Nothing to show you this time round

Hi there, yes I am back house is clean and 3rd load of washing is in the machine, kids are at school, SB class bag is ready to go to teach and ........ ring ring...... ring ring..... Hi the lady has cancelled (sick kids) and so we cant run the class today. Sorry Theresa, we will see you soon. Bright as I can be (hiding disappointment) OK thanx for calling and I will do something else now.

I have a CJ here to do.... topic... "What Makes me happy". I should just take some photos of my house at the moment as its clean and that makes me happy. I should have taken some photos last week when Jade was up but we had so much fun, I forgot about the camera LOL. There are a lot of simple things that make me happy so not too much of a struggle really.

I have also been putting off experimenting with a folder that I am putting my ATCs in. I want to use texture paste, stamps, ink, paper and flowers. I have all the gear here now and no kids and a clean house so no interruptions. Nothing has come through on job mail today so no applications going in today, but I must do at least one little thing a day to get a job.

A trip to the scrapbook cupboard today will cheer me up a bit and also a double check on the photography club date to attend my first meeting and hopefully be able to pick up some good tips on photography and getting more use out of my fantastic camera or should i perhaps say learning the more technical aspects etc.

take care everyone

"live long and prosper"

tess

It has been a while

Hi Every one, hasnt the time just flown? I cant believe that it has been a month since i posted here. I have been quite busy with family stuff and have completed a couple of circle journals, cleaned house, decided to finally quit Coles although they think I am taking a leave of absence at this stage. I really dont want to have to go back. Anyhooo up the top here is a double page LO of Peta's hens weekend. The photos are courtesy of Rebecca (my sister in law) and an image from our night at Dracula's. We had a great time and I loved Dracula's. I saw these papers in "The Scrapbook Cupboard and knew exactly what photos were at home waiting. I have had a bit of a time thinking of doing these as although I had a great time, it came with a great deal of pain from an injury I sustained during this weekend. I am pleased with them now and my memories of the weekend are a lot more positive than what they were.




This LO is one of my son at Dreamworld just outside where the "old time " photos are done. It was one of last visits there before our passes ran out and it was also David's 40th Birthday and we went out to dinner at one of the restaurants in there. This photo was taken by Peta (my sister in law), Zak is not prone to posing but for her new camera (was new at the time for her) he sort of did.

I will try to get organised to blog a bit more as I am job hunting and house cleaning at the moment.

take care and

"live long and prosper"

tess

This LO Won!!!!

I have been entering cybercrops, challenges and all sorts of things for a very long time now. I bought this challenge kit from The Scrapbook Cupboard last month as May's challenge. It was the winning one. I receive June's Challenge kit for free for winning. I cant wait to see what is going to be in it as May's kit was great and it certainly didnt take long to decide what I was going to do. It was one of those LOs where the photos and the papers etc themselves just fell together, plus its not overly my usual style in one way but i dont really have a style, I dont think.

So after feeling a little disappointed in what others have thought of my scrapbooking (meaning judging of LOs etc), I am now feeling a little more confident.

The pics are of my eldest daughter (who is now 17 and a half), when she had her 5th birthday. These were taken at the Castle Hill (sydney) Macdonald's with all of her preschool friends invited from Carrington Road Kindergarten (Castle Hill). So glad I had a decent camera then, I wasnt even into scrapbooking when I took these.

Must go. I have a couple of hours till I start paid work at the local supermarket today. I want to get an over due CJ done before I go.

take care and "Live long and Prosper"

tess

Some more LOs

I have been soooo very busy the last couple of weeks. I dont know where the time has gone. I will be posting on my other blog later if I have time before work today. I have finished some more LOs: This one is a challenge kit that I bought in April from The Scrapbook Cupboard. This LO was supposed to have a pic of me in it but I ran out of time for it to enter the challenge, so these photos that Peta (my sisterinlaw) took and gave to me looked and worked really well with all the elements of the kit. I think this has turned out rather well.
I must say I am very happy with the results. If you read this Lisa, its not that I didnt want to use a photo of myself, I ran out of time for your challenge and these photos just begged me to use them with the kit.

Here is the one I promised that I would show from the premade kit class that I did for the Stampers Hut a month ago. As I said I have been busy but here it is. Its the one I put the print in as I didnt have an old photo for it:
It is very dark, when I go to do the next class, I will try to photograph it again. I took this in the arcade outside the shop, next time I will have to go outside and use the natural lighting as the fluro lighting is aweful to photograph around.

