I'm BAAAAAAACK!!! Been home since Thursday afty but am still to contemplate scrapping although my mind is buzzing wiht ideas, but alas, have been cleaning, sorting out washing, putting away Chrissy Presents etc etc etc, you get the idea!!!! But here is some pics from my time away!! TFL, and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!!!! Leave me a message!!! xxx Miss Moo on Christmas Day with her new drum!
Just about to open a pressie....
Showing off her new dress....

Having a sing with her new Guitar, she held a few 'concerts' for us!!
Miss Moo and our special friends down south from Darwin!

Having a splash at Louth Bay...

Self portrait of Dh and I, we are just loving the beach!

Myself at a tiny little beach right near Coffin Bay, note the Strongbow with lots of ice in my hand, this was NYE so a few were consumed!
Another self portrait at the little beach.... I'm a fan of the self portrait...
Miss Moo and her Dad at Lucky Bay, it was a cold day, we were rugged up, not used to it being chilly at this time of the year...
Moo and her Poppy at the front of my parents place, MIa would go in the boat but not for a ride, my Dad wasn't even able to start the motor while she was around......

Mia is in her clam, EVERYDAY! Some mornings even before she has breakfast, she loves it!
With her new Dora floor puzzle that a good friend gave her for Christmas, she is obsessed!

Excited kids waiting for the Street Parade to start, unfortunately alot of it freaked Mia out and she sat on my lap for most of it crying that she wanted to go home! But she survived and ended up having a good night!

Below is the train that started the freaking out episode......

At the playground, Mia had a ball she loves the playground!!!

Not much to report around here, had a disaster on Wednesday night although I didn't discover it until Thurs morn..... Have been working on MIL and Mum's calenders, they are fairly simple but still have taken up a bit of time.... On Wednesday I put some DM on some letters on one of the months for MIL, and because Mia was showing an unhealthy interest in the drying DM i quickly put the calender on top of my oven to dry so she couldn't touch it! Then we went out for the evening... A HUGE storm rolled in while we were out and our roof obviously has a leak in it as water came in through the fan in the ceiling straight above the oven and got my calender all wet! Letters disintegrated, ink ran, Bazzill ran and stuck to other pages,it was heartbreaking... and only 2 days before we go south, I have no time to do another one even remotely like it! I am so angry with myself to have put it where I put it, I had no idea that water would come in like that, I just wish I had of put it on my desk..... I will be able to do another one but it won't be the same!

Any way, this will more thatn likely be my last post before I go away so you may not hear from me until the New Year!



Have a very Merry Christmas to all the special people who come here and read my ramblings and look at my random pics and scrapping! It has been fun to do this blog this year and I will be back for more next year!!!! xxxx

This is for ScrapTherapy scrapping with the Stars, I love the K&co peppermint twist papers, but man, my scrapping is so simple and a bit boring, but I'm just a lazy scrapper I guess, especially lately, I have lost it BIG TIME, but in the NEW YEAR I will be all energised again to Scrap up a storm!!! TFL!!! xxx

Mia and I mucking around yesterday with Christmas Hats on!! FUN FUN!!!

Please spare a thought in your day for the family of a man who was killed in the mine here on Wednesday, I do not know the family personally but a thing like this makes us all aware of the dangers of the place where our husbands and friends work, I know that my DH has had a close call before and he is ultra careful. I don't think that the man who died was at fault but others around him were, everyone is aware of the safety policies but sometimes people are careless..... I don't know enough to comment any more on how he died and it does not help to add to rumours and innuendo.....

The main thing is the family, they are in my thoughts constantly at this time..... life goes on but it will never be the same for this family....

xxx

Ok, finally sonme scrap stuff!!! Above is a concertina album that I made for my beautiful friend who I have known for nearly 20 years (EEEP, I'm getting on in years when I say that) It's not full of new pics, rather old ones, just fab memories of times gone past, it's for her Christmas present, I hope she loves it.... if she doesn't I'll have it back because I love it!!!! HAHAHA!!

Calender for my MUMMY, I love her soooo much, won't bore you with all the pics, the calender isn't too over the top as I am making my Mum one and MIL one, so I've been trying to make them quicka nd simple, but stamped all the months (that's why they look dodgy) and stuck rainbow coloured cardstock throughout the calenders and then stuck the photos on there with a few stickers, sayings etc.... they will love them!

Miss Moo asleep in the spare bed, she doesn't like here bed at the moment because the GRASSHOPPERS scare her!!!!! Whatever that means, I just let her go, as long as she goes to sleep SOMEWHERE!!!!
The Monkeys LO was for Scrapping with the Stars at Scrap Therapy, although I didn't enter it, I didn't like it although, now I wish I had put it up, ANWAY, I just didn't like it at the time so that is that. Maybe because I rushed it!!!!
CJ entry for Shorty's CJ! Lots of journalling, not much else, but there you go, at least I did it, I had it here for way tooo long, so I just wrote down what was going on in my mind at the time!!!
Oh and an extra pic of my concertina album, can't get rid of it, or don't know how, so check it out again!!

Going to look at Christmas lights with a friend and her kids tonight, oh and MIA too, can't wait, I LOVE LOVE LOVE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!! xxx

Went and took pics for the local Childcare Centre on Monday night, Santa came and gave out pressies, these pics are of my friends kids, so that's why I've put them here! What do you rekon, did I do an ok job of it???? Just took a heap of photos of some scrapping that I've been doing , so check out my blog in the next couple of days for some actually scrapping stuff! Thanks for visiting, off to watch my new favourite show, SATISFACTION!!! Woohoo!!! xxx

AT THE ZOO!!!! Well, not much scrapping going on around here, lost it for a bit, but I know I'll get it back, feeling a bit overwhelmed by Christmas at the moment, but I know I will get there! Last weekend we were in Adelaide and we took Mia to the zoo with a couple of our friends who live there, it was fun,but also it was hot, and I was still recovering from being sick, so in the end I faded fast but it was a good day, and great to spend some time with Aunty Trace and Aunty Jodes!!!! Thanks guys!!! xxx

I just love this pic of these two having a cuddle in the tree!
And check out Mr Giraffe, he was too cool, I love them!!
Oh and here's Santa, on his way to a private function in the Zoo, Mia is not totally sure about Santa, she hid from him as he went past, she talks about him all the time but in the flesh is another thing!!!

We went to a couple of Christmas shows on the weekend so will post some pics of that shortly along with the little bit of scrapping I have done!!!!

Take care chickies!!!

xxxxxx