Getting Side Tracked

I keep meaning to blog. I come in here every day, but then I get caught up reading everyone else's blog that I don't get around to writing my own.

The biggest news for us at the moment, is that Kyan went into a big bed today. We got him an extendable bed from IKEA. He had 2 naps in it today and has gone straigth to sleep in it tonight. He's the best baby ever. He seems to really like it. It was very excited when he saw it. I need to get him some new linen for it this week. Michael has already packed away the cot into the garage.

Entries for the RNA are due this week so I am busily finishing them off. Should be right to finish them tomorrow now that I am on holidays.

I got some stuff back from Bumblebee the other day, so I should be able to post them now.






That's about all I can think of at the moment.
Alicia

Back to Work

Well I am now back at work. It wasn't too bad I guess. I have a lot of work to do.

Here is a photos of the tin that Sara and I made at the convention on the weekend. I quite like it. I think that Sara and I are going to use it for our "She" albums, except that instead of doing it about ourselves, we are going to complete pages for each other.



I am still plodding through my masters entry I spent some time on my beyond the page last night. I think I like it. I haven't decided yet. I still really like the concept, but I'm not sure that the embellishments are coming through the way I would like. We'll see I suppose.

I seem to have uncovered a few lurkers. Hi Sara N. It's good to see you. Thanks for visiting me. Hi also to Cass. Cass has just recently gotten her new website and gallery up and running. Check out the link in my sidebar. Congrats Cass. Also Hi to Crissy. Hope you visit again. Thanks for your comments everyone.

For anyone local, Scrapbook City are having a stocktake sale over the next few days. You can shop online too.

The new Scrapbook Creations is out. There is a bumblebee ad in the inside cover. Mine is the Georgia Girl layout. I forgot to take a photo of it, so I can't post it here.

Best go I suppose, and get ready for work again tomorrow.

Sara and I headed back to the convention centre yesterday afternoon to do our Scrapbook Creations class. It was a really great class. Sara and I talked way too much as usual, but we managed to get a fair bit done. We made a really cute tin. I have almost finished mine. I'll try to post a photo tomorrow.

Here are some photos that we took at the class. We grabbed the opportunity for a photo with Jannah Kelly, the editor of Scrapbook Creations and Loraine Bate. Both of them were really lovely.




In other scrap news, I am STILL working on my double layout for my masters enrty. It is slowly getting there, but I can't believe how much time I am spending on the one layout. It is unheard of for me. My beyond the page is coming along nicely too.

Here are a few photos of recent layouts. The fancy pants one, I did on the retreat. It was funny, I had another photo planned for the layout, but hadn't printed it yet, so I used this one just for size and placement. In the end, the photo went so well with it, that I glued it on. I still have the other to scrap now.

The other one is just a Kyan layout. No great story to go with it.




We went out to Wivenhoe Dam today for a picnic. It was really nice. Not too busy either, surprisingly for a public holiday. I think we got some cute photos of Kyan riding his bike down a hill.

That's it for now. I've said it before, but if you stop by my blog, please leave a comment, so I know who's been. Bye.

Sara and I headed off to the Scrapbook convention today. It was amazing how many people I saw that I knew. It was fun, but I had Kyan with me, and going to those shows with a pram is just ridiculous. I will try never to do that again. I constantly felt that I was getting in someones way. We met Jannah Kelly from Scrapbook Creations which was nice, and even got a free class tomorrow, so I am looking forward to that.

I finally got to meet Jill today, even if it was very brief. I'm really keen to do some scrapping together soon, and get to know her better IRL.

The lifeline bookfest was on next door. It's one of those things that I keep saying I'll goto, but have never managed to get there. It was incredible the number of books there. I only looked at the children's section, and got a whole bag of books for $5. That should keep Kyan happy for hours, not to mention Daddy with a sore throat. Kyan loves to hear stories. I hope he is a good reader when he gets older.




Here are a couple of layouts I did a few weeks ago when the computer was down.
The one of Kyan has french knots all over the place. The one of me was for last month's challenge pack for Scrapbook City. Speaking of whoch, they have announced the dates for the next retreat. It is going to be in November at Brookfield. I'm not sure if I'll still be here then, but if I am, I'll certainly be going. There are probably details on the website by now. Hope that link works, it's the first time I have put a link.

Anyway, Michael is off to the Brisbane Lions game tonight so I better get Kyan off to bed, and then I might be able to do some scrapping. I really need to get my RNA entries done.

Hi,
Not much news from me. I'm back to work unfortunately on Tuesday. It's been good to have some time to myself.

Sara gave me some beautiful roses the other day. They look so nice on my dining table. I'm so lucky to have such a great friend.

Someone ran into my car the other day. Michael went to have a look on Wednesday. They think there is probably at least $10 000 worth of damage. It's all covered by insurance, and we have a hire car, but it so mcuh hassle, for something that should not have happened.

I am busy working on my masters entry at the moment. I'm pretty happy with the way it is going so far. It's a lot of work. I did manage to do a couple of layouts for Scrapbook City yesterday.

