{Sunday News}

Lots has been happening this week with Sam, he is starting to do lots of new things like pulling himself up on the couch and stand there until he falls over..... He thinks he is pretty clever too.

On wednesday afternoon he started saying Bub and is now saying Dad as well.

Last weekend I did the santa hat photoshoot Sam and Mia were happy to pose but as usual Brie just didn't want to be in it!

Check out my cheeky little monster at 10pm the other night he just did not want to go to sleep.

How cute is this!!! I found this blog who shared a fab tutorial on how to make them. It is so cute, Brie actually tried to eat it.....

Not much else happening here this weekend. Lots of swimming in the pool. Salt brought a baby galah home from work last night that he found. So the girls think that is pretty good.

My SIL Kristal has some great new designs for christmas cards on her site so go and check them out... Tell her I sent you!!!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday everyone :o)

{Scrapping Christmas Decorations Tutorial}

MIDMONTH TUTORIAL FOR FOREVER ALWAYS
Last week I was browsing throught the christmas ezibuy catalogue and saw these great christmas words that you can hang on the tree...... The scrapper in me imediatley thought I can make them with all my chipboard letters that I have :o)

You will need:

Alphas

Glitter/Kindyglitz

Dimensional magic

Ink -

string/ribbon/fishing line.... what ever you wish to use to hang it on your tree.

Step 1.

Get out the letters you wish to use.

Step 2. Ink them up with what ever colour theme your tree is :o) I used silver as I didn't have gold or red :o(

Step 3. Join your word together so each letter is touching. Cover with Dimensional magic, it will join at each letter where it touches. It will be messy!!!!!

Now sprinkle HEAPS of glitter on the dimensional magic and let it dry for 24 hours at least.

I think the Dimensional Magic is the best thing to use as it does give it dimension where as kindyglitz is a bit flat once it dries.

These are my finished words, I still need to put something on them to hang them from the tree but seen as it isn't the 1st of December yet!!!!

but here are the photos from the catalogue for you to see how good they look. I noticed BigW has them in there catalogue too.

I am going to make some with our names on them as well I think they would look good as well, something different from the name bauble.

Enjoy making these for your family.... handmade decorations are great :o)

Thanks Amie xx

{Just a few more photos}

These are the LO's I did for the Forever Always cybercrop the other weekend.

And here are a few more photos of Sam being a great little poser for me.

You can see his 2 bottom teeth in this photo, can't wait to print it and scrap it :o)

I will have to get the santa hats out and do a santa shoot for this year.

Not much else happening here. Sam has been a bit off this week I think he is getting more teeth, he has had a few temps and all the other good stuff that comes with teething.

We are off to Dubbo again this weekend for my cousins 21st. Should be a great night.

I have a LO in this months scrapbooking memories magazine it is for the Showcase using My 2 Angels. It was pretty stuff to work with :o)

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone :o)

{Stuff}

On monday Salt took the girls out the bush with him for the day, it was so quiet with just Sam and I. He took the camera with him to take some photos of them in the oats crop. Very cute I would love to dress them up and take them out there again but it is about an hour away :o(

I took these photos of Sam yesterday morning, He is getting harder to photograph as now he just wants to grab things so is always moving about...

Sam is really hard to bath atm as he wont lay down in the bath. He just wants to sit up. The girls were having a shower yesterday morning and I put this tub in the shower and let it fill up. He fits in their perfectly and looks so cute he had a lovely time.

Sam has started to sit up all by himself he gets on his hands and knees and pushed himself up until he is sitting up. You can tell he is pretty happy with himself every time he does it. It is all fun and games until he topples over and hits his head.

Sams eyes have changed colour in the last month I was looking at them the other day and thought Oh how cute you are going to have brown eyes. We all have hazel... I think they are going to be a medium brown.

Over the last week I have been scrapping up a storm I have just been in the mood to scrap which has been great, I have so many photos to get through. Sams album is pretty much up to date which is great.

We are off to Dubbo this weekend for a friends wedding, my aunty is looking after the kids so they will have a great time with her. Sam has had a few bottles of formula this week as well so I am pretty sure he will drink a bottle for her..... well heres hoping.

I can't believe how quick the school holidays are going.... We have been having a lovely time just relaxing, enjoying not having to do anything, no rushing around in the mornings. The girls have been to the town pool a few times it is sooooo cold but they have a quick swim and are ready to go home again in about 15mins.

OMG Brie put Mia's DS in the bath this morning I can't believe it as soon as I saw it she knew she was in trouble. I told her that she had wrecked it now and it wouldn't work.... She told me to put it on the charger that will fix it! I am hoping that it will work once it dries out, when I washed my mobile the other day it started working again after a few days.

