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Vintage gates, new schools & my new toy

You have probably guessed by my last blog entry (made from my new toy) that this little baby is my new favourite thing....

I realise there is an iPhone VS Blackberry thing out there but you know what....I love this little baby. It is all part of my cunning plan to spend less time physically at my computer, and with all my emails coming to my phone I can delete and respond only if needed. It is working. So I am happy with my baby berry.

In other stuff we have made the decision to move the kids from  their current school to a new one. Loads of reasons but most of all this will make them happier and more settled for when we move in 2010 to a new suburb. Bring it on.

Creating stuff at the moment....Scrapbook creations have a couple of layouts that are coming out soon which is cool and I have helped a special SC lady with some vintage info for an upcoming project. Can't say anything else other than to say I have always loved this ladies approach and it was a pleasure to help.

This is some of the gorgeous new My Minds Eye Life Stories papers, and check out the divine vintage gates available in store now. I love these gates and the lamposts to.

 

 

see....how cool are those gates! and wow....I love the photos I have been snapping of the kids.....just seem to be finding a groove with this camera....now I need more time with it *anyone see that pile of time I left somewhere?*

Recently I had the pleasure of hanging with some cool ladies at TM for this funky class. Bit off the hook but it was a huge success. They loved the bag technique and all went home happy. Thanks ladies.

Then this last week was the much awaited repeat of the Scrapboxx Retreat Class that Maria was lovely enough to let me re-run at the store. A great easy class for all level of scrappers and some coolio techniques to carry over to other projects. All good fun!

 

Well I don't think there is much else to share at the moment. Have heaps of great pics of when my MIL & FIL were here but maybe another time.

Have a fabulous hump day people.

Hugs

e

*just thinking I have some cool news to share but have to wait for the ok first*

Just chilling

Well it has been an insane few weeks. Having my mother and father in-law here was awesome. We did all of the coolio tourist stuff and got some great snaps. Sadly though, it had to end. It was tough saying goodbye but it was the best time. The kids loved it, although Joel was a bit weird but I think he was just acting up.

Since then we have had some school dramas, a rent inspection, cracked TV unit, cabaret costumes, tutu's, PC dude fixing some issues and that is only the half of it.

Class tomorrow at the shop which will be cool. And bring on Sunday.

Ok Boy A is ready to play on the DVD so I am off to pour a drink and watch

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Just me....

Just a fast pop in. Mother and Father in

Law on their last 24 hours in WA.....Sad. It has been a blast even though my MIL

has not been feeling the best but we hope after seeing a Dr here she is on the

up. Going miss them. I know the kids will too.



 



Ok....reason for the

post.......



 



SUPER BIG SQUEEZE HUGS GOING OUT TO MY

PAL NIC ON HER BIRTHDAY! Wish I could be there but thinking about you. Have a

fabulous day filled with indulgent pleasure......CHOCOLATE!



 



hugs....posts to come.



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Super neglected blog!

Yup....I guess it is a measure of this time of year and the fact that I have my In laws over from NZ at the moment. Finding some time to post is just too tough. There are costumes for Nikitas cabaret to make, her camp stuff to prep & pack (she left very early this morning) and just to add some interest (UNWANTED INTEREST) to the mix, my Mother in Law has been very unwell for the last 24 hours.....yikes....WE BROKE HER! Early last week I ended up with a nasty case of tonsilitis, after my big girls graduation and numerous other things on the go.....

however....

I am stil here

Anyhow....we have had some fun getting out and about looking at all the things touristy, and up until yesterday morning we were all having fun. Some pics to share....

 

Can you believe it. My big girl graduating? wow......Was a great evening and she even got an award for more than 5 concecutive A's......not bad. Very proud.

This is one of her and her man.

 

then the In laws arrived and we were out and about....

 

 

 

Perth City's Bell Tower.....alot of fun!

 

spot the tourists.....

Then on to the wheel.....

 

What a ride that was....awesome...brilliant....
 

and the clan.....minus the camera lady (tee hee hee)

 

So enough for now. Just wanted to pop in and say...I AM ALIVE!

