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PL WEEKS 23 AND 24

Catching up again.  Another couple of busy weeks.  Winter holidays start on Friday, looking forward to having our big boy home from school.

Lunch time with Polly is like groundhog day, she always eats the ham first and then makes a big mess.

Blocks were a favourite this week.

Emptying boxes and sitting in them was a favourite of Polly's this week.

Long weekend at the Gold Coast, Jack was out of boarding school for the weekend.

First time at Max Brenner's.

Eve looking smart in her new coat.

Fred very excited about picking some of the carrots from Gran's vege garden.  He had helped to plant them, so he thinks that he is very clever.

And that was Week 23.

Last week, Week 24, being a short week flew by. 

Polly being Mum's good helper. 

Some trampoline action.

Trying hard to ride this bike.

Fred's bug catcher was his new favourite thing this week.

Polly is still completely obsessed with the trampline.

Eve had a Pyjama Party disco at school.

Brett and I drove to Brisbane on Saturday to watch play a trial rugby match against Downlands.  One thing that we both really miss about Jack being away at school (and there are many), is watching sport.  So any opportunity we get, we jump in the car.  Next year will be even worse as Eve will be away too!

I am currently reading this and loving it.  I have read his other books too and thoroughly enjoyed them also.  Never enough reading time in the day.

New shoes to brighten a cold and gloomy day.

Caught up again, thanks for stopping by.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy new year everyone, Fred and Polly saw in 2013, Jack and Eve slept through it!  Consequently, we have two tired children today.

Today starts my Project Life.  I am aiming to document our everyday, not take a photo everyday but try and capture all the little and big moments in our family life.  I will complete a double page layout each week.  Some weeks I might need to add in an extra A4 page.  I will share my photos and complete pages here.

And so it begins, everyone playing lego this morning in Eve's bedroom.  The biggest problem is that Polly loves "playing" lego too! 

I invite you to capture your everyday life too.  Cut & Paste January Project Life packs are currently on sale, there are a couple left.  February packs will go on sale at the end of this week.  As will the JANUARY DOUBLE UP packs.

Will be back soon, thanks for stopping by and be sure to get your camera out today.

CHRISTMAS RECAP

    Four kids, 3 adults, 1 dog and a trailer made the road trip from Goondiwindi to Sydney for Christmas.  Happily, we all survived to share the photos.We spent four nights with my family in the big smoke.  We had a lovely few days.

Santa delivered lots of lovely gifts, Freddie was so excited, the "believers" really do make Christmas special. Polly had a great time with all the wrapping paper.  Was fantastic for spend time with family.

Hope that yours was merry and bright.

FINALLY FINISHED MY BLANKET!

It started with 10 different coloured balls of wool almost two years ago.

Which were then turned into little Granny squares.

The piles of Granny squares grew slowly over the winter months.

And then last September I finally had crocheted 182 squares and began joining all the squares together.

After they were all joined, I then crocheted a border and FINALLY my lovely Granny blanket was finished.

I could not be happier with how it turned out ... worth every little treble.

It now sits on the end of our bed waiting for some cool weather ... I love, love, love it!  Next project, a blanket for Polly.

Miss Polly has lost the newborn baby look, she is so very cute and really interested in everything around her.

Day 105, she is always so happy to see a face when she wakes up.

Day 106, hanging out with her bestie.

Day 107, admiring Mum's blanket.

Day 108, swinging away in the swing chair.

Day 109, busy checking out the world.

Life continues to be busy .... Jack has started football and Eve had netball try out this morning.  Trying to fit in a couple of pool training sesions for Jack each week which means a 320km round trip!  Fred is his usual little self, keeping Polly and I entertained while the big kids are at school.

 

Never a dull moment!

Thanks for stopping by.

SCRAP THE GIRLS

A little while ago I was totally surprised and flattered to be asked to join the creative team at Scrap The Girls ..... our first challenge for the month of July was to use this Pink CD cover as inspiration ...

 
and also use a Pink song title or lyrics somewhere on your layout, journalling or title .... certainly got me thinking .... I also realised that I am not great at challenges!!!!  Here is what I came up with ...

 
 

 
The colour combo of the CD cover appealed to me as did the large font ... I used the song title WHO KNEW as my layout title ... perhaps you would like to take up the challenge ... entries need to be linked by the end of the month ... cool prizes to be won .... check it out at Scrap the Girls blog ... 9 other layouts from the talented creative team to check out ... have fun!!!

 

A WORK IN PROGRESS ...

 You might remember that about a year ago, or was it longer, I gathered together some balls of wool for a new project ...

 
10 pretty colours to create a granny square blanket inspired by this one ...

 
and this one ...

 
I based my grannies on these gorgeous squares and added another row of colour ...

progress has been slow as I only really crochet when I watch TV and I had the entire summer off ... but since Easter, I dusted off the wool basket and the crochet hook is getting a work out most nights ...

 

 

 
 
at last count, there are 87 squares and I need about 182 in total ... I am thinking that next winter I might see it complete!

Off to make another square or two right now, thanks for stopping by.

 

 

PROMISED LAYOUT AND CUT & PASTE SPECIAL

 
This layout is available as a TAKE AWAY pack and features great lettering from American Crafts and gorgeous rub ons and pattern papers from Bo Bunny ...

 
availabe for purchase from Cut & Paste right now.

If you are a scrapbooker you are no doubt aware that the Winter CHA was held at the end of January and loads of lovely new scrapbooking products were released ... these products are now flooding into Australia and I need to make way in my cozy little scrapbooking area for all these delightful goodies ... my TAKE AWAY basket if overflowing so from today until Sunday (March 20) buy 2 TAKE AWAY packs and receive a THIRD PACK FREE .... there after, all packs are $10 .... the catch is that all orders must be paid for at the time of ordering please ... be quick and spread the word.

Bye for now.

AUGUST DOUBLE UP IS GOOD TO GO ....

... I know, I know, hard to believe that we are nearly in the 8th month of the year ... August is just around the corner .... the last layout to share for August is JULY IN REVIEW ....

 
made entirely from scraps .... this month's pack is great value for money ... included are all these lovelies ...

10 cardstock ....11 pattern papers ... 3 lettering ... Dear Lizzy fabric brads ... My Little Shoebox Die Cuts ... Hambly Doily stickers .... Jenni Bowlin Butterfly Banner Stickers ... WRMemory Keepers Tag ... be quick to get yours only a couple remaining outside of subscription orders!  

Just a note on Double Up packs .... I am increasing numbers so hopefully more packs will be available on a monthly basis to non subscribers ... also, rather than increasing the price of Double Up packs, I have decided to email the photos and instructions for the 5 layouts each month to help keep costs down.

Next up is a super cute TAKE AWAY pack that you might like to add to your monthly order ...

inspired by a Dear Lizzy layout ...

and the goodies included in the TAKE AWAY pack ...

 
available for order at Cut & Paste .

Enjoying my new crochet project ... turning this ...

into these ...

squares are so much fun ... I love selecting the colours for each square and see my little collection growning ... pattern for these squares can be found here ... you will notice that I have made my squares a little larger.

OK, off to update the website ... thanks for stopping by.