Here is the LO we did at last nights recipe scrap, I really love it and can't wait to get the cupcake papers out again and make more flowers. I think they look great.

{Lazy Day Skirts}

The lovely Mel Goodsell is having a little sewing party on her blog this week, atm there are 70 something people participating in making these gorgeous little skirts. They are sew sew easy to make and I made these 2 yesterday morning in about 2 and a 1/2 hours. I brought the fabric from spotlight on the weekend and it just looks gorgeous in these little skirts. The girls are pretty happy with their new outfits too :o)

Also I hope you all come and join me on wednesday night for the recipe scrap, and then again on Thursday for Forever Always monthly Cybercrop. Here are some sneaks of my LO's from the challenges. Why not come and join us over the weekend to play. Bingo is on Saturday night and is always lots of fun.

Have a great day!

Amie xx

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Recipe Scrap 14th October 2009

Last wednesday night some lovely girls joined me over at Forever Always to create this LO. It was a fly by the seat of my pants LO as I hadn't even completed it at the time. We all love how it turned out and it really got my mojo flowing to start Bries 3rd birthday LO.

So join me again next week to scrap this planned LO

(click on the photo it will take you straight to the forum)

You will need
1 Photo 6 x 8 landscape orientation (again I have used a collaged photo.)
1 sheet of cardstock
1 Piece of patterned paper
Alphas for title
Journalling pen
3 different colours cupcake papers - Yes what you use for cooking cupcakes
1 button
1 heart
kindyglitz, paint or glimmermist...
1 or 2 chipboard numbers depending on the age It is only a little one this time
Now this LO will look good for boys and girls so come and join me next wednesday night at 8.30pm
Amie xx

{October Already & Photos}

I can't believe how fast this year is going..... There is only something like 82 sleeps until christmas and then before I know it Sam will be one. We have been quite busy last month, we had Mia's last game of soccer. I celebrated my 31st birthday..... I had a lovely morning with the family and then went to another friends house where we had pancakes for morning tea YUMMO. Then we went to Orange to do our tax, Mia had her soccer presentation that weekend as well and she received the coaches award which she was pretty happy about. Now she wants to play cricket OMG I just want to stay home....last weekend we went to Dubbo for my Aunty's 50th, Salt had a great night. I went home at 9 with the kids as it was sooooo cold. I had a fringe cut and can't believe how much younger I look! Don't know what I had been thinking for the last year or so. Sam has started to do so much stuff.... he got his first tooth on the 23 Sept, not that I would have known, we were at dancing and Kristin was holding him and he was chewing on her finger as he does to everyone!!! And she said Amie he has a tooth - NO he doesn't was my reply. Yes he does.......... NO he doesn't..............anyway she was right and the little turd has been biting me OUCH. He is starting to crawl getting up on those hands and knees and just rocking. He can drag himself along the floor now and is quick I turn my head for a second and he is across the room. Talk about trying to keep the house tidy. He is forever putting stuff in his mouth that the girls leave lying around, Brie thought she would give him a 20c piece the other day so that was a fun experience NOT.

School holidays started this afternoon I just love school holidays . I hate having to rush Mia around in the mornings. She told me when she came home from school today that she isn't getting out of bed tomorrow she is just so tired.

She is going really well at school, her reading and writing is improving, in the last few days she has been trying to write sentences all by herself it is really quite funny to see how she thinks things are spelt.

Brie is going really well, she is ever so cheeky and adorable. The other day one of the kids toys started singing and Brie said MUM THATS THE MUSIC THAT COMES OUT OF SAMS SOCKS!!!!!

I laughed so much because I knew she was talking about sam being in his jolly jumper. He has a music mat under him and it was the same music..... so cute. She has her Dad wrapped around her finger like you wouldn't believe. He just can't say no to her. She went to work with him this afternoon even after he had said no 5 times LOL.

The pool opens this weekend and Mia is just busting to go it is going to be freezing but it is such a kid thing to want to go to the pool as soon as it opens.

We are in the process of getting the plans drawn up for the house... OMG I will be so glad when it is all over and we have only just started :o(

Ok now for a few photos,

My Birthday morning


The pancake cake tradition ( I have a new pancake maker)

Sam being cheeky for the camera

My new fringe

My beautiful Mia posing like a good little girl

Mia and Sam

Now do you think I can get a nice photo of the 3 of them. They are ratbags one is always playing up two guess for WHO.

Sam at 8 months old

My first attempt at applique (Spell??)

Sam loves his walker

Brie with the sparklers at Aunty Julies 50th

This is a new sign up at our Local Caravan Park - my girls are in one of the photos Just a bit exciting for them. Salts sister actually took the photo of the river in the bottom right hand corner.

