A Post.....finally

Well hello there.  Sorry I have been away for quite some time, but we have had a lot of family illness over the last 6 months and I have been studying trying to get my course finished and well, life in general and I just haven't had time to do anything.

I am nearly finished my course, I just have 3 assignments and 7 days of Prac to go and I will be finished and hopefully a qualified Education Assistant.  Yayyy, something to cross off my bucket list.

But I thought I would just come on and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year.  I know we are hoping for a much better 2012.

I have been doing a little bit of scrapping and card making over the last month or 2.  Working at Scrapbooks from the Heart during the week seems to have helped me find my inspiration again.

This is a layout I did using one of this months Kaisercraft - Sweet Nothings range.  This photo is of my Great Grandparents on their Honeymoon.  I cut out the flowers and birdcage from another piece of the same paper and used foam tape and scrap dots to raise it up.

Well, hopefully I will be able to keep up with my blog a bit more next year.

Merry Christmas

Danielle

Some more Exmouth

The Lighthouse

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

A few Exmouth Pics to share

Today I thought I would share a couple of photos from our holiday to Exmouth in May.  I had only been there once when I was about 15 and it was only for the day, so I didn't get to see too much.  This time, we saw a bit more because we were there for a week.  But I thought Exmouth was a lot bigger town than it is.  But we did manage to find a really nice beach out at Turquoise Bay, which is part of the National Park up there.  Brad taught me to snorkel and I loved it, I can't believe I was so scared of it.

It was so beautiful here and the water was about 3 shades of blue on this day.  The photos don't really show it how we saw it.

Chloe was having a great time swimming and collecting shells.

 Luke thought he might have a go at snorkelling too, but he looked more like Darth Vadar.

Well thats it for me for now.  I might be back later with a few cards I made last week.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle



Chloe's 6th Birthday

Our little Chloe turned 6 two weeks ago.  I have to say that I was a little sad.  It feels like only yesterday that she was so little and just learning to walk and do things.  But, now she is a big year one girl, who is learning to read and count in twos and all sorts of things. 


I thought I would share a couple of photos from her birthday.  She had such a great time.  She asked for a Barbie ice cream cake from the Woman's Weekly cake book. 

It doesn't look exactly like the book, but she loved it anyway. 

And, of course, the presents were the best part of the day.

She was pretty happy with her new DSi that she had been asking for.

She had a couple of friends come over after school for afternoon tea and birthday cake and we covered some notebooks and they decorated them with butterflies, flowers and some shiny rhinestones to take home, which they all loved doing. 


I'm off now to go and make 2 Thank you cards. 


Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

A Tattered Teddy Card

Hi there,

I'm still here.  I had 2 assignments left to finish and I wouldn't let myself have any play time until they were finished and posted off.  Well, I sent the last one off last Friday, YAY, so this week I have had a little play time. 

Yesterday, I played with a new Tattered Teddy stamp Mum got from a magazine and he is sooo cute.  I was a bit scared of using him at first because of all the detail and what colour to use and I'm not that great when it comes to stamping.  But, he actually turned out and I'm pretty happy with him.

Isn't he cute??


Well, I'm off to find a hot cup of tea as it is freezing and my fingers feel like they are frozen.


Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

10 Minutes From Home

About a month or two ago, I said I was going to have a go at a challenge that was on a photography site just for my own benefit and out of interest.  The challenge was to go 10 minutes exactly from home either walking, driving, on a bike, roller blading however you choose to and take a photo of whatever was at that 10 minute point.  And it had to be a black and white photo.  Well today, I actually got to it.  With our computer dying on us and going on holidays and then everyone being sick, I just hadn't had the time to do it.  So today I went for a walk and Luke rode his bike and we kept going until it was 10 minutes exactly, which happened to be at a park we go to regularly, I just kept walking a bit past the play park part, and yes we did go back so he could play.

Remember I am still learning how to use photoshop.  Here is what I came up with.

And this is the original photo before I played with it..

Thanks for dropping by.

Danielle

I'm back/We are back

We are back from holidays and also have our computer back after the hard drive died and had to be fixed as it had somehow been corrupted.  But it's all fixed and working very nicely now.

I can't believe how quickly it got so cold.  Although, it may have gradually moved in while we were up in sunny, warm Exmouth and Coral Bay for 2 weeks.  The beaches and coastline up there are just amazing and I loved seeing the beach every day.  The kids loved being able to go swimming most days and the caravan park we stayed in in Exmouth had movies on every night for the kids at 7pm.  It was great and they loved it.  The movie screen was right next to where we were camped so we could see the kids from our site.

Since coming back we have all been sick Brad and I with tonsilitis, Luke had a nose and eye infection, Chloe has been coughing for the last week and a half and I now have a cold.  Bring on the warm weather again I reckon.   I love winter for the rain, but not for this cold weather and sick season that it brings us.

I didn't take as many photos while were away as I would have liked to, because Brad and I were both sick while we were away too, but I did manage to take a few, so I will share them over the next few days so I don't bore you with too many in one go.

But here is one I had a play with last week.  I love how the colours turned out.

This beach is one in Coral Bay that we drove to on a four wheel drive track to do some fishing. 

This photo was taken at a lookout near the Lighthouse in Exmouth.  These are the friends we went away with.  We all had a fantastic time and Brad and Kieren have been good friends since high school.

I also managed to finish an assignment last week, so now I have 3 left to do.  I have been doing Prac at a school nearby and am loving it.  I'm in a Pre-Primary class and working with a fantastic EA who is teaching me lots.

I scrapped on the weekend too.  It's been such a long time and I think I lost something to help me create.  But I think it's back again now.  Here is what I did

This photo is of my Nan's Mum (in the middle) and sisters.  I'm not quite sure when it was taken, I will have to find out.
I have used TPC Studios - Grandmas Attic Embroidery paper for the background and the dresses are cut out from Scribble Scrabble's Simply Stylish - All Dressed Up/Black Polka Dot paper and I have used kindy glitz to jazz them up a bit. 
The title is cut out of Brown Bazzill and cut on the Cricut using the Gypsy Font.  It's one of my favourite fonts to use.    The label was cut out of cream cardstock and I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Four die to cut and emboss and then inked it with Pinecone ink.

Well thats it for now.  I wasn't meaning to write such a long post, but it has been a while. 

I'll try and share some more of our holiday photos during the week.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle