Come On Get Scrappy

Don't forget....

..if you want to be in the draw to win one of the fabulous prizes donated by our sponsors, you need to purchase the Class Package before Midnight tomorrow night - that is Midnight, Friday 15th August.

Thank you to everyone who has already supported our online classes- we have had a great response, and I am very pleased, but we can always do better!

In other news, Jacob was 14 months on Tuesday - haven't taken the photos off my camera yet. 

Sophie was selected from a handful of students to have her work displayed at Charlestown Square - it is a writing project for Father's Day about a male role model.  She apparently wrote about my Dad - Pa Pa.  We are all going out tonight to view work.

Matt and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary on 30th Aug.  I have to say, it has gone quickly, and I am still as crazy about him as 10 yrs ago.  Fortunately, the nut feels the same way about me.  I am getting something of the diamond variety, while he is getting something of the silver variety.  We are off to Sydney on Saturday - staying in a nice hotel, nice dinner, Rocky Horror at Star City.  Can't wait - we haven't been away just the two of us for a long time.  it will be nice to be able to sleep without being woken up. Mum is staying with the kids - hope Jacob will be ok - he doesn't like being away from me.  Mum might have her work cut out for her.

Some more layouts

Here is another layout share:

  

 

The top and bottom layouts I did at the MD Fundraiser last weekend, as well as a lot of a mini album of Jacob's first year.  The middle one i did so I could be in the draw for a ticket to Heidi's Create08 in December in Brisbane.  I didn't win - but I AM going!  Yippee!

Don't forget, if you sign up for Scrapping for CF classes before 10am tomorrow, you will go in the draw for one of the Lucky Door Prizes.  So hurry up and join - everyone is giving the classes a big thumbs up!

Have a great week!

Scrapping for CF Blinkie

If anyone would like a Scrapping for CF blinkie, please email me at info@scrappingforcf.com.au and i will send you the links/URL etc.

Or, if you are going to crops etc I have a nice flyer I can email you to print and take with you! 

Kell xo

Scrapping for CF

    online classes are now live!  Yes, it's been a while in the making, but we are up and running and taking purchases now!  If you book into a Class Package before Monday, you will be in the draw for one of our Lucky Door Prizes, and everyone who purchases the Package before 15th August will be in the draw for the major prizes donated by a great group of sponsors.

So check out all the details at the website now, and purchase the great classes by Jen Hall, Roz James, Janine Kaye, Marion Werren and Chris Millar.  And remember, every cent goes to CFNSW!

Some more layouts to share

Well, I finally photographed some more layouts, but have decided to hold some back for a comp.

Photo of Soph by Renee.

Above: A layout I did for a class by Jane at Scrapbook n BIts

My girl when she was a few weeks old, after her first two bowel surgeries (she had 4).  Still makes me sad thinking about it.

The CF Fundraiser is nearly ready - just waiting for one of the instructors to get the rest of her info to me. If you have registered for updates, do so.  There are some great prizes up for grabs for those purchasing the classes - we have received great sponsorship, so don't forget to check out the sponsors page while you are there!

So, it's my birthday soon - in the next week.  Whoever can guess the date of my birthday will win a RAK!  And if you can guess my age too in the same post, I'll thrown in a layout by me!

Scrapping.....

I have lots of scrapping I have done lately, and not taken pics of - so I remedied that on the weekend as the sun was actually out!  I'll just post some, as I have lots.

Does anyone want to design a new blog banner - because I suck at that.  I will give a very generous RAK!

So here they are....

These first three layouts have photos by Renee and the first two layouts were for the Scrap Needs newsletter.  The Long Lashes one was just for fun!

These photos were on an old, daggy layout I pulled apart - it was hard to make the oval cut photos look any good, and I think the layout still looks dated because of it.  Will have to try to find the negs and reprint the photos.  Sophie's first haircut - she looks very concerned LOL.

Jacob's first haircut - he also looks very concerned - his was on his first birthday.  This was also a layout I did for Julie's Scrap Your Stash challenge at Scrapbook n bits.  Quite fun to do.

This was one I did for the June Guest DT comp at Scrapbook n bits. And I won! 

This one, I  fiddled with the photo colour on this one, as the photo came out a bit weird, and I have overexposed it too much, and Sophie looks like she has purple bags under her eyes - well at least they match the layout LOL!  If you click you can read the journalling which is amusing.

This is another one I did for the Scrap Needs newsletter.  Once again, photos were on an old layout, and I pulled them off to redo.

That's it for now - I think I still have some I haven't uploaded!  Soon..

Birthdays...

Been a big week for birthdays in our family.  FIL on 7th, my brother turned 30 on 9th.  Jacob turned one yesterday. Yes, I am feeling a little sad, because he is not going to be a baby much longer.  He is at such a cute age.  And then today is my cousin Jake's 21st birthday. 

Here's my brother Matthew with the kids on his birthday.

Jacob had his first haircut on his first birthday - that was a fluke, only appt I could get.  But now he looks even more grown up without his baby fluff curls.

He looks impressed with the whole thing!

Some photos from yesterday - blowing out the candles, and just hanging around.  Where did this last year go?

