Tuesday, 13 March 2007
wwek 6 reality scrap
well, trudi & I made it thorugh another round and now they've split the teams up and this week's challenge is an OTP. I suck at OTP. I can't think of anything to make, it's really stressing me out!! I think I'll be packing my bags this week ...
Friday, 9 March 2007
some weeks are just crap
for seemingly no real reason.
Scrapping has been a real challenge this week - just not feeling into it - I'm just glad the comp is a road block this week and it's up to Trudi to get us through (no pressure Trudi!) because if I think it was up to me, we'd be in certain trouble.
Just been feeling really flat this week.
We had an interesting morning on Thursday - long story short - Max slipped over inside whilst running and smacked his face on the ground, split his lip open and gave his front teeth a bit of a knock. Spent a good hour at the doctors with one very upset little boy. Thankfully A had only just left home and not on the bus yet and he was able to come home and look after Maeve while I took Max to the Dr. His lip is pretty swollen and we have a dentist appointment on Tuesday to see if there's any damage to his teeth. Lots of blood, lots of tears, but I think he'll be ok. Here's a pic from last night:
I really ought to go and try and finish this scrap page (it isn't supposed to be this hard y'know?).
Finished the LO - I am constantly frustrated at the lack of picture quality we have to submit due to having to reduce the pic size. If anyone knows how to reduce without losing so much detail, I would love to know.
Journalling is the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem "How Do I Love Thee" ...well part of it anyway because I couldn't fit the whole poen onto the page! Reads:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Scrapping has been a real challenge this week - just not feeling into it - I'm just glad the comp is a road block this week and it's up to Trudi to get us through (no pressure Trudi!) because if I think it was up to me, we'd be in certain trouble.
Just been feeling really flat this week.
We had an interesting morning on Thursday - long story short - Max slipped over inside whilst running and smacked his face on the ground, split his lip open and gave his front teeth a bit of a knock. Spent a good hour at the doctors with one very upset little boy. Thankfully A had only just left home and not on the bus yet and he was able to come home and look after Maeve while I took Max to the Dr. His lip is pretty swollen and we have a dentist appointment on Tuesday to see if there's any damage to his teeth. Lots of blood, lots of tears, but I think he'll be ok. Here's a pic from last night:
Onto other matters ... It seems A & I never really get to spend much time together these days. Between work, kids, church, scrapping and my obsession with exercise, we're like ships passing in the night. It's not good, but I don't know what to do. This week we've spent only one night at home together (monday night). Tonight will be no different, the weekend will see a bit of a change, but it's just not enough really is it? It's all about balance and at the moment I don't feel like we have much balance as a couple.
I really ought to go and try and finish this scrap page (it isn't supposed to be this hard y'know?).
Finished the LO - I am constantly frustrated at the lack of picture quality we have to submit due to having to reduce the pic size. If anyone knows how to reduce without losing so much detail, I would love to know.
Journalling is the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem "How Do I Love Thee" ...well part of it anyway because I couldn't fit the whole poen onto the page! Reads:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Finally ... !
Finally found out we made i t through to the next round of the comp ... yay! This week is a road block challenge, which means only Trudi's LO contributes to our group points ... I ahve every faith in her and know she'll come up with something great. It's a Basic Grey challenge this week, using their Blush papers, so will be great to work with papers that I love.
Took the kids to the library this morning and Maeve had a total melt down as we were leaving, then when she got over it, Max decided it was his turn to throw a tantrum. I was very embarrassed. He was hitting me and throwing himself on the floor, screaming and just being plain silly. All because I wouldn't buy him a cheese & bacon roll from the bakery (because the ones they made at that particular bakery were horrible in my opinion) - instead I bought him one from Coles. I don't know what to do with him these days. He's so defiant and disobedient and talks back and shouts at me and hits me ... where did my sweet little boy go??? I hope he gets through this stage very quickly.
You can't help but think you've done something to create this little monster ... my parenting skills must really suck or something. I don't know. I just feel terrible about it. I can see that people get quite sick of him quite quickly - he's so bossy with other kids (and adults for that matter) telling them they're doing it wrong, or "that's a bad idea" is another favourite. I'm extremely frustrated with him and myself for my lack of being able to deal with him.
