Just Me and Them

Quick catch-up

Not much from me of late.  In my last days in Melbourne I got sick - typical me!!  It started as a sore throat which quickly progressed to a rather rude barking kinda cough and ended with a head that feels so heavy.

My mum convinced me that I should go to the docs - since I could be dancing with a nasty pasty pig lol - and I did, today.  I only have a rather annoying traditional flu and an asthma cough - phew!! - I guess thats all good but I sure wish this bug had just bypassed me altogether!!

Anyway, I have a few pretties to share with you all -

 

I made these two pretties a few weeks ago for my students teachers farewell and promptly forgot that I had even taken their photo until I was downloading my Melbourne photo's!  Too cute!!

 

And this pretty digi page was created for the Scrap Artist monthly challenge!!  This months challenge was to create a page using the quote "Life is...".

Ok, thats it for me for tonight, I am stuffed and sick and just want to go sleep for a couple of years lol!!

My Holiday so far

We arrived obviously and settled in pretty quickly at the hotel - up until 9 that night at least!!  Matt forgot to pack his Ventolin and of course was weezing!!  Man I tell you, that was a nightmare but a few phone calls and we were in a taxi on our way to an all night chemist to buy one.  AND, that where the real part of the nightmare begins, you see the driver had very little english and absolutely no idea of what to do with the driving component!!  At one stage he sat playing with his gps to work out where to go and I felt so much like leaning over and telling him to give itto me to set for him!!  We did eventually get there though - and get the medicine.

Yesterday we spent the day at the direct factory outlets and wandering through the Brunswick and Fitzroy streets visiting the retail factories.  Although we didnt find much - Em did though, 3 pairs of very cheap converses to be exact!!  She also bought herself a very cool looking jacket - check it out ...

 

Today we went to the Old gaol for a tour.  It was an amazing old building with heaps to see, especially about the hangings and of course Ned Kelly!!  Here are the girls at the top of the second floor - in front of them was where the gallows were.

 

And check this one out of Sarah in one of he cells -

 

After we had finished in the main section of the gaol, we visited the watchhouse where we got to be a part of a real arrest.  Well as real as a role play could be.  As we arrived we were all lined up along the hall and given a check over - this guy in the line was cheeky and he got yelled out lol!!  Then we were put into a communal cell where they even turned off the light to give you an authentic feel.  I tell you what, we girls couldnt get our mobiles out quick enough - to have some light in the pitc black!!  Once let out we got to explore the watchhouse -

 

It was really amazing standing in a real life padded cell!!  As we went out we had our mug shots taken -

 

He he he!!  Pretty cool huh!!

Tomorrow I think we are off to the casino and then the museum - no more shops for awhile!!

WE Dare you challenge and our trip!!

First off - we arrived safe and sound!!  Sarah absolutely loved the plane and you would have sworn she was on a roller coaster the way she whooped it up!!  She is pretty tired now though after all the excitement -

 

Here's Sarah at the airplrt before we took off - the plane we eventually got onto is behind her and here is the view from the window once we were safe in the air -

 

Finally, here is my challenge page for this week -

 

This weeks challenge is to create a page about a found object or using a found object - I figured the topic was quite apt considering!!!

 

Off on Hols

Well, we are all just about packed and ready to fly to Melbourne tomorrow for a weeks holiday!!  I can't wait to get there and just relax and do what I love - shop lol!!

Mind you, I have alrready begun the shop part - yesterday I bought these little pretties for Sarah -

 

They are just so very much her with all that pink sparkly bits happening!!

Seriously though, we leave for a weeks holiday tomorrow and we intend to do a lot of shopping and adventuring with the kids and Matts Mum in tow.  I am dying to get in to the Guess outlet over there and see what I can find but a small part of me is dieing to get a Prada bag - I can't afford it but I am hoping that maybe I might just find a copycat one that I can afford lol!!

In readiness for the trip I created a trip book -

 

Pretty huh?  I made it with the travel chipboard album created by Tattered Angels and I coloured the whole thing with 3 different glimmer mists.  The insides are a bit more of my taste - using different mediums to decorate and enhance the pages.  I have even precut the photo mats and put them in - now I just need to take them!!

 

The pic above is only one lot of pages - the right hand has been cut to create a pocket for any memorabilia we collect!!

July Scrappitpacks

This month I had two of the awesome Scrappitpacks to create with and I was so inspired by them from the momnet I saw the papers!!

 

This page is without doubt my favourite of Matts cousin!!  I loved the patttern on the paper and the cutsy image so I had to cut it all out to add over the image as a highlight of the page - just so perfect for this photo!!

 

Last one - this one was so hard to scan or photograph so there are icky shadows that just wouldnt leave no matter what I did so please know that they are not there in real lol!!

 

Christmas Pages

I don't have long tonight - we have to get off to Sarah's dance class in a bit but I wanted to share some more pages I have been working on.  I also have a travel book I have been working on but it needs a tonne of drying time before I can photograph it!!

 

  

 

Well... I gotta go!!

 

We Dare you Challenge

This weeks challenge was to create a page on 7 random pieces of info about ourselves.  I chose to do mine in digi since I wanted to play with some newly downloaded goodies I had lol!!

 

It's a bit different to my normal digi style - the colours especially!!

 

New Pages

We went out last night to see the Transformers movie last night.  It was so awesome!!  I love the twins (you have to see it to understand).  I also finally got the chance to check out the Harry Potter preview!!

Anyway, here are some pages I created this week -

 

I took the photo's last year - the kids are actually throwing our previous principal into the pool!!  It was planned though - he wanted to give the kids something to remember!!

And finally, while I can't share the actual photo I really wantedto share this page of my niece -

 

Well thats it for me - one more week till the hols and we fly away!!!

Fun and Clowns (Ewww)

Some more paper work!!!!  I took these photos last christmas at the pageant and while I hate clowns I do find some whacked out enjoyment out of scrapping their photo!!  I'm thinking its either some need to scare myself stupid or a masochistic nature!?!?  Torture myself?!?  Hmmm!!

Anyway, here they are -

 

 

Well, thats it for me for now!!  So much to do!!

School Pages

I have finally put the computer away and worked with paper!!  Its been wonderful as well - so much fun working with tangible items instead of digi that I'm surprised it took me so long to sway back!!

Anyway, I took out some more photo's that needed to be scrapped, the dreaded school photo's!!  I have all of them, mine included.

 

 

 

Mine actually opens out, or the greens section does, to reveal a photo of the staff I work with in addition to the class I had last year!!