The one of Sara is for the monthly challenge. It is definitely worth getting if you live close by. The good news is that once the gallery and forum are up and running, you can just upload your challenge entry and not have to worry about getting back to the shop.

The other layout is using Arctic Frog. It's just a layout for the shop. I quite like it.

Scrapbook City are also launching their new monthly kits too. They are great value.

Sorry Jilly and Sara. Hope you haven;t missed me too much. I've had a really bad week and haven;t been feeling uip to using the computer. Not sure that I do today either, so I'll just do the tag from Sara and Will and leave it at that.
I AM: home from work
I WANT: to do some more scrapping
I HATE: fennel
I MISS: Michael when he is at work
I FEAR: heights
I HEAR: the washing machine humming
I WONDER: what Kyan is doing at daycare
I REGRET: not having breakfast this morning.
I AM NOT: going to work all week.
I DANCE: Irish, well I used to.
I SING: rarely
I CRY: !
I AM NOT ALWAYS: on the computer, it just seems that way
I MAKE WITH MY HANDS: pasta
I WRITE: really neatly when I want to
I CONFUSE: myself all the time.
I NEED: to have breakfast
I SHOULD: go and make breakfast
I START: stitching on layouts and then complain about every stupid french knot, that seemed like a good idea at the time.
I FINISH: layouts in one sitting if I can help it.

I tag Shirlz(when she gets home) and Jenny

Oops, here was I promising to update this more often and it has been a whole week. I guess I figure that it will be a boring read because I still can;t access my photos to share. The good news is that Michael has taken the computer to the repair shop, so hopefully we will be back to normal really soon.

In other news, I am off to ISC in the morning with the lovely Sara to do a workshop with Alannah Jergensmeyer from Arctiv Frog, so I am really looking forward to that.

Things are progressing very slowly on the New York front but no news yet. We are having fun on the net though, deciding where we might like to live.

A big Hi, to Vic who dropped in for a visit. Hope to see you around more often. I hope that baby belly isn't giving you too much grief. Not long now!

Not much else to report. Got some great new stuff from Bumblebee yesterday, but I can't share just yet. The ads that I have seen have been quite good so far, which is really nice. It's nice when people recognise it. Once I can get to my photos again, I'll post the published work here, so you can see which ones were mine. In the latest SM, mine is the one about the USA.

Best get off to bed so I can make it to the coast by 8 in the morning.

Thanks heaps Sara for my new banner and slide show. It looks great. I'll have to figure out how to do this stuff myself eventually.

I went to visit Holly today. She is my dog that has gone to live with a new family. I really liked seeing her today. She has put on weight, and she seems really happy at her new house. She has more room and another border collie to play with. We got a few ohotos but without my normal computer I can;t have a good look at them yet.

A big Happy Birthday to Leisa and kerri at Scrapbook City. They celebrated their first year in business today. It was certainly nice and busy when I dropped in. The retreat is coming up really soon and the best news is that Sara is now coming. I;m very excited about that. I've never been to a retreat without her and I wasn'y looking forward to scrapping without her. I need to get cracking on a name tag now, not to mention finish the layout that I'll be teaching.

Meanwhile I'm off to do some blog surfing.

I haven't been able to post for a while for a few resons. We've been away, we've been sick and our computer has died. I can use Michael's laptop now to surf the net, but I can't get access to any photos so this will be a pretty boring post.

On a scrapping front I have been very busy at Indro. We have the retreat coming up soon, so there is lots to be done for that. i have almost finished the layout that I will be teaching. I have also done up the new design team kits, and the June customer challenge kit and some other kits that I can;t really talk about yet. it's all very exciting, but quite time consuming,. It's good to have it all done for the moment.

I'm busily working on my bunblebee design team stuff. There are new ads out int he mags but I haven't seen them yet.

Not much else going on really. Amanda is back from Canada, so I look forward to catching up with her.

Meanwhile, Michael is watching The Roadrunner (beep, beep) so I might try to sneak inside for some scrapping time.

Another long weekend gone. I'm going to miss them. I love 4 day weeks. Got a fair bot of scrapping done this weekend. I finished the cover of the baby journal for my sister, but I haven't photographed it yet. I finished a layout that I started at Deb's. I also got some DT stuff done, which is good.

We went to Ikea on Saturday and I got some really great glass jars for my ribbon scraps, so now they are all colour organised. They were only $5 for 4 of them too, so that was a bargain. I found some other stuff that I would like for my room, but with New York looming, Michael reckons there is no point getting more stuff to go on the walls.

I got some of my New Zealand photos printed up yesterday. I am having trouble uploading them here though. Maybe they are too big.

I got around to doing my canvas for the SAM cc and I'm really happy with the result. It;s a set of 4 mini canvases that i'll hang together like a montage.


My good friend Kate just called me from Emerald. I'm missing her a lot since she moved so it was really good to talk to her, and the best part is, she might be coming to New York at the end of the year.

Finally for today a big HI to Jen and Jill, who are new visitors to my blog.