'SCRAPPING THE MUSIC' AND 'MIX IT UP'

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC #85 The song this week is 'These are the Days' and here's my design team sample...... Look at my little cherubs! Hannah and Paige were little village girls in the production of 'Coppelia'. Here's a moment of relaxation when being fitted for costumes!

MIX IT UP #19 Here's the challenge This is me at Marine Land in Queensland. Boy has it changed from back then! LOL - I guess I have too!!

DAILY PHOTOS

16th MAY 09 A lovely little moment in ballet - a little dancer caught dancing in the mirror -sooo sweet.

17th MAY 09Spent the afternoon in the garden, starting to do the winter snipping. This is the bottom half of the drive - soooo rolling up the sleeves - the tidying begins!

18th MAY 09 I love my challenge blogs!! A big plus for me is that I dont have to list products! I'm just not that organised! I love to rip things out of the packaging and put them in pretty bottles etc and the products become part of the decor here in my scrapstudy! (big smile)

SATU, KIDDIE LIT, ADTHIS.....

SCRAPPING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE The Challenge is to be inspired by the lyrics "Help From My Friends" , and weeeell I thought this was a fab photo for my title! Here is Meaghan in Turkey (across the universe from Australia!) propped up behind an ancient statue in a little humorous pose!

KIDDIE LIT (Inspiration Between the Pages) WHOO AND IT WON!!!!!!!

This is the very first Challenge for this brand new exciting blog based on Children's Literature! The inspiration is from the book 'Wizard of Oz'. I've managed most of the criteria in this altered project. Its a lid/casing off a stack of 100 blank CD which I've managed to change into a trinket container for DD.

A tick for these things used:

Silver sequins

Blue gingham ribbon

Yellow ricrac

Green background

Wings

Hearts

Teeny moth

Lyrics from Wicked on Butterflies Butterflies are part of the journey

ADTHIS

Here's my DT sample for the challenge this week

MAY 14 & 15TH PHOTOS

Soooo busy at the moment, so just putting up the photos no time to scrap them into my little journal....

The amount of paper I go through for newsletters - I dread doing them, it takes soooo much time and ink.......but there you are - it has to be done (grimmace) Doesnt this make your heart sing. Here its not even quite winter, and those little daffodils are pushing up through the soil. This is very early! Is it me, or are the seasons really out of whack?

OLW - TWO

Its 3.30am here in Tassie, and after tossing and turning, I got up to do something constructive! I had OLW's latest Challenge 'TWO' half done, so thought I might finish it. Checking my computer, OLW had a 'Treasure Hunt' happening .... 'aaaaah, good, I'll have a little play' (I talked to myself as you do in the wee hours of the morning! lol!) I never thought that playing that game at 2.30 in the morning would see me as coming in as no. 5 out of the eight winners by 3.30!!!! Well - knock me down with a feather!! LOL!

Furthermore, I finished my LO for OLW too!! (pardon the pun) One Last Word has just turned TWO - therefore some fun things are happening on their website! This is Hannah - just a bit over having her photo taken!!! I love this pic of her hands, it was a spontaneous fun reaction from her - so it called for some spontaneous fun colour!

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MAY 10TH JOURNALING PAGE

Here's Paiges little felt cushion she made for me for Mother's Day. It was a complete surprise. She did a fab job having very little sewing experience!

11TH MAY JOURNAL PAGE

Hannah discussing her performance with her drama teacher. Hannah excelled in her part playing a little old lady. Her teacher was extremely happy with her! Here we are leaving to go home - very happy!

12TH MAY JOURNAL PAGE

Yes, back at it again. Hannah had performed well and halfway through I thought she may have 'it in the bag'!!! But she had a blank and had to be prompted twice, one straight after the other - just nerves, but the adjudicator raved about what a HUGE talent she was (over the microphone)and it was a shame she couldn't place her because of the 2 prompts. I think this was better than winning and I could see Hannah's heart just SWELL and her smile was priceless. The adjudicater didnt say anything about the ones that did place! In the pic we are looking at her report - it was fabulous!

13TH MAY JOURNAL PAGE

SELF-explanatory! Really - its just mental torture! One more treatment to go - UGH!

LOTS TO SHOW AND TELL!

Firstly, my time at Scrap Therapy as a Design Team Member has come to a close at the end of this month along with the other Dt'ers (yes they are looking for a new design team) and this leaves me footloose and fancy free ....teehee... to enjoy my blog challenges that I love! I think I might even get into kits a bit more Having said that, I'm totally in love with 'What's Old is New Kits' This was last months Vintage Embellishment Kit. GORGEOUS! Here are my parents - the kit was fabulous for this photo! The green dress lady is fabric which was in the kit. Flowers, thickers, green and black trim is mine, and the rest is from the kit - and I've still got quite a bit to do another layout! The background was part of the kit too!

MIX IT UP CHALLENGE #18 The challenge was to use the word 'PERSEVERANCE' This is certainly true of eldest DD in her career! She is amazing and gutsy!

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC #84 Here's my dt sample:

The song this week is 'SON OF A MAN' and I loved the lyrics 'look to the sky'. Meaghan ballooning in Turkey a couple of weeks ago suited it to a tee!

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Still popping up my 20 min journaling pages when I get a chance. Still got a couple to catch up on!

8TH MAY 09 Heading home from my glorious holidays in Cairns. I didnt want to leave the wonderful weather.

9TH MAY 09

Back home - and there is my scrappy desk all tidy waiting just to be messed up!! LOL!

