Where Did The Week And My Bandwidth Go ???

I have had this week off work and its now 11:30 Friday night and I am wondering what I did with my week off and OMG how is it that I have used all that bandwidth and where did all those srapbooking files come from, surely I didn't do that much downloading, did I? I know I spent time with my family when I picked them up from their cruise. I also spent a day shopping with one of my girlfriends from work and we booked ourselves a week in Vanuatu for August. Apart from that I have done alot of catching up on sleep ( Have I mentioned I am a shiftworker? ) and I also did a few LO's which I will post eventually.
I also know that I have discovered the guardian angel of my sanity when it comes to printing out LO's and that is Renae over at Addicted To Digital. She has templates galore in the most imaginitive designs and the BEST bit is that they are in 11 x 8.5, perfect for printing out. Renae is one very talented lady I must say.
So I will post this and then I am going to spend a bit of time scanning old photo's that have been given to me and gee I don't know, I can feel another LO coming on.
Toodle Pip.xx

Just a Quick Note - Lindsay has a new blog.

I just did my daily trek to Lindsay Jane's site and she has a announced her new site/blog. So of course I bookmarked in a flash and said hello. She has such brilliant creations and I have used so many of them in my LO's ( a few of them are below in older posts) Be sure to visit her here Lindsay Jane Designs at her new blog to see her wonderful work.
Anyhow almost 2pm so I have to get ready for another night of work, 2 more nights and holidays YAY!!! byes

My Inspiration

My sister has only been away 2 days and I miss her already. I hate not being able to pick up the phone and ring her whenever I want. I hope they are all having a fantastic time and that Tamika has found her sea legs because the poor little thing suffers badly from motion sickness. I was thinking about her and remembered a recent photo my sis gave me of her and it was the inspiration behind tonights LO.
I used a sampler kit I picked up created by Tracey Blankenship called Beach House. Its a very simple little LO but I love it, the piccie is so lovely and is Tamika all over.





Credits: Tracey Blankenship for her Beach House Add-on and also Jannisrap for the Sand Background paper

Another Week Gone

This week sure flew by quickly. It was a good week, I finally got "offically" promoted to a job I have been doing for about 8 years now so yay I guess. I also had a fly-by visit with my Lil Sis and my Mr Fixit Bro-in-Law (love him to death) and my angel of a Neice which inspired todays LO. They came and stayed overnight and the next morning I took them to meet the rest of my immediate family, being My Dad and Step-Mother, My Step-Dad and his Fiance, her daughter and her fiance. ( still with me? )Yes I have a truly modern day family like many others.
They all left on a cruise yesterday for 10 days. I have been on 2 in the last 3 years and nagged my sister that it would be a great holiday for her and hubby and then the rest of the family decided they would tag along. Would love to be a fly on those walls. I would of loved to go but am going to Vanuatu in August for a week and saving like crazy for 8 weeks in Europe next year.
Anyway I love anytime I get to see my neice Tamika and since I had picked up Lindsay Janes lovely kit during the week I felt inspired to use it.




Credits : Lindsay Jane Designs Pink Candy Font: Floralies

I Love Long Weekends

Its was public holiday here in Sunny Queensland this weekend and I couldn't wait to spend some ( ok lots) of time doing a few layouts. On a recent trip home to my family I spent a few hours going through old photographs with my Dad and I was so happy to see that he had copies of my Debutante Ball photo's. I thought these had been lost to me forever. I also was able to copy many photos of myself and my younger sister that I had not seen for years and that bought back so many happy memories.


So I have been busy creating my layouts and I figured I'd put some of them up today. Three of these I made using kits created by Lindsay Jane ( I so love her designs ) another was made using a kit By Odette and the fifth was made using part of the Little Girls Garden Kit currently being shared by Angel In My Pocket Designs.


The photographs of my sister and I tend to have a bit of a theme. Our mother, like many, loved to dress us girls in matching outfits. A bit of a joke in our family as I am sure is the case with any children who have heard the phrase " Oh don't they look lovely in their matching dresses"


Anyway, onto the LO's.


The first is from just before Christmas 1985. Up until this photo was taken my sister had always had hair down to her waist and on the day we had these done I pulled her out of school and she had it all cut off and styled for the pictures which we did as a suprise gift for our parents. Now you may notice that yes we are in "matching dresses" and for once it was by choice. We were supposed to wear them at our mother's second wedding but she wasn't happy with them and we went with something else so we thought it was the perfect choice for the photos since she had never seen them on both of us at the same time.
The Kit is From Angel In My Pocket Designs and its part of the Little Girls Garden Kit.

Me & My Lil Sis

The caption on this one says it all, we can be a pretty tough pair when pushed.
Another Lindsay Jane kit of course called Deep Purple( my fav colour)

My Lil Cutie Pie Neice

Another Lindsay Jane kit called Just Squeezed. The colours are just so lovely.
This is my Neice Tamika and she is a little doll. This photo was taken as her pre-school photo a few years ago now but she is still just as cute ( not that I am bias at all..lol)

For this Lo I used another of Lindsay Jane's fabulous kits called Sepia Pink. I love her work, always so fresh.

This LO was created using a kit called Lilazes from By Odette and the Elegant Gold Alpha I used is from Meryl Bartho through www.digitalscrapbookplace.com

Second Times A Charm

I have been working my way around the whole "blog" thing and I think I have it figured out now (she says with fingers crossed). I have been trying to add in my favourite blogs and links but keep getting sidetracked by all the layouts to checkout and of course the freebies.

Happy National Scrapbook Day to you all also.

So today I thought I'd add the first and as yet only LO I have ever posted in a formal setting. As I am sure time will show, I have a thing for purples and I go crazy everytime I find kits in these colours so you can only imagine the reaction last month when SDK let loose with thier collection of Spring Forward and A Wind Of Spring. I made a very simple little LO called Those Grape Dresses. So here it is.

CREDITS: Kit: A Wind of Spring / SDK Supa Digi Kit (April 2007) by Doreen Stolz

Here Goes Nothing

I am going to give this blogging thing a go and see what happens. So hold on this could be a bumpy ride.

I have been totally dumb founded by the amount of talented designers out there who are kind enough to share there wonderful creations for free. I don't have an artistic bone in my body so I praise you all and the fact that you all share the way you blows me away.

So I'd like to use my "blog" to share the layouts that I create with your hard work.

I have to admit to having my favourite designers, as I am sure everyone does, but being an true Aussie I have to say that Lindsay Jane just stuns me. Her designs are just devine and I'm sure I will be posting many layouts using her creations. Like everyone I am a slave to the freebies lists and visit IkeaGoddess and Selena daily. Another part of the world I visit daily sees me opening my translation page so I get the low-down on whats happening in South America. Love all those ladies from Brazil. Anyway enough jabbering on, time to see if I can work out this uploading piccies part.

If it works there will be a layout featuring Lindsay Jane and her Grandma's House Kit. I was looking for colours to compliment these pictures of my Dad and Lindsay of course had the perfect colours. So fingers crossed XX

Credits:Lindsay Jane Designs