So, at one, Jacob has been walking for quite some time, he took his first steps nearly 2 months ago.  He is saying a lot of words - Mum, Dad, Pa, Gan (for gran), gone, ball, bounce, phone, bath, more, apple, and many more that I can't even think of.  I say to him, "where's Mummy's little lion" and he does a cute little roar!  He can woof too and does an ee ee sound like a monkey.  He is a gorgeous little boy - well except that he is still a very bad sleeper.  The last couple of nights, he woke nearly every hour between about 2 and 6am.  No wonder I have wrinkles and bags, no, suitcases under my eyes.

Matt is nearly finished the website for the CF fundraiser - it has been a much bigger job than I anticipated because he has written the whole site from scratch, where I assumed he would use software he had previoulsy written.  But he didn't want it to be in php (old format) wanted it to be in dot net, so had to start from scratch.  We still have to load the classes on and test it and test the payment system... so hopefully another week.  I have a couple of other sponsors of prizes I have to upload too. Don't forget you can register to receive updates www.scrappingforcf.com.au

I (stupidly) decided to give Masters a go again this year.  I wasn't going to, as I didn't like the challenges, but then I came up with ideas, so I'm going to give it a shot.  Lots to do, not much time to do it.

I'll leave you with a couple of photos of the kids that Renee took a couple of months ago.  They were for presents for our mothers for Mothers Day.

Scrapping for CF

The website is up, although the classes aren't quite ready to go yet.  You can register on the site now to receive updates. 

www.scrappingforcf.com.au

Cystic Fibrosis Fundraising

At the bequest of many, here is an update re the CF Fundraiser I am organising.

SCRAPPING FOR CF

I am organising online classes, generously donated by the lovely and talented Marion Werren, Jen Hall, Chris Millar, Roz James and Janine Kaye.  Matt will hopefully have the home page for the website ready in the next couple of days, with info about the classes on it - and then we should have it all ready to go shortly after.

The classes will be downloadable and ALL monies made are going to CFNSW (who I might add were very excited by the idea!). 

65 Roses Day

Friday 23rd May is 65 Roses Day and if you are near an LJ Hooker or Big W, please purchase some Red Rose merchandise.  CF does not have the support or the awareness of some of the bigger charities, and yet it is the most common genetic disease in Australia.  If you would like to learn more about CF, please go to Cystic Fibrosis Australia and click on About CF in the bar at the top of the page.

The term 65 Roses, comes from the song by The Wolverines who are the CF ambassadors - the song was inspired from a true story of a boy who thought his parents were saying his sister had "65 Roses" instead of Cystic Fibrosis.  Here are the lyrics....

Wolverines- 65 ROSES
When I was just a small child, my mum and daddy came to me,
They sat me down and told me of the flowers my sister received.
Sixty-five roses with yellow and red,
Made her so tired she had to stay in bed.
I just couldn't believe the flowers my sister received,
Made it so hard for her to breathe.
Why did she have sixty-five roses?
Must be her birthday today.
She must have been good to get sixty-five roses,
What can't she come out play?

Sixty-five roses, with yellow and red,
Made her so tired she had to stay in bed.
I looked all around, but I couldn't find,
The sixty-five roses were all in my mind.
I've thrown up and I see that,
The only one thinking of roses was me.
And the reason that the sixty-five roses came,
Was because I was too young to understand the name.

Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
Made her so tired, she had to stay in bed.
Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
I wish she had roses instead.
Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
I wish that she could come out to play.
Life, one suppooses, is no bed of roses,
I wish she had roses instead.

Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).
Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).
Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).

I'll be back with an update on the fundraiser soon - please support it if you can - CF is a nasty disease.  A lot of the money that is raised is mostly by hardworking parents of CF children, and will help with research to improve and lengthen these kids lives. 

The sun is out at last..

It seems like it has been raining for a month, well at least the whole of the school hols.  Sophie has been to the movies twice with my Mum and Dad, to the Newcastle Show a couple of weeks ago, to Tuggerah one day, to Lollypops, and several excursions to the major shopping centers for school hol activities.

Jacob is now 10 1/2 months and took his first steps last week.  He can now walk about 5-6 steps all up.  He is so happy about it!  He wants to walk all the time, and climbs up on Matt or I while we are doing things, and then we walk around really carefully with the little attachment.  He has also discovered he can stand and walk around and spin when holding onto the office chair!

Dad is good, and although we thought he was considering medical retirement, we thought wrong.  He is going back to school on Monday.  I don't think he made a wise choice here.

Here are some layouts - some I did a couple of weeks ago, some this week.  I have been on a bit of a roll and churning them out a lot faster than usual.

Here is Jacob at 10 months.

Here is one at 3 months - I pulled apart a layout that I didn't like and redid this one.

Matt and Jacob at Jacob's naming - he was 4mths old (Jacob that is - Matt turned 40 the day before).

   

I set a challenge to use old and new products on a layout - and these are some that I did - Daddy's Boy is using some old Heidi chipboard letters for 'boy', "ten months" is using some old Heidi plastic alpha.  I have done another one too, but have to get permission to show my friend's daughter on my blog first.  This one, "Us" I used more of my Scarlet Lime kit.  I am still using it and have done about 6 things with it so far.  I have two new ones that arrived and I have used a little bit, but they are very bright, and I know I am going to struggle with it.  Oh and the 3 months one is using the new MM Animal Crackers range.

STAY TUNED:  I have come up with a fundraising idea for Cystic Fibrosis as May is Red Roses month, and I have secured the assistance of some very talented scrapbookers to help me out.  Just putting together the details at the moment, and then I'll announce it.

Have a great weekend.