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A little bit of cyber-space for me post layouts I create with the wonderful kits made by some very talented designers.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Making Headway Finally

Well after many many hours ( my husband says days & weeks ) I have finally purchased a couple of kits that I want to use to chronicle our Wedding Day. Along the way I have been slightly sidetracked by thousands ( no joke ) of beautiful kits, quick pages, mini-kits, clusters and the list goes on. I have sampled many freebies to help me settle on my final choices and all I can say, which I know isn't said enough to the hosts of freebies is.
ALL FREEBIE HOSTS. HERES A MASSIVE BIG THANKYOU !!!!!
You gals and guys do wonderful work, a skill I could only dream of, and I see people getting narky if links aren't working of if files are amiss but I tell you what these people are just painly ungrateful !!! I could go on and on about this but I won't, I'll climb off my soapbox 'cause lets face it, I have a wedding album to scrap!!!! Will try to post a few as I go. Oh and as a PS....
Got a great cluster frame earlier from Farmer Lisa's blog, go give her a looksie.
:)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

OMG.... Talk about choices

Wow wow wow. I have spent a great deal of time searching through so many beautiful and talent-packed Scrap-Kits this past week. To say my head is spinning would be an understatement. I am trying to find that one special kit that "speaks" to me so that I can finally get down to doing our Wedding Album. I found the perfect colour match over at Mary Pop's Blog called "Spring Garden"( have a look here ). Then I found "Sara's Wish" (here) over at Dreamers Magic Designs and my poor head thought okay, this may not be a case of not finding a kit but more a case of finding too many beautiful kits and then having to choose. Over at Digital-Crea.fr Sekada Designs Only increased my confusion. She has many devine kits and my 2 favourites are "Violet Day" & "Memories Are Treasures", check them out too. The next little gem to pop up on my radar was "Wedded Bliss" over on Amanda's blog, Scrap In Style (here). I could go on and on but seriously, I'd just confuse myself even more. So basically I am trying to match the purple in the bridal party's flowers. Here's a piccie of them and of the quirky wedding cake topper my darling husband picked out.

cya soon :)






Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I'm Finally Back Or Oh How Times Change !!!!!!!!

When last I was here I was a single working woman paying off my own house, living a bit of a hermit like existence with my cat. Sad in some ways I know but I actually did enjoy the serenity of being able to scrap, cook, sew, control my own tv(lol) and renovate my little castle without having to worry about waking others......................Oh how times change.
I have now been married just over a year, I sold my darling little house and started the year taking a leave of abscence from my much loved job. Now it may sound like I'm not too happy about he turns my life has taken and I guess in some ways you'd be right. I love that I married the man of my dreams, the on again off again man that I had finally walked away from several years ago and had written him off as "not the one". Well to cut a long story short, girl leaves boy, boy wakes up to himself, boy chases girl, girl finally crumbles, boy and girl start to live happily ever after............... That was the plan.
Twelve months to the day of our reconciliation we had cause to rush my now husband to the emergency room, he had been spotting blood 2 days previous but on this day it was alarmingly heavy. We had seen his Dr the day before but he assured us there was no need to panic and as we were already waiting for a colonoscopy it there was a problem it would be picked up. Wrong !!!
I followed my darling as he rode in an ambulance to the hospital, 8 hours later (2am to be exact)and after a truckload of tests they woke us with the news that my darling had a large mass in his sigmoid-colan and a few areas of concern on his liver and his lungs.
Cancer!!!!! He was 44 when diagnosed.
The 3 prior days of spotting was the only sign that there was a problem.
This was 6 weeks after I had finally agreed to accept my mans marriage proposal and the beautiful man that he is uttered 2 words to me as Dr's delivered this horrific news. He clung to me tightly and said " I'm Sorry". Something that was so selfless and gut-wrenching that I will never forget it.
He commenced his Radium and Chemo treatment straight away with the radium to last 6 weeks followed by 6 weeks of waiting for side effects to abate before we could see if these treatments had any impact. We decided that in this 6 week waiting period we would follow through on our plans to marry, just 9 months earlier than we had originally planned, but also before we had to face any test results good or bad. We planned our wedding in 3 1/2 weeks, I tell you what when time is a factor you make your choices and you stick to them, now I know what makes bridezilla's, too long a planning period with time allowing too many changes and possible stuff ups.
We had a fabulous day, everything that a girl could ever wish for, the man of my dreams, our families and our friends. Just Devine.
Unfortunely the scan results were not what we wanted to hear, a small response to the radium but not enough removing the option of surgery. So I'm not going to talk time-frames because we don't believe in them but they love throwing them out there, which shits me to tears frankly. (Pardon Me) So here we are just over 18months later, radium, chemotherapy, countless MRI and CT scans, blood cultures, pokings and prodings and my darling is still fighting the fight.
I have had to take extended leave from my work as my darling now requires supervision at all times, something I wish I had been able to do earlier, just for the time together, but we needed to be set up financially enough for me to be at home. So I am now and I get to spoil my darling everyday and I treasure each and every moment. My darling is sleeping a lot more theses days and I try to find ways to unwind that are not going to wake him so I have finally gotten back into my computer and decided to scrap our wedding photos. Wow I say to the change in direction that digi-scrapping has taken since I've been away. I think I am going to enjoy my trips, "Scrap-Booking Land" my little bit of solice. So I have some updating to do on my blog I gather, sites gone and new ones to add. A wonderful task I am sure. So before I go, a wedding picture to share, my Darling Husband Shane and Lil Old Megan. Be back real soon, got wedding kits to survey, Violets,Black and White here I come, feel free to point me in the right direction.......lol

