Our Funny Kids

I thought it was about time that I updated the photos of the kids!

Caitlin just loves to scrapbook with me. Here is a gorgeous creation of hers! She loves to send some of her layouts to the scrapbooking shop with mine and Renaye is good enough to put them up in the shop, which I think is a crack up and Caitlin thinks is great!



Dad is regularly inundated by kids - good thing he loves them to bits!



Callum has been taking an interest in some more challenging toys lately. Caitlin and I got out a heap of jigsaws recently and he loved the easy ones too.



Just checking to see if it is gold...



Last but not least, Caitlin is having a little break from jewelery at the moment, so when she does play with it, she piles it on to get a fix!

Chinese Whispers

A friend has asked me to be the first cab off the rank with a chinese whisper - you know, like the message that would start at one side of the room when you were a kid and you had to see how true to the origional it was at the end? Well, this is the same, scrapping style!


My chinese whisper:

there is a plain cardstock background

photo and embelishments are clustered in the bottom half of the page

it has one photo 4x3 (landscape) which is set to the right of centre

there is a medium - large embelishment on either edge of the page framing the photo and embelishment cluster

there is an embelishment laid vertically down the right hand end of the photo with another embelishment in the centre of the larger embelishment

there is a journaling block to the right of the photo

there is a small square of patterned transparency/patterned paper to the left of the photo.

there is an embelishment with a word for the title in it overlapping the top left corner and the bottom right corner of the photo

there is a hand drawn border around the outside edge of the page


I would love it if some lovely scrappers joined in. Once you have done your page, write a chinese whisper about your page and pass it on to another lucky scrapper.

When you have done your page, email me a pic so I can see what you have been up to!

Happy whispering!

Published!

I have a great secret, but you will have to get your hands on a copy of the next Creative Paper magazine for all the details...

Cal's First Birthday

We celebrated Callum's first birthday last saturday. I can't believe that he is a year old already! We had a cake at playgroup on friday the 26th and had friends over for tea on his actual birthday, which was the 27th.

I made him a catepillar cake and I am so happy with how it came out. I am not a fancy cake maker, but given that I am very impressed. Callum (and Caitlin!) thought it was pretty good too.



Here is a picture of the birthday boy enjoying some of his cake. He went back for more, so I take it he likes chocolate catepillar cake!


He got some great boy toys for his birthday, like cars, trucks and tractors. This truck is one that he has had for a while, but he just loves it. He leart to broooooom his trucks at about 10 months and he is doing it flat out now! He interacts really nicely with his toys now that he has some more age appropriate toys. I am going to have a huge clean out of the "baby" toys this week and get rid of a heap now that he has some big boy toys.

Wow, he's one! We had a great day!