6th & 7th MAY PHOTOS

6th MAY PHOTO

My new hotel in Port Douglas!! Just gorgeous!! Ooooh and in the pool!! And poor ole Tassie had 4 degrees C this morning!!!

7th MAY PHOTOS:

Weeeell, here it is. I cant even begin to tell you how awesome it was to canter along this beach for ages!! It was the most wonderful experience bring back all my former pony-clubbing days!!

'Cindy' is such an honest hardworking horse (nick-named the 'Pocket- Rocket') and was happy to be given her but had to constantly pull her back - she wanted to be in front of everyone!! (Psst, I did let that happen for a little while - it was just oooooh!!!)

The warm air and the sea-breeze - just amazing - then treking through part of the Daintree Rainforest through creeks and winding narrow tracks was devine! I tried to take some photos, but we were made keep our cameras in our saddlebags (except for this beach shot) but sneaked out my little camera (Finepix) every now and then!! (the scrapper in me just HAD to break rules!) Here's some of the terrain we trekked through! I loved going through water ,boy the memories came flooding back! I was TOTALLY assured there were NO crocodiles (but I was vigilant and kept looking!!!!)

Heading back A deserved big long drink! My riding mate from Austria

PORT DOUGLAS!!

I cant believe the fabulous time I'm having - SOMEONE PINCH ME!! Our three day Scrap Therapy Retreat has come sadly to a close. What a wonderful time - its an absolute credit to Lee-Anne and Danny who looked after us incredibly right down to lifts to and from the airports and posting back all our goodies that were too irresistable to leave behind!!! Late last night I booked my bus shuttle and boutique-y hotel in Port Douglas!! (an hour or so north of Cairns) Let me tell you this is God's own country! Its palmy and balmy and ooooh........ Early this morning I booked a horse ride that goes right long the beach and into the Daintree - OMG-----there is this party going on in my head!!!! I'm so excited, so here I sit in my new surroundings, with overhead fans, a pool that awaits, town centre to explore and the BEACH! Apart from this ..... its time to talk LO's!! My next EXCITING news is that I won Aussie ScrapJack!!! omgosh!! (big smile) YAY!

MIX-IT UP #17

All about mixed fonts!

DESIGN EXPERIMENT # 47

This time its to pick a great song! This song by Natasha Bedington was just right!

AD THIS DT sample

Go check out the ad and -the technique twist this week is to do a hybrid layout. Add something digital to your layouts.

4TH MAY 09 The girls having morning tea outside our retreat room!!! This was INSIDE the whole complex!! Behind the girls are rock pools with big massive Barramundi fish in them!! 5th MAY O9 Having the last swim before moving onto Port Douglas.

PLAYING CATCH UP!

So much to catch up on! Firstly - I promise when I get a chance I'm going to soooo get around blogs and see what you have all been up to while I'm away! I'm am loving every minute of glorious Cairns! I'm sooo happy to have logged on and see that I've won Scrapping Across the Universe! How cool is that! Ooooh ooh ohh! SCRAP THERAPY MONTHLY INSPIRATION CHALLENGE DT sample Its all about a significant lady in your life. (Once Twice Three Times A Lady) So go check out my Inspirational challenge!

The Man of the Month (manufacturer) is My Minds Eye and Scrap Therapy has discounted the entire line! However we are all away on retreat at them and MME is not uploaded!! Give it a day or so and it will be there for you to grab!! Here are some samples in Tres Jolie and Front Porch.

My mother used to make our dresses including her own! Check us out in 1968! All the same!

123 CHALLENGE!

The criteria is:Mixed alpha title and a Long Title, using 3 different ribbons creatively, use journaling spots...

Here's a bit of a catch up of daily journal pages and as I cant print out photos - the rest are a photo a day - which I'll write on and hole punch to put in my journal folder when I get back!

24th April

Yep, into the many woodpiles around the house.....its cold and those fires are being lit!! 25th April Staying with some old friends......their house is just full of beautiful cottage-y things! 26th April Paige was excited with her costume for her social at school - that when she went to sleep - her costume was all laid out in a chair - really cute! 27th April 28th April Dont you love getting little parcels of scrappy things!! 29th April

Oooh and this parcel I got from an etsy from China - gorgeous special

gaffa tape!! It came just before I had to leave for the airport for Sydney to stay with Meaghan a couple of nights......so it came with me!!!

30th April My Miss Meaghan at her work! Cant you tell she just loves her job!

1st MAY - CAIRNS from my room!! Warm and tropical!!

2ND MAY - our scrapping room with most of the ladies arriving!

3RD MAY - Michelle (Myebelle) and I at dinner - SEAFOOD!!!

I'M IN CAIRNS!!!

Finally made it to the top end of Australia!! AND loving it!! The warmth, the place, oooooh its heaven - tropical tropical! (very big grin)

I'm still running around, and am yet to catch up on everyone and put some updates here....

But....I've got to quickly get my USA Scrap Jacked up! I think I may scrape it in under the deadline!!! LOL! This was me on a cliff's edge in South Australia at a most beautiful lighthouse. Looking down was almost mesmerising!! eek! Just breathtaking scenery! Just as well I'm not scared of heights!

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC Here's this week's DT sample

LOL, this does remind me of the weather I'm NOT in atm!!! LOL!

We are also Cybercropping at Scrap Therapy (even though we are here in Cairns at Scrap Therapy's Retreat!!!!) And here's my Challenge for you to take!! The theme is 'Once Twice Three Times a Lady' This challenge is about the 'lady past'. This is my Great Grandmother who was one of the first policewomen in London. Her daughter, my Nana, lives here in Tasmania and is 96yrs of age.