And lastly 2 photos that I took of Sam yesterday morning. He is so cute I just love him so much and just don't want him to grow up I wish they could stay babies forever.

I am sure there is heaps more stuff that I should be writing down but I just can't think of it atm.

I am off to bed.

Have a great long weekend everyone. We are staying home as Salt is working as usual LOL.

{retromummy}

I have just been doing the rounds of my favourite blogs and Corrie is have a very generous giveaway on her blog so go leave a comment..... Goodluck.

Recipe Scrap with Renae

Renae has some gorgeous sneak peak up in the forum so come and join her tonight to scrap up a stunning page.
INGREDIENTS
cardstock (i've used yummy bazzill swiss dot...mmm)
24cm x 18cm die cut or cut out paper
large tag (with string or ribbon for loop)
6 x 4 portrait photo
25cm string
25cm ribbon (thin)
20cm (length) x 12cm (height) bottom right corner of a shield type shape patterned/plain paper.(hope thats not too confusing an explanation so just ask if not sure)
journal pen
stamped image cut out and raise mount it on a circle (circle approx 5cm diameter)
alpha title
book page or similar paper 6cm x 10 cm and chipboard to frame it or make your own frame for it
diecut embellie to suit page medium size
staples
rubons...something in a straight line small and appox 15cm long.
Now this may sound like a lot of ingredients but its all really bibs and bobs and one of my fav all time layouts i've been saving for a special occasion
So come and join Renae here tonight around 8pm to play.
In other Forever Always news

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What else has been happening in our lives???


This is the kids this morning all snug in my bed watching tv. So cute.... Sam is a quick learner he is starting to smile as soon as I pull the camera out got to love that being a scrappaholic LMAO.


Mia and Brie went to their first disco a few weeks ago, it was a halloween theme and they dressed up as witches. Brie just loved every minute of it. Mia was a bit shy and said it was a bit noisy but had a good time mostly. I don't think it was what she expected.

Some scrapping that I did for the newsletter, I think these are the first LO's I have done in what seems like months.

A few weeks ago I wanted to get a few photos of the kids now why is it that 2 will cooperate and 1 wont! Brie was in fine form and wasn't having a bar of it. This is the one photo I got of the 3 of them I still love it though cause she is just so gorgeous LOL. She has a mind of her own and not one bit of bribery works to get her to do something she doesn't want too. Mia on the other hand I could always bribe LOL. She is just well practiced now and poses for me whenever.

So I ended up with some gorgeous photos of Mia and Sam.

Mia enjoying some soccer at Gilgandra a few weeks ago. Last week she got the most improved trophy again which she was pretty happy about. On saturday we go to Cobar for our last game of soccer. I will look forward to my saturday sleep ins again.

Sam in the last week has turned into a rolly polly baby. He loves it, it is really cute to see him trying to get around on the floor. I cann see him getting stronger in his arms everyday so it won't be long and he will be crawling. He is going to be 8 months old next week and I know I say it all the time but I can't believe how quick it is going. He went into his cot on the 1st of september and is slowly getting used to it. He likes to be cuddled to sleep or at least know that your in the room. It is like having Mia all over again, he has the same sleep patterns as her sleep for about 4omins - 1hr about 3 - 4 times a day and she liked sleeping in our bed too. Brie was the best she would sleep for 3 hours straight during the day and all night and would not ever sleep in our bed if she ever woke in the night I would have to rock her back to sleep on the l0unge.

I can't remember if I have mentioned this on here but we have brought a block of land and are going to be building a house on it over the next few years I say over because Salt is building it himself and it is going to take ages. But today we brought out shed to put up and I am a bit excited cause once it is up I can put our house on the market and move into the shed as it is a 21 square she which is heaps bigger than our house we live in now. Not that it will be for living anyway only maybe a 1/3 of it will be made to live in but at least we will have space to store every thing else.

I started writing this over a week ago soooooo I thought I best finish it....

