Archive for March, 2008

My baby has had her heart broken

and I cant make it better for her.  This weekend my daughters 2 and half year relationship died.  Its nasty and its painful and I want to make it go away.  She text me in yesterday to say she needed me and when I got there she was just so miserable.  Her partner had decided [...]

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She…

I put this layout together for the NZDares challenge. I just loved reading those “She” affirmations – so uplifting and positive. I really wish I could apply them all to my life – lol, but some I have an awful to of work to do. But I’m young and its all [...]

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The Journaler’s Junction

When I first started scrapbooking I used a lot of my own handwriting on my pages. Some of these older pages are so funny to read over as I must have had a burning need to fill all the blank space with my journaling. I was brilliant at saying the simplest things in [...]

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The Loooonnnggg Weekend…

So we pack up the car and head up to Nokomai for the long Easter break. I can honestly say I have had better weekends. I was unwell all weekend and all I did was read!! I took 2 books up and had them finished the first day. I read [...]

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Four Fab Things For Today

In honour of St Patricks Day, Jess – who attends St Patricks Primary, was allowed to wear green to school, all we could find was Ashleighs’s Grouch t-shirt. So we went to Spotlight and grabbed some of the stickers and hair ties and completely the look. The glitter face sticker was carefully preserved [...]

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The Wonders Of Nature

The finished circle journal.  I love it.   It turned out exactly how I imagined.  Thank you to all the ladies who shared a page with me.  This circle journal will be treasured.

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Jess and the makeover

So while I am away at camp Jess went to a birthday party for a school friend. It was held at a hairdressers and the girls got 2 hair extensions (not real), their fingernails done and their hair done. I made Ash promise to take lots of photos for me because I knew [...]

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Yes Hello World!

Blogger pulled a hissy fit yesterday and an entire post has gone goodness knows where – so I am taking the big leap to WordPress. I have heard great things about WordPress so I have my fingers crossed that this learning curve will be relatively painless, so far all the tutorials seem quite straightforward. [...]

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Scrap Camp ‘08

The Scenery

The Layouts
It was a very fun weekend, a total eyeopener for me. I learnt some new things. Some of those new things I would have preferred to stay in the dark about. I don’t think I will ever forget the drive up and the first hand experience of bad tourist drivers [...]

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Busy, busy

not anymore! Yippee I’m packed for The Retreat – I don’t think I’m taking that much do you – although my desk has never looked so tidy and lonesome. Only 2 more sleeps for me and then its a weekend of scrapbooking, and fun with fabulous friends. Sounds almost amazingly to good to be [...]

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