A new niece!

My gorgeous new niece Celeste - isn't she a darling?!

Little Artist

Well it was time to do another couple of layouts for myself after all the Christmas cards and Christmas shopping the past few weeks. The first layout (Little Artist) I did at Kathy's house last Friday and was nothing like I first imagined! I have decided not to try and plan out my layouts too much, rather to let them grow organically as I go along and try not to be too particular. This has been a success for me so far and I've been pretty pleased with the results.

The second layout I finished today and I took these pics with my new camera at Leighton beach last week. She and Rich have such a close relationship and I realise from talking to other friends how lucky I am to have a partner who is such a hands on Dad and husband. Ashlinn and Rich will be firm friends in the future.

Happy New Year!

Well it's been a while and hence I have a few things to add to the blog so without further ado here they are:

My Little Beauty LO:



Beach Comber:




Love You:





Fun in the Sun:




Freya's Christmas Wand:




We had a great Christmas (if not a little hot), with boxing day setting the record for the hottest December day at 43.7 degrees!! Phew, was very glad when it cooled down. Enjoying a nice relaxing break from work as the Uni closes down for 2 weeks over Christmas so it's nice to have some time out. We're off the Busselton on the 3rd Jan as Rich's sister Helen will be having her 2nd baby by casaer on the 3rd. Very excited about welcoming a new little girl to the family!

Our little one is fast growing up now and is steadily becoming not so little! She now knows all her colours, a few shapes and can count to 10. She's a super water baby and is happily independent now with either her floaties of backpack on. We couldn't get her out of the pool on Christmas day!! Here are a few pics from our Christmas day - click on this link and it will take you to the flickr photo album.

Happy New Year everyone!

Tracey

Robyn's Wall Picture

My new baby niece arrived in the world on August 16th having kept her Mummy waiting over a week. I thought I would contribute to her nursery by making a picture to make her feel at home. This is a shameless scraplift from the lovely Jen and Alinta from EB - thanks for the ideas girls. It's a 12"x12" canvas and I have used cardstock to make the frame and covered chipboard squares for the central detail. I was pleased Vikki liked it. Now I just have to finish my other projects!

A Mothers Treasure

Well I've finally finished a LO for my album. I feel like all I've been doing recently is things for other people which I love doing, but it's nice to get back to a good old plain layout rather than OTP. I started this one weeks ago and thought I had a really clear idea of what I wanted, but like most of the things I make they take on a life of their own and become more and more complicated! Still, this is my first attempt with black and red, I've steered away from them in the past, but I have to admit I love this layout.

The photo was taken when we went to a cuddly animal farm in Margaret River which Ashlinn and I both loved. Rich thought it was funny that I made him get a bucket of food for the animals so that "Ashlinn could feed them", but really it was the big kid in me that wanted to touch and feed everything! Ash just ran around shouting DUCK at everything!

Grandad's Mini Album

Well I finished this a little while ago but I forgot to take photos so I'll just post the scans I took without the rings. This was a kit I bought from KitiQ and it was lots of fun to do. I had fun following the directions and making some changes of my own and I loved the papers.

My Grandad got it a week ago and I think he liked it as Mum told me he shed a tear. He's so worth it though, such an amazing man and I have such fantastic memories of all the love and affection he's given me all my life.

I've been tagged!

OK, whilst blog surfing today I realised I have been tagged by my scrapping buddy Donna

1-Post these rules.

2-Each person tagged must post 8 random (... hopefully interesting) facts about themselves.

3-Taggees should write a blogpost of these facts.

4- At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named and released back into the wild.

5-Go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged*.

So here are my 8 random things:

1. I only got my drivers licence last year at the ripe old age of 27 - better late than never. I love driving now!

2. I grew up in a suburb of South London and managed to avoid a cockney accent. Could never see myself moving back there now.

3. I went to University in Liverpool and ran the University Surf club for 2 years. We used to drive 6 hours from Liverpool to Devon/Cornwall for our surf trips and I got a womens team together that came in the top 10 at the Student Nationals. Great times. I haven't surfed since I came to Australia - go figure!

4. I like traditions. My middle name is Frances after my Grandad Frank and I named my daughter Ashlinn Audrey after my Granny Audrey who I was very close to. Audrey is also my mothers middle name.

5. I had 2 weddings to the same person! Richard and I had a traditional English wedding in my family parish church and then flew back to Perth and repeated the proceedings for all our friends and family in Oz. At least I got to wear my dress twice!

6. My Grandad is an amazing artist and paints the most beautiful pictures, I seem to have inherited some aspects of his creativity but I can't draw to save my life!

7. I'm a perfectionist and a Virgo. Things have to be perfect and lines always straight. I'm not very good at doing 'messy' layouts and my pages take me forever cause I have to get them 'just right'

8. I'm messy! You'd think that being a perfectionist would make me neat and tidy but I'm a disaster zone! My nickname as a kid was 'What-a-mess' after the books. I like being organised, I;m just not very good at it!

OK, now, who to tag who hasn't already been tagged????...

Angela, Melanie, Ryn, Dani, Michelle, Jo and Kim. That's about all the people I can find that haven't been tagged yet, looking around I think almost everyone has had this one!