New challenge blog.

There is a new challenge blog on the net, check it out!!http://www.outofthehatscrapchallenge.blogspot.com/

The concept is simple, you send us in your ideas for page requirements and on the first of the month we will draw 3 of them out of the hat!! These will be the elements with which you will build your page. There are three prize packs up for grabs, one winner will be decided by the design team, another by public vote and the third will be a random name drawn from all of those who have entered. Even if you don't get time to complete the month's layout you can still be in the draw for one of 10 monthly RAK's just for sending in your ideas for the hat. So come on all you scrapbookers out there, cause as they say, you gotta be in it to win it!!!!!

I feel human again!

Yesterday I treated myself to a trip to the hairdresser, which was probably long overdue. Does anyone else find that the days in between when you decide that you need to go and make an appointment to the day when you actually go are torturous!!! Your hair just doesn't want to co-operate at all! It's almost as if it is punishing you for not going sooner!

My hairdressers is one of those little gem finds that you want to share with everyone cause it s so fabulous but on the other hand you want to keep to youself in case popularity puts the price up. They put out coupons and it is the best deal. I get 10 foils, massage, deep conditioning treatment, style cut and blowdry for only 50 bucks!!!! To think I used to pay $180 per trip to the hairdresser and didn't come out feeling any more beautiful than my $50 experience. There is something to be said for that!

Doggy Dramas!!

I have been feeding my bf's dogs as they are currently away on holidays which you would think would be an easy job. Right .........Wrong!!!! Yesterday when I got there I found one dog on the courtyard wall (2 mtrs off the ground) and the other ........ nowhere!! She was gone. I was packing it, what was I going to tell my friend, ummmmm I lost your dog?? Well after some searching and calling around the neighbourhood not to mention setting off every other dog on a barking spree, I finally located her ....... in the next door neighbours backyard!!!!! If she wasn't so darn cute I would have strangled her. The next 45 mins was spent blocking up the hole where they were getting out off the balcony with whatever I could get my hands on. So I pray that when our other friend gets there to feed them today that my clever and quite resourceful trick has worked. (fingerscrossed)

So to the friend who owns the dogs (you know who you are) finally reads this, and I know she will, you owe me that hour and a half of my life back!!!!!!!!

Spring is is the Air!!

Well the weather is certainly warming up nicely, with a top of 28 predicted for today I would say that we are in for a long hot summer. Bust out the boardies - Cody looks so cute in his!!

Here are some pics I took around the backyard playing with the macro and super macro settings on my camera:

Hope you all have a lovely day!! xoxo

Another layout

This layout was for the weekly challenge at Uproar 2 Scrapmore. It was set by the lovely Lisa Kamphius and the requirements were to use three different pp's from three different manufacturers, ric rac & stamping. I have never even mixed pp's not in the same range let alone from different manufacturers so I really needed some help. BF to the rescue. Thanks Cate for the pp's from your stash, I hope you like what I have done with them, and if you have ever seen Cate's stash you would know she will never miss them!! ;-)

Tally: 11 down 9 to go!!!

Late night scrap-a-thon

I really hate leaving layouts half done, I am not even sure why. I started this one @ Cate's yesterday and as per usual I never got it finished. So on my quest to finish it before I went to bed I got on a roll and before I knew it I had finished 3 and it was 11.30!! :-O I was a little spoiled last night cause Derek went to bed at about 8pm and took Cody with him so I had some me time.

This one I made to have a play with my new EK success curvy cutter.

And this last one I really love. I was a bit unsure as I was making it that it would look a bit like a sticker sneeze (Cate's terminology) but I really like the way it turned out.

As a little celebration for finishing my layouts I decided that I deserved a trip to the scrap shop (which will remain nameless) as they had advertised a $1 paper sale where every sheet of paper in store is $1 for the day. I spent ages scouring the racks for just the right pp's for my next projects and even bought co-ordinating bazzil - something I never do - I always have to run out to the scrap shop to get CS before any scrap day which usually costs me about $80 as I get sucked in by all the yummies in the store, but that is another story. Anyway, back to the original story, so after my painstaking and long selection I find out that the sale is now on Tuesday!! WTF!! I was devistated, I couldn't bear to put everything back and I can't get there on Tuesday cause I have to work so I paid for my rather expensive stash and left. Happy with my yummy goodies but a little deflated that I didn't get the bagain I set out to get.

Off to scrap some more layouts with my new goodies, I only have 10 left to complete the challenge, and one week to go! Fingers crossed!

Some more layouts

I started this layout on Friday @ Cate's, finally found some time to finish it on Monday morning before work. It is based on the sketch challenge from Uproar 2 Scrapmore for this month. The original sketch had flowers in between the swirly lines which I have substituted for stars to make it a little more masculine.



The next layout is for the September 123 Challenge. The requirements were; Scallops, teal & Spots. I have never done one of these challenges before but it was good inspiration and it got another layout for my tally. I had a look at last months entries and the talent is awesome so I know I won't win anything from my layout, but I enjoyed doing it and I guess that's all that matters.



These last two layouts bring my tally to 7 so that means I have 13 to go! (insert oh no!! face here) don't think I am gonna make it!! Although I will be home all this weekend and I still have scrapping tomorrow and I think one more week to complete my 20 layouts so you never know.