Just had a call from my brother - him and his 2 flatmates got an eviction notice last night - the unit is on the market and they want them out in 2 weeks!!!! For some reason they want to sell the unit vacant - which seems very strange to me. I think one of his flatmates is OS for another week as well. 2 weeks to find an affordable, decent 3 bedroom appartment in this part of town is just ridiculous. I told him to call the RTA and find out what their rights are. Anyway, I told him he could crash at our place for a few weeks should he need to. He should just buy the unit ...
I've painted all the kids windows and the first coat of gloss on 2 of our windows. 1 big window to do in our room - will do the undercoat tomorrow morning and then gloss on thursday morning and then again on friday morning, with the weekend to dry totally and then the blinds go on on Monday .... woo hoooooo!!! You have no idea how long I've waited for these!!! It's going to make a huge difference to the bedrooms and look of the house. Now if we can get the lounge room done and get our wooden blinds back on this house would be almost finished!!!!!
Better go think about what's for dinner tonight.
oh, I was very bad today and bought myself a polar HRM - should arrive tomorrow - I can't wait.
Took the kids to the library this morning and Maeve had a total melt down as we were leaving, then when she got over it, Max decided it was his turn to throw a tantrum. I was very embarrassed. He was hitting me and throwing himself on the floor, screaming and just being plain silly. All because I wouldn't buy him a cheese & bacon roll from the bakery (because the ones they made at that particular bakery were horrible in my opinion) - instead I bought him one from Coles. I don't know what to do with him these days. He's so defiant and disobedient and talks back and shouts at me and hits me ... where did my sweet little boy go??? I hope he gets through this stage very quickly.
You can't help but think you've done something to create this little monster ... my parenting skills must really suck or something. I don't know. I just feel terrible about it. I can see that people get quite sick of him quite quickly - he's so bossy with other kids (and adults for that matter) telling them they're doing it wrong, or "that's a bad idea" is another favourite. I'm extremely frustrated with him and myself for my lack of being able to deal with him.
Just had a call from my brother - him and his 2 flatmates got an eviction notice last night - the unit is on the market and they want them out in 2 weeks!!!! For some reason they want to sell the unit vacant - which seems very strange to me. I think one of his flatmates is OS for another week as well. 2 weeks to find an affordable, decent 3 bedroom appartment in this part of town is just ridiculous. I told him to call the RTA and find out what their rights are. Anyway, I told him he could crash at our place for a few weeks should he need to. He should just buy the unit ...
I've painted all the kids windows and the first coat of gloss on 2 of our windows. 1 big window to do in our room - will do the undercoat tomorrow morning and then gloss on thursday morning and then again on friday morning, with the weekend to dry totally and then the blinds go on on Monday .... woo hoooooo!!! You have no idea how long I've waited for these!!! It's going to make a huge difference to the bedrooms and look of the house. Now if we can get the lounge room done and get our wooden blinds back on this house would be almost finished!!!!!
Better go think about what's for dinner tonight.
oh, I was very bad today and bought myself a polar HRM - should arrive tomorrow - I can't wait.
Monday, 5 March 2007
A good weekend
We're back from our family reunion weekend at Sommerset - it was really enjoyable. In fact, I enjoyed it more than being at someone's house for a day - at least at the camp we had our own space and could escape the madness for a while if we wanted/needed to.
I think the general consensus was that we should make it an annual event, although next time make sure there are a few more structured activities and a timetable, and perhaps make it 3 days instead of 2.
The kids had a ball, although the vdb kids and the waters kids didn't really mix much - hopefully that will change as they grow older. Mostly Liam, Max, Joss, Ellie and Maeve palyed really well with minimal fights and arguments, so that was nice. By the last day everyone was a bit tired and ratty and I was very ready to go home!
Still no news on results from this week of Reality Scrap ... they're having some technical issues (again) with the forum, so we're waiting for that to be resolved. The LOs this week were amazing though and I think it'll be a tough week to make it through. It's a little frustrating that the voting/scoring isn't a little more transparent - I'd love to know how the DT scores each LO (i.e their criteria) and I'd love to know what effect the winner of the FNG has on who goes through (like, are they told the scores before they choose who to take a point from etc) ... but I'm trying not to get too worried about all of that and just scrap. It's just a game and I'm not going to get caught up in the twists and turns and voting and scoring etc etc ...