Hope you are all well.

hugs

e

2 POSTS WITHIN AN HOUR.....HOW DID i DO IT????

Ok so I had to share. We had some work happening across the road this last week. The very very large trees are being trimmed a little to avoid the limbs dropping.....you would not want to be under any of them believe me and they do drop more often than I am comfortable with!

So Joel and watched while eating lunch on most days as the me scalled up to the limbs with their trucks etc and then dropped the branchs down for the chipper. Sadly the Gallahs use these trees as their hang out, and once the men had left I spotted this solitary Galah....circling the tree.....just wondering where all his favourite branches had gone. It was so weird. He circled and cirled that tree. Landed and then flew up around and landed again. He was confused.....poor love.

This is the tree so you can get some perspective of its size..... 

keep in mind I am lying on our lawn about 40mtrs from the gate you can see, and the tree is on the other side of the road outside the gate. Be a good 70-80 metres from the base of the tree!

and here is our little sad Gallah.

 

Love watching them inflight.

I am sure he will find some other branches.....

e

Another birthday, but what a day!

It is kinda the day that you dread as you get older right. The day that marks another year gone. The years roll into each other and those days seem so close. I decided a while back to embrace the birthday and celebrate instead of feel sorry for myself that I am getting older. So Sat night 17 family and friends met and we had a blast! The dinner was awesome, the company amazing.....my day was fabuklous! Thanks to all the girls from TM for coming and making this a fabulous night full of laughs!
I am so lucky to be surrounded by so many wonderful women.

 

Here is me and my wonderfull family before I left for dinner.....aint they awesome!
 

LOVE THESE GUYS!!!!

I was thoroughly spoilt for my day. My man took me to lunch in Vic Park, which was so nice. He gave me a lovely Circle of life pendant which is gorgeous! the kids gave me earrings and a light up etched glass which says 'I love you Mum'. The girls at dinner spoilt me too, so thanks so much girls for your lovely pressies. A couple I had to share are  the amazing Venetian Glass Foutain pen that the girls who own TM got for me. It is divine....check this out.

Yes I have had a play and it is divine. This is one of those gifts that will me and others through my journalling allot of pleasure....thanks girls....YOU ROK!

This was another super cvoolio pressie....Kel you are a star!

 

aint this cool.....Max and Aud will want t get their hands on this I reckon.....lol

anyhow....thanks so much to all you girls and to everyone who has emailed me wishing me a happy birthday! I had a great day.

Things changing hand over fist here at the moment. My mother and father in law arrive on Thursday and the kids are pumped! We have been changing room sand getting their 'quarters' ready for their arrival. It is going to be a huge few weeks so I don't think I will get to too much blogging. Poor blog....it really is quite sad. Projects due, classes to prep, in laws to chaffeur round, kids camp to prep for,  kids dance concert costumes to make, and I will be mental by December......argh!

Havea wonderful Monday all and remainder of the week. Hugs hugs

e

It has taken a week.....

Just to recover from the fabulous, awesome, amazing time I had with all the ladies at the Scrapboxx retreat. It was sooo fun. Maria is just a lovely lady and such fun, Sheree Mc Gee is a great roomie and so talented! and all the ladies who came were awesome. I had a blast. I was sad it was over, pleased to be home, and shattered!

Finally I can share my layout classes. I think all the ladies enjoyed themselves. There certainly was some awesome variations of the class page which is always great to see. It is so nice to bring a layout to a group and watch how everyone adapts it to suit their style and their pictures.

  

This was using loads of cool Heidi Invisibles....one of the most misunderstaood and over-looked products to come out over the last year. I love how versatile this product is, and so did the ladies.

 

And Tattered Angels screens and stampe for this one. With bling, MME and other yummies.

A huge thanks to RW Lasercuts creating amazing chipboard (love their stuff)

This is the awesome group of ladies I shared the weekend with. 

It was such a great group of ladies. Small group but so fun!!! and some of the scrapping to come out of this weekend was awesome.

