Sharyn say, My blog challenge for today is to describe your March in one word blurbs. What do you think of when you look back on the month?
Busy
Birthday
Exams
Tutoring
Driving
Working
Swimming
Gym
Scrapping
Classes
Rain
Sunshine
Cleaning
Sorting
Meetings
Exhausted
30 March 2010
28 March 2010
The bees have nothing on me ...
We are getting near the end of our month long blog challenge and Michelle has submiited her final topic.
Well I needed to finish what I started right? I am in charge of the challenge and today my GIS buddies are supposed to blog about the end of their month. Did it go out like a lamb? Or did it continue roaring through to the final days?
Well Michelle let me put it like this ....
Well I needed to finish what I started right? I am in charge of the challenge and today my GIS buddies are supposed to blog about the end of their month. Did it go out like a lamb? Or did it continue roaring through to the final days?
Well Michelle let me put it like this ....
27 March 2010
26 March 2010
My Beautiful Girl ...
More on the 17th birthday of Rachel. I just can't believe all these years have flashed past me so quickly.
I decided to commemorate this special day and do a layout showing the little child of 17 years ago with who she has become - a sort of "then" and "now" layout.
I issued a challenge in Get Teased to do a similar one. A comparison layout about things that were and are now - yourself now and as a child, your parents when they got married and how they look now or even the growth of a pet. I even suggested that it didn't need to be about living things, it could just as easily be a layout about the advances of something in a lifetime (televisions, telephones, etc) or it could be the following of trends in hairstyles or fashion.
I decided to commemorate this special day and do a layout showing the little child of 17 years ago with who she has become - a sort of "then" and "now" layout.
I issued a challenge in Get Teased to do a similar one. A comparison layout about things that were and are now - yourself now and as a child, your parents when they got married and how they look now or even the growth of a pet. I even suggested that it didn't need to be about living things, it could just as easily be a layout about the advances of something in a lifetime (televisions, telephones, etc) or it could be the following of trends in hairstyles or fashion.
17 ...
My daughter, Rachel is 17 today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY sweetheart !
Oh to be 17 again - can you remember what it was like? I often think over points in my life I would like to go back and revisit and I recall my second last year of high school when I had just turned 17 and yearn to return.
17 was the time of firsts for me, an exhilarating period of being caught between a child and a woman. I had my first serious teen relationship and handled it badly, I was a debutante and got to play Cinderella for an evening, had the second lead in the school musical, learnt to drive, went to parties with friends, headed with car packed with people to the local drive-in without an adult in sight. It was my year of experiences - most wonderful, some not so. It was the time I began to realise that the good times of school and the security of both family and friends was coming to an end. It was the first year where I savored that small taste of freedom of being semi independent, of making life decisions for myself, of simply enjoying the moment for what it was and who I was in that moment. Life was good as are the memories.
Do you remember what it was like being 17?
Me at 17 playing "Katie" in our school musical "Calamity Jane"
25 March 2010
Clothing inspiration ...
In our blogging challenge for Get It Scrapped! Paula has asked us to show a piece of clothing as inspiration for a scrap layout.
I found this ....
and then this one ....
Cute aren't they - almost makes me wish I had another little person to buy these sort of gorgeous tee's for - almost!!
I found this ....
and then this one ....
Cute aren't they - almost makes me wish I had another little person to buy these sort of gorgeous tee's for - almost!!
24 March 2010
So tell me what you want, what you really really ... la la la do di diddle do
Now I can't get this out of my head. Tami is reliving her Spice Girls days and has bopped out this little gem ..
So tell me what you want, what you really really want ...
OK Tami since you asked ... I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want ...
One of these please
and someone who will do lots of this
How about a weekly one of these?
About three weeks somewhere like here
Oh and can I have this thrown in for good measure?
I'm not asking too much now am I? Tami? ... Tami? ....... Tami? ............
So tell me what you want, what you really really want ...
OK Tami since you asked ... I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want ...
One of these please
and someone who will do lots of this
How about a weekly one of these?
About three weeks somewhere like here
Oh and can I have this thrown in for good measure?
I'm not asking too much now am I? Tami? ... Tami? ....... Tami? ............
23 March 2010
School day blues ...
Sharyn wants to know about my weekly schedule - you brave girl you - are you sure you really, really want to know? Weekly will be like "War and Peace" so think I'll just share my weekly morning routine.
Every weekday the alarm in my bedroom goes off at 5.20am. My husband wakes and staggers to the bathroom. Unfortunately I wake up at the same time (who can sleep through 10 decibels of blasting radio at 5.20am? Oh I forgot, that would be the husband as it is usually me whacking him in the ribs that wakes him rather than the loud alarm). I then usually lie there in the dark listening to all the normal bathroom sounds coming from our en-suite across the room - oh joy of joys.
At 6am he leaves and then I get up. I check emails and a few online sites while having a cup of tea and bowl of cereal, I make my bed, unstack and restack the dishwasher, put in a load of wash and from about 7.15 start yelling at my teen dd to hurry up, get off the computer, have a shower, get ready, pick up the wet towels off the bathroom floor, put away all the makeup and pimple cream left out all over the bathroom. This continues in amongst me showering, ironing school shirts, making sure the ds is getting ready too, packing lunches and checking homework. At 8am when ds and I head out to the car I change tack to start asking if said teen is ready yet. This questioning increases in both frequency and volume until about 8.12am when I start to threaten to leave without said teen. At 8.15am dd arrives at car with school shoes in hand, pair of socks held by the teeth and hair still wet and unbrushed.