Thats it for now. I want to go alter a folder that have decided to put ATCs in. I am participating in an ATC swap at The Scrapbook Cupboard and will be getting some back. I loved making mine and they are quick little pieces of artwork that you can still get a crafting "fix" from.

In the meantime

"Live long and prosper"



tess

Stamper's Hut Layouts

My classes/workshops are going ok at the stampers hut. The kit was great and their LOs looked great when they were finished. I did one of the kits, as I didnt have a photograph with me, I used one of their prints in the shop for the photo. On Wednesday or Thursday this week, I will photograph that LO and put these ones up for the future classes. I still dont have any old photos of my grandparents etc so I just have to keep aging some of my own photos. The purple LO 's photos have a really pink tinge to them but they are quite like that just didnt photograph well.

One of the wedding LOs are mine but I dont know which one to keep.



I have donte 5 LOs for the shop this week. We also planned for the next 2 months for the newsletter. I am taking page protectors in to hang these on the wall as I dont want blue tack on the back of my LOs, I would rather have it on the page protectors. I may even velcro dot them to the wall, it makes things easier.

I went to the other scrap book store this week (looking for the right wedding colour bazzill for the above LOs) and they had a challenge pack in there. I bought it and have done it too. Wow thats 6 LOs for the week!! We had to used a bit of everything in the kit and only add ink as anything extra. Although I am sure journalling is allowed. I am so happy with how this turned out and it was a "fall together" LO.


Anyhow, I have visitors coming today (Peta and Travis) and my husbands visitors will be coming back this afternoon after their wargaming tournament to pack up and go home. Melanie and I were going to the beach today but the weather is turning ugly. So we are going to make gingerbread men. Hopefully some photo opportunities with just us today.

take care and enjoy your day

tess

What I have been doing

Tess's Organised Chaos says it all this week.

Work work work. That's all I seem to be doing at the moment. I have only done that one LO as featured in my last post. I have been a very very busy bee.

Today I am at the Stampers hut again, for the morning. They chose this kit (cant remember what company) and I havent been given a spare to familiarize (is that a word?) myself with whats in it in case they have 6 booked in. I am hoping it will be smaller but i would say at least 4 today again. This one will be very "heritagy" and I did glance at one pack to see there were some lovely "nostalgics" embellishments.

In a fortnight, we are doing a "frame" LO. I have to make a good start on this tomorrow (hopefully finish it). As soon as its done, I will post again. I will be putting more family matters on my other blog as I want to just keep this here for my scrapping etc.

Thats about it today

"Live Long and prosper"

A Lot Has Happened Since I Posted Last!!

I have been so busy since I posted last.

First of all I taught a class at The Stamper's Hut loosely based on this LO. I am a little disappointed with my stamping with the foam stamps on this. I pressed a little too hard. Which was a valid point in the class. Lots of white and a small amount of journalling around the actual photo. This is a photo of my DD who turned 15 in November last year. She wanted this dress, its very rare for this daughter to want a dress at all as she is always in shorts or pants, NEVER a dress.

Peta and Travis came down last weekend and Peta and I attended the craft show that was on down here at the Gold Coast.

My ankle is slowly getting better and I am back at work. Now my scrapping obligations are getting out of control. I have 2 circle journals here and I think there is another at the post office for me to pick up. I also want to finish a challenge kit from another of my favourite LSS. I only have 2 more days to start it, finish it and get it out there.

There were too many kids in our boys under 11 teams of hockey so we formed another one and I am now coaching this team. (kinda got roped into it).

Paige is going to Rockhampton for a School girls state championship for hockey, she plays on the South Coast Team and she put in a big effort to gain a spot in this team, the competition was tough!!

Zak had his 11th birthday on Sunday this week. He has followed this up by being selected in
primary school boys state championships for hockey, this is at Brisbane. Him and I were both pretty surprised he got in as he is one of the youngest boys and also one of the smallest so he is very quietly proud in his own Zak way.

With Anzac Day being a day off for everyone we are going to chill here today and hopefully I will get some scrapbooking done today too.

Just gotta catch Mel before she runs off to play with Courtney so we can finish her LO in the Circle journal then its pinning Paige down to do hers.

take care and have fun

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