Things are looking up!!

I had some happy email news this week that I can finally share with you.

I have been asked to join the Inspiration Team over at Scrapping Word Pictures blog.

If you haven't checked out their site, do so now - lots of great inspiration and a fun challenge each month. Sami gives us a list of written instructions which we follow to create a layout. Here's my version of April's challenge

Thanks so much for the opportunity Sami, I know I'm going to enjoy myself.

I've also been doing some other scrapping today - the weather is wet and the boys are occupied with friends.

This layout is a sketch challenge over on the Country Papercraft blog - thanks for the inspiration Lone. I flipped the sketch on its side for this one. I've used some Cosmo cricket and Basic Grey papers together with some Collections and Fancy Pants chipboard, the obligatory Bazzill cardstock and Basic Grey letter stickers.

It feels good to be scrapping!

We also met with our architect to make some minor changes to our initial renovation plans this morning - I can't wait to get started now, but on the other hand, I'm scared to bits - we've never tackled anything like this before. I think I've been watching too many renovation shows on the Lifestyle channel!!! hee hee

Take care everyone, cheers, Deb

I think I've walked under a ladder..............

Lots has been happening around here lately and unfortunately, not all of it good. I'm not sure what we've done to deserve the round of bad luck that's been following us around, but here's an update of the good, bad and the scrapping!! You might want to sit down with a cuppa for this one, it could be a long post.

Firstly the good stuff!

• Some of you may know that Remember When Scrapbooking Company has undergone a change recently. Kathy (the owner) decided to sell off the retail arm of the business to focus on the Laser Cut wholesale side. Good luck with it Kathy, I know you'll do great. Anyhow, Lee is the new owner of RWPC and she has asked me to stay on as part of her new Design Team. I'm so excited with what she has planned. She has already got all the latest Bazzill cardstocks back and I just LOOOVE Bazzill. She is also planning on introducing other products. I'm still blogging over there on alternate Tuesdays, but my focus will be on highlighting all the new stuff - how cool is that??


• We also found out that Shayne and I are off to China, well Shanghai to be exact at the end of May with the Toshiba crew. Very exciting!!!


• We finally got our concept plans back for the house renovations from the architect. They look great and certainly weren't anything that we would have thought of ourselves. It will mean almost totally gutting the interior but at least we won't have to build on. We just need to finalise the plans and then the work can start!
• Ryan and Bowen played their first games of football yesterday - wasn't my last post about cricket?? The year is really flying by. While they had mixed results (Bowen's team won and Ryan's didn't LOL) both got in the best players and won Fasta Pasta awards. I hope they keep them coming during the year!!

The not so good stuff now....

• I had my handbag stolen from our living area a couple of weeks ago. Apart from the scary fact they were in the house while the boys and I were home, it's been very frustrating firstly living without all my plastic cards and then having to get everything replaced again. They also took Ryan's DS, but he's pretty happy to have a new one. We've certainly become much more security conscious around here!



• We took the boys to Adelaide to watch the Port v Melbourne footy match over Easter. The weather was great but unfortunately Shayne got the dreaded gastro bug on the Sunday morning and spent his time at the footy lying down in the car - at least he could hear the crowd cheering. Not surprisingly, Ryan caught it on the Monday night and my only shopping purchase for the weekend, was a bucket for the trip home!! I caught it on Thursday and am only now starting to feel back to normal. Bowen is feeling very proud of the fact he hasn't caught it. Fingers crossed buddy!

On the scrapping front

• I completed March's challenge for Scrapping Word Pictures. It was the first time I have attempted their challenge and I LOVED it - they give you written instructions and your job is to interpret them to produce a layout. It's great when the mojo is on holidays or you want to get a layout done quickly. Here's what I came up with





• I've also just done an online photo editing course with Jessica Sprague - it's FANTASTIC and I've learnt so much. You can go back to it whenever you want which is a great feature. The class is a mixture of written information (not a lot) and recorded sessions demonstrating how to use Photoshop. It's so easy when you can see exactly which buttons to press.

Well if you've managed to stay with me this far, congratulations you deserve a medal!! Maybe if I posted more often, you wouldn't have to read such long posts........

Well, it's my turn to blog at Remember When tomorrow and I still have a layout to finish.

Talk you soon, Debxx