Byessssss

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Kirra 2003-2008

It has been a sad week in my house this week. I don't have children but I have my "Girls" and Monday morning I lost my youngest girl Kirra. I had done this layout a while ago but never got around to posting it but now in tribute to her I am. She was a feisty thing and I always joked that she hated me but boy I am sorry she's gone.
Template by Tracy Drane

Sunday, February 17, 2008

No Sleep Till Bedtime.......

Howdy all, I know, I am a big fat liar, I said I'd be back soon and I haven't been. Sleep as usual dictates my life. Have I ever mentioned that I work 4 pm till Midnight?
I love the hours, don't get me wrong, I have most of the day to run errands if needed, go to Doctors and banks etc etc and in a perfect world I would do all of these things but I have this little problem. I don't sleep, I nap. I am a happy camper if I can get a full uninterupted 2 hours. Now I'm not saying this happens now and again, this happend every single night. No matter what I try, I will nap and not sleep. So I have "hobbies" that I do in-between my "naps". Scrapbooking is one of them. One other is music, 80's music to be specific. So I started a little blog about it as well.
But don't despair, I have not given away my glue sticks just yet. I have actually been doing a litle more paper scrapping than digital latelty mostly because I spend 8 hours a night on a computer at work and then with the time I was spending digi-scrapping and doing my 80's music revival somethng had to give and I think it was going to be my eyes. So anyway, I am around and breathing if not sleeping.
Take care all

Friday, December 14, 2007

I am alive.........

I know its been a really long time since I posted but this funny thing called "Life" has been happening. I have been working and trying to sleep and just when you think you have a handle on things you go get sick and that sort of sits you on your butt. So yes, I am alive and thanks for the emails checking in with me. *Warm fuzzies to you all* I will not leave it so long between visits from now on. I hope everyone is geared up for the silly season. I actually haven't left ALL of my shopping till the last moment this year so I am quite proud of myself. A few more things to grab this weekend and I am done. So a short, sweet post today, heading off to work now so take care all and see you soon.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Vanuatu And Back

Well its been a little while since I posted and its been a hectic time. I have been on holidays and went to Vanuatu with one of my friends from work. We had been there before but as a part of a cruise so this time we thought we'd just go there for our entire holiday because its such a lovely place. We even got to send postcards home at the Underwater Post Office!!! Yes I said underwater, it was so funny. You could snorkel out over a lovely coral reef to a post box that was underwater and send your waterproof postcards. We did a few guided tours and I will add LO's as I do them but for today I wanted to post this one. We went to The Secret Garden which is a cultural centre and I got to have a meet and greet with one of the more colourful locals. This was one of 5 iguana's they had and it was so placid.

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I used Tracy Drane's Nature Walk kit and the font is Mums Typewriter