Well I can't believe another month has gone by......so now I have to think what has been happening. The kids have been sick but the good thing is that when they get sick they all get sick together.... I guess it beats one after the other. Mia missed a fair bit of school the last few weeks of term as she was just getting sick all the time I am hoping this term starts off better. We were so looking forward to the school holidays. Mia had her first athletics carnival which she enjoyed. That night she had her community concert which she did 2 dances one for tap and one for jazz. She just loves it. I said to Brie the other day are you going to do jellybeans this term and she said no I want to do Jazz and Tap... (she has since told me she is going to do Ballet so it looks like she will be waiting for a few years.) so I am thinking I might just take her down and see if she will do it. Her problem is Mia isn't there so she doesn't want to do it :o(


The girls are so funny sometimes a few weeks ago we were driving and I said who loves mum and Brie said Meeee,shooting her hand up in the air and Mia said Meeeee and did the same thing. Brie turned around and said I said my hand is higher LOL

Sam is going great he is 6.5months old now and is such a good little boy, he loves to laugh at me and the girls. The more I laugh the more he laughs. With out fail everytime I change his nappy he giggles because he is ticklish on his belly and undoing his nappy tickles him. He is 8.4kg and 66cm long. Mia was 8.7kgs and 71cm long at the same age. Bries doesn't have anything written down :o(
He is eating lots of food, loves his yoghurt and egg custard I gave him vegies tonight and he didn't go much on them at all.

So below is heaps of photos over the last 6 weeks not that we have been doing much

Mia started back at soccer on the weekend, she played so well. She got the 3 points best and fairest I was so proud of her it was the first game that she actually started kicking the ball the right way. We then went out to the Ag Expo there was some great stuff out there. Then that night we went out to dinner with friends to the motel so it was a busy busy saturday. This weekend we head to Gil for a soccer gala day.

A layout that I did using the sweeties sketches blog this month. Scrapping is few and far between these days.



Brie this afternoon, she decided to be a hairdresser again on the weekend and cut the back of her hair again :o( Her fringe still hasn't grown back.

Meet our new addition so far it is called Bingo by Mia, Dingo by Brie..... pup pup pup by me and I think Salt wants to call him Jack LMAO.

Sam enjoying his first time in the swing this afternoon

Brie and Sam the other morning.

Posing for mum in Dads 28 year old suitcase that he took to primary school, a friend of mine was cleaning out a shed at work and found it and looked in side and found Salts name and address. Salt was pretty impressed with getting it back.

First time in the jolly jumper Sunday 2nd August

Brie playing doctor with Sam

Sonia's table runner/square to sit a cupcake/ cake stand on. This photo really doesn't do it justice it is very pretty. I also made her the buttercup bag such a easy pattern and quick too, but forgot to take a photo of it.

Sam the day he turned 6 months old

Our first egg :o) the girls love collecting the eggs we are getting 3 eggs a day now which is great, I can't believe how many scraps we have.

This is her tap costume for the Good ship Lolly pop

Mias Jazz costume

Mia doing her high jump at the sports carnival

Running the 200m Mia came second in the 5yr old age group :o)

Well my house looks like a tip so I am turning off my computer and to clean it up over the next few days.... hopefully if I get in it will be done tomorrow, and I can turn the puta back on LOL.

{It's all going tooooo FAST}

OMG Sam is 5 months old already I wish it would slow down. He is the most gorgeous adorable little boy you could ask for. SO SO SO happy and did I say cute :o)

Here are some photos I took on friday. That day I also gave him a taste of farex which he mostly spat out but today he actually swallowed most of it. Brie was just eating a banana so I squished some up for Sam I think he liked the taste of it but would squish his eyes up when he swallowed it I wish I had it on video camera it was so cute.

Salts mum brought us some chooks a few weeks ago, so today Salt made them a chook house so we could bring them over to our house. He did a pretty good job just using stuff that was lying around our back back yard. Mia is pretty excited to own the chooks and she has called them Charli, Brooke, Mia, Brie, Ella & Libby. She is now talking about when they will have chickens...... apparently they will lay eggs in a couple of weeks how exciting will that be. They are pretty friendly chooks so I sure Mia will have lots of fun with them. Brie on the other hand isn't too keen on any animal and just screams if they come near her.

A couple of months ago Salt put up this tyre swing for the girls out the front they just love it and have so much fun on it I finally grabbed the camera the other day while waiting for Mia to come home from school. Best toy ever they reckon!

The last few weeks has seen Mia being sick the poor little thing. She has had the vomits, splats & now croup. I hope she gets better soon it is really knocking her about :o(

I haven't been in my scrapbook room for at least 2 weeks I think I am getting withdrawals LMAO I am in an Apron Swap atm with Sonia, Gab & Briony so I am hoping to get it made this week sometime. I have so many things I want to sew but just to find the time. Tonight I saw the most gorgeous fabric baskets on Mel Goodsells Blog I am going to have to go and buy the magazine just so I can make some.

Anyway I am off to feed Sam and go to bed Mia went to bed at 6pm and Brie has just gone.

