Cut & Paste

AUGUST DOUBLE UP PACK IS GOOD TO GO

Welcome to August and welcome to this month's Double Up pack.

The August pack is pretty, pretty colours, pretty prints, pretty lettering and pretty buttons.

The gorgeous floral paper is from Echo Park, love it and the cute tags are from Crate Paper.

Mixing and matching some of this month's gorgeous papers.

More pretty colours and love the Dear Lizzy thickers.

This layout was inspired by the Dear Lizzy Instagram paper.  Very impressed with myself as I finally figured out how to resize my photos to a square shape!

Thought I should create one boyish layout for the month.

Just spotted an unstitched button, once upon a time I never would have had an unstitched button on a layout.  How things have changed, now I am happy if I manage to get a button onto a layout!

This month's pack includes 10 cardstock, 13 lovely pattern papers, lettering and flower stack from October Afternoon, Dear Lizzy thickers and chipboard shapes, Bella Blvd buttons and crochet flowers, Crate Paper lettering and border stickers and Little Yellow Bicycle cardstock stickers.  I was a little time poor this month and only had time to create 6 layouts but I have heaps of stuff left over and could have whipped up a couple more layouts.  If I do get a chance, I will be sure to share with you.

Hope that you like the August Double Up, you can order yours here.

Thanks for stopping by.

SWIMMING, SWIMMING AND MORE SWIMMING ...

It seems like our lives revolve around swimming at the moment and there seems little time for anything else ... last Wednesday, Jack was part of the Macintryre Zone School Swim team to go to Gatton to try out for the Darling Downs team ... his first time, and he was so very excited ... it was a stinking HOT day  but we survived ... Jack made it into the DD team for 50m and 100m breaststroke and 100m freestyle ...

 
 
 
 
We are so happy for him, this was definitely his own personal goal for this season ... now he goes to Chandler at the end of the month to swim in the State Trials.

On the weekend, both Jack and Evie swam at the Country Championships and Regional Swim Meet ... two big days at the pool in Toowoomba ...

 
 
 
 
 
competition was fierce ... and can I tell you that swimming parents are definitely a breed of their very own ... you kind of feel good about yourself after watching some of the parents ... anyways, Jack got third in the 100m free, second in the 50m breaststroke and third in the 100m breaststroke ... Evie swam really well and got some PBs so she was more than happy!  Just three more weeks of swimming and then we are all done for the season.

In my spare time I have photographed each of the 124 Swimming Club members and uploaded each photo onto a water bottle for Presentation Night ...

 
will look something like this but with a swimming photo ... time consuming but I think the kids will like it!

And in whatever other spare time I have ... I hang out here ...

 
Freddie is doing really well with the number ones and he has done two number twos on the toilet ... we were all very excited about that! 

I have also managed to whip up a layout ....

 
love the Modern Homemaker stickers from October Afternoon ... used some random photos of what my everyday life looks like ...

 
avialable as a TAKE AWAY pack.

That's it from me today ... thanks for stopping by.