Let's Get Shabby Challenge #59

 

 

 

Love this!!!

Let's Get Shabby's

Challenge #59  is to.......

  Create a ‘Shelf’

 Interpret it any way you like!

 You could create an off-the page shelf, draw one, create one with embellishments or you could paint/spray a shelf for instance.... whatever you choose.. have fun with it!

I've created with another little quote for Hannah's German little antique book..

and this time I sketched a little shelf nook ....

 

It was great there was a space between paragraphs already there,

that became my space for a shelf..., so the sketching begins....

 

 

and it begins to grow, who knows where it will end???

 

 

Got rid of the pencil and grabbed a brown fine-liner



 

and add in a few embellishments and lettering...

 

 

We hope you will play along!

 

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Paper Dvizhnik Colour Challenge

 

 

Here's a couple of PL sized cards....

(with limited time, these sizes where perfect!)

 

One for Paper Dvizhnik....

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PL card...just cos

 

 

 

 

 

 

School holidays are nearly here.... hanging out for Friday this week!

This past weekend Friday - Sunday I spent on an audition panel for 'Beauty

and the Beast' for the stage musical season set for Feb/Mar 2015... it feels weird writing 2015!!!

How fast is that happening!!

Anyway, at the same time I had casting done and first rehearsal beginning at my studio for Nutcracker... which Paige and the senior girls handled very well.

Things always happen at once!  Cant WAIT to have two weeks off!!!

Bring on the holidays...

I'll be hoping to catch up with everything here in blogland...too.. my apologies for my hit and miss

xx

 

 

 



Project Life - Week 21 and Map Necklace...

 

Today I took a little time to scrap.... really - REALLY wanted to settle in for the day!!!

But cant, though, still managed to do this....

Paige's midyear dinner....

 

 

And just before 'Maelle' (our French exchange student) went home, I made her this necklace. 

Luckily among my travel scrappy stash was a tiny little map in French!

 

She loved it, and wore it immediately... made me smile!

 

 

xx

 

 



Life Less Busy..... and Project Life Card

 

 

Yep, ballet exams are over after three long days and we are all exhausted!!

Nothing left energy-wise and I'm having a week off!





 

 

Paige and her exam partner at our studio in her very last exam ever...



 

Done and dusted!



 

 

For the rest of us though... its only over for another year, now attention is turning to the end of year production.... 'Nutcracker'.

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 Project Life style card for my Project Life album.

 

 

 xx

 



OLW Word Up #86 - LOST

 

 OLW over at Ronda Palazzari's blog.........

Did this a couple of days ago and trying to squeeze in a late night post...

(we are full on ballet exam mode here - one day down, two to go!)

 

 

The word is 'LOST"

 

and got another page done for Hannah's little quote book...

 

 

xx

 

 

 

 



Project Life Week 21, PL Card......... and Happy Fathers Day

 

Played with my Counterfeit Kit to get another PL page done and am making a concerted effort with small amount of time to get somewhat caught up.

If ONLY I wasn't such a SLOW scrapper!!! (rolling eyes)

 

Anyway,  here it is, and how appropriate.... Scrappy Camp.  Oooh I LOVE these weekends.

We have 2 or 3 a year and its a 3 nighter each time.....  its the best and all we do is EAT! (and scrap)  All catered with the best group of scrappy friends. 

 Cant wait because I have another next month!!  Maybe I should dedicate it for just doing PL and that will help get my album a little fatter!

 

These are my two lovely SILs and neiceIL 

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PL Card......

and had a little fun with this and cant wait to use it in my album!!!

 

 

 

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And lastly, because its soooo important....

 

HAPPY FATHER's Day!!

My dh is rather shy when it comes to the camera, being scrapped

 and even celebrating days for him....he's a worker.

Here he is showing the girls the workings of under the hood of the car (learning to drive)

 

 

Anyway...

Here's how our morning went...

 

Dh gets up about 8am...

 

Me:  Where are you going?

dh:  To the farm....

me: Why? Its Father's Day!

dh:  The cows need drenching today, I've organised ddad and db

me: But its Father's Day!!!

dh:  (sighing with a smile) Weeeell, you know its not a big deal, and the cows need bringing in

me: (exasperated) Listen here... today is not about you! (did I just say that!!! )

 

dh:  (laughed head off and skipped out the door)

 

Paige: (at 10am) Where's Dad?

me:  Gone to the farm

Paige: It's Fathers Day!

me:  I know

Paige:  I organised for Meaghan to Skype from New Zealand at 11am for him

Me:  well, cant now...

Meaghan (on Skype early)  Ugh....

Hannah (on phone)  Double Ugh....

 

sigh.... when will he learn Father's Day is not about him!

 

LOL  

 

Consequently if you cant beat them, join them... so off to the farm we went this afternoon complete with computer for skyping sessions. 

We all had a lovely afternoon with dh and his mum and dad, sister and bil, and niece...

And Meaghan and Hannah on Skype!

AND his surprise when he got home....

A 'Cold Rock' ice-cream cake!

Now he wanted it all about him!!!

 

(very big smile)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



September Counterfeit Kit and Challenge #1

 

Really really wanted to get this kit together and being only one week from our ballet schools examinations... weeeeell, time is very very scarce..

Classes are coming out of my ears, and while I'm pretty happy with how the students are shaping up, its this big final race to the finish line.

Pretty soon though (and I'm counting down!) are our school holidays...oh sheer joy!!!

Two weeks!  Cant come soon enough!!!

 

Anyway,  last months kit kept me soooo organised in busy time, so I needed to get this month's kit together to do the same.

 

Its strange how it comes about:

I know I'm so right brained!

Each month I hop to the dt members blogs (haven't done this month's yet though) to see how they put their kits together and am intrigued by such varied thought-processes

 

I cant seem to move past colour!

You can find the main kit HERE

 

Though, more than anything, I was captured by one piece of paper:

 from Basic Grey's 'Grand Bazaar' range

 

Yes its busy - huh! 

But the colour combination is fabulous!

So I picked out the colours (or close to) and matched up a heap of old embellishments from a box I'd long forgotten about and added only a couple of newish ones.

Glad to use them again.....and here's my kit

 

"SPRING!"

 

 

Challenge One was to make up challenge criteria...

 

Weeeeeell, mine is:

 

Scrap your new season!

and

here in Australia...

its

SPRING!

 

gosh, I haven't scrapped flowers in sooooo long!

But they are in my box and I'm going to use them up!

 

 

 

xx