2nd week of uni this week and I already feel like I'm behind in my reading - thanks mainly to my textbooks not arriving in time - Boy there are some whingers in the world. The units I'm doing, one of them is purely on line - they post electronic versions of the study guide and readings for you and all communication and tutorials take place on line ... there's this one guy who keeps complaining about how long it is taking him to access these documents (cos he;s on crappy dial up) and how much it is costing him in time and resources to print stuff - Man, get a life - you enroled in an ON LINE UNIT - what do you expect????? pffft.
Still haven't sold the other car - no one wants a V6 these days. Wish we could sell it then we might just be able to get a builder to come and do our deck and bathroom and finish this palce off. I would soooooo love to have the decks done.
Our blinds get installed next monday - YAY!! I have more painting to do before then ... boooo! I don't mind the painting, but it's the cleaning the brushes with turps and stuff after that bugs me. But there's no getting around that. We bought some good brushes this time - it makes such a difference.
Anyway, I'm just procrastinating I really ought to go and paint or put children to bed, or clean my house, or do uni reading, or do anything other than this!!!!!
I think the general consensus was that we should make it an annual event, although next time make sure there are a few more structured activities and a timetable, and perhaps make it 3 days instead of 2.
The kids had a ball, although the vdb kids and the waters kids didn't really mix much - hopefully that will change as they grow older. Mostly Liam, Max, Joss, Ellie and Maeve palyed really well with minimal fights and arguments, so that was nice. By the last day everyone was a bit tired and ratty and I was very ready to go home!
Still no news on results from this week of Reality Scrap ... they're having some technical issues (again) with the forum, so we're waiting for that to be resolved. The LOs this week were amazing though and I think it'll be a tough week to make it through. It's a little frustrating that the voting/scoring isn't a little more transparent - I'd love to know how the DT scores each LO (i.e their criteria) and I'd love to know what effect the winner of the FNG has on who goes through (like, are they told the scores before they choose who to take a point from etc) ... but I'm trying not to get too worried about all of that and just scrap. It's just a game and I'm not going to get caught up in the twists and turns and voting and scoring etc etc ...
2nd week of uni this week and I already feel like I'm behind in my reading - thanks mainly to my textbooks not arriving in time - Boy there are some whingers in the world. The units I'm doing, one of them is purely on line - they post electronic versions of the study guide and readings for you and all communication and tutorials take place on line ... there's this one guy who keeps complaining about how long it is taking him to access these documents (cos he;s on crappy dial up) and how much it is costing him in time and resources to print stuff - Man, get a life - you enroled in an ON LINE UNIT - what do you expect????? pffft.
Still haven't sold the other car - no one wants a V6 these days. Wish we could sell it then we might just be able to get a builder to come and do our deck and bathroom and finish this palce off. I would soooooo love to have the decks done.
Our blinds get installed next monday - YAY!! I have more painting to do before then ... boooo! I don't mind the painting, but it's the cleaning the brushes with turps and stuff after that bugs me. But there's no getting around that. We bought some good brushes this time - it makes such a difference.
Anyway, I'm just procrastinating I really ought to go and paint or put children to bed, or clean my house, or do uni reading, or do anything other than this!!!!!
Friday, 2 March 2007
challenge 4
Just thought I'd quickly post my week 4 challenge for the sbc comp. The challenge guidelines are below.
I'm really pleased with the way this came out in the end.
Now, off to pack for our weekend away - I have 1 hour in which to do everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Reality Scrap Survival Kit contains two Pink Martini papers. These are the preferred papers for this challenge. Requirements: ABC-123 (Challenge inspired by Nancy Kupec, USA) EASY OPTION The following are your required inclusions. You may also add other items to the layout, but are restricted to the clauses below (meaning that if it says two patterned papers, you may only use two patterned papers, for example). * A - Adults, topic of layout must be concerning adults - siblings, parents, friends, etc (NOT children, animals, etc) * B - Bling, use some bling on your layout - gems, rhinestones, glitter, etc (unlimited amount, it just has to be there) * C - Chipboard, use THREE (3) pieces only * 1 - ONE Photo, any size * 2 - TWO Patterned papers, preferably from the Pink Martini Range. * 3 - THREE x 6" lengths of ribbon (hint: they do not have to remain in three lengths, you may cut them, but still have to use all of the lengths on your layout somewhere; they do not have to be from the kit) DIFFICULT OPTION * ABC-123 as above PLUS... * Go "Freestyle" - Make it arsty, lots of doodling and interesting journaling style. * Add some random machine stitching. * Finally, NO paper or photograph can be 'square on' on the page. 'Square on' meaning parallel to the edges of the layout.
