So I've been AWOL from my blog for a while, I've still been checking out cyber land but haven't been joining in... I want to get back into CCG and the challenges on Embellished! I need a weekly diary to keep up with whats happening and when it's happening... The weeks just are flying by for me! I have scrapped a pitiful amount of LO's this year (12, I just counted) and I can't believe it! I have the will but most nights by the time I get the kids settled I just want to go to bed. I'm not much of a night owl so that doesn't help either! Anyway, I've scrapped three lately, the above one is of my little nephew Ethan, he is 13 days younger than Lexi and just such a little cutie!
This LO called Such Sweet Sisters is a scraplift of Celeste Vermeend's LO, Mama's Little Model which was in SC Vol11 No6, page78. I just loved her LO and I wanted to have a range of photos from a little photo session I had with the girls last week. I had a brainwave last week that I would just start scraplifting LO's that I like, but have since realised that while I might look to other people's work for inspiration, I don't think it's the way I want to go. I am a simple scrapper and I just have to accept that. I have no aspirations to be published, not at all interested in that, but I DO want to have great albums for my girls. I think too much about it all, just have to sit and scrap at night and get into it! I do like the way this one turned out though...
This LO was a quick one I did last night, I had printed out this big photo and wanted something to convey how I feel about these two. I am always striving as a Mum and just want to be the best for them that I can be. I'm not perfect and know I'm never going to be... but I love these two little cherubs so much!!
And now for some random photos of our lives! Above is Lexi and her boyfriend George, LOL!! He was born on the same day as Lexi and had the same heart conditions as her which is pretty rare, so we've been told. They had thier operations a day apart and went through recovery together in Melbourne and shared a room back in Adelaide, where we all really got quite close. They family live in W.A. but his Aunty lives here in the same town as us so we got to see them a few weeks back. It's so special to have this family in our lives, we share a bond now that can't be explained. I just love his Mum, we keep in contact every few weeks, and can relate to each other on so many levels... We couldn't wait to get them together for a photo shoot! We took some of them together on thier discharge day and boy, they have changed alot since then. George is my special little boy!!! And always will be. Maybe our next trip away we will have to go to W.A. to see them!!
Mia last Sunday at the playground near our house. (which means it has taken me a week to get back to finish this post) Her hair is a tangled mess, it took me sooooo long to comb out after she had her shower... A few tears from her having it all combed out. I was a slacko on the weekend and hardly combed it besides the fact she needs a trim pretty badly.
Miss Lexi Loo last Sunday aswell, she is plumping right up now since starting on solids, which she loves... she loves Mummas home made vegies and concoctions out of the Annabel Karmel books that I have inherited/bought. I love the feeling of feeding her what I've made, and knowing what I have put in there. She rarely turns food down, eating 3 meals a day plus a yoghurt if she is seeming to want more. Mia is my problem child, she won't eat a proper breakfast, doesn't help that she won't drink milk, I have taken to telling her that our bodies are like cars, we have to feed our bodies with the right fuel to help us grow well. And that if she wants to be healthy she needs to put healthy food in to make her body work well. Anyway..... she is growing but I can tell sometimes by the way she behaves that she needs some vitals in her....
THe girlies and I last Sunday too, not loving the angle of my nose, but it was the best of a bad bunch! I made it B&W to hopefully make me look abit better!! LOL!!
Did you ever have paper dolls as a child, the next door neighbours little girl had some so that was all Mia could talk about! $4.95 for a little book at the newsagent with two dolls and a heap of clothes. It kept her amused for days, I think she got her moneys worth!
These biscuits we made out of the old Green and Gold cookbook, I have my Mum's that her precious Aunty gave to her in 1962. We used the Egg Biscuit recipe, and they were yum! We decorated with egg white icing so it would set hard, Mia still loves her cooking with her Mumma, this week we made sausage rolls, they were yummo and she gets to help me which she loves. And she actually eats them. I put heaps of veg in as it makes me think that she is getting some kind of nutrients!
Lexi in a cute little hat that my sweet Aunty made for her. I just love it!!! She has also crochered a flower that matches. My cousin had a little girl 6 weeks before us, and I saw her in a ultra cute hat in some photos and loved it so Aunty made us one! Special!
Well, I am about to lie down on my couch and have a veg and read some old issues of Creating Keepsakes. Brenton is off to a bucks show tonight so am cooking myself a BIG FAT chicken stirfry, going to watch THE BEST on the cooking channel and then scrap once my little chickens are in snoozy land! Lexi slept from 8 last night until 6.30 this morning, I didn't know myself this morning, not woken in the night! Hope it's a sign of things to come, but I seriously doubt it!
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