We had a raffle for the ladies who each won a chance to have myself and Sheree scrap layouts for them. Janine was my winner and this is the layout I created for her of her gorgeous daughter. Emma is so beautifull and I thought it would be so hard to make a bad layout with such a divine picture....lucky me. I think she liked the result and I hear Emma was thrilled too.

Thanks to everyone involved for making this a fabulous weekend. ROLL ON MARCH!

Since returning I feel like I haven't achieved allot so no news on the Willis front. Kids are great. Hot today hitting 37 here (although warmer up here at the house) guess summer is coming fast!

Huge congrats to the list of amazing scrappers who made the SBM top 50. That sure is allot of awesome scrappers so huge hugs to you from me. I will leave you now with some of the pics taken on the weekend.  The Meadowbrooke Estate in Boynaup was an amazing venue with loads of old character....the perfect venue for us.


 

(who can resist a bee or two right....)

 

(I know I know....still not retreat pics but the venue was awesome....lol)

 

The shop. Jasmine Maria and Isobel do a wonderful job bringin products to the venues....no small task when you live on an Island!

Some of the girls busy creating.

 

The gorgeous Kareena from Scrappy Cow. So fun and such a great energy to be around. Thanks for the chats and laughs!

 

My layout class....I was so impressed with what each and every lady did to adapt their layouts to theirs....very very cool. Loved your work girls!

This is all of us including the Saturday day girls.....

I had a blast everyone....seriously.....Maria trying to get onto the bed to chat, Sheree and I trying to figure out how to get our trundle beds out into the hall to race them....so many great moments. I needed to laughs.

Special Thanks to my travelling, scrapping buddy Kel. Thanks again for being an awesome travelling pal. It is cool to be able to share these events with another happy scrapper.

Ok....enough from me. Have a great weekend everyone.

hugs

e

BOYANUP HERE I COME!

Can you tell I am looking forward to this weekend? I sure am. Great venue, great people, Maria and all the very cool scrapping to come from it. It really is a treat!

I can share some of the sneaks of my classes so if your curious.....

 

and this one

 

and all here....

 

This is my name tag (or hangie thingie for round my neck) and my swap tag....can't wait to come home with 25 other swap tags....how cool.

 

The tag is made using one of the amzing canvas tags from the new Pink Paislee 'Mistletoe & Co' range from Shop & Crop

This happens to be my favourite Xmas range for a few years actually. I often freak at the Xmas thing but this range is gorgeous! I made a few tags and cards and here is a sneak of them

 

 

 

 

 

head over to Shop & Crop for your share of Mistletoe.

Spotted this out the window Sunday night and had to snap it....yummy....summer is coming...

 

 

The colours have NOT been changed or altered. This is exactly how we saw it. You have to love some of the sunsets here.

Ok....couple of other pics and then I am out of here.

 

you have to love a bubble maker right!

This pic cracks me up. This is what happens when 3 boys (from seperate families) take their DS consoles to the same party....lol....they were all linked and playing a game together. Not great for socialising but they had a ball!Just love the concentration and sheer involvement on their faces and in the way they are sitting.

ok....that is me....

e.....out

 

11 SLEEPS TO GO AND COUNTING!!!!

I am so slack. The last post was 2 weeks ago....argh....where did that time go?

Since then I have-

1. Had my arm tattooed by the bestest chicky in the business ...non other than the lovely Suzi Q. This chick is the best. She has travelled and had too many articals in the mags etc etc , won awards, and is heading back to a 3 day Expo in Melbourne soon. She is the professional. A neat lady with a talent that I was saerching for. Being a memorial type tattoo I had very fixed ideas about this. SHE BLEW THEM AWAY! so here it is......(pic take when I got home on the 10th.will take another soon now that it has healed and the colours are showing more)
   
   
   
   

   

   

2. Hubby had his tattoo done by the same amazing lady!!!
   

   
   
   
   
   

3. My Dad turned 70! I can really believe he is 70. He doesn't look 70 and he sure don't act 70. Yes he is a little slower but he works like a horse and is still my hero! My Aunty Helen came from over in Queensland to spend some time and I love seeing her and having the tie to chat. Last time we were together was our wedding and we whipped off to Rarotonga and felt robbed of the time with her and my Aunty Dawn. This was awesome. (pic taken the day after the festivities.....yuk)
   

   

   
   Big bro and his little sis!

