
and ESPECIALLY this
That’s a shark in the tank
A baby draughtboard shark or swell shark
was a good day
And a page share??
This is the page I made for Kim’s repurpose challenge
I used pieces form the November kit
The ‘nest’ is made from the leftovers from the Glitz alpha stitkcers
I gave new life to the Jillibean Soup alpha leftovers too
and I also made use of the Crate border sticker leftovers
and my feelings on the opportunity to be amongst some amazing people in an amazing place…
‘tis true!
This morning saw the last challenge posted for the Fall Crop at Cocoa Daisy
and it was….
MINE!!!!
Here is the page I made
Used some of the gorgeous products found in the November kit
painted the black Jillibean Soup alphas
then distressed the edges to reveal the black underneath
and did you notice the journal spot?
yep it’s the packaging from the gorgeous glitter candy dots
The challenge is here and you have till the 20th to enter
as are the other challenges, there are 20 (!!) in total
LOADS of inspiration!!
Products I used to create this page:
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The Cocoa Daisy Fall Crop is almost over
But there has been lots happening and still loads to come
I played along with Emily’s challenge and created this page
Used pattern paper from past Cocoa Daisy kits
and this photo, taken by Megan at my “Almost 40 days to 40” birthday party
It’s of my Dad and Dave’s Dad (my Dad had his birthday on Monday and Dave’s Dad had his birthday today)
This afternoon we headed back to the same park
This time for Dave’s work family BBQ
there was a visit from this ol’ fella
The girls all had a nice time!
When we got home I had some help to pick our first bowl of these
The girls had a nice time eating them!
Spent the morning at Zoo Doo
Someone was in her element and was over the moon happy to be the first to hold this fella