Goodnight All :o)

{Soccer, Busy Busy and some Scrapping}

Mia played her first game of soccer in Tottenham a few weeks ago, she just loved it. Salt was so proud of her for getting in there and having a go. She wasn't scared at all. It was great. On the weekend we headed back over to Tottenham for her next game of Soccer where she got to be the goally for a quarter. She let one goal in out of a few attempts so that was great. The team made her job pretty easy though as they stopped the ball a couple of times too. Mia got the encouragement award for the game she was pretty impressed about the whole thing. Afterwards we headed out to the Westons for a sleepover. On the way we stopped at the centre of NSW's and took some photos. Salt is such a poser.We had a bbq in the bush the kids loved it especially Denis's chips and toasting marshmallows.

Libby and Sam are missing in this photo.

On the 23rd May we went to Cowra for my brothers 21st. Steven had a great night. It was great to see everyone, Nana and Grandad came over from New Zealand and met Sam so that was pretty special. Only my Aunty Julie and cousin Adam have seen Sam since the day he was born so the rest of my family actually got to meet Sam and give him a cuddle. Here are some photos from the next day.

This is a photo of Nana & Grandad and the grandkids & great grandkids. This is the first time we have all been together in nearly ever.

Naughty Brie thought she would cut her hair last week :o( she has taken a big chunk out of her fringe lets hope it grows soon so we can straighten it up for her. I think she has learnt her lesson cause Mia said that she was going to cut her hair the other day and she said NOOOOO Jody only cuts it!

We have been so busy in the last few weeks which has been great, ( Mia has had speech therapy in Dubbo which went really well. We go back next week for another session.
Sam is growing up way way way too fast :o Sam is such a happy baby as soon as you speak to him he gives you the biggest grin and talk..... lots and lots of baby talking I just love it. This week he has started holding his head up really well when you put him on his tummy, He has started arching his back so you pick him up. He has started rolling toward his side as well so I am sure it won't be long until he can roll over. I think I will have to get his jolly jumper out soon. He loves it when his Dad comes home he always give Daddy a big smile which I sure just melts Salty heart. Salt said the other day do you think he will love going out to the bush with me when he is bigger. Well if he is anything like his sisters he will. He has also discovered his hands and is starting to hang onto things. We just love him so much he is such a beautiful little boy I think he is going to be a bit of a joker like his Dad cause he is so cheeky already. He just loves the kisses and cuddle I give him I always get a grin when I give him lots of kisses on his cheeks. The other morning I was feeding him and Mia came out well he stopped feeding and looked at her as if to say well come on talk to me!

And just a little bit of scrapping from me........not much happening in the scrapping dept but I have got some new goodies coming from the forever always shop so lets hope it brings some mojo with it :o)

{A Show. Photos & some Scrapping}

On the weekend we had our local show. The girls had a lovely time, as yo can see. Mia had to dance at the show I always love to watch her dance and all the other kids they are always so cute. I expressed a bottle for Sam to drink while we were there but he didn't go much on it. I just had to take a photo of Salt trying to feed him with it, a little father son bonding time :o)


A few photos from this morning that Kristal quickly took, just so cute.

This is the LO I did for my Recipe Scrap at Forever Always tonight a nice quick and simple LO that only took about 20 mins which is always a good thing. Most of the girls are away at the FA retreat I wish I were there with them using all the new supplies Sonia has in stock. Anyway enjoy your weekend girls.

You can join Renae and I this friday for our weekend High Tea Cybercrop. Make sure you pop in and say hello.

Nite all

Amie xx

{Sam cutie pie Sam}

Just wanted to share these cute photos of Sam :o)

{Happy 3rd Birthday Brie}

{Happy 3rd Birthday Brie}

Brie had a wonderful birthday on Friday, she just loves her kitchen that we gave her. Now I am going to have to make her some pretend food out of felt I sure some bacon and eggs would be easy enough. We had her party in the afternoon, she got lots of lovely presents/money and came home that night all tired out, which is always great!

Sam giggled for the first time on Bries birthday too.... it was so cute and the best thing was that James was home for lunch and got to see it as well.

Below are some layouts that I did for the Forever Always Newsletter you can read it here

This is my scrapjack LO for my it is very plain but I love it. Hope you all give it ago this month.

Last wednesday I took some photos of my friends new baby and her 3 year old. We are really happy how they turned out.

Mia marched in her first Anzac march last weekend, it was great to see all the kids marching, and very emotional to see the old diggers marching as well.

Sam also had his first bath in the big bath the other night he really loved it which is great. He was just getting to big for his little baby bath. I also got some photos of Sam in his christening dress as well since it was a bit dark on the night :o) I made it into a collage and sent it as a thankyou card as well.

Well enjoy your sunday everyone we are off to a 6th birthday party so I best get off here and get organised.

Amie xx