4. I made a rag quilt! I have been busting to do one of these and with the ne machine I did it!
   This is it in 165 squares being laid out so we knew how we wanted the squares to go. Being old florals etc for Nikita she helped me each step of the way.
   

   

   
   This is it stitched all together but not snipped and washed to bring out the rag effect...getting excited at this point!
   

   

   And here it is....bigger pic to come but here is Nikita snugged up underneath....SHE LOVES IT!
   

   

   

   
   
   Pretty proud of my sewing attempts here....and Nikita is wrapped too!

5. We did Joel's fav thing....and made more handmade playdough...he is lying on it because 'It is warm Mummy'
   

   

6. I had a class at TM with the nicest bunch of ladies from Geraldton. They were fabulous, the had fun and I had fun, and we are looking forward tothem returning next year! Thanks ladies for your time. We were honoured to have you!
   
7. and finally (as the title elludes) I AM COUNTING DOWN TO BOYANUP
   

   

   here is the sneak peak of one of my classes, and the other I will share when I have shared with the ladies....

   

   so.....I think that is me.
   
   I guess there is more but it will have to wait!
   
   New yummies at TM...Heaps of Krafty Lady moulds, Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants etc etc....it is just too tempting.
   
   hugs all
   e
   

Has it really been that long????

Seriously watching the days come and go like lightening lately!

The Willis house has ben madness as usual....I am wondering if this will ever change....I am not so sure.

Thanks to the ladies who came out and did this fun class.....a 6 x 12 momento/keepsake album. Loads of cool things to add andtechniques....I loved this class....fun fun fun. 

Been creating a bit in the scraproom this last week. Finalising the classes for Boyanup....OH....DID I MENTION I AM EXCITED??????? I CAN'T WAIT!

 

Look at this place.......this is going to be decadent with a capital A for AWESOME!...lol....*ok so I am a little excited.*

October 9 - 11   HECK PEOPLE IT WILL BE FABULOUS!

So I am knee deep in swap tags, name badges & of course the classes that I will be bringing....yay!

Heaps of cool classes coming up in the Tomorrows Memories schedule too. These girls are so clever at all the cool things they come up with. So watch the blog and be sure to call the store and secure a place. Call Thursday mornings and say hi! 08 9279 2183.

This Thursday is a huge day for me. You see for the longest time we (hubby and I) have planned some memorial tattoos for ourselves. Celebrating our kids and remembering our special angels. I know tattoos are not for everyone but for me, they have a place when the tattoo has so much meaning. So July last year we had and appointment with a very famous artist who works out of Perth, but has travelled and made magazines etc etc. So I figure if your having something that you will wear forever, make sure it is done by the best. Suzi Q. She is brilliant with colour and has a knack for art. We have had to wait this long....13 months, and now the wait is longer for some designs. Anyhow...I am up on Thursday. I can't wait. This will be a cool day finally realising a design I started and one that she has perfected for me. I saw my art on Thursday and I was thrilled with it. Anyhow....watch for pics.

Now here are a couple of cards that I created for Shop & Crop . They came with a little tutorial on creating flowers with lace so if you don't get the newsletter you had better sign up.....really you better  

and holy smoke...the new Websters pages....SUPER DE DOOPER YUMMY!

Might not have shared this one either....sillly me.

 

 

Love the new MME also...yum!

There is some exciting new things at Tomorrows Memories.....
NEW STUFF.....YUMMMMMMY!  AND THESE

THEY WON'T LAST! and they are as divine as they look. Laser cut chipboard.....YUM!

ok.......I have to fly. I won't take some long next time.

Hugs and happy Fathers day to all the dads out there.

e