We leave for school, teen with scowl on face and plugs shoved in ears, Ipod blaring. It's a 30 minute drive and as we pull around the final corner dd madly scrambles for socks, shoes and hairbrush. We most always arrive just as the bell rings.
All this will change next year as dd finishes school and heads off into the big wide world. Not sure if my morning routine will get better or worse with a college teen at home but secretly I'm a bit sad - after 13 years of schooling and morning school day routines my baby won't be a part of it.
Every weekday the alarm in my bedroom goes off at 5.20am. My husband wakes and staggers to the bathroom. Unfortunately I wake up at the same time (who can sleep through 10 decibels of blasting radio at 5.20am? Oh I forgot, that would be the husband as it is usually me whacking him in the ribs that wakes him rather than the loud alarm). I then usually lie there in the dark listening to all the normal bathroom sounds coming from our en-suite across the room - oh joy of joys.
At 6am he leaves and then I get up. I check emails and a few online sites while having a cup of tea and bowl of cereal, I make my bed, unstack and restack the dishwasher, put in a load of wash and from about 7.15 start yelling at my teen dd to hurry up, get off the computer, have a shower, get ready, pick up the wet towels off the bathroom floor, put away all the makeup and pimple cream left out all over the bathroom. This continues in amongst me showering, ironing school shirts, making sure the ds is getting ready too, packing lunches and checking homework. At 8am when ds and I head out to the car I change tack to start asking if said teen is ready yet. This questioning increases in both frequency and volume until about 8.12am when I start to threaten to leave without said teen. At 8.15am dd arrives at car with school shoes in hand, pair of socks held by the teeth and hair still wet and unbrushed.
We leave for school, teen with scowl on face and plugs shoved in ears, Ipod blaring. It's a 30 minute drive and as we pull around the final corner dd madly scrambles for socks, shoes and hairbrush. We most always arrive just as the bell rings.
All this will change next year as dd finishes school and heads off into the big wide world. Not sure if my morning routine will get better or worse with a college teen at home but secretly I'm a bit sad - after 13 years of schooling and morning school day routines my baby won't be a part of it.
21 March 2010
Pearls ...
For her blog challenge, Michelle shared with us a "pearl of wisdom" and has asked us to do the same.
Say what you mean and act how you feel,
because those who matter don't mind,
and those who mind don't matter.
~ Dr Seuss ~
If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey ~
Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good --
on your mirror!
~ Susan Jeffers
Say what you mean and act how you feel,
because those who matter don't mind,
and those who mind don't matter.
~ Dr Seuss ~
If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey ~
Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good --
on your mirror!
~ Susan Jeffers
19 March 2010
Family togetherness ...
Time for Family and Friends Friday blogging challenge over on Get It Scrapped!.
One of the things that stands out for many scrapbookers is the lack of pictures of themselves in their collections. Invariably we are always behind the camera, busy capturing those everyday moments of our children, family and life around us which we, of course, are a major part of but rarely seem to be seen in.
Sometimes ever rarer is a group photo of the entire family as usually someone has to take the pictures so the odd occasions you hand it over to someone else they still remain out of the frame, so to speak. Of course "family" does not have to mean husband, wife and kids - indeed in this day and age it more and more frequently doesn't - so whatever "family" means to you - parents, siblings, friends - when was the last time ALL of you were in a picture together? Please post it, we'd love to see some togetherness. And if you don't have any such pictures my challenge to you is to try hard to get some over the next weekend - grab a neighbour and have them take a photo of all of you, visit the Grandparents, set up the camera on auto or just nab someone in the local park but record some "togetherness" pictures for your album.
Rachel off to France - Easter 2009
One of the things that stands out for many scrapbookers is the lack of pictures of themselves in their collections. Invariably we are always behind the camera, busy capturing those everyday moments of our children, family and life around us which we, of course, are a major part of but rarely seem to be seen in.
Sometimes ever rarer is a group photo of the entire family as usually someone has to take the pictures so the odd occasions you hand it over to someone else they still remain out of the frame, so to speak. Of course "family" does not have to mean husband, wife and kids - indeed in this day and age it more and more frequently doesn't - so whatever "family" means to you - parents, siblings, friends - when was the last time ALL of you were in a picture together? Please post it, we'd love to see some togetherness. And if you don't have any such pictures my challenge to you is to try hard to get some over the next weekend - grab a neighbour and have them take a photo of all of you, visit the Grandparents, set up the camera on auto or just nab someone in the local park but record some "togetherness" pictures for your album.
Rachel off to France - Easter 2009
18 March 2010
Music laydown ...
Over on Get It Scrapped! Paula is talking inspiration yet again - taking layout inspiration from music CD covers to be exact. She'd like us to find a cover we can use as the basis for a layout.
I have been looking through what I have here and this one jumped out at me. It's a 2 album "Best of" set for U2 but I really like the overall cover showing both albums. Think I can do something with this. Let's see what I can come up with.
I have been looking through what I have here and this one jumped out at me. It's a 2 album "Best of" set for U2 but I really like the overall cover showing both albums. Think I can do something with this. Let's see what I can come up with.
17 March 2010
Going green ...
Michelle has asked us to post a layout being "green" in honour of St Patrick's Day. So glad she did that as this layout has been sitting in the "school" album for years unfinished and it motivated me to finally complete it. The funny thing is I have moved on so much from this style of scrapping that I was almost tempted to redo the whole thing but I stopped myself with a stern talking to. I just don't have the time to go down this path - as much as I am tempted to do so. Besides where do I then stop? Do I redo everything I did 5 years ago; do I then redo everything I do now in 5 years time? It's frustrating but I need to let it go and learn to live with my scrapbooking evolution.
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