Sunday Randomness....

I saw this on Kayla's blog, so thought I'd give it a go:


Outside my window...... Sun setting in an over cast sky.


I am thinking..... That I need to cull my creative stash. It's starting to slide of my bench.


I am thankful for....... Love.


I am wearing.... Jeans, and a really bad over sized, but so warm wooly jumper.


I am going..... to keep cleaning tonight, done the floors in the dinning/kitchen, now to vacumn the carpet.


I am hoping..... that tomorrow will be sunny!


I am hearing...... the sounds of the street, a bird chirping, and a kitten purring.


Around the house....... football being watched, chocolate macaroons baking, and the tapping of keyboard keys.


One of my favourite things....... potato. I did say it was random sunday! hehe


A few plans for the rest of the week..... bit more cleaning, a bit of work, a bit of creating, and then packing for my trip to Sydney next Sunday.


A picture to share.....Inside the vase is clearly the best place to be! xx

A quick Olive update.....

She is getting so big. I can't believe she is almost a grown up cat. It's only a few weeks now and we have to take her of to be sterilized. Oh...shed a tear, as my baby kitten is almost gone. On the bright side though, she is such a character. Still loves her boxes and plastic bags. Here's a little collection of pic of her over the last month or so.

sigh....... she still heaps cute and super fun. She pretty much keeps me entertained. I have been doing quite a bit of creative work over that last few weeks, so I shall be back soon with a bunch of pics of my work. Till then have fun.

Mel

xx

August Scraptivate Design Team Project....

Here are two layouts I have done this month with my Design Team pack from Scraptivate. I was fortunate enough to get the Limited Edition Great Escape range from Making Memories. It's a gorgeous range with stunning papers and transparencies, bamboo wood letter, boxes of paper flowers and buttons....the list goes on really.

 My first Layout is of a photo I took as we were approaching Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. This range was perfect for this photo, especially the Destination transparancy. I have also used one of the new Martha Stewert border and corner punches, a crafty lady mould which I filled with melted UTEE from my Ranger Melt Pot. I gessoed and painted then rub and Buffed it. I think think it came out amazing, but then I am a little bit bias.

My second layout using the same Great Escape travel range, I wanted to use this photo of my friend Heather at her birthday, the range had the best colour pallet to go with it, but I have been able to alter a few items to make them less tropical and more suited for a birthday. The first thing I did was crackle paint the hibiscus flowers with Tim Holtz copper crackle paint. This made them more just like large metallic flowers. I also loved the edge of the postage stamp/map paper, but I covered up the centre map part with this bright floral piece of paper from the same range. I also stamped on the plain blue colour paper with embossing ink and used perfect pearls to add a pattern to the plain sheet.

Let me know what you think?

Mel

xx

She's a good watch cat! ....

What more can I say?...... she keeps watching TV even when I fall asleep.

A little bit of new work....

This is  sneak peek at a class that I will will be teaching soon. If you would like to come along and join in the fun, pop on over to here, and give us a call.

It's a gorgeous quote canvas with a delightful tree, butterflies, bling, pearls and topped off with a huge bow. What more could you ask for. Come on into the store to see the canvas in it's entirety and let me know what you think.

Just a LO I have completed in the last week.

Where's the best place to sleep on a cold winters night..........?

Right here, in her mummy's jacket.

Craftroom Kitty.....

So someone is making herself very much at home in my craft room. It's lovely, she follows me in, scopes out the best possy and watches........ for a min, and then everything is far to exciting and she wants to help. On top of the Cuttlebug basket is her fave spot if I'm in the room, (she goes in and plays with things when I'm not home, find ribbon and brads on the floor sometimes) and the window sill is fast becoming the spot to sleep. 

Poor Olive is nursing a bruised ego this morning though. She comes everywhere with me. Literally, she sits on the side of the shower and waits for me (getting wet the whole time), sleeps with me, come to the toilet with me........ and this was her down fall today. She is usually very careful, wants to check everything out, but this morning got a little too cocky and before I had a change to put the toilet lid down, Olive jumped up....... and this was priceless, as she is starting to come down I can see she is going "wholly crap where's the lid" and subsequently ended up in the bath. It frightened her, poor little thing, but the most traumatic part was I had to give her a bit of a bath to clean her up. She didn't love it and is a bit grumpy and not really talking to me now.

Oh wait, she's just jumped into my lap....... must have gotten over it already.

Mel

xx

Standing on my LO's......?