And yet another month has gone by without a post! Sorry to anyone interested in my world! Above is a photo of Mia helping her Daddy get some squid ready for tea, it was delicious too by the way! Mia still loves helping in the kitchen, my next LO that I have planned is about her in the kitchen! I'm back into scrapping but more about that later!
Sweet sisters, love this pic!!
On Thursday 27th of Aug I held a Heartkids Cuppa for a Cause morning tea at my house. Thank goodness Mum and Dad were here and for my fab friends Tatum and Danni for all of their help, it was so appreciated and we raised about $580 on the day and then with Lucy's generous donation and a donation from my cousin in Adelaide we ended up with just under $700. I was so pleased... I made a poster of Lexi's journey in life, with photos and a brief description of each pic. I had it laminated so will keep it always! I also had photos of Lexi and her heartkid boyfriend George in frames on the table for people to see! I met a few new faces, and really hope that everyone liked thier coffee, cakes, and other yummo delicacies! I felt emotional all morning, not sure why, I just was!! I wrote a piece for one of the local papers, although they edited it to shreds, I am still grateful they put it in for me... I am the Heartkids S.A. contact for here, so wanted to raise awareness, if God Forbid anyone find themselves in our situation they hopefully may remember me and I can be of some support to them, as Kate was to me... Without her to vent to I really don't know how I would have gotten through. I would have but she was a HUGE crutch for me... Love you always Kate, always a special person to me!
Tatum (L), Justine and I!
Tired Mumma and Bubba after it was over!
It was also Mia's 5ht birthday on the 28th of August, my photos are a bit muddled up here, but here is Lexi and her Daddy having a little relax time in the afternoon of Mia's party which was on the 29th!
Silly Mumma posing on Mia's birthday, trying to encourage her to pose for my Dad in her beautiful new dress that a friend of our family made especially for her, but she wouldn't come to the party on that one, although don't mind this pic of me!! LOL!!
Mia and her Birthday present stash, she was totally spoilt! By the time there are presents from Granparents, Aunties and Uncles, and Great Aunties and friends of the family aswell! And yet, tdoay she is still bored. I can't wait for school to start, she won't be bored once she starts school, or maybe she will!
Mia in the beautiful dress custom made for her by a friend of the family! This was the best of the photos, she was NOT keen for photos, and was being silly for her Poppy for some reason!
Mia had a party with 4 other little girlies, but I won't put any of thier photos up, don't think I should really! But they had a ball, here is Mia at the food table. The girls were very excited about the party food and basically sat down straight away for a big feast!!
And they put it away too!! LOL!!!!!
My Dad, (Poppy) took this photo of Mia and I've put it up as I just love it!!
And finally, I have been getting back into scrapping again, which I'm happy about. I had no motivation at all, but am feeling really inspired after doing Tatum's Workshop last Saturday, I had never done a class/workshop before, and for me, I have a lot to learn about new things, and ways to use things so it was a real treat! This is a LO I finished last night, and I really don't mind it!
A few weeks ago on a Friday night I went to Tatum's for a little scrap session, it has been a long time since we had gotten together to scrap, and I started this one. Mainly I talked and drank wine, but it was great to watch Tatum in action, loved it! And the conversation too!! I think I finished this one about 2 weeks after I started!!
This was the 2nd LO in the workshop, it was great to try different things, like doodling which I NEVER have done and to see how you put things altogether!
I love the finished result!
And because I am a bit back to front with things the 'you are our little star' was the first LO we started, and I love how it turned out too! Again, it made me think about where things can go and to maybe step outside my little square of how I scrap!
And then, this one I did the other night. I used the 3D Kindyglitz that we got in out kits at Tatum's and the line around the cloud was not meant to be smudged AT ALL, but me being me, it was impossible to not smudge it, so once I had, I went smudging all around the clouds! FUN!
Well, I hope this hasn't been too long winded for you if you happen to visit!!! Now that I'm all inspired about scrapping again and feel like hitting the dining table every night with my scrap stash, there might be more to see!!!
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