I Dream Of Exploring The World

Yesterday we celebrated a birthday
Yesterday Megan turned 11
As usual the girls were up early
and eager to get the present giving underway
We gave Megan a camera
I think she was excited

as she should be because it’s got more Megapixels than mine!

She had 3 friends over for her birthday lunch

there was much chattering, giggling and they even got to scrap a page each

and we gave them an 8x8 album each to take home with them
I think they enjoyed it and made some pretty cool looking pages!

 

oh and yeah there was cake, with extra cream like Grandma requested (or so Megan said :)  )

  

Today we had another early start
Headed to the airport to say bye to Dave

He is heading to Thailand for work
we filled the rest of the day around home
Megan started painting the canvas that Grandma gave her

and because Lucy had been asking to scrap, since yesterday, they all scrapped this afternoon

and on and off through the afternoon I did too :)

 

someone, a rabbit, has broken my sewing machine
so I found out when I went to sew on the page
So I will be taking that to Mum and Dad’s tomorrow in hope Mum might find out what they have done
I love the Maya Road stick pins

 

and their mist, which I used on some hearts I made from scrap cardboard

and the journaling :)

Did you notice the new banner up the top there??
I had an email from the lovely Michelle with the new one attached
I love it and am grateful for her generosity, thanks again Michelle!

Speaking of generous people
Another Michelle is having a giveaway
Head to the Lil’ Red Rocket blog to find out how you could win this

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“I Want To Tell My Kids About Scrapbooking”

said Elizabeth, talking about when she grows up
Now that made my internal smile light up
More on that later
Yesterday, before we got Jessica, I took the girls to visit the recycle shop
I found 2 packets of gorgeous OLD buttons
1 packet contained covered buttons and I had a play with them last night
While I waited for Dave to arrive home from soccer training

I was also itching to have a play with some new stamps I had found on Etsy, from seller Pretty Tape

Love the doily pattern
Would love this pack of stamps for that reason too :) :)
I also got some of the yummy paper tape, but more on that later too :)
See the flower??

I see that Prima have released the same sort, with the frosty/glass glaze, I bought these from Lincraft lastyear and they are distributed by Sullivans, wonder if they are actually the same flower… just wondering :)
Also yesterday I picked up this tag, also from the recycle shop, it was a little more weathered than the ones I had so it seemed perfect to take home and put through the trusty typewriter :)

The alpha stickers are Studio Calico :)
So back to the Elizabeth’s When-I-Grow-Up comment
This morning all the girls scrapped

I had printed off a few photos for each of them and we took over the dining table
I even had the chance to start a page while they did their thing
They all made 4 pages, except Lucy who did 3

I was amazed at how well this scrap session went
I think that they have all, finally, got the hang of the whole paper/sticker thing and were quite happy to do their own thing without any help
I’m happy with that too :)
So the page I started, and then finished later

Yesterday we found a lizard in the sunroom
It was one we hadn’t seen before so I did some googling and found out what type it was
A Mountain Dragon
Pretty cool name!
The journaling

is on some of my new orange paper tape
And you can also see the orange spotty tape I used, here

and final photo, lol
The other half of the doily I used a while back on the Baby Shower Day card, doily from Jodie on etsy :)

Today we also had a visit from a friend and her 2 boys
She also stayed for dinner so it was good catching up with her
Today is also the 2nd last Friday before school goes back
Which means it’s the 2nd last weekend
Boo Hoo

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I Want To Remember

and I want them to too
Megan had a friend stay over last night
So today they got to scrap
Jessica and Lucy did too
Elizabeth didn’t want to, so didn’t :)
So her and I sat and had a cuddle while the other 4 got scrappy
This is Lucy’s page

the only thing I did was the journaling, stitching and the title
She did all the rest
Jessica’s page

Megan’s page

and her friend’s

Jessica went to their place for the afternoon
When we went to pick her up we were greeted with more scrapbook pages
We had inspired Megan’s friend, her sister and Jessica to pull out some crafty things and scrap
The friend already had an album, packed away in the back of some drawer, and by the time we got there she had already filled 4 pages and did more while we were there
Jessica came home with 2 pages, using some zoo and animal photos that they had
Not a bad way to inspire someone is it??
Love it when kids scrap
Love it when you can show others how easy it is to keep those memories and to put them down on paper
Love it :)

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I Want The Funds Of The Tooth Fairy

because this week we had her visit twice, on the same day!
Yep we had some toothless twins happening here

 

They lost their teeth on the same day, and it was teeth that are next to each other
Elizabeth’s had been wobbly for sometime and Jessica’s not so much lol
And it wasn’t on account of this

We finally had time to go shop for our traditional ”Holiday Cereal”
And I have to say that although Grandma would be proud that they all choose chocolate I opted out of choosing a box and stuck to my plain old boring in comparison Special K!

Other things that have been happening since New Years Eve…
Dave packed up the inside Christmas lights, tree and decorations

Megan had a ‘holiday’ at Mum and Dad’s for 2 nights
But we got to catch up with them all on the 2nd night



We all went to the Taste of Tasmania
And taste we did!
we ended up down in the marquee where they had cooking demonstrations and a band
The girls went up to get some of the samples from the demonstrations but were at the back of the group that surrounded the cooking area so only got the last plate to share

They quickly learnt that you had to be first so this was what happened for the next lot of samples

Yep that is them right up at the front, ready to pounce on the food tray!!
We were sitting right up the back
Right near the stage for the band
Which wasn’t so good for the foodies
but was great for when the band started and the movers got moving

My sister brought Megan home, stayed a while with her girls and then took Jessica back for her 2 day stay at Mum and Dads

We spent our vouchers that Uncle Samuel gave us
The girls adding to their toy/book/cd piles
While Dave and I added to the Wii games with Mario Kart
Fun
The girls have enjoyed playing the Wii
Here was a little session I spied while I peeled potatoes last night


Dave is holding Elizabeth because she likes to creep forward when she plays 10 pin bowling and the tv isn’t safe when she moves forward lol

Today is the first time I have had time and motivation to be creative
I decided to use this canvas, that I had started before Christmas
It’s my word for 2010
 

I feel it’s a year for possibilities and I am looking forward to what will emerge in 2010 and how I will emerge from it
Tonight Megan has a friend staying over
They ‘allowed’ me to take their photo

and before bedtime they got to scrap a page each

Megan’s page

and her friends

I also scrapped this page this afternoon, while waiting for the kettle to boil so I could make Dave a coffee for when he got home

and some close ups :)

was hoping that this blue twirly bit would turn out differently but went with it and don’t mind how it turned out :)

Things haven’t really slowed down here, in fact the month is already filling up at a rapid rate
Have 2 social events and an appointment this week as well as picking up Jessica and going to Mum and Dad’s again
Seems life doesn’t have an off switch that I can reach so it’s just as well I can smile and know it’s all good :)

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