Monday, 26 February 2007
crazy
It's midnight ... I will have to be up in 6 hours ... I can't sleep ... my mind is racing with all the things I have to get done this week - I wish we came with an off button!
made it through to the next round of the comp at SBC ... thanks mainly to the skill of my wonderful partner, Trudi ... she was awesome this week - her score this week was just amazing! She totally deserved it and now I feel like I'm dragging the chain a bit there! Hopefully this week will be a better one for me. I really want to try and break out of the normal style I normally do - It's such a comfort zone and can get so boring. This weeks challenge might help me do that a bit - some freestyling ... arghhhhh!!! I think this is why I can't sleep!! I'm going to give it a go and see what happens! Who knows, I may just like it!
This week is going to be such a busy one - I'm not sure where I'm going to find the time for everything.
I have to try and get our windows painted so the blinds can be installed!!!
I have New Beginings night for the girls at church on Wednesday and have altered notebooks to finish for that as well as a bunch of food to organise and other stuff
I have to pack for our family camp on the weekend
I have uni starting this week, so have readings and questions for that to do
I have the scrapbook comp LO to do
I have to send invites for max's birthday party
and lastly I have a house that looks a bit like a disaster zone ...
I'm sure I've forgotten something!
So I'm feeling a little stressed and anxious about getting everything done.
Had my PT at the gym today and over the last 5 weeks have lost 17cm combined off my bust, waist, hips, thighs and arm ... so pretty pleased about that.
Maeve has been so grizzly lately, I hope she passes this phase soon - it's driving me nuts.
We had the Kindy guinnea pigs for the weekend - it was much more fun than I thought it would be. Both the kids absolutely loved it, and once Max got told off a few times for hurting them (not on purpose I don't think) he was quite gentle with them and enjoyed playing with them, feeding them and patting them. Maeve was funny - she spent most of the time squealing at them!
I'm tired, now if my legs would stop aching from my PT this morning, I might be able to get to sleep.
made it through to the next round of the comp at SBC ... thanks mainly to the skill of my wonderful partner, Trudi ... she was awesome this week - her score this week was just amazing! She totally deserved it and now I feel like I'm dragging the chain a bit there! Hopefully this week will be a better one for me. I really want to try and break out of the normal style I normally do - It's such a comfort zone and can get so boring. This weeks challenge might help me do that a bit - some freestyling ... arghhhhh!!! I think this is why I can't sleep!! I'm going to give it a go and see what happens! Who knows, I may just like it!
This week is going to be such a busy one - I'm not sure where I'm going to find the time for everything.
I have to try and get our windows painted so the blinds can be installed!!!
I have New Beginings night for the girls at church on Wednesday and have altered notebooks to finish for that as well as a bunch of food to organise and other stuff
I have to pack for our family camp on the weekend
I have uni starting this week, so have readings and questions for that to do
I have the scrapbook comp LO to do
I have to send invites for max's birthday party
and lastly I have a house that looks a bit like a disaster zone ...
I'm sure I've forgotten something!
So I'm feeling a little stressed and anxious about getting everything done.
Had my PT at the gym today and over the last 5 weeks have lost 17cm combined off my bust, waist, hips, thighs and arm ... so pretty pleased about that.
Maeve has been so grizzly lately, I hope she passes this phase soon - it's driving me nuts.
We had the Kindy guinnea pigs for the weekend - it was much more fun than I thought it would be. Both the kids absolutely loved it, and once Max got told off a few times for hurting them (not on purpose I don't think) he was quite gentle with them and enjoyed playing with them, feeding them and patting them. Maeve was funny - she spent most of the time squealing at them!
I'm tired, now if my legs would stop aching from my PT this morning, I might be able to get to sleep.
Friday, 23 February 2007
stuff ... original, I know.
So here's my next entry for the scrapping comp - we had to use at least 3 different sheets of Bazzill, one of which had to either be a decorative edge or bazzill bling (I used both). It had to have a hand cut title and we had to make our own embellishment out of bazzill and could use brads, stitching, staples and rub ons. We had to have journalling and at least 1 photo. Boy, it was hard. Not using PP was a real challenge.
Need to do some housework today and then I'm off to a crop night at scrapbook city tonight ... will take a page or 2 to do - hoepfully get some scrapping for me done that's not for a comp! although I'm hesitant to use any photos as I keep thinking they might be the perfect photo for the next challenge!!!
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