Proud Mama

Alexia has just received two awards in the Arts Colours Assembly - one was for service to the Zonta Club and the other was for service to the library. The girls think these assemblies are really boring but not this year!!! I got a very excited text from her afterwards and she is stoked. Alexia is one of those kids who try really hard and frequently get overlooked so it has been a hugh boost to her self esteem. Both girls are expecting something in the Sports Colours Assembly for their rockclimbing so will just have to wait and see.

Aaron has just found out that he has gotten into the Zone Athletics Sports for discus and also for the relay. He really tried hard to get in for this year as other years there have been lots of really sporty/competitive kids who have always gone but they left school to go to intermediate leaving the field wide open - so to speak.

Good on ya kids!

All the blue food colouring seems to have cleaned up alright with just a couple of very faint dots on the carpet but not enough to worry about. Just need to find out about magic erasers and where to get it from - sounds like something I need to have.

Counter

Its taken me a while but have finally figured out how to do this so now I will know how many people are reading my blog - mostly me checking comments - LOL!!

Heard of Little Green Men...

Well, we've gone blue! Aaron caused a big disaster with just a little bottle of blue food colouring that he hadn't screwed the lid on properly. It fell on the floor and luckily the bottle didn't break but it went EVERYWHERE. Its amazing how far it went for such a small bottle. I was thinking insurance claim as the grout in the tiles was blue, we had blue dots on the carpet, across the kitchen cupboards, on the oven front - you get the picture! In the process of cleaning up we had blue hands and feet. I was not happy.

Anyhow been playing with my scrapping supplies over the weekend. This layout is for the sketch challenge. Wasn't going to do it as it is 6x12 and I have enough albums but decided to do it for a Christmas present about our Jazz. Have chased round a couple of the scrapbook shops to find some 6x12 page protectors but they only have them the other way and am not sure if that is the way I want the album to go. May have to talk to our Miss SE Consultant and she what she has to say. She has some real good ideas!!

This one is for the Friday night challenge where it had to been from one manufacturer. I chose Sassafras Lass and used the new papers that I bought at SENZ. Not overly happy with it as I really missed using my plain card and its quite busy for me.

This last one is from a series of photos that I have already scrapped but still really like it so have put in into my album of favourites. The layouts in this album are 8x8 and really simple.

Yahoo!!!

Congratulations to Tanya on being the new Consultant for Scrapbook Essentials. From a purely selfish point of view I can get to buy goodies from SE here in CHCH and also get to do crops and classes with a very talented lady especially since I am a scrapbooker with no original ideas!! LOL. Can't wait.

Why Is It That...

Why is that people are not nicer to each other? Why do they not care about other peoples feelings and feel that they can walk all over them to get what they want? Quite some time ago Meg wrote in her blog about something that had happened within the scrapbook industry - I don't know what she was referring to and quite frankly don't want to know. But at the time I thought that can't happen - its scrapbooking for goodness sake however since then I have changed my mind big time after what has happened to a friend within the industry. I find it hard to believe after all this person did that she was treated the way she was and now that she is out of that situation is better off for it. They have lost a very creative and dedicated person who was an asset to the business. So good luck my friend in your new endeavours and be assured that you have one supporter here.

In the past couple of weeks within our school community we have lost two young lives - one aged 10 through illness and the other aged 12 years through a very tragic accident yesterday. My condolences go out to both these families. When you hear of things like this it makes you want to hug your kids tighter and watch their every move to keep them safe in that big bad world. So when things happen like what has happened to my friend it really makes you wonder about some peoples priorities and just what they are thinking. I wonder if it was worth it!

Blinkie

Its taken me all day to figure this out and big thanks to Mrs Frizz for helping me get to this point but OMG I've done it. The blinkie is on the blog. Think I'll try to upload some photos of layouts just to see if that is working now.

OMG - I'm on a roll now - dare I try again for another layout. Nope would appear that is it for now. Will try again tomorrow.

Long Weekend

Its been a bit quiet round here this weekend which is really nice for a change. Have had something on just about every weekend lately. In saying that though took Alexia out to Blue Skies yesterday where we had to put up tents for a guide camp on today. This was the last thing we had to do for the Jamboree fundraising. Now just have to pay for it by the end of the month.

Had done a supernanny on my kids yesterday. Am fed up with paying out pocket money for them doing nothing!!! So now they get a dollar a job (and it gets written down as my memory is terrible). Over the fortnight the girls have to do 20 (for $20 pocket money) and Aaron has to do 10 (for $5 pocket money and his Horrible Science magazine once a fortnight). Aaron freaked out and just saw the big picture and thought it was too much - he used much stronger language and earned a time out in his room (Supernanny would be proud of me). He calmed down once he saw that it wasn't as big a deal as he thought. So, as a result I now have some clean windows, some ironing done, washing bought in, baking and the showers and basins cleaned - all without me having to ask. Just had to lay down some ground rules as to what was going to earn them their money and also pointed out that once they hit their limit they were not allowed to go on strike. Also that there would still be their usual jobs that they had to do as well as things that they would be asked to do that would be done for love. LOL.

Still having problems downloading photos onto my blog. Any suggestions? It comes up with this:

Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

Think I will try Xtra again as it seems to be more of a connection problem than a perhaps a blogger problem.